Papers, 1927-2001.

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Papers, 1927-2001.

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Collection contains personal papers of Clarine Coffin Grenfell. It includes correspondence, 1927-1997, the early part of which consists of love letters to and from suitors and from her future husband, Rev. Jack Grenfell. It also includes a scrapbook and other memorabilia from her time as a student at the University of Maine; family photographs, 1928-1990s; teacher's contracts and other work documents; memorabilia; and information about Grenfell's honorary degree from the University of Maine.

3 record cartons + 1 document box.

Raymond H. Fogler Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7997940

Raymond H. Fogler Library

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Grenfell, Jack, 1908-1980

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Phi Mu Fraternity

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Early in 1923, several seniors in the College of Engineering at the University of Maryland who had high scholastic rankings met to organize a local honorary engineering fraternity. As a result of this meeting, and with the approval of the president of the university, the honorary engineering fraternity Phi Mu was officially formed at the University of Maryland with the adoption of its constitution on March 27, 1923. The founders as well as the first charter members were: J. H. Harlow, M. J. Bald...

University of Maine. Class of 1932.

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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...

Grenfell, Clarine Coffin

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Clarine Coffin Grenfell was a poet, teacher, publisher and Methodist minister. She was born Dec. 31, 1910, in Bangor, Maine, the daughter of Millard Fillmore Coffin and Clara B. Kelley Coffin. She was a member of the class of 1932 at the University of Maine, where she belonged to Phi Mu and was class poet, and graduated from the Hartford Seminary in 1938. She taught at various high schools in Maine and Connecticut and worked for Reader's Digest and the state of Connecticut as a consultant and ed...