Muriel Simonson, papers, 1908-1981.

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Muriel Simonson, papers, 1908-1981.

This collection includes photographs, poetry composed by John Holmes, newspaper clippings and ephemera.

1 linear foot.

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Holmes, John, 1904-1962

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American poet, who taught for many years at Tufts University. From the description of Between thousands and thousands / John Holmes. [1961] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 232639456 John Albert Holmes Jr. received his Bachelor's degree from Tufts College in 1929. Throughout the following year attended graduate courses at Harvard while serving as an assistant in English at Tufts. Holmes began his teaching career at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, where he serv...

Jackson College (Tufts University)

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Simonson, Muriel.

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Born on April 25, 1907, Muriel Simonson graduated from Medford High School, Medford, MA, in 1924. The first woman in her family to go to college, Muriel was one of only two Medford freshmen at Jackson College in the fall of 1924. Muriel went on to excel in all areas while studying at Jackson College, Tufts' coordinate college for women since 1904: in academics, theater, voice, and theater production, as a sorority member, as a student leader, and as an athlete. Unknown to Holmes scholars until 2...