http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/ 2026-04-12T23:36:00+00:00 http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/ http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2021-09-03T16:47:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:cambridge_seven&rev=1630687673&do=diff Cambridge Seven Associates Cambridge Seven Associates of Cambridge, MA is an architectural firm that has designed several buildings on the UMass Amherst campus. Knowles Engineering, the Mullins Center, and the Central Heating Plant were all designed by Cambridge Seven. They also designed the as-yet un-built Champions Center. text/html 2024-07-15T19:17:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:campus_center&rev=1721071024&do=diff Campus Center Constructed: 1970 Architects: Marcel Breuer and Associates, New York, N.Y. ---------- Design and construction [Campus Center] [Campus Center] [Campus Center] Situated at the north end of the campus pond, the Murray D. Lincoln Campus Center is a widely noted example of Brutalist architecture: a poured concrete structure poised on a monumental platform, accessed by a series of broad steps. In keeping with his modernist principles, Marcel Breuer designed the facade of the buildi… text/html 2024-07-09T19:41:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:cance_alexander_e&rev=1720554084&do=diff Cance, Alexander E. Agricultural Economics, 1909-1942 b. 1874, Wisconsin ---------- [Alexander E. Cance] Alexander E. Cance, Professor and Head of the Agricultural Economics Department at the University of Massachusetts, was born in 1874 in Wisconsin. In 1891 he graduated from the academy of Gale College, Galesville, Wisconsin, and taught physics, mathematics, and science through the next year (1892). From there he went to Macalester College of St. Paul, Minnesota, where he received his B.A… text/html 2024-07-09T19:41:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:caret_robert_l&rev=1720554119&do=diff Caret, Robert L. [Robert L. Caret] Robert L. Caret was elected President of the five-campus, 68,000-student University of Massachusetts system on January 13, 2011. Ranked as the 19th best university in the world in the Times of London's 2011 World Reputation Rankings, UMass was established in 1863 and consists of the flagship campus in Amherst, along with campuses in Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell and Worcester. text/html 2024-07-10T19:18:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:caruthers_john_thomas&rev=1720639098&do=diff Caruthers, John Thomas (1907) [John t. Caruthers] An early African American graduate of Massachusetts Agricultural College and member of the Class of 1907, John T. Caruthers was born Mar. 22, 1879, and according to his entry in the Index for 1907, came to Amherst from his home in Columbia: “that's way down south in Tennessee text/html 2024-07-09T19:43:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:central_residential_area&rev=1720554222&do=diff Central Residential Area [Central Residential area] Situated on the west face of the ridge that defined the eastern edge of the UMass campus, the Clark Hill development grew to be known as the Central Residential Area. The first building of this complex was Butterfield House which was constructed in 1940 to the design of architect text/html 2024-07-09T19:45:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:chadbourne_hall&rev=1720554319&do=diff Chadbourne Hall Constructed: 1947 Architects: Louis Warren Ross ---------- Design and construction [Chadbourne House] [Chadbourne House] [Chadbourne House] Chadbourne Hall is an approximately 37,000 square foot student residence hall on the Amherst campus of the University of Massachusetts. The building is one of nine structures that comprise the text/html 2024-07-09T19:46:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:chadbourne_paul_a&rev=1720554361&do=diff Chadbourne, Paul A. President, Massachusetts Agricultural College: 1866-1867 and 1882-1883 ---------- [Paul A. Chadbourne] Paul Chadbourne served as the second president of Massachusetts Agricultural College. With Levi Stockbridge and Henry Goodell, he has the distinction of having been named president twice. text/html 2024-07-10T19:57:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:chancellors&rev=1720641435&do=diff Chancellors As the University of Massachusetts created new campuses in Worcester, Boston, Lowell, and Dartmouth, the administrative structure necessarily evolved. The position of Chancellor was created for the campus at Amherst in 1970, with Oswald Tippo becoming the first to hold that title, while the text/html 2024-07-09T19:47:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:chancellor_s_house&rev=1720554453&do=diff Chancellor's