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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 preparatory 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.

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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 sponsored 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. Pillsbury n i5 est in the history of the College. Geo- Nahum R. Pillsbury M Joseph Sewall class is so made up that of 1 graphically, the James W. Sewall o6 every ten men four come from Massachu- Frank H. Shaw 1 Richard E. Shaw o6 setts, three from Maine, and two from Donald A. Stearns New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire Timothy R. Stearns '16 or Connecticut. Joseph E. Sturtevant James M. Sturtevant '09 Thirty-one of the class are sons of alum- Ralph B. Thayer, Jr. B. '17 ni, this figure being slightly larger than Ralph Thayer John A. Tuttle list is as follows: usual. This Earle B. Tuttle '13 S. Sewall Webster, Jr. John C. Abbott S. Sewall Webster 'io E. Farrington Abbott '03 John A. Wentworth, Jr. A. Babbitt John John A. Wentworth '09 Frank P. Babbitt '18 Seventy-three additional freshmen report George W. Beal Raymond C. Beal '16 their fathers as being college men. The list Samuel L. Belknap of institutions totals forty-six, not includ- Robert W. Belknap '13 Roger W. Bragdon ing graduate schools of one sort or another. Lester M. Bragdon 'ia Geographically and alphabetically the roster William B. Briggs runs from Alberta to Zurich. Quantitative- Benjamin F. Briggs '07 ly, it is led by Harvard, with six men, and Philip H. Brown, Jr. Philip H. Brown '09 Dartmouth and Boston University with five Robert S. Burton each. Harold H. Burton '09 Philip Cole, Jr. Philip Cole 'ia Alfred Brinkler, F.A.G.O., gave an or- Joseph S. Cronin gan recital in the Chapel on October 29. '16 Eugene J. Cronin Charles J. Crosby Clarence H. Crosby '17 The much publicized article, "What Warren D. Eddy, Jr. Price College Football?" written by John Warren D. Eddy '14 R. Tunis for the October number of the Robert L. Edwards '16 American lists Don J. Edwards Mercury Bowdoin among E. George Fogg, Jr. the spotless. She is included in the first George E. Fogg '02 group of colleges as "chiefly Carl M. Hamlin named inter- 11 Oscar L. Hamlin '18 ested in the main purpose of education.

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Verses for a Twenty-fifth Reunion - 1939 KENNETH A. ROBINSON, A.M., of the Class of 1914

The following verses were prepared on We're all of these and more in addition, If a man grows part of the things he's lived very short notice in response to a wire from through the Alumni Secretary requesting a "New We're Radio City and Prohibition, 11 Yorkerish poem for the Commencement We're Hemingway roving the fields of Spain, And the stein song out of the U. of Maine. and were read at the dinner by Mr. Dinner We're African sculpture and prints from Bali Robinson. They are here published with And the strange sur-realist art of Dali, gratitude by the Secretary in his capacity Red-lacquered nails and beach cabanas And the song of "Yes, we have no bananyas." as Editor. Book of the Month clubs, glass brick houses, Neon lighting and Mickev Mouses, Today beneath the pines Mah Jong, "Gone with the Wind," and seeing A truce to time and taxes; Forty-nine million taking up skiing; We'll firmly set our lines Hockey games at the Madison Garden, On the Brunswick-Bowdoin axis. Sun-tan oil from Elizabeth Arden, We'll pile our ramparts high Hot-dogs, trailers, and yes, my hearties, With pride and recollection, Elsa Maxwell's intimate parties, And as in days gone by Candid cameras, dogs by Thurber, 1 We'll pledge our hearts affection! The mail of a Hollywood heart-disturber, Horoscopes, glamour, and dial phones, Here we stand in our 25th year, And chateaux dealing in ice-cream cones; Year of the Trylon and Perisphere, The world of today in a big clipper plane Year of the ant and the locust too, And the world of tomorrow in Cellophane. And Miss Brenda Frazier's quiet debut, Year, it seems, of the hot swing band; Gentlemen all, we've been through plenty Gentlemen, gentlemen, here we stand, Since the innocent age of one-and-twenty; Bruised and battered, a trifle sore, Bruised and battered, a trifle sore, But mostly hearty and ready for more. 25 years from where we started, Though one thing's plain if you stop to consider Still unready but not faint-hearted, The course of our years since one-and-twenty Back we go for 25 more! If a man grows a part of the things he's lived And this shall be our pride through, Against the autumn's chills, We, my friends, are a part of plenty! To have known the famous days of Hyde We're Theda Bara and Clara Bow, And those most fit to stand beside We're the ear-phones fixed to the radio; The glorious days of Sills! We're channel swimmers, companionate marriage. And Ford's new model horseless carriage, We're the deed to a lot at Coral Gables, FACULTY HEWS We're some rather rickety chairs and tables Of the early American woodshed period; Prof. Philip C. Beam of the Art Department, We're the book about blondes that sold a myriad. and Miss Frances Merriman of Topsham were We're the coonskin coats that used to herald married in the Chanel of St. Luke's Cathedral, The generation of Scott Fitzgerald; Portland, August 8th. They are living at 32 We're faintly touched by the pale anemia Elm Street, Topsham. Of the Wasteland poem, and we're Bohemia Charles Vyner Brooke, A.M., former instruct- Of Washington Square and the late Frank Harris or in Romance Languages, received his Ph.D. And the Boulevard Montparnasse in Paris. from Harvard in June. We're psychoanalysis—long, grim doses, Professor Myron C. Jeppesen and Miss Made- And we're the discovery of psychoses. leine Caron of Brunswick were married on June We're Gertrude Stein and her poignant theme, "Toasted Susie is my ice-cream." Prof. Samuel Kamerling was elected president of the Brunswick Choral Society at its organiza- We brought out Cummings; we found "Ulysses;" tion meeting October 3. We're Valentino and flapper kisses; Professor Thomas Means was married on Sep- We're Mencken and Lewis who spanked our sins, tember 10 to Eleanor Margaret Skolfield of We're diets and spinach and Vitamins Brunswick and Cambridge, Mass. [4] The Bowdoin Alumnus']

The Football Season REV. GEORGE L. CADIGAN

Editor's Note: Mr. Cadigan, who is now have been a draw or a defeat into a brilliant Rector of St. Paul's Church in Brunswick, victory. Adam's voice and manner on Pick- played varsity football at Amherst and is an enthusiastic follower of the Bowdoin ard Field reveal to the casual observer that team. here is one who is loved and respected by

the boys who play for him. "It is a job to keep 60 men happy,'" observed COHERE was concern among Bowdoin Adam once. But Adam does just this, and any football fans when it was discovered that 10 lettermen of last year's strong team went out from the halls of Bowdoin with the graduating class. Earlier in the football season Adam remarked, "This year will be a building year." The large squad of boys hard at work under two good coaches, Adam Walsh and Dinny Shay, soon gave the impression that even if it were a build-

ing year, it was going to be another good year for Bowdoin Football. For one has come to respect the teams of BowdoirTs modest coach. Day after day found this building team rapidly growing into an ad-

mirable football squad. It is a real football squad too. For Adam uses all his men and The Coach no one is ever sure who will be in the start- Attired for Faculty Meeting. ing lineup. This means that more than eleven men are receiving the best attentions football player will tell you that the game

of their coaches. It is a joy to see a squad to him is only as valuable as the coach. where the Jayvees are as essential as the There are outstanding players on this

first eleven. And this has borne its fruits. year's squad, but there are no stars. Any When eleven substitutes enter the game for unit of 33 men may be playing and it is Bowdoin even the grandstands are sure that evident that here is a team well drilled in these new men will do nearly as well as the fundamentals that are basic for any those others just coming off the field. Time successful football team. and time again have such substitutions There are no "breathers" in the Bowdoin

proven wise. And look what it does for schedule. Down at Amherst, the Massa- the morale of a team. This year may have chusetts State team, which fought all the been a building year in Adam's mind, but way, was a hard game for an opener. At

we think that Adam is building every year times Bowdoin showed great offensive pow- for the next year. er such as in the opening moments of the

It must be said again that Adam is a game when the team drove 71 yards in six great coach. In the closely matched contests plays. The game revealed again the de- of this year, it has been his wisdom and pendability of the Bowdoin reserves. On the strategy that have turned that which might whole the team looked better offensively

c 5 ] [The B o w d o i n Alumnus than defensively. But the Bowdoin victory ball on their own 26-yard line, Bowdoin by 19-14 was significant and important. marched down the field in a well-sustained

That first Bowdoin victory was import- attack. A first down was made on the Wil- ant, but Bowdoin's defeat of Wesleyan on liams 5 -yard line. A forward pass failed Whittier Field by a score of 19-7 was im- and after three line plays, Bowdoin sur- pressive. The previous week Wesleyan had rendered the ball on the Williams one-yard played a handsome game against Rutgers line. Defensively both teams played well.

Placekicker Perkins Punter Legate

The Colby game, played on the home which drew forth the comment from a field, was another of those games that will sports writer that they "were one of the 11 never be forgotten. Two field goals on a scrappiest small college teams he had ever rain-soaked field were the deciding factors seen. WesleyarTs subsequent record reveal- in this game against an unusually strong ed that Bowdoin's second victory of the sea- and favored Colby team. Defensively, the son was a real triumph. In this game Bow- Bowdoin team played its best game to date. doin scored once in the second period and Again and again, the speedy Colby backs twice in the third. WesleyanY lone score were held in check. The forward pass de- came in the final quarter. Bowdoin's offen- fense against a good aerial attack was also sive was a fine exhibition of timing, block- exceptionally outstanding. Against a strong ing and hard-running, while defensively the Colby line, the offense of Bowdoin at cer- team was at its best. The Wesleyan victory tain times, was very good. But no one can was a most creditable one. forget that field goal of Niles Perkins, The annual game with Williams at Wil- which was one of the most sensational liamstown ended in a scoreless tie. In the placekicks ever made on any college grid- opening minutes of the game Williams iron. The field was soggy and wet and the came into scoring position. The Bowdoin ball was heavy and slippery when Bow- line held Williams for downs on the 6-yard doin's 226-pound tackle came out of the line. The second and third quarters saw line for an attempted field goal on the 40- each side holding the other in check. The yard line. Even the Colby team suspected

last quarter was all Bowdoin's. Taking the a pass or some deception. But there it was.

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The ball flew through the goal posts, having But mention should be made of the leader- travelled almost 60 yards in the air. Perkins ship and excellent play of Walt Loeman, kicked his second field goal from the 16- All Maine Guard for two years. Captain yard line. The ball bounced on the cross Walt's hard tackling and blocking, togeth- bars and over. With this victory Bowdoin er with his characteristic calmness have was acknowledged as the most likely con- tender for the State Title.

While Bowdoin was defeating Colby, Bates was defeating Maine. It was necessary for Bowdoin to prepare for a major contest each week. The Bates game on Whittier Field was as closely fought as any other of this season. An intercepted pass led to the only score of the game. Bates was ever a threat and it was not until the closing minutes of play that victory for Bowdoin was assured. It was a place kick that gave victory in the Colby game, it was a brilliant punt that assured a Bowdoin triumph in the game with Bates. With the ball deep in Bowdoin territory, Legate entered the game and with a most beautiful

8 2 -yard kick dashed all hopes of a Bates

• score. : Captain Loeman The Maine Game has just been played. The score stands at 12-6 in favor of Maine. made him eminently qualified as leader of A long forward pass, the only completed another good Bowdoin Team. Maine pass of the afternoon, broke what Other of the outstanding linemen are Per- appeared to be a tie game. The game was kins, Benoit, Marble, Webster, Austin, played at Orono in a bitter gale that swept Scott, Steele, Bass and Sabasteanski. Among the field and marred the play of both teams. the backs Legate, Bonzagni, Haldane, Tuck- There seems to be something about that er, Bell, Welch, and Fifield, repeatedly jinx on Alumni Field. But still Maine play- turned in good performances. ed a good game and are deserving of every With only the Tufts game yet unplayed, credit for their victory. Bowdoin scored the season is practically over. Once more first in the opening period. Maine tied the Bowdoin shares honors with Colby for the score at six all in the second quarter. State Title. Adam Walsh has done another Maine's winning score came in the last four admirable job and our hats are off to him, minutes of the game. The defensive play to Denny Shay and to the Bowdoin Foot- of Bowdoin did not always achieve the ball Squad. quality of earlier games, while offensively P.S. Bowdoin won the Tufts game, 15 to Bowdoin looked best in the second and 6.—Ed. third periods.

Earlier in this article it was stated that Alexander Woollcott delivered the Delta there were no stars on the Bowdoin Team. Upsilon Lecture on October 23.

[ 7 ] [The B o w d o i n Alumnus Bowdoin and the New York Fair

(9:NE might have expected there would also Chairman of the Board since 1932, be numerous Bowdoin men among the host Mr. Gibson has moved his headquarters to of people associated in one way or another the New York World's Fair and is devot- with the gigantic enterprise operating this ing practically all his time and energy to summer at the New York World's Fair the organisation and will carry on through- 1939. The list, however, seems to be a out the 1940 season. small one. Mr. Gibson, overseer and Chairman of

Without doubt the outstanding member the Finance Committee of Bowdoin, is an of the group is Harvey Dow Gibson '02, officer of the Legion of Honor, a Com- one of the original directors of the Fair, and mander of the Order of the Crown, and a head of its Finance Committee, who late Knight of the Order of Vasa. Mr. Gib- in the summer assumed actual and complete son is also Chairman of the Board of the control of the great exposition's activities Textile Banking Company, Huron Holding when he was elected Chairman of the Corporation, and the Shuron Optical Com- Board. Although President of the Manu- pany. A member of the executive commit- facturers' Trust Company, since 193 1, and tee of Paramount Pictures, Inc., Mr. Gib-

Mr. Gibson raises the flag, assisted by Messrs. Walsh and Whalen

[ 8 ] The B o w d o i n Alumnus'] son was general manager of the American been connected with the DuPont Exhibit at Red Cross in 1919, and Commissioner for the Fair. Basil S. Nicholson '38 spent the France of the Red Cross in 1918, and the spring and summer as one of the floor man- whole of Europe in 191 9. agers for the building, bearing a heavy Only one other alumnus has been on the responsibility for keeping its demonstra-

Fair staff itself, but his task has been an tions operating as they should. '22 important one. Ceba M. J. Harmon Another younger alumnus who served was one of the small group of executives on the Fair grounds was Charles S. Good- who made up the nucleus of the corpora- win '38, who was for a time associated with tion staff when it was organised in 1936. the Information Service. His first post was that of Auditor of Ac- On July 26 Bowdoin received particular counts, but as the employee list grew from attention with the raising of a Bowdoin dozens to hundreds and to thousands he banner at the Court of Sport. The cere- was made Acting Budget Director and mony gained especial distinction through then Assistant Comptroller in Charge of the participation of President Grover Disbursements. Whalen of the Fair. Speakers in addition to Not officially associated with the Fair Mr. Whalen and Mr. Gibson included in its corporate sense, but playing an ac- Coach Adam Walsh, Dr. Fred Albee '99, tive part in the plans for its development, George R. Walker '02, Christy Walsh, has been Thomas W. Williams 'io of the Fair Sports Director, and William R New York Telephone Company. He has Crowley '08, President of the New York been serving as Director of the busy Tele- Alumni Association. Some 50 alumni were phone Exhibit with its many interesting in attendance at the exercises, which closed and intricate attractions and with thous- with the singing of Bowdoin songs. ands of potential telephone patrons pass- Another Bowdoin link with the Fair ing through its doors each day since the comes through the choice of Harry B. Mac- Fair has opened. Associated with him for a Laughlin 'io as typical World's Fair Fa-

1 time was George B. McMennamin '24. ther. Exercises, held on Fathers Day as When one considers the number of Bow- the climax of a campaign sponsored by the doin men connected in one way or another New York Sun, saw Mr. MacLaughlin with the DuPont organization, it is per- heaped with praise and with presents, the haps surprising that only one of them has latter including an automobile.

Undergraduate Editorial RICHARD E. TUKEY '40

CHE opening of another College year boarding and lodging facilities for students. brought with it the usual anticipation of a During the weeks following the fast and round of sundry activities by upperclassmen furious rushing sessions, the first year men and a maze of confusion for freshmen. Ap- have been subject to the customary hazing proximately 90 per cent of the freshman in their various houses. A vigilant Student class was pledged by Bowdoin's eleven fra- Council Disciplinary Committee, under the ternities, an enviable record for a College presidency of Carl Boulter "40, has stepped which is bound to depend to such a large into the picture this year as a court of extent upon the proper functioning of its equity for misled freshmen. Its activities, fraternal organisations for the necessary theoretically, are not primarily for the sole

[9 ] [The B o w d o i n Alumnus purpose of carrying on a collegiate having Professor Athern P. Daggett, assistant program just for the sake of having but professor of the Government department, more for one which, by the means used, speaking in Chapel recently, refuted the should straighten out the first year men who attitude of a vein of undergraduate opin- may take on the misrepresented "collegiate" ion that while the current war is going on guise during the transition from prepara- in Europe our own studies should be di- tory school to college. rected more to the day by day happenings Already several forums and concerts abroad than to, perhaps, continued studies have been scheduled and carried out by the of history and past events. Professor Dag- College and student clubs. This is an im- gett maintained that a correct interpreta- perative phase of the social aspect of Bow- tion of the current events abroad can only doin life. Due to our peculiar geographical be acquired through the proper understand- position, necessary and proper forms of di- ing of world events as they have been re- version are seriously lacking if this form of corded in the past. This thought, voiced by diversion is disregarded. The student in- the College's professor of international law, terest in such forums and concerts is at a is quite appropriately true. The thought of high point as may be judged by the attend- such discontinuance of courses to spend ance at such meetings. more time on current events is in no small During the socially slack seasons of the wise impractical and an unintellectual in- year it is a primary objective of the Stu- terpretation of the purpose of a college dent-Faculty Union Board to offer various education. This impractical thought, how- forms of entertainment, including movies. ever, by the particular students who may

However, during the current football sea- have had it in mind is a far-fetched solu- son, week ends are quite well appropriated tion for the long-lived request for a few following the Polar Bear eleven. courses which would bring their surveys up to a point where this decade's practices are revealed. The College, during the summer months, Such a course as Professor Ernst C. renovated and installed new College-owned Helmreich's "Modern European Govern- furniture in a second dormitory. A year ago ments" is the answer of the Government new furniture was placed in Appleton Hall department to the student clamor. It is a while this year Maine was modernised. An course, survey in nature, which traces the inspection of the furniture in some of the rise of the modern European states in a rooms in Appleton Hall, after a year's us- methodical and interesting manner and age at the hands of often not-too-discrim- presents the student with a proper back- inating freshmen, proves that the College ground for the understanding of current committee appropriated a good grade of events abroad. That this course is just what furniture, for it is apparently standing up the students wanted is apparent from the well under the first year men. Such a reno- notable increase in the number of under- vation in the College dormitories does much graduates taking the course in recent years. to lend a warmer atmosphere to some of the studies which, through years and years Certainly the College has offered rem-

of usage, began to look like typical barn edies to the situation. And it doesn't seem

chambers. It is hoped, and expected, that that it should become unduly alarmed by the furniture will bear out those who advo- such impracticalities as was raised by the

cated its installation. question in Professor Daggett's topic.

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Bowdoin Man Heads South with Byrd

c&OR the second time a Bowdoin alumnus Guard days in Provincetown in 1926-27, will carry the flag of the College into the naturally adds to my appreciation of the Antarctic. Roger Hawthorne '29, bearing College's generosity in entrusting the pen-

the impressive title of "Assistant Field Rep- nant to my care."

resentative of the United States Depart- When the second Byrd Expedition sailed ment of the Interior assigned to the United six years ago, two Bowdoin men were in- States Antarctic Service as Information

Officer and Reporter," is sailing for Little America with the current Byrd Expedition. At a ceremony held at the Navy Yard in Boston there was entrusted to him the wind-worn Bowdoin pennant which flew at the masthead of the schooner Bowdoin throughout the 6,000 mile cruise of the Bowdoin-MacMillan Arctic Expedition of 1934. Robert B. Wait '34, staff member of that expedition and now teaching fellow in Biology at the College, made the presentation. Mr. Hawthorne said, in accepting the pennant "I am tremendously grateful to you, Mr. Wait, for coming here today on behalf of the College to turn this historic With Hawthorne (left) and Wait are Mrs. pennant over to me. I am proud and glad Wait and Captain R. H. Crusen of the that as an officer and member of the United U.S.S. Bear.

States Antarctic Service it will be possible eluded in its personnel, Earle S. Perkins '23 for me to carry to the land of seals and and Francis S. Dane, Jr., '31. Perkins car- penguins a Bowdoin flag which already has ried with him a banner which had previous- flown over the land of the Polar Bear. My ly flown over the Peary Memorial Tower warm, personal regard for Commander on Cape York, North Greenland, 14 de-

Donald B. MacMillan, whom I have had grees from the North Pole. This banner is the pleasure of knowing since my Coast now in the College Library.

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Representatives of i 4 New Eng- questions submitted by the member insti- land colleges and universities, including 12 tutions. Particular interest was expressed presidents, a provost and several assorted in problems arising on college campuses as deans, gathered at Bowdoin on October a result of the European situation. 11 for the 8 1 st meeting of the Association There has been found in the archives of of Colleges in New England. Meetings the College an interesting document telling were held that day and on the following of the beginnings of the Association of morning, discussion being based on 44 Colleges. It has been felt that this was ["] — " "

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worthy of publication and we are accord- bring into action the wisdom and experience of literary instructors, in our principal seminaries; ingly printing it in full. whatever opinions mav be expressed bv any in- On the twenty-sixth day of May A.D. 1818, dividual, and whatever measures may be recom- Insti- a number of gentlemen, connected with mended by the association, shall not be consid- govern- tutions of Learning, as instructors and ered as binding the institution, to which the general Election in Boston, a ors, being at the members belong. It is nevertheless confidently friendly meeting was proposed for the sake of hoped, that a greater degree of concert and uni- of intercourse respecting the general interests formity will result from the contemplated asso- letters and collegiate instruction; at which the ciation. present viz, following gentlemen were "It is understood, that the leading objects, Rev. Samuel Austin, D.D., President of the to be accomplished by the association, are, to University in Vermont. effect a great uniformity in the requisites for Rev. Jesse Appleton, D.D., President of Bow- admission into college—in the books to be used doin College. previously to, and after admission—and in Rev. Ebenezer Porter, D.D., Professor ol orthoepy and orthography; as well as to procure sacred Rhetoric in the Theological Institution in more correct editions of elementary and classical Andover. works. Rev. Zephaniah Swift Moore, D.D., President —"Your committee would therefore recommend, of Williams College. "That, until it be otherwise determined, there Rev. Joshua Bates, A.M., President of Mid- be an annual meeting in Boston, on the Mon- dlebury College. day preceding the general election in Massa- Rev. Francis Brown, A.M., President of chusetts, at four o'clock in the afternoon. Dartmouth College. "That a chairman be chosen at each meeting, Rev. Chauncey A. Goodrich, A.M., Professor and a clerk to take minutes of the proceedings." of Rhetoric in Yale College. "That a permanent secretary be appointed, The meeting was organized by the appoint- by whom the proceedings shall be recorded and ment of President Austin, Chairman, and Profes- preserved." sor Goodrich, Scribe. "That the meetings be opened with prayer by Letters were read, by a member of the meet- the chairman. ing, from the Rev. Eliphalet Nott, D.D., Presi- "That any expenses, which may accrue at the dent of Union College, and the Rev. Henry meetings contemplated, be defrayed by the mem- Davis, D.D., President of Hamilton College, ex- bers present." pressing their entire anprobation of some gen- Levi Hedge, A.M., Professor of Logick and eral system of concert and union between the Metaphysicks in Harvard University, was ap- Instructors of literary Institutions in this country. pointed permanent Secretary.

The Rev. John T. Kirkland, D.D., LL.D. r Voted that the permanent secretary be re- President of Harvard College, appeared, after quested to transmit a copy of these proceedings the opening of the meeting and took his seat. to each of the Colleges North of the river Dela- Voted unanimously that, in the opinion of this ware; and also to the Theological Institutions of meeting, it is expedient for the Instructors in Andover and Princeton, and to communicate to the various Colleges in this country to meet oc- the Institutions, not represented at the present casionally, by delegation, for the sake of friendly meeting, our wish that they may hereafter be intercourse and counsel, on the general inter- represented. ests of literature. Voted that President Kirkland be requested to Voted that Presidents Austin, Appleton, and prepare and exhibit, at the next meeting of the Kirkland, and Professor Porter, be a committee association, a dissertation oh the defects of the to report the proper measures for carrying the present system of instruction, preparatory to ad- foregoing vote into effect. mission into College; and the means of remedy- The committee presented the following re- ing those defects. port, which was unanimously accepted. Voted that Professor Porter be requested to "It having been unanimously voted that, in the nrepare and exhibit, at the next annual meet- opinion of this meeting, it is expedient for the ing of the association, a dissertation on the pro- instructors in the various Colleges of this coun- nunciation of the English Language. try to meet occasionally, by delegation, for the Voted that President Dav be requested to pre- sake of friendly intercourse and counsel, on the pare and exhibit, at the next meeting of the as- general interests of literature, your committee are sociation, a dissertation on the character of En- of opinion, that such an association should com- field's Natural Philosophy, as a College classick. prehend the colleges, which are, or may be. Voted that the gentlemen now present, those established in that section of the country, lying excepted to whom dissertations have been al- north of the river Delaware. The association ready assigned, be requested to prepare and ex- being voluntary, and designed to concentrate and (Continued on page 13) C»3 The B o w d o i n Alumnus]

With the Alumni Bodies ANDROSCOGGIN ASSOCIATION NORTHERN CALIFORNIA A group from the Association met with ASSOCIATION 1 the Bowdoin Teachers Club at its session In the absence of the Convener, a Bow- of October 26. President A. Donald Wes- doin luncheon was organised on July 25 ton '12 announced that the annual meet- by Henry Q. Hawes 'io, with President ing would be held in the winter months. Sills as guest. BOSTON CLUB SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA The group met at the Elk's Temple in The usual meeting on the eve of the Los Angeles on July 28 with President Sills Tufts Game was held at the University as guest of honor. Club on Friday, November 17. BOWDOIN TEACHERS' CLUB CLEVELAND CLUB Assistant Professor Athern Daggett '25 met with A small Bowdoin delegation and Coach George Shay spoke at the an- colleges at the alumni of the other Maine nual meeting held at the Walton School in in Hudson, Lake Forest Country Club Auburn on October 26, with George R. Ohio, on October 1. Gardner 'oi presiding. The new executive NEW YORK ASSOCIATION committee comprises G. Tappan Little '15, Chairman, Nathan S. Watson '35, and Professor Morgan Cushing represented Allyn K. Wadleigh '38. the College at an informal meeting at the Alpha Delta Phi Club on the evening of WASHINGTON AND OREGON In the course of his Western trip Presi- Thursday, October 26. A second speaker Sills with small alumni groups in was columnist John Kearin of the T^ew dent met Yor\ Times. Seattle and Portland. WORCESTER CLUB NORTHERN HEW JERSEY The annual meeting was held on the ASSOCIATION evening of Wednesday, November 15, with The Association met in Newark on Sep- Dean Nixon as representative of the Col- tember 14 with the New Jersey boys of the lege. Class of 1943 as its guests. Albert R. Thayer '22, of the English Department, VENERABLE ASSOCIATION MEETS (Continued from page 12) spoke for the College.

hibit, at the next meeting of the association, dis- PENOBSCOT COUNTY CLUB sertations on some subiects, connected with the The Club gathered at the Penobscot general interests of literature and collegiate in- Valley Country Club on the evening of struction. Voted that Presidents Austin, Appleton, and Friday, November in anticipation of 10, Moore, be a committee to report, to the next an- the game with Maine. nual meeting, subjects for future dissertation. Voted that a special meeting of the associa- PORTLAND CLUB tion be held at New Haven, on the day following the public Commencement at Yale College, annual Football The Dinner was held at September 9th, 18 18. the Portland Country Club on Thursday, Voted that the meeting be now adjourned. Attest Chauncey A. Goodrich, Scribe. October 26, with members of the coaching A true copy; staff as guests and speakers. Attest Levi Hedge, permanent Secretary. [13] [The B o w d o i n Alumnus Books

Roy A. Foulke and Herbert V. Proch- been selected to represent a cross section of com- now, Practical Ban\ Credit, Prentice-Hall, Inc., mercial bank loan activity.

New York, 1939. Pp. 690. $7.50. To Homer J. Livingston, attorney of the First National Bank of Chicago, who contributed the This authoritative contribution to the eco- chapter on Legal Aspects of Bank Loans, proper nomics of business is written by Roy A. Foulke, credit is given; and to the numerous bankers who credit manager of the country's foremost mer- submitted actual loan illustrations from their cantile agency, in collaboration with Herbert V. everyday experiences, due recognition is accorded Prochnow, assistant vice-president of a large city by the authors in their preface. bank. The book presents a fresh approach to William H. Farrar. the treatment of the subject of bank credit, and reflects the broad experience of both authors in Brunswic\, Maine: Two Hundred Years a their interrelated spheres of credit work. So Town, 1739-1939, published by the Town, June, happily does the resulting study combine both 1939. Pp. 80, illus. the principles and the application of credit ex- tension that it deserves general recognition as This is the title of an attractive and inter- one of the best available expositions of this im- esting book, with a fair amount of advertise- portant phase of banking activity. ments, compiled for the bicentenary celebration, The usefulness of the volume will not be which was held at two separate times, the first limited to that of a manual of procedure for the part being a religious service in the Congrega- active banker or a text book for the serious stu- tional Church on February 6, the actual anni- dent, since it offers a broad-gauge outlook and versary of the town's incorporation, and the provides a basic understanding of credit oper- second part consisting of more festive and gen- ations essential to many a business man. While eral exercises on July 2, 3, and 4. but little consideration is given to historical The book has an attractive cover design in treatment, interesting sidelights are introduced colors by Mr. H. L. Gleason; a hypothetical pic- in sufficient number to give life and reality to ture of the Falls and Fort George, as they may the work. In an easy reading style it covers the have looked early in 1700; and, on the inside of field competently and comprehensively. the cover, a sketch of coast, with an insert poem, The early chapters deal with the operation and "Maine,"1 by Professor Coffin. function of a bank credit department, and are There are an introduction, greetings from the supplemented by a rather unusual section com- Governors of Maine and Massachusetts (the prising a credit file in its entirety. The sources principal participants in the literary and histori- of credit information are then taken up, partic- cal exercises), the programs of the two celebra- ular emphasis being given to the specialized tions, a list of the Town officials, a map of the mercantile agencies. Part three treats thoroughly village with a key to the places of historical of the importance of careful analysis of financial interest, a list of the Bicentenary Committee, statements, as well as methods of interpretation and a Chronicle of Brunswick. of profit and loss accounts, surplus accounts, and This historical sketch, necessarily condensed trial balances. Considerations and practices in but carefully prepared and interesting, is writ- the making of all the various kinds of bank loans ten by the Reverend Dr. Thompson E. Ashby, are then introduced and discussed extensively. pastor of the First Parish Church, and Mrs. Isa- Several chapters are devoted to the study and belle P. Congdon, wife of Clyde T. Congdon, analysis of typical cases, from small personal Bowdoin, '22, and illustrated with pictures of to large corporation loans. Specimen forms and the town, the college, and some of the more note- facsimile credit instruments are employed advan- worthy houses. It is divided into three sections: tageously throughout, as well as are clarifying the period of Discovery, Exploration, and Set- footnotes and references. tlement, which was within the 17th Century; 1 The authors survey of the causes of business the period of Establishment of the Permanent failures and losses on bank loans gives evidence Settlement, from the end of the Indian Wars to of extensive research, and furnishes a distinct ad- 1800; and the period of Development, from the dition to existing publications along those lines. founding of Bowdoin College to the present. Equally informative and valuable is the succeed- Here is a compendium of information which ing discourse on proceedings for the handling of any old Bowdoin man or former resident would involved situations. The volume closes with a be glad to have in his library to remind him study of loan apolications that have actually of been considered by bankers in various parts of "ye familiar scenes,—ye groves of pine, the country. In this there are analyzed bona That once were mine and are no longer mine." fide requests for credit accommodations that have Charles S. F. Lincoln. [14] — —J

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Authors and Reviewers titled "The Tragic Flaw in Wordsworth's Phil- osophy" to the volume Wordsworth and Cole- A. Foulke '19, A.M. ('39), chairman Roy ridge: Studies in Honor of George McLean Directors of the Alumni of the present board of Harper (Princeton University Press, 1939). He Fund, is manager of the analytical department is the author also of a chapter, "Time and Possi- of and Bradstreet. Dun bility in Kant," in The Heritage of Kant, edited William H. Farrar '14, is Cashier of the by G. T. Whitney and D. F. Bowers (Princeton First National Bank of Brunswick. University Press, 1939).

Charles S. F. Lincoln '91, M.D., of Bruns- "Hamlet and the Mouse-trap," by William wick, St. Petersburg, and way stations, is the Witherle Lawrence '98, appears in the Sep- genial class-notes editor of this magazine. He tember 1939 issue of the Publications of the was born and grew up in a house which occupied Modern Language Association of America. the present site of the Lincoln block and is pic- Some young alumni will recall an evening in the tured on page 77 of the bi-centennial publica- Barn Chamber when Professor Lawrence ad- tion. dressed the Shakespeare course on that subject.

Notes Robert P. Tristram Coffin's new book Captain Abby and Captain John was released by Dr. Newton P. Stallknecht, Associate the Macmillan Company on October 24. It will Professor of Philosophy, contributes an essay en- be reviewed in our next issue.

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1878 Hartley Cone Baxter, for the past dent of the medical staff at the Franklin County four years sole surviving member of his Memorial Hospital. He was given the fifty-year class, died suddenly at his Brunswick home on medal of the Maine Medical Association in 1937. October 4. He was born in Portland, July 19, 1883 Samuel Stinson Gannett, for many entering business with the Portland Pack- 1857, years chief of the Computing Section of ing Company following his graduation. He later the Topographical Branch of the U. S. Geo- established the H. C. Baxter & Brother Com- logical Survey, died in Washington on August 5. pany. In earlier years he was prominent as a Leaving Bowdoin for special work at Massachu- yachtsman and an automobile driver, holding the setts Institute of Technology, he became associ- first operator's license issued in the State of ated with the Geological Survey in 1882. Fifteen Maine. Survivors include two brothers, Rupert years later he began work as a boundary expert H. Baxter '94 and Percival P. Baxter '98, a son, , and between that date and his retirement from John L. Baxter i6, and other relatives closely active service in 1934 had served under the ap- associated with the College. He was a member pointment of the U. S. Supreme Court as a Com- of Delta Kappa Epsilon. missioner in most of the interstate boundary dis- 1880—Virgil Clifton Wilson, Portland putes arising during the period. He was born in lawyer and former member of the city Augusta, February 10, 1861. government, died in that city on 21. He June 1884—O liver William Means, who receiv- was born in Portland, April 12, 1857, and was ed his A.M. at Bowdoin in 1887 and in the insurance business for a few years there his Ph.D. at the Hartford Theological Seminary before entering the practice of law. He was a two years later, died at his home in Hartford, member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. In his will Mr. Connecticut, on June 6. Dr. Means, who was Wilson provided for a bequest to the Alumni born in Perry Center, New York, October Fund. 9, i860, served as pastor of churches in Enfield, Connecticut, and Springfield, Massachusetts, un- 1881 —J° HN Witham Nichols, oldest prac- til 191 3, when he retired to beein an active ticing physician in Franklin County, career as gentleman farmer and charity executive. died at Farmington on September 16 after a brief His dairy herd was one of the finest in the coun- illness. Born at Searsport, August 4, 1859, Dr. try. He was a founder and second president of Nichols spent the first few vears after gradua- the Hartford Alumni Association and was a tion in education and business, but returned to member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. Brunswick to receive his M.D. in 1887. He was given an A.M. in 1891. Except for two years at 1885— 0HN Robinson Gould, who was born the Keeley Institute of Vermont he had always in Hallowell, July 14, 1861, died at the practiced at Farmington and was the first presi- Augusta General Hospital, of which he was [ij] —^ ——J

[The Bowdoin Alumnus president, on July 18. He had been engaged in Boardman had served in the United States Navy banking in Hallowell and Augusta from 1887 at the time of the war with Spain. until his retirement in 193 1 and had served as secretary, vice-president and president of the 1895— AMES Winchell Crawford, who had Maine Bankers Association. He had been an been in business in New York for many officer of the Augusta Hospital since its found- years, died at his home in Bayside, Long Island, ing in 1898. He was a member of Psi Upsilon. on July 13. He was born in Brunswick, No- vember 26, 1872, and lived in Portland for a EV at 1885— - J 0HN Coleman Hall died few years after leaving College. his home in Claremont, California, on October 15. Born in Washington, Maine, March 1896 Alfred Perley Ward, who was born 19, 1859, he taught school in Minnesota and in Freeport, October 29, 1874, died at Indiana for two years after graduation, return- Easton, Massachusetts, on -October 14. He had ing to Maine to attend the Theological Seminary been engaged in banking and accounting since at Bangor and to receive his Bowdoin A.M. in graduation and for more than twenty-five years 1890. Since that time Mr. Hall has held pastor- had been located in Providence, Rhode Island. ates in various New England communities and He had maintained a considerable estate at on the West Coast. Survivors include his son, Easton, specializing in the raising of German Harry H. Hall '13. He was a member of Delta shepherd dogs and turkeys. He was a member of Kappa Epsilon. Delta Upsilon. 1889—Daniel Edward Owen died suddenly 1897 Cecil LeRoy Blake, principal exam- at his home in Saco on October 14. He iner in the United States Patent Office was born in that city April 30, 1868, and taught at Washington, D. C, died at his home in that there at Thornton Academy for seven years fol- city on April 13. Mr. Blake attended Harvard lowing his graduation at Bowdoin. In 1897 he Law School after leaving Bowdoin and prac- became a member of the faculty of the William ticed in this field for fifteen years in Maine and Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, later ac- New Hampshire, when he became associated with cepting appointment as professor at the Univer- the Patent Office. He was born in New Glou- sity of Pennsylvania, where he received his cester, October 7, 1876, and was a charter mem- Ph.D. in 1903. He had been given a Bowdoin ber of the Bowdoin Chapter of Kappa Sigma. A.M. in 1892. He was a trustee of the Bidde- Simon Moulton Hamlin, only Dem- ford Savings Bank and president of the Library 1900 ocratic representative from the First Association. He was a member of Delta Kappa District to serve in Congress since the Epsilon. Maine Civil War, died at his South Portland home on 1891 Everett Grey Loring died at the July 27 after a long illness. Born in Standish, home of his brother, Jacob Loring '98, August 10, 1866, Congressman Hamlin had de- in Hempstead, New York, on Jury 17. He had voted the greater part of his life to education, been in ill health for several months. Mr. Lor- serving a number of Maine communities as ing was born in North Yarmouth, November 16, teacher, principal and superintendent of 1869, and had devoted his life to education, schools. Retiring from the South Portland su- serving as teacher and principal in Maine, New perintendency in 1925, he set himself up as a Hampshire and Minnesota schools and as a dis- self-styled ""plain dirt farmer," but returned to trict school superintendent for fifteen years in the public life in 1933 as mayor of his city. When Berkshire county of Massachusetts. He had liv- this position was abolished by the adoption of a ed with his brother since his retirement from council-manager form of government he entered active work. the race for Congress and found himself elected. 1892 William Wilson Wingate, who left 1903—R° SC0E Randall Paine, a native of Bowdoin to read law in Portland and to Ottawa, Illinois, where he was born attend the Harvard Law School, died at his sum- August 8, 1878, died on September 1, at Port- mer home at Pequawket Lake on August 17. He land, where he had been encaged in the insur- was born in Standish, October 12, 1870. Mr. ance business for some twenty years. Mr. Paine Wingate had attained prominence as a corpora- entered forestry on leaving Bowdoin and was for tion lawyer in New York City but retired from some time a lumber merchant in Waterville. He active work some seven years ago. was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. 1894—Harry Clifton Boardman, who was J904 Alfred Loomis Sawyer, who had born in Biddeford, August 19, 1872, practiced as a physician at Fort Fair- and who was for many years in the telephone field since receiving his Bowdoin M.D. in 1907, business in various parts of the country, died at died in Millinocket, August 14, following an 1 the National Veterans Home at West Los An- emergency operation. He was born at Lewiston, geles, California, on December 31, 1938. Mr. December 25, 1882. [16] —^F —^

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1907— e ^ ave ^een noti fi e<^ °f tne death, at He was born in Bath, February 27, 1891, and Portland, on September 9, 1935, of was a member of Psi Unsilon. Harold Vinton Goodhue, who was born in 1920 Henry Sprince, who received his Fort Fairfield, August 15, 1883, and who had M.D. at McGill University following for some time been carried on the mailing list as his transfer there with the passing of the Medical a resident of Lexington, Massachusetts. He was School at Bowdoin, died at the Central Maine a member of Zeta Psi. General Hospital in Lewiston on August 4 after 1907—Henry Chase Hopewell, who was a long illness. A native of Paris, France, he born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Sep- grew up in Lewiston and had practiced there tember 23, 1883, and who received his A.B. at since 1925. He was the author of a Bowdoin Harvard in 1907, died August 23 at his sum- football song popular a few years ago and had mer home in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. He served as president of the Androscoggin Alumni had been in the textile business throughout his Association. career and was a director of the Sanford Mills 1922— e nave nad an unconfirmed report of and president of the Tamde Products Corp. He the death at Broken Bow, Nebraska, of was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. LeRoy Everett Day. He was a member of 1908— L0YD Tangier Smith, internationally Theta Delta Chi. known explorer who attained particular —George Temple Priest was one of the prominence for his expedition of 1937 in the 2925 three men killed in the explosion of the course of which he secured four giant pandas, Coast Guard hydroplane V-164 on July 15, a died at Mastick, New York, July 12. He was hundred and fifty miles southeast of New York. born in Yokohama, Japan, April 1882, and 5, He had been on board the ketch Atlantis when on graduation at Bowdoin returned to the East stricken with pneumonia and the plane had been to represent the International Banking Corpora- dispatched to bring him to a hospital. A mem- tion at Bombay. One of the most notable of his ber of Alpha Delta Phi and a native of Water- expeditions, in the course of which he travelled town, Mass., he was born November 25, 1902, through China, Siberia, Indo-China, Siam and and had been working in Boston as a real estate Tibet, was organized in 1930 under the auspices broker. of the Field Museum at Chicago and sent back more than ten thousand specimens. He was a 2927 William John MacGuire, who receiv- member of Kappa Sigma. ed his law degree at the University of —Alden Sprague Hichborn, who was Georgia and who was senior partner of a New ]9] l York investment firm, died suddenly at his home born in Augusta, September 9, 1890, died in that city on October 10. Following in Milbrook, Connecticut, on June 12. Born in graduation Mr. Hichborn went to New York as Providence, Rhode Island, Mr. MacGuire was an investment salesman, returning to Augusta to for two years associated with the West African continue in that field until his retirement a few Yellow Fever Commission of the Rockefeller Foundation. a Delta years ago because of ill health. He was a mem- He was member of Theta ber of Delta Kappa Epsilon. Chi. 2922—We have been informed of the death of Frank Elmer Nolin, who was born in Skowhegan, August 30, 1888, and was last MEDICAL SCHOOL known to us as engaged in manufacturing there. He was a member of Zeta Psi. 2371 Charles Melville Bisbee, who had 2922"—Stephen Carroll Perry, Portland practiced his profession in Rumford newspaper man, died at Jacksonville, since 1895, died at his home there September 16. Florida, on June 23, while on a vacation trip. He was born in Canton, November 21, 1848, Born in Portland, March 10, 1890, Mr. Perry and had practiced in Peru and Sumner before attended Dartmouth after leaving Bowdoin. Fol- going to Rumford. He was an honorary mem- lowing a few years of work in his father's law ber of the State and County Medical Associa- office, he moved to Jacksonville, remaining there tions and held the State Association's medal for in business until 1928. He was a member of sixty years of service. Survivors include a Theta Delta Chi. brother, Harlan M. Bisbee 'oS. 292 3 Ray Eaton Palmer, who had served — in the field of international banking 1876 J 0SIAH Peet Bixby, who was born at since graduation and who in recent years was in Kenduskeag, October 1, 1854, and who the office of the National City Bank at Barce- had practiced at Woburn, Massachusetts, for lona, Spain, died in New York, July 24. He fifty-five years, is reported as having died in had been recalled to the home office in. 1937. that city. [17] J^ — —

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1888— ESSE Andrew Randall, who had 1901 —Joseph John Pelletier, who was practiced at Old Orchard since 1893 born in Lewiston, April 1, 1880, died and who held the fifty-year medal of the Maine in that city, where he had practiced since leav- Medical Association, is reported as having died ing Bowdoin, on June 5. Dr. Pelletier had there on November 28, 1.938. He was born at studied at Paris, London and Rome and at the South Limington, December 6, 1863. University of Louvain in Belgium and saw active service overseas during the World War. He — e nave been informed of the death 1 889 was invalided home with the rank of Captain in of George Thompson, who was born August, 19 9, following an attack of pneu- at Union, March 21, 1861, and who had prac- 1 monia. In Lewiston he was for four years a ticed at Taftville, Connecticut, for fifty years. member of the school board and had served as ]$94—Oscar Rodney Emerson, physician at City Physician. Newport since 1905, died at Dexter on 1905—-D°N Leslie Harden, who was born at September 27, following an automobile accident. Phillips, October 8, 1878, and who had Born at Plymouth, April 12, 1872, he had prac- practiced at Brownville since 1006, died there on ticed in Unity and Monson before going to February 4. He was at one time a surgeon on Newport. He was a captain in the Medical Re- the staff of the Canadian Pacific Railway. serve Corps, a 32nd degree Mason and a member of the State Board of Registration of Med- icine.

