Committee approves renaming UMaine lecture hall after first Black mathematics graduate
Born in Bangor, Beryl Warner Williams was the first Black graduate to earn a mathematics degree from the University of Maine. Author: Alex Haskell (NCM) Updated: 8:33 AM EDT May 6, 2021
ORONO, Maine Changing the controversial name of a lecture hall was the topic of discussion at a University of Maine Finance, Facilities and Technology Committee meeting Wednesday morning.
The committee unanimously approved the resolution to rename the building formerly named Clarence Cook Little Hall on the University of Maine campus.
Little served as UMaine president in the 1920s. He was a supporter of the tobacco industry and a eugenicist. Eugenics aims to improve the human species by discouraging groups judged inferior from reproducing, such as the poor and criminals.