Bowdoin College - Bugle Yearbook (Brunswick, ME)

Text from Pages 1 - 156 of the 1928 volume:

CLASS M1928 BCWDOIN COLLEGE Twenty'Five Year History The Class of 1928 respectfully dedicates this book to Bowdoinls young, energetic, and personable President, DR. JAMES STACY COLES The Class of 1928 Wishes to thank Dr. and Mrs. Sills for their many kindnesses to us While at college and in all the later years. COMMITTEES REUNION CO-CHAIRMEN . . . .Whitfield Case Reginald Swett PPESENTATION OF CLASS GIFT TO COLLEGE ..... ,..Whitfield Case CLASS FUND: ATTENDANCE: TREASURER: Fee Collector CLASS HISTORY: GIFT: LIAISON: Brunswick Portland UNIFORMS Sz INSIGNIA: REFRESHMENTS: HOUSING: LADIES' AUXILIARY: PROGRAM AND ACTIVITIES: Sub Committees: CLASS DINNER: RECEPTION: OUTING: Case Swett Greene Alexander, Butler Mostrom, Swett, Riley, Cowan Parks, Riley Greene, Means, Chapman Fuller, Parks, Tripp Thayer, Leadbeater, Greene Chapman, Riley, Parks Mesdames Chapman, Lucas, Means, Parks, Riley Trafton, Swett, Case, Greene, Alexander, Lucas, Means Mostrom, Parks, Riley Parks, Green, Means, Chapman, Riley Riley, Parks, Greene, Chapman Trafton, Lucas, Parks, Chapman PROGRAM FOR THE GRAND AND GLORIOUS 25th REUNION OF THE STERLING CLASS OF 1928 Thursday, June 18 11 A.M. on 12 to 4 P.M. 4 to 6 P.M. 7 :00 P.M. 7:00 P.M. Friday, June 19 9:30 A.M. 12:00 Noon 12:00 Noon 2:00 P.M. 6:30 P.M. 8:00 P.M. Saturday, June 10:00 A.M. 12:00 Noon Pick-ard Field House open. Welcome and Registration at Pickard Field House, Receipt of costumes, assignment of rooms, etc. Tea for Faculty, Governing Boards, etc.: President and Mrs. Coles as guests of honor. Stag Dinner at the Pickard Field House. Supper for wives and children at the Moulton Union. Movies in the Smith Auditorium at 8:00. Headquarters at Pickard Field House open. Alumni Luncheon for men at the Gymnasium. Luncheon for women and children at Union. There will be sandwiches at our headquarters in the Field House for all who wish to stay there. Departure for the Auburn Colony, Harpswell in own cars. Family outing, games, etc. Family banquet: Shore Dinner at Auburn Colony. Square Dancing fprofessional director, accustomed to beginnersj. Commencement. Headquarters also open. Commencement Dinner. THE CLASS GIFT BOWDOIN COLLEGE FACULTY RESEARCH FUND To the President and Trusteesof Bowdoin College: The Class of 1928 presents this check to establish the Bowdoin College Faculty Research Fund . This Fund shall be administered by a faculty committee appointed by the President of the College and he shall be its Chairman. The annual income from this Fund shall be used to promote and help finance research projects by the Bowdoin College faculty. The money may be spent for apparatus, instruments, clerical work, publication of results, or similar expenses as determined and permitted by the Com- mittee administering the Fund. The Class of 1928 hopes that this Fund will be added to by other classes, individuals, corporations or other organizations. li J is . ,O O, . w am 'uf 4, memurianl U .U . . ln, . 1 I Zi Rodney Wilson Bailey Born December 20, 1907 Died November 20, 1926 John Burge Candy Born March 4, 1907 Died November 28, 1930 Benjamin Bailey Clifford Born January 8, 1903 Died September 18, 1946 Charles Billings Gibbs Born January 23, 1905 Died May 9, 1931 Cyrus Franklin Packard, Jr. Born January 8, 1906 Died October 31, 1926 Edwin Scarritt Parsons Born October 7, 1907 Died in Service May 29, 1942 Horace Wolcott Robbins Born January 17, 1907 Died June 17, 1935 Kenneth Lee Talbot Born April 25, 1905 Died March, 1953 Joseph Rayner Whipple Born November 29, 1905 Died January, 1942 One beautiful June morning in 1951, while celebrating the 50th Birthday of Middlesex School, I was fortunate enough to hear the Reverend Vivian T. Pomeroy of the First Parish Church in Milton, Massachusetts, address the graduating class. As usual, his remarks were adroit, touched with kindly humor, and to the point. Having pointed out that most gradu- ation speakers are great tycoons, or men who hold distinguished positions in public life, who exhort the youth to take their rightful places in the race, and correct the world's problems, he then went on to say: when times are rather troubled and uncertain, as they are at present, the head- master and those who conspire with him, fall back upon a more ordinary man, even upon an obscure little parson like me. They say to themselves: 'Well, as things are, we can stand an inspirational graduation speech'. This is what we ministers, among a few other duties, are expected to do- to encourage people in times of adversity . . . . Mr. Pomeroy, having explained why he was the speaker, then went on to tell the seniors: I think it is extremely unlikely that most, if any of you, will reach positions of such rare prominence or have upon your shoulders such tremendous responsibility. I am not a betting man-ex- cepting in very small waysg but I am willing to bet my bottom dollar that most of you will take a much more modest position in the body politic. It may be a position a little different from what you dreamed, but you will come to terms with it and do your best in it and be happy in it-as a man can be happy who puts his heart into his job, whatever it is. and . . . How fortunate we shall be, how truly privileged, if we can do our best work without the elevation of great celebrity. I don't mean that we can confine our influence to the local corner or escape the impact of wider affairs. Anybody who behaves or thinks today as if he didn't be- long to the world-and a dangerous world at that-is no better than the village idiot. But how favored we are, or shall be, if it is our fortune to be useful and meritorious mediocrities, able to start where we areg to sow our corn in fields which are near, to discharge some constant responsi- bility near our own doorstep, to stand by our friends and those who need us, and taste the sweetness of a little special approval . . . Our class was never distinguished in college in any way. We had fewer honor men, fewer athletes, and fewer members. As a class since graduation we have had few, if any, whgo have attained any real promi- nence. Most of us could qualify as the average college educated man, and in most cases, the family man. The following pages, however, bring out rather well what liberal education can do for men. We have as a class taken our place in our respective communities and served them with dili- gence if not distinction. 4 i WILLIAM DAWSON ALEXANDER Class Secretary Place of Birth and date: Watertown, Mass., July 12, 1906. Advanced degrees, other colleges at- tended: Bates A.M. Graduate study at Harvard Business or profession: Belmont Hill School, Belmont, Mass. 1928-1943 Head of Math Dept., Acting Assistant Head- - master, Head football coach. Middlesex School, Concord, Mass. 1943- Head cf Math Dept., Head of Day Dept., Admissions Com- mittee. Line Coach. Residence: New Gloucester, Maine. Community interests: 3 year term on New Gloucester School Board, Draft Registrar. Wife's Name: Virginia Green Children: William D., Jr. born May 28, 1932. Graduate of Fryeburg Academy, 1951. 1951-52 at Unversity of Maine. Now in U. S. Army Air Force. Charles C., born Feb. 22, 1936. Will graduate from Middlesex School. June 1953. College: Williams. In June, 1928, with a diploma in hand, and my young wife, Virginia, I set out to conquer the unknown Independent School world. My head was possibly slightly swollen with the idea that I was a gridiron great but I found that world possible to dent, not because of my football skill or the odds and ends of misinformation represented by my degrees, but by my wife's delightful ability to malge a place for herself and to drag me along with her. In 1932 our older boy was born. That, too, added responsibilities, but my pay, although cut by the depression, still enabled us to live at a standard the good years have never permitted us to attain again. 9 In 1933 we purchased our home in New Gloucester. There were several benefits from this: Q19 It gave us a sense of permanence and a home center that a boarding school master never reaches in those quarters, nice as some of them are. 121 It permitted me to know my father-in-law. Dr. Green, as a person, and to absorb some of his very real wisdom. Q32 It allowed my older son to know his granddad well before he died. C41 Lo be it spoken, it gave us our Maine citizenship, something that although we must allow it has certain tax benefits, is a possession we are all glad to hold. In 1936 George Washington's birthday and Charles Christian arrived simultaneously. He was a very quiet and easy baby-perhaps parents do learn on the poor first one- at least we never held mirrors in front of his mouth to see if he was breathing! The remaining years have been relatively uneventful except for the violent upheaval of changing from Belmont Hill, a school that I love dearly - one might almost say we grew up together - to Middlesex, a school with which, as as the years go by, I'm very proud and pleased to be associated. Possibly as President Conant of Harvard indicated, my years in these private institutions have been poorly spent. I think not. The boys we teach may, for the most part, come from the top segment of the population, economically speaking, but they seem to me like most good American boys. I approve of seeing and having something to do with teaching boys how to take it, both on the athletic fields and in the classrooms. For the young men in this type of institution learn to work hard, far harder than I ever did in public schcol. I think that lesson alone justifies our existence. This fall we saw our older son off for the Armed Services-to be honest, it was a wrench. As a good friend puts it: It is rather too bad that anything