News from the Classes

Foreword 1890 Secretary, prof. w. b. Mitchell Brunswick. Fall is upon us: College has opened, and a herd of new students, some with a wealth of At the close of the academic year in June, two Bowdoin tradition behind them, others to learn distinguished members of '90, veterans in their it for the first time: Yes, "Their lips shall tell respective departments, Rev. Daniel Evans, D.D., them to their sons, and they again to theirs," Professor of Christian Theology at the Andover- long after we of the "old guard' 1 have joined Newton Seminary; and Wilmot B. Mitchell, our friends and contemporaries beyond the sun- Litt.D., L.H.D., Edward Little Professor of set. Rhetoric and Oratory at Bowdoin, retired from We can only hope that Bowdoin may mean active teaching. Both received appreciation and as much and more to them than it has to us; acclaim from their colleagues and the students if so, we shall not have lived in vain. who knew them so well. The richness of opportunity for culture, and Dr. Evans, after two pastorates at East Wey- the creature comforts which surround them are mouth and Cambridge, Mass., has taught at greater than ever: Will these boys appreciate Andover-Newton for thirty years. "Mitch," as them as much as we did those of our day? The his friends and the student body love to call casual way in which the present generation re- him, served his alma mater with devotion and acts to these things makes us wonder if the germ success for forty-two years. of dilettantism is spreading at Bowdoin. Charles L. Hutchinson has been elected to the What will be the status of civilisation, of Board of Trustees of Westbrook Junior College. personal liberty, and opportunity, five, ten, or —Secretary, c. s. f. Lincoln twenty-five years hence? It depends upon us IS91 Brunswick. and will depend upon them. "Bowdoin from birth the nurturer of men, From the Amherst Graduate Quarterly, Au- To thee, we pledge our love again, again." gust, 1939: "When Prof. Harry deForest ("Mike") Smith retired from the faculty in June, Amherst lost —Secretary, eben esq. 1885 w. freeman, the services of a man who, for thirty-eight years, 120 Exchange St., Portland. has held a position of unique significance in the John A. Peters of Ellsworth and Portland, life of the College. A man of distinct individ- judge of the United States Court for the Dis- uality, devoted to the ideals of scholarship and trict of Maine since 1922, celebrated his 75th with the keenest appreciation of art and litera- birthday on August 13th. Long may he be ture, he set the stamp of his personality on the spared to the State, the College, and those who institution and created a student following rem- love, honor and appreciate him for what he is iniscent of the golden age of the last century. to us all. He stood for years as a vigorous and valiant [18] — " s —

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bulwark against the tides that would overwhelm for his public and philanthropic service, by King the study of the life, thought, and language of George at the conferring of his birthday honors ancient Greece. on June 7th. "His many friends, admirers, and disciples Secretary, james e. RHODES, 2ND will be glad to know that the Quarterly is ar- 1897 700 Main St., Hartford, Conn. ranging for an adequate and sympathetic treatment of this subject in the November number." Professor George M. Brett of New York Uni- versity represented Bowdoin at the inauguration 1892—Secretary Hersey reports the death on of Harry D. Gideonse as President of Brooklyn October 6 of Mrs. John F. Hodgdon at College, N. Y., October 19th. Portland. Mr. Hodgdon will spend the winter Secretary, thomas l. pierce with a daughter, Mrs. Carolyn Libby, at Inter- 1898 R. F. D. 2, Rehoboth, Mass. national Falls, Minn. Comm. Donald B. MacMillan is recovering —Secretary, FRANCIS w. dana IS94 from a recent illness in the course of which he 8 Bramhall St., Portland. spent some time at the Massachusetts Memorial Rupert H. Baxter of the Bath Trust Company Hospital. was elected to the executive committee of the Secretary, Lincoln l. cleaves Maine Bankers Association at its annual meet- 1899 McCann-Erickson, Inc., ing at Poland Spring, June 25th. Rupert and Madison Ave., York City. Mrs. Baxter are leaving for Pearl Harbor Naval 285 New Station, Oahu, T. H., to visit their daughter, the Lucien P. Libby, of the faculty of the Port- wife of Lt. Com. Gillette, U.S.N. land High School, received the honorary degree of A.M. from the University of Maine at Secretary, john clair minot 1896 Commencement, June 12th. Dover, Mass. —Secretary, burton m. clough Philip Dana's daughter, Frances, was married 1900 477 Congress St., Portland. in Portland September =>, to Mr. Jack Weaver Jordan. Dean Henry W. Cobb of Tougaloo College On June 30, Sterling Fessenden, Esq., Secre- has recovered from an extended illness and has tary General of the Shanghai Municipal Coun- resumed his work in the Department of Educa- cil, terminated his connection with that body tion. after a period of service which lasted nineteen Clarence C. Robinson, who has been a secre- years. tary in the Y.M.C.A. for the past thirty years, "Mr. Fessenden went out to Shanghai in 1902 has just retired from Association work. He has with the American Trading Co. of New York, recently been appointed Vocational Consultant and three years later became the law partner of on the Maine State Staff of the National Youth the late T. R. Jernigan. In 1920 he was elected Administration. His home address is 49 Wash- to the Council—the governing body of the ington Street, Brewer. International Settlement—the junior of its two Secretary, Walter l. sanborn American members. In 192^ on the retirement 1901 of Mr. H. G. Simms, an Englishman, he was Lansdale, Penn. chosen chairman by his colleagues, which posi- Roland E. Clark, vice-president of the Na- tion he held until 1928, when on the retirement tional Bank of Commerce, Portland, was elected of Major Hilton Johnson he was asked by the president of the Trust Division of the American Council to take over the office of Director-Gen- Bankers Association at the annual meeting in eral, and to devote his whole time and energy to Seattle, Wash., in September. carrying out the intricate and delicate work of George C. Wheeler of Pomona, Cal., came that office. After eleven years of service in that East this fall to get his son, Alvan, settled as a position, during which the Settlement has gone freshman at Princeton. George later visited through many serious and dangerous situations, friends in Portland, where he formerly prac- including two Japanese invasions, the end of ticed law, and in Farmington, where he was which is far from terminated, he has retired. He raised. He returned home via Clyde-Mallory will stay in Shanghai for the present and re- Line to Galveston, Tex., and thence over the sume his law practice. Southern Pacific. He sailed from New York, This is only an excerpt from a long and October 4. laudatory editorial in the T^orth China Herald of Secretary, July 1st. 1902 lyman a. cousens Harry Oakes, who followed the lure of min- 101 Vaughan St., Portland. ing and made his strike in northern Ontario Philip H. Cobb of Cape Elizabeth has been before the last war, and has been a British sub- appointed general chairman of the membership ject for many years, and whose home is now at Roll Call for 1939 of the Portland Chapter of Nassau in the Bahamas, was made a baronet the American Red Cross. [19] —— —

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""Public-spirited Harvey Dow Gibson, presi- John Leydon of Philadelphia entertained a dent of New York's Manufacturers Trust Co. group of the Class and wives at his summer has now taken on still another public-service home at Kesar Lake. Those present were the job; Chairman of the N. Y. World's Fair's Neal Aliens, Portland, the Lawrences and Otises, finance committee, he now becomes chairman of Rockland, the Halfords, Norristown, Penn., the the Fair's board of directors. The new position Huppers, New York City, the Pikes, Fryeburg, will be no sinecure—he has full fiscal and execu- Dr. Blinn Russell, Lewiston, and the Winchells, tive powers to pull the Fair out of its threat- Newton, Mass. ened financial tailspin, an undertaking which "Bill" Linnell and Fulton Redman, both of will mean plenty of hard work." (Forbes, Sept. Portland, have announced that they will be 15, I939-) candidates for Governor of Maine on their respective tickets at the prirnary elections in June Secretary, f. 1903" clement robinson, esq. 1940. Linnell was the speaker at Freshman Day 85 Exchange St., Portland. at the opening of the College year on Sept. 19. Lieut.-Col. Harold B. Pratt, U.S.M.C., retired, Secretary, CHARLES E. FILES is now living at Washington Hill, Chocorua, N. 1908 H. Since his retirement and until this summer Cornish. he had been living in San Diego, Cal. William R. Crowley was appointed to the Thomas H. Riley, Jr., of the Brunswick Sav- Board of Education of New York City by Mayor ings Institution was elected vice-president of the LaGuardia on August 21. Mr. Crowley lives in Savings Bank Association of Maine at its annual Brooklyn, is a member of the Brooklyn Library meeting in September. He is also Maine repre- Board, and has for many years been general sentative of the Savings Division of the Amer- manager of the educational division of Longmans ican Bankers Association. Green &? Co. publishers. He is a veteran foot- Secretary Robinson presided over a panel dis- ball official. cussion of "Religion and Future America" which Secretary, made uo the evening program on October 19 1909 ernest h. pottle at the biennial convention of the Universalist 34 Appleton PI., Glen Ridge, N. J. Church of the United States and Canada in Representative Brewster will be candidate for Washington, D. C. the Senate next year to succeed Hon. Frederick Hale (H.'3i) who is retiring from that office. Bernard Archibald has chosen as ]904— been Mayor Burton of Cleveland was a speaker at president of the Aroostook County As- the Summer Institute of Social Progress at Wel- sociation of Religious Liberals. lesley College. Lucius D. Lumbard is in the sales department Secretary, prof. Stanley p. chase 1905 of the International Silverware Co. at San Maine St., Brunswick. 254 Francisco, Cal. The Chases were on sabbatical last year; the Carl E. Stone is with the Santa Cruz Packing first semester they were in Washington where Co., 5601 E. 14th St., Oakland, Cal. Stanley was doing some research in the Con- Fuller P. Studley is Maine's only sea foods gressional Library. The last half they were in broker. He has been in the business since 1909, Sicily, Italy, and Greece, and arrived home late with several Portland firms; and now plans to in July. sell all kinds of sea foods, and to ship from Prof. Herbert S. Hill of the University of Portland, Boston, New Bedford, New York, and Maine was appointed state supervisor of teach- several other Atlantic Coast points. ers of vocational education, by the U. S. Farm Securities Board, in August. 1910 Secretary, e. curtis Matthews Col. Harold E. Marr, U.S.A., who has been Piscataqua Savings Bank, stationed in the Philippines for some time has Portsmouth, N. H. returned. His present service is H. 0- First Ralph S. Crowell writes the Alumnus to Corps Area, Boston, Army Base, Boston, Mass. change his address from Bangor to R.F.D. 2, Col. Wallace C. Philoon, U.S.A., is now in Landrum, South Carolina. Looks like a Boreal command of the 14th Infantry at Fort Wm. D. migration. We do also. Davis, Canal Zone. Robert Hale of Portland is a candidate for Donald C. is vice president of White second representative in Congress from the First Dis- the Maine Bankers Association. trict of Maine. Incidentally, Bob was one of the three speakers at the banquet at the Mansion Secretary, felix a. 1907 burton House, Poland Spring, which closed the 106th 234 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. Convention of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity, held Arthur Hatch is District Educational Adviser, in Brunswick, June 21, 22, and 23rd. Film Library Service; Headquarters Third Corps A good old member of Bowdoin '10 came in Area, U.S.A., Baltimore, Maryland. for an unexpected amount of publicity when [20] The B o w d o i n Alumnus']

Harry B. MacLaughlin, an insurance broker in a monograph by Dr. Greenleaf on Pharmacy as a New York City, and resident of Pleasantville, Career, as one of a series of guidance leaflets. was selected or elected the Typical Father, on Herbert E. Locke of Augusta has been ap- Father's Day at the World's Fair, June 19. In- pointed by the Governor as one of two com- cidentally he was nominated for that unique dis- missioners for Maine, for the promotion of uni- tinction by his mother-in-law. He was presented formity of legislation in the United States. is associated the with a new Ford, and a number of other worth- Seward J. Marsh now with while gifts. He has what most right thinking investment house of Perrin, West &? Winslow, people would consider an ideal outfit; a wife, Inc., in Portland. four fine children; two boys and two girls, rang- 1913—Secretary, luther g. whittier ing from 19 to 8. Heil Pleasantville! It takes Farmington. people like "Jack" Frost and Harry Mac- real The Class Secretary writes as follows: Laughlin to cultivate such a Garden of Eden. Samuel Belknap, son of Bully Belknap, is a Another long cheer for the Alpha Delts. member of Bowdoin 1943. Three other sons of Miss Louise Matthews, daughter of Secretary members of the class are enrolled : Franklin and Mrs. Matthews, was married at their sum- Comery, George O. Cummings, Jr., and Ben- Castle, N. H., to Lieut. Stan- mer home in New jamin Lunt. ley Lowell Smith, U.S.A. Ed Burleigh is now running a restaurant in William B. Nulty was named a member of the Hallo well. Maine Boxing Commission by Governor Bar- Frank I. Cowan of Portland is on the Execu- rows, August 7. tive Committee of the Maine Association of Mu- Herbert E. Warren of Fairlee, Vt., was mar- tual. Fire Insurance Underwriters. Credit is given ried in New York July 27, to Mrs. Genevieve him for the recent establishment of a legal aid Eaton. Mr. Warren is a student of languages bureau by the Cumberland Bar Association. This and formerly taught at Lawrenceville School, Board, also including Arthur D. Welch 'ia, will N. J. provide legal assistance to worthy people who ]£]] —Secretary, ernest g. fifield lack funds with which to engage lawyers. 30 E. 42nd St., New York City. Leon A. Dodge was elected President of the Maine Bankers Association at its annual meeting Merton G. L. Bailey was elected president of at Poland Spring in June. The retiring President the Maine Unitarian Association at its annual was Col. Sherman N. Shumway '17. meeting in Belfast, October 4th. Dr. Paul H. Douglas of the University of Dr. Harold V. Bickmore of Portland was Chicago has been elected to the Board of Al- elected president of the Northeastern Shrine dermen in Chicago and has started a Council, including 10 temples in the New Eng- movement to clean up the political rottenness in the city. land States and St. John, N. B., at the annual Herbert F. Gates' address is Delivery, meeting of the Executive Board in Boston. General Thomaston, Georgia. John L. Brummett, formerly of Detroit, is Clifton O. Page is teaching in with the Curtis Publishing Co. in Philadelphia, now the De- troit University School, Cook Road, Grosse and is living at Merion Manor, Merion, Penn. Pointe, Michigan. Franz, U. Burkett, Esq., of Portland, former Lawrence Smith was recently re-elected Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives, W. chairman of the Pejepscot District Committee, has announced his candidacy for Governor, next Boy Scouts of America. year, on the Republican ticket. — The present address of Wilbur C. Caldwell is 1914 Secretary, Alfred e. gray 301 E. 38th St., Apt. 15, New York City. Milton Academy, Milton, Mass. Robert Lawlis has reappointed judge M. been Hebron M. Adams, formerly of Westbrook, is of the Municipal Court at Houlton. connected with the Federal Unemployment Com- mission in the Saco-Biddeford area, and is liv- ]912—Secretary, william a. maccormick ing in Sanford. Y.M.C.A., 316 Huntington Ave. Boston, Mass. Dr. Henry C. Dixon of Norwich, Conn., has a son, Henry C, Jr., in Fryeburg Academv, where George F. Cressey of Cressey & Allen, Port- his classmate Elroy O. LaCasce is headmaster. land, was elected one of the nine directors of President Robert D. Leigh of Bennington Col- the National Association of Music Merchants at lege, Vt., now on sabbatical leave, has been ap its recent annual meeting in New York City. pointed acting dean of Bard College, affiliated The Federal Office of Education has published with Columbia University, to fill the vacancy a 200-page bulletin on the "Economic Status caused by the recent death of Dr. Harold Mestre. of College Alumni," by Walter J. Greenleaf. He will remain at Bard for the first half year. The volume is based on a research project car- Clifford L. Russell is now with the American ried on during 1916-37 in 31 universities lo- Water Works in New York City. He resides at cated in 20 states. The Office has also published Briarchff Manor, N. Y. [21] —

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19] 5 Secretary, Clifford t. Perkins 1917—Secretary, prof, noel c. little 88 Forest St., Cumberland Mills. 8 College St., Brunswick.

Kimball A. Loring, President of the Machine Major Boniface Campbell, U.S.A., is now in Composition Co., 470 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, the War Department at Washington. is now living at 1 1 Copeland Avenue, Reading, The administration of Governor Dummer Mass. Academy has announced the foundation of a The 69th annual congress of the American scholarship as a memorial to Philip H. Cobb, Prison Association, of which Commissioner of whose service of six years as a member of the Corrections Austin H. MacCormick is president, Academy faculty was cut short by his death a met at the Hotel New Yorker, October 16, con- year ago. tinuing through the 20th. Eight hundred dele- Paul H. Mclntire of Portland was among the gates from the U. S., Canada, and Mexico, in- M.T.A. delegates attending the meeting of the cluded probation and parole officers, wardens, National Teachers Association meeting in San teachers, chaplains, physicians, social workers, Francisco, last July. He has just been elected and vocational instructors. President of the Cumberland County Teachers Max MacKinnon, manager of the Wardell, Association. Detroit, writes on October 2: The annual reunion at Brideton Academy on "At the annual meeting of the Michigan Ho- June 10, marked the 20th year of the Headmas- tel Association at St. Joseph, we had as our ter, H. H. Sampson. speaker at the luncheon, oeptember 29, Frank James Seward is a salesman for the Oxford Sparks 'oo, Editor and Publisher of the Grand Press, 100 South Street, Providence, R. I. Rapids Herald. Mr. Sparks is an outstanding S. Kenneth Skolfield has received his LL.B. Bowdoin man in Michigan, is recognized as an degree, cum laude, at Boston University. able editor, and is also a power for good in —Secretary, harlan l. Harrington Michigan politics. 1918 74 Weston Ave., Braintree, Mass. "The new President of the Association is Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Freeman report the ar- William S. Woodfill '18 of the Grand Hotel, rival of a daughter, Brenda, at the Maine Gen- Mackinac Island. It was a grand reunion for the eral Hospital on October three of us at the luncheon." Max was the re- 24. Major E. T. tiring President this year. Hildreth, U.S.A., has been transferred from Maxwell Field, Montgomery, Ala., ]916—Secretary, dwight sayward to the Office of the Chief of Air Corps, at Wash- 549 Masonic Bldg., Portland. ington, D. C. Arthur H. McQuillan, M.D., of Waterville, Among the jury commissioners for Maine's 16 was one of three men from Maine elected to counties appointed by Chief Justice Dunn to fellowship in the American College of Surgeons serve for a year are George E. Beal, of South at its annual session in Philadelphia on Oc- Portland for Cumberland, and Emery L. Mai- tober 16. led: '23, of Farmington, for Franklin. Robert S. Stetson of Brunswick received his Rev. Robert Campbell delivered the address M.A. from Columbia in June. He is serving as at the 1 20th graduation of the Bangor Theo- organist of the First Parish Church in addition logical Seminary on May 23d. to his work as Supervisor of Music in the Fal- Ora L. Evans of the Piscataquis Observer, mouth Schools. Dover-Foxcroft was elected vice-president of the — Maine Press Association, and Paul K. Niven of 1919 Secretary, donald s. HIGGINS the Brunswic\ Record, to the legal committee, at 14 Exchange Bldg., Bangor. its annual meeting in August. Paul's many Dr. Bateman Edwards, who has been head of friends will be happv to learn that he is back the French Department at Lehigh University in his office again after a long period of illness since 1937, has joined the faculty of Washington this summer. University at St. Louis, Mo. Coy Hagerman is now living at 6 Glen For- Roy A. Foulke, manager of the Specialized est, Clayton, Missouri. Report Control Department of Dun 6? Brad- Earle R. Stratton is developing a 76-acre fruit street, Inc., gave an address on "The Loan- farm in Massachusetts. His home address is ing Function of the Commercial Bank" at the R.F.D. Westford, Mass.; Boston address, Mc- 46th Convention of the New York State Bank- Kensey Wellington &? Co., 75 Federal Street. ers Association, May 25th. President Harry Trust of Bangor Theological Harold D. Hersum is a bridge constructor, at Seminary was one of 18 leaders in this field of present working in or near Farmington. Address work who were honored at the centennial of the 15 Dalton St., Waterville. Boston University School of Theology on Oc- The Secretary "got the works" on September tober 18. President Trust received the degree of 27, when he was one of the 106 prominent Doctor of Divinity. masons from 15 states elevated to the 33rd de- [22] —— ——

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gree in the Scottish Rite at the meeting of the faculty, has recently been named Dean of the Northern Consistory in Boston. school. Rev. Raymond Lang, D.D., Captain in the Stanwood Fish is principal of the Burr Junior Chaplain Reserves, U.S.A., participated in the High School at Hartford, Conn. ceremony of presentation of commissions to the Francis P. Freeman is vice-president of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at Harvard Harvard Club in Maine. University in June. Ceba M. J. Harmon is in the accounting department of the New York World's Fair with 1920 Secretary, Stanley e. Gordon the title of assistant comptroller in charge of ir Park Place, New York City. disbursements. Dr. Leland M. Goodrich, assistant Professor Eben G. Tileston is now at Hotel Canadaigua, of Political Science at Brown University, was Canadaigua, N. Y. elected a trustee of the Maine Central Institute Secretary, richard small, esq. at its Commencement in June. 1923 Orland St., Portland. William H. Montgomery, formerly of Wyom- 57 issing, Pa., is with the Pure Oil Co., and his George H. Quinby, Director of Dramatics at address is 263 Woodlawn Ave., Winnetka, 111. the College, was married on June 28th to Clarice Oliver Moses, 3d, of Lisbon Falls is chairman Guthrie English of Richmond, Va. for Androscoggin County for the Greater Serv- Secretary, prof. c. d. rouillard ice Program of the State of Maine Publicity 1924 Bureau. 32 Astley Ave, Toronto, Canada. Frederick G. Titcomb is teaching Latin at the Richard G. Badger, formerly of Newton, Pentecost-Garrison School, Memphis, Tenn. Mass., is at 301 Witmer Street, Los Angeles, Cal. Harold H. Dunphy is a salesman for the Du- —Secretary, norman w. haines 1921 Pont Co. His address is 60 Bennett Avenue, Ar- 68 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass. lington, N. J. Kenneth Boardman was married on November "Cy" Fernald is an accountant in Wilton and 4 to Miss Vivian Robb of Washington, D. C. has been town auditor for the last four years. They are living at 6639 32nd Place in Washing- For two years he has been an active member of ton. the American Association of Variable Star Ob- servers. J. Maxim Ryder is now advertising manager for the Springfield, Republican, Union, and Archie C. Mason is living at 166 North

K[ews. Address 94 Maple St., Springfield, Mass. Tenth Avenue, Highland Park, N. J. Alexander Standish of Newton Center has Sydney D. Wentworth is selling heating and been doing some notable photography, and his air conditioning service. Address, 57 Clinton studies have been exhibited and reproduced from Avenue, Stratford, Conn. Boston to Florida, as well as in the salon of Secretary, william h. jr. distinguished contemporary photography in the 1925 gulliver, Hall of Light of the Eastman Kodak Co. Build- 1 Federal St., Boston, Mass. ing at the World's Fair. Clayton C. ("K") Adams is associated with Ryonosuke Toyokawa is representing a Jap- Harrison-Hilton Books, Inc., at 410 Madison anese government news agency in Shanghai, Avenue, New York Ctiy. China, and is living at the Broadway Mansions Huber Clark is teaching this year at The Hotel. Collegiate Day School in New York City. Dr. John G. Young, who with his partner, Ray Collett reports that his son, Job Collett, Dr. Berger, conducts the Berger-Young Chil- II, died August 16 when the Collett summer dren's Clinic in Dallas, Texas, writes that he home at Green Lake was destroyed by fire dur- hopes to be back at Bowdoin for his 20th in '41. ing an electrical storm. He has three children, Joan, n, Robert, 9, and Prof, and Mrs. Athern Daggett announce the David, 7. He is professor of Pediatrics in the birth of a daughter, Ellen Phillips, on August Medical Department of Baylor University; Chief 1 2th. of Staff of the Children's Clinic at the Freeman Thomas N. Fasso is seeking re-election to the Memorial, and a member of the Dallas Board of post as City Judge of New Rochelle, N. Y., Health, and the Dallas Council of Social Serv- which he has held for the past four years. ice. He says: "Do not see many Bowdoin men The Class Secretary was married September in these parts; both Bowdoin and Texas are 6 to Miss Catherine Philipoa McGahan of Ar- the losers." lington. Now at home at 21 Damien Road, Wellesley, Mass. Secretary, dr. Carroll s. towle 1922 Horace Hildreth of Portland is one of the University of Hampshire, New chairmen named by the State Publicity Bureau Durham, N. H. of a greater Service Program "to sell Maine to Howard R. Emery, of the Hebron Academy the Nation more effectively." [*3] ——

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11 11 Phillips H. Lord, "Seth Parker, is seeking He had a part in "Beau Geste, recently en- aid from the agricultural officials to start a sheep joyed by many of his friends. ranch at Bartlett's Island, near Mount Desert, The nationally known Scott Paper Co. of where he hopes to maintain a flock of iooo, on Chester, Pa., has recently promoted John Hagar 1 1400 acres of land which he plans to develop. to the position of Chief Consumers Represen- Glenn R. Mclntire and Mrs. Mclntire were tative, reporting to the president. His classmates, delegates to the Universalist General Conven- contemporaries, and friends who knew him as an tion meeting in Washington early in October. undergraduate, and esteemed him for his char- Dr. Joseph Odiorne is teaching Anatomy, acter and personality, certainly knew it was Histology, and Embryologv at Georgetown Uni- coming to him. His home address is 303 Sylvan versity Medical School, Washington, D. C. Avenue, Norwood, Penn. Robert E. Pearv, Jr., is now with the Jones John S. Hopkins, Jr., has been elected presi- & Laughlin Steel Corp., 500 5th Avenue, New dent of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, Al- York City. bany, N. Y. Radcliffe Pike has accepted a position as George S. Jackson has just been made manag- cruise director with the Swedish-American Line. ing editor of the alumni magazine at Washington William E. Sherman, formerly of Fulton, Ky., and Lee University where he is assistant pro- is now living on Livingston Road at Bar Harbor. fessor of English and coach of Debating. He was chosen to represent Bowdoin at the cen- ]925 Secretary, albert abrahamson tennial exercises of the Virginia Military In- Park Royal Hotel, 23 W. 73d St., stitute on November n. New York City. Donald E. Lewis is teaching Mathematics and The Secretary is on leave this vear, and is Instrumental Music in the High School in working for the Jewish Occupational Council in Presque Isle. New York. Rudolph F. Lewsen of Portland was recently

J. Stewart Bigelow and Miss Mary White of married to Miss Catherine B. Sheehan of Man- Lancaster, N. Y., were married in Geneva, N. chester, N. H. They will reside in Yarmouth. Y., June 1. They have been summering in Mr. Lewsen is vice-president of the Portland Maine, but have returned to Lancaster, where Hardware and Plumbing Company. Bigelow is teaching. Don Marshall, M.D., formerly assistant pro- Burton W. Blackwell is with the W. T. Grant fessor of Ophthalmology at the University of Co. Address: 620, Westford Street, Lowell, Mass. Michigan, has joined the medical firm of Drs. Mrs. Warren K. Emerson of Boston and Mar- E. P. Wilbur and R. B. Fast, with offices at blehead Neck announces the engagement of her 1 4 10 American National Bank Bldg., Kalamazoo, daughter, Rosamond to Milton Ben Davis, a Mich. His practice will be limited to diseases member of the French faculty at The Choate of the eye. School, Wallingford, Conn. Rev. Erville B. Maynard has resigned the William C. Holway has been appointed super- rectorship of Grace Church, Manchester, N. H., vising assistant in the Portland office of the Mu- and is now rector of St. Peter's Church, Al- tual Life Insurance Company of New York. bany, N. Y. Ralph Pennock is in the credit department of Bob Olmstead of the Taft School, Water- the Indian Head National Bank, Nashua, N. H. town, Conn., announces the arrival of Robert The engagement is announced of Alan Fraser Taft, II, on June 7; and expects to enter him Small to Miss Helen Elizabeth Swartz, a Wel- in the Class of 1958. He is described as a "reg- lesley graduate. ular fullback, and weighs 9 lb. 2 oz." Theodore Smith, Associate Professor of Eng- The marriage of Ben Proctor and Miss Mary lish and History at M.I.T., was among the Lou Kamerer, whose engagement was noted in speakers at the annual fall conference of the the June Alumnus, took' place in the Zion Maine State Federation of Women's Clubs. He Evangelical Lutheran Church in Plymouth, is living at 125 Juniper Road, Belmont, Mass. Mass., on June 16. Both have been living in The engagement of Miss Janice Carita Farm- Portland for some years. Ben is Manager of the er to Emlyn S. Vose is announced. Portland branch of the Commercial Credit Cor- Loren C. White, 39 Phillips Road, Nahant, poration. is manager of the Truck Department of Gen- Miss Carolyn Davis and John Ramage Rob- eral Motors, 105 N. Beacon Street, Boston. ertson were married in Needham, Mass., Sep- tember 9th. They will make their home at Peek- 1927 Secretary, GEORGE o. cutter skill Military Academy, N. Y., where John is a 647 Vinewood, Birmingham, Mich. member of the faculty. Albert Dekker (nee Ecke) missed a good role Don Webber, Auburn attorney, has accepted because of a haircut. He had a close head shave the Lewiston-Auburn chairmanship for the for his current role of Dr. Cyclops, so missed Greater Service Program of the Maine Publicity 11 out on a part in "Diamonds Are Dangerous. Bureau. C^4] — —

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1928—Secretary, william d. Alexander Miss Olive E. H. Patterson of Montreal and Belmont Hill School, Belmont, Mass. Dr. Kenneth W. Sewall of Boston were married in the West United Church of Montreal on Loring O. Chandler is a Scout Executive with September 2nd. Dr. and Mrs. Sewall will reside the Monadnock Council of the Boy Scouts of in Boston. America, 54 Main Street, Gardner, Mass. Miss Patricia K. Baker and Philip L. Smith of Richard S. Chapman, Assistant County At- Concord, Mass., were married in Concord on torney, is teaching Evidence, and Frank I. June 17th. Cowan '13^ Property, in the Peabody Law Herman Urban attended the summer session at School at Portland. Bates College. Preston Harvey is teaching Latin and History White is an instructor in German at Yale in the Huntington School, Boston. Jim University. His address is Elm Street, New Dr. Chester F. Hogan, who has been located 933 Haven, Conn. in Portland for the past year, has accepted a position in Bluefield, West Virginia, as head 1930 Secretary, henry p. chapman, jr. specialist (nose and throat) in a department of 209 Fidelity Bldg., Portland. three group clinics. Pliny Allen is at Tulane University doing George H. Jenkins, who spent the summer graduate work in Pathology. His address is 623 tutoring at the Thorn Mountain Summer School, South Carrollton Avenue, New Orleans, La. Jackson, N. H., is now teaching English at the Lincoln S. Gifford is working for the Amer- Bulkeley School, New London, Conn. He is liv- ican Zinc Products Co. His residence is 205 ing in the home of Howard Pierce '18, also a W. Walnut Street, Greencastle, Ind. teacher in the same school. Miss Dorothy Hay and Raymond Jensen were Dr. Dick Laney of Skowhegan was elected married on October 8 at the home of her fa- president of the Somerset County Medical Asso- ther at Cragmore, Cape Elizabeth. Creighton ciation, August 24, at its annual meeting. Dr. Gatchell '32 was best man, and, incidentally, Maurice Philbnck '18, now located in Skowhe- the bride is a sister of Willis Hay '36. Mr. and gan, was admitted as a member. Mrs. Jensen will reside at 57 Longfellow Street, Howard Mostrom reports that the last letter Portland. from Eliot Weil was written from the American Asa S. Knowles of Northeastern University is Embassy in Chungking, Szechuan, China, whith- a director of the Boston chapter of the National er it migrated to keep in close touch with the Association of Cost Accountants. harassed Chinese Government. Bill Locke is Instructor in French at Harvard. Powell Stewart has received his Ph.D. from This past summer he was teaching at the French the University of Texas, and is still teaching Summer School at Middlebury, where he was as- there. sistant in Phonetics and Dramatics. Bill and his Rayner Whipple is working for the Educa- wife went to France after the close of the Mid- tional Research Bureau (affiliated with the dlebury season and were among the group of Graduate School of Education, Harvard), com- Americans who delayed their return until after paring two systems of shorthand in 20 schools. the first rush for home. 1929 Secretary, LeBREC MICOLEAU T. Maxwell Marshall was made a director of General Motors Corp., New York City. the First Industrial Bank of Maine (Morris Arthur S. Beatty lives at 92 Pitt Street, Port- Plan), on August 10. Marshall has been with the for six land. Since July 1, he has been in the Claims bank the past years, and was elected Department of the Liberty Mutual Insurance Treasurer in 1938. Co. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert L. Prescott of Bangor, Robert S. Clark is with the stock brokerage announce the birth of a son. Joel VanBuren, on firm of Elmer H. Bright & Co., 84 State Street, August 4th. Boston, Mass. William H. Prigmore, formerly of Baldwins- John Cooper is now with the Boston Evening ville, Mass., is now junior executive of the East- Transcript, and is broadcasting for them over ern States Farmers Exchange, Springfield, Mass. station WBZ. Address: 56 Garden Street. Rev. Carter S. Gillis is rector of St. Paul's Harold and Betty Ridlon announce the brith Church, Woodbury, Conn. of a daughter, Mary Elizabeth, on August 28, Donald and Mrs. Macurda of Boston an- in Worcester, Mass. nounce the birth of their second child, a son, Hayden Bryant, August 24, at Phillips House. Henry G. Small is a salesman for the Good- "Brec" Micoleau has at last joined the an- year Tire and Rubber Co., and is living at the cient and honorable order of Benedicts, and was Mt. Belknap Hotel, Laconia, N. H. married, even as this notice is being typed, Gerhard Whittier of 308 N. Walnut Street, to (Oct. 14) Miss Emily Moody of Maplewood, East Orange, N. J., who is on the German fac- N. J., in All Souls Church, New York City. ulty of Newark Academy, reports the birth of a C>5] [The B o w d o i n Alumnus

son, Peter, July 12th; and of a German Gram- Harvard this year. His special subject is Euro- mar, still in the incubator stage. pean History. Francis have an- Mr. and Mrs. George S. Willard report the Mr. and Mrs. A. Wingate nounced the arrival of a son, Anthony A., on birth on July 6 of "a son, Stephen Pitts—who April 2. Francis is at the Clarkson College may enter Bowdoin some fall in future if so now of Technology at Pottsdam, N. Y. inclined. We have also a daughter, Nancy, aged years." 4 1932—Secretary, GEORGE T. sewall E. 79th St., New York City. ]93] —Secretary, albert e. jenkins 70 51 Ingleside Ave., Winthrop, Mass. The engagement of Miss Virginia Ruth Owen of Waban, Mass., to Philip C. Ahern of New- Sherwood Aldrich will be a candidate for the ton Center has recently been announced. Legislature from Topsham, Woolwich, West Anthony G. L. Brackett is teaching English Bath, Arrowsic and Phippsburg at the approach- at Cape Elisabeth High School and living at ing primaries. He is now County Attorney of Windham. Sagadahoc County. D. Wendell Brown of Portland, who has been Mr. and Mrs. Artine Artinian announce the teaching in Porto Rico for the last two years, birth of a daughter, Margaret Woodbridge, on was enrolled in a course in Education at Colum- September 5th. bia this past summer. Wilbur Baravalle is now Business Manager of Richard N. Cobb of Frances Street, Port- the Universal Credit Corp., 2 Foster Street, land, is teaching Mathematics in the Deering Worcester, Mass. High School this year. Miss Dorothy M. Clarke of New York and Bill Dunbar is teaching Mathematics, English, Sydney R. Foster of Manchester, Mass., were History, and French in the Junior School of the Providence Country Day School; also coaching married in St. John's Chapel, Little Silver, N. J., athletics. August 26. It is reported that "Syd" and Mrs. some form of These young teachers Foster will make their home in Boston. Frank certainly earn their salaries! Fred Eames is teaching English and Latin at Foster, Jr., '28, was best man for his brother. School, Dr. Bob Ecke is on the staff of St. John's Plant Junior High West Hartford, Conn. Hospital in Brooklyn, N. Y. Miss Helen Katherine Murrie and Norman Page Easton were married 1st, in St. James The Secretary—so I am informed, but not by July Church, Long Branch, N. him—has been president of the John Hancock J. Chorus during the first three years of its exist- The Charles Emersons have a daughter, Julia, ence. He was perhaps the prime factor, (sex born August 13th. "Good Joss" that, it's my prevented his being the primadonna) in its or- birthday also. ganisation. It has 40 men and about 100 women Delos Evens is living at the Lake Shore Coun- try Club, Bratenahl. Ohio. in it. Al is now on the Industrial General Staff of the Boston Home Office. Melcher Fobes is studying for his Ph.D. in George L. Lam, A.M., formerly at Cornell, is Mathematics at the University of Chicago. now in the Sterling Library, Yale University, Miss Justina Harding and John H. Jenkins, New Haven, Conn. Jr., were married on June 17th at Sandy Point, '31 Parker Loring sends an attractive and ingen- Stockton Springs. Dwight Andrews was best ious folder to announce the fact that he has man, and Dick Goldsmith '34, an usher. moved his business to the second floor of the Gordon Kirkpatrick can now be reached in Lewiston Journal Building in Lewiston. care of the W. T. Grant Co., at Columbia, S. C. Miss Mary Catherine Stephen and William S. Miss Anna Locke and Stephen A. Lavender Piper, Jr., formerly of Worcester, but now were married in the Church of the New Jerusa- teaching Science at the University School, lem, Cambridge, October 7. Steve is in bus- Shaker Heights, Cleveland, Ohio, were married iness in Kansas City, Mo. John Creighton '32 at the bride's home in Waban, Mass., July 1st. was best man and the ushers included Ed Estle, They will live in Cleveland. Fred Purdy, Don Sloan and Fred Drake '34. "Gus" Render, who was Teaching Fellow in Miss Edith Louise Fienning and Vernor Mor- History here last year, is giving a course in His- ris were married in Evanston, 111., July 29th. tory 1 at the Cambridge School of Liberal Arts. Ned Packard is Principal of Potter Academy Hawthorne Smyth is teaching at the Eagle- at Sebago. He is teaching English, Latin and brook School, Deerfield, Mass. French; coaching Public Speaking, Dramatics, Julian and Mrs. Smyth announce the birth of and Basketball : Practically the whole works. a son, Douglas Clifford, on May 14, in New York City. James E. Scholefield has moved from Long- meadow, Mass., and lives at 226 Main George H. Souther is living at 442 W. Taylor now Street, Syracuse, N. Y. Street, Cromwell, Conn. Wallace M. True received his Ph.D. from Charles F. Shevlin, M.D., has opened an office [a6] The B o w d o i n Alumnus']

for the general practice of medicine and sur- Anti-trust Division of the Department of Jus- gery at 157 Sanford Avenue, Flushing, N. Y. tice, Washington, D. C. Miss Rosamond Young and Donald D. Sloan Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy Crane, Jr., announce were married in the First Church, Belmont, the arrival of Kennedy, III, on October 22. Mass., July 1st. The wedding of Woodbury K. Dana, 2d, son Charles Stanwood is head of the English De- of Philip Dana '96, and Miss Dorothy Dewey partment at Choate. Payson took place in State Street Church, Port- Harry Thistlewaite, with the Baltimore office land, October 21. Among the ushers were Philip of Dun & Bradstreet, is now living at 102 Shady Dana, Jr., '32, Robert Carson '34, William P. Nook Court, Catonsville, Maryland. Sawyer '36, Robert C. Porter '37, and Howard Fred Watt studied Mathematics at Cornell H. Dana '36. University this past summer. Fred E. Drake, Jr., is in the insurance business with his father's firm, Tames B. Drake and —Secretary, john b. Merrill 1933 Sons at Bath. St., Penn. 311 2nd Towanda, John Fay is in aviation and is located at 3007 Warren Barker is now with Bond and Good- Dunram Road, Dunbalk, Md. win, Investment Securities, 120 Exchange Street, Jim Freeman has begun his work for his Ph.D. Portland. at Boston University. The engagement of Miss Margery Tylee of Donald F. Johnson is teaching Mathematics West Newton and Walter R. Brandt of New- and Chemistry in the Williamsport Dickinson ton Center has recently been announced. Seminary and Junior College, Williamsport, Ben Clogston, Jr., is with Montgomery Ward, Penn. address 654 Madison Ave., Meadville, Penn. Bob Kingsbury is teaching Physics and coach- George P. Desjardins, M.D., has just coming Hockey and Tennis at Ithaca High School, menced a two year's service as resident physician Ithaca, N. Y. in the Hahnemann Hospital in Philadelphia, Carl Olson is teaching English and coaching Penn. Track at Belmont, Mass., High School. Cornelius Doherty is teaching French, Spanish, After five years of fine service as submaster Latin, and coaching athletics at the Milford and coach at Washington Academy, East Ma- Preparatory School, Milford, Conn. chias, Gardner Pope has been elected Principal. "Fran" Donaldson writes from the Marion His contemporaries and friends who knew him Water Co., Marion, Ohio. "Peter Bigelow Don- in College recognise that his election puts the aldson arrived June 10. Another future Bowdoin right man in the right place. man. Regards to you all." The Donaldsons vis- In July Chandler Redman was appointed ited Brunswick friends early in October. Chief, Procedures Section, Wage and Hour Di- Luther W. Easton is a salesman; now living vision, Department of Labor. He entered the at 508 Williams Street, Waycrosse, Georgia. Federal Civil Service in December '34. His ad- Richard French has a daughter, born July dress is 725 17th Street, N.W., Washington, 18th. D. C. The address of Will M. Kline, Jr., is now Neal Skillings is teaching French and coaching 3316 East Fall Creek Blvd., Indianapolis, Ind. Baseball at Peekskill Military Academy, Peck- Al Madeira of the Emerson School, Exeter, skill, N. Y. N. H., writes that he and his sister had a de- Edward Carl Uehlein and Miss Elisabeth lightful trip in Europe this last summer, and Thatcher were married at Lookout Mountain, landed in New York August 21st: None too Tenn., June 7th. soon for comfort. The engagement of Miss Barbara L. Stover of The address of Edward H. Morse of the Bangor and Henry P. Van deBogart, Jr., has re- Owens-Illinois Glass Co., is now Statler Build- cently been announced. ing, Boston, Mass. Miss Evelyn May Sawyer, daughter of Ralph E. Sawyer '07 of Wilton was married to Robert —Secretary, rev. Gordon e. gillett 2934 B. Wait of Reading, Mass., September 14. Bob 1 1 S. Bryant St., Old Town. has done post-graduate study at Harvard and is Francis Choate Bailey and Donna Mary Gul- Teaching Fellow in Biology at Bowdoin. The brandson were married June 27, in Hartford, Waits are living at 25 Federal Street, Brunswick. Conn. — Miss Virginia Stratton and F. Donald Bates 1935 Secretary, PAUL E. SULLIVAN were married in the Church of the Epiphany, 495 Turner St., Auburn.

Winchester, Mass., June 3. They are at home at The engagement is announced of Miss Eliza- 14 Park Avenue, Winchester, Mass. beth Berry of Winchester, Mass., and Dr. Raymond Brown is on the staff of Station Charles F. Begg of West Roxbury. WGAN in Portland. Miss Dorothy Leland Addis and William K. Charles H. Burdell is a special attorney in the Bigelow, both of Maplewood, N. J., were mar- [27] —

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ried in that city on October 7. At home: Wy- Peter R. Weiss of Portland has been ap- oming Village, Millburn, N. J. pointed an assistant in Physics at Harvard for Chester W. Brown received his M.D. from the the current academic year. University of Rochester, N. Y., at its commence- The engagement is announced of Miss Mary ment in June. (Polly) Smith, Wellesley '38, and F. Burton The engagement is announced of Dr. Miriam Whitman, Jr. Doble of Bath and George F. Cary, 2nd, son Secretary, Hubert s. shaw of Charles A. Cary 'io, and grandson of George ]93() St. Albans School, V ashington, D. C. F. Cary '88. Miss Doble graduated from Tufts Medical School in June and is serving an 18 Miss Virginia C. Woods of Newton Center 1 months interneship at Christ Hospital, Jersey and Robert P. Ashley, Jr., were married in the City. George is a naval architect with the New- Boston College Chapel, on June 24th. Thurman port News Shipyard and Drydock Co. in Vir- Philoon '36 was best man, and Bob Cotton '38, ginia. Norman Dupee, Jr., and Bob Peakes were ushers.

Lawrence Dana was admitted to the Massa- Henry H. Chase has a son, Henry H., Jr., in chusetts Bar in September. He graduated from Chase, Alabama. It sounds like a cross-country the Law School of the University of Virginia race. in June and is associated with his father's firm, Phil Christie, LL.B., Harvard '39, is practic- Bingham, Dana, and Gould, at 1 Federal Street, ing law in Bangor; Address: 48 6th Street. Boston. Bill Drake, who is with the Pennsylvania Salt Leon Dickson, who received his M.D. at Manufacturing Co. in Philadelphia is living at Howard University, has announced his marriage Haverford Villa, Montgomery Avenue, Ardmore, to a classmate there, Miss Carolyn Lucas. Dr. Penn. His son, born Tuly 8th, is named James and Mrs. Dickson are both serving as internes Brainerd, after his great-grandfather. at the Freedman's Hospital in Washington. Josiah H. Drummond of Portland had the Robert C. Dougherty, supervisor of Claims second highest rating at the recent Maine Bar with the Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., is liv- examinations. ing at 447 Park Avenue, East Orange, N. J. John M. Estabrook is now with the Pencil Gilman Ellis received his Ed.M. from the Department of the Joseph Dixon Crucible Co.

