Isaacson, Phil oral history interview

Phil Isaacson was born in Lewiston, Maine on June 19, 1924. He attended Lewiston primary schools. He spent his first two years of high school at Lewiston High School and his second two at Hebron Academy. He attended Bates College where he was a part of the V-12 Naval officer training program. He was in the Navy from the tail end of WWII until 1946. He then returned to Bates and graduated in 1947. He then entered Harvard Law School where he concentrated on corporate law. He practiced law with his father for almost 25 years. He served on the Lewiston Board of Finance. He served as Corporation Counsel under Malenfant, Rancourt, and Beliveau. He was also the Assistant County Attorney

Trafton, Richard oral history interview

Richard “Dick” Trafton was born in Lewiston, Maine, January 17, 1949. Willis Trafton, his father, ran against Edmund Muskie for governor in 1956. Richard attended Andover Phillips Academy and then Dartmouth College (Class of 1971), majoring in Geography with a focus in urban and regional planning. His wife, Barbara (McKnight) Trafton, attended Wellesley College. She marched on Washington to protest Vietnam, ran for city council, and served three terms in Maine legislature immediately preceding Richard (1976-1982). They met while she was pool director at YWCA and he was Lewiston city planner for three years. Both volunteered going door-to-door for McGovern during the 1972 Presidential campaign, were delegates to Maine State Democratic Conventions, and are involved in alternative area newspapers to the Sun Journal. For graduate school, Trafton attended the University of Maine Law School, studying real estate, tax and business law and physical land-use planning. He joined his father’s law firm when Damon Scales was appointed as a judge. Trafton is part of an Auburn downtown planning group and was made Chair of the Charter Commission in Auburn in 1978. He was a State Senator, District 12, from 1982 to 1986, serving as Chair of the Judiciary Committee during his first term and as Chair of the Committee on Legal Affairs during his second term. He also chaired several governor-appointed “Blue Ribbon Commissions” dealing with tort reform, land use enforcement, and restructuring the probate court system. He served as Mayor of Auburn for one, one-year term and two, two-year terms from 1989 to 1994

Jonitis, Peter oral history interview

Peter Jonitis was born in West Fitchburg, Massachusetts in 1913. He was the son of Lithuanian immigrants, John and Alice Jonitis. His father came to the U.S. in 1910 and his mother in 1911. His father worked in the paper mills on Nashua River, specifically operating the boilers burning coal. His mother worked at a woolen mill as a metal picker and cleaner. He attended Ashburnham Street School and Commerce High in Worcester. In high school he ran cross country. He attended Clark University and while there worked at the National Youth Authority. He was in the Boys’ Club in Worcester and was wrestling champ citywide. He attended graduate school at Columbia University and while at Columbia, worked nights as an oxygen therapist. During World War II he was head of the Army orientation program. He became an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania while he worked towards his Ph.D. and was chairman of the Sociology Department at Washington College in Chestertown, MD. In 1952 he was a post-doctoral guest scholar in Russian research at Harvard University. He did research for the State Department under the sponsorship of the Rand Corporation. He came to Lewiston in 1953 and while at Bates he was involved in the Democratic Party, the NAACP, and the PTA. He was at Bates from 1953-1967. He worked with John Donovan and Edmund Muskie in the 1950s. He introduced the Anthropology Department to Bates. He received a Fulbright scholarship to study in Taiwan from 1964-1965. After Bates he had a fellowship at Haverford College where he wrote extensively on Early American Quaker Penology. He then went to Florida Southern College in Lakeland, FL for seven years. He moved back to Lewiston in 1980 and served as Corrections Advisor for the Androscoggin County jail in the Sheriff’s office. His wife is Elizabeth Jonitis, who also was interviewed for this project (MOH 159)

Pendexter, Faunce oral history interview

Faunce Pendexter was born in Norway, Maine on January 7, 1915. He was home schooled for elementary school, and then attended Norway High School. He went to Bowdoin College, graduating as Salutatorian of the Class of 1937. His brother also attended Bowdoin. Faunce married Mildred Muriel Greenlaw in 1937. Mildred was president of the Women’s Literary Union and served as Education Advisor to the Androscoggin County Head Start program. He worked one year in Portland for the Writer’s Project. He wrote news for WGAN radio for a short period of time, and then worked for Sun and Journal in Lewiston for 40 years. He started with the Lewiston Evening Journal. For two years he became the agricultural editor of the Lewiston Daily Sun; then a news reporter for five years, and later served as the editor of the Saturday magazine. He served as President of the Lewiston Chamber of Commerce and was a member of that organization for several years. He was also President and a member of the Kiwanis Club