as good for boys as life in the Armed Services, carries with it as its ultimate purpose, destruction. Next fall our younger son leaves for college. Although the home won't be quite as lively as in the past, I hope that both Ma and Pa have a few good years left yet. 10 JOHN D. ANDERSON After leaving school, went to work for Lee Higginson and Co., in-V vestment firm at Boston. Continued in investment work until 1930 and then went to work for Retail Credit Co. which has its Home Ofiice in Atlanta, Georgia. Served in Boston Office of that Company as Assistant Manager and then became Manager for the Company at Worcester, Mass. For the past three years has been Manager in Maine for this company with offices in the Congress Square Building, Corner of High and Congress Streets in Portland, Maine. Residence for the past three years has been at Brook Road in West Falmouth, and in Portland am a member of the National Association of Life Underwriters and of the Lions Club. Mrs. Anderson is a member of the Lioness Club of Portland. Prior to going to Portland, lived at Auburn, Mass. where I was president of the Auburn Civic Club and where Mrs. Anderson belonged to the Auburn Woman's Club. Married to the former Virginia Armour of Malden, Mass. 11 I ggg 1 1 JOHN STEVENS ANDREWS Place and date of birth: Lawrence, Mass. June 1, 1904. Business or profession: Worked for two local investment firms from Feb. 1925 to Oct. 1929. Own in- vestment business, Andrews Kr Hibbard, 1929-1942. Represented Townsend, Dabney 8a Tyson, 1943 -1946. Opened branch office for the latter in Feb. 1946 fNew York Stock Exchangej. Service Record: Entered Army as Volunteer Officer candidate, Nov. 1942. Discharged Mar., '43-eyes did not meet Army oiiicer re- . quirements. Residence: Morrison Road, Windham, N. H. Community interests: While living in Methuen, Mass. was elected Town Meeting representative. At present am Civilian Defense Director in Windham. Wife's Name: Justine Stratton. Children: John S. Andrews, Jr., born July 12, 1927. Phillips Exeter Academy 1945. Served in the Army. B.S. and M.S. in Biochemistry at University of N. H. At present working for his Ph.D. on a fellow- ship at State College in Raleigh, N. C. Richard Stratton Andrews, born April 8, 1929. Vermont Academy 1947. Completed two years at Univ. of N. H. Married Patricia Stevens of Nashua, N. H. June 16, 1949. One daughter, Susan Gale, born March 22, 1950. My experiences in the last twenty-five years were no different than those of any of you. I decided to marry instead of finishing out my course. I didn't return in 1926. By the summer of 1929, I had added to my re-- sponsibilities. We had two sons. It was in the early autumn of 1929 12 that, in partnership with a friend I opened my own office as a broker in the city of Lawrence. We weathered all the storms of 1929, 1932 and 1933. As the boys grew older we hunted and fished together. On skates and skis, they soon surpassed their old man. The oldest boy graduated from Phillips Exeter and the youngest one from Vermont Academy. During the first year of World War II, I did some administrative work for civilian defense, but in 1942 decided that in spite of my age the Army needed me. I volunteered. It didn't take me long to find out how little they needed me and it didn't take the Army long to find out what poor eyesight I had. My partner was in the Navy, so instead of opening the office again, I began selling investments for Townsend, Dabney Sz Tyson of Boston. I am now manager of their branch office in Lawrence. About seven years ago we bought our home about ten miles from Law- rence in Windham, New Hampshire. We have been fortunate. Our oldest son was drafted, but the fight- ing was over before he saw active service. He had approximately two years in the Army. Then he entered the University of New Hampshire where he received his Bachelor and Master's degree in Science. He is a biochemist. At present he is at the State College in North Carolina on a fellowship from the Atomic Energy Commission working toward his Ph.D. The youngest boy followed my example and decided to marry instead of finishing his college course. He did successfully complete two years at University of New Hampshire. He is now working with me selling investments. His daughter is the first girl in the Andrews family in three generations. I hope we don't spoil her. Through all these years, since the boys were able to hold a rod or carry a gun we have hunted and fished together. I am fortunate that my enthusiasm for the out doors, hunting, fishing and photography are shared by both my sons. I 1:5 JOHN COLE ANGLEY Place of birth and date: Brewer, Maine, February 12, 1906. Other colleges attended: Harvard Medical School 1932. Business or profession: Physician. Assistant in Medicine-Mass. General Hospital. Service Record: Lt. Colonel Army Air Force. Entered Sept. 19423 Reserves since Dec. 1945. Bronze Medal Award. Overseas duty 21 months. Residence: School Street, Bryantville CPembrokeJ, Massachusetts. Community interests: Medical Director-Civilian Defenceg School Physi- cian for three towns. Wife's Name: Florence H. Davis. Children: John H. Angley 2nd born 4-27-9. Grade 8 Pembroke Grade School. Judith C. Angley Born 8-27-41. Grade 7 Pembroke Grade School. Edward T. Angley. Born 11-2-43. Grade 4, Pembroke Grade School. Jeraldine F. Angley. Born 8-28-46. Grade 1 Pembroke Grade School. James R. Angley. Born 2-3-49. 14 PHILIP A. BACHELDER Place and date of birth: Westbrook, Maine. Oct. 28, 1906. Residence: Indian Hill, Childersburg, Ala. Community interests: Member City Council, Chairman Red Cross, auditor P.T.A.g mem- ber Choccolocco Council Boy Scouts of Americag trustee, treasurer and lay reader St. Mary's Episcopal Church. Wife's Name: Barbara Tebbetts Rogers. Children: Steven Parker, born Apr. 22, 1939. Allan Rogers born, May 14, 1941. David Macleod born, Aug. 10, 1946. Born October 28, 1906 in Westbrook, Maine, son of Percival A. and Pearl P. Bachelder. Attended public schools in Westbrook and entered Bowdoin as a member of the infamous class of 1928. On graduation, joined Old Colony Trust Company in Boston studied the mysteries of high finance and became a door-to-door peddler of high- grade industrial bonds. This grim, bitter and frustrating experience lasted one year. Joined First National Bank of Boston to go into foreign service. Went to Havana, Cuba and spent 415 years in the bank's principal branch in that city. It was a thoroughly enjoyable experience. After death of father, returned to Westbrook and entered the em- ploy of S. D. Warren Company, paper manufacturers of that city. Shortly thereafter, married Barbara Tebbetts Rogers, a cousin of Charley Rogers who was a contemporary of ours at Bowdoin. Remained with S. D. Warren for seven' years in various accounting and administrative capacities. 15 In 1941, was loaned to the Oiiice of Price Administration in Wash- ington, D. C. for six months, stayed there nearly four years, not entirely willingly. In 1945, joined Kimberly-Clark Corporation, large paper making firm with principal ofiices in Neenah, Wisconsin. Functioned as chief statistician and traveled extensively among the corporation's nine plants. In 1948, came to Coosa River Newsprint Company, located 40 miles southeast of Birmingham, Alabama, as Comptroller. This was a new plant for the manufacture of newsprint operated under a management agree- ment by the Kimberly-Clark Corporation. Still here, currently as Secre- tary and Assistant Treasurer, and very happy about it all. In the past 45 years, my family and I have become unreconstructed rebels. Looking back from the mellow age of 46, I find that so far life has been good to me and mine. Though there is little danger of my ever' accumulating any money, I have been moderately successful and able to provide a comfortable living for my family. I have a lovely wife and three fine boys, each of whom I sincerely hope grows up to be a better man than his old man is. During most of my working years, I have been separated by many miles from Brunswick, Maine, but I look back on my years at Bowdoin with fond recollection and keep a warm spot in my heart for Alma Mater. 16 MATTHEW JOHN BACHULUS Place and date of birth: New Britain, Conn. Other colleges: Harvard Medical School, M.D., 1932. Profession: Doctor. Residence: 129 Farmington St., Longmeadow, Mass. Wife's Name: Ernestine Humphrey. I Children: . Ann, age 17. I Judith, age 15. Joan, age 12. I left the public schools of New Britain in 1918 for the attractive dollars offered by Pratt Sz Whitney Co. for tool design. In 1924 this career began to pall so I followed my brother's footsteps to old Bowdoin. I was admitted as a special student in 1924 and later given regular status. After gradu- ation I went to the Harvard Medical School, completing the work for an M.D. degree in 1932. That year I took time out to marry Miss Ernestine Humphrey of Pittsfield. We have three daughters, one of whom I've been told by the class secretary has a very charming personality on the telephone, and is a lot more cooperative about filling in vital statistics for this 25-year history than I am. My medical career to date is as follows: House Officer, New England Deaconess Hospital, 1931-323 Surgical interne, Massachusetts General Hos- pital, 1932-34, Resident Surgeon, Pondville Cancer Hospital, Walpole, Mass. 1934-35. Since then I've practiced surgery in Springfield, Massachusetts. I'm the visiting surgeon at the Springfield Hospital, and the assistant visiting surgeon at the Westfield Cancer Hospital. My office is at 30 High St., Springfield, Mass. 17 CLAYTON MARCH BARDSLEY Place and date of birth: Bridgton, Maine. May 30, 1906. Other colleges: Harvard. Business: Owner, J. T. Bardsley Co., retail clothing and shoes. Service