Biography

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Biography

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.

Scope and Content

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.

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Box Summaries

Box 1

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.  

Box 2

Muhlenberg College

            This section includes information from Stamm's Tenure at Muhlenberg College. Correspondence regarding Stamm's salary with administrators exists in this section. Articles on her from the time period are also present in the collection.  

Bloomsburg

            This category includes information from Stamm's tenure at Bloomsburg State College. Letters and other correspondence regarding Dr. Porters fact finding Committee are found in this section. Pamphlets on the American Association of University Women exist in this section. Several news clippings, some note cards and her obituary are also found in this box. Biographical information and employment information is also in the box. Stamm's material on her mini-course entitled How to Read a Play and the paper advertisement appear in the collection. Her notes regarding language therapy and her correspondence with Harvey B. Sarles and Dr. Millen are also contained in this section. Stamm also collected a retirement article on Martin Satz. Her Stevens War Industries training certificate is also in the collection along with news paper clippings on her professorship and student letters. Her sabbatical request and invoices regarding her sabbatical exist in the section. A collection of articles regarding Dr. Stamm's petition for promotion at Muhlenberg College, her rejection and student protests in regards to it are also kept in this section.  

Personal Items

            This category contains information about her father and religious affiliations. There is information about her attempt to put together an archival collection on her late father, Frederick K. Stamm, who was a well known evangelical leader. Her correspondence with the Evangelical and Reformed Historical Society is also included. Much of the correspondence is about obtaining information about her father. She also has letters to George H. Bicker about her father's collection. 

Box 3

Janet Stamm, Personal Items