It was the middle of the Great Depression in America and World War II was looming ahead. Yet the mood was light at Portland Junior College, a forebear of USM, judging by the 1937 edition of its student newspaper. The award-winning Portland Junior College News began publication that year as a four-page biweekly.
Anecdotes: Jimmy and Shirley It so happened that Jimmy Jordan and Shirley Mewer were walking along a dark country road returning from a scavenger hunt. And Jimmy was loaded down with an automobile tire, a bulldog on a string, a rooster and an old brass kettle.
Ten years before the terrorist attacks of 2001, the Free Press asked students, "Are you concerned about the threat of terrorist action within the United States?" Most of the respondents said they were not especially concerned, though a couple expressed mild awareness of the possibility.