Record: 4 F. Turned down by Navy, Army, Marines, and Coast Guard. Mem- ber of Cumberland County Rifle- men, an armed civilian mobile unit. Residence: 1 Elm St., Bridgton, Maine. Community interests: Masonry: Little League Baseball, trainer of the Bridgton Barons, a semi-professional basketball team. Wife's Name: Arlene Elizabeth Sheehan. Children: after being married 17 years, we are expecting a child in April. After leaving Bowdoin I went to Washington, D. C. where I worked for the Post Office Department, and later for the Federal Highway Com- mission. My mother died in 1931 and I returned to Bridgton to be with my father, who was ill. His illness made it necessary for me to give up my position in Washington, and I ,became associated with him in his retail clothing and shoe business, which he had established in 1903, and which is now the oldest complete outfitting business in the United States. In 1935 I married Arlene Elizabeth Sheehan of Lowell, Mass. In 1939 my father died and I assumed control of the business, which I have continued and attempted to maintain and expand. I have been very lucky and have no regrets. So, with twenty-five years having gone by since leaving Bowdoin, I am back in the town where I was born, working where I worked as a boy during vacations, and sincerely attempting to grow old gracefully. I have my wife, my home, my business, my bird dogs, and my friends. Hardly an outstanding career, but I am happy and content, and very grateful for everything. 18 NEAL R. BOYD Place and date of birth: Salem, Mass. May 23, 1906. Cther colleges: Boston University School of Business Administration fSummer Schoolj. ' Business or profession: Jordan Marsh Co., Boston, Asst. buyer - 1928- 1930, United Shoe Machinery Corp., Boston 1930-1932. Liberty Mutual Ins. Co., Boston, New York City, Brooklyn, Asst. Sales Manager. Insurance business for myself as General Agent. Residence: 43 Humphrey St., Marblehead, Mass. Community interests: Red Feather, Heart Association. Wife's Name: Cornelia Spencer. Children: Nancy S., born Dec. 4, 1937, now a sophomore at Marblehead High School: interested in Girl Scouts: drum majorette during foot- ball season. This is going to be quite a jcb for me at my rather tender age plus the fact that it's been many years since I've lifted a pen for a thesis- however I'm off in a cloud of dust! After graduating with the great Class of 1928 I entered Jordan Marsh Training School for buyers and remained with Jordan Marsh for two years until the store entered the Hahn System. As a result of this coalition I decided to get out as I couldn't see any future for buyers. Alas! I had forgotten that Old Man Depression was roaming around and for the next few months I wasn't sure whether I was 'on foot or horsebackl' However, I landed with the United Shoe Machinery Corp. in Boston and remained with them for two years. Then the 'Old Man' caught up with them, and out I landed. After a few months I became associated with the Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. of Boston. During this period I studied at the Boston University School of Business Administration. Later I was transferred to New York City as one of their salesmen but not before I met my future wife in Boston. Then two and one-half years in New York and Brooklyn during which time I managed to be- come Renewal Sales Manager in their new Brooklyn oflice. However, New England seemed to call and back I came to enter the life insurance business with John Hancock Life Ins. Co. Needless to say, my future 19 wife was more than happy over my decision, although for the first year or so I wasn't too sure. All of these events took place in the early and middle thirties. And in 1937 I made another change to become General Agent for the Metro- politan Casualty Insurance Company in the Accident, Health and Hospital field, a position I still hold. That same year I married Miss Cornelia Spencer of Belmont, Mass., and in December, 1937 our daughter, Nancy, was born. Later I became an insurance broker here in Massachusetts, and re- cently Was appointed General Agent in the Group Accident and Health field by the Boston, Mass. Ins. Co. During the past twenty-five years I have continued to play tennis, first at the Salem Country Club, later at Jackson Heights Tennis Club in New York, and then at the Tedesco Country Club in Marblehead, Mass. However, I must confess that I gave up Tournament Tennis at the ripe old age of 35, and now play just for the fun and associations. Hope to see you in June. 20 GORDON W. BRYANT Place and date of birth: Boston, Mass. March 8, 1906. Other Colleges: Harvard Business School-M.B.A. 1930 Business: Charles E. Lauriat Co., Inc., Boston, Mass.,-Booksellers. Service Record: C. G. T. R.-1 year. I Residence: 176 West St., Braintree, Mass. Community Interests: Chairman Braintree School Committee. Trustee Braintree Public Library, Braintree Savings Bank: Director American Booksellers Association. Wife's Name: Marjorie S. Bryant. Children: Cynthia, born. Sept. 3, 1934, Thayer Academy, 19525 Wellesley College freshman. Judith, born Mar. 29, 1938, Thayer Academy, 1956 Butch, born Feb. 5, 1943. -l1a - He was a blind date on a chill evening in March of 1930. It was Ben Butler's fault in the very beginning because he introduced Gogo to Wellesley. But it was Paul Bunker who was principally to blame for he introduced Gogo to me. Yes, and Steve Trafton had a hand in the arrangements of that first fateful meeting, too. It's hard to understand now, but I was completely swept off my feet by this man whom I was to know for the next four weeks as Gogo Plaices . I figured I'd found a guy that was going to set the world on fire so when he popped the question I naturally fell all over myself to 21 acquiesce fsay yesj. We were married a few months later-September of 1931. e And then came the dawn! My embryo millionaire turned out to be pulling down S25 a week, which was reduced to 522.50 in the Spring of '32. By dint of much patience, a couple of raises .and some encouragement from yours truly, I finally get him up to where he figured it would be smart for him to report his income to Uncle Sam. But long before this happened he embarked on a program that has turned out to be the very best thing he ever did-that of fathering our three children: Cynthia, who is following in my footsteps and is now a Freshman at Wellesley-Judy, who has just entered Thayer Academy and is the star athlete of the family-and Butch, nine years old and son and heir to his estates. Gogo found after a while that family life got to be pretty drab sometimes so he launched himself into a career of public service via the Taxpayer's Association. Folks in Braintree discovered he didn't like No for an answer so they started saddling him with all kinds of thank- less jobs from Red Cross and Community Fund to Town Meeting Member, Trustee of thisqand that and Chairman of the School Committee. He got all the glory for these noble deeds but guess who did the dirty-work! Right in the middle of all this public service crusade he decided it was pretty humdrum working for somebody else, especially after his boss found it desirable to bring his robust sons into the business and adorn them with fancy titles. So he started looking around to see what he could see. And guess what he saw! Know anything about the book business? Ever hear of any-one making any money in the book business? Course you didn't-and you never will! Least, not as long as there are vultures callfed publishers who sell you books, then turn around and sell your customers for less! So now we own a bookstore. Yup, a nice big one-one of the biggest and one of the best-by gum. If you don't believe it, just come to Boston and l-ook around. Well, we're still hitched--and always will be. We're enjoying life in spite of publishers and everything. Now I see I've run over my 300 words so I'll have to sign off. Happy landings to you. By Marjorie S. Bryant dutiful wife of Gogo Bryant Cwritten by her husbandl 22 PAUL C. BUNKER Place and date of birth: Montclair, N. J. Feb. 19, 1906. Other colleges: Harvard Business School, M.B.A. 1930. Business or profession: Advertising, 1930-33, Batten, Bar- ton, Durstine Sz Osborn, Inc., New York. 1933-37 Thos. Devlin Mfg. Co., Bur- lington, N. J. 1937-44 Armstrong Cork Co., Lan- caster, Pa. -1- 1944- Advertising Manager, The Foxboro Co., Foxboro, Mass. Residence: 1916 Washington St., South Walpole, Mass. Community interests: erstwhile Pres., etc. P.T.A., ditto Technical Advtg. Assoc., N. E. Chapter, National Industrial Advertisers Assoc., for past 5 years Chairman Walpole March of Dimes. Wife's Name: Elizabeth Weston. Children: Prudence Alden, born June 18, 1940. Paul Baldwin, born Sept. 14, 1942 . Anyone chin deep in restoring a well-worn and well-rotted 200-year old house, excavating and replacing sills, joists, studs, plates, shoes, sheathing, siding, floors, et al-let alone similarly immersed in Massachu- setts taxes-is too pooped and calloused to remember biographical trivia more than a few weeks back. This place, on the un-numbered, original road from Boston to New York, is nevertheless well worth the grunts and groans of reconstruction- the scene of small but ardent organized gardening, high fidelity phonograph paraphenalia, and a family wholly transcending word painting. On the west, we park a ranch wagon and three bicycles, while on the east wall ap- pears a bronze plate, dated November 11, 1952, commemorating the res- toration of this house and of the United States. 