Bates College - Mirror Yearbook (Lewiston, ME)

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.jalzaafzm ol H19 ClCISS ol Although his official title is Dean of the Faculty, we students know him as DEAN HARRY , the genial raconteur of Bates stories and traditions. We remember his account of Uncle Johnny Stanton, and recall the many occasions when Dean Harry began a meeting with the laconic remark that this was his 250th year at Bates. Dean Rowe has, in fact, touched the lives of more Bates graduates than any other active member of the faculty or administration. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Bates in the class of 1912, Dean Rowe returned to the college in 1914 as Graduate YMCA Secretary. In 1920 he became Alumni Secretary, a position which he filled until 1948. Within this period C1920-19485 he also served as Bursar from 1920 to 1928 and Assistant to the President from 1924 to 1946. In 1946 he was appointed to the position which he now holds, Dean of the Faculty. Dean Rowe is well known as an educator in New England and is an active member of the College Entrance Examination Board and the American Association of College Deans and Advisers of Men. A mem- ber of the Board of Trustees at Central Maine Institute since 1923, he is also a director of Portland Junior College. To his excellent background in the history of Bates, Dean Harry adds a keen memory for names and faces. A graduate of any class from '08 to '56 may hear himself called by name, or find a note with an enclosed cartoon which has particular meaning for him, signed Harry Rowe. Literally, as well as figuratively, Dean Rowe is the father of a Bates family. All three of his children attended the college: and one grandson is now attending Bates in the class of '57, Perhaps more than any single person, Dean Harry Rowe stands for Bates in the minds and hearts of thousands of people including faculty, administration, graduates, and students. We take great pleasure in dedicating this 1956 Edition of the BATES MIRROR to the truly line educator who has given so much of his life toward making this college a better place.