Background
Bickford, Gail Holmgren was born on February 14, 1930 in New York City. Daughter of R. John and Emilie Mary Antonia Doyle (Pope) Holmgren.
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Gail Holmgren Bickford
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Bachelor, Wellesley (Massachusetts) College, 1951; Master of Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 1956; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, 1972.
Career
Assistant instructor University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1953-1958. Professor Cape Cod Community College, Hyannis, Massachusetts, 1965-1968. Owner, operator Freedom (New Hampshire) Press Associates, since 1979.
Lecturer to Freedom, Ossipee (New Hampshire) and Brownfield (Maine) History Societies, 1991, and others. Editor, designer, public A Potpourri of Pleasantries, since 1992, Taking the Mystery Out of Basic Trigonometry, 1995.
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Member committee Dennis (Massachusetts) School, 1968-1976. Trustee Freedom Public Library., 1985-1991. Secretary Old Home Week Association, 1988-1990.
Recording secretary Freedom Conservation Commission, 1987-1989. Secretary Friends of the Library., 1991-1994. Executive board, chairman publications committee, Freedom History Society, 1991-2000, writer, editor Quicksilver Times, since 1992.
Moderator Freedom Water Precinct, 1994-1998. Member task force on community economic development sponsored by Lakes Region Charitable Foundation and Ford Foundation, It Takes A Community community economic development program Ford Foundation, 1994-1998. Board trustees White Mountain Waldorf School, since 1999.
Chair committee writing history of the Town of Freedom, since 1999. Juried craftsman in knitting League of New Hampshire Craftsmen, 2000.
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Married Arthur Fillmore Bickford, December 16, 1951 (divorced January 1980). Children: Geoffrey, Alison.
Education
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1951
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1956
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1972
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Recipient 1st Annual prize Colonial Society Pennsylvania, 1958, Ford Foundation grant, April 14, 1997, It Takes a Community grant for community economic development Freedom Press Associates, 1997.Recipient 1st Annual prize Colonial Society Pennsylvania, 1958, Ford Foundation grant, April 14, 1997, It Takes a Community grant for community economic development Freedom Press Associates, 1997.