Boston University School of Education in June. of Jersey City, N. J. He is teaching Chemistry and Medical Labor- The '36 men who passed the Maine Bar exams atory Technique at Westbrook Junior College. besides Joe Drummond, were Phil Christie, Al- Henry H. Franklin is Deputy Probation Offi- bert Putnam, Frank Southard, Winthrop Walk- cer of the U. S. District Court for Maine. er, Edwin Walker, and Homer Waterhouse. The engagement is announced of Miss Olive The wedding casualties among the young Wilke of Pittsburgh, Penn., to Richardson V. alumni this summer were many; among them of Kemper Newtonville, Mass. was T. R. P. Gibb, Jr., and Miss Jean Knox Al Kent is teaching Economics and Science Davis. The bride, whose parents live in Cleve- and coaching Football, Baseball, and Basketball land Heights, Ohio, with a summer home in at the Bangor High School. Rockport, Mass., is a graduate of Swarthmore. Oram R. Lawry, Jr., graduated from the Uni- Mr. Gibb received his degrees from Bowdoin versity of Pennsylvania Medical School in June, and M.I.T., where he is now an instructor. They and is interning on medical service in the Gal- will reside at 1200 Massachusetts Avenue, Cam- langer Municipal Hospital, Washington, D. C. bridge. Miss Dorothea Martin and David D. Merrill Alfred B. Gordon is Budget Manager for of Exeter, N. H., were married in Exeter on Firestone; is living at the Y.M.C.A., Brockton, September 9th. One brother, H. Emery Merrill Mass. '27, and two classmates, Granton Dowse, Jr., and The Prudential Insurance Co. of America has Lionel Horsman, were ushers. Mr. and Mrs. awarded a certificate of proficiency to Warren A. Merrill are now at home in Exeter. Hagar, who has completed the Prudential Train- Steve Merrill of Brunswick has an article in ing Plan. the July number of American Photography, "An Bob Hagy, Jr., is a reporter on the Pittsburgh 1 '' Amateur Defends Pictorialism. He has been Post Gazette. He is living at 600 Lamar Street, awarded the photographic contract for the 1941 Wilkinsburg, Penn. Bugle. Cuyler Hawkes is teaching at Governor Dum- Phil Thorne graduated from the Harvard Law mer Academy, South Byfield, Mass. is living School in June and at 474 Woodford Will Hay, Jr., is with the Shell Oil Co. in Street, Portland. Portland, and living at home. Douglass Walker graduated from the Yale Miss Olive Cousens of Waltham and Henry 1 Medical School in June, and began a 14 months Wyman Holmes, Jr., of Cambridge, were mar- interneship at the New Haven Hospital, where ried in Christ Church, Waltham, on June 25. he will specialise in pediatrics. William Frost and Donald Usher '35 of Cam- [>8] —

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bridge, officiated as best man and, very appro- A big Bowdoin wedding was consummated in priately, usher. Bangor September 9th, when Miss Nancy Lea, Paul A. Jones has received his M.D. degree, daughter of Charles P. ("Button") Conners '03, cum laude, at Boston University. and the Class Secretary, son of Mayor Harold The engagement of Miss Barbara Earle of H. Burton '09, were married. It was an all-round Providence, R. I., to John W. LeSourd was re- Bowdoin affair; Bill's youngest brother Bob "43, cently announced. was best man, and Joe Drummond, Winthrop Bob Peakes is teaching English and French at Walker and Phil Christie '36, were ushers. Bill Wassookeag School, Dexter. is in his last year at the Harvard Law School; Lawrence L. Pelletier, A.M., Harvard '39, is and after a wedding trip to Quebec the Burtons instructor in History and Government at the will be at home at Holden Green, Cambridge. University of Maine. Warren Butters is with Remington-Rand's Thurman Philoon is teaching Latin at War- Portland office, and is living at 21 Fessenden ren, Mass. Street. The highest honor that can come to a West Horace C. Buxton is a research assistant at Point cadet was received by John F. Presnell, the Harvard Business School, Soldiers Field, Jr., of Portland when he was promoted to first Boston, and is living at 31s Morgan Hall. captain of the United States Corps of Cadets. Gaylord E. Conrad and Abigail, daughter of He also received the Academy's star as dis- Dr. and Mrs. Martin W. Roan, both of Bis- tinguished cadet in scholarship again this year. marck, North Dakota, were married there on Al Putnam is practicing law in Houlton. September 2nd. Bill Sawyer has returned to his earlier work Euan Davis of the Shanghai Branch of the with the Boston real estate firm of Street 5? Chase National Bank, writes Dean Nixon that Company. things happen so fast out there that it makes The Class Secretary was married to Miss one's head swim; and tells of schemes and ma- Eleanor Jeannette French in the First Congre- chinations of the Japanese invaders that are both gational Church, Reading, Mass., on June 23rd. interesting and maddening. Except for Mr. Fes- John Shute is associated with the law firm of senden '96, he and "Ken" Rounds '28 are the Wright, Gordon, Zachrv and Parlin in New sole Bowdoin men in that region. York City. He is living at 192 Columbia The engagement of Miss Dorothy L. Edge- Heights, Brooklyn, N. Y. comb of Topsham to Ralph C. Gould of Gor- Joe Skinner is back on this side, has been ham, N. H., was announced in June. writing for the Boston Evening Transcript, and Crowell C. (Buzz) Hall is with the Aetna is now in the import-export business. His ad- Insurance Co., in Richmond, Va. He is living at dress is 12 Heckle Street, Wellesley Hills, Mass. 5003 Brook Road. Bill Soule received his Ed.M. at Bates this Miss Hariett Woodsam of riangor and John summer, and is teaching English at Foxcroft E. Hall of Lexington, Mass., were married Oc- Academy, Dover-Foxcroft. tober 7. They will make their home in Hodge, Roderick Tondreau, entering his last year in Louisiana. medical school, is doing hospital work at the Ethel Louise Kaltenbach of Phoenixville, Joseph Price Hospital, 241 N. 18th Street, Phil- Penn., and Neal Eltinge Howard were married adelphia, Penn. in that city September 6. Luther Weare is Desk Editor of Cue. Sargent Jealous, who graduated from the Rav West is doing news bureau work in Philadelphia College of Osteopathy June 2nd, is Washington, D. C. His address is 3230 N. serving his interneshin in the Maine Osteopathic Street, N.W. Hospital in Portland. Ara Karakashian was married on June 24 to Secretary, william s. burton 1937 Miss Gloria E. Hill of Cape Elizabeth, a grad- 206 F. Holden Green, Cambridge, Mass. uate nurse with training at the Maine General Dick Barksdale is serving as head of the Eng- Hospital. lish Department at Tougaloo College in Missis- Percy Knauth has been acting as foreign cor- sippi. respondent in Berlin for a number of Amer- Dick Beck of Bala-Cynwyd, Penn., has just ican papers and has had several signed articles 1 completed a three months primary flying course in recent numbers of the New York Times. at the Institute of Aeronautics, Tuscaloosa, Ala., Bill Lackey is studying law at Northeastern and has reported to Randolph Field, Texas, University, Boston. where he will have basic instruction in flying, Dick May is teaching at Derby Academy, before being sent to Kelly Field for additional Hingham, Mass. advanced training. All of these stations are U.S. The engagement of Miss Esther Balies Knox Army Training Schools. of Portland to William R. Owen, formerly of Tom Bradford is studying for a commission Augusta, now with the LaTouraine Coffee Co. in the Quartermaster Reserve Corps, U.S.A. in Boston, has recently been announced. [29] —

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Alden Philbrook was married to Miss Molly We are informed of the engagement of Miss B. Morrill of Brunswick, September 2. He is Muriel P. O'Brion of South Portland to John C. with the Round Top Dairy Farms at Rockland. Emery of Dorchester, Mass. a Bob Porter, son of Gould Porter '91, had Ernest Files is studying at Tufts Medical Europe, very interesting and exciting trip in School and living at 335 Lake Avenue, Newton from the latter part of June to September 3d. Highlands, Mass. He made both crossings on the R.Jsl.L.Statendam, Art Fischer writes from Boston that his home which was fortunate; and obtained a clear idea address at 503 Carleton Road, Westfield, N. J., of the attitude of English, Germans, Dutch, is the only safe one to use as he is "nomadic." Swiss and Italians toward the declaration of war. Dave Fitts is living at the University Club in Bob is teaching History in Germantown Acad- Harrisburg, Penn. emy, Philadelphia. The engagement of Miss Virginia D. Cobb of Rev. Daniel Fox was advanced to the priest- Alfred to Wendell C. Sawyer of Saco is an- hood by Bishop Brewster .of Maine in the Bow- nounced. No date has been set for the wedding. doin College Chapel, on June 29, on the feast of "Bucky" is working for the Diamond Match Co. St. Peter. The Rev. Robert Sweetser '29, of at North Conway, N. H. Auburn, and Rev. Gordon Gillett '34 of Old Town, also took part in the service. Secretary, Andrew h. cox 1938 Bob Godfrey is a credit investigator for the Prescott St., Cambridge, Mass. 94 Household Finance Corporation in Boston. Donald Allen has received his A.M. from Roy Gunter got his A.M. in Physics from Columbia University in Government and Public Boston University in June. He is going back Law. and hopes to get his doctor's degree in two years. Carl Barron has his own furniture business in His address is 37 Lowell Street, Woburn, Mass. Cambridge, Mass., at 2 Putnam Square, corner Jack Harrison is in the textile business at Mt. Auburn Street. His engagement to Miss Lewiston. Norma Roma of Boston and New York has been The engagement of Frank Lord of Kenne- announced. bunk to Miss Constance Campbell of Sanford Stuart Brewer writes that he is a graduate was announced in July. assistant in Chemistry at N.Y.U., University Bob Morss and his wife report the birth of Heights, and that Jack Padbury is there with a daughter, Almeda Winchell Morss, on July him on the same job. They had enjoyed a Bow- 16 at Berkhamsted, England. Bob is still in Lon- doin party with Boxwell, Tinker, and Yeaton don with Ginn and Company but Mrs. Mors? '39 the night before. Brewer's home address is and the baby are spending the winter in Bruns- now 185 Lowell Street, Reading, Mass. wick. Barbara Frances Bristol and Hovey M. Burgess Bill Muncy has completed his three-year were married in the First Congregational Church course at the Massachusetts School of Optome- at Vergennes, Vt., on June 19th. Hovey is try and is about to take his state examinations. teaching and studying for his Ph.D. at Columbia. In his spare time he has gone rather heavily They are living at 530 Riverside Drive, New into the increasingly popular hobby field of York City. model railroading and has a railroad system un- Davis Clark has begun his second year at the der construction, the scale being 3.5mm. to the B.U. Law School, standing fifth in his class, and foot. was elected to the Law Review. Basil Nicholson has been with the DuPont Bob Craven is on the staff of the Fresnal Exhibit at the World's Fair. Incidentally, the Ranch School, Tucson, Arizona. He had original- Nicholsons have a new daughter. ly planned to teach in France, but his ship was Eddie Owen is now with the Travelers In- turned back at the outbreak of the war and his surance Company in Hartford, Conn., and appointment cancelled. should be addressed at yi<; Asylum Avenue. Ben Cushing has been appointed Circulation Brownie Parker is studying for his Master's Assistant in the Purdue University Library at degree at M.I.T. Lafayette, Indiana. Harwood Ryan is a casualty insurance under- George T. Davidson is teaching History, Eng- writer; presumably in New York City, as he is lish and Algebra, coaching Baseball, and assist- living at 7 Overlook Avenue, West Orange, N. J. ing with Football and Basketball at Conway, Malcolm Shannon has been promoted into the N. H., High School. Bookkeeping Department of the United Fruit Audley Dickson is practicing as an optome- Company in New York. trist in New York City. Geoffrey Stanwood is employed by the Wal- Miss Margaret C. Bennett of Brookline and tham Watch Company. He tells us that he Norman E. Dupee, Jr., of Waban were married works long hours but that he has Saturdays off. September 23, at North Falmouth, Mass. Robert Curtis W. Symonds and Miss Virginia Lam- H. Cotton '37 was best man. son Smith of Beach Bluff, Mass., were married on [30} —

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October 28th at Lynn, Mass. Homer Cilley '35 George Dunbar is doing graduate work in and Jack Harrison were in the usher group. History at Harvard on an Amherst Fellowship. Allyn Wadleigh is teaching English and His- Reed Elh's is a graduate assistant in the De- tory in Buxton High School. partment of Physics at the University of Maine Ralph H. Winn was married to Miss Mary and is living with Gordon Gillett '34 in Old Louise Jenkins of Waterville on June 18th. Town. Charles L. Young is with Johnson 5? Higgins, Dick Fernald is proof reading on the Spring- 40 Wall Street, New York City. His home ad- field Republican, and living at the Y.M.C.A., dress, 96 Bar Beach Road, Port Washington, Springfield, Mass. N. Y. The engagement of Miss Barbara C. Mulheron Rev. Samuel Young, pastor of the Congrega- of West Newton, and Herbert F. Fisher, Jr., of tional Church in Phillies for the nast four years, Hartford, Conn., has recently been announced. is now pastor of the Dorchester Village Church, Fisher spent his freshman year here and trans- Boston, Mass. ferred to Amherst, where he graduated with honors this year. Secretary, john h. rich 1939 Bob Fleischner is with the Liberty Mutual In- Kennebec Journal, Augusta. surance Company in Boston. Bill Gardner is with the Luther Abbott is working in the Charles Cush- Kennedy Co., Cam- bridge, Mass. man Company shoe factory at Auburn. Address, 73 Dana Street. Charlie Gibbs is with the Bill Allen is with the Grace Line Company New England Mutual Insurance Company in Worcester. and is believed to be in South America at present. Will Girard is living in Brunswick and selling insurance for the Ingie Arnold is at the Yale School of Forestry Connecticut Mutual In- and spent the summer in a special forestry surance Company. camp. Milton Goldberg is studying Sociology at Co- lumbia Graduate School. David Bamford is at 76 Grant Street, Gardner, Ernest is Mass., and is working at the Florence Stove Goodspeed studying at Harvard Law plant. School. Phil Bean is studying at Teachers College Johnny Greeley is doing research work for Columbia University. the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Com- pany in Boston. Dan Berger is reported as studying at the University of Kansas. Bud Greene is with the Grace Line Company in York. Bill Bledsoe is in the Graduate School at New Harvard. George Griffin is in the Dental School at Harvard. Ben Blodgett is in the Medical School at McGill Universtiy in Montreal. The wedding of Miss Mary Newell and East- Guild, Ernest Bratt is working with F. W. Wool- ham Jr., took place at the Central Con- gregational in worth Company and is now in the store at Church Bath on August 19th. Keene, N. H. The bride's sister, Mrs. Paul Tiemer (Paul '28) was Bill Broe is with the Firestone Tire and Rub- matron of honor; Miss Jane Donnell, daugh- ber Company in Portland. ter of C. J. Donnell 'os, of Kalamazoo, Mich., Bill Brown is writing music notes for the was a bridesmaid. Harry P. Hood, Jr., '39, was Portland Sunday Telegram. best man, and "Lenny" Buck '38 was one of the ushers. Lou Bruemmer is in the General Electric Training School at Schenectady, N. Y. Bob Hamblen is with the Liberty Mutual In- surance Phil Campbell is doing graduate work in Company in Boston. Engh'sh at Duke University. Dan Hanley is studying medicine at Columbia. Johnny Cartland spent the summer at Boy George Hill is doing graduate work in Mathe- matics at Scout Camp and is now at Columbia Medical the University of Michigan. School. Harry Hood is with Lever Brothers in Cam- bridge, Arthur Chapman is at Harvard Law School. Mass. Ralph Howard is teaching at Ricker Classical Edward Fuller Chase and Miss Barbara Halli- Institute this year; History and Mathematics, day Stone were married in All Saints Church, assistant coach to the Football Team, and has Belmont, Mass., on June 24th. They are living at full charge of the kitchen Gibson Terrace, Cambridge, Mass. and dining room department: some assignment! Nels Corey taught at Wassookeag School in We have been told that Tom Howard is at Dexter this summer and is now teaching Arith- the Wharton School in Philadelphia. metic and Algebra, and coaching Football, Base- Mel Hutchinson is studying Chemistry at the ball, and Basketball, at Pomfret School, Conn. University of Southern California. Hank Dolan is back at his old vacation job Bill Ittmann is, we understand, enrolled at the at the Portland Post Office. Harvard Business School. [31] —^

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Bennie Karsokas is at the Naval Flying School Rolf Stevens is working at the National Shaw- at Pensacola, Fla. mut Bank in Boston. Mark Kelley is a student at the Massachu- Jim Titcomb is doing secretarial and research setts School of Arts, 656 Huntington Avenue, work for Ronald Bridges '30. Boston. We are told that Phil Tukey is in army avia- Bill Knowlton is spending the first semester tion at Randolph Field in Texas. at Columbia Teachers College. Fred Waldron is at the Yale Medical School. John Konecki is at Boston University Medical The June marriage is renorted of George L. School. Ware, Jr., of Brookline and Miss Agatha Pink- Ernest W. Loane, Jr., is undergoing training hardt, a graduate of Radcliffe. at the Alabama Institute of Aeronautics at Tus- Don Watt is reported to be studying airplane caloosa. design in California. Herbert Lord is at Harvard Law School. Eugene Weeks is teaching English, Latin and Robert Douglas Martin has entered Yale Prize Speaking at the high school in Standish. Divinity School this fall. He was graduated from H. S. "Bud" White, Jr., is Swimming Instruct- Illinois College, Jacksonville, 111., in June, and or at the Y.M.C.A. in Auburn, and will coach has been doing home missionary work in the Swimming at Lewiston and Edward Little High mountain communities in eastern Tennessee. Schools. Myron Mclntire is running a successful line We understand that Dune Whitehill is at the of fox traps in Waterford. Harvard Dental School. Fred McKenney is with the Walter Baker Frank Woodruff is believed to be studying Chocolate Division of General Foods, Inc. medicine at the University of Vermont. Ross McLean has entered the medical school Peter F. Wulfing, 3d, of St. Louis, Mo., and at Johns Hopkins and is living at 618 North Miss Lynn Theodora Manganiello of Waterbury, Washington Street, Baltimore, Md. Conn., were married in the Houghton Memorial Oakley Melendy is teaching Chemistry, and Chapel, Wellesley College, from which the coaching Football, Swimming, and Track at bride had just graduated, on the evening of

Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. June 2 1 st. Among the ushers were Harrv Leach Paul Messier is at Cornell Medical School in ^8, Phil Tukey '39, Arthur Chapman '39, and New York City. Bob Bass, Harold Dyment, and Paul Wheeler Dinty Moore is associated with the Arthur '40. Wulfing is in the Harvard Business School Kudner, Inc., (advertisers) in Radio City, New and he and Mrs. Wulfing are living at 41 Wen- York. He is living at 310 East 75th Street. dall Street, Cambridge. Bob Mullen has a scholarship at the Harvard George H. Yeaton is with Dun and Brad- Business School. street, 290 Broadway, New York City. Tan Nichols is with the American Mutual Li- ability Insurance Company in Boston. John Padbury is doing graduate work in Chemistry at New York University. MEDICAL SCHOOL Toe Pierce is at Harvard Law School. Nahum Pillsbury is in the Medical School at Rochester, N. Y. 1890~Dr - Herbert B. Perry, formerly of Vir- ginia City, is Lloyd Poland is in La Lima, Honduras, with now practicing in Love- the United Fruit Company. lock, Nevada. Gordon Potter is living at 310 East 75th r 1895— - B. Lake Noyes was chairman of a Street, New York. He has a position in a law convention which was called to form a office and is studying law at evening school. new political party in Maine, and which met at Johnny Rich is with the Gannett Publishing Thomaston September n. The convention Company in Augusta. elected delegates to the National Third Party Tim Riley is taking a special insurance course convention to be held in November, and will go at Hartford, Conn. on the official ballot as the United People's Party. Red Rowson is at the Yale Medical School. Blinn Russell is doing graduate work at M.I.T. thur Ma • Ar O. Davis, M.D., U.S.A. 1 906 J Edgar Sewall is in the Medical School at Ret'd, is living at 86 Churchill Avenue, Tufts. Palo Alto, Cal. Charles Skillin is studying medicine at Boston University. 191]—Lieut. Francis H. Webster, M.D., Ed Soule is studying at Yale Medical School. U.S.N., recently at the Naval Hospital, Ted Stern is in the graduate school of Arts Newport, R. I., is now stationed at the Marine and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Recruiting Station in San Francisco, Cal.

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Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine

January - 1940

Ripley Lyman Dana, LL.D.

&ROM a far distant land and across the mighty had fallen and they were all dis- centuries comes a poignant lament which tressed in heart. finds us at our deepest depths in a like sor- Ripley Lyman Dana was born in Port- row: land, Maine, August 27, 1880, and spent his youth there. He attended the public "How are the mighty fallen in the midst schools and was prepared by them for his of battle! Jonathan, thou wast slain in O entrance to Bowdoin and Was an outstand- thine high places. I am distressed for thee, ing member of the distinguished Class of my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast 1 90 1. He was a good student, with an ea- thou been unto me: thy love was won- ger, quick and retentive mind. While his derful, passing the love of women. How studies had the first place in his thought, are the mighty fallen and the weapons he also deeply interested in 11 was other mat- of war perished. This was the lament of ters of importance. He was an excellent one friend for another, of David for speaker, steady, intense, convincing and Jonathan. This was the lament, uttered moving in high gear. He was chosen presi- or unuttered, but deeply felt when the dent of his fraternity, D.K.E., and of his sad news came that Ripley Dana had class in the junior year. He was by his char- passed away, fallen not by weapons of acter, scholarly standing, and friendly at- war, but from a dread disease. The news titude very popular both with his own class stunned us, gave our hearts a shock, and also with the whole College. He was made us all feel how great was our loss the best tennis player of that day in Col- in his passing. lege and a member of the tennis team. He In the beautiful Gothic Church where possessed also unusual business ability and he was wont and loved to worship, the last a practical turn of mind. And he would say offices of faith and affection were perform- on occasion he had the great good fortune ed by his beloved rector, Dr. E. T. Sullivan. to have for a roommate and bosom friend Those who came to sorrow with those who a student who is now the President of the sorrow, to show their respect and do him College. When he recalled his student days honor, as in life, so in death, were the gov- in Bowdoin there was a light on his face ernor and ex-governor of Massachusetts, that shone from within his heart. He loved Charles Francis Adams, President of the Bowdoin with his whole soul. No wonder Community Federation of Boston, distin- his son, Lawrence, came in due time to guished members of the Bar, civic officers, Bowdoin. President Sills and many Bowdoin men and From Bowdoin he went to the Harvard friends and neighbors and fellow members Law School, where his college course and of the parish. They knew that one of the intellectual interests, and practical abilities [33] [The B o w d o i n Alumnus

stood him in good stead, and was grad- country, his community and its institutions, uated in 1904. and the general public. When, therefore, The world was now before him. The our country joined the allies in the first schools had done much for him. It was now World War, he heard its call, volunteered to be seen what he could do for himself his service and became a major of infantry and with himself. Those who knew him for a year and a half. He was a citizen for whom there are values worth fighting for, and rights which require defending. He was, however, a citizen who gladly served the causes and institutions of peace. He was the treasurer and trustee of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, a trustee of the Newton Hospital, the Newton Savings Bank, and a director of the Norfolk Coun- ty Trust Company, and was a member of several clubs. To all these he gave himself without stint. There was one cause to which he devoted all his time, strength, and ability. He sought release from his legal duties and services for a period of more than three months that he might give himself wholly to the service of the community as General Chairman of the first Greater Boston's Community Fund Campaign in 1936. All his powers of mind and heart were requisitioned for the tremendous task he and his fellow workers un- 11 dertook to do. "He created, so the Bulle- tin of The Boston Council of Social Agen- cies declared, "a great volunteer organiza- best never doubted and cherished great ex- tion and led them with distinguished suc- pectations for him and the years justified cess to a result of greatest value to our char- their confidence and fulfilled their expec- itable organizations. The leadership he gave tations. At the hour of his death he was a to that campaign and the part he has taken partner and the moving spirit in that high in the work of the Community Federation standing firm of Bingham, Dana and Gould. of Boston were great and lasting contri- 11 He gave himself to the study and practice butions to the welfare of Greater Boston. of law with all the arduousness of his na- He became vice-president of the Commu- ture and past experiences and disciplined nity Federation, a member of its Board of mind. He knew his law, and he mastered Directors and its Executive Committee. its intricacies and ramifications. He was a During all the years of his youth and wise counsellor, fully trusted, by the clients manhood, he was a man to whom religion who sought his services in their legal, finan- was the greatest reality of life. He was a cial and personal problems. devout and a devoted Churchman. When Great as he was as a lawyer and busy he made his home in Newton Centre, he with his legal affairs, he never forgot that had the great good fortune to meet and be- he was a citizen and owed duties to his come a parishioner of Dr. Edward T. Sul- [34] The B o w d o i n Alumnus']

per- livan, who ministered fully and richly to Sills wrote: "He was the most fearless his spiritual life, as he has done to thous- son I ever knew with both physical and mor- 11 ands of others in the nearly fifty years he al courage. Charles Francis Adams de- has served as the rector of the Episcopal clared: "In the death of Ripley Dana our Church. He loved his rector and his rector Greater Boston Community has suffered loved him. There was a spiritual affinity bean irreparable loss, and I have lost one of tween them. He was a faithful communi- my dearest friends .... Mr. Dana's ex- cant and regular attendant at worship. He traordinary quality was his self-effacing de- was chosen a member of the vestry, the votion to service. He was truly a great hu- governing board of the church, which in- manitarian and worked as hard and as ef- volved much time and wisdom for the ful- fectively in a modest position as he did filment of this office, and the rector could when serving in a position of great public 11 — always count upon him and depend upon prominence. Bishop Sherrill wrote: "I him for whatever service was required. A have had the most unbounded admiration layman of this kind in any church is soon for his ability and above all for his char- discovered and his service sought for wid- acter. He was such an unusual combination er church interests, and Mr. Dana became of force and gentleness. He can best be de- 11 a member of the Diocesan Council, which scribed as a Christian gentleman. is responsible for the financial condition of In the mind of the writer, there remain the Diocese. Bishop Sherrill writes me: the indelible marks of the charm of his per- "Busy as he was he was always ready sonality, the cheerfulness of his spirit, the to serve on special committees and we wisdom of his counsel, the loyalty of his were always impressed by his wisdom, friendship, the amazing power "to con- 11 his unusual spirit of understanding and sume his own smoke in direful days, and co-operation. It was apparent how much his unself-consciousness and modesty. the life and welfare of the Church meant When Ripley Dana passed over, like the 11 to him. welcome Bunyan's Valiant- for- truth receiv- He was first, last and always a true and ed "all the trumpets sounded for him on 11 loyal son of Bowdoin. He loved the Col- the other side and on this side, at our lege and the College honored him. It felt commencements, all our alumni will sing

that he could render it valuable service and with a deeper meaning, "Bowdoin Beata, after having been for 10 years a member nurturer of men." of the Board of Overseers, in 1934 he was Daniel Evans '90 unanimous choice of the Board of Trustees and in the short period he served, he won THE COVER

the respect and admiration of his fellow This is the familiar portrait of Governor Trustees and they looked forward with con- James Bowdoin, painted by Robert Feke and

fidence to his service, but his death has dated 1748. It is in the Bowdoin Gallery at frustrated this bright hope. In 1936, in the Walker Art Building. recognition of his public service as chairman of the Community Federation, the Sunday Chapel speakers since Alumni College conferred upon him the honorary Day have included Rev. Robert Putsch of degree of doctor of laws. Lexington, Mass.; President Remsen B. In the minds of those who knew him Ogilby of Trinity College; Rev. George L. well and rejoiced to be numbered among Cadigan of Brunswick; Rev. Sidney Lovett, his friends, the man himself is mirrored in D.D., Chaplain of Yale University; and their appraisal of his character. President Rev. Malcolm Taylor of Boston.

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Changes on an Unfamiliar Theme RICHARD T. EVELETH '40

11 knowledge no one has ever done it. The and I have been cheered by the "boys who range limits the music to tunes in the keys wanted to know when we were going to of C, G, and D major, and even those start the carols. The usual attitude of the tunes must be almost wholly without acci- campus to the chimes is one of complete dentals. The physical condition of the apathy—except on Sunday mornings when chimes also makes it impossible to play the inhabitants of the ends vary this with anything at a tempo much faster than positive hatred for both player and music. Beethoven's Third Symphony, Second The football season also brings forth a Movement. The playing of "Phi Chi" after slight amount of enthusiasm for the chimes; the football team has defeated its current at least the self-centered chimes players at- opponent is the one exception to this gen- tribute the enthusiasm to their spirited ren- 11 eral rule. dition of "Phi Chi. It might seem from this that music on In the main and on the whole, playing necessarily be restricted to the chimes must the chimes is a labor of love so far as the naturally considers inanity, but the author undergraduates are concerned. This is a this too severe a statement. All of the mu- matter of very slight concern to the ring- sic played must be transposed into the above ers. Chimes playing is an ancient and an of the mentioned keys, but the variety mu- honorable art. (cf. Ascham's discourse in the sic bequeathed to the present players and sixteenth century, or for that matter Doro-

1 found mouldering on the floor of the chimes thy Sayers in J^ine Tailors in the twen- is This accounts for room (The room damp. tieth.) The present writer would go into an the mould. Why it is damp I have not the impassioned harrangue about change ring- slightest idea, for the floor is at least twen- ing at this point, if it weren't for the fact ty feet from the ground.) is astounding. that he discovered last year that the art is all I ring- From have been able to make out, impossible at Bowdoin without a man for ers of a sterner day confined themselves ex- each bell. The College chimes are a part of clusively to hymns. Ringers of the post-war Bowdoin; and the author with his colleague, era enlivened Brunswick with gay tunes Mr. Lineham, hopes that all eleven bells will like "There's a Long, Long Trail a- Wind- go on heralding chapel, commencement ex- ing" selections light opera. and from "The ercises, and football victories until all 40,- 11 Bohemian Girl was apparently highly fav- 000,000 combinations are exhausted and the ored. early thirties notable The brought the bells come crashing down about the ears of and remarkable 11 contributions of "Dick Mr. X, class of 2000. McCann '36 whose taste was unmistakably catholic. The campus at present resounds to American, German, English, and French Editor's Note: The College Chimes, folk songs, songs of colleges and fraternities, hung in the South Tower of the Chapel, and (on Sundays) to the better known of were a bequest of William M. Payson of

1 our forbears hymns. Any song is grist to the class of 1874. They were put in place the mill, and suggestions are gratefully re- in 1924. ceived.

Playing the College chimes is fun. The Christmas season has just ended and so has Philip Dana '96, Treasurer of the Col- one of the pleasantest times for the bell lege, has been elected a member of the ringers. Christmas carols sound well on the Executive Committee of the Governing chimes, and both Tom Lineham '40, who Boards to replace the late Ripley L. Dana shares the ringing position with the author, 'oi.

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Football Finale MALCOLM E. MORRELL '24, Director of Athletics

it different for Bowdoin teams to win up Bowdoin's football history. We don't know there. The big enthusiastic crowd and the how much stronger our 1940 opponents will Maine team's fighting spirit are things that be so it is impossible to predict how Bow- everyone has noticed and most have put doin will fare next year in games won and down as the deciding factors, and no doubt lost, but if the football players now in Col- those things have some effect. To some of lege remain eligible and report for football us who sit on the bench, however, there are next September, the team will be stronger two other things that seem far more im- than the one that represented the College portant. In the first place the Maine team this fall.

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Portrait from the Northwest CHARLES T. HOGE, of the Oregon Journal

CJ OR Heaven's sake don't write it," ther confessor. He talks in his broadest A pleaded Dan McDade, six-foot stalwart of Bostonese to the mother of Chauncy de- Bowdoin of 30 years ago, when he was Puyster Millionbucks and in the lingo of asked for some intimate data on himself the waterfront to the tough little mugs of to include in a personality story about an the sawmill area. He knows how to make old grad. "I have been kidding those fel- children play-—and that is no small job lows back there into thinking I amount to sometimes, when home life is hampered by opportunity lim- something—and I don't want them to learn poverty and recreational the truth." ited by ignorance. He knows how to put But Dan McDade was only trying to kid them to work—by making play of it. himself. He has a strange composite char- Most of the children in this big fam-

acter, the man who heads one of the most ily call him "Dan" and he loves it. Some constructive and yet little known aspects timid youngsters, tip-toeing into the head- of modern journalism. His job is to ride quarters office and hesitantly asking how to herd on 60,000 children and young people "join," go out with membership card in who compose that widely-active group hand and shiny pin on breast—prouder, known as the Journal Juniors. The or- more confident and already launched on ganisation was started many years ago as a something which may mean life vocation means of interesting the coming generation or hobby. in the Oregon Journal in Portland. It was For instance, about twice a week the a forward-looking promotional venture, Juniors sponsor a radio program participat- bringing up the subscribers of tomorrow in ed in exclusively by selected youngsters of the idea that The Journal is the greatest talent and ambition. Once a week a class newspaper in the world, getting the chil- in wood carving under competent instruc- at their dren Journal-conscious an age when tion scatters its chips over the floor in head- minds are plastic, giving them things to do quarters and babbles in happy conversation for self- and and opportunities advancement the while. Once a month a "big show" is self-expression. held of a Saturday morning in the vast it confessed, not McDade, must be was municipal auditorium, which is packed with father of the Junior idea, but he stepped 6000 children who are entertained by songs, into the picture in time to build it up from dances, oom-pah tuba solos, whining ac- an organisation of a few hundred until cordion ensembles and dosens of other now, after some 15 years, hardly a young numbers contributed by the cream of their Portland man or woman in the early- 20 fellow Juniors. Each summer is the model bracket has not had some affiliation with the ship contest, the model airplane contest (one organisation and looked back upon the ac- lively lad of this organisation having won tivities of early youth as a part of the Jun- a recent national contest) and in season are ior movement. softball leagues and basketball organisations. McDade's background for this work has in close harmony with the been adequate and varied. He has been Working high-school teacher, football coach, baseball school district, McDade undertakes to map player, range rider. He knows young peo- out and carry through activities which will

ple and loves them. He is psychologist, radio blend with the school curriculum but yet announcer, stage manager, bouncer and fa- not be a part of it.

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McDade has one boast—never has a of new faces to brighten and new person- "graduate" of the Junior organization been alities to vivify. 11 arrested. Not all have made their mark in "Each child is his own probelm, says the world or found permanent places in the Dan with his customary bravado mixed with best citizenry, but almost countless young self-effacement. "Each mind has a different men with Junior training and inspiration slant and it isn't as simple as it sounds to have definitely made good in various fields. help that mind along to its intended chan- 11 nel in life. Dan lives in a state of perpetual worry,

although you wouldn't know it. Has he placed this lad or that girl in the proper grouping for best expression of personality? Is he doing the right thing in exploit- ing one child of exceptional talent and not pushing forward another whose obvious

ability is hampered by diffidence or secret restraint? Yet few of his guesses have gone

far wrong and he likes to run over the list

1 of his "graduates' who have justified his rating and faith in them. The Journal Junior idea long pre-dated 11 the general "Youth Movement of which so

much is said nowadays as a part of the New Deal. But its objects and accomplish- ments, in proportion to the localized character and more limited scope, are almost identical. Bowdoin has produced many men who perhaps have become richer in wealth, many whose names are more widely known in fields of education, politics or science; but in his niche in the Far West Dan Mc- music-masters, Some have become some Dade goes on from day to day helping make lawyers, pushing young some understanding good men and women, building youth into teachers. citizenship and unlocking small minds to One crop of young people grows into receive the opportunities of fuller living maturity, another comes into membership. and wider enjoyment of the life opening An unending procession, a rapid succession around them.

Words from a Young Man Starting a Career ofi'EVENTY-FIVE years ago last June, a gan the study of law. Six months later, on young Bowdoin man, broken in health as December 31, 1864, he wrote in his diary the result of service as First Lieutenant the entry presented below. Evans Searle with the First Maine Cavalry, took up his Pillsbury, of the Class of 1863, attained residence in Stockton, California, and be- distinction in his chosen profession and in [40] The B o w d o i n Alumnus'] his chosen state. He was given his Bow- Shall I die in armour?—if so, let it be bat- doin A.B. in 1878 and made a Doctor of tles for the right. This is the heroic age. Laws in 1905. At his death in 1934 he left Such opportunities are seldom presented. the College a gift of $50,000.00, a portion For him who has ability and ambition there of which has been devoted to the remodel- is no barrier against the most magnificent ling of Massachusetts Hall and to the fur- deeds. Glorious to live in these days, if you nishing of the old dormitories, all buildings are worthy of them. It is like the majestic he knew well in student days. The diary en- times of Greece and Rome, when the world try has reached us through the pages of bowed to their power. Let the lessons of the The Express Messenger of Railway Express past year sink deep into my soul—Let me Agency, Inc., and the California State Bar not forget that God is with the right—Let Journal. me remember to never grow fainthearted while fighting for truth—Let me never So ends the year—one of the most event- swerve from the course of honor and integ- just ful of my life. God knows that I left my rity—Let me be generous, honest and home for the army with as high and pure —Let me remember that by toil alone is feelings and principles as ever actuated a great success obtained—Let me be true to Roman or a Greek. It was my wish and my my country and my fellow creatures—Let will to join the army and sacrifice my life me be governed by my judgment and con- or fight till this rebellion was ended. Provi- science. The New Year is before me. May dence willed otherwise. My lot has been my record be unspotted till another year thrown with the people and State of Cali- still claims a solemn reflection upon the fornia. While here I have tried to do my flight of time and the manner in which it duty to the government as a good citizen. should be spent. God bless my father and I have used my influence to make the Amer- sisters at home. May old age rest lightly ican people what they should be—honest, upon my honored father. May joy and hap- loyal and devoted to the maintenance of the piness light up the way of my sisters. Let Constitution and laws. In California I pro- me forget some portions of the past, and in pose to live. I am twenty-five years old. all which is not pleasant to remember live My fortune is my profession and my fu- only from today. Goodbye, 1864. Let me ture prospect—what another year may keep the good and forget the bad, or let bring forth, no mortal knows. The only me keep the bad to warn me from all of- fenses hereafter. way is try to do the best—after all, the Wonderful changes have only real satisfaction one ever feels comes been wrought in the last year. May the next from within. Popular applause is but a hol- be more uniform, and lead me forward in low echo when one's own conscience does the way of manhood and my profession. not justify the cause for it. I am well out Goodbye, old year, goodbye. You brought upon the stream of life. The world looks me many pains and many sufferings, but upon me as a man—I seem more a child God bless you. Goodbye. than ever to myself. Who can tell when The Curtis String Quartet, assisted by the mystic silver chain of youth is changed Professor Tillotson, played in Memorial for the knotted coil of manhood—who can Hall on Thursday, January 18. tell, who can realize that he has passed the flowery fields of boyhood till long after The first two motion pictures presented when he hears the roar of the quick rush- by the Moulton Union Student-Faculty ing waters of middle life? Shall I reach in Board this year were "Grand Illusion" and 11 honor and safety the quiet river of old age? "Of Human Bondage. [4i] [The B o w d o in Alumnus

FLORENCE CARPENTER BROWN Building. That was a noble battle, nobly 11 won. She never accepted the possibility C HE death of Mrs. Arthur Flint Brown of failure, whatever the odds against her. on December 24th came as a distinct shock We were fortunate who shared in her bat- even to those of us who have been able to tles. see her regularly during the past two years, For she honestly shared. Even that most while she was confined to her apartment. jealously guarded of director's rights, the For, even as an invalid, the bright energy necessity to use his own interpretation, of her extraordinary spirit enlivened the was often influenced by consultations with sick room; a single lightning thrust at pre- Shakespearian scholars and by interviews vain-glory those pallid lips tense or from with actors. And she shared the credit. could evoke the picture of her, striding Asnault '20 writes: "In talking over past across the Art Building Terrace, making performances, there was never any sug- Malvolio or Petruchio live for the student gestion that the actors were puppets and actor. she the one who pulled the strings. If she One of her former actors writes: "She felt a characterization had been well work- was incredible and somewhat inhuman. ed out, she said so. And if one exceeded Really she seemed like a being from anoth- her hopes and expectations, she was never er planet. And the energy that was pack- loath to admit her mistake and give credit 11 ed into that small, compact frame! She was where she felt it was due. truly deserving of that much abused adjec- In a driving personality such humility is 111 tive 'inspirational. Another actor: "The rare. energy, imagination, and spirit which she "And flights of angels sing thee to thy 11 breathed into the College as well as the rest! Masque and Gown made her one of Bow- George H. Quinby '23 11 doin's real benefactors. It is impossible to Note: All the prompt books for plays recall her except as a very vital force, which Mrs. Brown directed at the College whether one knew her over a period of were bequeathed to the Director of Dra- years or during rehearsals for a single play. matics and have been placed in the historic- It would be unfair to her memory, how- al collection of the Masque and Gown. ever, not to emphasize the length of her service and the unfailingly high level of her achievements. From 191 2 to 1927 she di- PHI BETA KAPPA rected twenty-five plays for the Masque The mid-winter initiation and dinner of and Gown; of which twelve were by the Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Maine, will Shakespeare, two by Maugham, two by be held on the evening of Monday, Feb- Dunsany, one by Molnar, three translations ruary 1 2th,—the ceremony in Hubbard from the French, and one from the Ger- Hall at 6.45 and the dinner in the Moulton man. She was constantly opening new in- Union at 7.15. The dinner charge will be tellectual horizons for the students. $1.50 ($1.00 for Classes 1935 to 1939). Crowell '13 writes: "The first Com- Alumni intending to be present are asked mencement Play, The Taming of the to notify in advance Professor Athern P. Shrew, was the result of a long and ener- Daggett, 9 Longfellow Avenue. getic campaign by Mrs. Brown to persuade The speaker will be Harrison M. Davis, the then authorities of the College that the Jr., '30, Headmaster of Derby Academy, on antics of Petruchio and Katherine would the topic "Private Education East and 11 not defile the very great beauty of the Art West. [42] The B o w d o i n Alumnus'] Undergraduate Editorial RICHARD E. TUKEY '40

QAtNDERGRADUATES of the College Certainly publicity of that sort carries have done much within the past two years, with it the sanction of College authorities especially, in cementing the bonds of good- who have lauded the efforts of the students will and friendship between townspeople in supporting these various activities. Aside

and the student body as a whole. These ex- from the sense of satisfaction it gives the pressions of good-will on the part of the un- student body from knowing full well what

dergraduates have come in the form of so- social service it is doing the town and its cial welfare work. inhabitants, it does, at the same time, ex- Starting in December, 1937, a student tend a bond of friendship that has been committee commenced a welfare program strained in years not long gone.

which, it was hoped, would continue dur- The fine record established by Bowdoin ing the ensuing years. It was decided to students in contributing to the local Red

donate baskets to several of Brunswick's Cross roll call each year carries with it an needy families. In that year 35 food bas- additional expression of cooperation with kets were distributed among the needy, the the townspeople. The enrollment of stu- funds for them being contributed by the dents in the Red Cross drive has achieved members of the eleven fraternities and the proportions of a contest of late years. Thorndike Club. In 1937, 541 undergraduates, a total of Again, in November, 1938, the students 86.5 per cent of the student body, con- donated about 50 baskets at Thanksgiving tributed to the Red Cross membership. In time to needy families in continuing their 1938, 92.4 per cent of the students, or a welfare work. At Christmas, 1938, the stu- total of 587 undergraduates rallied to the dents joined forces and sponsored a Christ- cause while in this past year's drive 591 mas party in the gymnasium for 700 chil- students paid the one dollar membership dren from Brunswick schools. The party fee establishing a new record enrollment of was held again this past December with 92.5 per cent of the student body. more than 900 children attending. To the individual student who contrib- Gratitude for the first basket project utes his dollar to the Red Cross or his quar- was voiced by the Brunswic\ Record in an ter to food baskets for the needy or for the editorial on December 9, 1937, which stat- children's Christmas party, these sacrifices, ed, in part: "Another friendly step has if they may be called that, sometimes veer been taken at Bowdoin College which is on being classed as necessary contributions sure to receive warm acclaim from towns- to social welfare. But when the whole range

people . . . This gift on the part of the of welfare work performed by the student Bowdoin undergraduates is particularly body is encompassed, it will be seen that significant when one realizes that most of these contributions have done much to en- them who contribute are permanent resi- noble the character of opinion the College dents of other communities where need of and townspeople must have of the under- Christmas cheer may be as great as it is m graduates. Brunswick. The gift is purely voluntary, It is hoped by the College authorities that which makes it all the more appreciated. this good work will be carried on, for they Again we hail the College as a true friend realize, perhaps more than do the passing of the town, and express the town's grat- students, what good will between College itude for this latest demonstration of its and Town can and does mean in Bruns- 1 ' friendship. wick.

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About Alfred Eisenstaedt ROBERT M. PENNELL, JR. '40

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Editorial Associate of tures, pictures of everything that caught Life Magazine, covered the Bowdoin his eye. An editor persuaded him that they House Party on December 18 and 19. were good for publication; his first sale was Twelve of his pictures appeared in the mag- for twenty dollars. The sum interested him azine of January 8 and more than sixty of more than mildly and he developed into a them were on exhibit at the Walker Art more or less regular contributor to Euro- Building later in the month. Mr. Eisen- pean magazines. staedt came to Bowdoin with the inten- He became acquainted with Leon Daniel, tion of filming a sequence which would then European manager of the Associated show the invasion of a man's college by Press, who convinced him that he could girls against a background of New Eng- make a living as a photographer, which he land winter. The accompanying photo- proceeded to do with conspicuous success. graph, taken by Mr. Pennell, who is presi- First came an assignment to cover the dent of the Bowdoin Camera Club, shows Nobel Prize ceremonies in Sweden, pinch- him as he worked on the group which ap- hitting for a sick comrade. The assign- peared on the cover of Life.—Editor. ment was well covered. Daniel sent him all over Europe on assignments for A.P. One reason for his success was the interest that most readers of the Alumnus the Co he in the job; photography his ex- 11 had was term "documentary film probably means istence, the world and everything in it his little; so also with the name of one of very subject. Daniel asked him, on his return chief exponents, Alfred Eisenstaedt. But its from Paris, "What did you do there to more from both, in- we are fated hear nights?" for modern picture magazines like evitably, "It was no problem," was the reply, "I Life have made the documentary style of simply exposed longer . . . like Eisenstaedt picture famous, and men His pictures are more than mere super- famous. have made Life snapshots. He had a distinctive style; in his Born in Dirschau, West Prussia, he was mind was the sequence idea, a series of pic- conscripted into the German army at sev- tures instead of a couple of pictures here enteen, was promptly mowed down with and there, a dynamic record of events. The shrapnel wounds in both legs. It took him style caught on and was increasingly in de- two years to get back on his feet, but it mand by newspapers for their rotogravure proved that he was right in refusing to supplements, both in Europe and in the allow the amputation of one leg. He got a U. S. Today, he is one of the best known job as a button salesman. miniature camera workers in the world. Until 1927, the chief photographic in- He has grown up with hews photography, fluence in his life was an Eastman Kodak literally and figuratively. He adopted the which he had received on his thirteenth miniature camera because of its fast lens birthday. (It is interesting to note that and its consequent performance under ad- American cameras are almost as well known verse lighting conditions. in Germany as are German cameras in It might be of interest, before we go on, America.) It was a vacation in Czechoslo- to consider some of the technical factors vakia that summer which changed the whole involved in the phenomenal growth of the course of his life. He had taken many pic- miniature camera during recent years. [44] .!

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The first step was the manufacture, on a bulbs at just the right instant so that action commercial scale, of a really fast lens. Op- pictures can be taken. tical and economic considerations combined With fast lenses, faster and finer-grained to make the use of a smaller film advisable, films, and flashbulbs for supplementary for a lens which is one inch in diameter lighting, the whole field of news picture recovering a 35mm. negative is over six times as fast as a lens (of the same diameter) for a 3 inch x 4 inch plate. Hence the 35mm. size film, already the standard movie film, was adopted. The film was cheap and car- tridges were designed to hold 36 exposures instead of the customary six or eight. The second increase in speed came with the perfection of a practical method of making the film sensitive to red. Through increased red sensitivity, tone registration became much more natural and the effective speed of the film was almost doubled with practically no increase m grain. In general, as the film is made more sensitive, the grain becomes more porting has changed, all in this decade. By objectionable. The size of the grain in the comparison, the field was pretty elemental Einsenstaedt staff of the image is the most important restriction on when joined the the size and quality of the finished print. Associated Press in 1929. Control over graininess was achieved by The speed of his Zeiss Ermanox, one of the introduction of the fine grain technique the first cameras to sport a high-speed lens which restricted the clumping of the silver —really the grandfather of the modern min- particles. The perfection of the fast fine iature camera, made indoor shots possible, grain panchromatic films (sensitive to all although painstaking technique in process- colors) removed the most important objec- ing was necessary since these negatives had tion to the miniature camera and put it on to turn out enlargements of a quality com- a basis whereby it could compete with parable to the work produced by a regular cameras of any size. Indeed, recently one of news camera. The Ermanox took pictures these postage-stamp-size negatives was en- on small glass plates, if you please, and it larged to the size of a big outdoor billboard was necessary to reload the camera after 1, A third major development was the flash- each exposure. "Minicams have to be held bulb, supplanting the cumbersome flash- absolutely rigid, for it is an unfortunate light powder which was a nuisance to all fact that any blur will enlarge along with concerned. After a couple of shots using the picture itself; dust has the bothersome powder, even a good sized room would be habit of "blowing up" with the picture, so full of white smoke that more pictures too, and as for processing, well, hotel bath- would be out of the question, even if the rooms never were designed to be used as photographer wasn't (out of the question) darkrooms, anyway; but the tremendous Using the new flashbulbs, the photographer possibilities of the fast lens technique held can carry his own lighting conditions about so many enticements that no amount of with him and take pictures anywhere. trouble was too great. Synchronizers were invented to fire off Eisenstaedt's work even now reflects the [45] [ T h e B o w d o i n Alumnus exacting technique that he was forced to for anything at a moment's notice, he can evolve, although the casualness with which wait for what seems to be hours for the he seems to go about taking picture after scene to take on just the right aspect, snap! picture would tend to belie this. A high- and it's all over with . . . sort of an anti- ly developed sense of planning and climax to the suspense that sometimes builds composition stands him in good stead when up among people watching him work. But he's working under pressure, for he gets it is just this sort of technique which pro- pictures that exist only for a moment where duces his indefinably natural results. He the average photographer would be caught may keep right on taking picture after pic- "flatfooted." He likes to get effects such ture with a seeming disregard for the as the cigarette smoke in a conference room amount of film used; some might conclude and the frosty breath of a winter's day. that he wants to be sure to get at least one The expressions on the faces of his sub- good shot out of the whole bunch, but what jects are really worth studying, for they are he is really after is a dynamic series that his interpretation of the subject himself, will tell its own story. Someone has called not the usual dull, self-conscious stare of an it "reportage"; basically, its thesis is that impatient sitter. Many of his subjects have one picture is worth a thousand words and the right to be impatient, for the list of per- two pictures are better than one. sonalities reads like a Who's Who In To- In 1935, Eisenstaedt came to the United day's Headlines: Mussolini, the Due d'Al- States with his friend, Leon Daniel, and af- ba, Beck, Paul Boncour, Kurt von Schusch- ter a short stretch with advertising concerns nigg, Hitler, Goebbels, Anthony Eden, Sir and Harpers Bazaar, he went to Holly- John Simon. He made a series of pictures wood on assignment for Town and Coun- covering the Ethiopian campaign, and had a try. He hobnobbed with the bright luminar- troop of infantry at his private beck and ies of the screen, enjoying himself immense- call. When we walked into the Moulton ly, snapping miles of film of pretty movie

Union to see if it would be a suitable scene stars. It was fun, evidently, for recollections for intermission pictures, he said that the keep cropping up in the run of his conver- lounge reminded him of Mussolini's office, sation. which he described as tremendous. On his return to the East, he established Freed by carefully cultivated habit from with Daniel PIX Publications, Inc., an or- technical considerations, he can devote him- ganisation of picture handlers. They have self to taking a live picture, one in which pictures of everything from everywhere and the expressions are natural and the atmo- if they don't have it, it won't take them sphere is preserved. long to get it. They have their own high-

Although ranked as one of the world's ly organised technical staff, 'n everything. outstanding documentarians he is not pre- Life calls on them regularly with assign- possessing, and he cultivated this character- ments here, there and anywhere. istic as a camouflage. After they have first Modern history is being recorded, person- made note of him, probably stalking some alities are preserved in all their vitality for picture or other, his victims seem to dis- the future, and the possibilities of photog- miss him from their minds and return to raphy as an historical tool are not being the business at hand, which is, of course, overlooked. So it is no exaggeration to state, exactly what he wants them to do. "Stolen as we did above, that men like Alfred Eis- pictures" they were called until the enstaedt have made Life famous—and the euphemism "candid" was applied. Ready

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A Youn£ Alumnus Makes Himself Heard

Editor's Note: and clear. OS to the west, and farther We reprint below, with great pleasure north, as we came up Broadway the caril- and by permission, from Meyer Berger's column "About New York," in the Kiew lon in Riverside Tower made nocturnal Yor\ Times. We had realized that Alex music, deep, melancholy notes that stirred had unusual musical interests—he spent long the religious instinct. undergraduate hours pumping the old Aeolian Orchestrelle in the editorial cellar Above these sounds, however, our ears —and we suspected, from the wording of were struck by short, triumphal blasts that his Christmas card, that something like this spelled "Beer Barrel Polka," and, later, had happened. His class is 1934. 11 "Nellie Was a Lady. We followed these ^/l/E had word the other day that Mr. sounds. They took us onto the path that Alexander P. Clark, a graduate student turns eastward off Broadway through working for his doctorate in English at Mr. lower campus. The campus was white with Butler's college, had installed in the power the fresh snow and the somber halls of plant at the university a steam calliope at- learning rose upward in soaring dark. tributed to Joshua Stoddard. It seemed odd, A group of undergraduates, a policeman somehow, that a calliope, even one from the and two Negro coal shovellers, all thickly hand of the great Stoddard, should find bundled in Winter garb, stood under a place in a modern hall for higher educa- window just inside the tunnel that leads

tion, but it's true. under University Hall. Their eyes were We found Clark a scholarly young man, fixed on a rather heavy young man. He was a thin, sandy-haired fellow with eager eyes flushed and perspiring. Enveloped in clouds and rapid, urgent speech. He confessed he of steam he sat at the console and wrenched had searched his own mind for some mo- lusty music from the calliope. tive to justify his intense interest in steam A girl undergraduate called in. She 1 v calliopes, but had found the mental trail shrilled "Morton, give us 'O, Johnny beclouded. He had the vague notion that and the flushed young man poured it out in 11 a certain amount of circus blood in the fam- noble volume. "Oh, Johnny echoed and re- echoed over ily might account for it. the grave and melancholy He said he could not be sure of the ex- grounds as he laid into it. The soloist, we act relationship but he had a iuzzy recol- learned, was Morton Weber, a sophomore, lection that some one, up home in Stam- who is assistant manager of the Columbia ford, had told him when he was a child University band. that one of the remote ancestors in the family was Miss Lavinia Warren. Lavinia War- Inside the power plant we stared awhile ren, he explained, was the wife of Phineas in fascination at the tremendous machines Barnum's first General Tom Thumb. Mr. that create heat and current for the uni- Clark modestly told us he does not claim versity. The place is a nightmare of enor- this relationship without qualification. mous dynamos and of wheels high as bridges "I only heard of it," he said, "I really that move at terrific rate, yet with almost couldn't swear to it." utter absence of sound. The deep hall was a meeting place for frightening shadows We heard the calliope, the other night, and withering hot.

blocks before we saw it. This was the night A soiled tarpaulin made a room for of the first snow when the air on Morning- the calliope. To stand in this was to know side Heights was more than passing sharp the feeling that comes when steam gets un-

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Norris, director of buildings and grounds The JJowdoin Alumnus at the university. Member of the American Alumni Council Mr. Clark produced some two-score letters by which he traced his search for the calliope. They were from circus folks and Philip S. Wilder '23, Editor chambers of commerce, mostly, and either Stanley P. Chase '05, Boo\ Editor Charles S. F. Lincoln '91, Class J

Published four times during the college year plied the Ohio River in the Eighties and Sub- by Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. Nineties. Until Mr. Clark got it, the cal- scription price $1.50 a year. Single copies, 40 liope had lain in disuse at the Thomas cents. With Bowdoin Orient $3.50 a year. J. Nichol plant in Grand Rapids. NO. 2 VOL. XIV January, 1940 The calliope has thirty-four whistles, a steel keyboard and a foot pedal control. The in a Turkish bath. Mr. der your skin whistles are solid bronze. From the way Mr. to his undershirt, vanished Weber, stripped Clark emphasised this point we gathered through steam clouds as the and reappeared that bronze whistles are unusual. It was ob- whistles noisily screeched, "My calliope vious, through the talk, that Mr. Clark has the Ocean.' Bonnie Lies Over rather a fine contempt for air-compressed to Mr. Clark. He We were introduced calliopes, which are far more common than jacket and peer- wore a stiff blue dungaree steam calliopes. ed at us through steam beads that had He roared this information above the en- formed on his spectacles. He was on his thusiastic bellowing of the machine as Mr. knees, at the time, industriously but hap- Weber worked on circus marches and pily fussing at a calliope valve. He used a 11 "Auld Lang Syne. Mr. Weber, it seemed, double length Stillson wrench. He said: had power and volume, but no control. "You'll have to excuse me. I'm tuning ,, Mr. Clark halloaed: "Weber uses the Galli-Curci. He calls the calliope Galli- piano touch. You need short, sharp bursts Curci. 11 to get real music out of Galli-Curci. After a time, Mr. Clark got up from the half-inch pool formed on the floor by

escaping steam and talked about Galli- Mr. Clark plays the calliope between 5 Curci. The calliope was shipped to Colum- and 6 o'clock at night, when he has done bia from Grand Rapids, Mich., last No- with his regular studies. Most of the fac- vember. It was installed in the power plant ulty and undergraduates have gone at that by Carl Thomsen, chief engineer. Written hour. Mr. Clark has a weakness for circus permission for this came from Henry Lee marches—Karl King's repertoire—but occa- [48] The B o w d o i n Alumnus']

sionally tries something on the softer and The carillon atop Riverside Church came more sentimental side. through, every now and then, as the caril- for Year's Day. This Mr. Clark arranged to play Galli-Curci loneur practiced New seemed to make Mr. Clark unhappy. He at the final football game on Baker Field wiped away the perspiration beads. this year, but some sobersides on the fac- 11 "Fosdick's chimes gum things up, he ulty froze this project. He pointed out that complained, bitterly. "They break in all the the steam-roller lent to Mr. Clark by the 11 time. We thought it extraordinary that no one had complained of Galli-Curcfs crepuscu- lar screeching, but Mr. Clark said the fac-

ulty had been quite decent about it. The other day, though, NBC sent a man to the university to record a grave and important talk by Professor Harold C. Urey, the chemist who won the Nobel Prize for his work on heavy water. The recording was made about 5.30 P.M. Next day, it seems, the NBC man called Professor Urey back. He sounded per- plexed.

