Dr. Burleigh H. Shibles retires from the School of Education, Boston University

THIS BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION IS FROM AN UNPUBLISHED PRESS RELEASE FROM BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION RECEIVED IN JUNE 1993 THIS HAS NOT RUN IN THE BANGOR DAILY NEWS.

Professor Burleigh H. Shibles, Program Director for Elementary Education and Childhood Student Teaching, retires from the School of Education, Boston University at the conclusion of the 1992-1993 academic year.

Dr. Shibles, a native of Troy and Brewer, Maine attended the Brewer Public Schools and graduated from Brewer High School in the Class of 1949. lmmediately upon graduation from Brewer High School, with the strong support of Brewer Superintendent of Schools Howard R. Houston, Brewer High School Principal Albert E. Pillsbury, and Brewer High School Faculty Mildred Thayer, Lura Hoit, Marjorie Jenkins, Marion Johnson, and Helen Todd, he went directly to teach in the Clewleyville Rural one-room country school in North Holden, Maine where he remained as teacher for two years.

In September 1951, he entered Farmington State College and graduated with a B.S. degree in Education in 1954. Following a tour of duty with the United States Air Force, he entered the University of Maine at Orono, receiving an M.S. degree in Education and Psychology in 1957.

ln 1957, with the strong support of President Ermo Houston Scott, and Professors Clayton E. Reed, Eleanor A. Wood, Harland Abbott, Gladys Taylor, Gwilym Roberts, and John Mudge, Dr. Shibles joined the Farmington State College Faculty as supervising teacher at the Mallett Campus Laboratory School, and in 1962 serving as Principal of the campus laboratory school. ln 1963, he was promoted to a professorship in the Department of Elementary-Junior High Education, Farmington State College where he taught courses in Reading, Language Arts, Child Development, and Philosophy.

While taking a two-year leave of absence from Farmington State College to work on his doctorate, he taught full time at the School of Education, Boston University.

For the past twenty-six years, he has been a professor at the School of Education, Boston University, serving as Program Director for Elementary Education and Childhood Student Teaching, with teaching responsibilities in the areas of Reading, Language Arts, and Children’s Literature.

Upon his official retirement August 31, 1993 and promotion to Professor Emeritus, he will return to his family home in Brewer, Maine.