Group Portrait of Founding Faculty and Staff by Tim Ford
A group of the founding faculty and staff gathered for a portrait by photographer Tim Ford on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of UMBC. Just a few of their stories include: David Lewis, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, was a native of Wales, a Royal Canadian Air Force pilot during World War II, a recipient of master's and doctoral degrees from Ohio State University, and a nationally known authority on population problems, urban sociology, and minority issues; Alice Robinson, Professor of Speech and Drama, received her doctorate from Stanford, was experienced in college and community theater as well as in pioneering television production; and Librarian Simmona Simmons, an alumna of UMBC and College Park, a professor at the College of Information Studies at College Park, a recipient of the James Partridge Award by Citizens for Maryland Libraries, previously worked as a library assistant at Bowie State University before joining the staff of the UMBC Library.
Shown are: Front Row (seated): Lucy Wilson, Robert Shedd, Julia Enos; Middle row: Mary Jane Randolph, Homer Schamp, Evelyn Barker, Alice Robinson, Albin O. Kuhn, Ceil Nedeloff, Walt Sherwin, May Roswell, Larry Lasher, Dick Watts; Back row: Frank Burd, Simmona Simmons, Arthur Hyman, William Rothstein, Guy Chisholm, Richard Roberts, William Bettridge, and David Lewis.
Ford, Tim
University Photographs
1991
gelatin silver prints; black-and-white photographs
UARC Photos-18-004
House of Delegates bill no. 482
Several bills were introduced into the Maryland Senate and the House of Delegates in the 1950s and early 1960s, and each approached the need for changes to public higher education from a different direction. Senate Bill No. 73, introduced by Senator James Pine, a Democrat from Baltimore County, specifically mentioned having a UM branch in Baltimore County. Passage of the legislation in 1963 allowed the University of Maryland Board of Regents to begin the process of expansion.
Maryland. General Assembly. House of Delegates
Albin O. Kuhn papers, Collection 44
2/24/1961
resolutions (administrative records); 11.7 x 8.9 in.
50UMBC-003_r
House of Delegates joint resolution no. 29
Several bills were introduced into the Maryland Senate and the House of Delegates in the 1950s and early 1960s, and each approached the need for changes to public higher education from a different direction. Senate Bill No. 73, introduced by Senator James Pine, a Democrat from Baltimore County, specifically mentioned having a UM branch in Baltimore County. Passage of the legislation in 1963 allowed the University of Maryland Board of Regents to begin the process of expansion.
Maryland. General Assembly. House of Delegates
Albin O. Kuhn papers, Collection 44
2/28/1961
resolutions (administrative records); 11.7 x 8.9 in.
50UMBC-005
John D. Haskell, Librarian, Laminated I.D. Card
John D. Haskell was the first full time UMBC employee. He was responsible for starting the Library, although Haskell's initial days at the university were spent not at UMBC but at College Park where he was oriented into the policies and procedures of the University of Maryland libraries system." It was Haskell's job to have 75,000 volumes of books and periodicals available" when the campus opened in 1966. He left UMBC in 1969 to enroll in a doctoral program for American Studies from George Washington University; Haskell retired in 2006 after a long career at the Earl Gregg Swem Library of the College of William & Mary.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
John Haskell papers, Collection 93
1965
identity cards; 2.5 x 3.5 in.
50UMBC-008
Land Acquisition from the Stabler Family
Not all of the land on which the new campus was going to be built was already owned by the state. One parcel was owned by the Stabler Family, 13 acres along Walker Avenue approximately where the Library & Gallery is now situated. The State acquired the land in 1965 through an Option Contract. The letter from Albert P. Backhaus, Director of the Department of Public Improvements for the State Department of Public Works, sent the signed Option to Edmund Stabler.
Backhaus, Albert P.
Stabler family papers, Collection 27
5/26/1965
correspondence; 10.8 x 8.1 in.
50UMBC-006
Public Higher Education in Maryland 1961-1975 (Baltimore: Commission for the Expansion of Public Higher Education in Maryland, 1962)
During the 1940s into the 1950s, dramatic increases in the number of Marylanders seeking a university education motivated State officials to begin planning for expansion of the University of Maryland. Beginning in 1955, a series of state commissions studied the need for expanding publicly supported higher education. Each recognized that the number of Maryland students attending college was greatly increasing. The Warfield Commission, appointed by the governor in 1959, issued its report in February 1960. Titled A Plan for Expanding the University of Maryland, the report suggested expansion of UM by bringing Towson, Frostburg and Salisbury Universities under the UM administration and creating regional campuses in various areas of the state for commuting students. The Curlett Commission, also appointed by the Governor, focused on the growing demand for college education in Maryland. The report recommended expansion in public higher education as well as a tripartite organization (community colleges, state colleges, and the University of Maryland).
Curlett, John N.
Albin O. Kuhn papers, Collection 44
06/1962
reports; 9 x 6 in.
50UMBC-019
Senate Bill No. 211
Several bills were introduced into the Maryland Senate and the House of Delegates in the 1950s and early 1960s, and each approached the need for changes to public higher education from a different direction. Senate Bill No. 73, introduced by Senator James Pine, a Democrat from Baltimore County, specifically mentioned having a UM branch in Baltimore County. Passage of the legislation in 1963 allowed the University of Maryland Board of Regents to begin the process of expansion.
Maryland. General Assembly. Senate
Albin O. Kuhn papers, Collection 44
6/1/1961
bills (legislative records); 12 x 9 in.
50UMBC-002
Senate Bill No. 73
Several bills were introduced into the Maryland Senate and the House of Delegates in the 1950s and early 1960s, and each approached the need for changes to public higher education from a different direction. Senate Bill No. 73, introduced by Senator James Pine, a Democrat from Baltimore County, specifically mentioned having a UM branch in Baltimore County. Passage of the legislation in 1963 allowed the University of Maryland Board of Regents to begin the process of expansion.
Maryland. General Assembly. Senate
Albin O. Kuhn papers, Collection 44
6/1/1964
bills (legislative records); 8.5 x 11 in.
50UMBC-001
Spring Grove Site for U of MD Campus, The Sunpapers
After a long process, with many different opinions expressed, the Board of Regents finally approved plans to build a University of Maryland branch on a 425 acre tract of mostly State-owned land near Catonsville in Baltimore County. An article in The Evening Sun newspaper announced the selection of Catonsville for the new campus site and specified that the tentative site plan shows a large parking lot…"
News of the selection of the Catonsville site for a new UM campus was covered by the Baltimore dailies as well as the local County newspapers. The Times, headquartered on Sulfur Spring Road in Arbutus, naturally covered more detail about the site and the rationale for the location of the campus. It reproduced a graphic that showing the campus having a business and public administration program which was never realized. Reasons for selecting the Catonsville site included: the site was adjacent to I-695 and not too far from College Park; it was large enough to allow for future development of the campus; the state already owned most of the land. The photograph shows a view from Hilltop Building looking toward the Spring Grove Farm. The road running right to left in front of the barns is Walker Avenue.
Baltimore sun
Baltimore Sun Photographs
10/14/1963
gelatin silver prints; black-and-white photographs
P2014-01-0090
Stabler Family House
Edmund Stabler (1847-1905) became superintendent of the Baltimore Manual Labor School in 1884, and upon his retirement in 1904 the board of the school gave Stabler 13 acres of land along Walker Avenue, including the home in which he, his wife, and their six children had been living. Albin Kuhn and his family later moved into the house while Kuhn supervised the building the new campus.
Baltimore Manual Labor School Collection
ca. 1900
gelatin silver prints; black-and-white photographs; 8 x 10 in.
MSS 1988-02-009