Margaret E.C. Howland

Background

Howland, Margaret E.C. was born on June 6, 1927 in Northampton, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Horace Damon and Barbara Wood Clapp.

Education

Bachelor, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, 1949. Master of Science in library science, Southern Connecticut State College, New Haven, 1972. Master of Public Administration, University Massachusetts, Amherst, 1979.

Career

Chief library Combustion Engineering Inc., Windsor, Connecticut, 1957—1961. Law cataloger Connecticut State Library., Hartford, 1961. Chief library Factory Insurance Association, 1961—1962, Travelers Research Center Inc., Hartford, 1962—1968.

Administrative assistant to assistant director University Massachusetts Library., Amherst, 1968. Director library Greenfield Community College, 1968—1990. Curator Archibald MacLeish Collection, since 1974.

Guide History Deerfield Inc., 1995—2000. Council member Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield, since 2002. Board directors Pioneer Valley Institute, Greenfield.

Achievements

• Margaret E.C. Howland has been listed as a noteworthy librarian by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member, president, curator Heath History Society, Massachusetts, since 1963. Member Heath History Commission, since 1991. Member of Special Libraries Association (Connecticut Valley chapter president 1960), Society of America Archivists.

Interests

• Victorian antiques collector.

Connections

Married David Frederick Howland, March 28, 1948. Children: David Eugene, Martha Lee.

Father:

Horace Damon

Mother:

Barbara Wood Clapp

Spouse:

David Frederick Howland

child:

Martha Lee Howland

child:

David Eugene Howland