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Maine History Volume 9 Number 4 Article 2 5-2-1970 The Society Maine Historical Society Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainehistoryjournal  Part of the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Maine Historical Society, . "The Society." Maine History 9, 4 (1970): 89-92. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainehistoryjournal/vol9/iss4/2 This Reports, News, Announcements is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Maine History by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact um.library.technical.services@maine.edu. MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTERVolume nine, Number four May , 1969Published quarterly at U85 Congress Street Portland, Maine OUlllNEWS OF THE SOCIETYAnnual M e e tin g : The 1^8th Annual Meeting of the Society will convene in Luther Bonney Auditorium on the University of Maine Portland campus, June third. After the discomfort experienced last year when some members were forced to stand in hallways and the Reading Room, it was agreed that a hall large enough to accomodate everyone must be sought.We trust that it will not prove too great an inconvenience for those who wish to see the special Sesquicentennial Exhibit in the Society building or the Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Garden to pay a visit to Congress Street sometime during the morning hours on Annual Meeting day.The business meeting will commence promptly at 2:00 P.M. to be followed by the annual address at 3:00. Dr. Ronald F. Banks, Assistant to the President, University of Maine, will speak on the subject of the Separation of Maine from Massachu­setts .Included on the agenda as part of the Sesquicentennial observance this year will be the announcement and presentation of the first annual awards for the Prize Essay Contest.Departing from past procedures, prescribed in the Bylaws adopted last September, the election of the Standing Committee shall include, in addition to those assembled at Portland, the vote of those members unable to attend who have submitted a proxy. Another departure, under present Bylaws, provides for the election of the Officers of the Society by the newly elected Standing Committee, rather than by the membership assembled for Annual Meeting.The L o n g fe llo w  Elm : On Sunday morning, May second, the tree immediately behind the Wadsworth-Longfellow House was removed, a victim of Dutch Elm disease. Repeated treatment failed to check progress of the disease in the 130 year old tree whichPhotograph by Wa l t e r  E lw ell reproduced through the co u r tesy  o f  Guy Gannett P u b lica tio n s .threatened all of the remaining elms on the property.President of the Longfellow Garden Club, Mrs. Edvard W. Atwood, was joined by two past presidents, Mrs. Keith C.Parris and Mrs. Bernard F. Harris; in addition, Mrs. William J. Murphy, Chairman of the Wadsworth-Longfellow House Commit­tee, Mr. Robert G. Albion, President of the Society, and several other interested observers, gathered to witness the sad event.The removal, a rather hazardous operation because of the huge tree's proximity to both the Wadsworth-Longfellow House and the Society building, was skillfully supervised by Mr.Roydon K. Maddocks of the Lucas Tree Expert Company, who donated all of their equipment. The giant crane, which served to hoist the tree up and out of the garden in immense sections, was generously donated by Mr. Paul E. Merrill. The entire cost of the labor involved was borne by the Longfellow Garden Club.The long and complicated task of making all arrangements was carried out by Mrs. Bernard F. Harris, Chairman of the Longfellow Garden Committee.Mrs. S h irley  E. Welch: We are pleased to announce the appoint­ment of Mrs. Shirley E. Welch to the position of Reference Librarian. A graduate of Gorham High School, Mrs. Welch received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Maine, Orono in i960. After teaching a year, Mrs. Welch entered library work and earned her Masters in Library Science from Simmons College in Boston. Her most recent position was with the Perkins’ School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts.We feel fortunate indeed to have a woman with such a fine back­ground join us at the Society in this key position.A rchives Program: Conceived and brought about through the efforts of Professor James S. Leamon of the History Department at Bates College, a course in the study and handling of manu­scripts is underway here at the Society under the supervision of the Manuscripts Librarian and the Director. Sponsored jointly by Bates College and the Maine Historical Society for the first time this year, the program is intended to offer history students actual experience in the care, preservation, arrangement, and study of historical manuscripts. Miss Sandra Hopkins, junior, and Mr. James McQueston, senior, the first students in this program, will be with us for six weeks at work on a variety of projects.91NEW MEMBERSFrom MAINE A u g u sta : John W. Briggs, Brooks Brown, Jr., Mrs. Charles K. Hewins, Jr. and Miss Shirley M. Thayer Beer M i l l s :  Mrs. William H. Bruce B erw ick : Mrs. Clifford H. Wilson B id d e fo r d : Kenneth J. Scott B oothbay H a rbor: Patrick T. Jack- son and Mrs. Patrick T. Jackson B rew er : Richard Hede Bruns­w ic k : Leroy D. Cross C a la is : Wayne A. Newell C a s t in e : Arthur M. Johnson Cape E l i z a b e t h : Miss Judith F. Anderson, Mrs. Frank­lin F. Ferguson, Mrs. Bernard Harris, Robert A. G. Monks and Paul Stearns Cape N ed d ick : Miss Brenda Kuhn and Miss Doris R. Marston Cumberland F o r e s i d e : Mrs. Lawrence Dana Falm outh:Donald A. Ricker G a rd in er : Hayden L. V. Anderson and Mrs. William Harvey Gorham: Mrs. Robert P. Mertens, Miss Lucille Moore and Miss Martha Sanborn G r e e n v i l l e : Charles M. Skinner R a llo w e l l : Mrs. Sanford L. Fogg and Miss M. Martitia Walker N orth  A n son : David H. Ela O rono: Mrs. Ella C. Smith F o r tla n d : Mrs. Helen C. Cohen, Miss Catherine R. Congdon, Miss Velma V. Goodwin, Miss Molly M. Isenman, James G. McLoughlin, Peter L. Murray, Russell Norris, Colin W. Sargent, Mrs. Theodore W. Sottery, Gordon Sprague and Allan R. Whitmore P resq u e I s l e :  Warren H. Horton Raymond: Mrs. Gilbert D. Brown Rum ford: Miss Carolyn Kennard S a co : Charles W. Fenderson South  P o r tla n d :Mrs. George E. Beal, Mrs. Marie K. Hammond and Miss Doris W. Royal W estb ro o k : Larry Geraghty Yarm outh: Mrs. Hubert H.Barker York H a rbor: Henry Cadwalader.O th er S t a t e s  CALIFORNIA La J o l l a : Douglas A. Land Santa  Ana: Mrs. P. J. FitzGerald CONNECTICUT E a st H a r tfo r d : Henry J. Stone NEW YORK Putnam V a lle y : Roland OfNeal RHODE ISLAND N ew p ort: Harold J. Carroll.LIFE MEMBER Mrs. Eugene H. Drake of Gorham.CORPORATE MEMBERS MASSACHUSETTS B o s to n : S. D. Warren Company Foundation MAINE P o r tla n d : Consumers Water Company,Guy Gannett Foundation and Noyes & Chapman, Inc. W est B u xton : Maine Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution.92

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