Papers, 1900-1954.

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Papers, 1900-1954.

Collection contains biographical information, personal and professional correspondence, and essays, poetry and stories written by Patch. It also includes presentations given by Patch, notebooks of her research notes on aphids and other insects as well as newspaper clippings and photographs.

7 boxes (7 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7789196

Raymond H. Fogler Library

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University of Maine

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The University of Maine saw approximately 1,000 students and alumni serve in World War I and 3,900 serve in World War II. Both wars had a strong effect on the university and its students; the desire to honor those who had served and to memorialize those who had died led to various activities on campus. After the end of World War I, funds were raised to erect the Memorial Gymnasium and Armory and after World War II, those who had died were honored in a volume titled "University of Maine, World Wa...

Patch, Edith M. (Edith Marion), 1876-

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Edith Patch, born in Worcester, Mass. in 1876, received a B.S. from the University of Minnesota in 1901, an M.S. from the University of Maine in 1910 and a Ph.D. from Cornell in 1911. She came to the University of Maine in 1903, organizing the department of entomology at the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station there and serving as head of the department from 1904 until her retirement in 1937. An authority on aphids, she was the author of numerous scientific articles, a member of various profes...