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    New England College
    New England College
    New England College
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    New England College

    By Cynthia Burns Martin and Alexander "Lex" Scourby

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    Throughout its history, New England College has been recognized for innovative academic programs and leadership in experiential education. Founded in 1946 to offer educational opportunities to veterans eager to return to the workforce, the college pioneered an accelerated and demanding three-year degree program, unique at that time. From the earliest years to the present day, the faculty has included practitioners active in their fields and fostered learning partnerships with external organizations. In 1971, the college acquired a British campus and became one of the first American institutions to offer students a full four-year degree program outside of the United States, an innovation in cross-cultural experiential education. In recent years, the college has effectively utilized technological advancements to extend the reach of its creative and supportive learning community, while still challenging individuals to transform themselves and their world, maintaining a curriculum focused on experiential learning, and fostering collaborative relationships among members of the community.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateDec 5, 2016
    ISBN9781439658826
    New England College
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    Cynthia Burns Martin

    Cynthia Burns Martin is professor of business administration at New England College in Henniker, New Hampshire. Roy Heisler is director emeritus of the Vinalhaven Historical Society. Most of the images in Vinalhaven Island's Maritime Industries are from the collections of the society, founded in 1963.

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      New England College - Cynthia Burns Martin

      Society.)

      INTRODUCTION

      The entrepreneur Boone Doudy Tillett started from modest beginnings. Born in 1895 at Nags Head, a fishing village on North Carolina’s windswept and sandy Outer Banks, the eldest of eight children and son of a fisherman, Tillett tried fishing for an occupation. Ambitious, he taught school in Georgia, worked as a bookkeeper for a tobacco company, opened a law practice in a time and place when approval by the Supreme Court of North Carolina was the sole criterion necessary to enter the profession, and taught briefly for the University of Maryland at College Park, where a 1936 yearbook lists his credentials as DCL (doctorate in civil law), normally an honorary degree. He was still involved in higher education as dean of Hofstra University’s school of business administration when he realized that the country’s colleges could not meet the looming demand from veterans who wanted to exercise their GI Bill education rights after the Second World War.

      During the spring of 1946, Boone Tillett and young Hofstra professor Charles Weber scouted New England for locations to establish a new college that would be wholly owned by Tillett. Tillett gave a presentation in Manchester, New Hampshire, where his plan was heard by the chair of the Henniker Board of Selectmen, Fred Taylor Connor, a prominent citizen who was deeply concerned about the economic future of Henniker, which had lost farms and population to western migration. He and other Henniker citizens also anticipated a federal flood-control project that would close most of the town’s small mills on the Contoocook River. Townspeople were eager to gain rental income from spare rooms and vacant buildings. The board of selectmen and Tillett agreed that Connor would make local arrangements for housing and classrooms, while Tillett would recruit students and faculty.

      Boone Tillett sent his brother Walter R. Tillett to manage the startup operation. A prosperous merchant and landowner named Max Israel agreed to persuade local businesspeople to extend credit to the new business. Israel was a self-made man who arrived in this country in 1905 as a teenaged refugee from present-day Lithuania, earned a living as an itinerant peddler, settled in Henniker, and started a business in junk and iron, which evolved into an antiques dealership with a national reputation for quality. He also invested wisely in real estate.

      From the start to the present day, New England College has responded with alacrity to opportunities in a changing marketplace. Six months after Boone Tillett first visited Henniker, New England College opened its doors, ready for business. According to local historian Peter Gilbert, It appears that faculty and students were rounded up and sent to Henniker by a roaming Boone Tillett. Since there was no actual accredited school, the fact that these people came at all is a testimony to Tillett’s convincing nature.

      Unfortunately, the Tillett brothers underestimated startup costs and overextended lines of credit, so by the end of the first semester, their creditors were anxious about bad debt. On March 20, 1947, the Manchester Union Leader reported that Boone D. Tillett had severed his connections with New England College and turned over its assets and liabilities to a board of five local resident trustees: undertaker Harry L. Holmes, grocery store owner George M. Chase, former legislator Fred T. Connor, New England College professor Charles M. Weber, and registrar Mary S. Jameson. A Methodist minister from Hillsboro, New Hampshire, named Milo Farmer agreed to serve as interim president. On May 1, 1947, Dr. Laurie Davidson Cox, a longtime summer resident and recently retired from the faculty of Syracuse University, was appointed president of New England College.

      To establish a competitive advantage for the fledgling institution, Cox announced plans for a unique three-year degree program on June 16, 1947. The Manchester Union Leader recounted that under the streamlined, three-year program, the four year course would be divided into nine semesters, with only a week’s vacation between the first and second, and second and third. Each semester will comprise 14 college credits, making a total of 126 semester credit hours for the four years, which exceeds the usual credits received in a four-year college course. . . . Monthly examinations would replace ordinary semester exams and that for the sake of college social life the freshman, sophomore and junior years would each comprise two semesters while the senior year would have three semesters. Andy Holton recalled that for faculty like him, This meant 12 preparations a year, a real slave driver, no rest day or night. New England College’s innovative year-round program was later copied by nearby Dartmouth College and many other

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