Biernacki, Joe and Priscilla oral history interview

Joseph Biernacki attended Bates College where he met Ed Muskie and they later became college roommates and lifelong friends, enjoying fishing and golfing. Their two families knew each other well over the years. Joe majored in economics and sociology and played baseball and football in college, graduating in 1936. He was active in democratic politics and was president of the Naugatuck, Connecticut Young Democrats Club from 1937 to 1939. He worked for the Uniroyal Chemical Company for most of his career. He was locally involved with the national Muskie campaigns of vice-president and president in 1968 and 1972 respectively

Jonitis, Elizabeth oral history interview

Elizabeth Jonitis was born in Westchester, Pennsylvania in 1921. Her parents, Clark and Elizabeth Wright, married during World War I and were Quakers. She went to a Quaker boarding school. During World War II she was in the Women’s League for Peace and Freedom and volunteered with the American Friends Service, spending five years with that organization in Washington. She later taught English as a secondary language (ESL) in Lewiston, Maine. In 1954 she worked at Pineland, a school for the mentally handicapped. She worked in Special Education in the Auburn schools and was president of the Central Maine NAACP. In 1960 she assisted county jail inmates in acquiring their GEDs. Her husband is Peter Jonitis, who also was interviewed for this project (MOH 158)

Kirk, Geneva oral history interview

Geneva Kirk was born in Lewiston, Maine in 1917. She attended Lewiston High School and Bates College, graduating in the class of 1937 with a major in French. She began her graduate work at Bates and finished at University of Maine, Orono and New York Long Island, earning her master’s degree in Education. She worked as a teacher in the Norridgewock school system, then for the Central Maine Medical Center School of Nursing for two years. She worked in the Augusta school system for four or five years, then taught in Lewiston from 1948-1979. She was president of the Lewiston Teachers Association, member of the Maine Teachers Association, on the Board of the Technical College System and the Board of the University College System and on the Maine State Museum Commission. She worked with United Way for 20 years. She has been president of the Maine Retired Teachers’ Association

Gautier, Don oral history interview

Donald Gautier was born in Portland, Maine on January 21, 1915. His Father was one of eleven children, born in Turner. He owned the Lawrence Music Store. His mother was a Welsh homemaker. They moved to Auburn when Donald was 5 years old. He lived in a residential area near Pettingill Park with no other French families in the vicinity. He attended Webster Grammar School. His family was not terribly affected by the Depression. He attended Edward Little High School and lived at home while attending Bates College, where he graduated in 1936. After graduation, Don owned a filling station. He first had a station in Auburn and then in Lewiston. He also owned a Firestone Tires dealership. He met his future wife in 1939. He enlisted in the National Guard in February of 1941 at Camp Landing. He attended Officer Candidate School. He married in May of 1942 at Fort Benning in Georgia. He served in the military for 5 years. He went to England in 1944, followed by France, Luxembourg, and the Siegfried Line. He remained active with the National Guard and later with the Reserve. He started a National Guard Batan as part of the 103rd Regimental Combat Team. He worked for the Veterans Administration as a contact representative in Lewiston. He was nominated to be the postmaster of Auburn in 1954. He eventually served greater Auburn, Augusta, and Waterville areas. He was involved with the Rifle Club in Auburn. He has been president of his Bates class since 1956. He is responsible for class reunions and letters. He was involved with the Lewiston-Auburn United Fund. In 1974 he ran for State Senate in district 12 but lost. He campaigned with Olympia Snowe. He was later involved with Kiwanis and Rotary

Sampson, Richard oral history interview

Richard W. Sampson was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to Winsor and Pauline Sampson. He attended Bowdoin College and graduated as a math major. After graduation, he studied meteorology at MIT and the University of Illinois and got a commission in the Air Force as a meteorologist. In 1952, he got a job teaching mathematics at Bates College. He married Jean Sampson, the founder of the Catalyst Organization, a group that seeks to expand opportunities for women in business, education and other fields. She was also active in the Maine Civil Liberties Union (MCLU) and other social and political action groups. Because of those connections, Richard and Jean Sampson became close personally to Edmund S. Muskie, Frank Coffin and other major Maine political players

L'Etnomusicologia catalana al primer terç del segle XX

En aquesta breu exposició sobre l'Etnomusicologia catalana l'autor centrarà el seu interes en la etapa que es pot situar en el marge temporal comprès entre el final del segle passat fins a la Guerra Civil espanyola. Els seus inicis coincideixen amb l'arrencada de l'Etnomusicologia com a disciplina amb rigor científic a l'àmbit internacional. Nogensmenys, donat que la intenció no és la de presentar una relació cronològica de les diferents aportacions de l'Etnomusicologia del país, sinó la d'oferir una visió crítica del desenvolupament de la disciplina en l'aspecte conceptual.Peer reviewe