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New from Special Collections and Projects: George Howard Crosby papers, the time book of the ZIZANIA, and Wofford G. Gardner papers
The Special Collections and Projects Department in Fogler Library has added new records to the online archival content management tool ArchivesSpace.
George Howard Crosby was appointed registrar of the University of Maine in 1955. Before coming to UMaine, Crosby had traveled in Europe on the schooner Bowdoin. Crosby was with the U.S. Army in the Philippines from 1937 to 1940. From 1941 to 1945 he was secretary of the Army and Navy YMCA in Manila. He also spent three years in Japanese internment camps (1942–45). Crosby's papers contain materials from committees he served on in his capacity as registrar for UMaine. Also in the records are material related to Crosby's tenure as Director of Education for the Civil Air Patrol; applications to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission for a byproduct material licensed to Crosby and the Penobscot County Civil Defense Organization; and details of Crosby training radiological monitors at UMaine.
Also added to ArchivesSpace:
The time book of the lighthouse tender ZIZANIA, 1913–34, includes repairs and work orders, expenses, mileage with coal expenditures, and names of individuals paid. There are gaps in the coverage; presumably the US Navy kept their own records during ZIZANIA's service in World War I and World War II.
ZIZANIA, a steel-hulled twin-screw lighthouse tender, was built at Baltimore, Md., by Ramsey and Son, for the United States Lighthouse Service and launched on November 12, 1888. The ship served in the Gulf of Maine until transferred to the War Department by an executive order dated April 24, 1917, then subsequently reassigned to the Navy, ZIZANIA served during the Great War as a tender to section patrol craft operating in the First Naval District. When control over the Lighthouse Service reverted to the Department of Commerce on July 1, 1919, ZIZANIA’s name was stricken from the Navy List.
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Wofford G. Gardner was born March 29, 1914, in Bangor, Maine. He graduated from Southwestern College, Winfield, Kansas, with a B.A. degree and from Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., with an M.A. and Ph.D. He joined the faculty of the University of Maine in 1946 and was chair of the Department of Speech from 1948–75. During those years he was director of Debate and Forensics for 25 years and directed the University of Maine High School Debate Workshop and Debate Tournament, also for 25 years. In addition, he was parliamentarian for many organizations in the area. Gardner's papers contain a history of debating at the University of Maine from 1931–79. Included are newspaper clippings, photographs, debate schedules, and correspondence.
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