"I can't understand it, Doctor, he apologized. "The talk came out O.K., but there's something fishy. The whole piece has a musical background. 'Beer Barrel

1 1 Polka and Thunder and Blazes got into 11 it, some way. That, Mr. Clark shyly confesses, was Galli-Curci. Callioper Clark '34

Sicilian Asphalt Paving Corporation to Recent gifts to the College include an supply power for the calliope weighed addition of $18,000 to the Frederick W. around six tons and might crack the side- Pickard Fund, which now amounts to about walks on the way to the field. $30,000; and $2,000 for the John Johnston Mr. Morton Weber, at this point, Fund. The Pickard Fund is being built up yielded the console and Mr. Clark sat by Mr. Frederick W. Pickard '94 for a pur- down. He played doleful, haunting blasts pose as yet undisclosed, while the Johnston the hoarse sound of a river tug, the deep- — Fund is the gift of Mr. Albert Johnston of throated roar of a liner's whistle and the Greenwich, Conn., a trustee of Wesleyan beeping sound of a French locomotive to — University. There has also been a generous illustrate Galli-Curcfs versatility. In a addition to the fund established by Hoyt swelter of steam that made the curtained A. Moore '95. room seem like a set for Dante's Inferno, he played from "The Troupers Favorite Band Book" and, by request, "Love's Old The Masque and Gown presented as its 11 11 Sweet Song. He finished in a lather, like a December play "The Twig by Charles H.

hard-driven colt in a $100,000 sweep. Mergendahl, Jr., '41. [49] [The B o w d o i n Alumnus Bunyan At Bowdoin GLENN R. McINTIRE '25

CHE adventures of Paul Bunyan and But this particular ox w;as more useful Babe, his Big Blue Ox, are not mentioned than a horse, and much less expensive to in the published histories of Bowdoin Col- maintain. During the summer months, he lege and therefore are known to few Bow- ate the grass from the campus, thereby doin men. As an undergraduate this writ- keeping the place neatly trimmed at all er had occasion to carry on extended cor- times, and saving the College the expense respondence with the oldest living grad- of scythes and men to swing them. In the uate of that period. From him came the winter, Paul used to give Chapel attend- basis for most of the following anecdotes, ance (being a monitor -for three years) in since augmented from other sources. exchange for hay, which could be bought Particularly in the East, the history (I at reasonable rates from several livery cannot accept the current fad of calling it stables. Some of the less honorable got it legend) of Paul Bunyan is not so well from the barns of townspeople and even known as it deserves to be. Paul was, we faculty members, by various devices. More should know, an extraordinary young man, than one professor noticed that his horse of great physical and mental powers, who had an unusual appetite during Paul's stay lived in this part of the country in the first here. It was a naive period in many ways. half of the last century. There are fashions A serious episode was connected with in history, as in every other field of human the First Parish Church and its steeple. effort, and much valuable material has been One morning when Paul was hurrying for neglected or lost outright. an eight-thirty class the Babe turned the Paul himself has suffered because the corner too quickly. One of his horns hit story of his Big Blue Ox is so spectacular. the steeple and broke it short off at about Babe wlas an unusual beast, both in phy- the present level. Naturally, the members sical size and mental endowment. It is rec- of the Parish were disturbed. The more orded that the distance between his eyes Orthodox regarded it as a sacrilege. The was forty-two and one-half axhandles. This more practical thought of the cost of re- may mean little to a generation which uses pairs. A petition for redress was dispatch- the word "ax" to connote the dismissal of ed to the President and Trustees. a public servant for political cause. A clear- In those good old days there was no er idea, for the modern college student, may Dean and no Bursar. The type of head- be gained from the comparison with the ache now kicked up and down stairs was 11 boasted Jumbo at Medford. Beside the Big then referred to "Executive Government. Blue Ox, Jumbo would look like a lap dog Dividing the responsibility doubtless les- beside a Great Dane. sened the individual pain, but also delayed When Paul came to Bowdoin he brought decision and confused issues. Debate as to his ox along. In that period it was nothing the moral question and the legal liability, if unusual for a student to keep his own horse any, was long and heated. Something ap- and carriage in Brunswick. While the fa- proaching open quarrel resulted. The Par- ther of a rural student occasionally trans- ish became more and more importunate. ported his son's baggage and firewood by The College became more and more evasive. means of the ox team, it was a bit unusual Finally, news spread that the minister for a student to have his ox in urbe. was to preach a sermon on the topic. The [50] The B o w d o i n Alumnus'] church was crowded, with the exception of There have been some attempts to show the north balcony, long reserved for the use that this planting is a representation of the of students. It was entirely vacant. Strange- emblem of one of the Greek letter frater- ly enough, the custom started that day has nities. It takes much less imagination, how- persisted even into our generation and one ever, to see that these trees clearly outline seldom sees more than a handful of stu- the hoof of an ox. dents in the north balcony of the First Par- When Paul was pledged to a fraternity, ish Church. Churches built in town since reports of his Ox spread to the national that time simply do not have north bal- office, and for a time there was an awk- conies. ward delay in getting authority to initiate. The students in the south balcony chose There seemed to be some idea that Babe another method of indicating their displeas- was to be initiated too. Naturally, there ure. All of them went to sleep. The min- was no precedent for such action. ister, nothing daunted, preached on and on A reminder of the day when Paul's Ox and on. At the end of three hours he no- stood outside the door of the building in ticed that some of the townspeople, even which his fraternity rented a hall may be personal friends, were beginning to yawn. seen each fall, when for a few days a goat Sensing defeat, he terminated the service is tethered on the lawn of one of our old- abruptly. Some sociologists profess to see in er fraternities. Whether this custom is a this episode the first example of a sit-down symbolical representation of the Ox, or strike. Many historians regard the whole whether it started in an attempt to ridicule story as apocryphal. Be that as it may, in Paul and the Big Blue Ox we cannot now modern times one seldom witnesses a three- determine, since access to the records of the hour sermon or finds a student sleeping in fraternity has not been given us. the south balcony. Eventually the furor quieted, and the From time to time visitors express sur- matter has not been mentioned in the offi- prise at the uncouth backstop for the diam- cial records of the College or the Parish ond on the Delta. They are always told for more than fifty years. Occasionally that it always has been that way. Few some of the older residents lament the ab- know that this is the remnant of the man- sence of the steeple of which their fathers ger in which Paul used to feed Babe, who told. stood there while Paul was in class. This

1 also for the fact that most of the On Fathers Day, the head of the physics accounts Delta is so hard and barren that even department is wont to give a pretty demonstration of the breaking force of sundry weeds find scanty foothold there. On the other hand, the pines beyond it grow un- levers, etc. Professor Cleaveland, always usually strong. ahead of the times, understood the principle perfectly. Lacking modern gadgets, he Paul's feelings were so badly hurt by all enlisted the aid of Paul and the Big Blue the unkind talk and the threat on the part Ox. The pressure of his hoof was quite of Executive Government to forbid his sufficient for demonstration purposes. One having the Ox in Brunswick at all, that he day Professor Cleaveland happened to use transferred to a rising institution in what a piece of slippery elm. Babe stepped too was then called the West. No detailed rec- heavily, and broke it into fragments. Many ord of his year there is available, but he of these took root and grew into trees was listed among the graduates the follow- which stand to this day just south of the ing year, taking his degree Baccalauraem in path from the '75 gateway to the Chapel. Agricolarum, Magna Summa Cum Laude. [51] [The B o w d o i n Alumnus

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Ernst Christian Helmreich, The Diplo- few conclusions. There are neither character macy of the Bal\an Wars, 1912-1913, Harvard sketches nor psychiatric analyses. Lighter inter- University Press, 1938 (Harvard Historical ludes, such as King Nikita and the bourse or the Studies, XLII). Pp. ix, 523. $5.00. anguished search for dreadnaughts, are described with the same scientific detachment as notes be- Some twenty-seven years ago the managing di- tween powers. The reader may perhaps catch rectors of four young and highly competitive vague hints of the author's adventures in search enterprises succeeded in stifling their thoroughly of his materials. The starkness of the description justified mistrusts of one another long enough to may increase the pessimism of the lay reader embark upon a concerted raid on an old firm that when he considers those events in conjunction had failed to modernise itself. Their agreement with those of today. necessarily included a plan for division of the Glenn W. Gray prospective spoils. Moreover it had been secretly abetted by one of the business titans of the day. Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Captain Abby The raid was successful even beyond expectation, and Captain John: An Around the World Bi- but rivalries the titans prevented execu- among ography, The Macmillan Company, 1939. Pp. tion of the plan for division of the spoils, 'ihis 375. $2.50. produced a second conflict in which one of the spoilers was deprived of a part of both its new This is a book that Bowdoin alumni will like and older acquisitions. Although the titans pro- to read. It is written by a Bowdoin graduate and cured a new division ostensibly restoring normal teacher and dedicated to a Bowdoin graduate, relations among all concerned, yet the increased Brooks Leavitt, '99. It refers to many people and frictions and bitterness engendered by the entire places in and around Brunswick that Bowdoin episode were important in the major crisis that graduates have known or at least have often began in the following year. heard of,—President Joshua Chamberlain, Pro- Of course the ambitious firms concerned were fessor John Sewall, Professor Alpheus Packard, Balkan states, the titans the great powers of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elijah Kellogg, Great 191 2, the profits acres and souls, and the costs Island, Orr's Island, Maquoit, Middle Bays, Bun- measured in taxes and in blood. Consequently ganuc, the Gurnet, Harpswell,—and Brunswick King Nikita, instead of speaking of dividends herself with her 195 shipmasters. It deals with a and consumer service, proclaimed, "'the massacre subject that has touched in one way or another of our brother Christians on the borders of many Bowdoin families,—the building and sail- Montenegro has not stopped and it has touched ing of wooden ships. But more than all else, it is my heart strings. . . . the state of spirit of my a human document. In a masterly fashion it lays people will oblige me to enter into action." There bare the thoughts and emotions, the desires and are reasons for believing that while he was being disappointments, the ambitions and triumphs of a overwhelmed by these noble sentiments he was Maine man and woman, two wholesome, re- also using his inside knowledge to speculate on sourceful, God-fearing Yankees, Abby and John the bourse. The standard technique required that Pennell, who for nearly a score of years, between Christianity, nationality, and Turkish inhuman- 1858 and 1878, sailed the seven seas, trans- ity be the slogans, but patriotic secret societies forming a ship from a mere carrier of freight skilled in assassination prospered exceedingly. into an abiding place—their home with all that Dr. Helmreich has studied and described the home means. To this ship they came soon after technique employed so thoroughly that one is they were married. Here their children were born left with the belief that little more, other per- and bred and here one of their sons died. Here, haps than the exact text of a few documents to as their letters and especially their diaries reveal, which he was denied access, remains to be pub- —-manuscripts to which by happy fortune the lished. He has searched foreign archives and in- author has had access,—they did well the com- terviewed surviving statesmen. The result is the mon tasks of every-day living. Here, too, since standard reference, in the English language at their home was upon the waves, they enjoyed the least, for those interested in that place and many rare pleasures, saw many strange sights, time. Moreover it must be used by those who had many exciting and wonderful experiences, would understand the background of the first and ran into difficulties and dangers without world war of our century. The reputation of the number. The other day in New York I saw "To- familiar red covers of the Harvard Historical bacco Road." It was beautifully played, and de- Studies will be only higher among scholars by picts, I am told, the real life of a fairly large this work. group of people. I am sorry if it does. I should As one concerned with what happened rather hate to think there are many such sordid, unre- than with any moral values Dr. Helmreich has sourceful, ambitionless people in our country. But rigidly refrained from judgments and drawn very this book arouses different emotions. It makes one

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proud that Abby and John Pennell were Maine ceal the fact that he is essentially a poet. It in- sea-faring folk, natural products of our State, sists upon showing itself in the diction, the fig- indigenous to our soil. ures of speech, the colorful phrasing, the rhythm Though often the author has let Abby and and cadence of the sentences, and especially in John tell their own story, the book is more than a the romantic imagination that gives a meaning- shapeless junk of life. The facts have been in- ful significance to almost every act or circum- terpreted in language that fits and have been giv- stance. As with Abby and John he travels the en form by one who with sensitive feeling and wide world over, he sees its many wonderful quick intelligence senses an heroic deed or a sights,—great cities, strange peoples, vast oceans, dramatic situation. Whenever I read one of Bob —and hears its rhythmic sounds through the Coffin's books, I cannot forget, even if I would, eyes and ears of a poet. In their sheer simplicity that the author was one of the highest ranking the pages of the diaries and the letters are elo- men that ever graduated from Bowdoin College. quent, but it is the poet's interpretation that German, Greek, Latin, Art, History, Hygiene, gives them an added meaning and makes them Physical Training, English, Philosophy,—A's in speak to us unforgettably of the dignity and all of them, except—Would you believe it?— heroism, the beauty and mystery of human liv- solitary B in a one-hour semester course in Pub- ing, whether upon the land or upon the sea. lic Speaking,-—English 5 it was then. (I sincerely In its vivid description of the ship-building hope that I did him no injustice. "Justice," savs fever that heated the blood and quickened the George Eliot, "is like the Kingdom of Heaven. pulse of New England in the middle eighteen It is not without us as a fact; it is within us as hundreds, in the faithful picturing of the every- a great yearning. " I am sure that the yearning day life of a Brunswick family on shipboard sail- was there.) And grades like those he won every ing to many lands, in the dramatic telling of Bowdoin man knows mean brains—the kind that their interesting experiences and heroic adven- are, as Lowell says, "as handy as a pocket in a tures, in fine weather and foul, in calm water or 1 shirt, '' whether you are building a ship, or amid mountainous waves, in the doldrums or in creating a poem, or writing a biography. For Bob the hurricane, and especially in its philosophic they also meant perhaps the Longfellow Fellow- and poetic interpretation of what such voyaging ship, the Rhodes Scholarship, and the author- in this human lire may mean, Captain Abby and ship of some twenty volumes or more. Captain John will rate high among books pro- But though its author is a scholar, this book, duced in this country in the year of 1939. like all the others, never lacks the Maine tang, Wilmot B. Mitchell that distinct but not unpleasant flavor, the homely simile, the pine-tree state vernacular, the words and phrases and idioms that "belong." Perhaps Marguerite McIntire, Free and Clear, Far- the author would have difficulty in dropping it rar and Rinehart, 1939. Pp. 311. $2.50. even if he wished, bred as it was in the bone. Writing of individuals as rugged as the wind- It was forty years ago and more, when I was swept hillsides they till, Marguerite McIntire a young Instructor in Rhetoric, much interested weaves a quietly pleasing pattern of New Eng- in the study of words and their ways, that a small land farm life in her novel, Free and Clear. group of us, the younger members of the Faculty, 11 Her chief character, Matt Chadbourne, owns —-"The Kindergarten Club the greybeards call- a hilltop Maine farm his father left him, without ed us—were having our annual dinner at the taint of mortgage. But times have changed since Gurnet, and three of us wandered down to the the older generations of Chadbournes. There's shore. There we fell in with one of the natives been a depression, and Matt's son Lee wishes to and for a half-hour or so listened attentively as leave the land for a career in aviation, and he told us yarns of the farm and the sea. It may daughter Sally, on the point of being graduated sound like fiction manufactured for the purpose from college, will hear of nothing but going to of this review, but it is only plain fact that as medical school. Hard work and good judgment we came away I remarked to my club-mates: have enabled Matt to maintain his family com- "Isn't that rich? I do wish we had a stenograph- fortably through good times and bad, but now er to take that down word for word." The lan- the problem of financing the higher education of guage was racy and rare, phrases and sentences, the youngsters seems well nigh impossible unless similes and metaphors, not out of books but out he borrows money on the farm. of the soil and the sea —out of life. I have no In her opening chapters the author takes us doubt that in the same vernacular he told some to a delightful family Christmas party, at which of the same stories and many others to his curly- a score of Chadbournes and in-laws make their haired boy who was then barely out of the annual pilgrimage to the old homestead to gorge cradle. And now that boy in phrasing that themselves on Sarah's "vittles" and pick up smacks not only of books of fam- but the same soil ily gossip where they dropped it a year before. and the same sea is telling his stories to readers During this reunion the reader gets that are numbered by the thousands. his first ink- ling of ; how alone Matt Chadbourne is in h s And in that telling, no matter how prose-like love of the land—alone, that is, except for his he may try to make his book, he can never con- town-bred nephew, Bud, who manages to outwit [53] ——

(The B o w d o i n Alumnus his socially minded mother and stay on at the Mary Ellen Chase, A Goodly Fellowship, farm for a vacation—doing chores, getting out The Macmillan Company, 1939. Pp. 305. $2.50. logs, and helping the hired man with a multitude Fellowship is fine book for a mem- of homely farm tasks. Matt's own son, Lee, is A Goodly a ber of that company to read while he is on vaca- fed up with farm life and he and his sister spend of pe- the bulk of their Christmas holiday with friends tion and recovering from the vicissitudes a and idealism in a nearby town. Even Sarah, their mother, can't riod of teaching. The enthusiasm profession of quite hide her yearning to live in the village that Miss Chase displays for the teaching will do much to give him back faith in though she wouldn't let Matt know it for the might world. his performance as a teacher. The cynic remark that the enthusiasm and idealism are too The farm is Matt's life, on which no task seems too arduous. He spends half the night in much in evidence, and that nothing of the dark- sub-sero weather out in the barn awaiting the er side of teaching, nothing of the ever-present of dealing with backward and unwilling arrival of a calf, then goes into the woods the next problem morning to get out some logs, without com- and incapable students is given. But the author does not intend this volume to be a text book in plaint or dissatisfaction—it's all part of the job teaching (indeed, she has some very he loves. But he can't understand Lee's lack of methods strong ideas on the subject of education courses enthusiasm for this sort of life. The boy leaves that will a poor teacher's soul good), him as bewildered as a duck whose offspring re- do many to anything except remem- fuse to go into the water. Despite their different nor does she wish do in ca- ideologies, however, the Chadbourne family are ber the happy and humorous moments her congenial and loyal, their love for each other far reer. in it con- outweighing their individual viewpoints. In fact the humor the book makes Throughout the long winter and spring Matt stantly refreshing. Miss Chase sees the humor not only of the personalities with she has sees one slight chance to balance the educational whom in contact, also of certain situations in budget of his children without putting his become but she herself. description of her loved farm in hock to the village bank. He can which found The actions when she faced her first classes in a little get money from the lumber mill for his logs if he country schoolhouse in South Brooksville, Maine, can get them out of the woods. But in this, as and her experience on the drawbridge in Chicago farmers often are, Matt is a victim of the weath- when she found herself rising to heights she had er. First there's too much snow, then it thaws; never of, are only two examples of more snow followed by more thaws and finally dreamed emergencies in has illusions about the spring mud. Even during the tribulations of which she no the sort of figure she cut in the eyes of others. this hectic winter Matt complains but little, of her happiest is though every passing day makes more certain the Undoubtedly one memories of her tenure at the Hillside School at placing of a mortgage on his beloved farm. With Home Spring Green, Wisconsin, and the teachers there weather unfit for work in the woods he takes with she was associated. Her later experi- his nephew, Bud, and a young Finnish girl fish- whom ences in Montana, where she went for her health, ing through the ice, and when March starts the at the University of Minnesota, where she did sap running in the maple grove he takes them graduate as well as teaching, at the College with him to replenish the farm's stock of maple work of St. Catherine in St. Paul, are not treated with syrup. These youngsters are a tonic for Matt; quite the fulness and enthusiasm as is that re- they love every homely part of farm life just as markable school in the hills of Wisconsin, run by he does and they serve to take his mind off the the equally remarkable Lloyd-Jones sisters. At day he'll have to walk into the bank and sign Smith, where Miss Chase has finally come to rest, the papers that will deprive him of sole owner- one feels that she is completely content. fine ship of the hilltop farm. A portrayal of William Allan Neilson, to whom the There's not a farm odor you cannot smell as book is dedicated, completes her reminiscences. you turn the pages of this New England coun- This book is interesting because Miss Chase try novel, in which hot mince pie, warm m'lk, follows "the first and cardinal principle of all homemade pickles, and the barnyard are a nat- successful teaching: that in order to interest oth- ural background for characters whose forefa- ers in anything at all, one must be oneself con- thers carved the hillside homestead from the sumed with interest." It is entertaining because wilderness. Farmers of Matt Chadbourne's ilk of the author's humor and humanness. always have stood on their own two feet and always will—they never got the notion of getting Manning Hawthorne paid for hogs they didn't raise nor for crops thev haven't planted. Walter J. Greenleaf, Economic Status oj Not a great deal happens in this chronicle College Alumni, Office of Education, Washing- of the hilltop farm 'except a heap of living ton, iq^ (Bulletin 1937, No. 10). Pp. 207, living as you'll find it on a Maine farm. But paper. Twenty-five cents. after you've read this charminglv natural volume vou'll understand how Matt feels about owning Though the purpose of an education is to pre- his land and his soul "free and clear." pare one for life more than for earning a liveli- Hugh Pendexter, Jr. hood, the economic motive is so much a part of [54] The B o w d o i n Alumnus']

the undergraduate's aim, and the alumnus's life, work, which paid typically $2000 or more. Of that the college must recognize its duty to con- the 1928 graduates, it was found that groups tribute to her sons, if not all the tools for liveli- who were earning typical salaries of $2500 or hood, at least all its knowledge as to what the more in 1936-37 were in dentistry, medicine, various economic paths both require of and offer law, public office, architecture, insurance, re- to her sons, and potential sons, who have not al- search, forestry, business, and telephone work. ready chosen their paths. A unique and impor- Horace C. Buxton, Jr. tant contribution to that knowledge is this bro- chure, which reports the findings of an investigation undertaken by the Project in Research in The Authors Education. It is sin- Universities of the Office of Ernst C. Helmreich, Ph.D., alumnus of the gular because it represents the results of a co- University of Illinois, came to Bowdoin in 193 1, several colleges of their ordinated study made by after graduate work at Harvard and teaching ex- graduates at the same time (1936-37) 1928-35 perience at Purdue and Radcliffe. He is Assistant and with exactly the same procedure; and it is Professor of History and Government. important because the 31 cooperating colleges, A recent exhibition in the Library of the books located in 20 states representative of each majoi of Robert P. Tristram Coffin, '15, Litt.D., geographical division of the country, are a suffi- shows that the volume here reviewed is his twen- ciently large sample to make the findings fairly tieth book, in a list that includes poetry, essays, representative of the economic status of all Amer- biography, criticism, and an anthology of seven- ican college alumni. teenth century literature. Statistical in nature, the report proper con- Marguerite McIntire was graduated from sists chiefly of ( 1 ) summary tables and charts indicating the trend and percentage relationships Tufts College, where she majored in English and obtained by a consolidation of the basic data, anc) was a student in the theological department. As (2) an interpretation of the summary data minister's assistant and later as ordained minis- pointing out (only) the significant trends and ter, she served a Universalist church in Norway, relationships. The consolidated numerical data, Maine, for two years. Then she was married to difficult of interpretation, and hence valuable Glenn R. McIntire, '25, now Bursar of the Col- mainly as evidence supporting the summary lege, to whom her book is dedicated. tables, are included in the appendix. Mary Ellen Chase, Litt.D., Professor of Of the 26 sections into which the report is English in Smith College, who so delightfully divided, the most important are those which deal recounted a Maine upbringing in A Goodly with the relation between unemployment and Heritage, devotes the present volume to her college majors, how and why the first jobs were later experiences in academic communities. A obtained, employment, unemployment, and relief, graduate of the University of Maine, Miss Chase occupations, salaries, and salaries by occupations. holds an honorary doctorate of letters from Bow- doin. The following are some of the interesting relationships indicated in these sections: While the Walter J. Greenleaf, '12, Ph.D., a num- first employment of about 60 percent of the grad- ber of whose publications have been reviewed in uates was related to major work in college, more our columns, is a specialist attached to the Office men but fewer women tended eventually to find of Education. work more related to major work. Personal in- itiative and /or experience prior to graduation The Reviewers accounted for half the placement of college graduates first in jobs. 29% of the men, but only Glenn W. Gray, '24, Ph.D., is a member 18% of the women, who graduated in 1935 ac- of the department of history in the University of cepted their first jobs because no others were Nebraska. available, while 40% of the graduates in this The Catalogue gives the impression that Wil- year were unemployed for one month or longer. mot B. Mitchell, '90, Litt.D., L.H.D., is re- About 1.5% of all the alumni in the study had tired: more reliable sources show him to be de- been on relief, typically for 6 months. cidedly active. In 1936, 93% of all the female and 96% Hugh Pendexter, Jr., *ai, son of a Maine of all the male graduates were either temporarily writer, is a Maine writer on his own account. He or permanently employed, about two-thirds of all has been in newspaper, magazine, and publicity graduates being in the professional group. The work since graduation and is now following this median incomes for males who graduated from last line of activity in Philadelphia. large colleges (over 3,000) in 1928 was about Manning Hawthorne, , '30, A.M., is In- $2450; for large college male graduates in 1935, about $1350; for small college male graduates in structor in English in the University of Maine. 1928, about $2150; for small college male grad- Horace C. Buxton, Jr., '37, who in June uates in 1935, about $1250. Among the best received his M.B.A. from Harvard "with dis- paid positions for college men immediately after tinction," remains at the School of Business Ad- graduation were dentistry, forestry, and telephone ministration as a research assistant. [55} [The B o w d o i n Alumnus

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BOSTON ASSOCIATION ROCHESTER CLUB The annual meeting will be held at the The Alumni Secretary met with the Club University Club on Wednesday, February on Wednesday, January 24. 7, with President Sills and Trustee Harvey D. Gibson '02 as speakers. The feature of WASHINGTON. ASSOCIATION the program will be a panel discussion on President Sills will meet with the Wash- the International Situation by a group ington Alumni at their annual session on headed by the President and including Mr. Monday, February 12. Gibson and Professors Van Cleve, Kirk- WORCESTER CLUB land, Daggett, and Bonn from the faculty. Donald G. Congdon '30 was elected CHICAGO ASSOCIATION President of the Club at its meeting of No- Fifteen Bowdoin men met at luncheon vember 15. Cloyd E. Small '20 continues as on Wednesday, December 27. A second Secretary. luncheon was held on Tuesday, January 23, with the Alumni Secretary as guest. CLEVELAND CLUB The Alumni Secretary represented Bow- doin at a joint meeting of Alumni of the four Maine colleges, held at the Hotel Cleveland on Sunday, January 21. DETROIT CLUB The regular winter meeting of the group was scheduled for Monday, January 22, with the Alumni Secretary as speaker. HARTFORD CLUB President Sills will represent the College at the annual meeting, to be held on Thurs- day, February 8, presumably at the Uni- versity Club. 'ANDY" HALDANE V Captain-Elect of Football NEW YORK ASSOCIATIOH The annual meeting will be held at the Austin H. MacCormick '15, former Harvard Club on the evening of Friday, Alumni Secretary and now a member of January 26. Speakers will include Presi- the Board of Overseers, resigned his posi- dent Sills and Hon. Harold H. Burton '09, tion as Commissioner of Correction of the Mayor of Cleveland. city of New York on January 15. He had been in office since 1934. Mr. MacCormick PHILADELPHIA CLUB assumed at once the post of executive di- The Club will hold its annual meeting at rector of the Osborne Association, Inc., a the Poor Richard Club on Saturday, Jan- research organisation in the field of crime uary 27, with President Sills as guest and and penology.- He had been a director of the speaker. institution since its establishment in 1932.

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1870—ERASTUS Fulton Redman, who was in Pennsylvania for two years and in New York born in Brooksville, June io, 1849, and City from 1905 until 191 1, when he received his was tor many years m the lumber business on the law degree at the New York Law School. Since Union and Penobscot Rivers, died in Dorches- retirement from active law practice in New York, ter, Massachusetts, on November 20, 1939. He he had served in the sales department of a New was given his A.M. at Bowdoin in 1873. Sur- Jersey legal publishing house. A brother, Neal D. Randall '05, is among the survivors. was vivors include his son, Fulton J. Redman 07. He He was a member of Psi Upsilon. a member of Zeta Psi. —Ripley Lyman Dana, a member of the 2877—^- EV - George Arthur Holbrook, who 1901 served as a clergyman in Troy, New of the Board of Trustees, died at his York, since 1891, died at his home there on home in Newton Centre, Massachusetts, on De- cember sketch of his career may be found November 22, 1939. Born at Portsmouth, New 19. A in another section of the magazine. Hampshire, February 17, 1857, Mr. Holbrook graduated at the Episcopal Theological Sem- 1906—Chester Swan Bavis, Register of inary in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1880, re- Deeds of Worcester County, Massachu- ceiving his Bowdoin A.M. in that same year. He setts, since 1922, died at his Worcester home on was rector of the church in Brunswick from November 24, 1939, after a week's illness. A 1883 to 1888 and had also served churches m native of Calais, where he was born November Ohio. His will provided for the establishment of 22, 1882, he followed a few years of business in a fund for the use of the Bowdoin College Li- New York by studying at Valparaiso University, brary. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. where he received his law degree in 19 10. He became associated with the administration of 1883— EV - Edward Francis Wheeler, who Worcester County in 2 and served as assist- served as a home missionary in Min- 191 ant Clerk of Courts before election to his more nesota for some little time before his enrollment recent post. was the author of recognized and graduation at the Hartford Theological Sem- He books on naturalization inary in 1889, died in Minneapolis on Novem- and taxation and was also an authority on deeds and legal papers. He ber 7, 1939. A native of Grafton, Vermont, was a member of Delta Epsilon. where he was born January 20, 1862, Mr. Kappa Wheeler had held pastorates in New England 1907— e h ave been informed of the death and the West. He had retired from active work of Rev. Herbert Hull, presumably at about eight years ago and was living in Knife Portland, Oregon, where he had been living for Lake, near Mora, Minnesota. He was a member some years. Born in Toledo, Ohio, November Psi of Upsilon. 16, 1868, Mr. Hull graduated at Bangor The- 1885—Lucius Bion Folsom died suddenly on ological Seminary in 1904 and held many pastorates in New England and the West. November 18, 1939, at his home in Waban, Massachusetts. He was born in Passa- 1908—Neal Willis Cox, who had lived at dumkeag on September 23, 1858, and came to Wayland, Massachusetts, for twenty College from Gould Academy at Bethel. After years, died suddenly at his camp in East Sebago a few years of teaching there, at Lewiston, and on December 1, 1939. He was born in Gardiner, in Vermont, he entered the photo-engraving bus- January 18, 1886, and was for some time after iness in Boston. He had served as president of graduation in the shoe business in Portland. He local and national asociations of photo-engravers was a member of Psi Upsilon. and stood very high in his specialized field of — work. He received his Bowdoin A.M. in 1888 ]915 Harold Milton Prescott, who was and was a member of Theta Delta Chi. born November 10, 1891, in St. Paul, Minnesota, died in Atlanta, Georgia, December SCAR Elmer Pease, who was born 1897— 24, 1939. Mr. Prescott taught school for a pe- June 10, 1876, at West Farmington, riod on leaving College, and then saw service died in Tampa, Florida, where he had lived for with an army aviation unit. At the time of his many years, on November 28, 1939. He attend- death he was serving as instructor in Account- ed Boston University Law School following his ing in the University of Georgia. He was a graduation and for some time practiced law in member of Delta Upsilon. Boston. He was a member of Kappa Sigma. — 1918 Rev - abner Welborne Rountree, —Rufus Starkey Randall died at his 1897 who was born October r, 1885, at home in Bloomfield, New Jersey, on Swainsboro, Georgia, died at Midville, Georgia, January 7. Born November 26, a t 1875, Rio de on November 5, 1939, following an automobile Janeiro, Brazil, the son of a Freeport ship cap- accident. Mr. Rountree came to Bowdoin as a tain, Mr. Randall taught school in New Eng- transfer from Bangor Theological Seminary, mak- land from 1897 until 1903. He then taught ing a very distinguished scholastic record. [57] — —J

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1936—-Charles Dearborn McDonald, Jr., 1899 and had served as instructor in Otology at who received his A.M. at Harvard in the Harvard Medical School. and who had been engaged in study and 1937, 1900—"VlRGlL Connor Totman, who was research in Washington and Boston, died by born in Fairfield, December 19, 1872, drowning in the Charles River in that city early and who had practiced at Oakland since in November. He was born in Portland, January 1907, died suddenly at his home there on Jan- 28, 191 3, and was a member of Chi Psi. uary 6. A graduate of Colby in 1894, with a master's degree received there three years later, he had specialized in the treatment of eye, nose MEDICAL SCHOOL and throat diseases in the Waterville area. Garfield Potter, had prac- J 908— 0HN who ticed in Houlton since receiving his 1896—Charles Richardson Cobb Borden, degree, and who was for several years President for twenty years on the staff of the of Ricker Classical Institute, died at his home Boston City Hospital and at one time its chief there on November 29, 1939. He had been surgeon, died at his home in Brookline, Massa- prominent in the civic life of Aroostook County, chusetts, on November 28, 1939. He was born had served overseas during the war, and was a in Fall River, Massachusetts, August 24, 1874. major in the medical detachment of the 152nd Dr. Borden had practiced in Greater Boston since field artillery.

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Foreword 1881 —Secretary, john w. man son, esq. A frozen and harassed Class News Man ex- Pittsfield. tends New Year's Greetings to his known and un- Judge Frederick A. Fisher and Mrs. Fisher are known fellow alumni; and hopes they will sur- passing the winter in California. Their daugh- vive 1940 with what health, peace and prosperity ter was married October 28 to Ronald G. Mac- can be retrieved from a rapidly changing world Donald, Tufts '32, of Cambridge. and a distraught social system. John W. Manson was elected President of the From the chaos in the cosmos four earthly Somerset County Bar and Law Library Associ- beacons guide the way to peace and a modicum ation at its recent annual meeting. Edward F. of sanity: America, New England, Maine, and Merrill '03 was chosen Vice-President. Bowdoin. May their lights never become dim or —Secretary, eben w. freeman, esq. uncertain. 1885 120 Exchange St., Portland. Incidentally, this is reunion year for the classes of '90-50^; '95-45^; i900-40th; '05-35^1; 'io- The Secretary was married December 1st to 30th; 15-25^; '20-20th; '25-i5th; ^o-ioth; Miss Barbara B. Woodruff, headmistress of Waynflete School in Portland. They are resid- 35 tri "5 tri - Any alumnus prior to 1890, physically able, should come: Reunion Classes, obligatory, ing at 82 Chadwick Street. unless excused by majority vote; penalty 5 years. IS94—Secretary, francis w. dana Off years come along and mix with your contemp- 8 Bramhall St., Portland. oraries, and have a good time. W. W. Thomas' daughter, Charlotte, was married at their home, Brentwood, Yarmouth, Octo- —®ur sen ^ or alumnus, Thomas H. Eaton, 1 869 ber 7th, to Albert E. Whitehill of Bangor. writes from St. Petersburg, Fla., that he My good friend and contemporary, Fred Pick- arrived there December 9, found the place as at- ard, whose name all Bowdoin men speak with tractive as ever, and is having the time of his gratitude and affection, has made another gen- life in that wonderful climate, and with his many erous gift to the College as the year closed. If friends. more alumni had his heart and spirit of grati-

1875 W - G - Hunton of Portland, Industrial tude, in proportion to their resources, the system agent of the Maine Central, was the of class agents for the Alumni Fund would be Honor Champion at the 26th annual meeting of much less needed than it is. of the 4-H Club contest in Orono the last week Secretary, william m. ingraham, esq. in December. 1895 79 High St., Portland. College has received a J 877—^he copy of the The Secretary was toastmaster at the annual Autobiography of George W. Tillson, Jackson Day Dinner of the Democratic Party in

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1896 Secretary, JOHN CLAIR MINOT try, as well as the best football team (Don't tell Dover, Mass. B.C.)" Note: Clemson won the Cotton Bowl game from Boston College on New Year's Day. Robert O. Small, Director of Vocational Ed- ucation for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1907 Secretary, felix a. burton was elected President of the American Vocation- 234 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. al Association at its annual meeting in Grand L. Winfield Smith is undergoing treatment at Rapids, on December 8. the Sister's Hospital in Lewiston. Secretary, Walter l. sanborn 1901 Secretary, charles e. files Lansdale, Penna. 1908 Cornish. Harold Lee Berry has been elected to a five- Arthur vice-president and executive year term on the Executive Council of Psi Upsi- H. Ham, officer of the Provident Loan Society of New lon Fraternity. 1 York, elected a trustee of the Russell Sage The Maine Bankers Association gave a dinner was Foundation, December at its annual meeting, in honor of Roland E. Clark on his recent elec- 19, for a term of three years. tion as President of the Trust Division of the American Bankers Association at the Eastland Secretary, ernest h. pottle Hotel, Portland, November 28. Leon A. Dodge 1909 34 Appleton PL, Glen Ridge, N. J. '13, of Damariscotta, president of the Maine Bankers, was chairman, and President Sills "or, Rev. Melville O. Baltzer is doing special work was one of the principal speakers. at the Harvard Divinity School. Dr. and Mrs. Murray S. Danforth gave a tea Mayor Harold Burton of Cleveland has been in honor of their debutante daughter, Helen, at having plenty of trouble with the city's needy his for ad- their summer home, Cedarcroft, in Bristol, R. I., relief this fall, and renewed demands on September 8. ditional money from the State, in an interview Kenneth C. M. Sills has been elected Presi- with Gov. Bricker on December 8. Faulty ap- dent of the First Radio Parish Church of Amer- portionment of state relief funds among the ica at its fourteenth annual meeting. Neal W. counties is blamed for the shortage in such large Allen '07 is one of the directors. urban areas as Cleveland. Bill Warren, who suffered a devastating stroke Daniel Drummond and E. Farrington Abbott, of paralysis three years ago last June, has amaz- Jr., '31, of Lewiston won the fourth annual ed the Bangor doctors by a thrilling exemplifi- Southern Maine contract bridge championship, cation of his recuperative power. He is now able November 27. to spend several hours daily in his wheel chair Raymond E. Merrill is studying at the Grad- on the streets of Bangor. He told the writer in uate School of Education at Harvard. the midst of the football season that he had de- 1910 Secretary, e. curtis Matthews cided to go into the for another quarter, game Piscataqua Savings Bank and is planning for of now the 40th reunion 1901 Portsmouth, N. H. in Brunswick. Dr. Adam P. Leighton was elected to the Port- Secretary, a. 1902 lyman cousens land City Council, December 5, by a majority of 10 1 Vaughan St., Portland. nearly two to one. Harrison King McCann and Miss Dorothy 1911 Secretary, ernest g. fifield Barstow were married November 17, in Santa Fe, 30 E. 42nd St., New York City. New Mexico. They are now at home at 19 East 72nd Street, New York City. Attorney General Franz U. Burkett of Maine is chairman of a committee designated by the In- 1903 Secretary, clement f. robinson, esq. terstate Commission of Crime to formulate a 85 Exchange St., Portland. proposed uniform law on arrests in all states. T. H. Riley, Jr., is one of the five members of Burkett was named by President Richard Hart- the Insurance Committee of the National Associ- shorne of the Commission, sponsor of various ation of Mutual Savings Banks. unified laws on crime. Philip H. Kimball, Principal of the Washing- Secretary, henry lewis 1905 ton State Normal School, at Machias, and Miss Storer St., Portland. 3 Geraldine Elaine Gerrish, of Winter Harbor, Prof. Robert K. Eaton, of Clemson A. & M. were married in the Old South Church in Bos- has sent a beautiful College, South Carolina, ton, November 30. They are now at home at 1 woven Christmas card to the sports editor of the O'Brien Avenue, Machias. Boston Herald, and writes: "I have been a sub- Dr. J. Calvin Oram was re-elected to the Board scriber to the Boston Herald for something like of Education in South Portland, on December 4. 15 years, and a constant reader of your columns. Secretary, w. a. It gives me great pleasure to have an excuse to ]912 MacCORMiCK send you my Season's Greetings. 316 Huntington Ave., Boston, Mass. "From the woven message I hope you will see Frank D. Slocum's new address is 2264 Lor- that we have the best textile school in the coun- ing Place, New York City. [59] U— —

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]9]3—Secretary, luther g. whittier John W. Thomas, head of the musical de- Farmington. partment of Colby, will direct the Portland Sumner Pike of Lubec was elected one of the Women's Chorus this year. Mr. Thomas is well known through for his fine choral new State directors of the New England Coun- Maine work. Paul I. Woodworth of Fairfield is entering the cil at its annual state dinner in Boston, Novem- Republican Primaries as a candidate for of ber 23. Judge Probate in Somerset Friends of William R. Spinney will be sorry County. to learn of the of his on — death wife November 1919 Secretary, donald s. higgins 25. She was a graduate of Smith and a sister of 14 Exchange Bldg., Bangor. George Libby, '03. Jr., Rev. Dr. Raymond Lang of St. John's Church, of Everett S. Winslow of The nomination Dr. Newtonville, has been promoted from Captain Portland to the State Board of Osteopathic Ex- to Major in the Chaplain Corps, headquarters. amination and Registration was confirmed by the 211th Coast Artillery of the Massachusetts Na- Executive Council, November 8. tional Guard. School Superintendent Fred D. Wish of Hart- ford, Conn., was elected President of the New 1920 Secretary, Stanley m. Gordon 1 England Superintendents Association at its 1 1 Park Place, New York City. meeting in Boston, November 17th. Oliver Moses, 3rd, was named district commissioner National —Secretary, Clifford t. perkins by Ray Dumont, Semi-Pro ]9]5 Baseball Congress president, to supervise a semi- 88 Forest St., Cumberland Mills. pro playoff at Lisbon Falls, for a place in the William G. Tackaberry, chief of the adjudica- state tournament next fall, in Portland. tion section of old age benefits of the Social Se- Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads, associate member curity Board, Washington, D. C, is now work- of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, ing in England territory. New has been elected director of the Memorial Hos- ]9]6 Secretary, dwight sayward pital, New York City, in succession to Dr. James 549 Masonic Bldg., Portland. Ewing, Professor of Oncology at the Cornell University Medical College. Carl A. Weick of Presque Isle is chairman of the Aroostook County branch in the Maine di- ]921 —Secretary, norman w. haines vision of the National Finnish Relief Campaign 68 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass. which opens early this month. Kenneth S. Boardman and Miss Vivian Robb Donald S. White of the U. S. Immigration of Washington, D. C, were married on Novem- Service has been transferred from Van Buren ber 4. At home Thirty-second Place, to North Troy, Vermont. 6639 Washington, D. C. IQ —Secretary, prof, noel c. little Dr. John G. Young of Dallas, Texas, from 8 College St., Brunswick. whose letter excerpts were made in the '21 class A coming newspaper man is Paul W. Moran notes in the November Alumnus, has just been (13) son of Carl '17, of the U.S. Maritime Com- selected as the new chief of staff for the Texas mission in Washington, D. C. Paul is the whole Children's Hospital, now under construction in works of The Capitol Telegram, an 8-page sheet, North Dallas. published each Sunday. Practically all the sub- 1924 Secretary, clarence d. rouillard scribers are his personal friends and contributors, 32 Astley Ave., Toronto, Canada. and many "off the record''' bits of fun find their Forest Butler is doing part-time work at the way into print in this novel paper. Harvard School of Education, and is living at Congressman James C. Oliver has announced Waverley Street in Belmont. that he will enter the Republican primaries next 315 elected Alderman- June as a candidate to succeed himself. In November Dick Lee was Speaker Donald W. Philbrick of the Maine at-large of the city of Newton, Mass. House of Representatives is entering the Repub- 1925—Secretary, william h. gulliver, jr. lican primaries as a candidate for the State Sen- 1 Federal St., Boston, Mass. ate. Edward G. Fletcher, Ph.D., was Bowdoin's Secretary, L. HARRINGTON 1918 HARLAN representative at the inauguration of President 74 Western Ave., Braintree, Mass. Homer Price Rainey at the University of Texas, A new provisional Rotary Club was founded December 9. at Boothbay Harbor, Nov. 9. Dr. George Nevens Horace A. Hildreth is president of the Do- is president and James Blenn Perkins, Jr., '34, is mestic Peat Co. which is developing a large peat also a member. moss bog near Columbia Falls, Washington Ralph Pendleton of Darien, Conn., writes that County. Peat is used extensively for soil condi- his son, W. Newton, expects to enter Bowdoin tioning, littering poultry houses, and condition- in the fall of '41. "Well send our sons to Bow- ing soil in greenhouses. The company is already doin in the fall." Most of them do, but some of working 70 men on its bog. Mr. Hildreth has them follow strange gods. just announced his candidacy for the Republican [60] —

