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- THE BOWDOIN ALUMNUS

Published by Bowdoin Publishing Company, Brunswick. Maine, four times during the college year.

Subscription price, for Alumnus and Orient, $2.50 a year.

Application for entry as second class mail matter applied for.

Austin H. MacCormrk '15. Editor J. Rayner Whipple '28, Managing Editor Clarence H. Johnson '28, Business Manager

ADVISORY EDITORIAL BOARD

Arthur G. Staples '82 John Clair Minot '96 Robert D. Leigh '14 William M. Emery '89 Wallace M. Powers '04 Dwight H. Sayward '16

Wilmot B. Mitchell '90 Philip W. Meserye 'ii Edward B. Ham '22

Walter F. Whittier '2J

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

The New History of Bowdoin

BY

Dr. Louis C. Hatch '95

On Sale at Commencement

Mail orders should be sent to Loring, Short & Harmon Portland, Maine

Price - $5.00 per copy

Contents:—Founding of Bowdoin; general narrative by administrations; long-service professors, their character and work; the faculty; scholarship and prizes; Commence-

ments and student celebrations; religious life; social life, including old and new societies and fraternities; student extra-curricular activities; the campus and buildings;

athletics; the Medical School; etc. About 500 pages.

Thoroughly illustrated and bound in brown library buckram. VOLUME ONE NUMBER ONE THE BOWDOIN ALUMNUS Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine

June, 1927

INTRODUCING THE ALUMNUS magazine quarterly. They will be better in- In the Bowdoin family of publications formed than graduates of most colleges on there is venerable age and vigorous youth. current news of the College and the The Bugle celebrates its 70th birthday next Alumnus can serve more truly as an alumni year; the Orient, first published in 1871, is publication.

56 years old; the Quill, youngest of all, is This combination has been effected partly 30 years old this year. The Bear Skin, a because it is believed that every alumnus precocious infant which was never popular should see the undergraduate paper reg- with its elders, died of malnutrition a few ularly to keep in touch with the Bowdoin weeks ago and is mourned by few. With of today, and partly because the Alumnus this issue of the Bowdoin Alumnus, an in- could probably not be established at the troductory copy of which is being sent to present time without the financial support all academic and medical graduates, we pre- of the Bowdoin Publishing Company, pub- sent the new baby of the family. lishers of the Orient and the Quill. The Alumnus will be published quarterly. The advisory editorial board includes ten It is not designed to be solely a news maga- alumni, two of whom are faculty members, zine, a literary quarterly, a journal of and one opinion, an instrument of propaganda, a undergraduate, soon to be an petty gossip sheet or a funny paper. It may alumnus. The alumni are Arthur G. Staples '82, perhaps be a little of all these. Its form editor of the Lewiston Journal, William and contents may differ widely in the future M. Emery '89, for many years editor of the from those of the first issue. It is to be, in Fall River News and now on the editorial short, what the alumni wish it to be, and is staff of the Boston Transcript, John Clair to be shaped by the will of those for whom Minot '96, literary editor of the Boston Her- it is primarily intended, the alumni. The ald, Wallace M. Powers '04 of the Tran- editors will be glad to receive suggestions, script, Prof. Robert D. Leigh '14 of Wil- criticisms and contributions from readers liams, Dwight H. Sayward '16 of Portland, and will reserve only the right to weigh Bela W. Norton '18 of New York, former what is sent in, according to their best col- city editor of a New York daily, and Ed- lective judgment. ward B. Ham '22, now a Rhodes Scholar at Almost all colleges of standing have Oxford. The faculty members are Prof. alumni quarterlies, which try to furnish Wilmot B. Mitchell '90 and Prof. Philip W. campus news as well as matters of purely Meserve 'n. The undergraduate is Wal- alumni interest. For a time, at least, the ter F. Whittier '27, who has recently re- Alumnus will differ from other quarterlies tired as editor of the Orient. in this respect : the subscription price will The Alumnus is edited by the alumni sec- cover both the Orient and the Alumnus. retary, Austin H. MacCormick '15. J. Ray- Subscribers will therefore get the campus ner Whipple '28, former managing editor newspaper week by week and the alumni of the Orient, is managing editor. [ The Boivdoin Alumnus

Classes Plan Reunions --122nd Commencement

The baccalaureate address by President three living members. Rev. Ebenezer Bean Sills on Sunday, June 19, will mark the be- of Urbana, 111., the oldest alumnus in point ginning of Commencement Week. Tuesday of years, is a member of this class. The will be Class Day, Wednesday Alumni Day, Class of 1857 and the Class of 1862, which and Thursday, June 23, Commencement also has three members, may not be repre- Day. sented at Commencement, and the attend- Special features of the Commencement ance from 1867 and 1872 is likely to be program, copies of which have been sent to slight. Of the fifteen members of 1857, all the alumni, are the Dedicatory Recital 1862, 1867 and 1872, seven live in the middle on the new Chapel organ at 3 P. M. on West or far West, and only three in New Wednesday, June 22, and the Memorial Ser- England. vice for the late President Hyde at 6 P. M. 1877

on Wednesday in the Chapel. Mr. Samuel A. Melcher of Brunswick is The special committee of the Alumni making the local arrangements for the re- Council which has Alumni Day in charge union of the Fifty Year Class. None of the

is headed by Roland E. Clark '01 of Port- class officers are alive and no secretary has land. There will probably be no variation been elected since the death of the beloved from the usual program of Wednesday of John Chapman. Among the members of the Commencement Week, but the committee class is Hon. William T. Cobb, former Gov- hopes to make things more pleasant for the ernor of Maine and now Vice-President of non-reunion classes by providing headquar- the Board of Trustees of the College. ters for the "Class of 1794" in one of the 1882 fraternity houses. The headquarters when Of the thirteen members of 1882 eleven chosen will be marked by a conspicuous live in New England and a large attendance

sign. The shore dinner and sing will again is expected. Professor Moody is making be held at 6.30 P.M. on Wednesday, near arrangements for the reunion, with head- the Observatory if the weather is fair, or quarters of the class at the College Dining in the Gymnasium if it is stormy. Club, 15 Cleaveland Street. The annual baseball game will be between 1887 the 'varsity and the 1922 'varsity, which in- No headquarters have been chosen for cluded three of the best pitchers Bowdoin the Forty Year Class, as responses have has had in recent years : Captain "Pete" been coming in slowly to John V. Lane of Flinn, Fred Walker, and Rupert Johnson. Augusta, the unofficial secretary of the Among other well known members of the class since the death of C. B. Burleigh. team were the Morrcll brothers. Austin Cary and Freeman Dearth were the Competition at Commencement for the first to express their intention to return. Snow Reunion Trophy promises to be brisk, 1892 with several of the younger classes register- No news has been received of the reunion ing larger numbers than usual and the older plans of 1892, seventeen of whose twenty- classes showing their usual high percentages one members live in New England. The of returning members. The oldest living class claims among its members the speaker alumnus in point of class, Mr. Daniel and the chaplain of the Massachusetts

Crosby of the Class of 1855, *s not expected House of Representatives. to be present, as he lives in Topeka, Kansas. 1897 The oldest reunion class, T857, has on br The Thirty Year Class will have its head- [2] The Bozcdoin Alumnus ] quarters in 17 Maine Hall. Reuel W. Smith home of one of its members, Professor Noel of Auburn has been one of the active mem- C. Little, on College Street. The class din- bers of the class in arranging for the re- ner will be at Mrs. Witherby's, Dingley's union. The class has fifty-two members. Island, on Wednesday evening. The mem- 1902 bers of the committee are Carl Ross, chair-

Dr. Harold Webb is president and Lyman man, Ken Stone, Harvey Miller and Noel

Cousens is secretary of the class which cele- Little. Costumes have been arranged for. brates its 25th reunion, with headquarters in 1922

