Dingley, Fred (1908 - 2008)

Genre: Poetry

Poet and author Fred R. Dingley graduated from South Portland High School and attended Bates College (AB cum laude, 1930, MA, 1937); Ricker College (Honorary Dr. Pedagogy, 1963) and Bowdoin College (Honorary Dr. Humane Letters, 1968). He worked as an educator at many Maine schools, as teacher, guidance counselor and principal.

Bibliography

Poetry

  • Six Hundred Acres (1980)
  • Eyes to See (1986)

Prose

  • A History of a Frontier School: Lee Academy 1845-1988 (1989)
  • I Like to Teach, Or, the Finger of God (1992)