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Date of
birth:
1919
Profession:
College Professor
History
Graduation 1942 in History. Robert Roswell Palmer, examiner.
Student
1938-39
1939-40
1940-41
1941-42
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Unable to
attend the last two years of high school because of illness, Harold
Raymond was tutored privately at his home in Melrose, Massachusetts.
Having experienced an unconventional high school education, he was
concerned that he might not be comfortable in a conventional college
setting. A cousin who was teaching in New York City recommended Black
Mountain College to him. At Black Mountain he took a general curriculum
before specializing for graduation in history. He was Student Moderator
for one year and thus a member of the Board of Fellows. He recalled that
he provided unskilled labor for the Studies Building construction –
nailing floorboards, pouring concrete, digging the drainage ditch.
Three
weeks after graduation, Raymond was inducted into the U.S. Army. When
asked what he did at college, he mentioned that he built a bridge (in
fact, a wooden bridge over a stream) and was
immediately put into the Army Engineer Corps, a move that possibly saved
his life. He served as a radio operator in the Pacific and in the United
States. After the war, he attended Harvard University for his Ph.D. in
English history (1952). He taught at the University of Delaware (1948-51)
and then for forty-two years at Colby College in Maine. He retired
Professor Emeritus in 1994.
In
addition to his teaching, he was speech writer for the Maine Democratic
Party and was active in the Citizenship Clearing House. He was active in
community activities in Waterville and traveled in South America, the
British Isles, Canada, Scandinavia and the USSR. He also reviewed books
for Choice magazine.
In 1951
he married Dorothy McLean and is father of a son Paul Bradford Raymond.
He now lives in Evansville,
Indiana.
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