Bowdoin College Bowdoin Digital Commons Bowdoin Alumni Magazines Special Collections and Archives 1-1-1940 Bowdoin Alumnus Volume 14 (1939-1940) Bowdoin College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/alumni-magazines Recommended Citation Bowdoin College, "Bowdoin Alumnus Volume 14 (1939-1940)" (1940). Bowdoin Alumni Magazines. 14. https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/alumni-magazines/14 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]. VOL. XIV THi: KOWIIOIN NO. 1 ,\ovi:A\iu:ir A Ml AW IIS i»x» The Bowdoin Group within the 1939 Group Totaled 14 WASSOOKEAG SCHOOL-CAMP 1940 Summer Season (15TH Year) —6- and 8-Week Terms Begin July 9 Lloyd Harvey Hatch, Director Lake Wassookeag, Dexter, Me. STAFF OF 20 TEACHERS AND COACHES FOR 45 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 schools. 3. 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 1939 WASSOOKEAG STAFF FROM BOWDOIN: Lloyd H. Hatch, B.S./21, Di- rector; Robert D. Hanscom, Ed.M., '23; Edward G. Buxton, A.B., '28; Norman S. Waldron, A.B., '30; Roy E. Davis, A.B., '30; William 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. 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 Postoffice at Brunswick, Maine, under the Act of March 3, 1879 Published four times a year by Bowdoin College. VOLUME FOURTEEN NUMBER ONE THE BOWDOIN ALUMNUS Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine November - 1939 Alumni Day OOOWDOINTS sixteenth annual Alumni The gift was accepted for the College by Day varied in no great measure from those President Sills. of recent years, although the scheduling of The Alumni Luncheon and the luncheon the game with Bates at one-thirty undoubt- for the ladies were announced for eleven- edly reduced somewhat the attendance at thirty, but even with this advance in time the luncheons. the speaking program was somewhat rush- The program of the day began at mid- ed. Chairman Harrison M. Davis, Jr., '30, night, following fraternity initiations held of the Alumni Day Committee introduced on the evening of Friday, November 3. In Dr. Rufus E. Stetson '08, President of the order to insure quiet for the members of Alumni Council, who served as toastmatser. the football squad, the rally, sponsored by Speakers included President Sills, President the cheer leaders, was held on the Bruns- Clifton D. Gray and Athletic Director wick Mall. The Band turned out in uni- Ernest M. Moore of Bates, and Athern P. form and following a parade illuminated by Daggett '25 of the Bowdoin faculty. red fire the Alumni Secretary introduced Following the game, which is chronicled Frank A. Farrington '27, William B. Ed- elsewhere in these columns, there were tea wards, now first selectman of the Town, dances at a number of chapter houses and Robert P. T. Coffin '15, and President Sills. President and Mrs. Sills were at home at Dr. Coffin had prepared a poem for the the President's House. In the evening there occasion. was a dance at the Gymnasium under the The Alumni Council had its fall meet- auspices of the Student Council. ing on Saturday morning and at eleven o'clock the first scheduled event of the day The tenth annual Fathers' Day was ob- took place at the Walker Art Building. served on Saturday, October 28, at the Here Judge Arthur Chapman of the Class time of the Colby game. Rainy weather in of 1894 spoke briefly in presenting to the the morning must have interfered some- College a beautiful bronze bulletin board what with attendance, but 77 "freshman for the lobby of the building. It bears the fathers," more than ever before, registered inscription at the Moulton Union and took part in the IN MEMORY OF program. HENRY EDWIN ANDREWS DIRECTOR OF THIS MUSEUM Paintings by Stephen Etnier and Henry 1920-1939 O. Strater have been on exhibit at the GIFT OF THE CLASS OF 1 894 Walker Art Building this fall. [ 1 ] [The B o w d o i n Alumnus On Wednesday, October 18, there were Tne Jjowdoin Alumnus