Guide to the Paul Hazelton Papers, 1936 - 1996 undated
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Deposited, 1996.
Paul Hazelton Papers, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine.
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Paul Vernon Hazelton was born on July 22, 1919, in Biddeford, Maine, and prepared for college at Thornton Academy in Saco, Maine. He was graduated from Bowdoin College in 1942, then served in the U.S. Army during World War II, attaining the rank of corporal. After teaching at Staunton Military Academy in Virginia and Loomis School in Windsor, Connecticut, Hazelton became assistant director of admissions and instructor in English at Bowdoin in 1948. He held these positions until 1957 when he became assistant professor of education, rising to associate professor in 1960 and full professor in 1966. He retired as professor of education emeritus in 1985. He received a Master of Education from Harvard in 1958 and spent the 1963-1964 academic year in England studying the relationships between politics and education in Great Britain. Hazelton was the recipient of the 13th annual Distinguished Educator Award of the Maine State Superintendents' Association in 1984 and Bowdoin's Alumni Award for Faculty and Staff in 1987. He was active in local and state organizations including the Maine Education Council, the Maine State Board of Education, the Maine Humanities Council, and the Topsham Public Library Association. Paul Hazelton married Jane Desaulniers Hazelton in 1942; they had three children, Stephen, Mary, and Anne. Paul Hazelton died on January 28, 1996, in Topsham, Maine.
Teaching and administrative materials documenting Hazelton's career as professor of education at Bowdoin, as well as papers from his student days as a member of Bowdoin's Class of 1942, including research materials and notes, speeches and writings, and personal correspondence.
Organized in four series: Bowdoin College Materials, 1950-1992, n.d.; Speeches and Writings, 1949-1992, n.d.; Research Materials and Notes, 1956-1992, n.d.; and Personal and Biographical, 1936-1996, n.d.
Hazelton's Education Department files including correspondence, syllabi, class lists, memoranda, notes, and exams. In addition to general College correspondence, there is correspondence and material concerning College policies, the Senior Center Committee, senior seminars, Upward Bound, and the Bowdoin chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). There is also material related to the Alumni Award for Faculty and Staff, which Hazelton received in 1987, and a paper prepared by Al Fuchs on Thomas Upham, entitled "Uncle Tommy." Paul Hazelton's Bowdoin College undergraduate materials are in the Personal and Biographical series, and his Bowdoin College Chapel Talks in the Speeches and Writings series.
Arranged alphabetically.
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AAUP (American Association of University Professors), Bowdoin Chapter, correspondence and memoranda, 1957-1962
AAUP (American Association of University Professors), Bowdoin Chapter, correspondence and memoranda, 1963-1968, 1976-1981, n.d.
Admissions related correspondence and notes
Bowdoin, P. T., writings by, 1952-1955, n.d.
Correspondence, 1963-1988 (bulk post-1980)
Correspondence, 1989-1992, n.d.
Correspondence, presidents and deans, 1959-1985
Correspondence re: Alumni Award for Faculty and Staff
Correspondence re: committee work; memoranda and reports, 1950-1985
Correspondence re: foreign language requirement, 1982
Correspondence re: Paul Hazelton Book Fund
Education Department correspondence and memoranda, 1956-1972
Education Department correspondence and memoranda, 1973-1985
Education Department correspondence and memoranda, 1986-1992, n.d.
Education Department, Education I syllabi and notes, 1970-1973
Education Department, Education I syllabi and notes, 1981-1983
Education Department, Education II syllabi and notes, 1971-1980
Education Department, Education II syllabi, notes, class list, 1982
Education Department, Education IV syllabi, articles, class list, notes, 1984-1988
Education Department, Education IV notebooks, 1984-1985
Education Department, education courses, various syllabi, 1958-1982, 1985
Education Department, education course exams and notes, 1957-1969
Education Department, education course exams and notes, 1970-1973
Education Department, education course final exams and notes, 1974-1984
Education Department notes
Education Department research and notes
Education Department research--reports
Correspondence, policy documents, and clippings on various Bowdoin people and offices
Senior Center Committee
Senior seminar lecture notes and articles
Senior seminar lecture notes and articles
Symposia
"Uncle Tommy" [Thomas Upham], Al Fuchs, 1991
Upward Bound memorabilia, reports, and notes
Speeches (both complete and incomplete) written and delivered by Hazelton, as well as drafts and final copies of articles, reviews, reports, lectures, and proposals. Included are Bowdoin College Chapel Talks, remarks delivered at memorial services and to the Maine State Board of Education, and material for lecture "Bowdoin 1885-1985: William De Witt Hyde and the Idea of a College."