House Constructed: 1883-1884 Architects: Unknown. ---------- Design and construction [Hillside] [Hillside] [Hillside] Also known as the President's House or Hillside House, the Chancellor's House was apparently constructed as a “builder's house,” and its obscure origins have been met with a history of alterations and changes. The hipped roof and lower gables betray its late 19th-century origin, but over the years the house has been decked out in a variety of colors, a front p… text/html 2021-09-03T16:47:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:chemistry&rev=1630687673&do=diff Department of Chemistry Past faculty * Goessmann, Charles A. * Rausch, Marvin D. text/html 2021-09-03T16:47:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:chemistry_laboratory&rev=1630687673&do=diff Chemistry Laboratory Built in 1867. Also known as the Chemistry Building or College Hall. It burned in 1922. Located just south of the ravine and north of North College. First Building The chemical laboratory was 57 x 46 feet and two stories high, and had excellent rooms for lectures, practical chemistry, and apparatus. The building, including bell and grading, cost about $10,360. By winter of 1868 it has not yet been provided with apparatus or furniture, and was being used as a gymnasium. text/html 2024-07-09T19:49:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:chenoweth_laboratory&rev=1720554587&do=diff Chenoweth Laboratory Constructed: 1930 Architects: ---------- [Chenoweth laboratory] [Chenoweth Laboratory] [Chenoweth laboratory] [Interior, Chenoweth Laboratory] [Interior, Chenoweth laboratory] [Interior, Chenoweth laboratory] Design and construction Chenoweth Laboratory is a two-story brick building with Georgian Revival elements of a minimal nature, such as the splayed brick lintels with interspersed keystones above door and windows. The building is 11 bays wide and six bays deep, w… text/html 2024-07-10T19:19:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:chenoweth_walter_w&rev=1720639176&do=diff Chenoweth, Walter W. Horticultural Manufactures (Food Science), 1912-1941 b. 1872, Wisconsin d. 1945, Amherst, Mass. ---------- [Walter W. Chenoweth] Walter W. Chenoweth, the founder of the Horticultural Manufactures Department in 1918, predecessor to the Food Science Department, was a key figure in the development of research and education in modern food science. Hired as a pomologist at Mass. Agricultural College in 1912, Chenoweth had no background in food science, but encouraged by Fra… text/html 2024-07-10T20:07:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:clark_hall&rev=1720642031&do=diff Clark Hall Constructed: 1907 Architects: Frank Irving Cooper or Cooper and Bailey, Boston, Mass. ---------- Design and construction [Clark Hall] [Clark Hall] [Clark Hall laboratories] [Clark Hall] The most significant features of this three story building are its full-height arched windows and heavy dentils under the eaves in a Renaissance Revival style. Clark Hall was designed and built with two main entrances to provide sweeping views of the surrounding landscape. text/html 2021-09-03T16:47:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:clark_henry_james&rev=1630687673&do=diff Clark, Henry James Natural History, 1872-1873 b. June 22, 1826, Easton, Mass. d. July 1, 1873, Amherst, Mass. ---------- The first professor of Natural History at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, Henry James Clark, had one of the briefest and most tragic tenures of any member of the faculty during the nineteenth century. Born in Easton, Mass., on June 22, 1826, the son of Rev. Henry Porter and Abigail Jackson (Orton) Clark, Henry was raised primarily in Brooklyn, N.Y. After graduatin… text/html 2024-07-09T19:52:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:clark_william_smith&rev=1720554769&do=diff Clark, William Smith President, Massachusetts Agricultural College: 1867-1879 b. 1826, Ashfield, Mass. d. 1886 ---------- [William Smith Clark] [William Smith Clark and Harriet Richards Clark on their honeymoon] William S. Clark was one of the most colorful figures in the history of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. Clark was born in 1826 in Ashfield, Massachusetts. He graduated from Amherst College in 1848, and went on to teach the natural sciences at Williston Seminary until 1850… text/html 2024-07-09T20:35:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:cole_thomas_w&rev=1720557335&do=diff Cole, Thomas W. Chancellor, UMass Amherst: 2007-2008 ---------- <html><div style=“float:right; padding-left:20px;”> <a href=“<http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/archives/cole_thomas-2008.jpg>”><img src=“<http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/archives/cole_thomas-2008.jpg>” alt=“Thomas