Bowdoin College Bowdoin Digital Commons Bowdoin Alumni Magazines Special Collections and Archives 1-1-1941 Bowdoin Alumnus Volume 15 (1940-1941) Bowdoin College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/alumni-magazines Recommended Citation Bowdoin College, "Bowdoin Alumnus Volume 15 (1940-1941)" (1941). Bowdoin Alumni Magazines. 15. https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/alumni-magazines/15 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Collections and Archives at Bowdoin Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Bowdoin Alumni Magazines by an authorized administrator of Bowdoin Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. i NOVHAlKGIt 1 » 4 O KOWIIOIK AMJAWIIS ^% \$ *4 r^K 3* »«sft» 3*. ^swi -*H •--* •»*,kV -?*£%$&»_ ^*"W *»L. *_ —— 'j— :«>»•«, 1 TJtm i "*S -- nttiiiiUUJ - ill "rr*"r rm 5- :*.*':. ggSs' Mi iiauiitiiuiiiir -. - .>* The Bowdoin Group within the 1940 Group Totaled ii ¥ASSOOKEAG SCHOOL-CAMP 1 94 1 Summer Season (i6th Year) 6- and 8-Week Terms Begin July 10 Lloyd Harvey Hatch, Director Lake Wassookeag, Dexter. Me. STAFF OF 20 TEACHERS AND COACHES FOR 40 STUDENTS The School-Camp offers a dual program blending education and recreation for boys who desire the advantages of a summer session in a camp setting. Wassookeag is fully accredited to leading schools and colleges, and it is not unusual for a student-camper to save a year in his preparatory course. PROGRAM ARRANGED FOR THE INDIVIDUAL: 1. All courses in the four-year prepara- tory curriculum. 2. Continuity-study effecting the transition from lower to upper form school-. j. Advance school credits and college entrance credits by certification and examination. 4. Col- lege-introductory study for candidates who have completed college entrance requirements. 5. Sports Program for Junior and Senior Group—Aquatics, Tennis, Badminton, Golf, Basketball, Baseball, and Softball. ON THE r 94 o WASSOOKEAG STAFF FROM BOWDOIN: Lloyd H. Hatch, B.S./21, Di- rector: Charles E. Berry, A.M., '26: Edward G. Buxton, A.B., '28: Roy E. Davis, A.B., '30: Wil- liam F. Carnes, A.M., '36: Robert P. Ashley, Jr., A.M., '36: Kenneth N. Birkett, B.S., '39; Oakley A. Melendy, B.S., '39: Charles N. Corey, B.S., "39; Roy E. Wiggin, A.M., '38. The School-Camp Fleet WASSOOKEAG SCHOOL Mr. Hatch, Director of the School-Camp, is the founder and Headmaster of Wassookeag School. A flexible program, adjusted to the interests and aims of the individual and directed by a faculty of one teacher for every three boys, facilitates distinctive college preparation. The School and the summer session at the School-Camp are fully accredited to colleges and universities. Excel- lent facilities for winter sports. Entered as Second Class Matter, Nov. 21st, 1927, at the Post Office at Brunswick, Maine, under the Act of March 3, 1879 Published four times a year by Bowdoin College. ' i hi: i;o\vimm\ ai iiawus NOVEMBER 1940 VOL. XV NO. 1 June Week End at Bowdoin PAUL E. SULLIVAN '35 Secretary of that class h WAS by custom, a week end of many- ed to hold fast to the virtues of hope and moral courage, and to "keep things—of addresses and awards, funds, burning fun, and Phi Betes, reunions and receptions, brightly on the hearths of your home and in teas and tributes, meetings and memories, the citadels of your own soul, an abiding 11 peace pipes and prizes, dinners, Days and faith in Christian democracy. President even dramas. The main job was the admis- Sills called for a wholesome inner life, sion of 118 graduates into the Bowdoin which "can be affected and even damaged, Alumni family, and one out of every five of but not overwhelmed by material change or 11 us was there to see that the job was proper- even material disaster. ly done. Along with faith in Christian democ- 118 Men Stood, Listened, and Thought— racy, the President stressed the importance A man of my acquaintance, not a college of faith in the spiritual values of tolerance, man, who has two sons and a daughter of justice, liberty and public morals; faith in high school age, likes to have me pass on to faith itself; and faith in free education, him copies of the Bowdoin Orient, so that which as now pursued may have shortcom- 1 he may read the reports of President Sills ings, but the foundation of unregimented talks to the students. I asked him why he teaching and study is vital. "After the forces finds these reports of interest. He said to of destruction have done their fiendish 11 me: "You don't have to be a college grad- work, President Sills cautioned, "you can uate to understand Mr. Sills. He talks plain- restore