Arranged chronologically.
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1949-1986, Bowdoin College Chapel Talks
1953 Apr, "The Responsibility of a Liberal Arts College to the Non-College Preparatory Students in High School"
1954 May, "Bowdoin Orient" review of the May 1954 "Quill"
1958, untitled [education and uniformity of culture]
1961, "A Proposal Addressed to the President and Board of Nasson College Relative to a Study Leading to Recommendations for the Future of Nasson College," Northeastern Research Foundation, Inc.
1963 Jun 15, "Education and Politics," "Saturday Review"
1965, Winslow High School graduation speech
1966 Jul 14, "Importance of Form," CCTV lecture, notes, University of Maine
1967 Feb 24, "Introductory Speech for Annie Talbot Cole Lectureship"
1967 Mar, "Re-Evaluation Report, Hebrew Teachers College"
1968 Oct 21, "The S.A.D. Issues" speech, S.A.D. Union 42 annual meeting
1968 Nov 1, untitled, AAUP
1968 Nov, untitled Wesleyan notes
1968 Nov 11, Malcolm Elmer Morrell Memorial Minute
1970 May 1, "Evaluation Report on the Harvard Center for Law and Education"
1970 Nov, "A Study of a Proposal for Assisting Students in Private Colleges in Maine with Public Funds," prepared for the 105th Legislature by Maine Education Council
1970 Dec 1, "A Study of Legislative Document 1228--An Act Appropriating Funds for Education Costs for Maine Students in Private Schools of Higher Education"
1971 Jan, "A Study of a Proposal for Assisting Students in Private Colleges in Maine with Public Funds," prepared for the 105th Legislature by Maine Education Council
1972 Apr 28, small flyer cards for "Blaming the Victims: Some Private Retreats for Public Education" speech
1972 Jun 10, Chick Ireland eulogy
1974 Apr 25, "Testimony Before the Professional Standards Advisory Commission"
1974 Aug 14, "Schools, Choice and the Supreme Court"
1974 Oct 4, "Choice and the School," "Commonweal"
1974 Fall, "Teachers and the Study of Politics," draft, submission, and publication, "Prism"
1975 Nov 24, "Testimony to the State Board of Education at Augusta on November 24, 1975 on the Report of Professional Standards Advisory Commission, `Proposed Standards for Education Personnel Program Approval (SEPPA)'"
1976 Jun, "The Matter of Choice: Private Schools in America," with related correspondence and materials
1976 Jul, "Again: the Colleges and the Public Schools," submission to"The Chronicle of Higher Education"
1977 Jan 27, "Proposal to Study State Educational Planning in the Federal Republic of Germany"
1978 May 20-21, "Schools: The Light Weight Model," prepared for and distributed by Maine Lyceum
1980 Aug 13, "Statement to the State Board of Education"
[1981?] "The Lousewort--and the Uses of Energy" and related materials
1981 Oct, "My University--and Yours," "Bowdoin Orient"
1982 Mar 16, "Other Places, Other Auguries: A Contrary View,""Maine Sunday Telegram"
1982 Apr, Review of "The Social Sciences in Educational Studies: A Selective Guide to the Literature" by Anthony Hartnett for"American Journal of Education" , and related correspondence
[1982-1983?], "The Poet in a Landscape," "Puckerbrush Review," v.2
1984, notes and outlines for series of lectures (undelivered)
1985, "Bowdoin 1885-1985: William De Witt Hyde and the Idea of a College," drafts, notes
1985, "Bowdoin 1885-1985: William De Witt Hyde and the Idea of a College," research material
1986 Mar 12, "Edmund Coombs Memorial Minute"
1986 Apr, speech on "Liberal Education of Teachers," for Bowdoin alumni teachers
1986 Jul, "By the End of the Decade: An Exercise in Thinking about Overbuilt Schools," prepared for the Maine Superintendent's Symposium
1987 Jan 19, "Defining Liberal Education," draft
1988 Jan, "Proposal to Deliver a Paper at `The Right to Literacy' MLA Conference"
