Oral history interview, 1982.

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Oral history interview, 1982.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70964540

Interview with Blanchard, at Dover-Foxcroft, Me., about attending the University of Maine during the Depression and her Maine Extension Service work with rural farm women and 4-H youngsters, 1940-1945.

1 audiotape (2 hr.)

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History, Maine Folklife Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 8056168

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Maine Women During the Depression and W.W. II Project

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Breton, Rita

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University of Maine. Extension Service

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Blanchard, Dorothy

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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...