Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 (SC 685)

Finding aid and scan (Click on additional files below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 685. Letter written from Sea Girt, New Jersey, by Woodrow Wilson, to John A. Turpin, Bowling Green, Kentucky, expressing thanks for Turpin’s letter and check for $1.00

Rowe Family Papers, 1912-1920

Personal papers and collected materials of the Rowe family of Pittsburg, Kansas. Relates primarily to World War I, the American Union Against Militarism, and conscientious objectors. Includes correspondence, clippings, circulars, and other printed materials. Additional pamphlets, leaflets, and other publications relating to World War I were removed from the Papers for cataloging. A list of the removed items is appended to this guide.https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/fa/1022/thumbnail.jp

Jenkins, William Marshall, Jr., 1918-2002 (SC 1748)

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1748. Unpublished manuscript, Mr. Democrat, written by William Marshall Jenkins Jr. about the political career of Alben W. Barkley, former U.S. Representative and Senator from Kentucky and former Vice President under Harry Truman. Chiefly excerpts from his speeches and remarks made on the floor of the House and Senate

UA97/1 Ogden College Administration

Records created by and about the Regent and Trustees of Ogden College and the Ogden Foundation. This series includes information regarding Robert Ogden\u27s estate, a list of regents, Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes and information regarding the lease of Ogden College to Western

Sando, Jack oral history interview

Jack C. Sando was born on November 25, 1940 in Washington D.C. to David and Edith Sando, Austrian immigrants who were both survivors of the Holocaust. They escaped from Vienna in 1938 and fled to the United States in 1940. Jack attended Harvard University and then Harvard Law School, where he became involved with the Democratic Party. After law school he went into civil practice. He began to work for Edmund S. Muskie during the 1970 senatorial campaign writing speeches

