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Bowdoin College Bowdoin Digital Commons Bowdoin Alumni Magazines Special Collections and Archives 1-1-1935 Bowdoin Alumnus Volume 9 (1934-1935) Bowdoin College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/alumni-magazines Recommended Citation Bowdoin College, "Bowdoin Alumnus Volume 9 (1934-1935)" (1935). Bowdoin Alumni Magazines. 9. https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/alumni-magazines/9 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]. THE BOWDOIN ALUMNUS NOVEMBER, 1934 Vol. IX No. 1 The Bowdoin Group within the 1934 Group totaled 19 WASSOOKEAG SCHOOL-CAMP Summer Session of Wassookeag School Lloyd Harvey Hatch, Director Lake Wassookeag, Dexter, Me. STAFF OF 16 COLLEGE AND SCHOOL TEACHERS FOR 40 OLDER BOYS PROGRAM ARRANGED FOR THE INDIVIDUAL: l. Preparation for Entrance Exam- inations. 2. Introduction to Courses of Freshman Year in College. 3. Junior College Transition Study on one, two, and three Season Schedules. 4. Informal Outdoor Program—Tennis Matches, Water Regattas, Golf Matches, Baseball, Basketball, Aquaplaning, Sailing, Riding. ON THE 1934 WASSOOKEAG STAFF FROM BOWDOIN: 1. Lloyd H. Hatch, B.S., '21, Director; 2. Professor Edward S. Hammond, Ph.D.; 3, Charles E. Berry, A.M., '26; 4. Robert D. Hanscom, Ed.M., '23 (Sabbatical Leave); 5. Norman S. Waldron, A.B., '30; 6. Edward G. '26 Buxton, A.B., '28; 7. Cyril H. Simmons, A.B., (Sabbatical Leave) ; 8. George W. Freiday, Jr., A.B., '30; 9. Walter O. Gordon, M.A., '28. SCHOLASTIC RECORD: Final candidates in the 1933-34 student group at the school and the final candidates of the 1934 summer term at the School-Camp attained a perfect college entrance record—21 graduates entered Amherst^ Bowdoin, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Dickinson, Hamilton, Harvard, Maine, Michigan, Trinity, Wesleyan, Williams, and Yale. Sports Contribute Appreciably Toward Wassookeag's Scholastic "Results" WASSOOKEAG SCHOOL Mr. Hatch, Director of Wassookeag School-Camp, is the founder and Headmaster of Wassoo- keag School, a Tutorial Junior College for Boys. Wassookeag School offers a Bowdoin Preparatory program for a student group of 20 boys whose study is directed by 6 full-time teachers (4 are Bowdoin graduates and 3 formerly of the Bowdoin faculty). : THE BOWDOIN ALUMNUS Member of the American Alumni Council Published by Bowdoin Publishing Company, Brunswick, Maine, four times during the College year Subscription price, $1.50 a year. Single copies, 40 cents. With Bowdoin Orient, $3.50 a year. Entered as second-class matter, Nov. 21st, 1927, at the Postoffice at Brunswick, Maine, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Philip S. Wilder '23, Editor Stanley P. Chase '05, Book Editor John S. Baker '35, Business Manager Paul E. Sullivan '35, Undergraduate Editor Elizabeth F. Riley, Editorial Associate ADVISORY EDITORIAL BOARD Alfred E. Burton '78 Thomas L. Marble '98 Arthur C Bartlett '22 Henry A. Huston '79 Kenneth A. Robinson '14 Henry S. Dowst '29 Charles S. F. Lincoln '91 George E. Minot '19 Harrison M. Davis, Jr., '30 Vol. IX NOVEMBER, 1934 No. 1 A Matter of Relativity If the return of Alumni sons to the John H. Halford, Jr., son of John H. '07. campus of their fathers is any indication of Halford William DeW. Hyde, son of George P. interest in a college on the part of its grad- Hyde 08. uates and former students, Bowdoin should Robert D. Morss, Jr., son of Robert D. have little to fear in the nature of waning Morss 'io. Alumni support; for nineteen members of Frederic S. Newman, son of William P. 1 the Class of 1938 are sons of Bowdoin Newman io. of William men, while thirtyseven more, with three William J. Norton, Jr., son Norton '05. transfer students, claim relation of some J. Edward H. Owen, son of Henry W. sort to earlier members of the College. Owen, Jr., '96. The list of sons is given herewith Leonard A. Pierce, Jr., son of Leonard Willard S. Bass, Jr., son of Willard S. A. Pierce "05. 