FALL 2015 VOL. 87 NO. 1 MAGAZINE BowdoinM a g a Z i n e From the Editor Volume 87, Number 1 Fall 2015 Magazine Staff Editor Back to the Future Matthew J. O’Donnell Managing Editor the hands fell off my watch in the night. Scott C. Schaiberger ’95 i spoke to the spirit who took them, told her: time is the funniest thing Executive Editor Alison M. Bennie they invented. —Brenda hillman, “time Problem” Design Charles Pollock On October 26, 1938, The Orient reported that the College library had received a copy Mike Lamare of The Book of Record of the Time Capsule of Cupaloy, which is to be saved in order to PL Design – Portland, Maine ensure that a time capsule buried at the 1939 World’s Fair will be found and opened in Contributors 6939 AD. The entire concept of time is nothing short of mind-blowing. It is a trick. Time Louisa Cannell ’13 Scott W. Hood seems to pass more slowly or quickly based on our age and the import of the events that James Caton Marshall Hopkins occurred to us at specific points along our way. To think that a spirit might occasionally Andy Masland and Dave Mosley in the Heath Sanctuary at the center of Highland Green Douglas Cook Brian Hubble make off with our comprehension of it is not far-fetched. The tempo of our lives picks up Michael Colbert ’16 David McKay Wilson speed to the point of disappearing. Talia Cowen ’16 Aidan Penn ’17 Leanne Dech Megan Morouse This fall in particular has been a season of many mind trips. October 21, 2015, marked “Back Rebecca Goldfine Melissa Wells “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ to the Future Day,” the date to which Marty McFly travels forward in the popular 1980s Photographs by movie franchise. It was also my daughter’s thirteenth birthday. And during a memorable Brian Beard, Fred Field, Will Figg, Bud Glick, Homecoming Weekend in the middle of October, Bowdoin inaugurated Clayton Rose as Moving back to Midcoast Maine was a perfect choice for Dave and me. We enjoy all Bowdoin Dennis Griggs, Bob Handelman, Joe Larese, the College’s fifteenth president. Two of the preceding fourteen presidents, Barry Mills ’72 James Marshall, Michele Stapleton, and and Robert Edwards, attended the ceremony and other special weekend events, along with College has to offer year round. Like the College, the Highland Green community is warm Bowdoin College Archives. hundreds of faculty, staff, students, alumni, families, and dignitaries—past, present, and On the Cover future converged and nary a DeLorean in sight. Palpable electricity crackled through the and welcoming. Conservation and sustainability are important to us. Both are reflected in the The College Charter, Seal, and Keys were pre- pines. Events were packed to capacity, and I couldn’t walk anywhere without encountering sented to Clayton S. Rose as Bowdoin’s fifteenth gigawatts of inspiration (watch highlights from many of the remarks and speeches, as community’s setting and renewable energy options such as the solar panels on our new custom president, on Saturday, October 17, 2015, fol- well as full events such as “The Power of the Liberal Arts” Inaugural Symposium and the lowing a precedent that began with President installation ceremony, online at bowdoin.edu/inauguration). Some alumni seemed as home. It’s great to connect with classmates and new friends who still share a love of Bowdoin McKeen in 1802. Photo by Dennis Griggs. though they were still students, while others from earlier class years, for whom campus and Maine. We look forward to welcoming many more of them. BOWDOIN MAGAZINE (ISSN, 0895-2604) looks almost completely different, were overheard to say that the only thing that had really “ is published three times a year by Bowdoin changed might be the speed bumps on College Street. College, 4104 College Station, Brunswick, - Andy Masland, Bowdoin Class of 1975 Maine, 04011. Printed by J.S. McCarthy, For those many of you who weren’t able to make it back to Brunswick for the big Augusta, Maine. Sent free of charge to all weekend, I hope this issue captures the power of that slice of time. And, as with each of Bowdoin alumni, parents of current and recent our magazines, I hope the articles within these pages help you reflect on this place and undergraduates, faculty and staff, and members feel even more connected to this community we all share. Time is, indeed, a funny thing. of the Association of Bowdoin Friends. A block of four years can seem to go by so quickly, but at Bowdoin, it also lasts forever. Highland Green is a 55 Plus Active Lifestyle Opinions expressed in this magazine are those