Coffin, Frank Morey and Nicoll, Don oral history interview

Don Nicoll Donald Eugene Don Nicoll was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on August 4, 1927, and grew up in the West Roxbury section of the city. He is the son of George and Mary Nicoll. He attended Robert Gould Shaw Junior High School and Boston English High School and graduated from Colby College in Waterville, Maine in 1949, majoring in History with a minor in Government. Don met his future wife, Hilda Farnum, also a Colby student, when they worked in the resort town of Ocean Park, Maine, in the summer of 1944. Nicoll began his graduate work at Pennsylvania State College in 1949, where he received a teaching fellowship in the Department of History. His graduate studies concentrated on American history, specifically the period from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War .. His M.A. (1952) thesis was on the Alien and Sedition Acts. Starting in 1951, Nicoll and his family settled in Buckfield, Maine where he picked apples and taught part time at Stephen\u27s High School, located in Rumford. Nicoll began working as an announcer for WLAM radio in Lewiston, Maine. He became a reporter and then news editor for WLAM and WLAM-TV. In June 1954, Nicoll left WLAM to become Executive Secretary of the Democratic State Committee at the request of Frank M. Coffin, who has just become chairman. Mr. Coffin was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Maine\u27s Second Congressional District in 1956 and Nicoll went to Washington, DC, as his administrative assistant, continuing in that post until December 1960, the end of Congressman Coffin\u27s second term. Mr. Coffin ran for governor in 1960 and was defeated. After the election Senator Edmund S. Muskie asked Nicoll to join his staff as legislative assistant and news secretary. Nicoll served in that position until 1962, when he became administrative assistant. He continued in that post until 1971, when he became personal advisor to Senator Muskie. He left the senate office in mid-1972. From 1972 until his retirement in 2005 Nicoll worked as a program and policy planner, first as a consultant (1972-73), then as chairman and chief executive officer of the New England Land Grant Universities Joint Operations Committee (1973-1975), then as coordinator of planning and vice president for planning and public affairs for the Maine Medical Center (1975-1986), then as a consultant (1986-2005). His clients were primarily in the non-profit sector and included universities, libraries, education associations, health care organizations and social service agencies. He also worked as a volunteer, heading a variety of public policy projects, including the Maine Task Force on Government Reorganization, the Maine State Compensation Commission, the Maine (Mental Health) Systems Assessment Commission, the Maine Consortium for Health Professions Education, the Southern Maine Community Television Consortium, the Maine Special Commission on Government Reorganization (co-chair), the Board of Visitors of the University of Southern Maine\u27s Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service, the Maine-Aomori Sister-State Advisory Council and the Governor\u27s Allagash Wilderness Waterway Working Group. From 1998-2005, Don Nicoll was the Director of the Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Project at Bates College. Frank Coffin Frank Morey Coffin was born in Lewiston, Maine on July 11, 1919. His parents were Ruth [Morey] and Herbert Coffin, who divorced when Frank was twelve. Ruth raised Frank alone on Wood St. in Lewiston. She came from an active Democratic family, her father was Mayor of Lewiston from 1907 to 1912, and eventually she became a Democratic State Committeewoman Frank graduated from the Lewiston public schools, and then went on to Bates College, graduating in 1940. While at Bates he debated under Brooks Quimby, and majored in economics. He then went off to Harvard to continue his education. He started in the Harvard Business School while waiting to be drafted. He served in the Navy Supply Corps, and after discharge returned to Harvard to get a law degree. He graduated in 1947. He then clerked for U.S. District Court Judge John Clifford Jr. before his admittance to the Maine Bar. His law career began in a Lewiston office, and quickly grew. From 1951 to 1954 he served as Corporation Counsel to the City of Lewiston, and in 1953 he joined the law firm of Verrill Dana in Portland, Maine. At that time, he became interested in the Maine Democratic Party. Along with Lewiston area Democratic activists, he worked to reestablish the two-party system in Maine. He became Chairman of the Maine Democratic Party in 1954, and worked to field Democratic candidates for every major office for the 1954 ballot. He also created the first permanent staff position within the Maine Democratic Party. His party building included writing a party platform using public input and surveys. These efforts led to the election of Edmund Muskie as Governor of Maine. In 1956, Coffin stepped down from the chairmanship to run for United States Congress. He was elected, and served from 1957 to 1960, when he stepped down to run for Governor of Maine. He was defeated in that race. After his elected service, Frank was to be appointed Ambassador to Panama by President John Kennedy. When Kennedy was assassinated, Lyndon Johnson refused to make the appointment because of disagreements he had with Frank during his Congressional career. He was appointed to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris in 1964. In 1965, President Johnson appointed Frank to the United States 1st District Court of Appeals. He became chief judge in 1972, serving in that capacity for eleven years. He became senior member in 1989. Frank Coffin has received numerous awards and accolades, and is a highly regarded figure in Maine law and political circles. In 1942 he married a Bates graduate, Ruth Ulrich. They had four children

Hildreth, Richard and Marie oral history interview

Richard Hildreth was born on March 10, 1928 in Washington, D.C. His father was a Democratic National Committee member from the District of Columbia and chairman of the Truman inauguration in 1949. Richard was active in the Young Democrats. He attended George Washington University Law School and practiced law in Washington D.C. Marie Hildreth was born on July 17, 1930 in Providence, Rhode Island. She attended George Washington University where she met and married Richard Hildreth. She met Jane Muskie at the hairdresser’s and they developed a lifelong friendship

Saunders, Harold Hal oral history interview

Harold Saunders was born December 27, 1930 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Marian Weihenmayer Saunders and Harold Manuel Saunders. He grew up in Philadelphia and attended Germantown Academy, graduating in 1948. He went to Princeton University and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with high honors in English and the American Civilization Program in 1952. He earned his Ph.D. in American Studies at Yale in 1956. That year, he entered military service in a program sponsored by the CIA and was eventually assigned to be a staff assistant to the deputy director for intelligence, Bob Amory. After that, he moved to the National Security Council in the White House under President Kennedy, where he worked under the next two presidents until 1974, when he moved to the state department, where he stayed until Reagan was elected in 1981

Sweet, Paul oral history interview

Paul R. Sweet was born in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania on March 14, 1907 and grew up in Depauw. His parents were William and Louise Sweet. He was educated at DePauw, Goettingen, the University of Chicago, and the University of Wisconsin, specializing in German History. During World War II, he went to Europe and worked with the OSS in understanding and developing interrogation techniques. He taught at Bates and Colby colleges, and spent much of his professional time expanding his published work on late seventeenth and early eighteenth century German history