1 Bass '96. Frank H. Purington, Jr., son of Frank grandson of Francis Leonardo E. Buck, son of Dr. William E. H. Purington 'n, and Buck M'i4. O. Purington \So. David B. Sonic, son of Alfred M. G. Philip F. Chapman, Jr., son of Philip F. Soule '03. Chapman 'o6. ( reoffrey R. Stanwood, son of Frederic Andrew H. Cox, son of Dr. James F. A. Stanwood *02. Cox '04. Mortimer P. Warren, son of Dr. Morti- William Frost, son of John William mer Warren '96. Frost "04, and great'grandson of Obadiah William B. Webb. Jr., son of William IV E. Frost 1826. Webb 05. John P. Greene, son of John A. Greene Vincent B. Welch, son of Arthur D. Welch '.:. [The B o w d o i n Alumnus The Eleventh Alumni Day Twenty years ago last June the Alumni been ushered in with a bonfire rally, which Council of Bowdoin College held its first crowded the Delta to listen to the band, meeting, and ten years ago, November i, the cheer leaders, and to talks by Mai Mor- 1924, the first Alumni Day was observed. rell '24, by Coach Jack Magee, and by Since that time the event has become an President Sills, all introduced by Punster annual one varying in program somewhat Herbert R. Brown of the faculty. from year to year. In the course of the morning the Alumni This fall the Council committee in charge Council was in session, all but two of its under the chairmanship of Frank A. Smith members being in attendance. In addition v i2 and including John F. Dana '98 and to routine business three new committees Stanley P. Chase '05, proposed to increase were set up, one of these under the chair- somewhat the athletic nature of the obser- manship of E. Baldwin Smith 'n, of vation and to provide a luncheon somewhat Princeton, which will consider the desira- more suited to late fall weather than those bility of instituting at Bowdoin a mid- of earlier occasions. In accordance with winter "Homecoming'' similar in nature to their plans some two hundred and forty those at Princeton, Williams, and else- Bowdoin men sat down at noon to a meal where. Professor Smith will welcome com- of steaming lobster stew topped off with ment from our readers pertinent to this apple pie and ice cream, and listened to plan. A second committee, headed by brief words of greeting from the Presidents Donald C. White 'o^, of Lewiston, will of Bowdoin and the University of Maine, look into the matter of the cost of football and to a colorful address by Charles F. tickets, which have seemed to many alumni Stanwood '32, internationally known as to be far too expensive. A third group not Oxford's track star of the past two seasons, yet named will constitute a standing com- and now master at Choate School. mittee on athletics, and will devote itself Various football captains since the in- during the coming months to consideration ception of the sport in 1889 had been in- of the present athletic situation and what, vited to sit together at the luncheon, and a if anything, should be done about it. It is presentation in behalf of this group was probable that a winter meeting of the made to Captain Albert W. Kent '35 by Council will be held, or that its members Hon. George B. Sears "90, of Salem, Mass., may get together in regional sections. who first captained a Bowdoin eleven, and Following the game President and Mrs. who has been characterised by Dr. Whittier Sills were at home to alumni and others, 1 as the "father of football at Bowdoin '. and crowds gathered also at a number of Each of these captains was called upon by chapter houses where tea dances were in Harrison Atwood '09, presiding at the progress. In the course of the evening a luncheon in his capacity as President of the dance was held in the Sargent Gymnasium Alumni Council, to rise for recognition by under the auspices of the Student Council. the assembled alumni. Singing was led by Lawrence W. Parkman 'n. Fathers' Day was observed on November More than one hundred ladies were 17, the day of the Tufts game, and more served at the Moulton Union at the same than half of the fathers of the freshman time as the men's luncheon. class were entertained at luncheon by the midnight At on November 9 the day had College. ' [»J The B o w d o i n Alumnus] Captains All Among the alumni returning for the Elmer H. Carleton '93, and Alfred Maine game were fifteen men who had cap- Mitchell, Jr., '95. In the second row arc tained varsity elevens in their undergrad- Frank A. Smith '12, captain in 1910, Guy uate days, invited back for special recogni- W. Leadbetter '16, Frank A. Farrington tion by the Alumni Day Committee. '27, and H. Philip Chapman, Jr., '30, whose Twelve of them were prevailed upon to father, Henry P. Chapman '06, was unable pose at the entrance to the Swimming Pool to be with him in the group. Behind these for the picture reproduced herewith. Daniel men are Bradley P. Howes '28, Charles L. C. Munro '03, Allen E. Morrell "22, and Hildreth '25, and Winslow R. Howland '29. Athletic Director Malcolm E. Morrell '24 were at the luncheon but were not avail- With the receipt of an honorary LL.D.