The B o w d o i n Alumnus] nomination for the State Senate, as a represen- Dave and Eleanor Osborne and their two tative of Cumberland County. daughters moved into their new home on Salis- Roy H. Lane, who received his A.M. at Har- bury Drive, Westwood, Mass., in November. vard in June 1939, is now a part-time student in Thornton L. "Dinty" Moore '29, and family the Graduate School of Education there. live nearby on another street. "Russ" Stringer, who taught French at Phil- —Secretary, lebrec micoleau lips-Exeter from 1930 to 1939, is teaching at 1929 the Santa Barbara School, Carpenteria, Cal. General Motors Corp., New York City. Oramandel Wilson, of Topsham, was lost Bob Foster is now on the staff of Jordan while on a hunting trip in the Clifford Lake re- Marsh Co., Boston. gion in eastern Maine. He suffered greatly from Lee Rollins is manager of the Personal Fi- exposure. nance Co., 634 Main Street, Laconia, N. H. Dean Nixon has received a request from \C)26—Secretary, prof, albert abrahamson George Slobin that a place be reserved in the Hotel Algonquin, New York City. class of i960 for his son, Matthew, who was Dr. Alfred C. Andrews attended the summer born last fall. school of Education at Temple University in Phil- Roger B. Ray of Portland has been elected 1 adelphia. He is now living at in South Wy- President of the Maine Investment Dealers As- combe Avenue, Lansdowne, Penna. sociation. of "Bob" Harkness is District Superintendent Philip Allerton Smith was the holder of a the Pullman Co. in El Paso, Texas. travelling fellowship from Harvard University Roger Littlefield is manager of the Travelers for the summer of 1939. Inn at Plymouth, N. H., on the Daniel Webster Highway, on the way to the Cannon Mountain 1930 Secretary, h. philip chapman, jr. Tramway. 209 Fidelity Bldg., Portland. of Paul A. and Paul Smith, Jr., (12), son Dr. Pliny A. Allen has moved to 1004 Cam- injured when Mrs. Smith of Orrington, was bronne Street, New Orleans, La. his November 20. struck by a car near home on Douglas Fosdick has been named vice-presi- installed as Master of Alfred M. Strout was dent and publisher of the Rumford Falls Times on Orient Lodge of Masons at Thomaston Jan- at Rumford. uary 16. Donald H. Randall and Miss Isabel A. Phil- Carita Farm- Emlyn S. Vose and Miss Janice brook, both of Randolph, Mass., were married er were married in the South Parish Church, August 19. Don is assistant principal of the West Andover, Mass., on November 16. They Marshfield (Mass.) High School. are at home in Groton, Mass., where Emlyn is Mr. and Mrs. T. Maxwell Marshall of 244 in business. Woodfords Street, Portland, announce the birth Among the officers elected at the annual meet- of a son, Bruce Clark, on November 21st. ing of the Maine Publicity Bureau in Portland were Horace Hildreth, chairman of the Board of 1 Secretary, albert e. 2 93 Jenkins Directors, and William Philbrick of Skowhegan, 51 Ingleside Ave., Winthrop, Mass. Donald Webber '27, of Auburn, Herbert L. George P. Carleton is serving as principal of Swett 'oi, of Skowhegan and Paul K. Niven '16, the high school in Winterport. of Brunswick. Dr. Frederick C. Dennison, a graduate of the 1927—Secretary, george o. cutter University of Rochester, where he interned and 647 Vinewood, Birmingham, Mich. taught Pathology, and later resident surgeon at Gov. Barrows has appointed Representative the Eastern Maine General Hospital in Bangor, has Frank A. Farrington (R) Augusta, Judge of the settled in Thomaston. Augusta Municipal Court in place of Judge John Donworth is a first-year student at the Emery O. Beane (D) '04, whose term expired Harvard Law School. Parker Mann, D.M.D., is January 1. Harvard, associated with his father in the practice Edward P. Hutchinson was married at Swamp- of dentistry in Auburn. scott, Mass., on January 7 to Miss Alice L. Wallace Forbes. Laurence F. Shurtleff '26 was best man. M. True, Ph.D., is teaching history at The Hutchinsons will live in Cambridge. Mr. Howard College, Birmingham, Ala. Hutchinson holds a doctor's degree from M. I. T. —Secretary, george t. sewall and is teaching at Harvard. 1932 19 East 98th St., New York City. August C. Miller, Jr., is in the Graduate School at Harvard, where he is studying History. "Roggie" and Mrs. Buffington, 552 Maple street, Fall River, Mass., have a son, name and —Secretary, 1928 william d. Alexander age not known. Wish these parents would be Belmont Hill School, Belmont, Mass. more prompt in reporting their successes. Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Norton announce "Larry" and Mrs. Usher, 150 Upland Road, the birth of their son, Frank Hunter, on Decem- Cambridge, Mass., announce the arrival of a son, ber 9. William David, on September 28. [61] [The B o w d o i n Alumnus

—Secretary, B. MERRILL 1933 JOHN Neil LaBelle is with the Federal Reserve Bank 311 2nd St., Towanda, Penna. of Boston and is living at 29 Oxford Street, The engagement of Dr. Paul Floyd to Miss Somerville. Emily C. trizzell of Colebrook, N. H., has been "Larry" Lydon, now in the Yale Medical announced. School, has been notified of his appointment as intern in the Cambridge (Mass.) Hospital, on —Secretary, rev. cordon e. gillett ]934 January 1, 1941. 11 S. Bryant St., Old Town. Tom Mack is playing with Glen Miller's Or- The engagement of Miss Elena Bianchi of chestra. Framingham, Mass., to Frederick E. Drake, Jr., Wilbur Manter has an intern appointment for of Bath, was announced November 18. next year in the Rhode Island Hospital, Provi- We have been notified of the engagement of dence. Alfred M. Ferguson of Belfast to Miss Ethel L. "Honor for being the first cadet to have his Uole of Needham, Mass. hat swept off by the frolicsome wind went, fit- The Secretary, who is also chaplain of the tingly enough, to Regimental Commander John University of Maine christian Association, be- Presnell as he marched into the (Harvard) sta- gan a series of meetings on the Maine campus, dium with his staff. Loyal to the corps, the rest December 4, termed an Embassy, for the discus- of the cadets then let their hats be blown off." sion of religious and other problems which face The Boston Herald, November 12, 1939. youth today; with interesting religious leaders The engagement of Miss Edythe Irene John- from away. The Embassy was sponsored by the son of Newton to Richard E. Read of Walpole Association, the Fraternities, and the Freshman Mass., was announced November 19. The wed- Men's Cabinet. ding will take place this spring. Miss Mary Louise Maxey and James Whit- Maurice Ross has been appointed intern in tier Lawrence were married at Fryeburg, July 22. the Long Island College Hospital from July 1. They are living at 26 Lincoln Avenue, Gardiner, The engagement of Miss Sarah E. Glass and where "Jim" ls i n business with his father. Rev. Harry B. Scholefield, minister of the First Mr. and Mrs. George F. Peabody of Bangor, Parish Church at Gloucester, Mass., was an- have a daughter. Date and name unspecified. nounced on December 3. Bob Porter is now associated with the New George Wmgate of Hallowell was elected al- York law firm of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine derman from Ward 4 at the municipal election and Wood, and is living at 519 East 86th Street. iii December. Donald M. Smith is in charge of freight serv- — ice for the Norton Lilley and Company Steam- 1936 Secretary, Hubert s. shaw ship Lines at San Diego, Calif.- He is living at St. Albans School, Washington, D. C. 3280 6th Avenue. Ray and Mrs. Baker, of Gardiner, have a Mr. and Mrs. Carl F. A. Weber of Portland daughter, Jane Ruth, who was born on February announce the arrival of Carl F. A., 3rd, Decem- 18, 1939. Ray has recently been appointed re- ber 10. corder of the Gardiner Municipal Court. The engagement of Asa B. Kimball, II, to —Secretary, paul e. sullivan 1935 Miss Roberta A. Lewis of Newport is reported. Turner St., Auburn. 495 George Chisholm is doing graduate work in Sam Birch is doing special work at the Har- Fine Arts at Harvard. vard Dental School. We are informed of the engagement of Gay- Dr. David Bryant is intern at St. Joseph's nor K. Rutherford to Miss Barbara Curtis of Mil- Hospital, Lowell, Mass. ton, Mass. Harold Dickerman's work is at "The Seeing The engagement of Howard H. Vogel, Jr., and

Eye" in Morristown, N. J. He is married, and Miss Christine McKean of West Roxbury, Mass., living at 79 Mill Street. was recently announced. Roger Edwards delivered a paper on "The Winthrop B. H. Walker is practicing law in Classical Collection of the Bowdoin College Mu- Augusta, where his address is 53 Sewall Street. seum of Fine Arts," at the annual meeting of —Secretary, s. the Archaeological Institute of America, held at 1937 william burton che University of Michigan in December. 206F Holden Green, Cambridge, Mass. Miss Helen Vivian Stetson and Wilh'am Roy Stanton Belinkoff is a student in the Middle- 1 Hooke were married in All Souls Unitarian sex Medical School in Boston. Church, New York City, on November 24. The engagement of Charles F. Brewster to Lionel Horsman is with the Atlantic Refining Miss Mildred Whitmore of Dexter was recently Company in the North Shore section of Massa- announced at a party in that town. chusetts, and should be addressed at the McLean Ralph Gould is instructor and football coach Hospital in Waverley, Mass. in the Orange (Mass.) High School. We have been informed of the engagement of We are informed of the engagement of Sprague Mitchell William J. Keville, Jr., to Miss Moira O'Connell and Miss Marion Roberts of of Newton, Mass. Old Greenwich. They will be married in May. [62] —J

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We have been notified of the engagement of versity of New Hampshire, was elected captain Charles L. Tuttle and Miss Catherine Wunch of the football team on which he played a fine years. of Cambridge, Mass. game in the backfield in the last three Lloyd Poland, who is with the United Fruit 1938—Secretary, Andrew h. cox Co. in Honduras, has been made a "spraymaster" 94 Prescott St., Cambridge, Mass. and transferred from Guaruma to Campin. Roger Stover is in the Harvard Business Donald P. Allen is teaching Economics and School with a room at Morris C-24. Civics in the Old Town High School. He receiv- We have been notified of the engagement of ed his master's degree from Columbia in June. Randall Tinker and Miss Patricia Rennie of Streeter Bass is studying German at the Har- Brooklyn, N. Y. He is employed as a chemist by vard Graduate School. the American Cyanimid Co. in New York. John Ellery is teaching Social Studies at the Morton Trachtenberg is a special student un- Webster High School in Sabattus. His engage- der the faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard ment to Miss Janice R. Randall of Portland has College. recently been announced. Miss Barbara Stover and Henry P. Van De Scott P. Garfield writes that he has just be- Bogert, Jr., of Bangor, were married December come engaged to Miss Jean Benson of Utica, 17- N. Y. His address is 1021 Park Avenue, Utica. John Greene is in the Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore. S. Kirby Hight has received an appointment to the Post Graduate School of Modern Merchan- MEDICAL SCHOOL dising and Management conducted by the Chev- rolet Division of General Motors in Detroit. artillery Bob Morss has enrolled in a British 1897—Dr - Charles W. Bell of Strong, dean of unit and expects to receive his commission in the Franklin County physicians, has March. been elected consultant surgeon emeritus of the John W. Thurlow is reported as engaged to Franklin County Memorial Hospital. He is the Miss Georgia Taylor of South Portland. first member of the staff to receive such recog- Dudley Tyson is at the Tufts Medical School nition. in Boston. 1918—Lieut. Commander James C. Kimball, Dave Walden's address is 3944C Van Buren U.S.N., is now attached to I/. S. S. Place, Culver City, Cal. Blac\ Haw\. Address c/o Postmaster, San Fran- Wiggin is studying in the field of Ro- Roy cisco, Calif. mance Languages at the Harvard Graduate School. HOHORAKY GRADUATES 1939—Secretary, JOHN H. rich Kennebec Journal, Augusta.

announce l l Chapman Rev - lot D.D., Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur - Samue E observed J. 1900 A > the arrival of a daughter, Lynne Vaughan, on the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination November 14. into the Unitarian ministry on November 12th. Philip H. Crowell, Jr., has accepted a position — e Rev - Geor§ W - Hinckley, D.D., re- with the Lehigh Portland Cement Company at 1927 ceived the degree of LL.D. from Colby Allentown, Penna. at its last commencement. On July 27 the alumni Louis Garcelon, Jr., was married to Miss Lucy of the Good Will Home Association tendered Wyh'e Carlisle on December 2, in Seabrook, Dr. Hinckley a reception, completing first N. H. the day's program of the 50th anniversary of the fa- Enos Denham is at the Harvard Business mous school, founded by him in 1889. School, where his address is Gallatin F-31. e Scott Wilson, senior of Al Gregory is at the Business School at Har- 1927— u d§ member vard and living in Morris C-24. the first District Court of Appeals, ob- Mr. and Mrs. Roland H. Boutwell of Win- served his 70th birthday on January 11. Eligible chester, and Milford, N. H., announced the en- for retirement on full salary, he said he would gagement of their daughter, Katherine Hood stay on the bench as long as his health per- Boutwell to Harry Preston Hood, Jr., of Welles- mitted. ley Hills, Mass. They will be married this spring. Harry has accepted appointment as Class Agent for the Alumni Fund. Commander Donald B. MacMillan '98 Bob Kasten is in the Business School at Har- vard, where his address is Hamilton B-32. delivered the annual Annie Talbot Cole David Macomber is studying History at the Lecture on Monday, January 15, taking as

Harvard Graduate School. 1 his subject Burton I. Mitchell, now a senior at the Uni- "Beyond the Arctic Circle/ [63} [The B o w d o i n Alumnus

MoriU J. Bonn, former rector of the President Sills has been elected Chair- Handels Hochschule at Berlin, and since man of the Trustees of the Carnegie Foun- 1933 a lecturer in the London School of dation for the Advancement of Teaching, Economics, will be at Bowdoin during the and has been chosen a member of the Exec- second semester as Lecturer in Internation- utive Committee, which consists of Presi- al Economics on the Tallman Foundation. dent Butler of Columbia, Dr. Neilson, Pres- Author of many books in his field, Profes- ident Emeritus of Smith, Dr. Penniman, sor Bonn has been visiting professor at the Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, Universities of California, Wisconsin, and President Wriston of Brown, Mr. Thomas Cornell. He has spoken at the Institute of W. Lamont, and President Jessup of the Politics at Williamstown and has been a Foundation. member of the faculty of the School of In- ternational Studies at Geneva.

Early in the next semester the College committees of Before Commencement will undertake an interesting educational the Boards will consider not only the usual experiment. Special examinations of infor- the maintenance of the College, plans for mation and knowledge set by the Carnegie with the retirement but problems connected Foundation will be given to all seniors in of professors other officers of the Col- and the form of objective tests. Ten colleges of of with lege now set at the age seventy, and liberal arts in the country have been se- dormitory occupancy. A committee last lected by the Foundation for this experi- struggled with the question of dormi- week ment, of which Bowdoin is one. Each sen- tory room rent and is making to the Gov- ior will later receive a graph explaining that the erning Boards a recommendation how he stands in the different tests in com- College should in the near future consider parison with the 1500 seniors in other in- dormi- the advisability of erecting another stitutions. tory.

Clarence W. Sorensen, F.R.G.S., lec- tured on "Propaganda in the News" on Northeastern Tuesday, January 4. University

There was a joint Bowdoin-Colby-Colby School of Law Junior College Glee Club Festival at Bow- doin on Friday, December 8. DAY PROGRAM—Three Years EVENING PROGRAM—Four Years A portrait of George Washington, by Gilbert Stuart, has been lent to the Walk- A minimum of two years of college work er Art Building by Mr. Foskett of West required for admission. Palm Beach, Fla. A limited number of scholarships available to college graduates.

LL.B. Degree conferred Booth Tarkington of Kennebunkport and Admits men and women Indianapolis has lent the College ten of the 17th and 18th century paintings fea- 47 MT. VERNON ST., BOSTON Near State House tured in his recent book "Some Old Por- " traits. [64] COLLEGE BOOK STORE

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1940 Summer Season (15TH Year)- -6- and 8-Week Terms Begin July 9 Lloyd Harvey Hatch, Director Lake Wassookeag, Dexter, Me.

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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; Will<'am 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.

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Published four times a year by Bowdoin College. THE KOWHOIN A Ml At N IIS AtAKCH 1»40 VOL. XIV SO. 3

Henry Hill Pierce, LL.D. oOowdoin college has suffered a heavy Pray English Prise, a prise in English Com- blow in losing one of her most distinguish- position in his Senior year, and one of the ed and devoted alumni, Henry Hill Pierce. Brown Prises for Extemporaneous Composi- '68 He achieved conspicuous success in his pro- tion; he was Class Day Poet, one of the at fession, and for the greater part of his life Prise Speakers, and he had a part Com- was a busy man, but he was always ready mencement. With two other men of his '96 to put his fine mind and his wide experi- class, he acted as editor of the Bugle. ence at the disposal of the College. He was For the writing of verse he had quite an also very generous with material gifts. Many unusual gift, which he exercised too rarely things he did so unobtrusively and modest- in later years. While in College he wrote ly that only those directly concerned with the words of the popular song, Bowdoin the administration of the College knew of Beata. He was a member of the Psi Upsi- their significance. He had a wide circle of lon Fraternity, and was elected to Phi Beta friends, who will feel his death as an inti- Kappa. mate personal loss. Upon graduating from College he took He was born in Portland, the son of Lew- up the study of law, receiving the degree is Pierce, a well-known lawyer, and of Mary of LL.B. from the New York Law School Bellows (Hill) Pierce, a daughter of Dr. in 1898, and being admitted to the bar in Thomas Hill, at one time President of Har- the same year. In 1905 he married Miss vard College, and later minister of the First Katharine Curtis, a daughter of William

Parish Church in Portland. He was educat- J. Curtis, a Trustee who is affectionately ed in the city schools, and entered Bowdoin remembered as one of the most loyal and at the age of seventeen, thus carrying on a sagacious counsellors that the College has long family tradition. His father was a grad- ever had. Mrs. Pierce, who has done very uate of the Class of 1852, and his grandfa- effective work for the Society of Bowdoin ther, Josiah Pierce of the Class of 181 8, Women, received the degree of Master of who served with distinction in the Maine Arts, honoris causa, in 1933. They had three Legislature, being at one time President of sons, one of whom, William Curtis Pierce, the Senate, was an Overseer and later a graduated from Bowdoin in 1928. Two of Trustee of the College. Harry Pierce's brothers, Col. Thomas L. As an undergraduate he showed marked Pierce and John A. Pierce, are also Bow- literary and scholarly ability. He held a doin alumni, of the Class of 1898 and the Brown Memorial scholarship for each of Class of 1 90 1 respectively. the four years of his course; he won the In New York City he quickly won rec- [65] [The B o w d o i n Alumnus ognition as a brilliant lawyer, of high prin- comment on his services: "The intricate ciples. He first worked in the office of problems involved can only be appreciated Alexander and Green; in 1907 he became by lawyers and financial men, but it can be associated with Sullivan and Cromwell, be- said without hesitation that the results coming a partner in 191 1 and continuing achieved and the painstaking work entering into these results will always stand as a tribute to the capacity and constructive 11 legal ability of Mr. Pierce. Meanwhile he served in various capacities in the administration of Bowdoin College. He was a member of the Alumni Council from 191 8 to 1921, an Overseer from 1920 to 1922, and a Trustee for the remainder of his life. As a member of the Govern- ing Boards he was particularly active on the Executive and Finance Committees. He was sparing of words, but he had the happy faculty of getting rapidly to the heart of a problem, and suggesting a practical solution. He did important work in the revision of the College Statutes. In 1926 he gave to the College the Lewis Pierce Book Fund, in memory of his father, and he established the Pierce Professorship of English, now held by Professor Coffin. In 1930 the graduating class dedicated its Class Day exercises to him, and in recognition of this he gave to the Library a fund to be expended in accordance with the recommendations of a committee of that class. In 1929 he retired from active professional work, in consequence of a severe ill- as such until his retirement in 1929. His ness, and for the last ten years of his life practice was largely in connection with cor- spent much of his time at the family estate porations and public utilities. He was for in West Baldwin, Maine. He retained his many years counsel for and a director of residence in New York, however, where the North American Company and cer- he was a vestryman of St. George's Episco- tain of its subsidiary companies, including pal Church. His interest in the College the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light never slackened, and he was a familiar fig- Company and the Union Electric Power ure at Bowdoin gatherings. and Light Company of St. Louis; and he The Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws acted in similar capacities for the American was conferred upon him in June, 1926. Water Works and Electric Company, the President Sills's citation on that occasion International Nickel Company, and other may serve as a fitting epitome of his career. organisations. One of the men who work- Henry Hill Pierce, of the Class of ed with him in the reorganising of a large 1896, Trustee of the College; author of water and electric company has made this "Bowdoin Beata"; high minded, able law- {66] The Bowdoin Alumnus'] yer, whose work in one of the most im- The Glee Club opened its spring sea- portant law firms in New York City and son with a Brunswick concert on Monday, as a member of the Executive Committee March 18, including in its trip visits to of the New York City Bar Association has Concord, Mass., Boston, Providence, Phil- been marked by the highest standards both adelphia, and the Greater New York area. of intelligence and of conduct; bound to Earlier concerts had been given in Farm- the College by family ties that, on the one ington, Yarmouth, and at Nasson College hand, go back to the beginnings of Bow- in Springvale. doin, and are today associated with all the activities centering in the Association of Bowdoin's Track Team won a sparkling Bowdoin Women, the Alumni Associa- track meet with Dartmouth on Saturday, l ol tions, the Governing Boards, and, no less February 17, by a score of 66 /2 to 5 /2- important, the undergraduates; a lawyer Captain Neal Allen '40 tied the world's who retains still something of the poetic high hurdle record of 5.7 seconds. temperament, an idealist who has achieved success in the whirling world of affairs, Alpha Delta Phi won the Interfrater- honoris causa, Doctor of Laws. nity Sing for the Wass Cup on March 5, W. W. L. with honorable mention going to Kappa Sigma. This was the first time when all

On Sunday, March 3, there was a Bow- eleven fraternities took part in the contest. doin program in the radio series "Maine The program was broadcast over Station Schools on the Air," directed by Harrison WGAN, with Carl N. deSuse '38 as com- C. Lyseth '21 of the State Department of mentator. Education. The presentation included three numbers by the Glee Club, a brief Delta Kappa Epsilon nosed out Psi Up- address by Professor Herbert R. Brown, silon and Alpha Delta Phi to win the In- and a panel discussion on "College as Prep- terfraternity Track Meet on March 8 in aration for Life," in which four under- the last event. In the course of the Meet, graduate members of the Political Forum Niles Perkins '42 of the Deke team set a took part. new State record of 57 feet 9^2 inches for the 35-pound weight. The Hutchinson Miss Josephine O'Brien Campbell, Trophy for "high standards of character daughter of Colin J. Campbell '08 of Ma- and sportsmanship" was awarded for the chias, who served as sponsor for the U.S.S. second time to Neal W. Allen, Jr., '40. O'Brien at its recent launching, is related Both Perkins and Allen are sons of Bow- to several Bowdoin men. The ship is doin men. named for the several O'Brien brothers of Revolutionary fame in much the same way Dr. Olin S. Pettingill '30 delivered the that the O'Brien Graduate Scholarship hon- annual Achorn Lecture on Friday, March ors four members of this same family. 1, taking as his subject "Adventures with Birds." Dr. Pettingill is now teaching at During the month of March the Walk- Carleton College in Minnesota. er Art Building, in cooperation with the Brunswic\ Record, has been exhibiting Cur- Graham P. Gaines of Waterbury, Conn., rier and Ives Prints and Rogers Statuary a member of the freshman class, died at a Groups from private collections in the vi- Portland hospital on March 12 following cinity of Brunswick. an operation. [67] [The Bowdoin Alumnus

Gray to Bard ARTINE ARTINIAN '31

premise that the individual is more import- I Che recent announce- I ment by President Butler ant than any curriculum, however enlight- ened a particular curriculum be. With I of Columbia University may faculty-student ratio of one to four, with f zm 0m that Professor Charles a Gray of Benning- a minimum of rigid requirements, it builds L. -*• M Harold its curriculum around the individual's in- '-.. T^k ton College (and previ- terests and career objectives, and demands BS «H ously of Bowdoin) had of candidates for the degree only that they TJ been appointed Dean of demonstrate capacity to work effectively V. Bard College came as no in field of learning rather than an surprise to those who some accumulation of course credits. have followed recent developments at this progressive undergraduate unit of the uni- Throughout the first semester, while the versity. Upon the sudden death of its dean trustees were engaged in selecting a suc- during the first week of the fall semester, cessor, Dr. Leigh led a strenuous life ex- the trustees were fortunate enough to secure amining the machinery of this program and for the rest of the semester the services of inspiring faculty-student re-evaluation of its Robert D. Leigh, Bowdoin '14, President of various phases. As a result the new dean Bennington College. President Leigh, at the leads a group which is aware to an unusual time on sabbatical leave from his own insti- degree of the meaning of education. tution, was requested as well to make a Charles Harold Gray brings exceptional thorough analysis of the educational pro- training to his duties as Dean of Bard Col- gram in effect at the college and to report lege. After receiving his bachelor's degree his findings to the board. Faculty and stu- from the University of Washington in dents alike hailed this move with enthusi- 191 3, he studied for three years at Lincoln asm. If the much discussed Bard program College of Oxford University as a Rhodes was worth its salt, it would survive the se- scholar before beginning a teaching career mester's scrutiny by one of the country's that took him to a number of colleges, in- leading educators; if there were weaknesses cluding Reed, Columbia and Bowdoin, in that program, President Leigh was mani- where he was a popular member of the festly the man whose criticism of them English department from 1925 to 1933. would carry the greatest weight. Then Robert Leigh, friend of high school Bard is a small college for men about a days, called him to Bennington where he hundred miles north of New York City, at subsequently played a major role in the de- Annandale-on-Hudson. Although the edu- velopment of its progressive program. In cational program for which it is known is 1935 he was appointed acting-president of only five years old, it is not a new institu- the college while President Leigh was away tion. It was known as Saint Stephen's Col- on sabbatical leave. It seemed natural, lege for seventy-five years before its name therefore, when possible candidates for the was changed, in honor of the new program deanship were being discussed, to hear Pro- which was being instituted, to commem- fessor Gray's name mentioned again and orate its founder. Briefly, the Bard plan at- again. And even more natural to receive the

tempts to individualize education. It is the announcement of his appointment to the antithesis of mass education, based on the post. [68] The B o w d o i n Alumnus]

The Alumni Fund - a Vital Factor HOYT A. MOORE '95, Chairman of the Visiting Committee

affairs of the College were very different from those of today. No one then foresaw even the possibility (~7^ *20,000 U HE PURPOSE of of the return on in- this article is to give vestments being as low as it for the past to the Alumni of the i 5;0 oo College some infor- few years has been mation regarding the and now is. Those

Alumni Fund which ' 0,000 who were responsible they have not here- for the establishment tofore had, at least in of the Fund had 5,000 the same form, fur- SJJ-34 1934-35 1935-36 1936-37 1938-39 1939- no idea of making ther to impress upon the Alumni the great through it any important increases in the importance of the Fund to the College, par- endowment funds of the College or that it ticularly in times like the present, and to was necessary for the support of the work call to the attention of the Alumni and of the College. It was established rather friends of the College the fine work which with a view to securing funds for what the the Directors of the Fund have been doing, Alumni, acting through the Directors of with the hope that thereby they may be en- the Fund, should from time to time regard couraged to even greater effort and that the as special needs of the College. Alumni may respond to that effort with While to be sure the Fund provides that even greater appreciation and generosity. contributions thereto may at the election of This article is not, however, to be taken in the contributor be either to principal or in- any sense as a solicitation of funds for the come, it was expected that contributions College. It is prompted simply by the de- would be made either for purposes specified sire that the Alumni fully understand how by the contributor, as for instance—the ac- essential the Alumni Fund is to the con- quisition of some special equipment or the tinued carrying on by the College of the support of some particular activity of the fine work for which its founders established College, or, in the absence of specification, it and which those who through the years to the support of such college purposes as have been responsible for its operation and the Directors of the Fund should determine. management have done. Thus the Fund provides: It is now a little more than twenty years "The Board of Directors (of the since the first mailing piece of the Bowdoin Fund) shall consult or communicate with Alumni Fund was sent to Bowdoin men. the Visiting Committee of the College Since that appeal of December, 1919, more Boards at as early a date as possible after than three-quarters of a million dollars have the Commencement of each scholastic come to the College through the Alumni year as to the financial requirements of Fund channel. the College and the purposes to which At the time when the Fund was organ- collections and subscriptions to the in- ised conditions surrounding the financial come fund shall be applied, and the col- [69] [The B o w d o i n Alumnus

lections and subscriptions thereafter to an all time low— 3.46 per cent during made during such college year shall be the year ended June 30, 1939. The unusual paid over or otherwise made available to and unfortunate situation, unique in the the President and Trustees for the pur- history of American education, which has poses determined by the Board of Di- thus been forced upon us may clearly be rectors after such conference or consul- seen in the schedule at the bottom of the tation or otherwise as may be agreed upon page. the between the Board of Directors and Thus between June 30, 1932, and June President and Trustees of the College; 30, 1939, the endowed funds of Bowdoin *** provided, however, that in case any College increased by $1,928,383, or by a donor, in making any gift to the Alum- little more than 30%, whereas during the ni Fund, shall specify how the income same period the income from such funds therefrom (if it be a gift to the prin- (including the nearly $2,000,000 increase cipal or the gift itself (if it be a fund) therein) decreased by $54,565, or by a lit- gift to the income fund) shall be used tie more than 16%. In other words, from or expended, then such income or gift an endowment which was 30 per cent shall be used or expended only in ac- greater in the year ended June 30, 1939, of the cordance with the specifications t h e income of the College was 16 per cent donor, provided the purpose be one which smaller than seven years previously. The ac- the College approves," tual drop in the one year of 1939 alone In the early years of the Fund, many was $32,004. alumni gifts were made to the principal Prompted by the belief that giving is a fund, but in more recent years, the major habit based on a recognition of needs, for emphasis has been placed—and most wisely several years it has been the consistent ef- so—upon gifts to the income fund as an fort Df the Directors of the Alumni Fund aid to the administration of the College t o build up the habit among our alumni work at its normal standards and the main- f giving at least annually to the College. tenance of a balanced budget. And their efforts have not been without The real problem of making both ends success. They have now reached the point meet, which has come to the thresholds of where more than one thousand alumni have all endowed institutions of higher learning, acquired this loyal habit—last year there has arisen because of the steady and enor- were 1,440 contributors—and plan upon mous reduction in income from invested participation in the Fund program pre- funds during the last decade. During the cisely as they plan upon other items in year ended June 30, 1932, for example, their respective budgets such as annual con- the average yield to Bowdoin College on tributions to the Red Cross and to the lo- its invested funds was 5.24 per cent, where- cal community projects with which they as by 1939 the average yield had dropped are individually associated. Thus the body

Changes in Endowed Funds and in Average Yield June 30, June 30, *93 2 x 939 Change Amount of Endowed Funds $6,412,803 $8,341,186 $1,928,383 (Inc.) Income on Endowed Funds in year ended 338,308 283,743 54,5^5 (Dec.) Average Yield on Endowed Funds in year ended 5- 2 4% 3-4^% 1.78% (Dec.) [70] The B o w d o i n Alumnus'} of the Alumni has come to be another en- that the $12,305 raised by the Alumni Fund dowment fund to which the College may last year played a vital part in making up and properly should look to counterbalance the appropriations for the year and very the greatly reduced yield from its endowed considerably lightened the load of the Vis- funds. iting Committee and of the Governing To be sure some members of the Alumni Boards. Without it the effectiveness of the contribute to the Fund amounts that are College program for the current college larger than other members can contribute. year would have been noticeably reduced in

That is one of the fine things about the some, perhaps in many, respects. It goes Fund and its operations. It stands as the without saying that the Governing Boards vehicle through which every member may will make every effort to avoid any sub- contribute what he can afford—what he stantial reduction in the activities of the shall think to be his part of this Alumni College and in quality and effectiveness of endowment. No questions are asked; no its work. But it will help to understand comparisons are made. The decision is en- the importance of the addition of $12,305

tirely for the Alumnus; it is for him to de- to the income of the College, if it be point- cide how much he should recognise the ed out that that is about the amount that needs of the College and contribute to- was appropriated by the Governing Boards ward the maintenance of its high standards. for each of the following during the cur- Last year, the Alumni Fund receipts for rent college year: income totalled $12,305. When one real- 1: The program of alumni and public re- izes that without those gifts the funds of lations, including all College publica-

the College available for its actual operat- tions. ing expenses in 1939 would have been not 2. The program of track and field ath- $32,004 less, but $44,309 less than in 1938, letics. it can readily be appreciated that the Alum- 3. The support of the Librarian and his ni Fund has become of the utmost import- full staff, excepting student help.

ance to the College as an operating institu- 4. The departments of Art and Music.

tion with a weekly and monthly payroll. 5. Coaching salaries for football, baseball

It is the determined wish (it is not too and swimming. much to say, the will) of the Governing 6. The teaching of the Classics. Boards that the College operate year by The president of one of America's great- year on a balanced budget—that no oper- est state universities said recently that "In ating expense be undertaken which can- .order to maintain the freedom of our pub-

not be met absolutely in the fiscal year. This lic education it is vital to America that the budgetary problem which has become in- support of private institutions should not creasingly difficult in recent years, rests, fail." He explained that tax-supported in- at least in the first instance, with the Vis- stitutions are increasingly threatened "by iting Committee of the Governing Boards the tendency of legislative influence to fol-

of the College. It is the duty of that Com- low legislative appropriations" into public mittee to set up and recommend to the education. There lies a danger. The support Boards the appropriations for the various of private institutions must come primarily departments of the College. In doing its from the men whom they have trained, and work the Committee naturally and neces- with the apparent passing the day of large sarily endeavors to follow a policy which bequests and gifts from a small number of will provide at once a maximum of effi- such alumni, Bowdoin and her small sister ciency and economy. It will readily be seen liberal colleges must lean more and more [71] [The B o w d o i n Alumnus

heavily upon the rank and file of their for- our own responsibilities, and perhaps it is mer students. just as well that it is so. In the History of 7S[etc England written The Alumni Fund has been spoken of by John Winthrop, the first Governor of as an institution for the expression of loy- the Massachusetts Bay Colony, it is men- alty. It will always serve this purpose, but tioned that in 1645, "By agreement of the it must also serve as the institution to as- commissioners, and the motions of the eld- sist in the everyday financial support of the ers in their several churches, every family College from year to year in a very main each colony gave one peck of corn or terial way. Bowdoin College is our College;

1 twelve pence to the college at Cambridge/ we must keep it strong. May the Alumni In 1773 when Harvard College again was increasingly recognize the importance of a little "hard pressed," it was given the the Fund and through it help to make up privilege, which it duly accepted and used, the shrinkage in income because of decreas- of operating a lottery. These were two very ed interest rates, trusting that in the not too happy and easy solutions to financial prob- distant future the tide will turn and what lems which are not available to us today. may be regarded as normal financial condi- We must depend solely and entirely upon tions will again prevail.

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Philatelic Bowdoin GEORGE H. JENKINS '28

Franklin Pierce, (A:FTER THE fourteenth President States, issuance last 'UNITED- 1 of the United February 16 of STATES bis portrayed on the a postage stamp f fourteen-cent value (blue) of the cur- jh honoring Henry * * rent regular postage j| Wadsworth stamp series of P Longfellow, a J member of the 6,1938. Pierce was jl Vllr W? born in Hillsbor- [p Bowdoin faculty ¥ suggested that I ough, New Hamp- [ the Alumnus shire, November 23, should carry an 1804. A close friend at Bowdoin of both Longfellow and Nathaniel Hawthorne, he account of it. Our Alumni Secretary has gone a step farther and suggested that this graduated a year earlier, in 1824. Follow- article also call attention to other persons ing a legalistic and political career which associated with Bowdoin who are to be found him in the Senate at thirty-three, found in the philatelic gallery of United in the era of Webster, Clay, and others, States postal issues. he was nominated by the Democrats and elected President in 1852. His administra- Appropriate exercises were held in Port- tion came in that difficult period that pre- land, the official "first-day-of-issue" city, ceded the Civil War. He died October 8, February 16, for it was in this city that 1869. Longfellow was born, February 27, 1807. Longfellow graduated from Bowdoin in General Ulysses S. Grant received an 1825, and then went abroad for three years honorary LL.D. at Bowdoin in 1865. Elect- of study following his appointment at Bow- ed President in 1869, Grant has appeared doin as Professor of Modern Languages. on several stamps including the eighteen- He taught at Bowdoin from 1829 to 1835, cent value of the current series. moving to Harvard in 1836, where he re- Mark Hopkins, famous president of Wil- mained until he decided in 1854 to give up liams College, who served as Provisional academic work and give all his time to writ- Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy ing. He died at Cambridge, Massachusetts, at Bowdoin in 1873-74, is honored on the March 24, 1882. He has ever remained two-cent (red) value of the "Educators" America's most beloved poet. group of the "Famous Americans" series, The Longfellow one-cent stamp (green) issued March 14.

is one of a set of five stamps honoring For those who may have had difficulty American poets; six other sets in this un- in securing the Longfellow stamps at their 11 usual "Famous Americans series of thirty- local post office it may be of interest to five stamps to be issued before November know that the government maintains The will honor American authors, educators, Philatelic Agency, Washington, D. C, scientists, composers, artists, and inventors. where one may purchase at face value se- Bowdoin will use these stamps on Alumni lected copies of many recent and all cur- Fund acknowledgements this year. rent stamp issues of the United States.

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Phi Beta Kappa at Bowdoin, 1910-1939 A CHAPEL TALK BY DEAN PAUL NIXON

C^HHi beta KAPPA, as many of you know, may I express my opinion that far too few was organized at the College of William Bowdoin graduates enter the ministry). and Mary in 1776. It now has over one About ten are engaged in industrial re- hundred and thirty carefully selected chap- search, ten in public service (two of them ters covering this whole country. Its roster army men, one a Congressman), five in of distinguished members, past and present, journalism. Three are librarians, one a farm- contains scores of names with which every er, one a Christian Science practitioner. undergraduate here is familiar, names A fact which may surprise you is that ranging from John Quincy Adams to John seventy-five of these men, one-fourth of the D. Rockefeller, Jr. whole group, are in business. And another This morning (February 8, 1940) certain fact which may surprise you, in view of Bowdoin students are to be admitted to this the rumors that Phi Beta Kappa members very ancient and very honorable society. throng the flop-houses, bread-lines and pen- is a part Even though Bowdoin but small itentiaries, is that all of these 310 Phi Betes of such a society, even though thirty years of ours, who are not still in graduate are but a fraction of the history of Bow- schools, are earning their living, all except doin's chapter, established in 1825, it may a half-dozen, at most, who may not (merely not be inappropriate for me this morning may not) at this moment be employed to review, in mass, the careers of the Bow- three of them because of physical disabil- doin men I have known who were elected ities, and two because of racial discrimina- to Phi Beta Kappa in this college from 191 o tion. through 1939. You no doubt think, I say, of Phi Beta Those men originally numbered about Kappa as being a group of undergraduate three thirty. these hundred and During scholars. It is that, in part. At least it is, in three decades some twenty of them have part, a group of students who have good died, including Warren Robinson and academic minds and rather like to use them Forbes Rickard and Richard Simpson and on academic subjects. But if Phi Beta Kap-

Avery Spear and Elmer Hutchinson, five pa begins by being such a group, it does fine boys, prematurely carried away, whose not end as that. Among these 310 Phi Beta names are connected with college gifts Kappa alumni you might naturally expect which present undergraduates enjoy. to find Bowdoin's most eminent lawyer, Most of you no doubt think of Phi Beta doctor, professor, writer graduated in the Kappa as being a group of undergraduate last three decades. You do find them there. scholars who will almost exclusively enter You also find in that group our most prom- the "learned professions." But, omitting inent public official and probably our most those who are still graduate students, only prosperous business man of these years. You three-fifths of our living alumni elected to also find in that group the alumnus who Phi Beta Kappa during these thirty years perhaps has done most to get Bowdoin sen- are in those professions. Approximately one iors their first jobs. And to come to very hundred and ten are teachers, more of them recent graduates, you also find in that group in colleges than in schools; thirty-five are the First Captain of the whole corps of 1800 lawyers. Only sixteen are doctors, and a West Point cadets. mere three are ministers. (Parenthetically Many times you have heard me say in [74] The B o w d o i n Alumnus'}

this chapel that unsuccess in college is no ment. Our local chapter of Phi Beta Kappa final proof of anything, that success in life begins by electing a small group of under- —outward or inward or both—is not mo- graduate scholars; it ends by seeing them nopolized by high-ranking students or by make a more significant imprint on the life campus celebrities. That statement is ab- of their generation than is made by any solutely true, thank Heaven. There is hope other regularly established group of equal for all of us. But equally true is this state- size that this college sends forth.

Undergraduate Editorial

cil Disciplinary Committee has replaced the (A,bolition of Bowdoin's traditional Ris- one-time law-makers of clannish Phi Chi, ing Day and the curtailment of Freshman which, for many decades, sought to sub- Rules at mid-years are suggested by Stu- jugate the Freshmen through varied pun- dent Council President Charles H. Pope itive practices. With the institution of the '40 for next year since "there is little dif- S.C.D.C, the time-worn method of pad- ference between an upperclassman and a dling was replaced by harrassing inflictions freshman after fraternity initiations, except such as shaving the hair and other belittle- that the former has been here longer." ments for the Freshmen who deviate too far Pope's position has met with favorable re- from the righteous paths of Bowdoin tra- sponse from varied undergraduate sources dition. on the Campus, and the Council president Those of us who have seen Bowdoin foresees its institution in the program next through four years appreciate the signifi- year. cance and validity of Pope's accusations The plan has resulted from several prob- against the upperclassmen for harboring lems. Among these is the fact that Fresh- fraternity brother freshmen who break the man rules are abridged in many instances rules in their eyes, and then haranguing the by the upperclassmen themselves. Frequent- Disciplinary Committee for inflicting puni- ly they escort the freshmen "in their par- tive measures in the expected course of ties, and then condemn the S.C.D.C. (Stu- events. dent Council Disciplinary Committee) for This break in tradition has met 11 Bowdoin the action it takes. with favorable response from the Orient. If the new program is put into force next In a recent editorial the undergraduate year, it will cut short the usual period of weekly observed "It is evident that the Freshman rules by two months. Tradition- freshman rules must eventually go. Why ally this has begun at the opening of the Bowdoin, one of the last strongholds of the College year with Proc Night, and has, in system, has maintained such a puerile tra- the past, ended on Rising Day, sometime dition is a mystery to us. One may clearly in April. That student opinion is favor- see that the student body as a whole has able to Pope's suggestions is revealed by absolutely no interest in the enforcement the fact that, for three days after the plans of the rules. It is evident, also, that no were put forth, Pope received only one un- satisfactory system of enforcement can be dergraduate objection to the suggestions as found. While these two situations exist, opposed to scores of affirmative opinions. freshman rules cannot last. It is clear, too, 11 During recent years the Student Coun- that Rising Day is doomed. [75] 1

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sentment, not only on the part of the Soph- J_he Jjowdom Alumnus omores who customarily handle all such Member of the American Alumni Council hazing, but from a large part of the undergraduate body. Philip S. Wilder '23, Editor Succeeding Student Councils, as we have Stanley P. Chase '05, Boo\ Editor observed them, have left matters pretty Charles S. F. Lincoln '91, Class K[otes Editor much up to their own disciplinary Elizabeth F. Riley, Editorial Associate commit- Richard E. Tukey '40, Undergraduate Editor tees, rightly made up primarily of Soph- Glenn R. McIntire '25, Business Manager omores, but including some upperclassmen ADVISORY EDITORIAL COUNCIL to cut short any dangerous punishments. However, since the Student Council of '38 Frederick H. Dole '97 Walter L. Sanborn 'oi discontinued its own hazing, there has again Harry L. Palmer '04 been a waning interest in the method of Paul K. Niven 'i6 enforcement of the rules. Donald Q. Burleigh '17 W. Hodding Carter '27 Pope's suggestions seem most feasible to John R. Robertson '27 those who have discussed the matter and Alexander P. Clark '34 considered Harry T. Foote '38 the problems, all with due regard for Bowdoin tradition. Freshman rules Published four times during the college year should serve, primarily, to put freshmen on by Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. Sub- the right track at the beginning of their scription price $1.50 a year. Single copies, 40 college cents. With Bowdoin Orient $3.50 a year. years, to cut short the gallavanting about which may be the spark for a bad VOL. XIV March, 1940 NO. 3 fire in forthcoming years. This could be adequately accomplished if stringent rules Whatever action will be taken is indi- were enforced for half a year, it is ex- cated by Pope's statement that the Council pected, and during this time upperclass in- itself will first assay student opinion on the terest and cooperation should be counted subject and then act accordingly. This on. year's Council has a distinct group, coinci- dental with a large group of undergrad- The lectures by Dr. Moritz Bonn in uates, which is in favor of such a move as J. his capacity as Visiting Professor on the Pope has suggested. Tallman Foundation will be given on April That the time-worn tradition of old Phi 17 and 24 and on May 1, and will be in the Chi has lost its appeal to the undergrad- field of international economics. uates as a body is evident from the disin- terest in freshman rules and the waning desire to see them enforced. Such was evi- The faculty has decided that the Insti- dent when the disciplinary committee a few tute to be held in the spring of 1941 will years ago was lax in inflicting due punish- concern itself with the so-called earth ment to freshman offenders. The Student sciences and will have as its formal name Council, then being of the vintage of '38 "Man and his Earth." and having some regard for old Phi Chfs tradition, took matters into its own hands Professor Harold S. Edgerton of the Mas- and acted as a mysterious hazing commit- sachusetts Institute of Technology will tee of Seniors. Although this hazing by the speak at the College on Thursday, April 1 Student Council was to a degree effective and will illustrate his remarkable work in and punitive, it aroused no small bit of re- the field of stroboscopic photography.

