Yearbooks/Conning Tower

Plymouth yearbooks are cataloged, so they have a call number and appear in LOLA, our online catalog. The call number for yearbooks is: LD4561.P925 C6 Oversize. The library has many copies of each year, and one copy is located in the circulating collection, on the Oversize shelves. There are also multiple copies in Special Collections, if you are unable to find the year you are looking for in the circulating collection.

Timeline of institutional names

• Plymouth Holmes Academy, 1808-1870
• Plymouth Normal School, 1871-1939
• Plymouth Teachers College, 1939-1963
• Plymouth State College, 1963-2003
• Plymouth State University, 2003-present

List of presidents of the institution

• Silas H. Pearl (1871-1873)
• Horatio O. Ladd (1873-1876)
• Ambrose P. Kelsey (1876-1879)
• Henry Pitt Warren (1879-1883)
• Charles Collins Rounds (1883-1896)
• Alfred Hills Campbell (1896-1900)
• James E. Klock (1900-1911)
• Ernest Leroy Silver (1911-1946)
• Howard R. Jones (1946-1951)
• Harold Eldred Hyde (1951-1977)
• Kasper C. Marking (1977-1983)
• Madie Barrett, Interim (1983-1984)
• William J. Farrell (1984-1992)
• Theodora J. Kalikow, Interim (1992-1993)
• Donald P. Wharton (1993-2006)
• Sara Jayne Steen (2006-)

Other Local Sources

The sources listed below are frequently used histories of the town of Plymouth and also Plymouth State. Please note that there are circulating copies of these items, as well as Special Collections copies.

• Bagley, Norton R. One Hundred Years of Service
• Heald, Bruce D. Plymouth State College
• Hogan, Jim Plymouth, Where My Viewpoints Crossed
• Speare, Eva A. Twenty Decades in Plymouth, New Hampshire, 1763-1963
• Stearns, Ezra S. History of Plymouth, New Hampshire