Lura Beam collection, 1934-1990

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Lura Beam collection, 1934-1990

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/755741217

Includes reviews, historical society booklet, photocopy of Contemporary American novel written by Beam and copy of a story published in the Yale Review by Beam.

3 file folders

University of New England, Jack S. Ketchum Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8138456

University of New England, Jack S. Ketchum Library

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Beam, Lura, 1887-1978

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Lura Beam was born in Marshfield, Maine, in 1887. She attended the University of California, Berkeley (1904-1906), and graduated from Barnard College in 1908. In 1917, she earned an M.A. from Columbia. She worked at the American Missionary Association (AMA) for three years as a teacher at two schools: the Gregory Normal Institute in Wilmington, North Carolina, and the LeMoyne Normal School in Memphis, Tennessee, before becoming AMA's Assistant Superintendent of Education in charge of the Deep So...