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Freshman Recollections of the Seventies FROM THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE A. TILLSON '77

In 1873, when I entered Bowdoin, Gen- time of my entrance, gJn 1873, at the eral Joshua L. Chamberlain was President. Mas- Bowdoin : there were six buildings in He had had rather a wonderful experience. the shell of Memorial sachusetts Hall and He left Bowdoin, where he was a Profes- of a potential Hall, making the north side sor of English, in 1862, and went to war as and quadrangle; while the three dormitories Lieutenant Colonel of the Twentieth Maine side. the Chapel lined up on the eastern Regiment. He was successful, but made his A broad walk ran in front of them from the Harpswell road (now known as Harps- well Street) on the north, across the campus to College Street on the south. Adams Hall, erected for the Medical Department, which was established in 1820, was finished in 1862. Memorial Hall, in memory of Alumni who died in the Civil War, is of granite and was begun in 1868. The college only had enough money to complete the outside walls. The inside of the building was used for a gymnasium while I was in college. The outside portion was announced as completed at the Commence- ment of 1870, at a cost of $47,000.00. These buildings completed the physical plant of Bowdoin College, except for one old, small, one-story, brick building which was used as a Chemistry Laboratory in my time. Dormitory rooms were absolutely bare; there were no lighting fixtures, no water, President Chamberlain no heat, no furniture and much of nothing. What these rooms looked like when they first real hit at the Battle of Gettysburg, were occupied depended upon the wealth where he defended the Little Round Top. and taste of the occupants. The college did, For his action there, he was made Brigadier- however, furnish women to take care of General, and afterwards Brevet-Major-Gen- the rooms. These women were locally eral. He was thought so well of by General 11 known as "endwomen and they were not Grant that he was designated to receive noted for their youth or beauty. In fact, Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Quite a

when, in the early days, it was proposed record for a college professor. At the end at a Faculty meeting to hire a new one, the of the War, he came back to Maine President asked, "Is she sufficiently repul- and was elected Governor in 1866, and re- 11 sive in her personal appearance ? Judging elected for three successive years. from those whom I saw while at college, I Sometime in the late sixties there was think the standard was pretty well main- considerable agitation at Bowdoin for a tained. change of curriculum, one of the recent

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historians saying that at that time the col- I soon became accustomed to the routine lege was too classical. After his retirement of the college. It was a Congregational in- from the Governorship, General Chamber- stitution, although I never thought that lain was elected President of the College. the religious instruction was of particular

He accepted, but made it a condition of ac- benefit at Sunday services, especially when ceptance that the Boards adopt a policy of I saw classmates betting on the length of expansion. As a result of the formal dis- the prayer. The students were expected to cussions and General Chamberlain's ulti- attend the Congregational, or any other matum, a Scientific Department was adopt- Church, provided that their parents asked ed to give a degree of B.S. at the end of for a transfer for them. In -the Church were four years. two large balconies, and on one side sat I decided to enter the Scientific Depart- the Seniors and the Sophomores, and on ment, and to take the Engineering course, the other the Juniors and the Freshmen. as I wished outdoor work. The require- The minister was not too popular with ments for entrance in this Department were the students, and in one of his sermons, much less than that for the Classical. No while I can't recall the connection, he said, Greek was required, and very little Latin. "On account of which, the price of whis- I brushed up a little on my Latin and then key in Chicago was reduced $1.00 per gal- felt that I was ready for the entrance ex- lon." The students at that time had a meth- amination. I had never taken a written ex- od of applauding by rapping on wood with amination of any kind. Math, of course, their knuckles. It was called "Wooding 11 was easy. When it came to Latin and Eng- Up. As soon as the preacher issued his lish, however, it was different. I felt some- whiskey pronunciamento, the Sophomores what discouraged because I knew I was not wooded up very vociferously. Nearly all of doing myself justice. The boys who were that class were summoned the next day to present for the examination were a curious the President's office, but none of them had crowd. They ranged from a smooth-faced heard it. The matter was then dropped. boy of 1 6, to one with a heavy, full black The religious requirements were pray- beard. While I was struggling along the best ers Sunday morning at eight-thirty, and I could, a band of Seniors came up the five in the afternoon, with Church at eleven path singing, "Goodbye, Ladies," apparent- o'clock. Weekday prayers were at eight- ly very happy. It seemed to me a sacrilege twenty, followed by the first recitation at to sing at such a time. I passed the exami- eight-thirty. We had three studies only,

nation, but was conditioned in English. I but we recited in each every day. In Fresh- think, however, that my recitations must man Year, the recitations were all in the

have been satisfactory, as I never heard forenoon, with none on Saturdays, but the anything from the condition. Faculty evidently felt that from Friday too long When I arrived at Brunswick, I was noon until Monday morning was possessed of $50.00, and a whole lot of a time without recitations, as afterwards nerve. start- one recitation was held on Friday after- The panic of 1873 was J ust forenoon. ing, and as a result I did not earn nearly noon, and another Saturday The that could not as much money as I expected, but I had only restrictions were we or at made arrangements so that I could bor- leave town over the week ends any without row what was necessary and when I needed other time during the school term special permission. it. I found that the class had entered thirty- nine Classical students, and twenty-seven President Chamberlain had been a mil- Scientific. itary man, and wished to have military [78] The B o w d o i n Alumnus]

Four Cadet Members of 'Seventy-Six training in the college. The Government Class especially. It did not seem to me to supplied an officer from the regular army be much of a hardship to drill a half hour for drilling the students, and he also gave each afternoon, as it took the place of gym some instruction in International Law. For work. There was some objection to the 11 some reason, "Drill was not popular, in purchase of the equipment necessary.' fact, it was very obnoxious to the Junior The general objection to drill came to a [79] :

[The B o w d o in Alumnus head in the spring term, and there was a ing called before their respective class of- great deal of work being done by the upper- ficers for a final appeal. As I remember the classmen in opposition to it. They did fin- conversation that took place between the ally get enough students to agree not to officer and me, he asked if I would obey drill on a certain night, which happened the rules of the college. I replied that I was to be a Friday, but it rained so there was willing to obey all the rules except in reno drill anyway. There was time, there- gard to the Drill, and I thought that I had. fore, before Monday night, to continue the Then he said campaign against it, and really consolidate "You're not willing to obey in regard

1 the opposition. This was so successful that to the Drill ? and I replied, "No, Sir." He they obtained agreements from practically continued, all of the members of the three lower class- "Tillson, I am very sorry to hear that es not to drill again. The Seniors, who were you take this position, and in accordance exempt from Drill, took no part in the pro- with the order of the Faculty I direct you ceedings. to leave Brunswick on the first train that On Monday night, at the time of Drill, goes in the direction of your home." practically all the college stood on the side- Said I, "If I take the first train that lines watching the Sergeant drilling a squad goes in the direction of my home, I should of three men. This was very amusing, espe- have to go down to Bath and remain there cially so when a Tutor came out and said, all night." "Sergeant Marrett, you can dismiss your "Well," he said, "Take the first through squad." Excitement was high during the train to your home." next few days, and more attention was giv- My brother met me at the depot, and en to the rebellion than to studies. the first thing I said to him was, "What Student meetings were held in the did Mother say"? He replied, "She said she Chapel, and certain members of the Jun- thought that you were able to take care of ior Class read letters from the President yourself." I felt all right then. of Dartmouth, saying that if any man was Many of the boys, instead of going home, dismissed from Bowdoin because of drill, went to Portland. The Editor of the high he would be received at Dartmouth. Of school paper there had an item in his next course, the letters were faked, but the issue saying that you could easily recog-

Freshmen didn't know it. The Freshman nise a Bowdoin freshman by the way he Class held a meeting and agreed formally wore his tall hat and swung his cane! A not to drill again. few days after I reached home, my Mother Some historians say that we signed a pa- received a formal notice from the college, per to that effect, but I don't recall any stating all the conditions of the affair and paper. The Sophomores held a meeting and saying that unless I reported back by a cer- passed a resolution permitting the Fresh- tain date and agreed to drill, I would be men to wear tall hats and carry canes for dismissed. the rest of the year, because of the nerve Of course, all the rebels received the displayed. I think that never before or since same notice. My class held a meeting in has that particular liberty been given to a Portland and decided to return. As a result Freshman Class. of the rebellion, the college boards at the This rebellion was a clear defiance of next commencement made the Drill option-

the college authorities, and it was up to the al, and the following year only eighteen faculty to meet the situation. It resulted in men entered the college for the class of all members of the three lower classes be- 1878. [80] The Bo w d oin Alumnus] Books

be deter- Phillips Mason, The X The nature of mind must, however, without reference to the ultimate char- of Psychology, an Essay mined of reference must on the Problem of the acter of the real. Our frame in scope and much more pre- Science of Mind, Har- be less ambitious this does not mean that vard University Press, cise in formulation. But dogmatic hopefulness toward 1940. Pp. x, an. $2.50. we are to turn in materialism, for the physical order is no more The X of psychology, clearly to be conceived than is the ontology of i.e. the object to be de- the schoolman. termined in psychological "The extent of the physical world is . . . investigation, is usually undetermined; it may be limited or unlim- sooken of as mind. Pro- ited. And with regard to research into its fessor Mason undertakes composition no ultimate element has been to outline the procedure determined as yet with any certainty. At whereby this unknown best, the physical system is an imperfect may be defined and its map plus various laws as to its functioning gradually rendered explicit. As he points detail which may be altered as knowledge ad- out, this path is devious and involves a survey vances. Internally, then, it is nothing ulti- philo- of the whole field of knowledge from a ." mate. . point of view. Thus a less interesting sophical Accordingly, Professor Mason advances, after exact but more familiar title for this and less careful preliminary survey, a frame of reference would be "Mind and its Place in the Sci- essay of his own. The scheme which he adopts may ences." Under such a title we should expect be defended as the most general universe of criticism and evaluation of behaviorism, of discourse pertinent to all scientific discussion. Gestalt theory, of introspectionism, and of other Professor begins, not with reality, but psychological trends. And indeed critical men- Mason with the concept of truth and in the relation of tion of all these is to be found included in Pro- truth to knowledge he finds the material with fessor Mason's very compact argument; but the which to describe the fundamental activity of center of the discussion and the matrix of the mind. He points out that the mind does not system which he is patiently developing lie be- create truth and that truth does not depend for yond the usual scope of contemporary psycho- its structure on mind. This structure is a net- logical research. of relations Professor Mason does not, however, as the work and interconnections which cannot alter. above sentence might lead one to suspect, turn mind On the other hand, absolute truth is unattainable. All truth implies possible to biology as the underlying groundwork ol expansion. There is, to use Professor Mason's mental science. He is neither a vitalist nor a algebraic figure of speech, always naturalist but a philosopher versed in the Kant- an unknown still to be determined a with ian theory of knowledge. Nonetheless, as he X and known abc reference to which this determination must be himself is careful to note, he has edited Kant's effected. Accordingly, it is hard to see how system and repudiated much that is traditionally truth can be defined irrespective of its relation labelled as Kantian. Thus the thing-in-itself, to knowledge. Like Kant's thing-in-itself, that ultimate and unknowable background to- abso- lute truth is an unnecessary concept ward which, according to Kant, all knowledge and one concerning which we have no grounds for seems to point, has disappeared and with it most profitable speculation concerning the "world," "reality," speculation. But truth itself remains a or the "universe." The ontological problem, or significant concept nonetheless. It is inseparable from the abc-X relation, is in the problem of being, is mentioned briefly and which turn inseparable from scientific classified as probably insoluble. But, unlike some procedure. recent thinkers, Professor Mason considers the Professor Mason's philosophy of mind is ontological Droblem which challenges us to de- based upon the proposition that mind is an scribe the ultimate and eternal framework of awareness of limited truth. (This, of course, re- reality, as a genuine one. Although all attempts quires an especially careful theory of error.) at its solution can, he thinks, add but little to Mind is characterized, on the one hand, by its knowledge, the very presence of the problem own intrinsic unity and, on the other, by the does yield us a certain perspective and indicates limitations of the subject-matter which it sur- the dark but inescapable horizon of knowledge. veys. Professor Mason finds no evidence of an And so when we discuss this problem we are absolute or all-inclusive mind. Mind, insofar not talking nonsense. Thus the curiosity of the as we know anything about it, always stands be- ancient Greeks, who sought boldly to char- tween an abc and an X, between the known and acterize reality as a whole, may be justified even the problematic. Indeed, mind is simply aware- if their speculations are not to be imitated. ness of the tension existing between the abc and [81] [The B o w d o i n Alumnus

the X, which is the same thing as saying that bility of the individual. Yet he can still pack a it is an awareness of truth, or, to use Professor wallop and wield control when jarred out of Mason's phrase of "truth on the march. " Pro- his complacency. It is in that ever-present threat fessor Mason finds this to be the case not onlv that safety lies. of conceptual thought but also of all forms of The author has made a valuable addition to cognitive consciousness, of attention, judgment, the bibliography of political science. The text is perception, etc. For description of these func- tions Professor Mason urges a method of "re- construction" whereby introspection is supplemented through a procedure first recommended to psychologists by Professor Mason's father-in- law, the late Paul Natorp of Marburg. As I understand it, this method is essentially that by means of which St. Augustine performed his famous--analysis of our awareness of time and that employed by Kant in his deduction of the categories. It is a method of hypothesis erected upon introspective data, whereby several operations the first, of : mind which .appear at in their

synthetic-, and constructive . activity, as indistin- guishable may be isolated' andlstudied by themselves. A program like this which/ calls for a return to Kantian methods in psychology will seem to many wholly quixotic, and, we all know that there is little chance of its immediate adoption. Even so, the writer performs a real service who points out what recent psychology has neglected. Perhaps some day we may undo the damage inflicted on American psychology by William James when he so scornfully dismissed Kantian methods, after having caricatured them almost beyond recognition. most readable and the photographs are gems. More power to the sturdy Billy Edwardses of Newton -P. Stallknecht Maine whose garments have never shown the marks of the vermillioned rope! John Gould, K[ew England Town Meeting, Clarence H. Crosby Stephen Daye Press, Brattlefeoro, Vt., 1940. Pp. 64, illus. $i.o6\ Orren Chalmer Hormell and Roy Ham- A close examination of this informative and ilton Owsley, Zoning Manual for Maine aptly illustrated*' monograph on an indigenous Towns, Bpwdoin College Bulletin (Research institution is recommended ta those 'Faint Hearts Series No.' 11), 1940. Pp. 89. $1.50 (cloth); who profess to see in Current political trends the $1.00 (paper). disintegration of Democracy. In the town meeting as it still flourishes in-the smaller commun- Whenever Professor Hormell, through the ities we see what brought joy to the heart of Bowdoin College Bureau for Research in Muni- Lord Bryce and can evaluate the jitters it holds cipal Government, issues a new title in the now for potential Hitlers. Its kerriel is the independ- quite impressive list of studies and manuals pre- ence and dignity of Manf " its flower is the pared by/himand published by the Bureau dur- rugged and wholesome functioning of a self- ing the past twenty-five years, it is welcome governing community. news to all those interested in good government, We speak advisedly of the town meeting in whether state or municipal, and especially to the smaller communities, for jin the larger towns students :of governmental problems in Maine. the finance or budget committee together with The latest publication to issue from the Bu- the growing use of the Australian ballot system reau, a "Zoning Manual for Maine Towns," is have all but reduced the annual meeting to a particularly timely. Interest in zoning and plan- perfunctory assembly in which nothing but a ning for cities and towns in Maine has been hot issue will cause "the flood-gates of oratory increasing rapidly in recent years, since the pio- to champ nervously at their.bits." The compli- neer ordinances adopted in Portland and York cations of the modern budget: and the rise of the Village in 1Q26 have had time to show their £own manager have removed , much of the color value as well as their minor defects. Persons and, as a practical matter,., inevitably moved closely connected with the preparation of these town, affairs away, from the personal .".responsi- early Ordinances are receiving frequent requests [8i] The B o w d o in Alumnus}

for advice and help from newly interested"* mu- The Authors several of which are currently con- nicipalities, Phillips Mason, Ph.D., who completes this sidering and voting on proposed ordinances. June his twentieth year in the chair of philos- Lacking until recently any central source of in- ophy at Bowdoin, is known especially as a de- formation, such persons have found it difficult fender of the Kantian tradition. Outside the advise with any certainty and assurance. This to philosophical classroom, Professor Mason has, lack Professor Hormell, with the co-operation of through his expert knowledge and advice, con- the Maine Municipal Association, has now sup- tributed much to the development of music at plied in a most thorough and comprehensive the College and in the Town; and for the last manner. six years, in a period of considerable disturb- Starting with an explanation of what zoning ance, he has served with steadiness and wisdom is and what it purports to do, the manual sets as Chairman of the Brunswick School Commit- forth the legal and constitutional basis for such tee, to which he has just been re-elected for a ordinances. The Maine Legislature has co-oper- third term. ated fully with civic groups seeking the necessary enabling acts and presenting from time to John T. Gould, '31, until recently reporter perfecting amendments, as experience sug- for the Brunswick Record and conductor of one time 11 gests improved laws. Citations to the statutes of the liveliest "colyums to be found in New and legal decisions are numerous and helpful. England town papers, is now associated with his Those interested in the legal philosophy sun- brother Franklin, '37, in editing and publishing porting the constitutionality of such restrictions a new weekly, The Town Times, in Yarmouth. on private property rights might consider the Orren C. Hormell, Ph.D., is DeAlva Stan- growing tendency toward upholding such re- wood Alexander Professor of Government. His strictions on an aesthetic basis without resort to collaborator, Roy Hamilton Owsley, Ph.D., the fiction of protection of health and safety. recently removed to Washington, was Executive The manual next goes into detail on a tech- Secretary of the Maine Municipal Association. nically important subject, the exact procedure The last number of the Municipal Research Se- necessary to adopt a valid ordinance. Attention ries, Professor Hormeirs Personnel Problems in is properly given to the necessity of a prelim- Maine, was reviewed in the Alumnus of inary campaign of education of the citizens and March, 1937. a thorough study of the probable growth of a community before attempting to draft an ordi- The Reviewers nance. For the smaller towns some of the statistical detail of this preliminary work mav per- Newton P. Stallknecht, Ph.D., is Asso- haps be eliminated without serious loss but it is ciate Professor of Philosophy and author of well to have available such a thorough guide. Studies in the Philosophy of Creation, reviewed

A suggested form of zoning ordinance is in- in the issue of January, 193 s. cluded, with explanatory comment under each Clarence H. Crosby, "17, is a lawyer in section, which should prove exceedingly helpful Dexter, a former president of the Alumni Coun- to any committee struggling to master this new cil, a former member of the Legislature, and and intricate subject. Here again for the smaller at present manager of the campaign for the towns, some of the sections of the ordinance Republican Senatorial nomination of his fellow- might be abbreviated and simplified but for the townsman, Ralph O. Brewster, '09. purpose of study and guidance the sections set Donald W. Philbrick, -'afj a Portland law- forth in the manual furnish excellent material. yer and former member of the Alumni Council, Valuable suggestions follow as to the office was Speaker of the Maine House of Represen- of building inspector and its importance, the tatives in 1930 and a member of the judiciary issuance of separate building permits and occu- committee which considered zoning statutes. He pancy permits, the creation of boards of zoning is a member of the Civic and Planning Insti- adjustment apart from the overworked municipal tute, and served on the committee which drafted officers, methods of enforcement and appeal, the zoning ordinance for Cane Elizabeth. some brief suggestions as to planning, and finally a model ordinance. Note All committeemen and others interested in Roy A. Foulke's Behind the Scenes of Busi- considering zoning for their towns will find ness, reviewed in our issue this manual of November, 193 s, indispensable, and the thanks of all has been supplemented by later pamphlets bring- public-spirited citizens are due to the authors ing up to date the financial ratios therein and the sponsors of the publication. studied. The third of these supplementary pamphlets, just issued by Dun and Bradstreet, is entitled Donald W. Philbrick Relativity of the Moral Hazard.

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With the Alumni Bodies ANDROSCOGGIN ASSOCIATION KENNEBEC ASSOCIATION

Coach Adam Walsh and the Alumni The annual meeting will be held at the Secretary represented the College at a meet- Unitarian Church in Augusta on the eve- ing held at the DeWitt Hotel in Lewiston ning of Tuesday, April 2. Coach Adam on the evening of Thursday, March 28. Walsh and the Alumni Secretary will represent the College. BOSTON ASSOCIATION. NEW HAMPSHIRE ASSOCIATION More than 250 Bowdoin men attended President Scott C. W. Simpson '03 is the annual meeting at the University Club planning on a meeting at Exeter sometime on Wednesday, February 7, to hear ad- in May. dresses by President Sills and Trustee Har- vey D. Gibson '02. A feature of the program was a panel discussion on the inter- NEW YORK ASSOCIATION national situation in which Messrs. Sills The annual meeting was held at the Har- and Gibson were joined by Professors Kirk- vard Club on the evening of Friday, Jan- land, Kendrick, Bonn and Daggett of the uary 26. Speakers included President Sills faculty. Louis B. McCarthy '19 was elected and Mayor Harold H. Burton '09 of president and Joseph G. Kraetzer '31 will Cleveland. The new president is Joseph serve as secretary. C. White 'n and the secretary is Law- rence B. Libby '27. BOSTON CLUB PENOBSCOT CLUB The club sponsored a successful concert Professor Robert P. T. Coffin '15 was by the Glee Club in Jordan Hall on the guest and speaker at a meeting held at the evening of Friday, March 22. Tarratine Club on the evening of Friday, March 8. Magnus F. Ridlon, M.D. '22, was CENTRAL CONNECTICUT chosen president and Secretary Louis C. ASSOCIATION Stearns '33 was reelected. President Sills represented the College at a meeting in the dining hall of Trinity Col- PHILADELPHIA CLUB lege at Hartford on the evening of Thurs- President Sills represented the College day, February 8. Other speakers were Pres- at the annual meeting held at the Poor ident Ogilby of Trinity and Mr. Lewis Richard Club on the evening of Saturday, of Hartford. President Fox John A. Went- January 27. worth, M.D. '09 was reelected, and the new secretary is Daniel W. Pettengill '37. PITTSBURGH CLUB

Secretary Frank T. Donnelly ' 1 1 is plan- FRANKLIN COUNTY ASSOCIATION ning for a meeting some time in April. Secretary Benjamin Butler '28 was in charge of arrangements for a concert by PORTLAND CLUB the Glee Club at Farmington on Friday, The Club met at the Lafayette Hotel on February 23. the evening of Tuesday, February 13. Pro- [84] —— J ——

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"The Fu- meeting held at the Yacht Club on. Jan- fessor MoriU J. Bonn spoke on ( 1 ture of Europe ' and the Alumni Secre- uary 26. Its sponsor and honorary presi- tary presented a series of questions under dent is Thomas H. Eaton '69 and William the heading "Bowdoin Information, L. Watson '02 and Charles S. F. Lincoln Please." The Club will observe its annual "91 are serving as executive vice-president "President's Night" at the Cumberland and secretary. A second meeting was held

Club on Thursday, April 4. on March 15. RHODE ISLAKD ASSOCIATION The Association sponsored a concert WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION by the Glee Club on Monday, March 25, President Sills was the guest and speak- cooperating with the Rhode Island alum- er at the annual meeting, held at the Ho- nae of Wheaton College. tel Raleigh, on Monday, February 12. Pres- ST. PETERSBURG CLUB ident Whitcomb was reelected and Hubert This new organisation was formed at a S. Shaw '36 was chosen as secretary.

The Necrology 1876 Charles Sumner Taylor, who since 1883 -Stuyvesant Ten Broeck Jackson, his retirement in 1925 had been living for forty-three years head of the real in Norfolk, Virginia, died there on February 10. estate department of the Union Mutual Life He was born March 3, 1855, at Newcastle and Insurance Company, died at his home in Port- was a teacher in Goshen, Indiana, and in Plain- land on February 26. Born in Portland, Octo- field and Chicago, Illinois. ber 19, i860, Mr. Jackson went to St. Louis, 1877 Charles Edwin Cobb, who was born Missouri, as a railway accountant on graduation and was given an M.S. in 1886. For the fol- in Auburn, August 13, 18^6, and was in business in Chicago in business there from the time of his gradua- lowing five years he was returned to Portland in 1891. Survivors in- tion until 1900, died at a Boston hospital on but son. February 22. After leaving Auburn he conclude his widow, two daughters, and a '27. of tinued business in Gardiner and in Boston, and George S. Jackson He was a member Psi Upsilon. had in recent vears been living at Needham, Massachusetts. He was given an A.M. by the 1889 Edward Newton Shirley, who re- College in 188 1 and was a member of Delta ceived his A.B. at Dartmouth in 1890, Kappa Epsilon. is reported by the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine 1879 Heber Durgin Bowker, who received as having died on November 6, 1919. He was his Bowdoin A.M. in 1882, died on born in Conway, New Hampshire, September in business January 19 at his winter home at San Mateo, 10, 1867, and had been the lumber Florida. Mr. Bowker was born in Turner, Feb- in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was a member of Al- ruary 11, 1858, and taught school in Laconia, oha Delta Phi. New Hampshire, and in Westboro and Grove- 1890 Orman Brown Humphrey, who re- land, Massachusetts, for a few years after leav- ceived his M.D. at Dartmouth in 1894, ing College. He then entered business and for is reported as having died in Florida in the lat- forty years maintained clothing stores at Haver- ter part of February. Born in Bangor, Mav 28, hill, Milford, and Hopedale, Massachusetts. Mrs. 1867, Dr. Humphrey had practiced medicine Bowker survives him. He was a member of there and had also developed a considerable Theta Delta Chi. renutation as a photographer. He was" a mem- 1882— 0SIAH Willis Crosby, who had prac- ber of Psi Upsilon. ticed law in Dexter from 1884 until 1891 Parker Cleaveland Newbegin, who his retirement in 1930, died at his home there received a B.S. at the Massachusetts on February 29. He was born in Dexter, May Institute of Technology in 1804 ar>d who had 29, 1862, and received his Bowdoin A.M. in served since 1928 as Chief Engineer of the 1885. He is survived by a son and law-partner, Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, died in Houl- Clarence H. Crosby '17. He was a member of ton on January 22. Born at Defiance, Ohio, Delta Kappa Epsilon. May 19, 1869, he entered the employ of the [85] —

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Bangor and Aroostook on receiving his Tech- Massachusetts after two years because of ill nology degree. Survivors include his widow and health. He later entered the employ of the two daughters. He was a member of Theta Delta Henlev-Kimball Companv, Hudson and Essex Chi and Phi Beta Kappa. automobile dealers in Boston, becoming office —-Henry Hill Pierce, Trustee of the manager in 1924 and service denartment man- 1896 ager in 1928. He was forced to retire about a College since 1922, died at a New York year ago because of continued ill health. His hospital on March 18. A sketch of his career mother survives him. He was a member of will be found in another section of the magazine. Kappa Sigma. —William Emerson Preble, who re- 1898 —Eliot Kutz Coulter is reported as ceived his M.D. at Harvard in 1909 1929 having died at his home in Windsor, and was given an Sc.D. by Bowdoin in 1925, Connecticut, on September 22, 1919. Mr. Coul- died at his Boston home on January 22 after a ter was associated with the West Penn Electric long illness. He practiced medicine in Boston for Company for some years* after graduation and thirty years, serving as instructor at Tufts Medi- had more recently worked as an auditor and cal School, as head of the medical department of statistician. He leaves his wife, a son, and two the Boston Dispensary and as a consultant at daughters. He was born April 18, 1906 at Es- various hospitals. He was a fellow of the Ameri- sex, Connecticut, and was a member of Zeta can Medical Association and a member of Delta Psi. Upsilon. Dr. Preble was born at Litchfield, March 29, 1876. He is survived by his widow |93] Wallace Cobb Dyson died at his and one daughter. home in Portland on March 23. He been ill for about a year. at- —Lincoln Lewis Cleaves, who retired had Mr. Dyson 1899 tended Tufts Medical School for three years on January 1st as account executive of following graduation and was a member of Psi McCann Erickson, Inc., died suddenly on Jan- Upsilon. He was born in Portland, December uary 20 of a heart attack in Longwood, Florida, 28, 1908, and was the son of the late Wallace where he was on a vacation with his wife. Mr. W. Dyson M'oo, whose grandson and name- Cleaves was born in Chicago, Illinois, on March sake survives. 10, 1877. Following graduation he taught school in Portland, Maine until 1902, when he entered the advertising business in Chicago. Continuing in this field, Mr. Cleaves went to Montreal and MEDICAL SCHOOL Newark before taking up his work in New York City. During recent years Mr. Cleaves had 1900 Clarence Eugene Hight, M.D., who served as Secretary of his class and as Agent was born October 4, 1874 in Jefferson, for the Alumni Fund. was a of He member New Hampshire, and who had practiced in that Theta Delta Chi and of Phi Beta Kappa. • — state at Berlin, Milan, and Groveton from 1900 1913 George Campbell Duffey, who was to 1923, died at Pasadena, California, where born at Medford, Massachusetts, Octo- he had been living since the latter date, on ber 15, 1892, died at his home there on January March 15. During the World War, Dr. Hight 31. Mr. Duffey went to the West Coast imme- served as a first lieutenant with the Army Med- diately on leaving Bowdoin but returned to ical Corps. His wife and a daughter survive him.

News from the Classes

Foreword home watching the ice storms and attendant From St. Petersburg, Florida phenomena. It is bromidic to talk about the climate, but we can't seem to get away from it. Well, this is down South, but a very meek Club in St. and chastened South, for it has suffered much We have a brand-new Bowdoin this winter, and the lamentation has extended Petersburg; see "With the Alumni Bodies." 1 from "Mason and HamlinY Line to the Rio With any kind of decent patronage from other sections of this country in the winter season, it Grande: and who could blame it. will be a credit both to the College and the Concentration of sun spots, the new Ice Age, community. Look us up at Commencement. or what not, the damage to non-frost-proof products and to morale was terrible: even Cali- 1872—Ambrose V. Ackley, a retired teacher, fornia complained; but there was little balm and for 55 years warden on Peaks Is- in that for good old Florida. land, Portland Harbor, and oldest alumnus It has warmed up now, and we whose homes of Bowdoin, celebrated his 02nd birthday at his are in the North are thankful we are not at home there on February 2. He still takes a keen [86] —— ———

The B o w d o i n Alumnus'] interest in contemporary affairs, including pro- 1893 Secretary, harry c. fabyan fessional baseball, of which he is an enthusiastic 6 Beacon St., Boston, Mass. slight edge of two years on the fan. He has a Henry M. Wilder and Mrs. Wilder now re- Senior Alumnus, Thomas H. Eaton '69. Bow- gard St. Petersburg as their home city, and are doin is indeed proud of its nonagenarians. living at 1759 41st St., South. —Secretary, professor w. a. moody, 1882 Secretary, HON. w. M. ingraham Brunswick. 1895 79 High St., Portland. Dr. George F. Bates, in active practice for the Judge George C. Webber, of Auburn, is in last 55 years, has just retired, and moved from Florida on a vacation and is staying at 1 1 Boca Yarmouth to Portland. His new home is 486 Ciega Apartments, Gulfport. Woodford St., Portland. Staples, Lewiston Arthur "A.G.S." of the 1897 Secretary, james e. Rhodes, ii journal; its editor-in-chief for more than twenty 700 Main St., Hartford, Conn. years; and fifty-seven years on its staff, received Frederick H. Dole has compiled and sent to the first annual award of the local chapter of his class a second annual "broadside" of infor- the Tewish national order of B'nai Brith, for mation. In it we note a ' life time of meritorious journalistic achieve- " that Archie Harriman is Grand Secretary ments. — of the Grand Masonic bodies of Vermont. Prof and Hutchins are that Fred KneeLand is completing his fourth - Mrs - - 1883 C - C — passing the winter in California. Their year as Judge of the County Court at James- address is 4655 Georgia St., San Diego. town, N. D. —that San Lorenzo Merriman is retiring from Stuyvesant T. B. Jackson, whose death is re- the principalship of Aroostook State Normal ported in the Necrology section, a direct des- School after years of service. cendant in the ninth generation from Governor 33 that Wallace Purnell is quartermaster of Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherlands, held land — the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Maine. in New York City which has come down in the that Joseph Stetson is completing his 25th possession of the Stuyvesant family since the — year as Secretary of Governor's death in 1692. United Lodge of Masons — in Brunswick. Secretary, DR. H. S. 1888 CARD —that William F. White is now living at The 411 Massachusetts Ave., Boston, Mass. Sheraton, 91 Bay State Road, Boston. Judge John L. Maxwell and family are regu- 1898 Secretary, thomas l. pierce lar winter residents of St. Petersburg, and plan R. F. D. 2, Rehoboth, Mass. to spend about six months here. They have a Ex-Governor Baxter was selected as the delightful home at 1000 14th Ave. N., and State's outstanding citizen by the Ralph D. John's son is a student in the Florida Militarv Academy. Caldwell Post of the American Legion, of Port- land; and he was presented with a scroll of Willard W. Woodman is passing the winter honor in recognition, at the regular meeting of in Clearwater. He and Maxwell were present at the Post on February 28. Mr. Baxter is the first dinner of the Bowdoin Club on Janu- now on ary 26. a trip to Japan. 1899—Dr. Fred H. Albee of Colonia, N. 1889 Secretary, william m. emery J., chairman of the State Rehabilitation 182 Cottage St., New Bedford, Mass. Commission since 19 19, was honored at a din- Emerson L. Adams, State Commissioner of ner given by the commission and the State De- Education in Rhode Island, has recently pre- partment of Labor, at the Essex House in New- pared and published a course of study in "Fire ark on February 21. Prevention" for use in the public schools of Mrs. Charlotte G. Hall, wife of Drew B. Hall that state. of Braintree, Mass., died at her home on Janu- Rev. Charles F. Hersey quietly observed his ary 30, after a long illness. She was a sister of 80th birthday, January n, at his home in Har- the late Mrs. George T. Little, and for some vard, Mass., where he and Mrs. Hersey have years prior to 1900 she lived in the home of Dr. been living since his retirement as City Mission- Little, and assisted him in the College Library. ary in New Bedford, which post he successfully Samuel Topliff, Esq., of Chicago, was mar- filled for thirty-two years. He received many ried on December 27, 1939, to Miss Lydia gifts and greetings from a host of J. friends. Mrs. Brennan of Chicago. Hersey was his faithful assistant during his work in New Bedford. There are also two daughters; 1900 Secretary, burton m. clough Mrs. W. P. Waldo, wife of a clergyman in 477 Congress St., Portland. Sheldon, Vt., and Miss Evelyn W. Hersey, per- Dr. Islay F. McCormick, for the past seven sonal service director for the American Com- years Headmaster of the Albany mittee Academy at for Christian Refugees, New York City. Albany, N. Y., will retire from this post at the [87] [The B o w d o i n Alumnus close of the school year. He has been associated 1907—Secretary, felix a. burton with the Academy since 191 2 when he became 234 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. Department. head of the Mathematics Wadleigh B. Drummond was elected a di- is recovering slowly from a Philip L. Pottle rector of the Bath Iron Works Corporation at be present at his serious illness and hopes to the annual meeting on March n. 40th Reunion in June. Mr. and Mrs. John H. Halford of Norris- Frank Sparks of the Grand Rapids Herald town, Penna., announce the engagement of their wrote an interesting editorial note for his paper- daughter, Jane Tetley Halford, to Mr. Charles on the appearance of the Bowdoin pictures in E. Parker, Jr., also of Norristown. Life on January 8. 1909—Secretary, ERNEST H. pottle —Secretary, Walter l. sanborn 1901 34 Appleton Place, Glen Ridge, N. J. Lansdale, Penna. Dispatches from Cleveland, Ohio, state that Roland E. Clark, Portland Banker and presi- Mayor Harold H. Burton will be a candidate dent of the Trust Division of the American for the U. S. Senate in the Republican primary 1 Bankers Association, in an address at the New election this spring. Every Bowdoin man who England Conference, in Boston, on March 14, knows Harold Burton, even if of another party, urged the fundamental right of private enter- will wish him good luck. There can't be too prise to carry on in the American way without many of that kind in the Senate. government interference. Mr. Clark at the same It is an unusually interesting coincidence that time suggested the necessity for business to so Rep. Ralph O. Brewster, of the 3rd Maine Dis- conduct itself as to make invasion by the gov- trict, is also a candidate for the Senate. Burton ernment unjustified. and Brewster were roommates. Here's luck to the class of '09. Brewster was honored by his —Secretary, a. 1902 lyman cousens fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon, at a meeting 10 1 Vaughan St., Portland. on March 2, as a "distinguished member who President Harvey Dow Gibson of the Manu- has made good." facturers Trust Company of New York, was 1910—Secretary, e. curtis Matthews nominated as a new , member of the Board of Piscataqua Savings Bank, Portsmouth, Directors of the Chesapeake and Ohio R. R., at N. H. a meeting of the board held in Richmond, Va., on February 20. Robert Hale is a candidate for the Republi- can nomination for representative in the first 1903—Secretary, clement f. robinson Maine Congressional district. Also in the run- 85. Exchange St., Portland. ning is Rep. James C. Oliver '17, the present incumbent. Scott Simpson of Intervale, N. H., is vice- chairman of the Republican State Committee, Judge and Mrs. Thomas Otis of Hyannis, Mass., have been visiting in Miami this winter and is in charge of finance for the northern half will visit re- of the state. and Havana and Nassau before turning to the Cape. 1905—Secretary, henry lewis Cony Weston and Mrs. Weston of Augusta 3 Storer St., Portland. were in St. Petersburg late in February to see his father, Nathan Weston, Sr., who has been Edwin L. Harvey was elected president of quite ill. the Forty Plus Club of New York, January 19. — The Club was founded in January 1939, and ]9]2 Secretary, william a. maccormick is an association for executive placement. Y. M. C. A., 316 Huntington Ave. Colonel Harold E. Marr, U.S.A., of Sears- Boston, Mass. port, was retired from active service on January From the Worcester Academy Bulletin: Har- 31. Col. Marr was an artillery officer of many old Ashey, manufacturer and philanthropist of years service, and previous to his recent return that city, has been the deus ex machina by to Maine he served four years as inspector gen- which the "Megaron" has been refitted and eral in the Philippines. beautified. The Megaron is one of the common rooms at the Academy. —Secretary, Robert t. woodruff, esq. 1906 Mayor Edgar F. Cousins of Old Town has 165 Broadway, New York, N. Y. been reelected to a sixth consecutive term. Harold S. Stetson of Copenhagen, Denmark, Governor Saltonstall of Massachusetts has has been made managing director of the Insu- appointed John L. Hurley to be a member of lite Company of Finland which operates a wood the Appellate Tax Board of the state. fibre mill at Kpmi, near the Finnish seaport of George C. Kern is head of the Sales Division Kotka. Mr. Stetson is also director of the Dan- of the Portland Chamber of Commerce, in its ish, Dutch and British subsidiary companies of 1940 mobilization. his organization and of the Abborsfors Power Luther Whittier '13 writes: The November Company in southern Finland. Alumnus carried a notice of the death of [88] t ———

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Paul Niven is enjoying a trip to Florida, Frank Elmer Nolin. He died in January 1939 state de- going down by boat on the Merchants and in Augusta. He was employed in some Miners Line and driving back over the road partment. He served during the World War from Miami. overseas in a unit of the 26th Division. ]Q]3—Secretary, luther g. whittier ]9]7—Secretary, prof, noel c. little Farmington. Brunswick.

is a can- Frank I. Cowan, Portland attorney, Ernest C. Fuller now holds the post of Dis- didate for reelection as representative to the trict Director with the National Youth Admin- legislature at the Primaries in June. istration and has an office at 27 State Street, Willis E. Dodge is principal of the High Bangor. School at Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y. Prof. David A. Lane, Dean of the Municipal Washington, February 15. Sumner Pike, College for Negroes in Louisville, Ky., is a former Texas oil man, now of Lubec, Me., was member of the advisorv committee appointed by today named a dollar-a-year representative of the U. S. Commissioner of Education in con- Secretary of Commerce Hopkins, on the Tem- nection with the study of the higher education porary National Economic Committee; com- of negroes, as authorized by the 7 ,c;th Congress. monly known as the "Anti-Monopoly Commit- Secretary, donald s. higgins tee." 1919 The Class Scholarship has been awarded to 78 Royal Rd., Bangor. '41, who also receives the is Franklin D. Comery Orson L. . Berry living at 915 North Ave., award given in memory of his father, the late Johnstown, Penna., and is working with the Sanford B. Comery. National Radiator Company. Fletcher Twomblv has been elected Pxesident Secretary, STANLEY M. GORDON of the Massachusetts Press Association. He had 1920 Park Place, City. previously served as secretary and during the n New York

period of the N.R.A., was Massachusetts Ad- Edward J. Berman suffered a broken leg on ministrator for the non-metropolitan press. March 22 when an automobile skidded into him. ]9J5—Secretary, CLIFFORD T. PERKINS 1922 Secretary, carroll s. towlf 9 Walton St., Westbrook. U. of N. H., Durham, N. H.

Roger K. Eastman has given Governor Dum- Frank Averill is now on the staff of North- mer Academy a pair of special cages for the eastern University at Boston. use of the hockey team of which his son is a Virgil C. McGorrill has recently been elected member. president of the Portland Chamber of Com- Austin H. MacCormick, former Commissioner merce. of Correction in New York City, who became Eben G. Tileston is now associated with the executive director of the Osborne Association, Charlesgate Hotel at 535 Beacon St., Boston. Inc., January 15, has been retained by the Secretary, richard small Special Legislative Commission on Pardons and 1923 Orland St., Portland. Parole to study the Massachusetts parole system 59 and recommend changes for improvement. James A. Kunkel is now head of the Roch- ester- Wilbert Burial —Secretary, dwight sayward Vault Inc., Rochester, N. 1916 Y. Jim also announces that his son, James A. 509 Masonic Bldg., Portland. Jr., is now in his second year. John L. Baxter was recently appointed chair- Karl R. Philbrick has been elected a member man of the New England Council's Marketing of the Bangor School Board. Committee. Formed in 1938, to assist the mar- The Class Secretary is out for the Republican keting of England products, the commit- New nomination for Countv Attorney. We and '23 tee is responsible for the observance of New hope he gets it; here's luck. England Days, and New England on Display Scott Stackhouse is reported as working with Week. the County Relief Bureau in Cleveland, Ohio, Adriel U. Bird, of Boston, was recently in and is living at 3006 Franklin Blvd. St. Petersburg for an over night stop, on one of his trips south in his private plane. 1924 Secretary, clarence d. rouillard Kenneth T. Burr of the Bancroft and Mar- 32 Astley Ave., Toronto, Canada. tin Rolling Mills Comnanv has been elected a State Senator George E. Hill of Portland will director of the Portland Chamber of Commerce. not seek reelection this year. Dr. Guy Leadbetter of writes Washington Richard B. Phillips, M.D., who is a Fellow that Henry G. Wood is now living at 500 in Surgerv on the Mayo Foundation, has re- Jamestown Rd., Friendship Station, D. C." His cently published a number of monogranhs in work is to write uo suggested laws for Con- the "Proceedings of the Staff Meetings of the gress; and Guy suggests that the Office con- Mayo Clinic" and in other professional period- tact him for specific classification. icals. t»9] — —

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Rev. Frederic M. Tileston, formerly of West Academy in which he writes of Rev. John Duxbury, is now pastor of the church in Deer- Pike, Bowdoin graduate in 1833 and trustee of field, Mass. the Academy for over fifty years. Manning Hawthorne, described by the press —Secretary, w. h. gulliver, jr. 1925 as "slight, fair, and 33" took part in the cele- i Federal St., Boston, Mass. bration at Salem, Mass., in connection with the Attorney Horace A. Hildreth, chairman of world premiere of the motion picture "The the board of directors of the Maine Publicity House of Seven Gables." Bureau, is a candidate for state senator from Northeastern University has just published 11 Cumberland County. He was recently elected "Merit Rating in Industry as prepared bv Dean president of the Lincoln Club at its annual Asa S. Knowles of the College of Business Ad- meeting in Portland. ministration. Ernest H. Joy, M.D., is now practicing at Ray A. Olson is now with the Diamond Al- Toms River, N. J. kali Co., and is living at 201 Eagle St., Fair- —Secretary, prof, albert abrahamson port Harbor, Ohio. IQ26 Dr. Philip W. Woods is director of dental Hotel Algonquin, New York City. health in the Maine State Department of Health. The New York law firm of Spence, Windels, Secretary, albert e. jenkins Walser, Hotchkiss 6? Angell, 40 Wall St., an- ]P3] Ingleside Ave., Winthrop, Mass. nounce that associate James H. Halpin became Si John Gould and his brother Franklin '37 are a member of the firm on February 1. editors, managers, etc., of the Alfred M. Strout of Thomaston has been the proprietors, Times, published in Yarmouth. The paper elected selectman of that town for a three-year Town term. is a weekly, is distributed without charge to local residents, and is mailed outside to a small —Secretary, george o. cutter 1927 but growing list of subscribers. John recently Vinewood, Birmingham, Mich. 647 wrote a letter about the food served at New Ed Farnham is still selling cars at 4th St. and England Town Meetings, which was broadcast 15th Ave. N., St. Petersburg. The Farnhams over a New England network and published in have a son, Edward Rutledge, born November the Boston Herald. n, 1939- Elwyn Hennessey, who is with the Lumber- Burton W. Trask, Jr., formerly with the mens Mutual Casualty Co., has been sent to Jersey City Medical Center, is now a Roent- Cleveland to take full charge of the company's genologist in Augusta. He is living at the Y. M. program in Ohio. C. A. Ben and Mrs. Shute are admitting that daughter Mary, born January 10, has aspira- —Secretary, william d. Alexander 1928 tions of becoming a vocalist. Time and training Belmont Hill School, Belmont, Mass. will improve the execution and repertoire. Clarence H. Tohnson of Richmond, Va., has Austin K. Smithwick, president of Smithwick been made auditor of receipts for the Chesa- and Co., Inc., has opened an office at 120 peake and Potomac Telephone Company. Exchange St., Portland, to conduct a business 1929—Secretary, lebrec micoleau in investment securities. Room 206: Telephone 3-7204. General Motors Corn., New York City. 1 William H. Weeks address has been changed Mr. and Mrs. Huntington Blatchford an- to 22 Gannett St., Augusta. nounce the birth of a son, Mitchell Parker, on —Secretary, george t. sewall February 25, in Boston. 1932 East St., City. Roger Hawthorne is official recorder with the 19 98th New York Bvrd Antarctic Expedition. His wife and son Dr. Charles C. Bilodeau, since finishing his Mark are at home in Ware, Mass. In a picture service at the Lenox Hill Hospital, has taken the post of physician on a private yacht, and in the Boston Herald of February 24, Mark is shown with his tiny finger pointing to the spot is now on a long cruise, which will cover both on the Antarctic continent where Admiral Byrd Atlantic and Pacific oceans. has just named a mountain for him. Jim Donaldson and his wife report the birth of a daughter, Elizabeth, on March =;. Secretary, 1930 philip chapman, jr. Rev. Earl D. Greenlaw is pastor of the First 209 Fidelity Bldg., Portland. Congregational Church in Canterbury, N. H. Stanley L. Bird has opened a law office at He was ordained November 17; the sermon 164 Main St., Waterville. being preached by Pres. Harry Trust '16 of the Dr. George W. R. Bowie, formerly of Range- Bangor Seminary. ley, has moved to New Gloucester. Buzz Studley is now doing field work in New- Vaughn and Mrs. Clay announce the arrival England for the Lye Construction Company. of Vaughn, Jr., on September n, 1939. Mr. and Mrs. Francis A. Vaughan have an- George Freiday is the author of a recent ar- nounced the birth of a daughter, Carol, on ticle in the Archorn of Governor Dummer March 5. [90] —

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to David R. Hirth of Deer- jn^ Secretary, JOHN B. MERRILL ward S. Hammond, field Academy has been announced. 311 2nd St., Towanda, Penna. Albert L. Ingalls is now a salesman for the is manager of the Hobby Emery Andrews American Chicle Co., with headquarters at 243 in Sibley's Department Store at Roches- Shop Main St., Auburn. Y. ter, N. Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Larcom, Jr., announce engagement of Miss Eileen Pyle, daugh- The the birth of a daughter, Joan Clayton, on Janu- of Dr. and Mrs. Edwin Pyle of Middle- ter ary 11, at Richardson House, Boston. Conn., and Newton K. Chase, now teach- bury, George C. Monell reports the arrival of a ing at the Thacher School at Ojai, Cal., has son, Joel Christie, at Dover, N. H., on March 4. recently been announced. —Secretary, william s. burton Al Madeira writes from the Emerson School 1937 Green, Cambridge, Mass. in Exeter, N. H. "A month ago we had a 206F Holden the rather bad fire that, incidentally, pretty well John B. Chandler is at a new mill of wrecked Bill Perry's living room. His Bruns- Hollingsworth 5? Whitney Co., in Mobile, Ala- wick fire-fighting experience stood him in good bama. His son, John Brandon, Jr., is five months 11 stead. old this month. Don Cole is with the National Savings 6? Secretary, REV. GORDON E. GILLETT ]934 Trust Co., Washington, D. C. St., Town. n S. Bryant Old The wedding of Miss Nina Fenno Keppler, Tim Archibald of Houlton has been elected daughter of Capt. C. H. I. Keppler, U. S. N., to his third term as Town Agent for Montkello. and Mrs. Keppler of Newton, and James S. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Flint announce "with Dusenbury, Jr., of Lansing, Mich, will be held 11 pride the birth of a daughter Elizabeth Ann in St. Tohn's Church, Newton, on Tune 1, fol- on March 20. lowed by a small reception at the Brae Burn The engagement of Miss Marjorie M. Griese Country Club. of Cleveland and John Hickox was announced Bob Rohr is a research chemist with the in November. American Chain and Cable Co., Bridgeport, Blakeslee D. Wright received his Master's Conn., and is living in WestDort. degree at Wesleyan in June, 1938. The engagement of Miss Helen M. Keogh of Philadelphia and John A. Twaddle of Bethel, —Secretary, paul e. sullivan 1935 has just been announced. John is a student in Turner St., Auburn. 495 the Medical School of Boston University. Cooper of Glen 11 John Baker and Miss Doris "Smokey Joe Woods is a student at Western at Rock, N. J., were married on December 1, Reserve Law School, Cleveland, Ohio. Glen Rock; now living at Abbott Court, Rad- Secretary, h. cox ] g— Andrew burn St., Fairlawn, N. J. 93 Prescott St., Cambridge, Mass. The engagement of Dr. Walter F. Crosby, 94 Announcement is made of the marriage of now of the Hahneman Hospital in Worcester, Miss Margery E. Thompson of Biddeford and Mass., to Miss Mildred B. Brick of Shrewsbury, Donald P. Allen of Saco, now teaching in the Mass., was recently announced. Old Town High School. The wedding took The engagement of Miss Marian Alice Gould, place on March 21. Hobart Ellis and Richard Radcliffe '35, of Newburyport, and Howard Mathewson served as ushers. Nibloek, now teaching at Mt. Hermon School, Vas Flint is a salesman with the South Shore was announced on February 4. Buick Company at Quincv, Mass. Dr. Oram Lawry, Jr., is now an interne at Rev. Daniel H. E. Fox is now rector of the Maine General Hospital in Portland. Emanuel Church at Ashland, Me. Stan Sargent is with the Proctor Z$ Gamble Bob Godfrey is with the Ludlow Manufac- Distributing Company and is living at 6 Hunt- turing and Sales Co.; makers of twine, yarn, ington Place, Norwich, Conn. netting, etc. After six months in the Boston of- Arthur Stratton is driving a heavy ambulance 11 fice he will go to the factory in in a volunteer unit "somewhere in France. Ludlow for production experience and training, to decide Don Wright was married on Februarv 24. whether he goes into the sales or production Regret the paucity of data, but this is all we have heard. side of the business. Dick Holt is selling medical books for the —Secretary, s. 1936 Hubert shaw Macmillan Company with headquarters at 240 St. Albans School, Washington, D. C. Newbury St., Boston. Ensign Ben Adams, U. S. N., is attached to Bob Laffin, wearing the colors of the Outing the Bureau of Navigation in Washington, D. C. Club of Springfield, Vermont, won the state Al Allen is with the Guaranty Trust Com- closed ski jumping title on March 10 with two pany and is living at is Cornelia Street in leans of 26 meters each. Greenwich Village. Scott C. Marshall is with the Retail Credit The engagement of Tudith Hammond, daugh- Co., in Springfield, Mass., and is living at 356 ter of Director of Admissions and Mrs. Ed- Belmont Ave., Apt. 7. [9O ——.

