Evanston school districts records, 1921-1999.

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Evanston school districts records, 1921-1999.

Records of Evanston, Ill., school districts 65, 75, 76, and 202 including files relating to publicity, publications, meetings, correspondence, candidate information, Gregory Coffin, superintendent of school district 65, member lists, member organizations, building reports, curriculums, and a court case; together with newsletters, reports, and a scrapbook on school district 76.

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Evanston School District 65

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Creative drama was introduced into the Evanston/Skokie, Illinois school system in the late 1920s through the efforts of Winifred Ward, a Northwestern University children's theatre and creative drama professor. For thirty years, theatre specialists trained by Ward and her successors taught drama district-wide to Evanston students in grades four through eight. During this time there were also other special drama education projects that were created for primary and elementa...

Evanston School District 75

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Evanston School District 202

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Evanston School District 76

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Coffin, Gregory Carleton, 1926-2002

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Educator and civil rights activist Gregory C. Coffin was born in 1926 in Meriden, Connecticut and raised in Rye, New York. He earned a BA from Harvard University, an Ed.M. from Boston University, and a Ph.D. in educational administration from the University of Connecticut. He married Nancy Stackpole Coffin in 1950. The couple had four children. Coffin taught at Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts for three years before becoming principal of Woodstock Academy in Connecticut. He also served...