1988 Aug 18, "Albert ``Jim' Abrahamson Memorial Minute"
1988 Aug 18, "Herbert Ross Brown Memorial"
1989 Jan 26, "Project Evaluation: `Factory Island' at the York Institute, Saco"
1992 May 30, "Views of the College: Seeing the Frame"
n.d., Liberal education, draft
n.d., "The State of Maine and the Second Age of Suburbanization"
Fragments/notes
Newspaper, academic, and popular journal articles and clippings collected by Hazelton, both related to education and of general interest. Most concern political, social, and cultural issues related to education, such as public vs. private education; tracking in high schools; free speech on college campuses; art and culture in education; the roles of liberal arts, humanities, and religion; and rising tuition costs. Hazelton's notes and annotations are intermixed with the articles.
Arranged alphabetically.
No restrictions.
1971 California Supreme Court case, public school financing
American Council of Learned Sciences
Arts, museums, and education
Arts, museums, and education
Arts, museums, and education
Baileyville book banning court case
Britain, foreign education
College president inaugural addresses, etc.
Columbia University Seminar Reports, 1973-1979
Crick, Bernard - articles (re: socialism)
Cultural literacy
Cultural politics
Democratic education and equality, meritocracy, opportunity
Discipline
Educational administration
Educational reform
Families and education
Finance, wealth, rich/poor gap
General research
General research
General research
General research
General research--newspaper clippings
Graduate and law school
High school-college connection, admissions
Higher education
Hoggart, Richard - articles (by-lines and subject)
Humanities
Liberal arts and education
Literacy/post-literacy
Literature
Lucie-Smith, Edward--"The Story of Craft"
Mack, Maynard - articles
Maine Christian schools court case, censorship
Maine education and miscellany
Maine Superintendents' Symposium
Modern Language Association
"Nature of Public Goods"
Notebooks, 1977-1979
Notebooks, 1984-1988
Notebooks, n.d.
Philosophy of teaching
Politics and education
Public and private education
Public and private education
Public and private education--freedom of expression
Public and private education--religious education
Public and private education--school choice, 1991-1992
Public and private education--tax credits, vouchers
Publications
Religion and education
"Report of the Committee on Cooperation," 1956 Sep
SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test)
Secondary education
Socialism, welfare state
State and federal regulation of education
Stitham, Kevin Linus - articles
Teacher training and evaluation
Teacher training and evaluation
Tracking/ability grouping
Universities
Values and education
Williams, Raymond - articles (by-lines and subject)
Women and minorities
Personal correspondence, materials from undergraduate study at Bowdoin, newspaper articles featuring Hazelton, material related to Hazelton's work with the Maine Civil Liberties Union, and miscellaneous ephemera. There is also a "Book of Remembrances" with memorial tributes to Hazelton.
Arranged alphabetically, then chronologically.
No restrictions.
Articles featuring Hazelton
"Book of Remembrances," memorial tributes to Hazelton, 1996
Bowdoin student: Art
Bowdoin student: Commencement 1940, 1942
Bowdoin student: English
Bowdoin student: English/Philosophy Notebooks, 1939-1941
Bowdoin student: History
Bowdoin student: miscellaneous work
Bowdoin student: Psychology
Bowdoin student: Zoology
Correspondence, 1941-1947
Correspondence, 1961-1970
Correspondence, 1971-1978
Correspondence, 1983-1993
Correspondence, n.d.
Maine Civil Liberties Union
Maine Humanities Council
Poems and quotes
Programs, ephemera, 1936-1991, n.d.