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Craven, Fresnal William E. Morgan, who is now in the Ath- Furthest from home: Bob Bob was mar- letic Office at the College, announces the birth Ranch School, Tucson, Arizona. to Miss of ia daughter, Judith Anne, on March 9. ried at Tucson sometime in January publishing Lucille Naples of Portland. . Ed O'Neill is now with the law Cleveland, Ohio. house of Bank-Baldwin Co., in 1939 Secretary, JOHN H. rich, jr. Salter is with the Metropolitan Life Jack Kennebec Journal, Augusta. Insurance Co., in New York, and lives at no Phil Bean is working in one of the mills of W. 1 6th St. Felt Co., and also taking three The Secretary reports the following statistics the American courses in the Teachers College, Columbia, in as compiled from the returns received in re- City. Address, Davenport Ave., Port sponse to a questionnaire sent out some little New York time ago: Chester, N. Y. Married: Upham, Burgess, Dupee, Webb, Marshall Bridge is in the editorial office of Robinson, Johnson, Gray, Nicholson, Frye, Gil- the Portland Press Herald. is in the Orders and Sales dersleeve (10). Children: Johnson, Frye, Nich- Lou Bruemmer Section of the Statistics Division of the Ac- olson, Gildersleeve. His Engaged: Symonds, Lord, Baron, Emery, counting Dept., of the General Electric Co. address is 2237 Story Ave., Schenectady, N. Y. Thurlow, Dillenbeck, Garfield, and—it is rum- Charlie Campbell is in the Harvard Graduate ored—Hight. (8) Half of these must be mar- School, working for his M.A. in English. ried by now. (Symonds is. Ed.) is representing the Goodyear Unemployed: only one. Verne Carten Tire and Rubber Company in Naugatuck, Conn. Still Studying: Brewer (chemistry at Colum- Bill Hart is a student at the Andover Newton bia; also an assistant); Thomas (English at Bow- Theological School, and is secretary of the stu- doin; also a teaching fellow); Monell (archi- dent work at the Old South Church, Copley tectural engineering at M.I.T.); Condon (Har- Square. His address is Farwell Hall, A.N.T.S., vard Business School); Chapman (night law Newton Centre, Mass. school, George Washington University); Greene "Chuck" Kline is sharpening his knife to (Johns Hopkins Medical School); Burgess carve out a future for himself in the Radio (chemistry at Columbia; also an assistant); field. His address is 1 3 Winthrop St., Augusta. Griffin (Harvard Business School); Files (Tufts 1 Stevens is with the National Medical School); Nash (Harvard Business Ted Shawmut of Boston. Address: Gainsboro St. School); Phelps (Colorado Law School); Gun- Bank qs Phil Tukey has finished his elementary course ter (physics at B.U.; also a teaching fellow); in the flying school at Randolph Field, Va., and Thurlow (osteopathy); Wiggin (Romance lan- has been transferred to Kelley Field, Texas for guages at Harvard); Halford (Business and En- three months training, before bein? commis- gineering Administration, M.I.T.); Bass (Ger- sioned a 2nd lieutenant in the Air Re- man, Harvard). (16) Corps serve. Ned Vergason is at the Dramatic School of Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Northeastern University HONORARY GRADUATES 1925—David Gray, Litt.D., has been ap- School of Law pointed by President Roosevelt to be United States Minister to Ireland. A dmir al William Veazie Pratt, LL.D., DAY PROGRAM—Three Years 1929 U.S.N, retired, is now Editorial Asso- EVENING PROGRAM—Four Years ciate on the staff of J^ews Wee\ Magazine, in charge of the department of Naval Affairs.

A minimum of two years of college work required for admission. Sunday Chapel Speakers since the pub- A limited number of scholarships available lication of the last Alumnus have includ- to college graduates. ed Rev. Franklin P. Cole of Portland, Rev. LL.B. Degree conferred Robert Beaven of Waterville, Dr. Albert Admits men and women Peel of London, England, Professor Ma-

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1940 Summer Season (15TH Year)- -6- and 8-Week Terms Begin July 9 Lloyd Harvey Hatch, Director Lake Wassookeag, Dexter, Me.

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PROGRAM ARRANGED FOR THE INDIVIDUAL: 1. All courses in the four-year preparatory 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 1929 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.

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Published four times a year by Bowdoin College. THE KOWHOIN A Ml At NHS JUNE 1940 VOL. XIV NO. 4

Commencement Plans m OWDOIN will begin the observance of will be a good attendance. " Class head- her one hundred and thirty-fifth Com- quarters will be in North Hyde Hall and mencement with the Baccalaureate Service the reunion banquet will begin at six o'clock at five o'clock on the afternoon of Wed- on Friday evening at the Gurnet House. nesday, 12. Thursday will be Class June 1900 Day and on Friday the meeting of the The reunion committee for the forty- Alumni Council will open the program for year class comprises John R. Bass, Charles returning Bowdoin men. As has been cus- E. H. Beane, Secretary Burton M. Clough, tomary in recent years, traditional Com- Class Agent Robert S. Edwards, Fred B. mencement Day exercises will be held on Merrill, and Arthur Wood. The Magee Saturday. residence at 23 Boody Street will serve as i 885 headquarters and the banquet will be at Oldest of the reunion classes from whom the Gurnet House on Friday evening. we have heard is the fifty-five-year class and Secretary Eben W. Freeman expects 1 905 that five of the seven members of this group Walter M. Sanborn and Stanley P. Chase will be in Brunswick. As the other two are are in charge of reunion arrangements. in California this should be considered an Class headquarters will be maintained in a excellent showing. room in South Maine Hall and the class dinner at the Lookout Point House on Fri- 1890 day evening. Professor Emeritus Mitchell, relieved of his arduous class work, has been devoting 1910 E. F. his efforts to the fiftieth reunion, and re- William Atwood, James Ham- burger, William B. Nulty are working ports that all but two or three of his class and of twenty-four men will be on hand. Head- with Secretary Curtis Matthews in antici- quarters are to be in the Moulton Union pation of the thirty-year celebration. They for in and there will be a dinner at the Falmouth have arranged headquarters Room 19 Hotel in Portland on Friday evening. in Hyde Hall and will serve a buffet lunch there on Friday. The banquet will be held 1895 at the Hotel Eagle that same evening. Secretary William M. Ingraham is being Messrs. Nulty and Atwood have' issued an

assisted by Dr. Alfred Mitchell, Jr. and open challenge to the other golf players in Philip D. Stubbs, and announces that "there the class.

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Ike Oowdom Alumnus 1925 Secretary Bill Gulliver and President Joe Member of the American Alumni Council Garland are being assisted by a committee headed by Gil Elliott and including Philip S. Wilder '23, Editor Messrs. Barker, Stanley P. Chase '05, Boo\ Editor Blake, Burnard, Daggett, Hanlon, Charles S. F. Lincoln '91, Class Js[otes Editor Hildreth, Hildreth, McIntire, and Mitchell. Elizabeth F. Riley, Editorial Associate Headquarters will be opened on Thursday Glenn R. McIntire '25, Business Manager at 15 McKeen Street, where the classes of ADVISORY EDITORIAL COUNCIL 1923 and 1924 held forth. Costume will Frederick H. Dole '97 comprise a jacket and cap of appropriate Walter L. Sanborn 'oi design. On Friday afternoon the class will Harry L. Palmer '04 Paul K. Niven 'i6 go by bus to Portland for a sail down Casco Donald Q. Burleigh '17 Bay, to be followed by the reunion dinner W. Hodding Carter '27 at Boone's Restaurant. Secretary Gulliver John R. Robertson '27 Alexander P. Clark '34 promises (or threatens) that moving pic- Harry T. Foote 38 tures will be taken of the reunion activities. A class report is in prospect but we Published four times during the college year by Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. Sub- do not know whether it will be issued be- scription price $1.50 a year. Single copies, 40 fore or after the reunion. cents. With Bowdoin Orient $3.50 a year. 1930 VOL. XIV June, 1940 NO. Herb Chalmers and Ray Jensen are co- chairmen for the tenth reunion. With them are working 1 9 1 5 Secretary Phil Chapman, Kimball A. Loring is working with Sec- Charlie Farley, and Maxwell Marshall. retary Clifford Perkins of the quarter- Harry Davis is serving as editor of a class century-class. Headquarters, including record, which will be published by Bob sleeping accommodations, will be maintain- Thayer. Headquarters will be in North ed in South Hyde Hall, and early reports Maine and the reunion banquet at the indicate a large attendance. The reunion Jaquish Inn on Bailey Island. A soft-ball uniform is complete with coat, cap, tie and game with 1935 is scheduled for Friday cane, and the class dinner will be held on morning. Friday evening at the Bath Country Club. 193 5 1920 Secretary Paul Sullivan has arranged for President Emerson W. Zeitler and Sec- class headquarters in South Winthrop Hall retary Stanley M. Gordon are being assist- and we understand that the reunion din- ed by Lewis W. Brown, Robert E. Cleaves, ner will be at the Gurnet House. A class Jr., and Sanford B. Cousins. The class will report is now being printed, and should be maintain headquarters on the second floor in the mail before Commencement. of North Hyde Hall and has arranged for a banquet on Friday evening at the Lookout Point House at Harpswell, where the men In general, the Commencement program will be taken by a chartered bus. Secretary will not differ markedly from those of re- Gordon has been working hard on the prep- cent years. A new campus gateway will be aration of a class report and directory, dedicated on Friday morning, however, and which will be published just prior to Com- the Commencement Dinner promises to be mencement. an interesting occasion.

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Progress in the 1940 Alumni Fund Campaign ROY A. FOULKE '19 Chairman Alumni Fund

11 be pure gravy. What a perfectly swell ar N SATURDAY EVENING, job! Here was an objective accepted and February thirty-three Class 17, 1940, made even before our campaign really got Agents and Directors of the Alumni Fund underway. But that's not the whole story. met at dinner in the Moulton Union and Evans then decided to set his own objec- discussed plans for our 1940 Alumni Fund tive about 50 per cent larger than the one campaign. That campaign is now at its set by the Directors and immediately went peak. to it. With the example of the Class of Organization plans for the campaign, 1 910 in front of us, we're all set to go to studies of the financial condition of Bow- town. doin College, trends in interest return on endowed funds, analyses of the contributions of previous years, and methods of increasing the number and aggregate amount ^5^ n APRIL 2: The of contributions, were carefully analyzed, first mailing piece all for the one purpose of adding $20,000 of the Alumni Fund campaign was given to this year to the current working funds of Uncle Sam for nation-wide distribution. the College. The Alumni Fund campaign That was the two-page streamlined layout in 1939 produced $12,305 for use as in- with nine pictures and charts, with the can- come to the College; this year due to a fur- did camera shot of Professor Hormell in the ther shrinkage in income, the objective upper right-hand corner, and the picture of was raised from $12,305 to $20,000. the snow-bound chapel scene in the lower In our current 1940 plans, for the first left-hand corner. time, dollar objectives were set for each That mailing piece with its appeal for Class prior to the opening of the campaign, the support of our Alma Mater which has based upon the number and the estimated served the cause of American ideals and financial responsibility of the members of democracy for one hundred and thirty- each Class. In this way each Class Agent eight years, should strike home, particu- has had a definite objective and has been larly in the light of the tragic happenings able to budget the required contributions in Europe which are taking place as we go among his classmates. to press.

Time Marches On 1 APRIL 8: The first Class Agents let- MARCH 28: Frank C. Evans, Class ters were mailed to classmates bringing Agent for 1910, reported that his objec- home the fact that each Class had an in- tive had been met and passed "so that any- dividual objective to meet. With these let-

thing that is received beyond this time will ters were included little folders contain-

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ing quotations from ten loyal alumni, from APRIL 29: The second letters of Class the Hon. Percival P. Baxter '98, to Gordon Agents were mailed to classmates who had Gillett '34, each saying they would at least not come through. How these letters pull- double their last year's contribution to the ed! Closely following Frank C. Evans '10, Alumni Fund. We have a nestegg in the who was now well in excess of his class ob- kitty of $2,076.85. jective set by the Directors, came George APRIL. 15: The most original, unique E. Carmichael '97, John F. Dana '98, Na- and fascinating class mailing piece of all than S. Weston '08, and Paul K. Niven Class Agents was the work of Ralph G. '16. Contributions of each of these four Webber, Class Agent for 1906. How any classes were well above the receipts for the classmate could read that appeal and send full campaign of 1939, although not quite to the objective. in less than $25 to the Alumni Fund is a up 1940 Contributions in- mystery which neither Sherlock Holmes nor creased to $7,850.35. the Chairman of the Board of Directors of MAY 6: Ralph G. Webber '06, Eu- the Alumni Fund has been able to solve. gene W. McNeally '13, Emerson W. Zeit- With such leadership the Class of 1906 will ler '20, and Albert P. Madeira '33, have go over its objective, and there's no maybe joined the Class Agents mentioned in the here. We have passed our first milestone; preceding paragraph who have obtained contributions increased to $5,413.35, over larger contributions to date than during one-quarter of our collective alumni objec- the entire campaign of 1939. Swell going! tive of $20,000. Contributions piled up to $9,715.35, which is 48.6 per cent of our objective.

MAY 7: Received a wire from Paul K. Niven '16, reading "191 6 exceeded her

quota yesterday and still going strong." Two classes are now well over, 1910, and

91 6. The steam roller is working! Received a letter from Philip 1 Dana '96, Treasurer of the College, which MAY 8: The second milestone is passed. strikes home. The letter read in part, "I Contributions have now reached $10,500.25 want to congratulate the Directors upon which is more than half of what we are their splendid presentation of the Bowdoin after.

Alumni Fund annual drive. I happen to MAY 13: George E. Carmichael '97 be pretty close to the financial situation at joins 1 910 and 191 6, and goes over his class Bowdoin. Year after year have had to we objective. Five other Class Agents have ex- put off important expenditures for lack of ceeded their 1939 contributions although funds. The Building and Grounds Com- not quite up to their objective, Ralph T. mittee will have to pick and choose this Parker '95, Col. Harold E. Marr '05, Por- year from items much needed according to ter Thompson '26, Gilman L. Arnold, Jr., the Superintendent's report just received '32, and David B. Rideout '37. We have and then the Visiting Committee will have $10,916.75 in the till to pare some more." which means $9,083.25 APRIL. 22: Contributions jumped to to go. $7,116.85, 35.6 per cent of our goal. With more and larger contributions than ever before we're going to go a long way to help solve some problems this year. [96] "

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The second broad mailing piece of Direc- MAY 24: A letter arrived from Lyman '02, to town tors went out to all alumni who have not Cousens saying he had gone come through to date. This was the trick and had passed his objective. Here is the self-mailer combine-velope which shows fourth Class to go over the top! Reports Phil Wilder anxiously looking up at the like this will now be coming in every day to clouds for the mail to bring along the need- or two as the thoughts of alumni turn 11 ed funds. We don't want shirts; we want reunion "neath the pines. coin of the realm, legal tender. Editorial K[ote: As we go to press the steady MAY 18: Our third milestone is passed. contributions has pushed A post-card arrived from Phil with the increase in daily total to That means brief message, "Noon May 18, $i 2,672. our up $17,326.34. reach our collective ob- That's $367 more than we raised in our $2,673,66 to go to and six days to raise entire 1939 campaign; in fact our loyal jective of $20,000, every alumni have already contributed more than it. With the whole-hearted interest of we have raised in any single year since the loyal alumnus, we will c^""^ C^> ^ /•«Mrf-/H*l7AI ^ 1> - -X- ^ Alumni Fund was resurrected in 1919—and we still have exactly four weeks to go. That means we must raise $7,328 between now and noon, June 14, to reach our collective objective of $20,000.

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[97] The B o w d o i n Alumnus Philip Weston Meserve, A.M.

n May io, 1940, all Bowdoin men tions Gas Officer. He is supposed to have were shocked to read of the sudden death been responsible for the first major gas of- of Philip Weston Meserve, teacher of fensive by American troops. He returned chemistry at the College since the autumn to the United States in March 1919 and of 191 5, and since 1928 senior member of was honorably discharged from the serv- the chemistry department. ice with a commission' as captain in the Phil Meserve was born in Portland on Chemical Warfare Reserve. He returned to November 24, 1888, and arrived in Bow- the College in the autumn of 191 9, was doin in the fall of 1907 with a diploma promoted to an assistant professorship in from the Portland High School. He joined 1927 and to a full professorship in 1928. the Psi Upsilon fraternity in a delegation In the last few years of his life Meserve which included among others Charles made a manful struggle against failing Boardman Hawes, destined to make for health. It was painful to his friends to see himself a name in letters, Arthur H. Cole, him undergo suffering and evident mental now Professor of Business Economics at anguish, but he never complained.

Harvard, and Earl Baldwin Smith, now I lack the qualification to appraise Phil- professor of the History of Architecture at ip Meserve's work as a chemist and as a Princeton. teacher. But his zeal for knowledge was In college Meserve was unassuming and evident to all who knew him. In addition somewhat retiring as he remained through- to his scientific work as a chemist he was out life. No one, however, doubted his a competent geologist and gave a course in intellectual attainments, which were first geology and mineralogy at the College. He rate, though by no means showy. He spe- was also accomplished as a painter, etcher, cialized in chemistry and, after graduating and photographer, and made a hobby of

from Bowdoin in 191 1, proceeded to a post- gardening and cookery. He had a keen graduate year at Harvard (1911-12). Then sense of the beautiful in Art and Nature. followed one year at the Hygiene Labora- This feeling for beauty was a great re- tory of the Public Health and Marine Hos- source to him and a delight to his friends.

pital Service in Washington and a second I like to remember Meserve in his col-

(1913-14) as instructor in chemistry at lege years where I saw him most and in the Simmons. For the next academic year A. E. F. where our paths crossed more (191 4- 15) he was at Harvard where he than once. Indeed, fate permitted us to received his A.M. degree, returning to play chess together at the Cercle Interallie Bowdoin only four years out of college in in Paris during the war. One likes to recall the autumn of 191 5. But his first hitch in such respites of pleasure in difficult years. the college was a short one for on Septem- He enjoyed all intellectual exercise with his

ber 28, 19 1 7, he entered war service with own sardonic humor. He was devoted to the the Sanitary Corps. Later he was commis- College, gave it over twenty years of serv-

sioned first lieutenant and ordered to ice, and leaves it the memory of an honest

France on November 5, 191 7. mind eagerly pursuing the truth and de- From December 191 7 to May 191 8 Me- testing every sort of falseness. He never serve served at GHQ with the Gas Service. lost the sympathy and devotion of his He went from there to the First Gas Reg- friends in his last years when the evident iment, formerly the 30th Engineers, and suffering of his spirit aroused their com- was assigned to the First Army as Opera- passion. R. H. 'io [98] $ —

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Arthur Glenwood Staples, LittD.

W.hile Arthur Glenwood Staples was more important to the Journals devoted improving his mind and manners at Bow- subscribers out on the R. F. D. routes. For doin College, he taught school between years that ended abruptly, A. G. S. was re- terms in the town of Bowdoin—over west porter, oracle, seer, and interpreter to the of Carter's Corner, in the borough. The country people in western Maine. He lean- teacher boarded around, and found that ed over a thousand pasture fences and talk- Horace and Chaucer and St. Jerome availed ed. He talked intelligently on some matters, little toward warming the tiny building with entertainingly on others, informatively good HalFs Hill beech. He did, however, again, and occasionally—with kindness—he learn that Mrs. Curtis was one of the best spoke up sharply, or he played with out- cooks west of the sun; that Clem Littlehale right nonsense as few can. could team his oxen over the bare place in That this was good business, he knew; the road with a brand of grammar quaintly but his manner and style were nonethe- ignored by textbooks; and that arithmetic less natural. That a neighborly attitude pro- went off better if everything were convert- moted his fame beyond his own neighbor- ed to familiar potatoes and hogs and tons hood pleased him, but his regular readers of hay. The income from this labor among in the boroughs of his own state were in the infants of the borough was meagre, and his mind as he prepared his daily copy for it was frittered away with the President the journal. and Trustees of Bowdoin College. But it An amazing knowledge of things in gen- helped, and A. G. S. was capped and eral, an interest in the whole of creation, gowned and bachelored in 1882. an understanding of people and especially In 1882 he capitulated to an offer from Maine people, a facility of writing that the Bath Times, and for a year edited the did not all come from long practice, and city news in the town where he had grown many another quality seldom seen but of- up. Thence to Lewiston, where he began ten admired contributed to his truly amaz- an editorial career that was to last through ing success. His daily wordage, over his 57 more than half a century on the Journal— years, scarcely seems possible—but the one of those newspapermen's newspapers Journal readers subscribed for it and they whose ranks have thinned to exhaustion, got it. Minus his appendix, he sat up in a and whose ranks thinnned once more when hospital bed and wrote about his operation. A. G. S. died on April second. He could have delayed, because a reserve Throughout all his editorial career A. G. supply of editorial page material was far S. remembered well the people he had met from exhausted. In the gross of his manu- over in the borough. They were representa- scripts he maintained a quality that tive of Maine people, and recollections of dimmed here and flared brightly there such people mellowed the more elaborate but on the whole it was the steady sort of preparations he had had at Bowdoin. He readable material the readers wanted. knew, as so many country editors know, A. G. S. was born in Bowdoinham on that a small-town approach to journalism July 3, 1 861, the son of Anthony and will find interesting readers even among Mary Staples. His mother was a Blake. At the most citified. And while A. G. S., in his the Journal he progressed from city editor long career as an editor, was read and ad- to managing editor, and then became editor mired by men in high places—he was far in full. He married Jane Lambert Dingley, [99] —

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daughter of the Journal's publisher, in tribute, which is typical of many issued 1895. She died less than two years ago. A from all parts of Maine to attest the esteem daughter is Mrs. Ralph C. Harvey of Wel- in which the state's oldest and best known lesley, Mass., and there are grandchildren. newspaperman was held: A. G. S. loved Maine—liked the scen- "Bowdoin College joins with the whole ery and vacation advantages of the state. state of Maine mourning the death of Ar- He was active in promoting publicity thur G. Staples. A graduate of the college agencies, and lent an editorial hand when in the class of 1882; an overseer since 1923; occasion offered. He was a student of local, one of the very few men who have ever re- state, and national politics, and staunchly ceived from Bowdoin two honorary de- promoted or defended Republican policies. grees (Master of Arts in 191 9 and Doctor He was delegate at national conventions, of Letters in 1923). but he never sought public office. "Mr. Staples served his alma mater with His huge private library included vol- devotion and distinction. As a journalist umes of his own—collections of his edi- one of the greatest Maine has produced, he torial page essays. And once recently, at a showed in his whole career the worth of dinner in his honor, a group of essays personality. His trenchant pen and kindly about A. G. S. from the pens of contem- spirit have made the initials A. G. S. porary Maine writers was presented him, known to hundreds of grateful readers; and named Just Tal\s after his own column. have spread his fame far beyond the bor- At Bowdoin he was coxswain of the ders of his native State. It will be long be- crew; editor of The Orient, a member of fore we see again such a concentration of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa. a sound mind, a distinguished style and a 11 In 1 9 19, for his service on the Alumni warm heart and lovable character. with an '31 Council, Bowdoin honored him J. T. G. honorary master's degree. Bates College conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws in Chapel speakers in recent weeks have

1 92 1. And in 1923 he received a Doctor of included Rev. Wallace Anderson of Port- Letters degree from Bowdoin. At his fif- land, Rev. Edgar H. S. Chandler of tieth commencement he was a speaker. He Jamaica Plain, Mass., Professor Wilmot B. was an overseer of the college, and was Mitchell '90, Rt. Rev. Benjamin Brewster, also a trustee of both Monmouth and He- D.D. (Hon. '29), Rabbi Levi A. Olan of bron Academies. He was both a Scottish Worcester, Mass., and Rev. Boynton Mer- and York rite Mason, belonged to the rill, D.D., of Newton, Mass. Shrine, and was an active Rotarian. For many years he was a much sought after- The 1 94 1 Bugle, making its appearance dinner speaker and toastmaster whose wit on Ivy Day, was dedicated by the junior made an occasion memorable. class to Thomas H. Eaton '69, "whose keen President Kenneth C. M. Sills presided interest in undergraduate affairs has set a all at services in Bates Chapel on April 5, shining example for Bowdoin men, and read excerpts from the Just Tal\s col- whose travels regularly bring him back to 1 '' umns which were always signed A. G. S. Bowdoin Beata, his 'fountain of youth. The chapel held a distinguished group of statesmen, educators, and newspaper friends George T. Little '40, son of G. Tappan and colleagues. Little '15, took second place in the state When the death of A. G. S. was an- intercollegiate oratorical contest on April nounced, President Sills paid the following 29.

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Arthur Stratton '35, First American Hero of War JOHN V. SCHAFFNER '35

11 to help France. And there he plans to (A ssociated press dispatches to the New stay. His ambulance, however, will prob- York papers on April 19 carried the follow- ably be on view at the World's Fair in New ing report: York this summer. It is, at any rate, being Arthur Stratton, of Clinton, Mass., a shipped back to this country for publicity driver in the American Volunteer Am- purposes to which Arthur has refused to bulance Corps in France, was decorated lend himself. yesterday for bravery in evacuating wounded on the western front under

fire, according to a cablegram received

yesterday . . .

The message . . . read: "Myron T. Herrick Section officially received at front this morning. Driver Arthur Stratton, of Clinton, Mass., of General Pershing Section, was decorated this afternoon by the general command of the army corps to which the ambulance section was attached. He received the Croix de Guerre with palm. The citation order of the division follows: "Arthur Stratton, American driver of the American Volunteer Ambulance

Corps, who is a model of courage and daring. On the fifteenth of April, with total disregard of danger under fire of machine guns and crossing a violent bombardment of artillery, Stratton drove his ambulance to a front receiving station that was particularly exposed to perform a rapid evacuation of badly wounded men. 11 Thus, on April 17, Arthur Stratton became the first American hero of the pres- He has written me, "What do you think ent war, since he is the first American (and about it? You can't say virtue and idealism the first of any foreign nation) to be hon- got, at last, its reward, for my highly pub- ored by the French government. His dec- licised Croix de Guerre got pinned on me oration was highly publicised in France and by a highly fortuitous set of circumstances. he was given the chance of returning to Chance played the great part in it, though this country as a national hero. He refused I know I do my work as an ambulance this, as he has refused all attempts to use driver well. his sudden fame in building up propaganda "You want to know what I did. I just to encourage other Americans to follow his carried wounded soldiers from here to example. He says, "After all, I came here there. Nothing happened. It was a poten- [101] The B o w d o in Alumnus

tially dangerous affair, but so ... is chop- the Stratton we know. Why, Arthur Strat- ping wood or looking at a volcano. I ton in college wouldn't have walked across

emerged to become a newspaper hero. . . . the street to help a wounded soldier, much

I assure you. . . I never wanted to be a less expose himself to any danger to do it." hero, and now that it's been pushed onto It is to enlighten this incredulous person me I've known the most complete personal and his brothers (and sisters) that I have degradation possible. ... By chance I undertaken to write the following. have done the most work under the most For the Arthur Stratton who is "some-

dangerous circumstances of any of the where in France" today is precisely the Americans, but a Frenchman wouldn't have same Arthur Stratton who spent four not been decorated for doing what I did. And too happy years at Bowdoin and gradu-

I did only what I came to do. . . . ated in the class of '35. He is an idealist "My greatest satisfaction is that I re- of a high (and exacting) order, a seeker fused to play ball. I refused to help glorify after truth, an aesthete in the good sense of the first American (or foreign) hero. But the word, and—if we are to believe some think what I missed! Trip to America and of his friendly critics and discount the un- All That. Do you think 111 be sorry? Well, friendly ones—something of a literary gen- 11 I don't. ius. He has high moral courage and con- Arthur did not give me permission to siderable determination, the enthusiasm tc print these quotations from his last letter follow a course which seems to him right tc to me, and I am risking his displeasure by its ultimate conclusion, regardless—as of- printing them as well as by writing this ar- ten happens—of whether or not what ticle. But there are several things a friend seems to him the way of truth may be to of his can say to those interested in him, authorities either unimportant or actually

and this is a good time to say them, much wrong. It is by a logical course of events as I dislike the idea of embalming in prose and of thought in Arthur's life that he now

a characterisation such as is usually reserv- finds himself where he is. And it is pared for the dead. Too many of Arthur's ticularly fitting, it seems to me, that he friends have taken to piling verbal bou- should have been made a hero. The ideal- quets upon his name since he received his ism which has actuated his whole behavior honor much as they would put wreaths by since I have known him has at last been

a monument. According to last reports, the rewarded, as it were, and this distinction hero was still very much alive. can be taken not only as compensation, but When news of Arthur Stratton's distin- justification at last for nearly every ges- guished honor reached the Bowdoin com- ture of his youth. Though he may not be,

munity, there were various reactions. At as he definitely says, a hero, Arthur is, in first there was doubt whether he was "our" spite of what he or anyone can say or think, Stratton, since the reports listed him as of noble in his idealism and in his faithfulness Clinton, Massachusetts, and no one here to his ideal (i.e., the truth, as he sees it). knew of his having any connection with The generals who decide such things did •the place. It simply happens that he was not choose badly in pinning their cross born there, although at no time did he or where they did. his family have a permanent home in that The newspapers, including the Bowdoin town. Then people expressed either sur- Orient, were quite in error when they said prise or gratification, as their feelings to- or implied that Stratton had entered the ward Arthur and their memory of him service for France because of his interest prompted. One person said, "That can't be in journalism or because "he was seeking

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first hand experiences with human emotions particularly hard on his close friends, whom under stress as material for his writings" or he constantly attempts to raise up to the even because—the opposite of the truth standards he expects of them. And it has he was "in love with adventure." He is always been hard on him, too, in that he there because he believes that to protect was continually discovering that much that France from the Germans is the only way life offered him was second-best or not even to uphold our culture and our civilisation. worthy at all. Life must often have seem- His feelings about this are sane enough, ed to him quite unacceptable, and this he surely, and were rationalised long before certainly reflected in what he wrote, much he volunteered in France as an ambulance to the shocked dismay of his teachers and driver. As I have said, his being there now to readers of school and college publica- is entirely consistent with all his life and tions to which he contributed. thought. When he arrived at Bowdoin he was Arthur Stratton was born in Clinton. older than most of us, having spent time Massachusetts, nearly twenty-nine yearf out from school working, and he had a wid- ago. His mother had departed from the er acquaintance with life, both from ex- conventions of the Chicago society of hei perience and intelligent observation. On the youth by marrying a not conspicuously suc- other hand, he was both limited and ele- cessful English actor. Her action in so do- vated by an extreme idealism which creating should have been redeemed in her cir- ed standards that often kept him from be- cle, however, by his being of very good, coming at all a part of the social herd at though impoverished, "county" stock, with college, and he had an enthusiasm, which a long tradition of military service and must have been at times dismaying, for leadership. The Stratton family life was those (usually older) persons who passed carried on over three continents, and the his rigid personal tests. The Bowdoin stu- actor finally died in England, leaving Ar- dent, because he is a part of a small college thur's mother to make her way back to this group, has little tolerance for the few vari- country with two children, when Arthur ants from the prevailing type. The very was six years old. Mrs. Stratton brought young can seldom be either really under- up her small family with great independ- standing or democratic. At a larger place, a ence of spirit and with rather unusual university like Harvard, Arthur might not struggle and sacrifice. She is a proud moth- have been considered unusual nor would er today. his enthusiasm for utter truth and his high- His romantic background no doubt pro- ly selective way of living socially have caus- vided some cloak to shield Arthur's sensi- ed him or anyone else much discomfort. At tive nature from the hardships of his child- Bowdoin he was both conspicuous and mys- hood, lived largely, I believe, in Washing- terious. He had perhaps an unusually large ton and Cincinnati. Suddenly, in ado- circle of friends among students and fac- lescence, he was catapulted by the action ulty, but outside of that he seems to have of a well-to-do relative into the compara- been both misunderstood and feared, as we tive luxury of Tome School in Maryland. all fear instinctively what we fail to un- This change certainly affected the tastes and derstand. Doubtless the feeling of isolation mind of a person eager for the best things he had in college prevented his being fully of life. His experiences in school seem to happy there. He made most of his lasting have confirmed his intention to accept only friendships at Bowdoin, like all the rest of the best—in persons, in emotions, in things. us, and he has come to look back to Bruns- His persistence in this idealism has been wick and the campus with affection. But he C^] The Bowdoin Alumnus found himself, in an attempt to express his chances of bringing off success by insisting feeling of the difficult experience which all on some minor point of truth that seemed but the most insensitive or the most ver- to him obscured either deliberately or care- satile of us have to suffer in growing into lessly. It was not, I think, that he had any- adulthood, saying in the "renvoi" of the thing that could be called a martyr com- senior class poem, "Bowdoin, our mother, plex, but when he knew himself to be right we love you and thank you, Blankety, there was no retreat. He struck constantly 11 blankety, blankety, blank you! This flip- for the individual's right to say in print pant doggerel had serious hurt underneath what he thought and felt, sometimes to the it; it was not condemnation of Bowdoin discomfort of his censors. The judgment of itself, which those who chose to be shocked most of those interested, however, would (as there were always people to be shock- be that the college was fairly tolerant with ed by what Arthur wrote and said in him in these matters. Arthur was a con- school and college) believed, but a protest spicuously successful editor of the §uill, at the smugness and convention which sti- which reached a high-water mark of excel- fles truth and thought and honor and the lence in our year comparable to various pe- best sort of idealism in any college or so- riods several years earlier and to no time cial group and substitutes for those abstract since then. goods hypocrisy, prejudice, complacency, After Bowdoin, Arthur worked for his and vulgarity. And of these four, with per- master's degree in English at Columbia, haps the exception of prejudice, it would where again his insistence on matters that be impossible for Arthur Stratton to be might reasonably be omitted from written guilty. In this, as a person, I have found work but which to him were necessary as him practically unique. part of life's truth caused, I have been told, One of his Brunswick friends says that the rejection of his thesis. True to his char- the chief part of his college education lay acter, he stuck to the job and wrote a new in his learning to ride and to subdue by this thesis which has since been accepted. When knowledge a particularly spirited horse that he finished his studies at Columbia he suc- 11 was assigned to him by "Skipper Bartlett cessfully wrote advertising and finished when he first showed up at the stables for three plays, one of which received high no-

riding lessons. She says that when she asked tice in a nation-wide contest. I still think the Skipper why he gave Arthur a horse that two of these plays merit some atten-

that was known to be wild and even vicious tion, particularly as there is supposed to be before he knew how to ride, she was told a need for new writers for the stage. that Stratton was a fellow who couldn't In the fall of 1938 Arthur made his learn the easy way: either Arthur would way to France on a tramp steamer sailing win or he would show he didn't have the from Hoboken. He had felt for some time stuff; the horse would bring out the unde- that a new European war would probably veloped fight in him, if there were any. be the end of the old-world culture and art

Well, Arthur subdued Chiquita and he still prevalent in Europe and he wanted

learned to ride well, and the mare was to see what he could of it before the end. surely one of his best friends and chief He thought that if there were a war, then

comforts during his college days. it should be his duty to defend what was It has been Arthur's unfortunate experi- most important to him in life and what he ence, both in college and since, but chiefly would lose by the war—if the barbarians in college, that in almost everything for were to win it. And so, two years ago, he which he competed he would prejudice his made up his mind to fight for the right to [104] The B o w d o i n Alumnus truth and a rational freedom, to defend ous, and the war did not seem very serious. the culture that had given us the beauty in When things began to happen, he was re- art and literature that makes bearable the lieved to find that he felt little fear and his sorrows and ugliness there is in life. And only concern, to judge from his letters, was in Arthur Stratton's life there has been, that he might fail somehow in his duty unfortunately for his happiness, too much through inexperience or ignorance. Events sorrow and ugliness. have proved him unnecessarily modest in At the outbreak of the war, Arthur, this respect. who had been living for the most part eith- His experiences seem to have strength- er in Paris or in the south of France while ened his character and tempered his judg- bringing to completion a novel he had ment. His idealism has survived, giving him planned for a long time, joined the work- courage and making him, in spite of what ers in the wine harvest on an estate in the he may say of himself, the hero who refuses Province of Lot. In the late fall he return- to be exploited and who will most certain- ed to Paris and volunteered for hospital ly refuse to exploit the notoriety that his and ambulance work. For a time he served moment of world fame gave him. Bowdoin

1 as an orderly in a soldiers hospital while can safely consider Arthur Stratton's work learning, for the first time in his life, to today, if not heroic, at least noble and self- drive and to manage a motor, so that he sacrificing, to a high degree. Whatever would be qualified for ambulance work. To happens to him now, his whole life has his great joy, he was accepted and sent to surely already been vindicated. Whether or the front early in the year with the first not we can follow his example, we ought unit of American volunteer ambulances. at least to remember and value and praise

Until late spring his duties were not ardu- it.

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The Rise of Music at Bowdoin FRANCIS R. BLISS '40

C HE beginnings of the history of music anti-moral Epicurean feasts—half a bottle at Bowdoin College are enshrouded in a of wine per member—on which the official mist almost as obscure as the Egyptians' vulture descended with caveat and ultima- fog. The various histories of the college tum. Thus in the early part of 1828 the record from time to time the abortive at- first music society of the college followed tempts of some of her more enterprising to the abyss of oblivion the Ovarian So- sons to found organisations with a view to ciety, founded in 1806 as the first under- propagating the study and practice of the graduate club in college history, and the psychic muse, but all these seem to have Law Society, whose members also, as that come to an untimely end either in the lesser fellow of their fraternity, Chaucer's 11 Slough of Despond or in their vain battle Summoner, "loved, perhaps too much, "for 11 against the predestinative powers that be. to drinken strong wyn, reed as blood. The

Yet, though unorganised and inchoate, it surviving members of the Pan-Harmonic, can be seen, a bright and sparkling thread however, started the Pandean Band, a quite of irrepressible impulse on which are strung serious instrumental organisation which the mild-odored flowers of the garland of lasted for some fifteen years after, and had song, a thread that winds its devious path- a concession on lightening the gravity of way through the vicissitudes of years, as Commencement Exercises. One should also the frequent youth take exception to the make mention of the slightly mocking so- harsh restraints of crabbed age and sound ciety formed at the same time, the Pan- aloud their chant of springtime and that dowdy, whose harmonies were as irregular 1 will o the wisp immortality so soon and so as their hours of meeting. To tell the truth, harshly to be laid bare by the swift hour serious and comic seem to have existed al- and the brief prime of the year. But the ways side by side in these early years, a thread was often broken, and we are led good sign that for all their high collars and by lack of records sadly to admit that looping moustaches the undergraduates al- through the greater part of the nineteenth lowed their sense of humor to keep up century, though a welcome, singing was with their culture : for example, in the first but a sporadic recreation at Bowdoin; it edition of the Bugle, July 1858, we have has been only in the past forty to fifty years the Pleyel Society, with violins, flutes, that music study has become specialised clarionet and 'cello, and the Black Swans and grown to any large proportions. (their motto was Semper Cucni, Interdum The first Bowdoin musical society this Canori) who played fiddles, banjo, guitar, present Schliemann has been able to un- tambourine, and bones. Then in the same earth was called the Pan-Harmonic So- issue in the realm of vocal music there was ciety. The date of its founding is not ap- the King Chapel Choir and the Eden parent, but the date of its dissolution is Quintette, who sang the four parts: Miser- quite definite. It was a stated college policy able, Lamentable, Horrible, and Terrible, that the Faculty should dissolve any stu- and were accompanied by a man who held dent organisations showing "a tendency the office of Organ Destroyer. There was 11 contrary to religion and morals, and un- another early musical society at Bowdoin fortunately the members of the Pan-Har- called the Lockhart Society, which manag- monic indulged in certain unmoral if not ed during its life to raise some three hun- [107] The B o w d o i n Alumnus

Professor Wass at the Chapel Organ

dred dollars which it bequeathed the col- lived, existed off and on through all these lege for installing an organ in the present early years of the college's life. chapel completed in 1855, so it seems as It was not, however, till the nineties, that though musical organizations, though short- musical efforts here became well organized

[108] The B o w d o i n Alumnus or established any lasting tradition. At this larger on the average than the ones we have time we come to the establishment of the been getting for the last few years, but Pro- first mandolin and glee clubs, both of which fessor Tillotson has been improving the were under a single management. In some Glee Club's reputation as well as its mu- years, too, there would be an orchestra, sical efficiency, and as a matter of fact this chapel choir and a college quartette. Mu- year's Club has come as close to the realm sical activities were in a period of rise, pub- of High Finance as any of the previous lic concerts were more frequent, organisa- decade. In these years, however, there was tion was better, and the tradition of con- a good deal more productive field in giving cert tours was started. Among our alum- concerts here and there in Maine. Usually ni Dr. Harvey Gibson, for instance, was about ten concerts were given here and manager of the Mandolin and Glee Clubs there in this state, with five or so more scat- his senior year, and a member all during tered through the rest of New England, his college years of both choir and orches- though often the boys went down to Phil- tra. When Professor Wass came to the col- adelphia and even further. At that time the lege about 1908—he had for several years Instrumental Club and the Glee Club went before been making special trips down from together in one organisation, the Com- Augusta to help train the choir—the re- bined Musical Clubs, but in 1922 for the vival of music at Bowdoin finally became first time in its history the Glee Club main- something truly substantial and worth tained a separate organisation. It went on while. The Glee Club now was a perma- several trips by itself, a thing that had not nent organisation which would go on from happened before, and the musical standard, year to year under a permanent head with of its programs was raised to a much high- no fear of dissolution between June of one er level. It was in this year, too, that the year and September of the next, something musical vesper services for Sunday Chapel that had always before been the great dan- first began. ger. During the second decade of this cen- This sudden rise of the Glee Club from tury Professor Wass began to build up his its position as a minor musical activity is to club, but activities were to a large extent a large extent symptomatic of what was nipped in the bud by the last war, and happening at the same time all over the progress was slow. In the twenties came country. For years the college boys had the first real steps towards a musical Bliite- been happy to sing Poily w oily doodle, The seit at Bowdoin. The financial records of Camjptown Ladies, and other such amusing the Glee Club at this time are something but distinctly frivolous types of musical of- fearful and wonderful to behold. The man- fering. Spontaneity rather than art was the ager, it seems, went gaily off to the First watchword. The voice of the banjo was National Bank, usually some time around heard in the land. And their elders were in January before the first Club trips start- tarred from the same barrel; far be it from ed, and borrowed a couple of hundred dol- me, of course, to tread with uncautious lars to start things rolling; the trips were step on holy ground, but the impression I made, the guarantees came rolling in, and have gotten is that except in the larger by the end of the year the club would have cities before this time there was less sym- handled around eighteen hundred dollars phony and more Sousa. The soft lights and or so. And as far as I have been able to odors tender of moonlight and roses and make out, they always finished up without hearts and flowers pervaded the still and any losses or unpaid debts. Of course, in uncomplaining air of our sequestered vales those days the guarantees were a good deal and dells. But fortunately, came the Con- [109] The Bowdoin Alumnus cord School of choral music to put virility here in 193 6- 193 7 the Glee Club has about and toil into our college singing. In this doubled in numbers, and the rehearsal at- year, 1922, under the inspiring leadership tendance has improved even more. Our of Frederick King Turgeon '23, with of program grows larger, and we are begin- course the fine and sympathetic direction ning to work up a certain amount of reper- of Professor Wass, the men began to ex- tory material, perhaps as much as two or periment with new material, Palestrina, three pieces each year that require only a folk-songs of various nations, choral ar- small amount of rehearsal, thus leaving rangements of famous instrumental or piano most of our time for working up those pieces, and on the whole a far more sub- longer and more intricate pieces that form stantial musical diet. The present Sunday the backbone of the program. To be sure, Choir, too, as I have said, dates from this much of the work we have done recently period, and we have to thank for the ex- has caused a good deal of contention: the tremely high quality of the choir's music Ja2£ Oratorio of four years ago, and the today these first outposts of choral revival setting of Mr. Lindsay's poem on the foun- in the early twenties. der of the Salvation Army, and so on; that

The Bowdoin Glee Club has continually is, even when we had done our very best improved in the last twenty years. Save pos- on some of these pieces, a phenomenon that sibly for the year or so after Professor does not yet occur as often as might be

Wass died the musical organisation here hoped, there were still those who imagined has flourished, ever widening its field of such consummate talent could be put to work and improving its list of concert better use. This present writer has per- tours. Since Professor Tillotson's first year haps antique tastes in music (he who has

The Chapel Choir Mr. Bliss is second from the left in the front row. [no] The B o w d o i n Alumnus once known the delights of polyphony will dangerous! To speak with gratitude of the always remain a faithful convert) and I alumni who have done so much for the must admit quite frankly that I would at Glee Club and for music at Bowdoin, and any time rather sing Bach or Palestrina or who continue so helpful in gifts and in se- Elizabethan Madrigals than anything else, curing dates for concerts would be almost yet I feel that Professor Tillotson does well superfluous. Suffice it only to say that mu- to give modern music a showing and that sic is taking an increasingly large part in the Glee Club proves itself more worthy our college life, and a part, I think, as val- in attempting something new and difficult uable not only to the participator but to than in frittering away its time on some the general student body as any of our per- trite and languid musical hackwork. And haps too multifarious extra-curricular ac- we do not sing modern music alone. One of tivities. Music is not only a recreation but the high spots of the past four years, done a study, and yet still more than that, for it this year with Colby and Colby Junior, last embodies an absolute experience and, as it with Wellesley as part of the Institute of were, a cohesive principle that is capable of Music, was Bach's 130th Cantata, a choral elevating and unifying at once body, mind work not to be excelled, a piece that raises and spirit. Music is not only an end in it- both singer and audience to a loftier plane self but a means to a greater end. of musical appreciation and spiritual perception. The Choir of course does the best Bowdoin won the annual State Track choral work at Bowdoin, as it is a smaller Meet on 1 May 11, scoring 55 /2 points. The and more efficient unit than the Glee Club, University totaled 3 &y2i Bates 21, and Col- and can meet for rehearsal more often, and by 20. Bowdoin placed in 14 of the 15 though we have our off days—as who has events, scoring six firsts and taking all not?—yet I doubt whether the sum total of places in both hurdles. our performances in the past year could be surpassed, either in treatment or in choice James A. Doubleday of Binghamton, N. of program, by any other small choir in Y., has been elected captain of next year's this country. track team. This has been a meagre attempt to tell of the history of music at Bowdoin, a sub- Albert A. Clarke, Jr., '40, captain of the ject of which I hope the reader may be Bowdoin golf team, defeated his roommate, less ignorant, now my story's done, than Rodney E. Ross, Jr., '41, to win the state this poor instrument. The basic facts, as I intercollegiate championship. have intimated at the beginning, are hard to find and insufficiently treated in the col- Andrew A. Haldane '41, captain-elect lege histories; I only hope my work has of football and popular man of his class, not been as incorrect as I know it to be will serve as president of next year's sketchy. I have not treated at all the foun- Stu- dent Council. dation of the music department at this college, nor have I spoken of the many lectures on music or the very fine series of Henry V. Bonzagni '41 will lead the concerts we have had for the last few years, 1 94 1 baseball team. and as for interesting names from time past connected with Bowdoin and music—but Leland Matthew Goodrich, Ph.D., of the how impossible it would be to mention all Class of 1920, will serve as Marshal of the of them, to pick out but a few, how Commencement Exercises. [no The B o w d o i n Alumnus

A Boy's Recollections of Longfellow WILLIAM M. EMERY, A.M., of the Class of 1889

"Once in this place I saw a Poet stand, as his chronicle of Paul Revere. Little did In all the dignity of age, with hair I dream it would be a production suited White as the foam on Androscoggin's falls." only for older heads. Frankly I had little "This place" was "the old church on the enjoyment in the proceedings, which for me hill." The Poet was Longfellow. The occa- were altogether too solemn, almost funereal. sion was the reading of "Morituri Salu- The deep hush falling on the assemblage as tamus." From the poem written by Arlo the Poet, half concealed behind the old pul- Bates for the celebration of the College cen- pit, began his utterance, was in itself som- tenary in 1894 comes the above quotation. ber enough. I can make the words of Mr. Bates my To no one I yield in my great admira- own, for I too heard the white-haired Poet's tion for Longfellow's poetry, and in the "silver voice, over the hush more eloquent respect in which I have always held his than noisy plaudits," as he read his famous memory. Hence, what follows here, per- tribute to old age on Wednesday afternoon haps it hardly need be said, is in no sense of Commencement Week in 1875, in honor derogatory, but merely a record of childish of the fiftieth anniversary of the graduation impressions. of his class. It came about because my fa- With the opening words of "Morituri," ther, Edwin Emery, Bowdoin 1861, took me "O Caesar, we who are about to die, salute to the week's festivities, realising my keen you," my spirits became depressed. When I interest in "Paul Revere's Ride," which, heard him say, "As children frightened by although a boy not quite nine, I had mem- a thunder-cloud," my heart sank even more. orised. Probably it was the only poem of And at the tragic denouement, "Stark on Longfellow's I then knew. But his portrait the floor the luckless clerk lay dead," I was hung on our walls, and I was all agog when gloomy indeed. I wished myself far from told that I was to see and hear one whose there. Perhaps I was cheered by the beauty name was a household word. of the closing couplet, Quite naturally the church was packed with one of the largest audiences it ever "And as the evening twilight fades away, held. Among the host of notables seated on The sky is filled with stars, invisible by the platform father enthusiastically pointed day." out a full-bearded gentleman whom he called "Speaker Blaine." "What's a Speak- In any event I was certainly cheerful beer?" I asked. The explanation assured me cause the reading was ended. Of the tu- of the official status of the Hon. James G. multuous applause that ensued I seem to Blaine, Speaker of the National House, and remember nothing. a former Overseer of Bowdoin, whom I In later days as I have often re-read the was to see again nine years later, when a sublime lines I have laughed at the fears nominee for the Presidency of the United of the little lad who sat in semi-torture that States. bright afternoon long years ago.