Hyde Hall. The reunion committee is head- The youngest reunion class expects to ed by George E. Fogg and includes Ben have fifty or more of its members back for Barker, Harold B. Eastman, Philip H. Cobb, Commencement. All the details of costume, George R. Walker and William E. W7 ing. banquet and stunts are being kept dark, but Members wishing to secure rooms for their it has been announced that headquarters wives outside of Hyde Hall should notify will be in a large and not inconspicuous tent George Fogg or the Alumni Secretary. on the campus. The members of the re- 1907 union committee are Al Morrell, George According to the plans announced by 1907 Partridge, Jack Pickard, Eben Tileston, for its 20th. the class will make the Donny- Bruce White, Roly Woodbury, the class brook Fair look as tame as an Easter egg- president, and Carroll Towle, class secre- rolling on the White House lawn. The com- tarv-treasurer. mittee is headed by William S. Linnell and has as its executive secretary Maine's ver- FACULTY HONORS HUTCHINS satile publicity man, Phil Shorey. Other On May 17th the faculty gave a dinner members of the committee are Otis, Craigie, at the Hotel Eagle in honor of Professor Holt, Roberts, Kingsley, Joe and Wadleigh Charles C. Hutchins, who will retire in June Drummond, Allen and Burton. Headquar- as professor emeritus of Physics after ters will be at the home of Herbert Merry- forty-two years of service. Professor man, 86 Federal Street. The class will be Mitchell acted as toastmaster and the speak- strikingly costumed. ers of the evening were Professor Edward 1912 H. Hall '75 of Harvard, Mr. MacCormick, An ingenious publicity scheme executed President Sills, and Professor Hutchins. by Xed Morss, consisting of a series of let- In his speech Professor Hutchins spoke of ters getting progressively larger until they his early life and education and left with his reach the size of a freshman proclamation, hearers one of the most memorable bits of has aroused great interest in the class for reminiscence that they had ever listened to. its 15th reunion. The Boston members of Robert Frost, the poet, was also a guest at the class are acting as a reunion committee the dinner. under the leadership of Jack Hurley, the class president. The Boston group includes Two Rhodes Scholars from Maine will also Bill MacCormick, class secretary, Bud be named this fall. Candidates should ap- Brooks, Shirt Hathaway, Ned Morss, John ply to Robert Hale, Esq., First National Joy and Walter Fuller. Headquarters will Bank Building, Portland, not later than be on Cleaveland Street opposite an unmis- October 22nd. Bowdoin men who are can- takable class sign. didates for the scholarships should notify 1917 Dean Paul Nixon well in advance of The class that won the war will celebrate October 22nd. Candidates must be between its 10th reunion with headquarters at the the ages of nineteen and twenty-five.

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Editorial Tribute to Edward Pa£e Mitchell

When Edward Page Mitchell of the Class ever, he was free from the slightest partisan bias. Politicians were to him as butterflies are of 1871—"Mitchell of the Sun"—died on to an entomologist—creatures to be examined, January 22, 1927, the press of the country classified and described. He usually found the paid him high tribute as one of the greatest lesser more interesting than the great. He de- lighted to ridicule the pompous, to expose the editorial writers of all times. It would be hollow pretender. But it was all done with the unfitting for any Bowdoin publication to touch of the artist, not of the party supporter. fail to pay him its tribute. We have chosen The political quarter was the smallest zone ot his interests. His field all life. to republish extracts from an editorial in was of He traveled widely and knew his fellows, whether the New York Sun of January 24, 1927, as they were in front of City Hall or at the end of the most discriminating of the many which the Street called Straight. His curiosity was as broad as the earth. He would exnlore Rhode appeared after his death. It was headed Island for a new vestige of King Philip or cross simply "Mr. Mitchell." the Caribbean to see the house where some South American dictator lay dying in exile. He could It is with a sorrow not to be expressed in identify the rarest Turkish carpet or trace to its formal phrase that we record the passing of one beginning a classic yarn of the Nantucket whal- whose life, more closely than that of any other ing ships. He could guide the inquirer to the man, was entwined with The Sun. Edward Page finest' Corot in America or direct him to the best Mitchell is dead in his seventy-fifth year. Two- omelette soufflee to be had on the Breton coast. thirds of his long span was spent in the service Never for him the academic air of the cloistered of this newspaper. Nor was it time alone that scholar; his subject was Man and Man's back- made the association so remarkable. Never were ground. a man and a newspaper tied with bonds of greater affection. To him The Sun was some- In substance and style the articles with which thing to be loved, in his own words, "like a crea- Mr. Mitchell adorned The Sun for half a century ture of flesh and blood and living intelligence and were unequaled by any contemporary. Substance human virtues and failings." His devotion lasted was assured, for he never wrote anything merely more than half a century. It was as unflagging to say something. Under Mr. Dana and Mr. in 1926, when he wrote his last article for this Mitchell—and their control of the editorial page of page, as it had been in 1875, when Mr. Dana The Sun lasted almost without interruption brought him from Maine. It was a complete from 1868, when Mr. Dana bought the paper, devotion. Except for his recently published until 1920, when Mr. Mitchell retired from every- "Memoirs of an Editor" and a few short stories day labors—the readers were treated to the rich- and magazine articles of distinction, all the writ- est offering's that these two masters of journalism ing of Mr. Mitchell went into The Sun and the could furnish. These two, above all others, were door of anonymity closed upon its authorship. It responsible for the quality and fame of the page. did not matter to him that the world might not Mr. Mitchell lacked Mr. Dana's personal interest associate him with his work. His pride was in in politics, but he excelled Mr. Dana in style and the paper, not in himself. If he, as the most color and had the advantage of a wider and brilliant editorial writer in America, made The more human view of life. Sun shine with exceptional splendor, that was To touch upon Mr. Mitchell's personal attri- enough. butes is to invite the superlatives. Kindness, There was nothing of the excited journalist thoughtfulness, courtesy, forbearance, charm, about Mr. Mitchell. He could not be disturbed humor, companionship how cold the words look by trivial events or trivial men. Life was a — paper bring memories flowing stream into which he gazed with calm on and yet how each must philosophy. He found there the "human virtues trooping to those who knew Edward P. Mitchell for and failings'' and treated them humanly. If he He had comfort for the downcast, an excuse the erring, reassurance for the timid, a smile and found it necessary to pillory a scoundrel or a friendly word for the least of those about him, chastise a fool, his hand was ready ; but he was patience of never impatient, never scolding the world for its an open hand for the needy, the Job ineffable which en- failures. No pen was more incisive than his with offenders and an grace all within the magic circle of when a balloon of vanity was to be punctured, yet slaved who came written a word none was readier to rise in salute to some foeman his presence. If he had never those who loved of yesterday who did a praiseworthy deed. he would still be immortal to the possessor of all the virtues Much of Mr. Mitchell's editorial activities was him ; immortal as devoted to political matters. Personally, how- that make a gentleman. [5] [ The Bozi'doin Alum mis

EXPLORERS HEAD NORTH chairman of the Governor's Council and Blaine S. Yiles '02 of Augusta is one of the Commander Donald B. MacMillan will most influential members of the Council. sail on Saturday, June 25, from Wiscasset Judge Sanford L. Fogg '89 is deputy at- for a fifteenth months' trip, as the begin- torney general and Philip D. Stubbs '95 is ning of a five year program of scientific assistant attorney general. Henry E. Dun- work for the Field Museum of Chicago. nack '97 has served for many years as State The Bowdoin will be accompanied by the librarian, Dr. Clarence F. Kendall '98 is Radio, a former Gloucester fishing schoon- commissioner of health, and A. M. G. Soule er, which will carry building material for a '03 is chief deputy of the Department of scientific station to be erected near Xain, in Agriculture. northern Labrador. The Bowdoin will be In the more important positions in the frozen in and Commander MacMillan judicial branch are John A. Morrill '76, ac- with a small group of scientists, will spend tive retired justice of the Supreme Court, the winter at the new station. Among his Guy H. Sturgis '98, justice of the Supreme companions will be Charles S. Sewall '97 of Court, and Arthur Chapman '94, justice of Wiscasset, a member of last summer's ex- the Superior Court for Cumberland County. pedition to Labrador and Greenland. In this connection it is worthy of note that Robert E. Peary, Jr., '25 will again go the Federal judge-ships in Maine are all held Xorth this summer as a member of the Put-

