Raymond H. Fogler Library
Special Collections: Guide to the Matthew McNeary Papers
Arranged and described by Brenda Howitson Steeves
Collection title: Matthew McNeary PapersCollection number: MS 1492
Dates of collection: 1924-1951
Size of collection: 1 box
Biography
Matthew McNeary was born on September 8, 1910, in Philadelphia, the son of Matthew and Mary Stewart McNeary. He received a B.S. in civil engineering in 1932 from Pennsylvania State College and an M.S. in civil engineering from the University of Maine in 1941. He began teaching as an instructor at the University of Maine in 1937 and taught there for 35 years, attaining the rank of head of the Engineering Graphics Department in the College of Technology. From 1944-1946 he was an assistant chief engineer at the Eastern Corporation in Brewer, Maine. During his tenure at the university he was the freshman engineering advisor and also served on many administrative committees, including the Freshman Week Committee, the Open House Committee, and the Committee on Humanistic Studies. He was also a member of a core committee to develop new materials for engineering graphics curricula. McNeary was the author of several books including Applied Descriptive Geometry, Creative Problems for Basic Engineering Drawing, and Problems in Applied Descriptive Geometry.
Matthew McNeary died on April 2, 1990.
Scope and Content NoteThe collection contains papers reflecting Matthew McNeary’s teaching career and committee service while a professor at the University of Maine.
It includes correspondence from 1946 to 1951, registration information and course outlines for his classes from 1949 to 1951, papers regarding the university attendance policy and its changes, and samples of exams and drawings. Also included is correspondence, meeting minutes, etc., reflecting his work on the Committee on Humanistic Studies and its efforts to integrate the humanities into the College of Technology’s curriculum, the Open House Committee and the Freshman Week Committee among others.
Contents of Box
Folder
5
Registration Spring 1949
6
Registration Fall 1949
7
Registration Fall 1950
8
Registration Spring 1951
9
Course Outlines
10
MD1- Fundamentals of Drafting, 1949
11
MD2- Drafting, 1949
12
MD3- Descriptive Geometry, 1949
13
MD4- Advanced Machine Drafting, 1949
14
MD 8- Charts and Graphs, 1949
15
Pulp and Paper Mill Equipment Course, 1949
16
PA 72- Pulp and Paper Mill Equipment, 1951
17
Tests: Drawing
18
Important Tracings
19
National Drawing Competition, 1938-1939
20
Excused Absences
21
Common Curriculum Proposal
22
Committee on Humanistic Studies: Draft Recommendations
23
Committee on Humanistic Studies: Correspondence, 1947-1949
24
Committee on Humanistic Studies: General
25
Final Examination Committee, 1949
26
Open House Committee: Plans and Speeches, 1950
27
Open House Committee: Publicity, 1950
28
Open House Committee:
Correspondence, 1950
29
Freshman Week Committee: 1924-1931
30
Freshman Week Committee: 1948
31
Freshman Week Committee: 1950
32
Freshman Week Committee: Budget, 1942-1951
33
Maine Day, 1947
34
Department of Industrial Cooperation
35
Bennoch School PTA
36
Alumni Club Trip, March 1949
37
Lubec Athletic Field
38-39
Miscellaneous publications, etc.
Finding Aids for selected manuscript collections in the Special Collections Department at Fogler Library are accessible online in URSUS, in a browsable Guide to Manuscript Collections. Please contact Special Collections at spc@umit.maine.edu or (207) 581-1686 for further information.
Special Collections Staff: spc@umit.maine.edu | Revised: 01/16/2013
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