I had gone to Brunswick with the keen- But it seems Longfellow himself was est anticipations of a delightful afternoon about as uncomfortable during the exer- in listening to Longfellow's voice. In my cises, though in a different way, as I was. boyish innocence I imagined his anniver- He always shrank from public readings of sary poem would be as stirring and thrilling his works. When he found he could deliver [112] The B o w d o i n Alumnus his poem from the pulpit he said, "Let me tomary felicitous phrasing, as all rose spon- cover myself as much as possible; I wish taneously, conferred on the Poet's daugh- it might be entirely." ter, Miss Alice Longfellow, the honorary At the close of the exercises father and degree of Master of Arts, "here on the spot

I made our way to the dais, where we were where fifty years ago her father read his 11 fortunate to shake hands with Mr. Long- Bowdoin poem. The occasion was to me fellow, Mr. Blaine, and other celebrities. the triumphant completion of a cycle.

I fear I was disappointed because the great "O Time and Change, with hair as gray 11 Poet could not give much time to the little as was the Poet's that summer day, to al- primary school chap, and I was too bash- ter Whittier a bit, it is a pleasure today to ful to tell him of my enjoyment of "Paul recall for others this boyhood memory of Revere's Ride." America's most cherished and beloved Poet, Next day we attended Commencement Bowdoin's greatest alumnus, and the event Dinner, held in the uncompleted Memorial which he made a high water-mark in the Hall. I think Longfellow did not speak annals of the College. there. Little can I recall, save that I noted the Poet had donned a blue necktie in place The Athletic office is still anxious to re- of the black cravat he wore the day before, ceive a copy of the 1932 Bugle. and his countenance was beaming. The not- of the ed historian, John S. C. Abbott, also Book Editor Stanley P. Chase '05 has de- class of 1825, read a paper regarding his cided not to present any reviews in this classmates, which to me was pretty dry number of the Alumnus. There was not stuff. I must have gased on United States much material for consideration and it was Senator James W. Bradbury, Congressmen his feeling that this might well be held un- Samuel P. Benson and Cullen Sawtelle, and til fall. Dr. George B. Cheever, eminent divine and author, also members of that distinguished class, but at that time they meant little to me. On thinking matters over, I was glad Income Tax Deduction after all; I had seen and heard Longfellow and shaken his hand; and I have been ever Contributions to the Bowdoin since, all through these 65 years. Alumni Fund constitute an allowable I was considered too young to be allowed deduction (subject to the usual 15% to sit up for an evening concert in the limitation) in computing the taxpay- church, when the famous Annie Louise ers' net income under the United Cary, a great diva of that day, gave her States Income Tax law now in force, as gifts to the are con- magnificent rendition of a musical setting Alumni Fund tributions to or for the use of Bow- of the poem of the guest of honor, "The 11 doin College, a corporation organ- Day is Done. My elders said they would ized and operated exclusively for ed- never forget the wonderful beauty of the ucational purposes. closing strains:

"And the night shall be filled with music, All such contributions should be And the cares that infest the day entered on the tax return as gifts to Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, Bowdoin College rather than as gifts 11 And as silently steal away. to the Alumni Fund.

Fifty years later it was my great joy to be present when President Sills, in his cus- [»$] The B o w d o in Alumnus

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BOSTOH CLUB A well-attended meeting for sub-fresh- The spring meeting was held at the Uni- men was held at the Eastland Hotel on versity Club on Thursday, April 18. Coach Monday, May 13. The program included Jack Magee showed motion pictures of four undergraduate speakers, representing his trips to Scandinavia. various activities, a panel discussion by four members of the student Political For- CEHTRAL COHHECTICUT um, music by the College Double Quartet, ASSOCIATIOH and a program of football motion pictures Coach Linn Wells represented the Col- with Coach Adam Walsh as commentator. lege at a meeting held primarily for sub- freshmen on the evening of Tuesday, May SOUTHERH CALIFORNIA 28. ASSOCIATIOH

NEW HAMPSHIRE ASSOCIATIOH The annual Bowdoin Dinner was held at The annual meeting was held at the Ex- Los Angeles on Thursday, May 23. We eter Inn in Exeter on Wednesday, May 1. know that motion pictures from the Col- Guest speaker was Commander Donald B. lege were shown but have received no fur- MacMillan '98 and there were several fac- ther report. ulty members present from the College. E. Pike Rounds '20 was elected president, VERMONT CLUB while Harold M. Smith '09 continues in The organization meeting of the Club office as secretary. was held at the Middlebury Inn on Friday, NEW YORK ASSOCIATIOH May 10, with the Alumni Secretary as representative of the College. James W. Shea Coach Adam Walsh was speaker at the '25 was elected Convener for the group. spring meeting, held at the Alpha Delta Phi Club on the evening of Wednesday, WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS April 24. ASSOCIATIOH

PORTLAND CLUB President Sills and the Alumni Secretary The annual "President's Night" was ob- represented the College at the annual served with a meeting at the Cumberland meeting, held at the Hotel Sheraton in

Club on Thursday, April 4. Alden H. Springfield on Friday, May 3. James P. Sawyer '27 was elected president, and Blunt '31 is the new president of the Club Josiah H. Drummond '36 is the new sec- and Warren W. Stearns '32 will serve as retary. secretary.

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igyi—George William Tillson, who re- tober 6, 1864, he received his law degree at in was given a ceived the degree of C.E. in 1881 and Boston University 1891. He Bowdoin A.M. in that same year and immedi- the honorary degree of Sc.D. in 1919, died at ately began practice. He later moved to New the home of his daughter in LaGrange, Illinois York, where he was located according to our on May 13. He had been in failing health for was a member of some months. Born in Thomaston, December 18, most recent information. He Psi Upsilon. 1852, Mr. Tillson was one of the members of the Engineering School at Bowdoin, and after 1895—Bertram Lewis Bryant, who received at Dudley, Massachusetts, be- a year's teaching his A.M. in 1897 and his M.D. in culminated in his service as gan a career which 1898, died in Bangor, where he had practiced chief engineer for the highways of the boroughs since that year, on May 10. He had been ill for and Brooklyn, and consulting en- of Manhattan about a year. Born in Bethel, May 28, 1872, acting commissioner of the Brooklyn gineer and Dr. Bryant was assistant in Chemistry at the of public works. He had earlier department College from 1895 to 1897. He had been active city engineer of Omaha, Nebraska. In served as in civic and professional work in Bangor, serv- to France as one of a committee 1 9 18 he went ing at various times as chief of staff of the consultation in re- of Americans sent over for Eastern Maine General Hospital, Secretary of excerpt from gard to highway reccnstruction. An the Maine Medical Association, President of in the num- his autobiography appeared March the Bowdoin Alumni of the Penobscot Valley, ber of the He was a member of Alumnus. and a member of the Bangor Water Board. Sur- Zeta Psi. vivors in addition to his widow include a 1879—'FRANK Melville Byron, who was nephew, Mason D. Bryant, Jr. of the class of born in Freeport, September 20, 1857, 1935. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi. died in Los Angeles, California, on May 5. Mr. 1895 -Walter Scott Abbott Kimball, who entered railway work on graduation and Byron received the degrees of A.M. and M.D. from 1902 until his retirement had served as at Bowdoin in 1898, and who had served as general agent for the New York Central Lines assistant in Biology from 189=5 to 1807, died in in Los Angeles. He was a member of Theta Portland on May 20. Dr. Kimball was for Delta Chi. twelve years assistant surgeon at the Soldiers" Home at Togus, later practicing in 1881 —Warren Porter Skillings is re- Portland un- ported as having died at San Tose, Cali- til his retirement to Rumford Point in 1933. He was a native of fornia, on August 1, 1939. He was an architect Gorham, where he was born by profession and had been on the West Coast December 18, 1872, and was a member of Theta for many years. He was born May 11, i860 at Delta Chi. Milford, Massachusetts, and was a member of —Homer Ralph Blodgett, who was Delta Kappa Epsilon. 1896 born at Brooksville, May n, 1869, 1882—Arthur Glenwood Staples, Litt.D., died at the home of a daughter at Council Overseer of the College for many years, Bluffs, Iowa, on April 18. Mr. Blodgett became died at his home in Auburn on April 2, 1940. associated with the Chicago seed firm of Albert Dickerson Company immediately following grad- Charles Clifford Hutchins, Sc.D., 1883 uation and remained with them until his re- Professor Emeritus of Physics, and a tirement a few years ago. He had more recently member of the Bowdoin faculty since 188=5, died made his home in Saco. Survivors include two at his winter home in San Diego, California, on sons, George A. *ai, and Philip R. '30. He was April 13. A College Bulletin containing the a member of Delta Upsilon. memorial address delivered by President Sills at —Clark Barker Eastman, prac- a service in the College Chapel on May 26th, is 1897 who being mailed to all alumni. ticed law for several years in Portland but had for some time been associated with the 1884—FRANK Lewis Prince, who was born Lockheed Laboratories in New York, died on in Portland, August 18, 1862 and who April 19 at his home in DuPont, New Jersey. had been in business there since leaving Bow- He was born in West Gorham. February 9, doin, died at his home on January 18, we are 1874, and was a member of Delta Kappa Ep- informed. silon. — — 1887 Edward Butler Burpee is reported as 1897 Harry Maxwell Varrell, who re- having died at his home in South ceived master's degrees at Bowdoin in Orange, New Jersey at the time of the Presi- 1900 and at Harvard in 1909, and who was dential election in 1936. Born in Rockland, Oc- awarded his Harvard Ph.D. in 191 2, died sud- C"5] — J

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— had been denly at his post as Dean of the Graduate 1914 J AMES Preble Wright, who Division of Simmons College in Boston on May in business at Hanford, California, 27. He had taught at Simmons since 191 2 and since graduation, died there on April 8. He was had served as Professor of History and Gov- in banking for some years, but since 1929 had ernment since 1920. A native of Wells, where been treasurer of a firm serving as distributors he was born July 14, 1878, he had taught at of tractors, automobiles, and farm implements, the Universities of New Mexico and Colorado. in Kings and Kern Counties. He had been active He was past president of the New England His- in civic matters. Born in Woolwich, October 27, tory Teachers' Association and a member of 1 89 1, he was a member of Zeta Psi. Delta Kappa Epsilon. 2925—Eldin Hiram Austin, who had been — had 1899 Hanson Hart Webster, who a practicing attorney in Canton, Ohio been associated since graduation with for many years, died suddenly there on March the educational department of the Boston pub- 18. Mr. Austin served with the Navy for two lishing firm of Houghton, Mifflin Co., died sud- years during the World War and had held a denly at Swampscott, Massachusetts, on May 9. Lieutenant's commission in the Naval Reserve. In addition to his editorial work Mr. Webster He was a member of Beta Theta Pi and was had served as president of the Rose Bindery. born at Parkman, February 12, 1893. He was the author and co-author of several —Newell Lyon Hemenway, Captain, books, including "Famous Seamen of America" 2929 U.S.A., who for four years had served and "The Ship Book"" and was considered an as associate professor of Military Science and authority on naval and maritime matters. Dur- Tactics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, died ing the World War he served as a propagandist suddenly at his home in Blacksburg, Virginia, with the United States Food Administration. He on July 2, 1938. Captain Hemenway, who had was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha been enrolled as a cadet at the United States Delta Phi, served as Class Agent for and had Military Academy, was commissioned Second the Alumni Fund. Lieutenant of Engineers in November, 1918, 1900—P HILIP Lowell Pottle, who was born and served overseas during the following year. in Lewiston, November 2, 1878, died He had remained with the regular army since at his home there on May 6 after an illness of that time. He was born in Portland, April 3, several months. Mr. Pottle entered the paper- 1897, and was a member of Psi Upsilon. making business after graduation and was as- 1930—-RICHARD Townsend Bates, who was sociated with several American and Canadian born at East Rochester, New Hamp- mills before beginning his work with the pulp shire, September 28, 1908, died suddenly at mill equipment firm of Lombard & Company his home in New Haven, Connecticut on April some twenty-five years ago. He had been active 11. He was operating manager for the Connecti- in civic work in Lewiston, had served as mem- cut Citizens Committee, an organization con- ber and president of the Alumni Council and as cerned with policing the state's liquor business. Class Agent for the Alumni Fund and was a He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. member of Zeta Psi. His only son, George Bur- —George William Roland Bowie, who gess '32, died in 1935. 1930" received his M.D. at the Jefferson Med- —PERCY Glenham Bishop, who was 1909 ical College in Philadelphia and who had prac- born in Eastport, April 30, 1887, and ticed at Vanceboro, Rangeley and New Glouces- who for the past five years had been engaged ter, is reported as having died on May 10. Dr. in the sugar business at Miami, Florida, died Bowie was born at Ancon, Canal Zone, April of pneumonia in that city on March 20. Mr. 13, 1910. He held a Lieutenant's commission Bishop went to Puerto Rico on graduation to in the Medical Corps of the Organized Re- serve as manager of a sugar mill and was in serves, U.S.A. Cuba for some time in this same business. Dur- — Clement MacNutt, who was ing the World War he served in Puerto Rico 2934 John as Captain and Regimental Adjutant of the born at Cohoes, New York, July 19, 375th Infantry. He was a member of Delta iqii, and who transferred to Rollins College at Upsilon. Winter Park, Florida, was killed in an automobile accident near there on January 11, 1934. 1 Melville Cony Aubrey, who had 291 He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. been living for some years in San Diego, California, died suddenly while on a business trip to Chicago on March 17. He was MEDICAL SCHOOL born in Chicago, December 19, 1889, and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. J911 —Philip Weston Meserve, Professor 1888— 0HN Grant Quimby, M.D., who had of Chemistry since 1928, died sud- practiced in Lakeport, New Hamp- denly in Brunswick on May 10. A sketch of his shire, since 1894, died at his home there on career will be found elsewhere in these pages. December 10, 1939. Dr. Quimby, who was ["«] — —F

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Hampshire, April 8, at Marion, Massachusetts, and in Boston, is re- born at Sandwich, New ,, 1862, had been active in the affairs of the ported as having died "several months ago. state, serving four terms in the Legislature and —Samuel Jackson Redman, M.D., of one in the State Senate. He was at one time 1899 Dexter, is reported as having died there a Colonel on the Governor's Staff and had been in September, 1939. A native of Hermon, where chairman of the Board of Health and the School he was born February 5, 1868, he had earlier Board of Laconia. He was a brother of Rev. practiced in Eddington, Exeter, and Bangor. Langdon Quimby '95 and of the late Allen Quimby of that class. 1900 Clarence Eugene Hight, M.D., who born in Jefferson, New Hampshire, —Arthur Azbra Shaw, M.D., who was was 1891 October 4, 1874, and had practiced in Milan born in Aetna, April 1864, and who 7, and Groveton, New Hampshire until his re- had practiced in Clinton, died at the home of moval to Pasadena, California, in 1923, died in a daughter in Concord, New Hampshire, on that city on March m. He had served during December 15, 1939. He had served as repre- the World War as First Lieutenant at the Base sentative and senator in the Maine Legislature. Hospital at Camp Meade, Maryland. IS94—Walter Linwood Watson, who held his M.D. not only from Bowdoin but also from the Bellevue Hospital Medical Col- HONORARY lege, died at Monroe, where he had practiced for thirty-seven years, on March 27. He was — RANK Edward Hanscom, A.M., re- born May 19, 1867, at Everett, Massachusetts. 1907 tired principal of Gould Academy at 1899 William Hiram Mitchell, M.D., Bethel and Bates graduate in the class of 1899, who was born May 7, 1869 at Litch- died at his home in Bethel on April n. He was field, and who had practiced for many years born March 24, 1863 at West Poland.

News from the Classes

Foreword Stafford 1877 Mrs - Marie Peary of Wash- For ways that are dark, ington, daughter of the late Admiral And tricks that are vain, Robert E. Peary, has been named an advisory What's more true to the mark member of the American Danish Greenland Than Spring coming to Maine? Commission by the Danish Minister, Henrik Kauffman.

commission to protect Danish All I have to answer to the charge of dis- The was formed loyalty preferred by my friends Bob Coffin and interests in Greenland and to safeguard the Wilbert Snow, star writers of hymnology of the necessary supplies for the population, and the export of Greenland products. the advisory State, "if this be treason make the most of it." On commission also are two honorary graduates of We are back and so is Spring. We, at least I, plan to execute a simultaneous entry, but our Bowdoin, Capt. "Bob" Bartlett of New York City, and Dr. Isaiah president of Johns cues occasionally fail to click. Bowman, A new Bowdoin Club was born of northern Hopkins University. parents in a tropical habitat. The sire was our Mrs. Alice Brownson Huston, wife of beloved Senior Alumnus; a good score for so 1 879— their venerable a parent; the dam was, I reckon, Henry A. Huston, died at home "Bill" Watson, '02; certainly young and husky in Kew Hall, 83-09 Talbot St., Kew Gardens, enough to produce anything fine. Two able N. Y., March 25. Bowdoin M.D.'s, and the writer were in the de- They were married in 1899 when Professor livery room, the restaurant of the Yacht Club, Huston was teaching chemistry at Purdue Uni- and every one had a good time. The child was versity. In 1903 they moved to Chicago, when inspected and assessed monthly, and in April Mr. Huston became American representative of was ordered north for a good spring and summer the German Potash Syndicate. From Chicago rearing in the old home environment; to be re- they moved to Baltimore, and in 191 2 to New habilitated for winter training in St. Petersburg York, living in the city until they moved to later in the year. Heredity and environment are Kew Hall in 1923. Mr. Huston is the only wonderful assets. surviving relative. C»7] ——^ —

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r 11 1880— - AM D. Holmes, retired physician, ment Exercises of Rutgers University on June celebrated his 84th birthday at his 9th. This honor is to be bestowed on Dr. Albee home in Hudson, Mass., on January 12th. in recognition of the pioneer work which he has done in the fields of surgery and rehabilitation — ev< onn E. Cummings, D.D., who has 1 884 J and is a tribute to him for twenty-one years of been traveling in California for some service in developing rehabilitation for the State months, has returned to his home at 49 Pelham of New Jersey, as well as for his many outstand- St., Newton Centre, Mass. ing original contributions to orthopedic surgery. 1889 Secretary, william m. emery Major Carl Vose Woodbury, head of the Physics Department at Norwich University, is 182 Cottage St., New Bedford, Mats. one of three members of the Norwich faculty Rev. C. F. Hersey is reported to be in a hos- were honored by a ^special military pital in Worcester for an operation incident to who review on June in celebration of their completion his years. His classmates and many friends cer- 7 of forty years of service at Norwich. tainly send their best wishes for a safe recovery, and restoration to health and strength. 1900 Secretary, burton m. clough 914 Chapman Bldg., Portland, Maine. 1890 Secretary, prof. w. b. Mitchell Clifford S. Bragdon of New Rochelle, N. Y., 6 College St., Brunswick, Maine resigned from his school work, and has a sum- Rev. Dr. Daniel Evans delivered the address mer home in the Belgrade Lake region, with at the 124th anniversary of the granting of the his address at East Wilton. He spent this last charter to the Bangor Theological Seminary at winter at Winter Park, Fla. All Souls Congregational Church, Bangor, May Robert F. Chapman of Portland was in Coral 28th. — Gables, Fla., this past winter. 1891 Secretary, c. s. f. Lincoln 1902 Secretary, lyman a. cousens Brunswick, Maine roi Vaughan St., Portland, Maine. This is the open season on longtime educa- Philip H. Cobb is chairman of the Red Cross tors, and Wilbert G. Mallett '91, principal of the War Relief Campaign in Portland. Farmington Normal School, and San Lorenzo At a recent meeting of the Western Maine Merriman '97, of the Aroostook Normal School Torch Club, Col. George E. Fogg was elected at Presque Isle, are retiring at the close of the president. He is also chairman of the arrange- present school year. The former has been prin- ments for the 1 6th annual meeting of the In- cipal for 31 years and the latter for 33 years. ternational Association of Torch Clubs meeting in Portland, June 27-29. 1892 Secretary, will o. hersey Chairman Harvey Dow Gibson, chairman of Pembroke, Maine 1 the World's Fair Board, told Actors Equity Herbert T. Field, former bank officer, is now Association that he was on the inside of this making his home with a sister at 125 South show business. How's that? asked the Equity Virginia Ave., Lakeland, Florida. people. "When I was a kid in Maine, I played Roland W. Mann's address is now 14 Hudson the violin in a 10-20-30 cent burlesque house." St., Bangor, Maine. Walter Sanborn 'oi adds that Chairman Gibson 1893 Secretary, harry c. fabyan barnstormed with Bowdoin Musical Clubs. 6 Beacon St., Boston, Mass. The papers which we clip are always full of Prof. Frank R. Arnold, retired, is secretary news about Harvey Gibson, but this clipping of the Tercentenary Committee in Braintree, from a column in one of the New York papers Mass., where he now resides at 87 Cochato seems worthy of presentation here: Road. "One of our Administration Building opera- tives came across a letter sent to Mr. Harvey —Secretary, FRANCIS W. DANA IS94 Gibson the other day by Kenneth C. M. Sills, 8 Bramhall St., Portland, Maine. president of Bowdoin College. Our man gave Us The Boston Herald of April 26, reports the some background to go with the letter. He said sale of some rare U. S. stamps found by a Mr. Gibson, before he was graduated from Bow- Framingham truckman, to Fred Pickard of W. doin in 1902, was a fiddler in the college band. Wilmington, Del. Mr. Sills, incidentally, is Bowdoin 1901. - ''' 1896 Secretary, JOHN c. minot "Dear Harvey, the letter said, "I happen to Dover, Mass. be an elector to the Hall of Fame, and the other in Charles T. Stone, a retired superintendent of day a pamphlet sent to me about Stephen Foster, the famous writer of songs, I found these schools at Long Branch, N. J., spent the past verses that winter in St. Petersburg, Fla. he wrote in 1845 about a friend of his: Dr Fred Albee of York Pres- " - H - New 1 899~~ > 'We will wind up with Harvey, the bluffer, ident of the International College of the gay. Surgeons (Geneva) is to receive the Honorary He can play on the fiddle (or thinks he can Degree of Doctor of Science at the Commence- play). [Il8] —— —

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Harvey's mind handed him the other day of a football sweater Is inclined and letter, thirty years after he exchanged the To all that's refined, pigskin lor the pen. With count'nance so bright 2922 Secretary, w. a. maccormick That it rivals the light Y.M.U.A., 316 Huntington Ave., Bos- Of the sun that now cheers us this sweet month " ton, Mass. of May." Dr. W alter Greenleaf of the Federal Se- Our agent seemed quite excited by the verse. J. curity Agency, U. S. Office of Education has "Not that I'm superstitious," he told us, "but just issued an interesting and uselul pamphlet, some of the girls in the building think it's a Individual Guidance, Where is Vocational good omen, ihey say it's the voice of Steve uounsel Offered?" foster predicting that Harvey the Fiddler will Harris Reynolds has been giving a series of open the fair with a big gate in May." Our man, lectures on Bermuda, Alaska, the National we think you ought to know, goes in tor Yoga rarks, Caliiornia Missions, and the two World s and Shintoism." rairs. ihese are illustrated by colored slides and 1903 Secretary, clement f. robinson motion pictures of his own. 85 Exchange St., Portland, Maine. 3 Secretary, luther g. whittier Farnsworth G. Marshall was elected president 292 Farmington, Maine of the state association of school superinten- Sumner T. Pike of the famous Lubec Family dents at its annual meeting at Brockton, Mass., (mostly, if not all, Bowdoin) was appointed a in April. member of the Securities Exchange Commission, 2904 Secretary, eugene p. d. hathaway to succeed G. C. Matthews whose resignation 3360 Mt. Pleasant St., N.W., took effect June 5th. Washington, D. C. 1914 Secretary, Alfred e. gray Arthur C. Shorey is now in the Far East, and Milton Academy, Milton, Mass. will not be back until sometime in July or Walter Brown is office manager of the West- August. ern Electric Hearing Aids in the Transporta- 1905 Secretary, henry lewis tion Building, Washington, D. C. Incidentally, 3 Storer St., Portland, Maine. Francis X. Callahan has his insurance office in William B. Webb of Wabasha, Minn., reports the same building. that he and Ralph Gushing recently met for a Myles Standish, Jr., has recently been elected talkfest, but does not say if the meeting was at a vice president of the New England Trust his home or in Chicago, where Ralph lives. Company of Boston. Earle Thompson of New York is president of Secretary, ROBERT T. WOODRUFF, ESQ. 1906 the Western Pennsylvania Electric Company. 165 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Clement Scholfield, an industrial chemist in ]915 Secretary, Clifford t. perkins California, writes that his daughter Katherine 9 Walton St., Westbrook, Maine. Frances graduates from the University of Cali- Major Charles F. Houghton, U. S. A., has fornia this spring. Clem's home address is 2312 been ordered detached from his duties with the Oregon St., Berkeley, Cal. New Mexico National Guards and assigned to do duty as instructor at the Command and Gen- Secretary, felix a. burton 1 907 eral Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Boylston St., Boston, Mass. 234 Austin H. MacCormick, executive director of Linwood M. Erskine, Esq., of Worcester, the Thomas Mott Osborne Association, Inc., writes, "I have two daughters at Vassar, a son spoke at the annual meeting of the Massachu- at Phillips Exeter, and another son at the Ban- setts Council for the Abolition of the Death croft School." Penalty in Boston on April 29. William S. Linnell gave the Commencement Harold E. Verrill of Portland was reelected Address at the Westbrook Junior College this a director of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad month. at its annual meeting, April 16. 1909 Secretary, ernest h. pottle 2916 Secretary, dwight Sayward 34 Appleton Place, Glen Ridge, N. J. 509 Masonic Bldg., Portland, Maine. Mayor Harold H. Burton came through with Rev. Harry Trust, D.D., president of the Ban- a bang in the Ohio primary, with some 70,000 gor Theological Seminary, was elected District votes ahead of his nearest opponent. A long Governor of the Rotary Clubs in Maine at a Bowdoin cheer for Burton, and another U. S. meeting in Augusta, May 12. Commander Mac- Senator. Millan also spoke at the dinner, and showed 1910 Secretary, e. curtis Matthews pictures of his explorations in the Arctic. Piscataqua Savings Bank, Portsmouth, 1917 Secretary, prof, noel c. little N. H. Brunswick, Maine.

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Coconut Grove, Fla., has returned to Washing- 1922 Secretary, Carroll s. towle ton; his address is 21 21 Virginia Ave., N. W. U. of N. H., Durham, N. H. Ernest C. Fuller, formerly of Belfast, is now Lieutenant Commander Harold Doe, U. S. N., living at 160 Central St., Gardiner, Maine. was ordered to the Navy ammunition depot r.t Col. Sherman Shumway of Merrill Trust Co. Hingham, Mass., from May 1st. of Bangor is chairman of the Penobscot County Francis P. Freeman is now president of the Red Cross Chapter. Louis Stearns, '33 is 1st Harvard Club of Maine, with Robert Hale 'io vice chairman, and Karl Philbrick, '23 treasurer. as his first vice-president. "Girart de Rossillon, poeme bourguignon du Secretary, harlan l. Harrington 1918 XlVe siecle" has been edited with introduction, 74 Weston Ave., Braintree, Mass. notes, and manuscript study, in French, for the Elliott Freeman of the Rogers Fibre Company Yale Romantic Series, by Edward B. Ham, of Kennebunk, is Treasurer of the Maine Chap- Ph.D., of Yale University. Dr. Ham previously ter of the National Association of Cost Account- contributed numerous articles in the field of Old ants. French to American and European journals, and Major Richard T. Schlosberg is one of nine has recently made extensive studies in the lan- Army officers who by June will have completed guage and traditions of the Canadiens-Frangais study courses at the Academy of Motion Pic- and Franco Americains. ture Arts and Sciences at Hollywood. Motion Silvio C. Martin was married on June 1 to picture photography technique helps the Army Miss Pauline K. Hayes of Manchester, N. H., prepare training films. where Mr. Martin is in business. The bride at- John B. Sloggett is now living at 32 Maple tended Syracuse University and is a graduate Ave., Sharon, Mass. of the Katherine Gibbs School in Boston. Timothy R. Stearns has accepted the posi- Hollis R. Smith, M.D., formerly of the Bel- tion of New England representative of the Tex- mont Hospital, Worcester, is now physician at tile Banking Co. of New York City. the Middlesex County Sanatorium, Waltham, Mass. 1919 Secretary, donald s. higgins 78 Royal Road, Bangor, Maine 1923 Secretary, richard small Ralph Irving is with the brokerage firm of 59 Orland St., Portland, Maine. E. G. Olwell at 115 Broadway, New York. Francis B. Hill, until recently living in Port- land, has been appointed manager of the Mu- Secretary, Stanley m. Gordon 1920 tual Life Insurance Company of Vermont, for Place, York, Y. n Park New N. the states of New Hampshire and Vermont, with is Mari- Myron Avery's new address U. S. headquarters in Manchester, N. H. time Broadway, York City. Commission, 45 New Geof Mason and his family will be at Spruce Badger's home address is Old Colony Joe 17 Point Inn, Boothbay, for the month of July. Road, Wellesley Hills, Mass. Karl R. Philbrick is chairman of the Budget Keith C. Coombs, who has been manager of Committee of the Bangor-Brewer Community the Bangor office of the Social Security Board Chest. since nas recently been appointed to the 1937, Secretary Small is a candidate for the Repub- same position in Portland. lican nomination for County Attorney of Cum- Percy and Mrs. Low, of 695 High St., Bath, •berland. a daughter, born 27th. have May King Turgeon has been made a full professor in the Department of Romance Languages at —Secretary, norman w. haines IQ21 Amherst. 68 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass. Principal Herbert Ingraham of Skowhegan, 1925 Secretary, w. h. gulliver, jr. who is a captain in the 906th Coast Artillery, 1 Federal St., Boston, Mass. has just been appointed chairman of the recruit- Albert F. Crandall is manager of the Bond ing drive for Somerset County, to begin im- Department in the Boston office of the Aetna mediately. Casualty and Security Company of Hartford. Ryo. Toyokawa is holding some government Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hayes report the birth appointment and is stationed in Shanghai, of a daughter, Nancy Brooke, on Memorial Day China. He writes to the Class Agent that he at Providence, R. I. had met Sterling Fessenden "96; and Ken Horace Hildreth was recently elected to rep- P.ounds '28, and Euan Davis '37 of the Na- resent the towns of Cumberland and Falmouth tional City Bank; and that the latter has been in the State Legislature in place of the late John transferred to the branch in Osaka, Japan. He T. Gyger. says, "We are in the midst of big trouble in Radcliffe B. Pike is a member of the School China"; and while he realizes that American Board in Lubec, Maine. sentiment is for China, he "wants us to re- "Russ" Stringer is now teaching English, member that the Japanese are not so bad as the French, and coaching soccer at the Santa Bar- American current literature paints them to be.'" bara School, California. [120] —

The B o w d o i n Alumnus — IQ26—Secretary, prof, albert abrahamson 1930 Secretary, philip chapman, jr. Hotel Algonquin, New York, N. Y. 209 Fidelity Bldg., Portland, Maine. Charles S. Bradeen was made executive vice Carleton A. Butler, in the railway mail service, president of the Fairbanks Morse & Co., and is living at 15 Deane St., Portland. has been transferred to the Canadian Fairbanks Tom Chalmers is in much better health, and Morse Company Ltd., q8o St. Antoine St., Mon- is still with W. S. Libby Co., 40 Worth St., treal, P. Q., Canada. New York City. His home address is 18 Ran-

The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New dolph Terrace, Radburn, N. J. York has appointed William S. Holway of Yar- Howard A. Davidson is in the export sales mouth as organizer of its Portland Agency. business; address Box 9, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Victor F. Williams is now practicing law at Ben and Mrs. Jenkins of Newton Highlands, 415 West Main St., Frankfort, Kentucky. Mass., have a daughter Priscilla, born May 6th. "Larry" Leach of Lever Brothers Company —Secretary, george o. cutter 1927 has been transferred back to the home office. 647 Vinewood, Birmingham, Mich. The Leaches have moved to Medford to be un- Albert Dekker has the title role in "Dr. Cy- der the protection of a straight municipality, clops." where Brad Howes, Esq., '28 (Boston lawyer) Sanford Fogg is judge of the municipal court is on the Board of Aldermen. in Hallowell. It is also reported that the Foggs Dr. Howard M. Sapiro, West Scarboro, has have a son. Having no direct information from been appointed a medical examiner in Cumber- the parents our actual knowledge is obscure, land County by Governor Barrows. vague, and even might be called foggy. 1 st Lieut. J. V. Williams, Battery I, Maine Francis H. McGowan is living at 5 Aerial National Guard has graduated from the Coast St., Lexington, Mass. Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va. Oscar Swanson was married to Miss Caryl —Secretary, william b. Alexander 1928 Erikson of Chicago at the home of her brother Belmont Hill School, Belmont, Mass. in Glencoe, 111. They will reside in Minneapolis, Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Davis of Portland where Oscar is with the Liberty Mutual Insur- announce the birth of a son, Steven Hill Davis, ance Company. on May 18th. Alfred M. F. Kiddle has been elected a vice ]931 Secretary, albert e. jenkins president of the Edison Pioneers. Address, 41 Ingleside Ave., Winthrop, Mass. Hampshire House, S., 150 Central Park New Robert W. Atwood is store manager for J. J. York City. Newberry Company, Attleboro, Mass. His address is Peck Street. 1929—Secretary, lebrec micoleau 25 Lt. Juan P. Domenech, U. S. N., is stationed General Motors Corp., New York City. at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. Prentiss Cleaves is with the sales department John S. Donworth is a student in the Har- of the Cessna Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas. vard Law School. From the Boston Herald of May 5 : Roger 1 Miss Ruth Myers of Brookline and Roger W. Hawthorne, the recorder of the present Byrd Harding of West Newton, were married at the Antarctic Expedition, returned to this country Choate School in Brookline, March 25. They with Admiral Byrd on May 14th. are living in Concord, Mass. The engagement of Bradford H. Hutchins of Richard Obear is part-time teaching in Som- Waterville and Miss Eleanor G. Butler of Cum- erville, Mass. berland Foreside has just been announced. Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. Prince (Mrs. Prince Hutchins is a member of the law firm of was a onetime editorial associate on the Alum- Perkins, Weeks and Hutchins. Miss Butler is a nus) report the arrival of Allen Hallowell graduate of Colby, and has taught in Puerto Prince on May 27. Rico, and at Gorham and Kennebunk. They Herman R. Sweet is taking his Ph.D. in will be married in the fall. Biology at Harvard this year. Sam Ladd now represents Milton Bradley Co. in New Hampshire as well as in Maine. 1932—Secretary, GEORGE T. SEWALL Mr. and Mrs. B. Roger Ray of Portland have 19 East 98th St., New York City. a son Benjamin Caleb, born March 15th. Dr. Charles Bilodeau, who is physician on William P. Snow, Vice Consul, is on the the private yacht of William B. Leeds, the tin staff of the American Embassy in Stockholm, plate heir, is on a long cruise. One objective of Sweden. His wife and son returned to America Mr. Leeds is to carry food, clothing and medi- shortly after the invasion of Norway. cal supplies to the inhabitants of Pitcairn Is- The address of Irving G. Stone is ^346 Cor- land, who are getting very scanty attention in nell Ave.. Chicago, 111. these days of battle, murder, and sudden death. Lewis Stone is teaching in the Washington Charles W. Chase is now living at 32 Mo- College of Foreign Service. His address is 2000 shier St., Port Chester, N. Y. He is a salesman Q. St. N. W., Washington, D. C. with the Firestone Company. [i>i] —— —

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Dick Durham, formerly of Ipswich, who re- Hudson Bridge Hastings, Jr. was married May ceived his M.D. from the Medical College of 11th to Miss Florence Adams Nyitray of Mil- South Carolina, is an intern at St. John's Hos- ford, Conn. pital, Brooklyn, N.Y. John B. Hickox and Miss Marjorie Griese The engagement of Creighton Gatchell of were married at the Count Club at Shaker Portland, and Miss Henrietta G. Farnham of Heights, Ohio, Saturday evening, May 11. John Augusta has just been announced. is with the Cleveland office of McCann-Erickson, John H. Jenkins, Jr., now studying for his Inc., of New York. master's degree at Columbia Teachers College, John W. Lord is with the Rosenbaum De- will return to the Skowhegan Junior High partment Store, Pittsburgh, Pa. He has two School next year. sons, John W. Jr., and A. Hardie Lord. His Ned Packard writes that their daughter, Doro- new address is 121 2 Trevanion Ave., Regent thy Kay, was born Mav 7th. Square, Pittsburgh. Albert W. Tarbell, according to informa- Seth H. Read, M. D., is now on the staff tion from his brother John, is in the film proof the State Sanatorium, Wallum Lake, R. I. duction business and changes address often, but Thurston and Mrs. Sumner of Providence, can be reached through 72 Somerset St., Bangor. R. I., announce the arrival of a son, Richard Mr. and Mrs. Russell L. Vanderpyl of Apt. E Bradford, April 24th. 10, 920 Fullerton Parkway, Chicago, 111., an- Bob Wait, who has been at the College as nounce the arrival of Russell, Jr., on May 16. teaching fellow in Biologv this year, will begin work at the Harvard Graduate School next fall. 1933 Secretary, JOHN B. MERRILL Bob Winchell reports that they have a second 311 2nd St., Towanda, Penna. daughter, Diana, born in April. The Winchells Walter Rudolph Brandt, Jr., and Miss Mar- are living in Hartford, Conn. gery Tylee of West Newton, were married Blakeslee Wright is in the Actuarial Depart- April 21. ment of the Liberty Mutual Life Insurance Luther W. Easton's address is ^08 Williams Company of Boston. St., Waycross, Georgia. Dr. Paul Floyd and Miss Emily Frizell of 1935 Secretary, paul e. sullivan Colebrook, N. H., whose engagement was re- 44 Orchard Ave., Portland, Maine. corded in the January Alumnus, will be mar- We are informed by a two-page press release ried there June 1^. Dr. Floyd will be physician from the Ford Exposition at the World's Fair at this season at Camp Hinds, Raymond, Maine. New York, that George Bartter will spend his Al Madeira tells us that he is about to start summer as a lecturer-driver on the spiral "Road work for his Master's degree in English. of Tomorrow." We will not print the release in Ed McMenamin, who is in some department full but suggest that you look George up if you of the United States Government, is living at are at the Fair. 2162 Florida Ave., N. W., Washington, D. C. Charlie Behr writes from Wonalancet, N. H., Jaques Miller, architect, is with the General that he has a small farm on which he raises Engineering Dept., Standard Oil Co. of Vene- medicinal herbs, and in winter is an instructor zuela, Caripito, Venezuela. in the Tamworth Ski School. He regrets that Edward H. and Mrs. Morse, have a son E. H. situated where he is he sees so few Bowdom Jr., born May 9th. men. The engagement is announced of Miss Deb- The engagement of Irving G. Bowman, now orah C. Gilbert of Winchester, Mass., to Nor- teaching in Vermont Academy, and Miss Mary man von Rosenvinge of Cambridge. Curtis Burrill, formerly of Wellesley, was an- Blanchard R. Vining is Pacific Coast repre- nounced in April. sentative of Davis, Rose &? Co., Ltd., Boston Four other engagements in which members chemical house. His address is 1080 Eddy St., of '35 are involved are: Ensign Paul E. Hart- San Francisco, Cal. mann, U. S. N., to Miss Margaret P. Moore of Fred Whittier's home address now is 255 New York, formerly of Nashville, Tenn.: Lafayette Ave., Grantwood, N. J. Steve Merrill to Miss Violet L. Buxton of Fort ]934 Secretary, rev. cordon e. gillett Fairfield; Howard Niblock, now teaching at it S. Bryant St., Old Town, Maine. Mt. Hermon School for Boys, to Miss Marian Robert M. Aiken is associated with Walter Gould, Radcliffe '35; and John O. Parker to Chann'ng, Inc., realtors, ^o Congress St., Bos- Miss Elizabeth Read McDonald of Arlington, ton. Residence, 18 Cushing Road, Wellesley Mass. Hills, Mass. Two new sons of \*> have recently ap- The engagement of Miss Margaret M. Armi- peared to boost the parental stock: to the Joe tage of Salem, Mass., to Frederick C. Bachelder Hoyts of Salem, on Mav 24, Toseph Bixbv, Jr., of Wenham has recentlv been announced. their second child; and to the Robert Sher- Phil Burnham will be teaching English at mans of Squantum, their first child, Thomas Vermont Academy, Saxtons River, Vt., this White Sherman, at the Massachusetts Memorial next school year. Hospital, May 10th.

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been appointed teacher of Eng- William J. Keville, Jr., of Belmont is to be Bill Soule has married to Miss Moira O'Connell, a grand-niece lish and coach of track at Bangor High School. of William Cardinal O'Connell, in St. Clem- Bill received his A.M. at Bates last year and has ent's Church, Boston, June 20. His Eminence been teaching at Foxcroft Academy. He will be will officiate at the wedding. married in the Bates College Chapel on June 26 Lieut. Stanley H. Low is at the Infantry to Miss M. June Good of Auburn, sister of School, Fort Benning, Ga. Phil Good, who will be an usher, as will Vale Mr. and Mrs. John P. McLeod of 510 Gib- Marvin. Dave Soule '38 will be his brother's son Ave., Kingston, Pa., announce the birth best man. of John Porter McLeod, 2nd, on March 29th. Secretary, william s. burton lack thinks he has the makings of a good tackle. 1937 Here's luck. 206 Holden Green, Cambridge, Mass. The Class Secretary is selling wall papers for Tom Bassett is living at 612A North Louise, Loring, Short & Harmon, Portland, covering Glendale, Cal. Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. It should Ernest B. Dalton of Hopedale, Mass. who has keep him busy. been a teaching fellow in Government at Bow- doin this past vear, has been awarded one of J936 Secretary, Hubert s. shaw the Littauer Fellowships at Harvard, and will St. Alban's School, Washington, D. C. be studying in the Graduate School this next Samuel Abramson, now studying at the Bos- year. ton University Law School, is living at 91 Clay- Davis has been transferred from the moss Road, Brighton, Mass. Euan Shanghai, China to the Kobe, Japan, branch of Richard B. Elgosin, M. D., is practicing in WHtefield, N. H. the National City Bank of New York. His address is Care National City Bank of N.Y., P.O. Asa B. Kimball, 2nd, and Miss Roberta Ann Box 168 Sannomiya, Kobe, Japan. Lewis, both of Portland, were married at the Paul H. Gilpatric graduates from the Har- home of the bride's parents in Newport, Me., vard Dental School this month. plans to June 2nd. He nractice in Boston, and live at home in Med- Paul La^'dley is manager of the Traffic De- ford. partment of Sherman K. Ellis & Co., New York Basil Latty and Mrs. Lattv, who was Miss City. The Laidleys are living at 427 East 77th Stella Douglas, of Brunswick, the Street. announce birth of a daughter, March 26. Basil is at the Hartley Lord is a salesman for R. C. Harvey University of Michigan School. Co., of Boston, and covering the south as far Law Percy Knauth is writing the Boston Herald as Atlanta, Birmingham, and Nashville. He is and 7S[etu Tor\ Times wireless to be married Tune 8th to Miss Emalene Neaves from Berlin. Stanley Williams, who has served so accept- of Elkin, N. C. They will reside at 2=5 Kirk- ably as teaching fellow in year, land Circle, Wellesley Hills, Mass. French this past goes Mrs. Elof Benson announces the marriage of to Amherst this fall as an instructor in Romance Languages. her daughter Betty to Amos Stone Mills, Jr., Paul Welsh has Linn at Newton Highlands, Mass., March 23rd. been awarded the Susan Sage Fellowship in this Burroughs Mitchell, on the staff of Argosy, Philosophv at Cornell next academic year. and his mother, Mrs. Edward P. Mitchell, are living at 15 West 15th St., New York City. Secretary, ANDREW H. COX John Presnell will receive his bachelor's de- 1938 gree and his Lieutenant's commission at West 94 Prescott St., Cambridge, Mass. Point on June n. During the nast vear he has Stuart D. Brewer, majoring in Chemistry in served as regimental commander of the Corps N. Y. U. Graduate School, is president of the of Cadets and he has been awarded the General Honorary Chemical Society, Phi Lambda. Pershing Sword and the S.A.R. Cud for the Jim Card is with Wm. Filene and Sons Co., highest rating in military efficiency. He expects Boston, Mass. to be assigned to the Engineer Corns and to be Ned Dupee writes that he has had a great stationed at Fort Logan, Colorado. and busy year traveling all over the west coast Richard E. Read and Miss Edythe I. John- country in the interest of the wool firm of son of Newton were married March 10. Dr. Seth Milton S. Theller, no Market St.. San Fran- Read '34, a brother, was an usher. Mr. and Mrs. cisco. He expects to return to Massachusetts Rpid will reside in Walpole, Mass. early in June. Maurice Ross graduates from the Yale Medi- Tohn Halford, Tr., is engaged to Miss Laura cal School this month and will take up his Thickens, Wellesley \S. He receives his M.S. duties as interne at the Long Island College at M. I. T. on Tune n. Ho=m'r.al, Brooklyn, Tulv 1st. Mr. and Mrs. William B. Webb, Jr., Wa- The engagement of Miss Dorothy H. Ilg of basha. Wis., announce the birth of a daughter, Belmont, Mass., to William P. Sawyer of Lex- Patr'cia. Mrs. Webb was Miss Mary Spear of ington, Mass., has been announced. Portland.

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Francis Bilodeau has a year's leave from the Thomas Riley and Ann Sutherland, Wellesley Newark Museum and has a scholarship at the "41, of New Bedford, Mass., announced their Yale Art School. engagement on May 10th. F. Davis Clark is a delegate from Maine to Robert C. Russell is working in the cost ac- the Democratic National Convention. counting department of the Rising Paper Co., 11 "Bob Morss of London, England, is a 2nd Great Barrington, Mass. Lieutenant of Artillery, now in Scotland. John Scope is a stock room boy with Mary Stuart G. P. Small, who has been a gradu- Lewis, designer of clothes. ate student in the Classics at the University of The engagement of Miss Esther Rowe to Cincinnati, was honored by a fellowship for Edward Stevens Jr., of the Shawmut National advanced study at the American Academy in Bank of Boston has been announced. Rome. The war in Europe will prevent his tak- Randall B. Tinker is a. laboratory technician ing up his work there for some time. and chemist in the pharmaceutical department John M. Thurlow of Fryeburg is just com- of the Calco Chemical Division of the Ameri- pleting his course in the College of Osteopathy, can Cyanamide Company in Bound Brook, N. J. Kirksville, Missouri. Phil E. Tukey, Jr., of Portland, has just re- Wells Wethereli's address is 307 South 37th ceived his commission into active service in the St., Omaha, Nebraska. U. S. A. Air Corps at Kelly Field, Texas. James W. Zarbock is now living at W. 9—Secretary, john h. rich 453 ] 93 119th St., New York City. He is employed Kennebec Journal, Augusta, Maine. by the Garden City Publishing Company. Frank S. Abbott, graduated from the Whar- ton School, University of Pennsylvania in Feb- ruary; married to Mhss Nancy Cairns of Bel- HOHORART GRADUATES mont, February 15; best man George Ware '^o. Abbott is working in the Educational Division of the New England Mutual Life Insurance ]911 —Payson Smith, Litt.D., will begin work Company, 27 Milk Street, Boston. next fall as Professor of Education at Philip Bean is with the American Felt Co. the University of Maine. Port Chester, N. Y.

ev - Benjamin '82, The engagement is recently announced of 1929—^- ^ Brewster, Yale Miss Eleanor L. Lampee to Charles W. Butler, Bishop of Maine, announced at the both of Winchester, Mass. Diocesan Convention in Augusta, May 15, he Mr. and Mrs. Richard Carland of Nutley, was retiring, and his resignation would be pre-

N. J., are announcing the birth of Pamela Gail sented to the House of Bishops at the next Carland on May 22. General Convention of the Church in October, Thomas F. Gordon, who during the past year at Kansas City. has held the rank of sergeant in the Corps of Cadet at West Point, will graduate there on June 11. He expects to be stationed with the coast artillery at Fort Totten, N. Y. The marriage of Miss Katherine Boutwell of Northeastern Winchester and Harrv P. Hood of Needham took place in the First Congregational Church, University Winchester, on the evening of May 5. The other Bowdoin men in the ceremony were School of Law Eastham Guild, Jr. 'iq, of Marblehead; Leon Buck '38 of Bath, Maine; and Walter Benham '39 of Arlington. The Hoods are now at home DAY PROGRAM—Three Years at 12 Sapphire Ave., Marblehead, Mass. EVENING PROGRAM—Four Years Philip D. Lambe is with the Home Ins. Co. New York City. Phil Lambe writes from 141 Parker Road, A minimum of two years of college work Elizabeth, N. "I J. am now employed by the required for admission. Home Insurance Company in the Canadian A limited number of scholarships available Department. Still single and poor, but happy. to college See you Commencement. graduates. Dave Macomber is in the Harvard Graduate LL.B. Degree conferred School and expects to teach next year. Admits men and women Myron Mclntire was in charge of taking the census in Waterford, and three other towns in 47 MT. VERNON ST., BOSTON Oxford County. Near State House Herbert F. Richardson's address is 46 B South Chestnut St., Augusta, Maine.

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