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Emma Dempster-Greenbaum
The Stiles House History and Community at Hampshire College
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History and Community
❖ Hampshire lacks the long history of neighboring colleges.!
❖ Educational model facilitates isolation!
❖ Complaints/concerns about lack of campus community!
❖ Creating a campus history can facilitate community-building, sense of continuity
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Hampshire Admissions Office
❖ First encounter with Hampshire!
❖ Agricultural heritage!❖ Unusual location!❖ Former home of Robert Stiles
(1906-1986)
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Robert Stiles❖ Born February 11th, 1906!❖ Inherited father’s dairy farm!❖ 1965: Sells land to Charles
Longworth for undisclosed purpose; offered lifetime tenancy!
❖ Works for campus Post Office, 1966-1986!
❖ “My old farm would make a very good college.”
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Exhibit
❖ Exhibit at Hampshire College Library!
❖ History of other “original” campus buildings; campus agricultural history!
❖ Models, documents, photographs