by Bowdoin men : Charles F. nam Baffin Land Expedition directed by Judge John- son '79 of the United States Circuit Court George Palmer Putnam, the publisher, who of Appeals, and Judges Clarence Hale '69 headed an expedition last summer to North Greenland. The schooner Morrissey, which and John A. Peters '85 of the United States District Court. was almost wrecked last year, will again carry the expedition. The Morrissey is In the last legislature eight Bowdoin men commanded by Captain Bob Bartlett, who were representatives and one was a. senator. was Admiral Peary's captain and who re- The latter, Herbert E. Holmes '95 of Lew- ceived the honorary degree of A.M. from iston, was the lone Democrat in the Senate. Bowdoin in 1920. In the House there was promise of a lively contest for the Speakership between two BOWDOIN MEN LEAD IN classmates, Burleigh Martin of Augusta and MAINE GOVERNMENT Robert Hale of Portland, both members of the class of 1910. Mr. Hale withdrew in It is a matter of tradition that Bowdoin favor of Mr. Martin. It is generally con- men shall play a prominent part in the gov- ceded that Mr. Hale, who is the Republican ernment of Maine and the number of alumni floor leader, will be the speaker at the next who now hold important offices in the State session. One of the youngest members of the is, as usual, large. In the governor's chair, legislature was Glenn R. Mclntyre '25 of where he succeeded Percival P. Baxter '98, Norway. The other Bowdoin men in the Ralph O. Brewster '09 is now serving his lower house were Herbert Dudley '95 of second term. His defeat by a narrow mar- J. Calais, Walter Sargent '98 of Brewer, gin of Frank G. Farrington '94 of Augusta, J. Charles P. '07 L. former president of the Maine Senate, in Kinsman of Augusta. Earl '10 the Republican primary of 1924, followed Wing of Kingfield, and Hiram S. Cole one of the most exciting contests ever held '21 of South Portland. The clerk of the in Maine. Mr. Farrington is now being House was Clyde R. Chapman '12 of Bel- urged to be a candidate in the next election. fast, who has held that position for several

William S. Linnell '07 of Portland is sessions.

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New Swimming Pool to Adjoin Gymnasium

Work is progressing rapidly on the foundation of the new swimming pool and it is expected that it will be dedicated next fall. The building will be 130 feet by 60 feet and the pool itself will be 75 feet in length and 30 feet in width. A gallery around the pool will accommodate 600 spectators and the building connecting the pool with the gymnasium will supply ample room for showers and offices. The fund of $300,000 which Mr. Curtis gave for the pool is sufficient not only to build as fine a pool as the College could wish but to pay for its maintenance, heating and lighting, and even for swimming instruction.

THE INSTITUTE OF ART they are held while the College is in ses- The Institute of Art, the third of the sion and are planned primarily to serve and series of biennial Institutes at the College, interest the undergraduates. was held from May 2 to May 13, and There was only one change in the pro- aroused local and general interest far be- gram announced in the Explorer. Dr. yond the expectations of those who planned Frank Weitenkampf, director of prints of it. Large audiences greeted most of the the New York Public Library, lectured on lecturers, people coming from considerable "Prints and Print Makers" in place of Mr. distances just as they did for the former Ivins, who was suddenly called to Europe. institutes. At the close of the Institute President In making up the program the faculty Sills announced that the next Institute, to be committee, headed by Professor Henry E. held in 1929, might possibly be an Institute Andrews, brought together eleven lectur- of Science and that the Institute of 193 ers representing a number of the most im- would without doubt be a second Institute portant fields of art. The lectures were of Literature. open to the public but the round table con- The most complete and interesting ac- ference held by each lecturer was open counts of the lectures available may be only to undergraduates. The distinctive found in the Lewiston Journal, the Chris- feature of the Bowdoin Institutes is that tian Science Monitor and the Orient. [-] [ The Bowdoin Alumnus

NEW COLLEGE PHYSICIAN Lover of Poetry, Artist in Living and My Dr. Henry L. Johnson of Westerly, R. L, Friend." Mrs. Ham is the wife of Profes- a former member of the Bowdoin class of sor Ham of Bowdoin and the mother of '22. 1907, has been appointed college physician Edward B. Ham and will take up his duties next fall. Dr. Professor Coffin had previously published Johnson is a graduate of the College of a volume of poems, "Christchurch," and a Physicians and Surgeons, the medical volume of essays on English and Oxonian school of Columbia University. He has things called "Book of Crowns and Cot- served as interne at the Rhode Island Hos- tages." The latter was published by the

Yale University Press and is illustrated by pen-and-ink and water-color sketches done by the author in England while a Rhodes Scholar.

He has also written some fifty essays and articles for such magazines as The North American Review, The Forum, The Out- look, The Yale Review, and The Bookman. He contributed a chapter on social life at Oxford to the Aydelotte and Crosby (Bow- doin '13) "Oxford of Today." Many of Professor Coffin's essays have been reprint- ed in periodicals and anthologized in essay collections.

Sixty-odd poems from his pen have ap- peared in such magazines as Century, The Bookman, Harper's, The Saturday Review of Literature, The Forum, and The Nation. Dr. Henry L. Johnson Many of these poems have been antholo- gized in Braithwaite's, Strong's, and other pital in Providence and the Bellevue Hos- collections. pital in New York and has taken various special courses In addition to his practice Professor Coffin is also a facile artist and at Westerly he has built up a successful has contributed forty or fifty sketches and practice in the exclusive summer colony at linoleum cuts to leading magazines. Some Watch Hill, R. I. He will continue his of these have been reproduced in other summer practice after coming to Bowdoin. periodicals, such as the Times Literary Supplement. COFFIN PROLIFIC WRITER In his teaching he has made a significant contribution to American education. At Probably no Bowdoin man is publishing r more steadily than Prof. Robert P. T. Coffin W ells, where he has been for six years and '15 of Wells College. "Dew and Bronze," is now a full professor of English, he has his second volume of verse, which has re- developed the Oxford idea in the study of cently appeared from the press of A. and English Literature for the better students

C. Boni, is described as a happy mingling and has acted "the Don of Oxon" to the of Oxford culture and New England sim- most brilliant students. He took his B.Litt. plicity. It is dedicated to "Mary C. Ham, (advanced degree) at Oxford in 192 1.

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Morrell to Head Athletic Department

head football coach has met with wide- spread approval, especially among the un- dergraduates, who have acquired great con- fidence in Mr. Morrell during his two years as assistant to Professor Cates. Morrell came to Bowdoin after two years' service in the army, during which he served over- seas as a second lieutenant of infantry. He was catcher and second baseman on the nine for four years, a varsity football man for three years, and football captain in 1923. Donovan D. Lancaster '27 of Old Town has been appointed freshman coach for the

Malcolm E. Morrell

The resignation of John M. Cates, di- rector of athletics, who goes to Yale next year as graduate manager of athletics,

Donovan D. Lancaster

coming year. He will be on the physical education staff throughout the year, assist- ing in swimming instruction and in intra- mural athletics. Lancaster has been a var- sity football man for two years and has been on the baseball and football squads throughout his course. Those who remember the havoc which Paul Fraser Paul "Ginger" Fraser played with opposing teams while he was wearing the Colby uni- caused general regret. The appointment of form from 191 1 to 191 5 will be interested Malcolm E. Morrell '24 as acting director in his appointment as assistant football of athletics, acting graduate manager, and coach at Bowdoin for the coming year.

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PLUMMER SHIPPING EXPERT of educational work in prisons for the Car-