W. Cole” style=“width:150px; border:1px solid #333; padding:5px;”/></a> </div> <p>The first president of Clark Atlanta University, a historically black, four-year liberal arts college, Thomas W. Cole Jr. was tapp… text/html 2021-09-03T16:47:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:college_barn&rev=1630687673&do=diff College Barn Built 1868. Plans and specifications for a model barn have been procured, and the sum of $7,000 appropriated for its construction. The stone and' much of the lumber will be taken from the lands of the College and hauled to the location selected, on the central ridge of the farm, about forty rods south of the dormitory, the present winter. The barn is intended to stand on the western slope of the ridge and to be text/html 2021-09-03T16:47:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:college_of_education&rev=1630687673&do=diff College of Education The University of Massachusetts College of Education is a college within the university. Founded in 1907 as the Department of Agricultural Education, it renamed in 1932. During this period, it is possible that it was dissolved, as the college claims to have been founded in 1955 as the Department of Education. In 1956, it was renamed to the School of Education, and was renamed on 1 July 2013 to the College of Education. text/html 2021-09-03T16:47:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:college_of_engineering&rev=1630687673&do=diff College of Engineering The University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Engineering is a college within the university. Originally founded in 1914 as the Agricultural Engineering Department, it was renamed the Department of Engineering in 1938, renamed the Division of Engineering in 1945, renamed the School of Engineering in 1947, and renamed the Department of Engineering in 1984 or 1985. Sometime after 1995, it was upgraded to a college and became the College of Engineering. text/html 2021-09-03T16:47:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:college_of_humanities_and_fine_arts&rev=1630687673&do=diff College of Humanities and Fine Arts The University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Humanities and Fine Arts is a college within the university. It was founded in 1928 as the Division of Social Sciences after being split off from the Division of Rural and Social Science. It was renamed in 1938 as the Division of Liberal Arts, renamed in 1945 as the School of Liberal Arts, and merged in 1949 with the School of Science to form the College of Arts and Sciences. It became its own faculty in 1970… text/html 2021-09-03T16:47:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:college_of_natural_resources_and_the_environment&rev=1630687673&do=diff College of Natural Resources and the Environment The College of Natural Resources and the Environment is a former college of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Originally, it was founded as two schools that merged in 1950. The first division, the Division of Agriculture, was founded in 1907 or 1911 as the Division of Agriculture, and renamed the School of Agriculture in 1945, before it was merged in 1950. The Division of Horticulture was founded in 1907 or 1911, and was renamed the School… text/html 2021-09-03T16:47:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:college_of_natural_sciences&rev=1630687673&do=diff College of Natural Sciences The University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Natural Sciences is a college located within the university. It was founded in 2009 as the successor of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and the College of Natural Resources and the Environment. text/html 2021-09-03T16:47:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:college_of_natural_sciences_and_mathematics&rev=1630687673&do=diff College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics The College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics is a former college of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Founded in 1911 as the Division of Science, it was renamed in 1930 to the Division of Physical and Biological Science. In 1945, it was renamed to the School of Science, and merged in 1949 with the School of Liberal Arts to become the College of Arts and Sciences. In 1970, it became its own faculty under the name Natural Sciences and Mathemat… text/html 2021-09-03T16:47:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:college_of_nursing&rev=1630687673&do=diff College of Nursing The University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Nursing is a college located within the university that was founded in 1953 as the Division of Nursing, even though classes were offered during the 