buildings, repair roads, rebuild ly, with good reasoning, common sense and bridges, rehabilitate towns and cities; but hope for the future.'' you cannot interrupt the education of a boy Hope for the future! Such a talk was or girl for any length of time and make 11 1 President Sills Baccalaureate, delivered such interruption good afterwards. Wednesday, June 12, to the graduating class This Baccalaureate was a good address of 1940. The President told the students and a meaty one. It was delivered the very how other classes had gone forth into a week in which one of the world's great war-torn world; but how the suddenness of democracies was crumbling. Somehow you events today had made American men re- went into the Church on the Hill with shuffle their notions as to the effect of Euro- heavy thoughts. You came out reassured; pean happenings upon us. Facing this crucial yes, reassured that an event such as the and uncertain period, the class was instruct- graduation of a small college class some- [1] The B o w d o i n A I 11 m n u s where in the United States eould still mean That evening the '40 class imported an something. orchestra of national reputation to provide These Men Observed Traditions—Thurs- the backdrop for the Commencement day was Class Day. Senior orators gave ex- Dance. The affair was an enjoyable one, pression of their endearment to the College, even though the attendance did not come recounted bits of elass history, and dwelt up to expectations. on the significance oi Commencement. Then Other Men Came, Had Meetings, Re- followed the usual peace pipe smoking, ode unions—The Alumni Council held its meet- singing, cheering of halls and the farewell ing Friday morning, followed during the shaking of hands. All was carried out in the day by meetings of Phi Beta Kappa, Alum- best Bowdoin tradition. The program in- ni Association and Directors of the Alumni cluded the reading of the Class Poem, a Fund. The reception of the President and brief three-stanza piece, which followed the Mrs. Sills took place in the Moulton Union typical pattern of the poet exploiting a at 4 o'clock with Newton Stallknecht, the worldly-wise metaphor or two. Some day a Herbert Browns and the Herbert Hartmans senior poet is going to write a plain, un- assisting. varnished verse, call a spade a spade and In the morning a softball game between be done with it. It wont be a smart or clev- the reunion classes of "30 and "3,5 turned er poem, but it will be different and re- into a rout of the younger group, despite " freshing. the stirring; aid of fifth columnists from ; 7, This picture, taken during the 1040 Commencement shows, left to right, Prof. Edward C. Kirk- land, Governor Lewis O. Barrows, President Sills and George R. Walker, "02. President of the Board of Overseers. [»] " The B o w d o i n Alumnus and '34. Adam Walsh would gladly settle ly minister to the Alumni in the South, any Bowdoin-Maine game for the admir- Class Notes Editor of the Bowdoin Alum- able score posted by the '30 softballers. nus, a living link in the chain which binds The early evening hours found a whole- the College to its sons and them to one an- 1 "" sale exodus from the campus to the Gur- other. net and Harpswell peninsula, where reun- The oldest alumnus to register for the ion classes sat dowln at the various inns to week end was Mr. Thomas H. Eaton '69, the unique delicacies which come from the senior alumnus of the College. Mr. Maine shore kitchens. At 9.00 P.M. Masque Eaton was given an enthusiastic ovation by and Gown, paced by the brilliant perform- the entire body of returning Alumni at the ance of Edward Palmer '40 as Falstaff, pre- Commencement Dinner. The Bowdoin sented Henry IV, Part I on the Walker Bugle of this year was dedicated to Mr. Art Building Terrace. The play was under Eaton with this inscription: "The class of the direction of George H. Quinby '23. nineteen hundred and forty-one dedicates Through appointment or election many this eighty-fifth volume of the Bowdoin Alumni were named to key positions. John Bugle to Mr. Thomas Henry Eaton of the F. Dana '98 and William D. Ireland '16 class of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, are new members of the Board of Trustees. senior alumnus of the college, whose love President Sills announced the appoint- and loyalty towards Bowdoin has grown ment of John L. Baxter '16 as the new with the years, whose keen interest in un- Alumni Fund Chairman, while Fund Di- dergraduate affairs has set a shining ex- rectors for the next three years will include ample for all Bowdoin men, whose travels these new appointees: Henry P.