It is consistent with the old Maine deep-sea negie Foundation. His successor for the shipping tradition that a Maine and Bow- year will be announced at Commencement. doin man, Edward C. Plummer '8/, should Mr. MacCormick reviews briefly for the be one of the leading authorities on ship- Alumnus the past six years in alumni work. ping in the country today. Mr. Plummer, "When I came on the job in July 1921, I whose home was in Bath, was appointed a found the most pressing duty that of help- member of the United States Shipping ing to complete the Alumni Fund. With one Board in 1921, and since 1923 he has' been year to go there was still $271,000 to be vice-chairman of the Board. In 1926 he raised in cash or pledges in order to com- represented the United States at the Inter- plete the $450,000 necessary to secure $150,- national Shipping- Conference in London, 000 from the General Education Board. That and in March of this year he visited the last year was a scramble, but the generous leading ports of Brazil, Uruguay and response of alumni and friends of the Col- Argentina in the interest of American com- lege to appeals made by the directors of the merce and shipping, making seven ad- Fund, regional committees, class agents and dresses. the Society of Bowdoin Women resulted in Mr. Plummer fitted for Bowdoin at the the successful completion of the Fund and North Yarmouth Academy, and last year he an over-subscription of about $50,000. By published his "Reminiscences of a Yar- September 30, 1925, most of the pledges had mouth Schoolboy." In the same year a been paid and the General Education Board volume of his addresses on merchant ship- had made the final payment on its pledge. ping was published under the title, "Ship- "Today the Fund has grown still larger ping Sense." His first interest in shipping and the total added to the Endowment of came during his life in Bath, where he en- the College is $701,082.54. In this figure tered newspaper work the year following the largest item outside of the General Edu- his graduation from Bowdoin. As early as cation Board gift is not the Munsey gift of 1892 he visited European shipyards, study- $100,000, but the Class of 1875 Fund, now ing the shipping problem. In 1900 he be- amounting to $119,792.73. came attorney for the Atlantic Carriers As- "Since the completion of the Endowment sociation and held that position until his Fund campaign the directors have swung appointment to the Shipping Board. He back to the original purpose of the Fund has written many articles and delivered to add to the income of the College by a scores of addresses throughout the country, large number of annual gifts for its cur- explaining the purposes of and the neces- rent needs. In spite of the difficulty of con- sity for an adequate merchant marine. vincing alumni of the power of small gifts, over $82,000 has been contributed to In- ALUMNI WORK REVIEWED come since 19 19. We now have about 500 Having completed six years of service as subscribers giving nearly $10,000 annually alumni secretary, Mr. MacCormick will be to Income. This is the equivalent of the granted sabbatical leave for the coming interest on an invested fund of $200,000. year. He will spend the year making a "I must admit that my one keen disap- survey of all the prisons in the United pointment during the past six years has States for the National Society of Penal In- come from the slow growth of gifts to In- formation, of whose last Handbook of come. With all regard for the very gener- American Prisons he was joint author and ous and loyal interest which I know our editor. He will also make a special study alumni have in the College, I cannot read

[10] The Bowdoin Alumnus ] the history of the steady and rapid growth and interest seem to have increased steadily of gifts to Income at Amherst, for example, for no one particular reason. There is no without feeling chagrin and disappointment. question, however, that attention to non- It is not so much the comparison of amounts reunion classes and the establishment of the that hurts, as the comparison of numbers 'Class of 1794' have played their part in and percentages participating. the growth of interest in Commencement. "Perhaps our conservative, non-driving "The establishment of a Fall Alumni Day, policy has been wrong, but I cannot believe and of a Vocational Guidance Day for un- that an aggressive policy is fitting for a col- dergraduates, have been among the most lege like Bowdoin. Our policy is to acquaint progressive steps taken by recent Alumni the alumni with what the College is doing Councils. From members of the Council, as and to show them that its work is worthy of from members of the Governing Boards their support. We believe in loyalty and and all alumni organizations, the College pride that has a firm basis in knowledge of has received the highest type of service, and the facts. We do not believe in a 'go-getter' I cannot speak too wT armly of the unselfish- policy, but we wish very often that alumni ness with which it has been rendered. would more generally sharers — become "The publicity work of the College, even if very modest ones — in the work of which is one of the duties of the alumni the College. secretary, has not been well done, except on "Other aspects of my work I can only such special occasions as the Institutes of touch briefly. at se- on Attendance a long Literature and Art. It is a hopeful sign, ries of alumni gatherings from Aroostook however, that it is probably better done to has been an altogether delightful Tacoma than it was two or three years ago. The experience. For such duty no alumni sec- College has for many years received a fair retary should expect to be paid a salary. I amount of 'earned' publicity, not of its own have only one conclusion to offer regarding seeking. As for alumni publicity, an agency alumni dinners : that the larger associations for promoting it for which we have long list sometimes have too long a of speakers, waited is the alumni quarterly, of which and that the meetings of the smaller asso- this is the first issue. It is hoped that it will ciations sometimes lack enthusiasm because serve not only to bring news of the College of the small number present. For the latter to the alumni but as a channel through

I suggest the Philadelphia experiment : in- which their ideas can come back to the viting wives, daughters, fathers and moth- College. ers of undergraduates, and so on. "As a general conclusion, I wish to say "The practice of many associations of in- a few things with flowers. After six years viting preparatory school to their din- men of contact with Bowdoin undergraduates ners is an invaluable aid to the College. The and alumni, my admiration for both is custom of the Bowdoin Club of Portland of boundless. I would even with confidence in- having one meeting each year at which vite Sinclair Lewis to write a book on the President Sills is the only speaker, giving College. I believe the Bowdoin of today is those present a frank, clear-cut picture of a better Bowdoin than it has ever been be- what the College is doing, is worthy of fore in its history, and that the alumni have special commendation. played a large part in making it so." "The efforts of the Alumni Council in re- cent years to make Commencement more A record made by the Musical Clubs in interesting and to increase attendance are the New York studio of the Brunswick Co., perhaps not necessary, as both attendance is now on sale by agents of the company. ["I [ The Bo-K'doin Alumnus

Ives Trophy Won by Sigma Nu

The undergraduates not only had a suc- porary possession of the fraternity winning cessful year in intercollegiate athletic com- the greatest number of points in all petition but have developed the program of branches of intramural competition. This intramural sports to a greater extent than year the trophy has been won by Sigma Nu. ever before. Early in the year an anony- Various smaller trophies for the individual mous alumnus presented a beautiful trophy for intramural sports in memory of Howard sports, some of which were presented by R. Ives '98. This trophy will be the tem- alumni, are also awarded.

Among the readers of the College En- durtha '15, French; and Prof. Edward S. trance Examination Board, who assemble in Hammond of the faculty, Mathematics.

New York the last ten days in June to mark Donald E. MacCormick '03 is examiner in examination books of students in prepara- Mathematics. tory schools all over the United States, are the following Bowdoin men : Frederick H. Robert Frost, the poet, who received the Dole '97, English; Harry M. Varrell '97, degree of Litt.D. from Bowdoin in 1926, History; Francis L. Lavertu '99, French; was the guest of the College for a whole Tslay F. MacCormick '00, Mathematics; week in May. He held numerous informal Clyde F. Grant '04, French ; Ralph M. Small '07, Latin; Merrill C. Hill '10, conferences with students interested in French; Clifton O. Page '13, English; Evan writing, and gave a public reading of his A. Nason '14, Mathematics; Robert E. Bo- poems.

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Hugh A. Mitchell, secretary of the New York graduate, he was a faithful attendant at class re- Alumni Association, asks all alumni living in New unions and a lifelong admirer of the College. York City and vicinity to send him their names Rev. George C. Cressey has sailed for England and addresses so that notices of meetings may be as a representative of the American Unitarian sent to all. His address is c-o H. K. McCann Co., Association at a gathering of members of the 2S5 Madison Ave. English Unitarian Churches, and to visit old friends about London, where he held a pastorate 1857 until fourteen years ago in Brixton. The second oldest graduate of the College, Rev. Lincoln A. Rogers has retired after many years Granville C. Waterman, died at Laconia, N. H., of educational work in Maine, Illinois, Connecti- on April 21 at the age of 92. He was born in cut, and New Jersey. He was principal of the Boothbay, Maine, and was educated in the towns Patterson, N. J., Military School for a period of of Phillips, Unity, and Litchfield. After grad- 14 years. Under appointment of the Quarter- uating from Bowdoin he taught at academies in master General of the United States, he was New York State for fourteen years. In 1869 he superintendent, in 1904 and 1905, of the govern- was ordained to the Free Baptist ministry and ment pier at the foot of Wall Street, in the held pastorates in Lowville, N. Y., Dover, N. H., Quartermaster's Department, U.S.A.T. During Laconia, N. H., Littleton, N. H., Providence, R. the world war he was a member of the legal I., St. Johnsbury, Vt., and Hampton, N. H. He advisory board of Sagadahoc County. He re- was first editor of the Sunday School Quarterly cently published a Sketch of the Activities of the

