John J Nolde

Obituary for John J. Nolde.
The Bangor Daily News, Oct 17 1988, P. 6, Col. 1

 "ORONO - John J. Nolde, a well-known Asian historian and former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, who served the University of Maine from 1950 until 1984, died Sunday. He was 68.
  Dean from 1966 until 1973, he saw the college through the turmoil and changes of the late 1960s. Describing the events in a report written near the end of his tenure as dean, he said,
'The movement came late to Maine and never reached the intensity of events at Berkeley, Columbia and Cornell.
'It was, nevertheless, nerve wracking, largely because many of us had followed events elsewhere rather closely and feared that the Orono campus would follow in the footsteps of the others.'
  He was born Dec. 21, 1919, in Reading, Pa., to Hans W. and Margaret Nolde. Graduating in 1941 from Cornell University with a degree in economics, his studies were halted by World War II. A member of the U.S. Army Air Corps, he was stationed in the Far East.
  After his discharge, he married Nancy Kurtz who survives him.
  He resumed his scholarly pursuits and in 1950 received a doctorate in history from Cornell.
  On the faculty of the history department, he interrupted his 34-year career at the university twice - 1953-54 and 1965-66. Both times he studied as a research fellow at the University of Hong Kong.
  Well published, he wrote numerous articles on The China Cantos of Ezra Pound.
  He was a member and secretary of the board of trustees of the Bangor Theological Seminary from 1971 to 1974 and in 1981-82 he was a member of the Fulbright Screening Committee for East Asia, Institute for International Education."

Obituary for Nancy (Kurtz) Nolde Wood (1921-2013)
The Bangor Daily News, Apr 22 2013, P. 15, Col. 1, with photo

"ORONO - Nancy (Kurtz) Nolde Wood, 92, died Friday, April 19, 2013, at Dirigo Pines Retirement Community, Orono. Nancy was born Feb. 5, 1921, in Reading, Pa., the daughter of the late George G. and Edna Seidel Kurtz.
  Nancy attended public schools and then later attended Emma Willard School, Troy, N.Y., graduating in 1938. In her early years, Nancy enjoyed swimming, horseback riding and tennis. After finishing at Emma Willard School, Nancy attended Bradford College, Haverhill, Mass. In the 1940s Nancy met John Nolde, a college professor of history and they married in 1944. John and Nancy moved to Maine in 1950 where John was a professor at the University of Maine, Orono, for many years.
  John later became the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, 1967-1973. During their years at the University of Maine, Nancy was very involved in many local activities, groups and associations. 
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Professionally, from 1976 to 1986, Nancy was a research assistant in the English department at the University of Maine, Orono, campus, serving as an assistant to the editor of "Paideuma," a journal devoted to Ezra Pound scholarship. During these years, John and Nancy loved to sail and eventually they built a cottage on the coast of Maine at Oak Point, just off Mount Desert Island, where they spent their summers sailing and visiting with Oak Point neighbors. For many years after John retired, they spent several months in the winter in Sanibel Island, Fla. John Nolde died in the fall of 1988 and many months later Nancy began seeing Dr. George W. Wood Ill, whose wife, Adelle, died in the summer of 1988. After a couple of years their friendship blossomed into love and they they were married in December of 1990.
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Nancy is predeceased by her first husband, John Nolde. She is survived by her husband, George W. Wood III; goddaughter, Suanne Morse-Price of Mount Desert Island; and six stepchildren and their families."