November
- November Slideshow — “ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Aids the Musically Inclined”—so states a headline from a 1937 issue of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Alumnus. This month’s historic slideshow on the Sesquicentennial website provides visual proof of that statement.
- November 1963: The assassination of President Kennedy — Reflecting the shattered innocence of a bygone era, the campus community reacts to the tragedy in the pages of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Student newspaper.
- November 1956: A State Series victory for football — Entering the 1956 football State Series, the University of Maine Black Bears had won nine straight series games and three straight titles, outscoring Colby, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and Bowdoin 334 to 67. ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ hadn’t beaten Maine since 1949. But the late Norm Levine ’57, a backup tackle who wrote sports for the Alumnus, said the 1956 outlook was “highly optimistic.”
- November 1854: Oren Cheney takes a step toward a new college — Oren Cheney goes public with his vision for a new Maine school, telling church leaders in Topsham, Maine, that the need “haunts us sleeping and waking.”