published by his denomination and was a fre- Auxiliary Cruiser Yale, U.S.N. , in Cuban Waters quent contributor to religious and secular papers. during the Spanish-American War. His brother. Capt. Charles Rogers, was executive officer of 1860 J. the Yale. Mr. Rogers now lives at the old home- Hon. William Widgery Thomas, former Min- stead in Topsham. ister to Sweden, founder of New Sweden and other colonies of Swedes in Maine, died April 26 1876 at his home in Portland at the age of 87. Mr. Arthur T. Parker, class secretary, sends inter- Thomas entered the diplomatic service soon after esting statistics on 'j6, which graduated 45 men. graduation from Bowdoin and was soon appointed At its 25th reunion, 42, or 93.3% were living. at consul Gothenburg, Sweden, by President Lin- Ten years later, 80% were living, and at its 50th coln. It was this appointment which paved the reunion in 1926, 53% were living. Since last way for his greatest life accomplishment, the June, three members have died,—Charles D. founding of prosperous colonies of Swedish immi- Jameson, George Parsons, and Dr. William H. G. grants along the St. River in Aroostook John Rowe, leaving 46.6% still living. Two members, County, Maine. first of The group eleven came Franklin C. Payson and John A. Morrill, are over with Mr. Thomas in 1870 and fully 5,000 are members of the Board of Trustees, and two, believed to have come to Maine eventually as a Charles T. Hawes and Alpheus Sanford, are result of his first venture. Mr. Thomas was ap- members of the Board of Overseers. Mr. Hawes pointed Minister to Sweden in and in 1883 1889 is president of the Board of Overseers and Mr. was appointed Envoy-Extraordinary and Minister- Sanford is president of the General Alumni As- Plenipotentiary to Sweden and Norway. He sociation. also held other public offices : commissioner of public lands in Maine, commissioner of im- 1879 migration, member of the Maine House, and Dt. Oscar S. C. Davies died in Augusta on speaker of the House. In 1913 Bowdoin conferred Feb. 18, 1927, after only a few hours' illness. He on him the degree of LL.D. graduated from the Bowdoin Medical School in 1873 1883. After post graduate work in New York In More than 200 members of the Free Church and Vienna he practiced in New York City. he to a large Parish of Andover, Mass., were present at a re- 1895 moved Augusta where he had ception tendered Dr. and Mrs. Frederick A. practice at his death. He was one of the chief in Wilson of Andover, Mass., in honor of Dr. Wil- movers establishing the Augusta General Hos- pital. son's 75th birthday April 23. Dr. Wilson is pastor emeritus of the church and was for more 1881 than years its pastor. 30 Edgar O. Achorn recently delivered an address 1875 on the Church and the Citizen, at a dinner ten- Albert G. Bowie died of pneumonia on the 8th dered him by the Unitarian Church at Charles- of February in Jacksonville, Fla., where he was a ton, S. C, one of the historic churches of the builder and real estate dealer. Although a non- South. The mayor of the city and a distinguished [13] [ The Bou'doin Alumnus representation from other denominations were years was a mining engineer, and has been an present. engineer for the State of Arizona, and from 1921 Retirement of Rev. Henry Goddard from the to 1926 has been highway engineer in the Depart- active work of St. Paul's Cathedral, Boston, took ment of Agriculture. His address is now 352 effect on March 15, 1927. Dean Philemon F. State Street, Albany, N. Y. Sturges of the Cathedral, in announcing Mr. 1893 Goddard's retirement, said, "Mr. Goddard has Prof. George S. Chapin is head of the modern exercised a ministry peculiar for its tenderness language department at Marietta College. and help among many in the' Cathedral family who needed the personal visitation of the clergy 1894 most." Mr. Goddard had been with the Cathedral Rev. George A. Merrill has been in the Con- nearly 12 years. His present is address 94 Near gregational ministry since 1897, in which year he Street, Portland. was graduated from Andover Theological Semi- 1883 nary. His pastorates have been New Sharon and Farmington Falls, Me., Foxcroft, Me., Taunton, Edward F. Holden has retired after teaching Mass., and Littleton, N. H. He is moderator of 36 years in Boston schools. the Coos and Essex Association of Congrega- 1886 tional Churches and a trustee of the New Hamp- Mr. and Mrs. Walter V. Wentworth have re- shire Congregational Conference. cently returned to their home in Great Works, 1896 Maine, after a winter in the South and in the Sterling Fessenden, chairman of the Shanghai tropics. Mr. Wentworth returned completely re- Municipal Council, was very much in the lime- covered from his recent illness. light during the worst of the Chinese trouble. 1888 He went to Shanghai in 1903 and eventually be- Jim Spurling, Trawler, the fourth volume of came head of one of the leading law firms and Albert W. Tolman's Jim Spurling series, will be dean of all the lawyers there. He was chosen published by Harper & Brothers the coming president of the Far Eastern Bar Association and autumn. later chairman of the Council, which is the gov- erning body of tire international settlement at 1889 Shanghai. An article in the Boston Transcript of May 15, Ralph W. Leighton has been registrar of the 1926, describes the work of Rev. and Mrs. probate court of Kennebec County, Me., since Charles F. Hersey during the past thirty-two 1909. He is the author of Maine Probate Law years as city missionaries in New Bedford, Mass. and Practice, the standard reference work on Their work at the Dennison Memorial Settle- Maine probate law. He is secretary-treasurer of ment House among the poof of New Bedford re- the Maine State Bar Association, treasurer of ceived many testimonials when they retired last the Kennebec Law Library Association, and sec- May. retary of the Board of Trustees of Lithgow Pub- 1890 lic Library of Augusta. Rev. Daniel Evans, professor of Christian Robert O. Small, head of the Vocational Edu- Theology at Andover Theological Seminary, now cation Department of the Massachusetts De- on a year's leave of absence, has been teaching partment of Education, will be on the faculty of in the Divinity School of the University of Chi- the University of Washington Summer School cago for the past three terms. He will return this summer, with courses in vocational education. again for the coming summer quarter. During 1897 the year he has written several articles and book 2nd, is lecturer on insurance reviews for religious journals and has edited The James E. Rhodes, Trinity College, Hartford, Phillips Brooks House Lectures on Religion and compensation at author of authoritative books Modern Life, as well as contributing a chapter Conn. He is the is on the legal staff of the to the volume. on the subject and Travelers Insurance Co. 1892 1898 Hon. John C. Hull was again speaker of the is a member of the New Massachusetts House of Representatives at the Harlan M. Bisbee is working on last session. Hampshire Educational Council and revi- Rev. Harry W. Kimball has served as chaplain a course of study in Latin for the coming Hamp- qf the Massachusetts House for the third year. sion of the program of studies in New schools. has written a chap- Prof. Thomas F. Nichols is a structural engi- shire secondary He the neer of the Bureau of Bridges of the State of ter on character education in high school for recently published. Last New York and is at present working on bridge state program of studies in character design. Until 1906, he was professor of mathe- summer Mr. Bisbee taught courses matics at Hamilton College. He has been high- education at the University of New Hampshire way engineer of the State of New York, for four Summer School. [14] The Boivdoin Alumnus ]

