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.
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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.
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Diagrammatic Scheme by Tartar & Kelly
During the early planning stages for the expansion of the University of Maryland, one possible location for the new campus was the Inner Harbor of Baltimore City. Consideration of the site went as far as making a Diagrammatic Scheme as a Proposal for Downtown Campus for University of Maryland Implementation Through Urban Renewal Program." Albin Kuhn did not favor the location, primarily because land for further expansion would have been difficult and expensive to acquire. The area identified as the Proposed Campus Area is approximately where both the Baltimore Convention Center and Oriole Park at Camden Yards are now located.
Tartar & Kelly
Albin O. Kuhn papers, Collection 44
02/1963
diagrams
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The Times, Baltimore County, Spring Grove Selected as U of M Branch Site, Newspaper, Thursday, October 17, 1963, 17 ¼ x 11 ½. Stabler family papers, Collection 27
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.
The Times, Baltimore County.
Stabler family papers, Collection 27
articles; newspapers; 17 1/4 x 11 1/2 in.
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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.
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A Plan for Expanding the University of Maryland, A Report of the Governor's Commission to Study the Problem of Expansion of the University of Maryland (State of Maryland: Annapolis, 1960)
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).
Warfield, Edwin, 1924-
Albin O. Kuhn papers, Collection 44
1960
reports; 9 x 6 in.
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The Evening Sun, Catonsville Area Gets U.M. Branch
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.
Winters, Bruce; Baltimore sun
Stabler family papers, Collection 27
10/14/1963
articles; newspapers; 23 x 15 in.
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Baltimore Manual Labor School Seen from Shelbourne Road
A portion of the property on which UMBC is built previously was owned by the Baltimore Manual Labor School. Also known as the Farm School, it operated from 1839 to 1922 with the purpose of instructing and supporting poor or orphaned boys from Baltimore City. Support for the school came from wealthy Baltimoreans including Johns Hopkins and Gustav W. Lurman, Jr. Shown in the photograph is a Stabler family member in a carriage on the farm road from Maiden Choice Lane, now called Shelbourne Road.
Baltimore Manual Labor School Collection
ca. 1900
gelatin silver prints; black-and-white photographs; 8 x 10 in.
MSS 1988-02-012
Baltimore Manual Labor School Orchards
In addition to moral and religious teachings, the Baltimore Manual Labor School resident boys were taught how to read and were instructed in agriculture or other useful occupations in preparation to earn a living. Under staff supervision they tended the orchards and vegetables grown on the farm.
Baltimore Manual Labor School Collection
ca. 1900
gelatin silver prints; black-and-white photographs; 8 x 10 in.
MSS 1988-02-008
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