1949/1950 academic year. In 1960, it was renamed the School of Nursing, and stayed this way until it was merged with the Department of Public Health to become the Division of Nursing within the School of Health Sciences in 1973. In 1989, it was split off into the School of Nursing… text/html 2021-09-03T16:47:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:college_of_social_and_behavioral_sciences&rev=1630687673&do=diff College of Social and Behavioral Sciences The University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Social and Behavioral Sciences is a college within the university. It was founded in 1928 as the Division of Social Sciences after being split off from the Division of Rural and Social Science. It was renamed in 1938 as the Division of Liberal Arts, renamed in 1945 as the School of Liberal Arts, and merged in 1949 with the School of Science to form the College of Arts and Sciences. It became its own fac… text/html 2021-09-03T16:47:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:commonwealth_honors_college&rev=1630687673&do=diff Commonwealth Honors College The University of Massachusetts Amherst Commonwealth Honors College is the honors college of the university. Founded in 1998, it opened its doors in 1999. In 2013, the college opened a dedicated residential area for students, and helped to concentrate all of the college’s activities in one place. text/html 2024-07-09T19:56:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:conte_center&rev=1720555005&do=diff Conte Center Constructed: 1996 Architects: Janet Ross of Ellenzweig Associates, Inc., Cambridge, Mass., in association with Whitney Atwood Norcross Associates, Boston. ---------- Design and construction [Silvio Conte National Center for Polymer Research] The Silvio O. Conte National Center for Polymer Research was conceived as two distinct wings connected by a common elevator: one wing for offices and the other for laboratories. Facing north, the six-story office wing is a steel structure… text/html 2024-07-10T19:23:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:crabtree_hall&rev=1720639381&do=diff Crabtree Hall Constructed: 1953 Architects: Louis Warren Ross ---------- Design and construction [Crabtree House] [Crabtree House] [Crabtree House] [Crabtree House] Crabtree House is an approximately 33,000 square foot residential building on the Amherst campus of the University of Massachusetts, one of ten structures comprising the text/html 2024-07-10T19:23:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:craighead_william_h&rev=1720639423&do=diff Craighead, William Hunlie (1906) [Class of 1905] Craighead arriving with his class, 1901 [Football team, 1906] Craighead and the MAC football team, 1906 One of the first African American students to enroll at Massachusetts Agricultural College, William Hunlie Craighead was born in South Hill, Va., on Dec. 17, 1877. Alternately listed as being from Washington, D.C., or Boston, Craighead had already attended Howard University, and perhaps Cornell, before arriving at MAC during the fall 1901. H… text/html 2024-07-15T19:19:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:curry_hicks&rev=1721071158&do=diff Curry Hicks Gymnasium Constructed: 1930-1931 and 1984 Architect: Clinton F. Goodwin of Morse and Dickinson Engineers, Haverhill, Mass. Addition: Childs, Bertman, Tseckares, and Casedino, Inc., Boston, Mass. ---------- [Curry Hicks gymnasium] [Curry Hicks gymnasium locker room] [Curry Hicks Gymnasium interior] Appointed director of physical education in 1911, Curry Hicks worked tirelessly with the Associated Alumni to fund and build the original, 1931, section of this recreation building. … text/html 2024-07-09T20:01:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:curtis_helen_cole&rev=1720555305&do=diff Cole, Helen Curtis Dean of Women, 1945-1973 b. Jan. 22, 1909, Parker, South Dakota d. May 8, 2007, Amherst, Mass. ---------- [Helen Curtis Cole] For 29 years, Helen Curtis Cole served as Dean of Women at UMass Amherst, guiding the development of coeducation from the influx of veterans at the end of World War II through the tumultuous changes of the sexual revolution of the 1960s. text/html 2021-09-03T16:47:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=c:cushman&rev=1630687673&do=diff Cushman, Esther Cowles The class of 1905 boasted the first women--two of them--to complete the four-year course and graduate with bachelor of science degrees. Esther Cowles Cushman, class of 1905, was born in Bridgeport, Conn., in 1883 and later moved to Northampton, Mass., where she attended the local high school. During college she lived at home. A biology major, she was a member of the Zoological Journal Club and recipient of the Hills Botanical Prize, and wrote her thesis on