Bowdoin College Bowdoin Digital Commons Bowdoin Alumni Magazines Special Collections and Archives 1-1-1943 Bowdoin Alumnus Volume 17 (1942-1943) Bowdoin College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/alumni-magazines Recommended Citation Bowdoin College, "Bowdoin Alumnus Volume 17 (1942-1943)" (1943). Bowdoin Alumni Magazines. 17. https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/alumni-magazines/17 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]. ) OVDOIN ALUMNUS NOVEMBER 1942 VOL. XVII NO. I WASSOOKEAG SCHOOL and WASSOOKEAG SCHOOL- CAMP The peace-time educational system developed at Wassookeag School-Camp and Wassookeag School from 1926 to 1928 has become a pattern for war. The colleges are operating on an accelerated schedule ; the draft is digging deeper into the ranks of youth ; the stride of events is lengthening toward complete mobilization of man power. All this demands that we do more for boy power and do it quickly. The boy who previously entered college at eighteen, the candidate of average or better abil- ity, can and must enter college at seventeen. The boy who entered college at seventeen, the boy of outstanding ability, can and must enter at sixteen. Candidates for college can save a year without sacrificing sound standards if they begin not with the senior year in school, but with the freshman or sophomore year. Now more than ever be- fore we must look ahead surely and plan ahead thoroughly. First- FILL THE SUMMER VACUUM Wassookeag's scholastic system was introduced at the School-Camp in 1926 as a summer study-program for boys thirteen to nineteen. This program was developed to meet the need for greater continuity in the educational process, the need for constructive use of the long vacation months. The purpose—to speed up preparation for college by stimulating higher attainment and by effecting a saving of time. Second- DEVELOP A YEAR-ROUND PROGRAM In 1928 the speed-up program of the summer session at the School-Camp was extended to a year-round educational system by the founding of Wassookeag School. By actual count over a pe- riod of twelve years, the majority of Wassookeag students have begun the school year in July rather than September—an "accelerated program" on the secondary level. Third- BEGIN NOW Wassookeag's function in education has been the planning and directing of time-saving pro- grams for schoolboys. Over six hundred such programs, each different because each boy is differ- ent, have been followed through at the School and the School-Camp. Send for information re- garding the extent of scholastic schedule and the types of speed-up programs that schoolboys have carried successfully, that can be built into a well-balanced school experience and a well-balanced summer vacation. LLOYD HARVEY* HATCH, Headmaster Dexter, Maine — BOWDOIN Your azine ALUMNUS IN June 1927 Spike MacCormick introduced the Alumnus with these words: The Alumnus will be published quarterly. It is not designed to be solely a news magazine, a literary quarterly, a journal of opinion, an instrument "12 Editor—Seward J. Marsh of propaganda, a petty gossip sheet or a funny paper. It may perhaps be a little of all these. Its form and content may differ widely in the future from Associates—Charles S. F. Lincoln '91, Class those of the first issue. It is to be, in short, the wish it to be, Tiotes; Herbert W. Hartman, Jr., Boo\s; Eliz- what Alumni abeth F. Whitman. and is to be shaped by the will of those for whom it is primarily intended, the Alumni. The editors will be glad to receive suggestions criticisms and Advisory Council—Harry L. Palmer '04, contributions from readers and will reserve only the right to weigh what is Fred R. Lord 'n, Paul K. Niven '16, Freder- ick, K. Turgeon '23, Charles S. Bradeen '26, sent in, according to their best collective judgement. George S. Jackson '27, Gerhard O. Rehder After fifteen years of publication without much change in form, the Alumnus Burnham '34, Donald F. Barnes '31, Philip E. now takes on a new size, a new cover and a new make-up. The editorial approach re- ''35- mains what it was in 1927. The first issue of Volume XVII goes out with the editor's Business Manager—Glenn R. Mclntire '25 hope that the magazine's high quality may be maintained and that, with continued co- operation, the Alumnus may become even more what Bowdoin men want it to be, Volume XVII November a real tie between them and their College. Number 1 1942 A word about circulation. With Executive Committee approval of the sugges- tions made at the informal conference last July and the recommendations of the Alumni Fund Directors, a policy has now been instituted