The Legacy of Frederick G. Marcham

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For 69 years, F.G. Marcham was a Mr. Chips who taught English history at Cornell University and served as a university trustee, boxing couch, author, village mayor, advisor and friend to generations of students, alumni, and townspeople.

His story is shown in video, audio, photographs, and his frank written views on teaching, the workings of Cornell, athletics, nature, life, and faith.

Included are:

Seven books (totaling 718 pages):
- On Teaching
- Cornell Notes: 1898 to WWII
- Cornell Notes: WWII to 1968
- Britons and Cornellians
- Cornell: Athletics, Wartime, and Summing Up
- Beliefs: Essays and Nine Rules to Live By
- Photographs
Two videos (totaling one hour and nine minutes):
- Walter LaFeber, a history department colleague of Fred Marcham, interviewed by John Marcham, discusses the Legacy of Fred Marcham at Cornell
- One of the last classes taught by Prof. Marcham, in which he discusses his 'Rules to Live By', that are discussed more fully in his memoirs on Beliefs.
Two audio tracks (totaling one hour and 38 minutes)
- Prof. Marcham talking about Job at Sage Chapel
- The Memorial Service held in Prof. Marcham's honor (with speakers: President Frank H.T. Rhodes, Judge John Conable, Prof. Walter LaFeber and John Marcham)
Two obituaries (in PDF and video files)
- University Faculty Memorial Statement
- The Cornell Chronicle

Available as a DVD from Internet-First University Press

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Memorial Service for Frederick G. Marcham (audio)
Johnson, Rev. Robert L.; Rhodes, Frank H.T.; Conable, John S.; LaFeber, Walter F.; Marcham, John; Lewis, Rev. Jack (Internet-First University Press, 2006)
A memorial service for Prof. Marcham at Sage Chapel, Cornell, Jan. 24, 1993. Length: 1:13:51
A Talk on Job at Sage Chapel (audio)
Marcham, Frederick G. (Internet-First University Press, 2006)
Prof. Marcham reads from and comments on the Book of Job, March 29, 1992, in the Cornell University chapel. Length: 14:27,
A Last Class (Taught by Frederick Marcham)
Marcham, Frederick G. (Internet-First University Press, 2006)
Prof. Marcham discusses his life and his Rules to Live By with the 1991 last meeting of a Cornell University course. Length 28:44.
The Legacy of Frederick G. Marcham
LaFeber, Walter F.; Marcham, John (Internet-First University Press, 2006)
The life and career of Prof. Frederick G. Marcham (1898-1992) who taught English history at Cornell University for 69 years. Length 41:44.
The Photographs of Frederick G. Marcham
Marcham, John (DeWitt Historical Society of Tompkins County, Ithaca, NY, 2000)
Frederick George Marcham is remembered in Ithaca, New York, as a professor, teacher, and public official, hardly at all as a photographer. Some colleagues at Cornell University knew he collected prints and that in 1970 he brought out a handsome book of paintings by the Ithaca naturalist Louis Agassiz Fuertes, but ? except for one notable picture ? only his family and a few close friends saw his photographs. This collection includes a hundred of Prof. Marcham's photographs of England in the 1920s and 1951, Cornell University athletics, relatives, friends, farmland near Ithaca, New York with text by his son John.
Beliefs: Eight Essays and Nine Rules to Live By
Marcham, Frederick G. (2006-08-15T18:25:24Z)
This book contains seven numbered essays that F. G. Marcham shared most often with friends and others, and an eighth, unnumbered essay on nature, delivered at Cornell's Adult University. He also prepared a list of nine rules to live by, which he shared with students who asked advice and in a video to be available on DVD, "A Last Class". Prof. Marcham's views on his relation to others, nature, God, and aging, and rules to guide one's life are also part of this book.
Cornell: Athletics, Wartime, and Summing Up
Marcham, Frederick G. (2006-08-15T18:20:39Z)
This book contains a number of the writings of F. G. Marcham on aspects of Cornell University: athletics, the campus during wartime, and his view of its operation and a general essay for use in a university book. It deals with Cornell University athletics, in World War II, and changes from 1923-1979. It also deals with Prof. Marcham as an athlete, coach, and adviser to athletes, his letters to servicemen in WWII, and how the university changed over 5 1/2 decades.
Britons and Cornellians
Marcham, Frederick G. (2006-08-15T18:16:53Z)
Among many essays written by F. G. Marcham were a number about individuals. One grew out of his publication of a book on the Cornellian bird artist Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Several are memorial tributes to and biographies of composers, poets, naturalists, historians, students, and alumna.
Cornell Notes: World War II to 1968
Marcham, Frederick G. (2006-08-15T18:09:51Z)
The Cornell Notes in particular are very frank descriptions of the struggles among professors, departments, college deans, and central administrators to govern a university. Why so frank? I asked a close colleague of my father's. "He wanted to leave his view of the story." This book deals with Prof. Marcham as a Cornell University teacher and trustee, coach, faculty advocate, and village mayor in America.
Cornell Notes: 1898 to World War II
Marcham, Frederick G. (2006-08-15T18:03:22Z)
The Cornell Notes in particular are very frank descriptions of the struggles among professors, departments, college deans, and central administrators to govern a university. They cover the period of Prof. Marcham's childhood, study, British Army service, graduate study and first two decades of teaching at Cornell.

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