23 BENJAMIN BUTLER Maine. August 7, 1905. Other colleges: Boston University Law School, 1932, L.L.B. Business or Profession: eral Manager Forster Mfg. Co., 1934-433 Director Livermore Falls Trust Co. 1934Q County At- torney 1941-463 Senator, Maine State Senate from Franklin County 19533 President Medical- Legal Society, Maine 1946. Partner Newman Motor Co., 1950-, Dist. of Oldsmobile and Buicks. Residence: Farmington, Maine. Community interests: Assessor Farmington Village Corp. 1943-3 Trustee Franklin County Memorial Hospital, 1942-523 Trustee Farmington Public Library 1944-3 Vice-President 1951-3 Selectman, Farmington, 1948, 1949, 19513 School Board, 1949-3 Chairman 1951-3 Governor Mayfiower Society, State of Maine 1946-19493 Deacon Congregational Church 1951-3 Mason fYork, Scottishb Shrine Korag Past Officers Association fYork Degreesj 19493 Pres. Association 1951j Grand Master, Grand Council, Maine 19493 D.D.G.M. 15th Masonic District 1950-51. D.D.G.H.P. 1952, W. Grand Marshall, Grand Lodge, Maine A. F. KL A. M., 1952. Wife's nanie: Natalie Clare Sturges. Children: Diane Clare, born April 3, 1935-Farmington High School. Benjamin Sturges, born Feb. 27, 1938-Farmington High School. Upon matriculating at B. U. Law, keeping in mind the advice of Psycho Burnett and Prof. Hormell that I would never amount to any- thing in law unless I changed my ways, I decided to settle down to business. By catering to the Professors, having already learned my lesson at Bow- doin, I was chosen by them as a member of the Student Council of that 24 Place and date of birth: Farmington, Attorney 1932Q President and Gen- Institution. This position I held until I resigned during my senior year. By then I had met my present wife and I found her company more desirable than school activities. We were married in the afternoon of the day of my last examination. I had promised that I would not get married while in Law School, thus I lived up to the agreement I had made with my parents. We promptly set up housekeeping in the home where we now live. What fun we had in planning and buying the furniture. Today our living- room is arranged exactly as we planned it then though a little worse for wear through the intervening years, caused by two active children, Diane, our oldest and Sturges, our son, to say nothing of their friends and our own dogs and cats. Life in any New England Town can be interesting and ours is no exception. By degrees I began venturing into Masonry and civic activities. From being out one night a month, as I so con- siderately informed Natalie, I now find that I am fortunate if I am home one night a week-a far cry from law school days. My activity as a lawyer is very insignificant, perhaps, when com- pared with some of you. But, such as it is, that I have done. I enjoy life in the country, walking to the office in the morning, saying hello to my friends and participating in sidewalk philosophy. I will never blaze my name upon the walls of fame, but I have a home, a wife, and two children. God is kind. 25 EDWARD GRAY BUXTON field, Maine. Oct. 30, 1906. Business or profession: Assistant in Classics, Bowdoin, 1928-1929. Teacher at Wassoo- keag School, 1929-1937. Teacher at Gunnery, 1937- Service Record: Served with American National Red Cross in Labrador, The Azores, and Greenland for 24 months. Residence: The Gunnery School. Washington, Conn. Community interests: Vice-president Lions Club, Presiding Officer of Volunteer Fire Dept., Volunteer Ambulance Driver, Member local dramatic club. Married: 1940, divorced 1950. Children: Joanna Libby, born June 2, 1941. With no sense of false modesty, let it be said that the efforts of this graduate of Bowdoin in the class of 1928 have not produced any results which have affected the course of mankind. In the best tradition of a Bowdoin classics major, a deep and quite comfortable rut has been worn down and occupied by this aging stripling from 'the poorest class that Bowdoin has admitted in many years' fWere we really that bad'?D. This rut was begun in the fall of 1928 when this misguided individual served his apprenticeship in teaching as an assistant in the classics department of his alma mater. Upon the discovery that the burdens of teaching were not too onerous at that level, a decision was reached to embrace this type of work to procure the funds necessary to keep the body and the not too discerning mind supplied with the fundamentals of living. With high and noble purpose, the embryo teacher, with the disregard of callow youth for chances of accumulating filthy lucre, emerged from his 26 Place and date of birth: Fort Fair- chrysalis and started spreading his subjunctives and participles before the admiring gaze of those poor pupils of the Wassookeag School in Dexter, Maine, who were the first to be subjected to this torture, and for eight years or until the spring of 1937, this personality was inflicted upon the very patient student body of that institution, both summer and winter. The summers were more delightful, for then teaching could become subliminal and the more interesting duties of the direction of sports could be taken up. After eight years at the prementioned institution, one rut was exchanged for another at the Gunnery School in Washington, Connecticut. Here again the pattern was followed, and the pupils were inflicted, one way or another, in the classroom or on the baseball field. Also, a marriage was contracted here in the spring of 1940 which lasted till the spring of 1950. To this marriage a daughter, Joanna by name, was born, the one and only child. From here a departure was made to serve two years with the Red Cross in Labrador, the Azores, and Greenland in true polar bear style. To this place was made the return and the rut became deeper and more formfitting. The outstanding event in the un- eventful life of this teacher and coach was the winning of the champion- ship of the Connecticut Preparatory School League the first two years that the school was in the league, particularly as Gunnery is the smallest school to have a baseball team in the league. Now as middle age spread, thinning locks, and bifocals indicate, a certain deterioration is exacting its toll and each hookslide becomes more diflicult to do. By the way, the disregard for money still exists, not from choice but from necessity. However, upon reflection, in twenty-five years there has been stored up a wealth of interesting experiences and no small number of friends. Ah then, the old rut isn't so bad after all and if I follow it back it will lead me straight to Bowdoin, Dean Nixon, and Tommy Means. See you at our fiftieth! 27 RALPH PIERSON CAsE Place and date of birth: Boston, Mass 1906. Other colleges : of Pennsylvania. Residence: 622-68th St. Brooklyn, N. Y. Church St. Ext., West Dennis Mass. With the exception of a trip to Europe in 1934 and one to Mexico in 1949, my life has been spent largely in studying and teaching in New England and the Middle Atlantic States. The schools where I have taught and the year I started in each are as follows: 1928 Edgartown High School, Mass. 1930 Tilton School, New Hampshire. 1935 The Hill School, Pennsylvania 1942 The Kingswood School, Conn. 1943 The Hotchkiss School, Conn. 1944 Poly Prep Country Day School, Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1931 I started to attend the summer session of Columbia University and in 1935 I received my M.A. In 1941 I returned to do some special work in Spanish and during 1942-43 I took some courses at the University of Pennsylvania. The rest of my summers have been spent at my home on Bass River in West Dennis not far from where some people claim Leif Ericksen and his band lived a couple of years. The two hurricanes and a hard blow from the North snapped off about two hundred pines. This has helped to keep me in good physical condition during my free time. At least the 28 M.A. Columbia Univ. Degre Nor- mal from the Sorbonne, Paris. Special work at the University Q sawing and chopping of the dead wood in a grove is a welcome change from that which is found in a classroom. fYou asked me to be light handedj So far, anyway, the fates have decreed that I should live in a state of celibacy. It takes a lot of courage or foolishness to exchange the bless- ings of freedom for the messings of matrimony-especially in Brooklyn. My present position at Poly Prep offers a variety of activities. My main interest is the Spanish Department of which I have charge. How- ever, I help in the athletics of the school and am Secretary of the Athletic Committee. Also, I run a second-hand book shop for the school. In the winter I supervise a Chess Club. For anyone seeking rich alumni who would be substantial donors to worthy causes, my humble autobiography must be dull reading. It is my experience, nevertheless, that the teacher gives of himself whereas many a rich man has only money to give. Lucky the man who can give both! ll WHITFIELD B. CASE Co-Clzairmarz of the 251511. Rezmion Committee. Place of birth: Clover Hill, Hunter- don County, N. J. Other colleges attended: None, but have taken short courses in food nutrition and sanitation at Drexel and Rutgers. Business: 1928-1929 Trip around the world and tour of the United States. 