Thomas L. Pierce has recently been elected manuscript for this reader is written by Donald president of the Providence National Bank of B. MacMillan. Providence, R. I., the oldest bank in the United States under a national charter. 1904 Frank H. Swan, as chairman of a committee of Samuel T. Dana represented the United States the Rhode Island Bar Association, drafted the Department of Agriculture at the General As- act creating a State Judicial Council. The bill sembly of the International Institute of Agri- has just been passed by the legislature and signed culture and at the World Forestry Congress, both by the governor. of which were held in Rome, Italy. Following these meetings, he visited the forest experiment 1899 stations in Italy, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Ger- Henry W. Lancey is receiving the sympathy of many, Finland, and Sweden. During the past two his friends and classmates for the death of his years he has been president of the Society of wife, January 22, 1927. American Foresters, the only international or- Col. Roy L. Marston was elected First Vice- ganization of professional foresters in the President of the Board of Managers of the Na- country. tional Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at the annual meeting of the Board in March, 1905 1901 Raymond Davis is United States Consul in Paris. Harold L. Berry spent the winter in Egypt and Edwin L. Harvey, formerly executive secretary the south of France. of the National Security League, is now with During the present year Austin P. Larrabee has Fox News, 800 Tenth Ave., New York City. been visiting Professor of Biology at Carleton College under leave of absence from Yankton Major Harold E. Marr, F.A., U.S.A., completes a course of training College. In February, 1927, he received the de- at officers' school at Fort Leavenworth gree of Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. in June. John A. Pierce spent the winter in Corsica and Professor Ray W. Pettengill of Skidmore Col- Ajaccio. lege has started a travel service to help people Dr. George O. Pratt, Bowdoin's star pitcher of find what they really want among the tours and cruises offered 25 years ago, occasionally twirls a game in the the public and to make reserva- Farmington (Maine) Twilight League. tions for individual travel anywhere. Walter L. Sanborn is publisher and editor of In August, Major Wallace C. Philoon will the North Penn Reporter of Lansdale, Penn., an change station for the twentieth time in his army every-other-evening paper devoted strictly to the service, this time to go to the Fifth Infantry at news of the Borough of Lansdale and its envi- Portland Harbor. rons. John W. Riley has succeeded the late Barrett The story of the development of Lakewood Potter as Secretary of the Board of Trustees of Park, near Skowhegan, by Herbert L. Swett is the College. the subject of an article in the June American The "class baby," John W. Riley, Jr., is now a Magazine entitled The Broadway Theatre in the freshman at Bowdoin. The next oldest class Maine Woods. son, Stanley D. Pinkham, of Syracuse, N. Y., will represent in next year's freshman class. 1902 1905 Louis D. H. Weld, formerly manager of the Dr. Nat B. T. Barker is now practicing medi- commercial research department of Swift & Co., cine at Daytona Beach, Fla. His address is 312 at Chicago, is now associated with the H. K. Mc- South W'ild Olive St. Cann Co., advertising agency, New York City. George E. Fogg is colonel of the 240th Coast The class secretary (Prof. Stanley P. Chase) Artillery, Maine National Guard. would like to have the present addresses of George C. Hamblet, a member of the class a Benjamin S Haggett, Rupert M. Much, Winfield little over a year, died suddenly in Portland last I. Norcross and Rundlett. November. He was the manager of the Hamblet Carl W. Brick Company in Portland. He is survived by 1906 a wife and three sons. Mr. and Mrs. Chester S. Bavrs are receiving 1903 congratulations on the birth of a daughter, Patricia, born March 17, 1927. Edward F. Merrill was chief legislative counsel The sudden death, on April 16th, of Charles L. for the Central Maine Power Company during Favinger, prominent Boston lawyer and president the past session of the Maine Legislature, and of the Bowdoin Alumni Association of Boston, was generally credited with being the author of shocked his many friends and professional asso- the Smith-Wyman Power Bill. Benjamin H. Sanborn and Company of Boston, ciates. He was regarded as one of the most of which Scott C. W. Simpson is vice-president, prominent members of the Massachusetts Bar. will publish next season a school reader featur- As counsel for the First National Bank of Bos- ing the Eskimos in print and illustrations. The ton he was successful in many cases. He was a

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member of the law firm of Blodgett, Jones and chief of the loan division of Ohio State Library Burnham. to become chief of the order division of the 1907 Washington Public Library. Philip R. Shorey is publicity director for the 1911 State of Maine, working under the auspices of William H. Callahan has recently been appoint- the State of Maine Publicity Bureau, State Cham- ed assistant auditor of receipts of the Xew York ber of Commerce and Agricultural League. Maine Telephone Company. Development Association. Associated Industries, Dr. Arthur H. Cole of Harvard will have an the Governor and Council and various State De- article on the American Rice Growing Industry partments. His headquarters are at the State of in the next number of the quarterly Journal of Maine Publicity Bureau, 6 Longfellow Square. Economics. He is also to publish a book soon Portland. Mr. Shorey was 15 years on the edi- containing the industrial and commercial corre- torial staff of the Xew York Evening World, spondence of Alexander Hamilton. He is the au- three years news editor of the International thor of numerous articles in economic journals Moving Picture news reel, Fox Xews of New and of the section on tariff history in the new York City, and one year with the Hearst organi- Encyclopedia Britannica. zation in Xew York. Walter X. Emerson has turned a hobby into a Malon P. Whipple is treasurer and general business and since last Xovember has been buy- manager of the Wales Co., engaged in the manu- ing and selling postage stamps for collectors. facture and sale of high grade jams, jellies and During the summer he plans an extensive stamp- marmalades. His address is 9 Cedar St.. New- hunting tour of the eastern states. ton Centre, Mass. 1908 1912 The April issue of American Education, pub- G. Clark Brooks is with the investment depart- Temple lished by the Expression Co. for the faculty of ment of the Old Colony Corporation, 52 the School of Education. Boston University, con- Place, Boston. tains an article by Ridgley C. Clark entitled John H. Joy announces the birth of John Wa- Modest Attempts at Educational Guidance in terman Joy in January. Curriculum Construction. Mr. Clark has recently A daughter, Molly, was born to Mr. and Mrs. been re-elected superintendent of schools in Sey- Seward J. Marsh, Xovember 9, 1926. mour, Conn., for the nth year. John A. Mitchell has received his M.A. from David T. Parker has moved to 4249 Drexel Ohio State University and is now working for Boulevard. Chicago. 111. his Ph.D. through research in educational theory and practice. He has published The Problem of 1909 the Xegro Child in the Light of Intelligence and Harold H. Burton is practicing law in Cleve- Educational Tests and An Analytical Study of land, O., with the new firm of Cull, Burton & Xine Land Grant Colleges. Laughlin. He is chairman of the County Council George Xichols of the Rand Kardex Service of the American Legion and is President of the Corporation in the Chicago district in a seven First L niversalist Church of Cleveland. months' sales contest has won a trip to Europe Harold M. Smith is an attorney in Ports- with full expenses for himself and wife. The mouth, X. H. He has served three terms in the trip will consume about five weeks and will en- Xew Hampshire legislature. able Mr. and Mrs. Xichols to visit Belgium, 1910 France and England. Mary Ellen Xichols. a re- Dr. Clyde L. Deming is Associate Professor of cent arrival in the home, will evidently not ac- Clinical Surgery at Yale University and is in company them. charge of the Urological Department at Xew Earle L. Russell is serving his fourth term as Haven Hospital and Dispensary. Dr. Deming member of the Portland School Board and has married Miss Evelyn Kimball of Littleton, Mass., been responsible for many constructive ideas in- April 4, 1925. Herbert Everett Deming, born troduced in the schools of the city. May 29, 1926, already shows characteristics of a H. P. Vannah, whose hobby is studying tropi- pole-vaulter. cal crops, has been made the director of a re- John L. Crosby has recently been transferred search group to study the Florida Everglades ag- from Boston to the Worcester district of the Xew riculture. England Telephone Co. Carle O. W'arren is Xew York manager of the E. Curtis Matthews, Jr., has recently been Fiske Teachers' Agency. elected president of the Piscataqua Savings Bank George "Squanto" Wilson will manage the of Portsmouth, N. H. He is believed to be the Augusta Millionaires this summer. He took over youngest bank president in Hampshire. Xew the management of the Portland baseball team William H. Sanborn is manager of the Toy last year when its standing was very low and Town Tavern. Winchendon, Mass. quickly raised the morale of the club and its po- Ralph L. Thompson has recently resigned as sition in the Xew England League. [16] The Bowdoin Alumnus ]

1913 Elroy O. LaCasce has been principal of Frye- Manning H. Busfield is now in Lewiston as burg Academy for five years. During the summer. chemist at the Lewiston Bleachery. Mr. and Mrs. LaCasce conduct a large girls' Frank I. Cowan is recorder of the Portland camp at Sebago Lake. Municipal Court. His address is 102 Exchange Philip H. Pope is still a patient at the U. S. St. Veterans' Hospital, Walla Walla, Washington. Willis E. Dodge is now teaching at Great Neck, Since graduation he has published several signifi- N. Y. His address is 51 Red Brook Road. cant papers in the field of Zoology. His wife Stanley F. Dole, who is an executive in the was Miss Louise Smith of the Smith College Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, has been Zoology Department. They have a four year old transferred from Boston to New York. daughter. Paul H. Douglas, who is Professor of Eco- Clifford L. Russell is assistant vice-president of nomics at the University of Chicago and visiting G. L. Ohrstrom & Co., in charge of the Boston of- professor at Amherst, will spend the summer in fice, 30 Federal St. Central America studying the political situation Earle S. Thompson is treasurer of the Ameri- there. The report recently circulated that Profes- can Water Works and Electric Company, one of sor Douglas had been appointed arbitrator for the the largest corporations in the public utility field. garment workers organizations is not correct. He He has recently been elected a director of the has, however, acted several times as chairman of Big Brother Movement, Inc., of New York City. the National Board of Arbitration in the news- 1915 paper printing industry. Professor Douglas is George recognized as one of the leading authorities in W. Bacon is Bursar of the Alexander America on wages. Hamilton Institute of New York and is also lec- turer on the law of contract and the of wills, Harold D. Gilbert has spent the winter in law Fordham University School of Law. Farmington, Me., recovering from his serious il!- William T. ness of last fall. Livingston is commodity analyst of the Alexander Hamilton Institute of York. Lieut.-Col. Winthrop S. Greene, who was on New Clarence M. Minott is the general staff of the army, resigned in 1924 to Bangor representative of the John enter the diplomatic service. He stood second on Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Boston. the list of successful applicants as the result of examinations taken at his entrance into the ser- Vernon P. Woodbury has purchased a toy and

