Bread Loaf School of English (Middlebury College)

Scope and Contents Photographs taken and used by the Office of Advancement stored on SmugMug. The photographs date from 2005 onward and are of Middlebury College scenes and events, Middlebury Language Schools, Bread Loaf School of English, and Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Specific subjects include Field House construction; campus scenery; Feb celebration; Davis United World College Scholars; Alumni College; Fall Family Weekend; portraits of administration and faculty; Middlebury Zoom...

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In this episode, Dick Clay, a student at the Bread Loaf School of English, shares his story of recovering from COVID-19. Dick discusses when the seriousness of the virus hit him, the "wilderness path to recovery," and how he will process this experience through writing.

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1 interview with Rosemary Faris Baer, Middlebury College Class of 1934. During the interview, Baer discusses the French major; Professor Stephen Freeman; Depression; sororities and fraternities; Bread Loaf, student apathy; and the spiritual beauty of the country.

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Includes dozens of director’s scripts from plays performed at the Bread Loaf School of English at the Bread Loaf Little Theatre in the 1930s and 1940s. The director's scripts include manuscript notes, play programs, costume and set drawings, and stage and lighting sketches/details.

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7 pdf files containing weekly e-newsletter produced by the Bread Loaf School of English during its virtual session in 2021.

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This scrapbook comprises samples of print materials from Bread Loaf Printers, including programs for plays, lectures, and musical performances at the Bread Loaf School of English, greeting cards, and poetry. Filed with the scrapbook is a 1940 issue of the Graphic Arts Education Journal, which includes an article detailing the creation of a printing operation at Bread Loaf at the suggestion of Robert Frost.

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Photograph album containing photographs of Bread Loaf School of English activies featuring students and faculty. The majority of the images are color copies of originals which are most likely from the Middlebury College News Bureau collection.

Scope and Contents 1 interview with John H. Clagett, Middlebury College Professor of English. Clagett discusses the Naval academy; Yale; creative writing; size of faculty; student faculty ratio; major requirements; salary for Professors; President Stratton; President Armstrong; Walter Brooker; Armstrong's favoritism; his fiction writing courses; how he started writing; his writing inspiration; low salary; why he retired; Howard Munford; faculty administration relations; tenure; student faculty relations;...

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sport schedules; newspaper clippings; courses; programs; various forms; chemistry; letters; commencement.

Scope and Contents Website maintained by the Office of Communications and Marketing containing images taken by and/or used by Communications staff depicting photographs taken at Middlebury College, Bread Loaf School of English, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Middlebury Language Schools, Monterey Institute, and Schools Abroad, as well as portraits, iconic Middlebury images, and images used for Middlebury Magazine. Middlebury College photographs depict academic life, Athletics, campus buildings,...

Scope and Contents 1 interview with Lydia Juanita "Nita" Cook, Middlebury College class of 1926. During the interview, Cook discusses her return to campus in 1929 as the wife of Reginald L. Cook, Professor of English; the role of faculty wives; changes at the College while her husband was on the faculty; her husband as a teacher (lectures, reaction papers, high expectations); her husband's retirement; Bread Loaf experience; assisting her husband; Middlebury during World War II; recollections from student days;...

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Scrapbook created by Dorothy Blair Shimer (then Dorothy Blair) between 1941 and 1942 when she was a student at the Bread Loaf School of English. The scrapbook includes photographs with handwritten notes.

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Description from the MiddCast website: "To launch the Breadcast series, Alfredo Lujan, teacher, writer, and Bread Loaf Santa Fe’s Assistant to the Director, discusses and enacts the power of voice. He reminds us to tune our ears, to listen with all our senses, for a style, tone, and personality that work."

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From the MiddCast website: "For the second episode of BreadCast, Brent Peters tells us, “When you have 50 pounds of pears and a strict lesson plan, pears go to waste.” In “Say Yes to Pears,” Brent gives us a teaching stance that supports “learning in season” so pears and student voices may be savored."

Scope and Contents 1 interview with Stephen A. Freeman, Middlebury College Professor of French, Vice President, Acting President, and Director of the Language Schools, by David Stameshkin. The interview was conducted in the basement of the library. Freeman discusses Harvard; the French department; President Moody; Chateau; Brown University; salary; his publications; being President of the American Association of Teachers of French; qualifications of the faculty; sabbatical; life in the Chateau; French parties;...

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This scrapbook comprises primarily photographs from Taylor's tenure as a graduate student at the Bread Loaf School of English (BLSE). The photographs depict landscapes and buildings at the BLSE, as well as instructors and students. Human subjects are typically identified in writing. The scrapbook also includes printed poems, essays, and the texts of various lectures and sermons.

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This scrapbook, compiled by Gray Taylor, contains programs and photographs from plays and other performances at the Bread Loaf School of English between 1935 and 1940. Subjects of the photographs are identified in writing. The scrapbook includes two photographs from the 1939 performance of Robert Frost's poem "Snow."

The scrapbook also includes a collection of photographs of people and landscapes at the Bread Loaf School of English in 1935.

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This scrapbook comprises photographs and other ephemera from Wendling's tenure as a graduate student at the Bread Loaf School of English. Composed primarily of photographs, the scrapbook also includes printed poems, graduation cards, newspaper clippings, a menu, and a greeting card, handwritten on birch bark. The scrapbook includes several photographs of Robert Frost, taken by Wendling.

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Collection contains records produced by Bread Loaf School of English instructor Michael Armstrong between 1986 and 2015. Materials include class notes, student work (usually with extensive commentary by Armstrong), class journals, correspondence, lecture transcriptions, student course assessments, materials concerning teaching visits to Lawrence, Massachusetts, outreach materials, and published works.

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1 interview with Richard P. Mills, Middlebury College Class of 1966. During the interview, Mills discusses his undergraduate experience; the history major; Middlebury during the 1960s; his decision to attend Middlebury; academics; student social life; Bread Loaf; his career as an educator; how Middlebury has contributed to his career; Middlebury connections; changes at Middlebury; and the relationship between Middlebury College and the town of Middlebury, Vermont.

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Description provided with the collection: Here are photographs of Bread Loaf and its environs that span the time from 1870-1943. Bread Loaf gratefully accepts these photographs from Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sampson, Miss Pomeroy, Mark Wright, and especially Nita Cook. Paul Cubeta identified many photographs, and we thank him also. These photographs display our history.

Scope and Contents 1 interview with Lawrence J. Pierce, Middlebury College Class of 1921. During the interview, Pierce discusses World War I; the Vermont voluntary militia; the effect of the war on the College; the 1918 flu epidemic; academic experience; Babson Institute; financial research; move to Seattle; World War II; education at Harvard and Yale; education administration; 75th reunion; rhododendron cultivation; West Coast alumni; the town of Middlebury, Vermont; travel; "Reminiscences & Reflections:...

Scope and Contents This scrapbook, preserved in 145 plastic sleeves, contains programs and photographs from theatre productions at the Bread Loaf School of English between 1922 and 1956. Of particular note is a playbill and four photographs from a 1939 staging of Robert Frost's poem "Snow." The program is signed by Frost. Items are described in detail below. [Playbill] “Breadloaf Theatre” [including “Snow” by Robert Frost]. Bread Loaf School of English July 21, 1939. Fourth Bread Loaf Night. Single...

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This collection contains eight folders with correspondence between Wilfred Davison and different American writers and academics. There are 55 letters in total, dating from December 27th, 1920 to May 2nd, 1929.

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This scrapbook contains a collection of photographs from the Bread Loaf School of English, dated between 1921 and 1939. Subjects of photos are generally identified.