special exercises in the College Chapel in Member of the American Alumni Council celebration of the centennial of the birth of Thomas Brackett Reed of the Class of i860. Simultaneous exercises were held in Philip S. Wilder '23, Editor Stanley P. Chase '05, Boo\ Editor the House of Representatives at Washing- Charles S. F. Lincoln '91, Class K[otes Editor ton, where Mr. Reed served as Speaker for Elizabeth F. Riley, Editorial Associate many years. President Sills presided at the Richard E. Tukey '40, Undergraduate Editor Glenn R. McIntire '25, Business Manager Bowdoin exercises, quoting Reed, who said, ADVISORY EDITORIAL COUNCIL "The glory and the dignity of a college are not fixed by the number but by the qual- Frederick H. Dole '97 11 Walter L. Sanborn 'oi ity of those who come out of it. He spoke Harry L. Palmer '04 of that time in the last century when Reed Paul K. Niven 'i6 was Speaker of the House and two other Donald Q. Burleigh '17 W. Hodding Carter '27 Bowdoin men, Melville W. Fuller of the John R. Robertson '27 Class of 1853 and William P. Frye of the Alexander P. Clark '34 Harry T. Foote '38 Class of 1850, were serving as Chief Jus- tice of the United States and the President Published four times during the college year pro-tempore of the Senate. Speakers at the by Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. Sub- scription price $1.50 a year. Single copies, 40 Chapel were Hon. Ralph O. Brewster '09, cents. With Bowdoin Orient $3.50 a year. Congressman from the Third Maine Dis- trict; Fulton J. Redman '07, newspaper VOL. XIV November, 1939 NO. 1 commentator and a leader among Maine Democrats; and Hon. James C. Oliver '17, The name "Bawdo^" is rarely seen ex- holds Reed's seat as Congressman from cept in connection with the College, and who the First Maine District. alumni may be interested in knowing of Camp Bowdoin and the Bowdoin Memorial Farm, maintained by the Children's Aid Sunday Chapel Speakers this fall, in ad- Society of New York at New Hamburg dition to President Sills, have been Pro- on the Hudson River. The Farm, located fessor John C. Schroeder, D.D., Hon. '33, on a 300-acre estate given by Mr. George of Yale Divinity School; Dean Emeritus Temple Bowdoin in memory of his parents, Shailer Mathews of the University of Chi- offers a training program for over 200 boys cag Divinity School; President Frederick annually, while the summer vacation camp May Eliot, D.D., of the American Unitari- cares each year for some 11 00 children. Mr. an Association; Professor E. Jerome Johan- Bowdoin is a direct descendant of James son of The Hartford Theological Seminary; Bowdoin, first patron of the College. Ronald P. Bridges, of the Class of 1930; and Dean Willard L. Sperry, of the Har- vard Divinity School. The Bowdoin Political Forum has spon- sored two interesting panel discussions, the The Hals portrait belonging to Sir Harry first featuring five faculty members who dis- Oakes, Bart., which was at the Walker Art cussed the neutrality question, and the sec- Building last year, has returned to its place ond four undergraduates who considered from a summer at the New York World's the topic "Bowdoin Abroad." Fair. i>] The B o w d o i n Alumnus'] The New Freshman Class Donald Hamlin m IMING at an entering class of 200 J. James A. Hamlin 'oo of Admissions Edward S. men, Director Richard W. Hyde Hammond saw 202 actual freshmen appear George P. Hyde '08 Patrick F. Koughan on the campus to begin their work. Some Paul Koughan 'i% seen J. idea of the work of his office may be David N. Kupelian when one notes that the class came in fol- Nessib S. Kupelian M'i6 George M. Lord lowing the sending out of 1500 catalogues, Fred R. Lord 'n the receipt of more than 500 complete ap- John B. Matthews '18 plications, and the issuance of certificates John B. Matthews Benjamin P. Pierce of admission to 266 men. The number of Leonard A. Pierce "05 bona fide applicants is probably the larg- Ornn C.