1 vice. After service in the United States Con- furniture manufacturing plant near Leominster. sulate at Queenstown, Ireland, and as secretary Mass. of the United States Embassy in he is Madrid, 1916 now secretary of the Embassy at Santiago, Chile. Scott Brackett is owner and manager of the He was married last fall to Miss Jacqueline Bar- J. Printcraft Shop, Roxbury, Mass. ker of England. George D. Grierson is head of the mathematics Charles B. Haskell is headmaster of the Abbott department at Winthrop (Mass.) High School. School at Farmington, Me. His son, David Lawrence Hart is secretary of the Gloucester Charles, was born in December, 1925. J. (Mass.) Chamber of Commerce. James A. Norton is treasurer of Branson & Co., Edward C. is with the Benefit Inc.. Stock Exchange Bldg., Philadelphia. Hawes Mutual Life Insurance Co., 140 South Dearborn St., Chi- Clifton O. Page is a master at the Lawrence- cago, 111. ville School. William B. is Sumner T. Pike has recently been appointed M. Lord manager of the York Utilities Co., with offices in Kennebunk. Me. secretary of the following fire insurance com- Leroy A. Ramsdell has been since 1923 chair- panies : Continental Insurance, Fidelity-Phenix, American Eagle, First American. All are at 80 man of the committee on rural social work of the This year Maiden Lane, New York. He is also managing American Country Life Association. director of the Security Management Co., 24 he has been chairman of the special committee of engaged in studying courses Broad St., New York. the Association in social welfare administration in schools Henry Rowe is with the Bangor office of Rich- of social work. He is serving as president ardson, Hill & Co., investment brokers. of the alumni association of the New York Lester B. Shackford, who has been represent- School of Social Work. His recent publications ing the Ault-Williamson Shoe Company of Au- include "Contribution of Social Case Work" and burn, Me., in St. Louis, has returned to Auburn. "What is a Social Worker?" in Rural America for Professor Alfred H. Sweet is teaching History February and April. 1927, and "Rural Social at Washington and Jefferson College, Washing- Work" in the Handbook of Rural Social Re- ton. Pa. sources, 1926. His address is New York School 1914 of Social Work, 105 East 22nd St.. New York. Warren D. Eddy was recently appointed a Earle R. Stratton, who is employed by Scovell member of the Portland (Me.) board of assessors. Wellington and Company, accountants and engi- [17] [ The Boivdoin Alumnus

neers, recently handled the professional work in Roland H. Peacock has law offices at Freeport, connection with the installation of the general Me., and at 443 Congress St., Portland. and cost accounting system for the Indiana Lime- Percy S. Ridlon is principal of Gorham (Me.) stone Company, one of the largest corporations in Junior High School. the country. Robert C. Rounds received the degree of LL.B. John G. Winter is head of the French depart- from Harvard in 1924 and has been admitted to ment, Pelham Memorial High School, Pelham, the Maine and Massachusetts bars. He has been N. Y. practicing the past three years at 31 Milk St., Henry G. Wood is one of the assistants of the Boston. He was married June 20, 1925, to Miss chief Senate legislative counsel in Washington. Marjorie Snow of Cambridge, Mass. They have The function of this department is to pass on all one daughter, Sarah, born July 16, 1926. bills into the Sen- the and resolutions introduced Richard T. Schlosberg is first lieutenant in the ensure that are technically correct and, ate to they United States Army. He is at present stationed grad- in some cases, to draft bills outright. After at Ann Arbor, Mich., instructor of military sci- uating in law from Columbia he specialized for ence at the University of Michigan. two years in the field of administrative law, the John B. Sloggett is marine and waterfront re- year being spent in Paris under one of the second porter for the Portland Press Herald. five Cutting Fellowships awarded each year to Mr. and Mrs. Manfred L. Warren of Bruns- Columbia graduates. wick are receiving congratulations on the birth of 1917 a daughter, Diana Dean Warren, born April 5, 1927. Edward Humphrey is assistant business man- ager of the Portland Maine Publishing Co., pub- 1919 lishers of the Portland Press Herald and Port- William W. Blanchard is with the New York land Evening Express. Life Insurance Co. His address is 213 Third St., Col. Sherman N. Shumway was the counsel of Newburgh, N. Y. the special committee of the Maine Legislature John McClave, assistant export manager of tlie appointed at the last session to investigate the Nujol Department of the Standard Oil Company, State Highway Commission. He is receiving is now making an extensive trip to Australia. congratulations on the birth of a son, Forrest N., Rev. Milton M. McGorrill is now studying for in March. his Ph.D. in the University of Chicago. He has Dr. Winfield E. Wight is practicing medicine been for the past four years pastor of the Normal at Thomaston, Conn. is assistant surgeon on He Park Baptist Church of Chicago. the attending staff at Waterbury, Conn., and lec- Dr. Stephen I. Perkins is practicing medicine turer in surgery at Waterbury Hospital Training at Bartlett, N. H. He is a member of the Massa- School for Nurses. He is chairman of the Thom- chusetts Medical Society and the New England aston School Committee. Surgical Society. 1918 Andrew M. Rollins is with the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Boston, in charge Hugh W. Blanchard is Rhode Island and south- of all group business in New York. ern Massachusetts representative of the Rand, Dr. James E. Vance is practicing medicine at McNally Co. of New York. Natick, Mass., and is on the staff of the Natick Whitney Coombs received the degree of Ph.D. hospital. from Columbia University in June, 1926. He published a few months ago The Wages of Un- 1920 skilled Labor in Manufacturing Industries in the Myron H. Avery is admiralty attorney for the United States, 1 890-1924, Columbia University United States Shipping Board at Washington. Press, and, with Albert R. Ellingwood, The Gov- Elmer I. Boardman and Miss Olive Hadley ernment and Labor, A. W. Shaw Co. Dr. Coombs were married at Brookline, Mass., April 16, 1927. is now making for the Federal Bureau of Agri- Philip D. Crockett is studying investment con- cultural Economics a study of farm taxation in ditions in France and Italy. various states. This work will involve visits to William W. Curtis, Jr., is with the Sayles Fin- practically all the states, as well as extensive ishing Plants, Inc., Saylesvi'lle, R. I. available in Washington. work on records Craig S. Houston is practicing medicine at A son, John B., Jr., was born April 2, 1927, to Providence, R. I. His address is 1636 Broad St. Mr. and Mrs. John B. Freese of Framingham, Frederic G. Kileski is with the Dayton, O., of- Mass. fice of the Travelers Insurance Co. Bela W. Norton, who was formerly city editor Dr. Henry W. Lamb of Portland and Miss of one of the Munsey New York dailies, has Sallie Crittenden of New York City were married joined the staff of Ivy Lee and Associates, con- April 18, 1927. Dr. Lamb is assistant orthopedic sultants and advisors in public relations. This is surgeon at the Maine General Hospital and as- one of the most influential publicity organizations sistant orthopedic surgeon at the Children's Hos- in the country. pital in Portland. [18] The Bowdoin Alumnus ]

