The Madawaska Training School was established in 1878. Fort Kent became its permanent home during the 1888-1889 school year. The institution became the Fort Kent State Normal School in 1955, the Fort Kent State Teachers College in 1961, Fort Kent State College in 1966, and finally the University of Maine at Fort Kent in 1970.

The class list of 1914 submitted by Mary P. Nowland to the Maine Department of Education is as follows: Helen D. Allen, Ashland; Cecile Bouchard, Upper Frenchville; Victoire M. Boutote, Fort Kent; Délie P. Charette, Fort Kent; Azalie Côte, Wallagrass; Christine Cyr, St. David; Louis O. Cyr, St. David; Rosa Cyr, St. David; Délina Daigle, St. Francis; Ella Daigle, Fort Kent; Leanna Daigle, St. Francis; Grace Hébert, Madawaska; Elsie Labbé, Winterville; Laura B. Mallett, Fort Kent; George F. Martin, Eagle Lake; Gertrude Michaud, New Canada; Laura Ouellette, Upper Frenchville; Mary D. Ramsay, Fort Kent; Mary Roy, Daigle; Thérèsa Saucier, Wallagrass. (Alice Reeve Cote’s name is missing from this list but appears in the University of Maine at Fort Kent “Century and a Quarter of Progress” class list of the 1914 roster.)

George F. Martin stands at the center of the group portrait. Martin served in the First World War and died overseas in May 1918. Ardelle Tozier served as acting principal of the Training School for part of the 1913-1914 school year; she is believed to be standing to the left behind Martin. She became the first librarian at the Aroostook State Normal School in Presque Isle.

The photograph was pasted on cardboard to give it a faux frame.