1929-1930 Various jobs in Los Angeles, house to house selling: taxi driving: advertising sales- man. 1931-In business for myself. Residence: 216 S. Clinton Ave., Tren- ton, N. J. Community interests: Member Sales and Adv. Div., Trenton Chamber of Commerce, President 1947-493 Member Board of Directors Trenton Y.M.C.A. and chairman Membership Committee 1944 to present time. Wif'e's Name: Carolyn Musa. Children: Carolyn R., age 10. Constance B., age 8. One night after a conference with Professor Hormel, I chanced to walk across the campus with Frank Foster. We were talking about what we were going to do when we finished up in June. I said I would like to travel, never having done any, and I outlined to him a trip I had dreamed of which would take me around the World. He said: Why don't you ? I said: I'm gonna. That settled it. I had to do it and I did. I covered over 44,000 miles and 27 countries a la bum in 1928-29. I came back in the late spring of 1929, married, and started out with my wife for a tour of the U. S. For money I did some writing. Our money ran out four months later in Los Angeles and I got to Work. I thought then that I knew almost everything and could master anything. From then on I began to find out differently. I had a number of jobs during the first six months, mostly selling, fone was driving 3 taxijg I finally caught 30 on with the Los Angeles Examiner as a classified ad salesman. I did well at this. It restored a lot of my confidence. I came back East to Newark and began to put into practice an idea I had stumbled on in Los Angeles. It was making and selling packaged lunches. I knew nothing about this type of business but, of course, was unaware of this fact then. CI thought I knew all about it that there was to know.J I was in the box lunch business in Newark for one year.I sold my Newark business in 1932 and was sure that I would have to find some other field. It didn't work out that way. A month later I was in the box lunch and industrial feeding business in Trenton, and have been here ever since. It was tough in the beginning Cand still ish, but the business slowly prospered. In 1941 I opened a new business of the same type in Bridgeport, Conn. In 1946 another was started in New York City, and this past summer another one in Bethlehem, Pa. All of them are operating and seem to be growing. I like my work, I seem to have kept my enthusiasm for it, and guess I will be in it for life. I can still see great possibilities in it. My only regret is that my performance in it has thus far been so mediocre. My main interests are my business, my daughters, and handball at the Y. I am still very much interested in all sports, especially track and football, and my college. My social life is limited. 31 LORING O. CHANDLER N. H., May 20, 1906. tive Lewiston, Portland, Me., man at the present time. Service Record: U.S.C.G.R. May 1942- March 1946. Served on USS Wakefield, Modoc, Richey, and LST 887 fCommandJ, North At- lantic CGreenland Patrolj 5 Medi- terranean fEscortJ, and Pacific fOkinawa, Philippines, Japan.J Discharged with rank of Lieuten- ant Commander. Residence: Phillipston, Mass. Community interests: Gardner City Council 1950-51: By-laws Committee 1951. Vice President P.T.A. 1952. Wife's Name: Louise S. Chandler. Children: Ann Louise, bo-rn Feb. 14, 1932. Attended Westbrook Jr. College 1950-51, now sophomore at University of New Hampshire. Nicholas Loring, born July 7, 1940. 7th grade at Phillipston. Since stumbling out into the cold cruel world in 1928--totally un- prepared to earn any sort of a living, even in normal times--and doubly unprepared to cope with a depression-I have more or less continued to struggle along. I would say that I am definitely a middle of the roader, neither very successful nor a total failure. We've had enough- to eat, comfortable quarters, and I feel I have provided all of the necessities, and a few luxuries for my family. The high point of my life so far, and probably to the end, was my war experience. There again I did not dis- tinguish myself in any way but it took me out of the rut: gave me new and stimulating experiences Cat times very boring and disagreeable tool, and finally landed me in command of a small ship-which is the nearest to being King that most of us can get in these days. I am now living in a very small town, own Cin partnership with the bankl an old Colonial house, and sell corrugated boxes to manufacturers. I have consistently voted Republican and am delighted at the outcome of the recent state and national elections. 32 Place and date of birth: Gorham, Business: Itinerant laborer, salesman, etc. 1932-425 Boy Scout Execu- Malden, Gardner, Mass. Sales- JOHN W. CHAPLIN Place and date of birth: Lewiston, Maine. Aug. 7, 1906. Business or profession: Casualty insurance, industrial en- gineering-safety. Residence: 66 Sackett St., Hicksville, New York. Community interests: P.T.A., politics. Wife's Name: Florence M. Vaughan. Children: Elizabeth A., born July 6, 1937 sophomore high school. M. Eleanor, born August 19, 1940 grade 7. Spent the first five years after graduating from college in Hartford, Connecticut, in the brokerage business before returning to Maine in the middle of the depression. The next two or three years were a miscellany of various jobs. Got into the finance field in 1935 and married in 1936. Switched to the credit field in 1937, with politics mixed in- stayed there through 1940. I then decided to put my education to pro- fessional use and went to work for Liberty Mutual in Portland in the Doss Prevention Department in 1940. Transferred to Lawrence, Mass. in 1942, and New York in 1946, where I'm supervising engineer-10 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City. 33 RICHARD S. CHAPMAN A Place and date of birth: Portland, 'TKT gg l Maine. March 11, 1907. Other colleges: Harvard University, L.L.B. Business or profession: Lawyer, Assistant Attorney Gene- ral, County Attorney. Residence: Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Community interests: trustee Port- land Public Library g Portland Benevolent Society. Wife's Name: Theodocia H. Cleveland, married Aug. 19, 1931. Children: Peter A., Bowdoin 1956. Richard S., Jr., Hebron Academy. Richard S. tDickJ Chapman born Portland, Maine, March 11, 1907. Parents Arthur Chapman fBowdoin 18941 and Agnes S. Chapman, Brother Arthur Chapman, Jr. fBowdoin 19395. Education, Deering High School 1924, Bowdoin 1928 A.B. Harvard Law School 1931 L.L.B. Married Theo- docia H. Cleveland tSmith 19281 August 22, 19313 two children Peter A. CBowdoin 19565 Richard S. Chapman, Jr. CHebron Academyj. Occupation, Lawyer firm Woodman, Skelton, Thompson and Chapman: Assistant County Attorney Cumberland County 1937- 1943: County Attorney 1943- 19493 Assistant Attorney General 1942: Bowdoin Alumni Council 1943- 19495 President 1945- 1946: Trustee Portland Public Library: Clubs: Maine Bar Association, Woodfcrds Club, Theta Delta Chi Fraternity. 34 HAYWARD HOBEN COBURN Place and date cf birth: Deadwood, South Dakota. Nov. 8, 1907. Cther colleges: Harvard, A.M. Business or profession: 1929-1933 Research chemist 1933-1939 Patent Attorney 1939- Attorney - at - law, general practice. Residence: 536 Kathmere Road, Havertown, Pennsylvania. Community interests: Director and vice-president Y.M.C.A., Phila.: Chr. budget comm., Chr. com- munity Chest, Board of Trustees, Y Meadville Theological School, U. of Chicago. Wife's Name: Margaret Phinney, married June 22, 1929. Children: Carol CWoodbridgeJ born March 21, 1930, Haverford High School, Hood College. Married J. Eliot Woodbridge fPrincetonl Oct. 8, 1949. Alan Hayward born Jan. 31, 1932. Haverford School, Drexel Institute. Grandchildren: Stephen Eliot Woodbridge, born April 6, 1951. Carol Jean Woodbridge, born July 30, 1952. While a biography is supposed to start with the phrase: I was born . . . , I take it that this Bowdoin biography is supposed to begin in 1928. Following graduation I entered the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard with ambitions to become a rising young scientist Cspecies Chemistj. In 1929 I was offered a shot at a Rhodes scholership, but turned it down for matrimony, 3 choice I should add I have never re- gretted. So in June of that year I acquired Cin that orderj an A.M., a wife, and a job. The job was at the Hercules Powder Company as a research chemist, but in a few years I had moved from the laboratory into the patent division, 35 and somewhat later left this company to enter into private practice with a patent law firm. Stimulated by my contact with the law, I completed my transition from chemistry by tutoring in the law and finally passed the bar examinations in 1939, the first lawyer to be admitted to the bar in Pennsylvania without attendance at law school in several decades. fMy wife insists that I add the fact that I rated number one in the bar examination that year.J In 1942 I turned from patent practice to general practice and became associated with the firm of Drinker, Biddle 8z Reath of Philadelphia, of which I am now a partner. Not much to add-I am happy in my work, my family and my friends. My motto is still one I learned under Dean Nixon: Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto. 36 Place and date of birth: Bar Harbor, Other colleges: Harvard University, M.A., Ph.D. ing college physics at Bowdoin, Harvard, Radcliffe and Rensse- laer Polytechnic Institute. 1943-45 Research Asso., Radio Research Lab. CRadar Counter- measuresj. 