Rev. Harold E. Lemay and Mrs. Lemay, who 1923 are representatives of the WilHston Church of Gunnar Bergenstrahle was married on April 9 Portland in the Chinese mission field, were to Ebba de Besche in Stockholm. forced to leave the Shaowu Station with their Harvey P. Bishop is at present in South Africa four children and found refuge at Formosa. They in the export department of the Royal Baking have been in China since 1923, two of their Powder Company. He will leave soon for the children being born there. United States. 1921 George T. Davis is a copy reader on the Port- Norman W. Haines and Miss Blanche Lawless land Press Herald. He has recently married. were married at Auburn, Me., April 16, 1927. A daughter, Carolyn, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Mr. Haines is practicing law at 68 Devonshire Stuart R. Dudgeon on April 26 at Fall River, St., Boston. Mass. At the completion of the present school year, Emerson W. Hunt is on the city staff of the Hugh Nixon, who has been two years principal Boston Herald. of the high school at Avon, Mass., will leave Richard S. Small is practicing law in the office teaching to go with the sales force of the Equit- of Clement F. Robinson '03, 85 Exchange St., able Life Assurance Society. Portland. Frank A. St. Clair is machine switching equip- Karl R. Philbrick is assistant secretary of the ment engineer in the New Jersey territory of the Eastern Trust & Banking Co. of Bangor. New York Telephone Co. George H. Quinby is studying dramatic pro- Merritt L. Wftlson was recently admitted to duction at the University Theater, New Haven, the New York bar. Conn. 1922 Walter R. Whitney, formerly managing editor of Everybody's, is Arthur C. Bartlett, who is on the staff of the now assistant editor of Suc- Boston Herald, has been the author of frequent cess Magazine, with offices in the Greybar Build- ing, City. signed articles in that paper. He is the author of New York "Spunk, Leader of the Dog Team," a book pub- 1924 lished last winter. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Aldred are receiving Ralph E. Battison is with the San Francisco congratulations on the birth of a daughter Mr. branch of the H. K. McCann Advertising Co., Aldred is athletic director at Reading (Mass.) 451 Montgomery St. High School. Mrs. Aldred was Miss Elizabeth Clyde T. Congdon is group assistant with the Purinton of Topsham. Portland office of the Travelers Insurance Co. F. E. "Red" Cousins is now city editor of the Edward W. Lewis is a special reporter for the Portland Press Herald. United Press Association with headquarters in St. Jack Watson, who was formerly with the Press Louis. He has been following the Mississippi Herald, is now working on the York Ameri- flood during the past weeks. New can. He has recently married. Rev. Harold G. McCann, for the last four years George Tobey Davis has been at the pastor of the Congress Street Church in Portland, two years Episcopal Academy, City Line was recently appointed district superintendent of and Berwick Road, Overbrook, Pa., and will return fall as in- the Bangor district of the Methodist Episcopal next Church. structor in Latin. In 1925 he received the de- gree of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Mitchell of Bangor are A.M. from Wesleyan for graduate work receiving congratulations on the birth of a in Latin and Greek. On Sept. 3, 1926, Mr. Davis daughter, Anne. married Miss Alfce Goodridge of Augusta. Roderick F. Perkins is studying law. Frederick R. Hamilton is a bank clerk at of John C. Pickard is with the London office of Havana, Cuba, with the First National Bank the DuPont interests. Boston. Eben G. Tileston is steward of the Lord Jef- John L. Margesson. a former member of the frey Tnn. Amherst, Mass. class, has recently announced his engagement to Carroll S. Towle is on the Yale faculty as n Miss Mary E. Cairns of Portland, formerly of teaching: assistant while working for his Ph.D Brunswick. He is employed by the United Fruit He was married last June to Miss Dorothy Siem- Company in Honduras.

erinsr of Austin. Texas. Arthur J. Miguel is in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Robley C. Wilson is instructor of French, His address is in care of the United States Cham- Spanish and German at Holderness School, Ply- ber of Commerce, B. Mitre 367. He is manager mouth, N. H. of the Chamber with the special function of ad- Roliston G. Woodbury and Miss Eleanor Rus- justing relations between local importers and sell of Portland were married March 10. 1027. foreign business interests. Mr. Woodbury is assistant treasurer of the Tex- Clarence D. Rouillard has an appointment as tile Banking Co., Inc., 50 Union Square, New instructor in French at Amherst for next year. York. He is finishing his third year of graduate work at [19] [ The Bowdoin Alumnus

Harvard and for two years has been an instructed Milton B. Davis is instructor in French at the in French there. This summer he will make his Choate School. second trip to France. Edmund J. Fanning is with the New York of- Since leaving college Douglas W. Young has fice of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. been employed by the Warren Brothers Company Lloyd W. Fowles is teaching and coaching at of Cambridge as a resident inspector for their Loomis School, Windsor, Conn. pavement construction. He has been, for the Eldon A. Gray is with the Hazzard-Beck Shoe most part, in the south, from Virginia to Okla- Co., New York City. homa. Charles Griffin, who was forced to leave Har- vard 1925 Law School on account of his health, is recuperating Malcolm S. Bishop and Miss Louise Studley at St. Margaret's Hospital, Dor- chester, Mass. were married at Portland April 30, 1927. Carl Edwin C. Burnard is reporting court and police K. Hersey, who has been doing graduate news for the Portland Press Herald. He was mar- work at Harvard as the Longfellow Scholar, has ried during the past year. received an appointment as instructor in Fine Arts at A. Donald Cummings is doing graduate work Williams. in rubber chemistry at University of Akron. He H. Lincoln Houghton left for Singapore last will enter the employ of the Goodyear Tire and January, on the purchasing staff of a leading Rubber Co. in July. His address is 286 Carroll chewing gum manufacturer. St., Akron, O. Leland W. Hovey is with James Lees & Sons The engagement of Philip Daggett to Miss F. Co., Bridgeport, Pa. Laverne Ingalls of Portland was announced re- Harold G. Littlefield is Maine representative cently. Daggett is a teacher at the Country Day for the North American Cement Corporation. School in Portland. His residence address is Brunswick. Thomas N. Fasso is attending Columbia Law Edmund M. McCloskey is on the faculty of School. Worcester Academy, Worcester, Mass. Edward G. Fletcher, who received his A.M. at Edward B. Nealley is with the Hincks Coal Harvard in 1926. has been appointed an in- Co., Bangor, Me. structor in English at Carnegie Institute of Tech- Philip M. Palmer is at the Harvard Graduate nology. School of Arts and Sciences and has accepted an William H. Gulliver, a student at the Harvard appointment as instructor in German at Harvard Law School, recently received his first legal fee, for next year. which he forwarded immediately to the Alumni Raoul d'Este Palmreri is with the Yale & Fund. Towne Manufacturing Co., Stamford, Conn. Robert W. Pitman and Harry Robinson are 1926 with the New York office of the National Credit Albert Abrahamson, who is doing graduate Office, 45 East 17th St., and Lawrence M. Read work in economics at Columbia L'niversity. was is with the Chicago branch of the same concern. recently appointed Garth Fellow there for the Alan F. Small is studying horticulture at Mas- coming academic year. His fellowship is one of sachusetts Agricultural College. the largest and most important at the university. Theodore Smith is doing graduate work in A. Carleton Andrews is teaching fellow in English at Harvard. Latin at the University of Pennsylvania. Hugh B. Snow is doing graduate work at Mas- William F. G. Bell is with the Viking Press. sachusetts Institute of Technology. New York City. Wayne Sibley and Leon L. Spinney are at James Berry is with the Olds division of Gen- Boston University Law School. eral Motors. His address is 222 West Kala- John W. Tarbell is teaching and coaching at mazoo St., Lansing. Mich. Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Mass. Joseph I. Borneman is connected with the New Edward H. Tevriz is doing graduate work in York office of the Aetna Life Insurance Co. history at Harvard. Charles S. Bradeen is assistant secretary of the Joseph S. Thomas is instructor in chemistry Zeta Psr fraternitv of North .America, with offices at Middlebury College. at 31 East 39th St.. New York City. G. Stanley Robinson. Jr., and Porter Thompson Harold L. Chaffey is instructor in English at are at Harvard Law School. Thornton Academy. Saco, Me. He has recently Frank L. Tucker is with the International Se- published a volume of verse. curities Acceptance Corporation, New York Citv. Theodore D. Clark is instructor in chemistry Lloyd M. True is in Manila. P. I., with the at Colby College. International Banking Corporation. Nathan A. Cobb was recentlv awarded one of Donald B. Warren is with Green Bros, chain the most important scholarships at Harvard Law store system rn Dallas. Tex. School. Gordon Bueknam. Charles N. Cutter. Gordon are at Har- George V. Craighead. Jr.. is with the American C. Genthner and Tohn A. Lamphrev Aluminum Co. vard School of Business Administration. [20] MAMMON BRUNSWICK

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