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Purchase William E. Dimorier: Servant Leader Ten years ago, when I met with the Academy High School class of 1935 in Erie, PA, and asked them about their former assistant principal, William Dimorier, using the French pronunciation, Di-more-ee-ay, they didn’t know who …
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Purchase William E. Dimorier: Servant Leader Poet and educator William E. Dimorier played a major role in the building of Veterans Memorial Stadium in Erie, PA. Although the newspaper accounts from the stadium’s dedication in 1924 do not mention his name, Dimorier worked …
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A century ago, William E. Dimorier, an Erie educator and Colgate University alumnus, wrote a letter about Erie, PA, to the editors of Colgate’s school newspaper, the Madisonensis. Dimorier was a transplant from Afton, NY, to Erie, and this letter shows how …
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Purchase William E. Dimorier: Servant Leader Prologue Brilliant reflections of the early sun pierced the century-old glass of my office window, in a room once slept in by house servants. On the third floor of an 1893 brick mansion, now Gannon …
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Sometimes, when I’m deep into my research on the life of W.E. Dimorier, I make discoveries that are compelling enough to have me take a slight detour. I reason that these are relevant to the project, because the title of …
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Imagine quitting your really great job for a decade-old writing project you haven’t been able to finish while working full time. And you must finish. You can’t explain why. It must be done. It doesn’t matter that there are people …
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Purchase William E. Dimorier: Servant Leader As I progress through my research on William E. Dimorier (known as Demmy), the Erie educator without whom Ainsworth Field, Veterans Memorial Stadium, District-10 sports, and Academy High School’s music programs would not have been …
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Purchase William E. Dimorier: Servant Leader Progress is being made on William E. Dimorier’s biography. As I was organizing my notes the other day, I came across an article in The American City, from 1917, which describes an interesting approach to …
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Purchase William E. Dimorier: Servant Leader In 1916, the subject of my research, William E. Dimorier, an educator and poet, wrote an article called, “Significance of Poetry” for the Journal of Education. He begins his piece, The memorizing of choice …
Why Aren’t We Memorizing Poems Anymore? Read more »
Purchase William E. Dimorier: Servant Leader Last weekend, Husband Jim and I made the six-hour trip to Afton, NY, the home of William E. Dimorier (1871-1951), the poet and educator I have been researching for nearly a decade. Now that the project …
Pilgrimage to Poet’s Hometown Yields Some Answers Read more »