College of Liberal Arts - English - Janet Stamm Papers
Box and Folder Listing
Box 1:
Box Summary
Mount Holyoke
This section contains information on Stamm's student years at Mount Holyoke College. The bound edition of the Mount Holyoke 1932 and 1935 yearbooks and her 1935 diploma are in the section. Various Mount Holyoke papers and alumni Magazines are also in the collection. Documents including pamphlets and correspondence regarding her 1960 Mount Holyoke Reunion are included as well. The second box contains information from her career at Muhlenberg College and Bloomsburg State College.
Cedar Crest College
Information and documents regarding Stamm's tenure at Cedar Crest College are contained in this section. The documents include the Cedar Crest College bulletin and notes. Her ratings from students and pictures are also in this section.
University of Pennsylvania
This section contains information and documents from when Stamm was a student at the University of Pennsylvania. Many of her student notebooks are saved in this box. The notebooks are handwritten and bound.
Folder Listing
Mount Holyoke
Yearbooks - Llamorada 1932, 1935
Diploma, 1935
The Sphinx, Mount Holyoke Monthly, 1932-1934
Books with J.S.' publishing's in them
Mount Holyoke Commencement Exercises, 1935
Mount Holyoke Papers and Alumni Quarterly, 1947, 1972
Mount Holyoke 25th Reunion, 1960
Mount Holyoke Correspondence, 1972
Cedar Crest College
Notes and Correspondence, 1952-1954
University of Pennsylvania
Conferring of Degrees, 1951, 1959 Diplomas (oversize)
Masters and Doctrine Notebooks (2), 1955-1958
Notes:
General Class Notes (2 folders), 1950-1951
Green Pastures
Hamlet
King Lear, Othello
Literary Criticism
Prelims: Reading and Study
Seminar Paper: 17th Century Poetry
Tamburlaine
Thomas Heywood
Passage to India (Forster), 1947
Plays, 1950
Seminar and American Literature, 1948-1951
American Fiction, Amer. Soc. & Cult. U.S. since '65, Amer. Soc. & Cult. History
Bradley Paper: Dev. Of Amer. Lang. in Lit called "American." 1949
English Lit: Bolles, 1950
Plays of Oscar Wilde, 1950
Murray's Keats & Shakespeare, 1950
Contemporary Prose (Bolles), 1950-1951
Modern English Drama, 1950-1951
Shakespeare Paper: Comedies, 1951
Heywood Paper, 1951
Victorian Literature, 1955-1956
Jacobean Poetry and Prose, 1956
Modern Philosophy, 1956
American Drama, 1956
Report: M.M. Mathood, Poetry and Humanism, 1956
Shakespeare: The plays, lectures... 1956-1971
Dates
- 1932-1981
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Biographical and Historical Information
Stamm grew up in Vandergrift, Pennsylvania. She graduated high school from Berkeley Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She received her Bachelors degree in English from Mount Holyoke College in 1935. Stamm received her Masters from the University of Pennsylvania in 1951. In 1959 she received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. She taught at Mount Holyoke, Bradford Junior College, Susquehanna University, Cedar Crest College, Muhlenberg College and Bloomsburg State college beginning in 1965. She belonged to several affiliations that included the Modern Language Association, Pennsylvania State Council of Teachers of English and the American Association of University Women. Besides teaching she was the editor of Charm Magazine and the secretary in McCall's editorial offices. She contributed several publications during her life. They included three professional articles, five freelance publications and nine poems. During her tenure at Bloomsburg State College she specialized in Shakespeare and Elizabethan literature. She retired from Bloomsburg State College in 1977. On December 8, 1983 she passed away at the age of seventy.
Extent
4.0 Cubic Feet (Four 1.0 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The collection on Janet Stamm contains documents spanning her professional years and her personal life. The first box of material is covers her years at Mount Holyoke college, Cedar Crest College and the University of Pennsylvania. The third box contains documents and letters in regards to her personal life.
Arrangement
By subject and alphabetical
- Title
- Janet Stamm Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Bloomsburg University Archives
- Date
- 2015 December
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Bloomsburg University Archives Repository
- US