community just three miles from Bowdoin College. It of the authors. Until next time, features an unprecedented integration of conservation, Please send address changes, ideas, or letters lower-maintenance living in a custom home, plus to the editor to the address above or by email to [email protected]. Send class neighborly ambience through new friends from 29 news to [email protected] or to the Matt O’Donnell address above. Advertising inquiries? Email different States and counting. [email protected] [email protected]. for those 55 or better 207.725.3133 7 Evergreen Circle, Topsham, Maine | 866-854-1200 / 207-725-4549 HighlandGreenLifestyle.com f [email protected] 1 Bowdoin contents fall Mailbox Proud Heritage Extraordinary Years I received the print version last week and read it over the Your “Super Barry” issue was clearly a labor of love and weekend. I found the tributes to and comments about Barry admiration, and I offer very sincere compliments to all Mills and his presidency to be inspiring and it made me even involved in what must have been an extremely complicated prouder of my Bowdoin heritage. I plan to follow up with a project of content and design. Thank you! The Mills years 20 gift to the school as a result of reading the article but I also have been extraordinary in every way. Of course I include wanted you and your staff to know how much we appreciate Karen in that assessment. They leave a proud legacy, indeed. the fine job you all do in keeping the alumni and the rest of And, you are doing a fine job, too. 12 the world aware of what is going on at Bowdoin. Dulcianne Vye P’82 Robert F. Seibel ’68 Not Super The Best of Bowdoin A lot of time has passed since 1951, and I can assure you Thank you for a wonderful issue and, in particular, the that in all that time I have never had any negative thoughts “Barry Mills Manifesto,” which I have pulled out and posted or spoke ill of Bowdoin. But, when I received my latest copy directly above my workspace at home. I hope it will inspire of Bowdoin Magazine, I was shocked by the cover and the my entire family to honor the best of what Bowdoin instills story about the Bowdoin Trustees’ approval and background in its community. blow-ups of the emblem at the dinner honoring Barry Mills. Rebecca Knapp Adams ’88 I hope I’m not the only one expressing his feelings this way, but my immediate reaction to this emblem was and still is features A Prominent Spot that perhaps it would be more appropriate for the corner of Although I never met President Mills, I read the tribute issue a cheap comic magazine. Please refrain from displaying it that arrived yesterday cover to cover (it made for great bed- further, and store it in the Bowdoin history storage room in 12 A Truly Special Place: An Interview with 22 time reading). The manifesto jumped out at me so I took it the basement of the Bowdoin library. the College’s New President, Clayton S. Rose as a sign. I brought it to my office at 7:30 this morning and Joseph H. Flather Jr. ’51 By Doug Cook • PhoTogRAPhS By FReD FIelD taped it in a prominent spot where I can see it easily, as can Clayton Rose talks with the magazine about the power of the liberal arts, anyone who happens by. Thank you for giving me a glimpse issues that matter most to him, and his path to the presidency of Bowdoin. of someone I wish I had known! 20 Drawing on Inspiration Nancy Bergin DuMont ’77 By TAlIA CoweN ’16 • IlluSTRATIoN By MARShAll hoPkINS Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and dignitaries assembled for an array 28 of events over Inauguration and Homecoming Weekend 2015, making it The Duel That Extended A Family Tree one of the most remarkable few days on campus in years. I wanted to send you a note regarding the Winter 2015 mag- azine as my family read it with special interest. It featured 22 everyone’s welcome at a hootenanny an article about Jonathan Cilley, Bowdoin Class of 1825 DAvID MCkAy wIlSoN • PhoTogRAPhS By Joe lAReSe and US Representative from the state of Maine, who died In the tradition of their friend and mentor Pete Seeger, musicians Mike Merenda ’98 and his wife, Ruthy, are making names for themselves in the in the last legal duel in the United States. Jonathan Cilley pantheon of American folk music, and are inviting us all to join in. Departments was my great-great-great uncle on my grandmother’s side of our family (Cilley). That grandmother’s husband, my grand- 28 A Philosophy Major? father, Raymond Petterson, was also a Bowdoin graduate, what are you going to do with that? 3 Mailbox 58 Weddings Class of 1953.