1945-47 Research Associate, Engineering Div., Chrysler Corp., Detroit, Mich. 1947- Head of Health Physics 7- Div., Brookhaven Nat. Lab., Up- ton, N. Y. Residence: 22 Livingston Road., Bellport, L. I., N. Y. Wife's name: Eva T. Cowan No children. After a pleasant year of teaching at Bowdoin while Prof. Little was away on sabbatical, I survived a 6-year stint of teaching and study at Harvard. I emerged duly embossed Dr, of Philosophy although what philosophy has to do with it I'll never know. At any rate, in those days it meant little in terms of earning power and I dawdled along teaching Physics at Rensselaer until 1943 when wartime research claimed all my energies. The lab. where I worked in 1943-45 was developing countermeasures to combat the German radars. One of my main jobs was to put together an outfit to simulate the Wurtzburg , their chief gun-laying equipment. Later I became embroiled in training activities and finally in administra- tive and editorial work. In 1934 I married an Oberlin graduate and museum curator named Eva Taylor. She was obtained through the kind oiiices of the Boston 37 FREDERICK P. COWAN A Maine. July 3, 1906. Profession 2 1928-1943 various positions teach- 5 v Y.W.C.A., a most fortunate transaction for yours truly and to the ever- lasting credit of that estimable organization. Eva and I are both out- door enthusiasts and amateur naturalists so have roamed far and wide camping, hiking and mountain climbing. For a honeymoon, we spent a summer in Yellowstone and Teton Parks. Climbing Electric Peak was a thrill but she's been to the top of Rainier which makes me the junior partner. We've had an increasingly full social life in Troy, N. Y., Cam- bridge, Mass., Detroit, Mich., and now Bellport, N. Y. on the middle south shore of Long Island. After the war I became interested in the Atomic Energy program and came to the new Brookhaven National Laboratory. Here I head up a division of 40 or so which tends to radiation safety matters. Building this program up from 0 has been a challenging and rewarding experience. There is a lot of opportunity for technical activity as well as a full quota of administrative responsibilities. We have built a small house in this charming seacoast town of Bellport where boating, gardening Cask me about the greenhouse I builtl and church activities compete for the time left from home and business duties. 38 ROBERT F. CRESSEY Place and date of birth: Groton, Mass. Dec. 24, 1907. Other colleges: Harvard, A.M. 1929. Middlebury College Summer Session, 1939. Business or profession: 1929-30 St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H. 1932-39 The Wise Tutoring School, Beverly Farms, Mass. 1943-Stults Poultry Farm, Franklin, Mass. Residence: 649 West Central St., Franklin, Mass. At Harvard I studied French and Spanish and taught the latter language at St. Paul's School in Concord, N. H. the following year. Then followed an extended period during which I taught various subjects at Harold Wise's Tutoring School in Beverly Farms. I was not accepted in the draft and so decided to do some worthwhile Work here at home. Since gardening had long been a hobby of mine, farm life really suggested itself. I have been Working at the Stults Poultry Farm in Franklin since 1943. Among other chores my duties consist chiefly of feeding, trap-nesting and keeping records. I have come to believe that providing eggs for the breakfast table is quite as essential as implanting the rules of grammar in the reluctant minds of the young! 39 JOSEPH HUBBARD DARLINGTON Place and date of birth: Villa Nova, Pennsylvania. February 8, 1908. Other colleges: Cambridge University, England M.A. Degree. Profession: Estate Managementvg research physicist, gold mine operator, banker and writer. Service Record: O. S. S.-Europe. Residence: Hallowell, Maine Community interests: Resigned most of these during the War. Wife's Name: Helen Peters. 40 ARTHUR N. DAVIS Place and date of birth: Somerville, Mass., Oct. 3, 1905. Business: Assistant Sales Manager, Friden Calculating Machine Agency, 185 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass. Residence: Alton Bay, N. H. and 162 Walnut St., Brookline, Mass. Wife's Name: Dorothy A. Davis. Children: Joanne Ellen, born April 8, 1932, Buffalo, N. Y. graduate of Green Briar College, Lewisburg, W. Va., married Richard Bernard cf Dover, N. H. May 24, 1952. Richard A., born Dec. 7, 1939, Winthrop, Mass. Attending school in Brookline, Mass. To sit down and write a biography of the past twenty-five years without some thought is a very diflicult task for me. However, here goes- Mrs. Davis and I found ourselves in Buffalo, New York about a year after graduation. We moved to East Aurora around 1930 and in 1932 we had our first child-Joanne. East Aurora was a very happy part of our life and we felt very sad when we left around the latter part of 1934. From then on to 1949 we lived in Winthrop, Mass. Dickie was born in Dec. of 1939 and our little family was very complete with a boy and girl. We had interested ourselves in many community activi- ties especially Parent Teacher Association and Red Cross and several town elective and appointive ofiices. Mrs. Davis became quite active in various clubs and dramatic organizations. The next big step in our lives was the purchase of a large farm in New Hampshire. We hope someday to retire there and have spent all our time doing the things everybody does to a real New England farm. We plan to have about sixty acres of blueberries before we are through, there are about 150 altogether. Joanne graduated from college in 1951 and was very happily married in 1952. Dickie is in the Brookline Schools now and may be a prospect for Bowdoin but at the present time leans towards the University of New Hampshire. I may not make Commencement this year-I will be in California the first half of May and then have a very important business engage- ment the last week in May-best of luck. 41 RICHARD W. DAVIS Place and date cf birth: Portland, Me. Aug. 18, 1906. Business or profession: Since June, 1928- Security sales- man, Hayden Stone SL Co., Port- land, Maine. Service Record: Drafted, Went to railroad station, law changed over night, went home-too old! Residence: 103 Clinton St., Portland, Maine. Community interests: Fish Sz Game association, local Boy Scout work, and the usual collections for Community Chest, etc. Lots of Masonic work also. Wife's Name: Mary Elizabeth Davis. Children: Janet, born Oct. 20, 1937-Deering High. Steven, born May 18, 1940-Lincoln Junior High. As you can see I still have some hair on my head, not entirely bald, and I've managed to keep my weight down to around 175 pounds. To be sure a little more of it begins to settle at waist line as the years go by. I didn't get into the Navy after all, so I've had to spend my spare time fooling around small motor yachts, either at the Yacht Club here in Portland or at my summer camp in Norway, Maine. I used to play a lot of golf, but that is an old man's game that I can take up again later in life when I retire . Right now I am going back to my youth and playing Boy Scout. My son Steve is very active in it so he expects me to help him out. He even suggested that I take his group on an over-night hike and sleep out in a snowbank. I put a stop to that in a hurry. Our daughter is now a junior in high school and a junior Councilor of a girls' camp in Cornish, Maine, so all I have to do there is to visit her once in a while and bring up the usual coke and cookies. As far as I know now Mary and I will get up to Bowdoin in June so we'll see you there. 42 WALTER A. DAVIS, JR. Place and date of birth: Lynn, Mass., 1905. Business or profession: Teacher, Rumsey Hall, Cornwall, Conn. 1928-1935. Greenwich Country Day School, Greenwich, Conn., 195-. Residence: Greenwich, Conn., and Halifax, Vermont. Wife's Name: Betty Barr, married 1934. Have been a schoolmaster since graduation in 1928. Have done noth- ing that deserves special mention, either good or bad. Have had a very quiet life as a simple schoolmaster. If I had to do it over, I would--and gladly. 43 A. EVARISTE DESJARDINES Date and place of birth: Dec. 6, 1902. Brunswick, Maine. Business: Life insurance fMetropclitanB Agent 19263289 Assistant Mana- ger 1928-1945 Field Training In- structor 1945-1947, Manager 1947 to present time. Service Record: Volunteered but re- jected on account of age. Residence: 64 Chapel St., Augusta, Maine. Wife's Name: Alcada H. Desjardines. Children: Andre B., born May 15, 1932, Santa Barbara, California. Classified 1-A. ' Since August, 1926 all of my time has been spent with the Metro- politan Life Insurance Co. They have sent me to training schools on several occasions. In 1946 I taught at the company's training center in New York City for six months. In 1947 I was fortunate enough to be given the Augusta, Maine District, which brought me back very close to home. My work has been my hobby. I own prize Holstein cattle and am still fond of trotting horses and wish I owned a few. 44 ELLIOTT IAEMAN DoYLE Place and date of birth: Yarmouth, Maine. March 12, 1905. Other colleges: Boston University, C.B.A., Evening School, Emerson College of Ora- tory, Evening School, College of Business Administration. Business: Eastern S. S. Co., 1929- 1941, Boston 8z Maine R. R., Jan. -Mar., 1942. New York Post Office 1945 to pres- ent. Service Record: Maine National Guard., U. S. Naval Reserve 1942-45. Residence: 64 West 20th St., New York, N. Y. Community interests: Old South Church, Boston, Mass. Players Club, Boston. Broadway Tabernacle Church, Pilgrim Players. At college I took a classical course. For the four years I was on Jack Magee's track squad, but never broke any records. In 1928 I graduated from college and in March of the following year I went to work for the Eastern Steamship Company in Boston. My place of business was at India Wharf. Andrew Sides, Vice President of the Eastern Steamship Company was a lover of Bowdoin, and he helped me all the time I stayed with the company. My duties consisted of handling freight for a time accounting, delivery and receiving clerk. Also I was a member of the International Longshoremen's Association, serving for a time on the welfare committee. Seven days before Pearl Harbor the Eastern Steam- ship Company ceased to do business. Not long after this I landed a job as a clerk with the Boston Ka Maine Railroad. This only lasted about four months as I enlisted in the Navy as an apprentice seaman. After a time I was promoted to Quartermaster 2fc, at which rating I was discharged in October, 1945. 