which assumes that each THE GENERAL ALUMHI giver to the Alumni Fund has subscribed to the Alumnus. Four issues, beginning ASSOCIATION with the first published after the close of the Fund campaign during which the con- tribution was made, will be mailed to all contributors. We hope and believe that con- President—Scott C. W. Simpson '03 tributors to the Alumni Fund will approve but none is to be denied the privilege of Vice President—Charles P. Conners '03 '12 indicating how his gifts to Bowdoin shall be used. So, if there be those who, under Secretary—Seward J. Marsh Treasurer—Gerald G. Wilder '04 no circumstances, want the Alumnus, their wishes, made known, will be respected. One almost certain result of this new circulation policy will be the loss of the present subscription revenue. The greatly expanded distribution of the Alumnus, THE ALUMHI COUHCIL however, is expected to stimulate increased interest in the College and its problems, more active Alumni support and wider participation in the Alumni Fund, all or Term Expires 1943 E. Curtis Matthews 'io President, John L. any of which may be reckoned a net gain. Furthermore, the results already obtained Hurley '12, Harold E. Verrill '15, John C. by Harry L. Palmer '04, Fred R. Lord '11 and Paul K. Niven '16, members of the Pickard '22. Alumnus Business Committee, assure an advertising revenue several times that en- Expires Term 1944 joyed in recent years. Grateful acknowledgement of the committee's work is hereby Wallace M. Powers '04, Harry Trust '16, tendered. Alumni of Bowdoin will note with pleasure the notable increase in the use Kenneth G. Stone '17, Fletcher W. Means '28. of Alumnus columns for advertising by Alumni and friends of the College. It is Term Expires 1945 hoped that none will miss an opportunity to express appreciation of that advertis- Allen E. Morrell '22, Roliston G. Wood- bury '22, Alden H. Sawyer '27, George H. ing and that, where possible, the expression will be in the form of patronage of the Bass, 2nd, '37, Neal W. Allen '07 from the advertisers. Sizeable as is the increase in advertising revenue, the Alumnus can Boards, Robert P. T. Coffin '15 from the well use more to balance its publication costs. The Business Manager will be glad to Faculty. hear from any who may justify an advertising message to the more than 2500 Alumnus readers. DIRECTORS OF THE Since Pearl Harbor the College has subscribed to the Alumnus for the Bow- doin men in the armed forces. The constantly mounting list of those men now totals ALUMHI FUHD about 800 names. Former subscribers and others can assist materially by sending Term Expires 1943 checks for sums over and above their gifts to the Alumni Fund, for the purchase of Donald W. Philbrick '17 Chairman, Scott one or more of these service subscriptions. '03, P. Chapman '30. C. W. Simpson Henry Grateful acknowledgement and sincere appreciation is due for the striking cover Expires Term 1944 of the Alumnus. It is the result of the painstaking and long-continued work of Frank C. Evans "io, Dwight Sayward '16 Roy A. Foulke '19, who' has enlisted the services of Clarence Switzer, a top notch Vice Chairman, John W. Tarbel '26. J. designer and craftsman, to produce, under his personal guidance, what must be con- Term Expires 1945 sidered as fine a cover as appears on any college publication. Ashmead White '12, Perley S. Turner '19, Huntington Blatchford '29. That the Alumnus shall continue to carry news, not only of campus doings, but also of Bowdoin men wherever they are, there is need for copy from every Bow- doin source, stories of accomplishment, pictures, news items, reports of gatherings. Particularly does the editor ask that Class Secretaries, Class Agents and Secretaries of Cover photo by Professor Stanley Barney Smith others, courtesy of Harry Shulman, Gannett Pub- Bowdoin Clubs and Associations increase their flow of items about Bowdoin men. lishing Company, and the United States Navy. Constructive criticism and suggestions as to content and make-up will be welcome as evidences of cooperation to the end that the Alumnus shall be "what the Alumni wish it to be." The BOWDOIN ALUMNUS, published November, And when you have read your copy of the Alumnus, why not share it? It February, May and August by Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. Subscription price $1.50 per might help reclaim the interest of a Bowdoin man of yesteryear; in the hands of a year. Single copies, 40 cents. Entered as Second Class Matter, November 21, 1927, at the Post Office schoolboy or on the table of a school library, it might awaken the interest of a Bow- at Brunswick, Maine, under the Act of March 3, 1879.