Description: Sigma Kappa (__) is a national sorority founded in 1874 at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Since 1918, Sigma Kappa has supported the Maine Sea Coast Mission as one of its philanthropies. A newsletter-style bulletin, this issue includes several articles about Angus MacDonald, the Mission's first president, as well as articles about mission boats, an organization called the Sunbeam Club on White Head, vacation bible school, Seacoast Mission rugs, and a New Year's letter from Sigma Kappa sorority. People Mentioned: Henry Van Dyke, W. J. Moulton, J. Homer Nelson, Thomas Searls, Alice M. Peasley, Orville J. Guptill, Versal F. Robey, Myrtice D. Cheney, Annie L. Guptill, Lucy A. King, Mrs. M. A. Daily, Eva B. Ammidown, Mrs. A. F. Schauffler, Mrs. John I. Kane, Mrs. John Markoe, Mrs. Frank B. Rowell, Eleanor de Graff Cuyler, William Jay Schieffelin, John S. Rogers, John W. Auchincloss, William Adams Brown, M. W. Stratton, B. E. Clark, Herman Lunt, Elmer Davis, Angus M. MacDonald, Alexander P. MacDonald, Anne MacLeod MacDonald, H. E. White, Alexander MacKay-Smith, John S. Kennedy, Elizabeth H. Mitchell, Mildred M Tabbutt, Alice Mason, Mary Gamage, Mattie Cole, A. R. Tabbutt, Mrs. Leslie A. Wilson, Mrs. Fred Rhodes, Mrs. A. C. Ladner, A. C. Ladner, Mrs. F. Leonard Kellogg, Joseph Parker, George A. Gordon, Mary Caffrey Lowe Carver,Carver. L. D., Mrs. R. D. H. Emerson [show more]
Description: This Christmas 1946 Bulletin includes news briefs, information on finances, first-hand accounts of living on an island, and articles about the work of the Seacoast Mission. People Mentioned: Thomas Heming, Anson Williams, Cornelius E. Clark, Mrs. Anson Williams
Description: The Spring 1947 Bulletin provides updates about the work of the Maine Seacoast Missionary Society. Articles of particular note discuss improvements to the Sunbeam, visits to small schools on the coast and islands, and the mission's work to help the family of an island man who died alone on the mainland. People Mentioned: Anson Williams, Carl Hall, John Young, Rebeccca Douglas, Jenny Alisa, Thomas Heming, Ann Calley, Raymond Colbrun, William Berry, C. L. Bowman, Edith Drury [show more]
Description: This 1948 Spring Bulletin provides updates on the Maine Seacoast Missionary Society's finances and activities, including a schoolhouse clothing sale. People Mentioned: Albert Pione, Neal D. Bousfield, Etta Ames, Jessie Philbrook, Bud Dwelley, Anson Williams, Alvah Robinson, Mrs. Alvah Robinson, Thomas Searls, Ann Calley, Ethel Corbett, Edith Drury, Bert Smith, Louise Dalzelle, Sabrina Beal, Sherb Carter, Alice Peasley, Phyllis Sylvia
Description: Sigma Kappa (__) is a national sorority founded in 1874 at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Since 1918, Sigma Kappa has supported the Maine Sea Coast Mission as one of its philanthropies. This booklet, created for the Sigma Kappa sorority Diamond Jubilee Convention in 1950, describes the history and purpose of the Maine Seacoast Missionary Society and includes photographs of the Society's boats, staff, and activities. People Mentioned: Alexander MacDonald, Angus MacDonald, Alexander Mackay-Smith, Mrs. Arthur Berry, Neal D. Bousfield, Thomas Heming, Alice Peasley, Thomas Searls, Edith Drury, Wilfred Grenfell [show more]
Description: The Parkers confirm that they received a package from Rev. Bousfield and say that they are having a wonderful time on Swans Island. The front of this postcard features a photograph of houses and boats at Swans Island, as seen from the water.
Description: Photograph shows captain Henry Lee, skipper of the William S. Silsby, and two unidentified men. People Depicted: Henry Lee Black and White
Description: Photograph shows two men, one above on the docks and one below on a boat hoisting a box of blankets onto the docks with a pulley. Black and White
Description: Photograph shows Pat Lowery (later Bousfield) standing on a boat in Swans Island harbor. People Depicted: Pat Lowery Bousfield Black and White
Description: Photograph shows Wesley Staples, Jr., a young boy from Swans Island, standing on the deck of the Sunbeam and holding an umbrella. People Depicted: Wesley Staples Jr. Black and White Photographer: Edith Drury
Description: Rev. Angus M. MacDonald served as the first president of the Maine Seacoast Mission. A glass plate negative depicting Rev. Angus MacDonald with his wife and children on the stern of a boat. People Depicted: Angus M. MacDonald Black and White