45 I now work in the New York Post Office. I have taken part in several plays for the Post Office Workshop, I was Witherspoon in Arsenic and Old Lace, at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village. Also for the Pilgrim Players of the Broadway Tabernacle, I did the father in Happy Journey , by Thornton Wilder. Also at Christ Church on Park Avenue I had the part of the president of the college in Lady of Letters. During the 1952 commencement at Bowdoin I took part in the Alumni Version of Hamlet , playing the parts of the second gravedigger and a sailor. At the present time I am working with the Pilgrim Players in New York City. 46 Rossmak J. DRAKE Place and date of birth: Lewiston, Maine, June 3, 1906. Other Colleges: Bates College, A.M. Business or profession: English teacher, Lewiston High School-14 years. Publisher's representative ftextbook salesman to youj eight years. Now employed in that capacity by McGraw-Hill. Residence: Bridge St., Marblehead Neck, Mass. Wife's Name: Helen Louise Brennan. Children: Rossiter J. Drake, Jr., born July 8, 1940. Attends Marblehead Junior High School. 47 LOREN D. DRINKWATER Place and date of birth: Yarmouth, Maine, October 18, 1905. Other colleges: Northeastern University, L.L.B. 1932. Profession: State Street Trust Company, Boston, Mass. 1929 to present. Residence: 55 Rockaway Avenue, Marblehead, Mass. Wife's Name: Marjorie Lawrence, married June 26, 1937 Children: Martha Rankin, born October 22, 1942. 48 s WILLIAM N. DUNBAR Place and date of birth: Lynn, Massa- chusetts. Sept. 7, 1904. Business: Carbide KL Carbon Chemicals Corp. 1928-32 Sales Dept. Linde Air Products Co., Boston and Birmingham, 1932-1942. WPB Steel Division fFerroalloys BranchD Charge of allocation of Silicon and Manganese and their alloys. E. M. Dunbar, Inc., Distributors of Heating and Cooling equipment. Residence: 310 Devon Drive, Birming- ham, Alabama. Wife's Name: Marie Smith. Children: William Q., age 12. Deborah Carter, age 6. The first fourteen years were spent traveling many territories for Union Carbide from Maine to Florida including Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Mississippi. Got married in 1939--best thing I ever did-started to live as 1 see it now. Left Union Carbide in 1942, went to WPB in Washington, D. C. from August '42 to July '45. Started to enjoy eating two meals a day at home. Returned to Birmingham in the Fall of 1945 and opened a one man Distributing outfit on a shoe string. Today we are recognized as a Distributor of Heating and Cooling Equipment with four C41 outside men. Have a twelve year old son and a six year old daughter. Feel I have been fortunate during the past twenty-four years-as well as successful. Got into virgin territory at the proper time-Thanks to my first and only employer in private business. 49 EDWARD T. DURANT Place and date of birth: Pepperell, Mass. Aug. 9, 1905. Other colleges: M. A. University of N. H, 1932-33 Member of Kappa Delta Pi-Na- tional Honor Society. Courses in French and Education at Yale, Hillyer, Fitchburg S. T. C. and L'Institut du Pantheon, Paris. Business or profession: Teaching English, French and Latin in Ebert Tutoring School, Groton, Mass. 1929-30, Rectory School, Pomfret, Conn. 1930-31. Proctor Academy, Andover, N. H. 1933-34. Noah Wallace Jr. High School, Farmington, Conn. 1934-47. Lincoln Jr. High School, Meriden, Conn. 1947-. Service Record: Drafted June 15, 1942-trained for 2 months in Engineers at Fort Belvoir, Va., Sailed on Queen Elizabeth Aug. 30. Stationed in Scotland, England and Ireland until October. Joined 19th Combat Engineers for invasion of North Africa, Nov. 7. Served as French interpreter through campaign in Iran, Arzew, Port aux Poules, Le Meata, Tebessa, Tlemceu, Feriano, Sheiba, Sbeitla, Gafna. Later was transferred to Algiers attached to Psychological Warfare Branch. Discharged Dec. 7, 1943-a corporal. Address: 36 Cotton Street, Farmington, Conn. Community interests, etc: Past scoutmaster of local troop. Executive committee P.T.A. Adjutant of Joseph J. Vona Post, No. 3 AMVETS. Secretary of local bowling league. Wife's Name: Irene M. Dietz. Children: One step-daughter-Marlene Dietz, born July 5, 1935. Marlene is a senior at Farmington High School, a cheer leader and Vice Presi- dent of the National Honor Society. Earned basketball letter in junior year. Expects to enter New Britain S. T. C. in Sept. '53. 50 Perhaps it was brought about by my having majored in French, I don't know. However, I spent the winter following graduation in France. Teaching positions were few and far from lucrative. One year's work in a private school convinced me that I did not want the confinement connected with the job. There were still too many good dances to attend. I tried my hand at driving an ice truck, haying, working in a grocery store, and as a clerk in a New York Hotel fPrince George!-in addition to being forced to loaf on several occasions. Finally, I landed in Farm- ington, Conn., where followed 3 dozen pleasant years of teaching. Coach- ing soccer, basketball, and baseball added to the fun. During the summer I took it easy enjoying baseball games, stock company plays, dances, and horse races. My routine was broken by Uncle Sam's greetings, but after being discharged I went back to the same location. It is not until 1942 that I met Irene, whom I eventually married on Jan. 16, 1944. An offer from Meriden brought a change in duties, but we kept our house in Farmington. Irene works several hours each day in the store at Miss Porter's School. Our life is happy and comfortable- with enough income to get by from year to year. I still have the travel bug and in 1951 visited France and Algiers to look ever familiar war- time scenes in peace time. Directly after the reunion Irene and I plan to spend at least a month in California. There's no use trying to save money, we figure that we might as well spend it as we go along and see the world. My general views on life haven't changed a great deal unless perhaps they are more firmly established. I am not in sympathy with the general trend in public school education today. In one education course my question as to what is meant by an educated man caused quite a dis- cussion without too satisfactory an answer. I still feel that liquor has no place in society and is of absolutely no good to the world. It is the cause of many problems. I have returned to Bowdoin regularly and have enjoyed meeting old friends on these occasions. I hope I shall see many at our twenty-fifth reunion! My hobbies: baseball, bowling, horse races, and golf. My pet peeves: crooners, present day dance music and dancing , dungarees, and bangs! 51 JAMES M. DYSART Place and date of birth: Houlton, Maine. May 21, 1906. Other colleges: New York University, School of Education, M.A., Ed.D. Business or profession: High School teacher, 1928-1942. Sales and advertising, 1945-49. Newark State Teachers College 1950-1952. Service Record: 1st Lieutenant to Major, Air Corps, Stateside, 1942-45. Residence: 1 Washington Ave., Mor- ristown, N. J. Wife's Name: Ethel Dysart. Children: William, 23 years old, Cony High School, Augusta. Air Corps, 1936-39, Sales Co-ordinator, B. F. Goodrich Co., Park Ave., New York City, married, one son fmy grandsonj one year old. Gail, 15 years old, Morristown High School. Lynn, 10 years old, 5th grade, George Washington School, Morristown, New Jersey. My God, twenty-five years gone and nothing done! How discourag- ing! Educational toil is broadening but this educator, after spending a quarter of a century at it, winds up merely flat! Wonderful family, though, so the next generation may do more and better. After teaching fourteen years at the Junior High School level, I took four years 'out for army service, four more in business, and then returned to my old love. I completed an M.A. and Ed.D. in education along the way and recently moved into teacher college work. I find teach- ing Psychology and Child Development to student teachers to be most interesting work. 52 After two years at New Jersey State Teachers College at Newark I ran into the most interesting assignment yet, when I joined a team of six' educators for a nine months educational project in Korea. This team is sponsored by the State Department and was recruited in response to a request from the Korean Ministry of Education. By early June. 1953, if the war remains cool UD we shall have worked intensively and intimately with several hundred educators from all parts of Korea, using Workshop methods, largely. The word fabulous actually fits the total situation here in Korea. The Koreans have Won our hearts completely. They need help but not sympathy. Such courage and endurance in the face of great privation I would not have believed possible. This job may keep me late for the twenty-fifth but I hope to see you fellows at the fiftieth. 53 FRANK HENSHAW FARNHAM Place and date of birth: Brookline, Mass. Jan. 10, 1905. Business or prcfession: Merchants National Bank, 28 State St., Boston, Mass. Dec. 2, 1929-. Residence: 94 Avalon Road, Waban, Mass. Wife's Name: Amy Merrill. Children: Louise, born June 3, 1939-Warren Junior High School, Newton, Mass. Janet, born July 1, 1942-Angier School, Waban, Mass. -l-1-Q-1-1 My life since leaving Bowdoin so many years ago has been one of working for the Merchants National Bank, Boston, Mass., since December, 1929. I was married to Amy Merrill of Winchester, Mass. in 1935. After living in Boston for four years and Cambridge for five, we moved to our present location in Waban in 1944. We have two daughters, one born in 1939 and the other in 1942. The above photo-graph shows the whole family as it was at Christmas time in 1951. The only change since has been the addition of a dog. And maybe a few less hairs on the top of my head. As to outside activities, they have been pretty much kept to nothing because of about 18,000 feet of land and a house, both of which always need some attention. We are, however, members of our Neighborhood Club in which we have been somewhat actively engaged in bridge and bowling. 54 WEBSTER EVANS FISHER Place and date of Birth: Boston, Mass. Dec. 2, 1907. Other colleges: M.I.T., 1930, M.S. in Chemical Engineering Practice. Business cr profession: Chemical Engineer, Eastman Kodak Co., 1930-415 1946 to present. Service Record: Entered U. S. Army Sept., 1941 as 1st Lieutenant from Reserve. Various design and production assignments in Edgewood Ar- senal, Md., Pine Blui Arsenal, Ark., and Washington, D. C. Released as Major, Dec. 1945. Residence: 4185 St. Paul Blvd., Rochester, N. Y. Wife's Name: 1st: Mary Esther Crandall, married Dec. 1930, died 1948. 2nd: Jean Elizabeth Fiester, married May 1950. Children: Cynthia Jane, born Dec. 6, 1932, one year Antioch College, now Strong Memorial Hospital of Nursing. Ruth Kathryn, born Dec. 5 1939, now Sth' grade. Peter Alan, born June 5, 1946, lst gr. Stevan Evans, born March 7, 1951. 55 Bill Alexander cautions about over-modesty in writing a sketch for the class history. Although I'm undeterred by modesty, there is un- fortunately no fame to conceal. Dean Nixon once accused me of abusing the Institution of Bowdoin and using it for an M.I.T. Nevertheless, I received an A.B. degree and found that the liberal arts foundation helped greatly in obtaining an M.S in Chemical Engineering Practice from M.I.T. in 1930. Apparently my coming from Bowdoin didn't discourage Doc. Lewis, then head of the School of Ch. Eng. from sending his son to Bowdoin and later to M.I.T. I understand that the two institutions have since Worked out a coopera- tive program. In 1930, I went with Eastman Kodak Co. in Rochester, N. Y. where except for the war period, I've been ever since. My work has been prin- cipally in process development. I've helped work out a few fairly im- portant processes and taken out some twenty patents, assigned to the company. In 1930, I married Mary Esther Crandall, of Providence, R. I. She lost a fight with cancer in 1948. In 1950, I met and married Jean Elizabeth Fiester who, with the courage of her Pennsylvania Dutch ancestors, ac- cepted the challenge of a family of fthenl three children. We've since added a boy, now two years old who, partly inspired by his six year-old brother, is the busiest little guy you ever saw. As a reserve oiiicer, I was called into the army before Pearl Harbor day and spent most of the time until the end o-f 1945 in Arkansas, engaged in engineering and production work with the Chemical Corps. By and large, I've had a pretty satisfactory life, with congenial work, a quite adequate income, a nice family, congenial friends, interesting hobbies and plenty to do to keep me out of mischief. My wife doesn't quite think I've really done it justice so she made up a poem to glamorize it fwith a little poetic licensej. Here it is: For lo a quarter century I've waited, but in vain, For fortune, fame and worldly wealth To gather to my name. From eight to five at Kodak Park I do a daily stint. They haven't recognized my worth And made me president 56 x And yet my niche I really like And would not change I guess. I've helped to dream and plan and turn The visions into actualness. Now buildings stand where once there was Only barren ground. Machinery hums and wheels do turn, Production does abound. For four long years in World War II, At plants both near and far, I expedited bombs and such To help us win the war. With workers of all kinds and creeds Who could not read or write, To teach them how to make ai bomb Was not a great delight. And after this, yes home again To friends and work and play. How good green grass and trees did look After brown and muddy clay. Good books, good music and good friends, A sailing boat, an antique hunt, Together with my family Are pleasures now which ne'er will blunt. For fame in ages yet to come, I'Ve sired just like I oughter, And now my family contains A wife, two sons and daughter. To sum it up, as others dog A quiet life: a good one. It really won a running start At our Alma Mater, Bowdoin. 57 ALLEN L. FISKE Place and date of birth: Spencer, Mass. Nov. 9, 1906. Business: Houghton-Mifflin Co., Cambridge, Mass. 1928-31-estimator. U.S. Envelope Co., Worcester, Mass. 1934-1950-sales statistician. The Evening Gazette, Worcester, Mass. 1950- copy editor. Residence: 6 Summit St., Spencer. Mass. Community interests: Registrar oi Voters, 1946. Wife's Name: Helen A. Anderson. Children: John A., born Feb. 17, 1936, Junior at Mt. Hermon. Jefrey H., born Feb. 4, 1940, Sth grade, Junior High School. Samuel M., born June 3, 1946-1 st grade. If the happiest nations are those without histories, the individual without a history must be-what? Left Bowdoin filled with the love of the finer things of the spirit and went to work with Houghton-Mifflin Co. at the Riverside Press in Cam- bridge. Spent three years in book manufacturing and quit to travel in Europe. After making the Grand Tour returned and had a shot at newspaper work and athletic instructing among other things. Finally went to work for the U. S. Envelope Co.-Paper Cup Division-at Worcester. Remained here a goodly period in sales statistics promotion and advertising. Since 1950 have been writing headlines and editing copy for the Evening Gazette in Worcester. Thanks to the foregoing associations have been able to eat regularly and keep a menage going after a fashion. Recreations are book collecting, keeping up old friendships made at Bowdoin, and seizing vicariously at a lost youth through my offspring. 58 PAUL FITZ-GIBBON Place and date of birth: Beverly, Mass. Oct. 8, 1905. Other colleges: Suffolk Law School. Business or profession: 1928-1930 Personnel Mgr., Montgomery-Ward 1930-1937 Vice-President Professional Acceptance Corp. 1937-1950 Treas.-Director The Eejay Co. 1950- Pres.-Director Wadsworth Millwork Corp. Residence: 16711 Lake Ave., Lakewood, Ohio. Wife's Name: Katherine Marty, Univ. of Ill. 1925. Children: Paul, Jr., born Mar. 24, 1933, Cornell, '56-Engineering. William, born Aug. 19, 1934. M.l.T. '56. Carol Jean, born Mar. 12, 1938-Junior High. Susan, born Jan. 9, 1942-5th grade. Jane, born Feb. 9, 1946-lst grade. 59 FRANK FOSTER, JR. Class Marshal Place and date of birth: Sydney, Cape Breton. March 12, 1905. Other colleges: Suffolk University- Northeastern University special courses. Business or profession: . Investigator-Adjuster, Supervisor of Claimsg Automobile Liability: Workmen's Ocmpensationg Group Accident and Healthg super- i visor of Claims Service Arrange- ments. Service Record: Lt. Commander, U. S. Naval Reserve, July '42-Sept. '45: Administration Officer Primary Flight Trainingg Radar Ofiicer and Fighter Director. Community interests: Warrant Committeeg Board of Public Welfare, Scout Masterg Chairman Explorer Group, Deacon Congregational Church: Sharon Players. Wife's Name: Alice Patricia Foster. Children: Frank, III, born Oct. 24, 1934. Freshman at M.I.T. Pamela A., born Oct. 9, 1937. Sophomore at Sharon High. Judith D., born Sept. 9, 1940-6th grade. Sharon C., born May 1, 1944-3rd grade. I cannot think of one good reason why I should bore my classmates or anyone else with my biography. While in college we all had many common interests to bind us together. Upon graduating we all went our separate ways to all corners of the earth, to cope with the problems of living and striving toward our aims. Over twenty-five years many new friendships have been made and many new interests developed. Life marches on-. Who would be interested to know I have been employed by the Liberty Mutual Ins. Co. for 25 years, in the Claims Dept.'? This is a profession which is understood in the trade of insurance but not very well by the public, a profession that requires a thorough knowledge of the law of 60 torts and contracts, a basic knowledge of medical terminology, and above all the ability to understand and deal with people. First as Investigator and Adjuster, then as Supervisor of Claims- Auto claims, public liability claims, workmen's compensation claims and group accident and health. At present I am Supervisor of Claims Service Arrangements, in charge of Group Workmen's Compensation and Medical Dept. Who would be interested in the fact that I have been happily married for 21 years--that we were married in the Little Church Around the Corner in N. Y.-that Foster Yancey, Harry Thayer and I roomed together in N. Y., where I met my wife-that she is a Texan and that Foster Yancey's mother and her mother were dear friends-that my wife is not only beautiful and cheerful but a good housekeeper and mother. We have four children-one boy and three girls. Frank is 18-a good intelli- gent boy who wants to be an engineer so is now a Freshman at MIT. Pam, Judy and Sharon are all pretty, vivacious girls 115, 12 and SJ. They take after their mother! We have lived in Boston, New York City, Newark, Springfield, Worcester, Lawrence, Providence, Minneapolis, Minn., Denison, Texas and finally settled down in Sharon, Mass. I, like many others, took a sabbatical from the Insurance business during the War. For three years I struggled with Naval Tradition, Flight schedules, inspections, air navigation, radio, radar, plotting and Watches. We sailed 100,000 miles of the Blue Pacific. A strange interlude not soon forgotten. fcame out a Lt. Commanderj. Who cares about the fact that in a small town like Sharon you get involved in civic affairs-Town Meetings, School problems, Finance Com- mittees, Welfare Boards, Scouts, Red Cross, Lakefront Problems, Church, Players group, bridge, dances and just everyday gabs over the back fence with neighbors? Life marches on. We have had our periods of success, despair and sadness-but most of all happiness and fun. I only hope the next 25 years will be as kind to all of us! 61 1 EDWARD M. FULLER R. I. Sept. 21, 1906. Advanced degrees: Business or profession: dent Fire Sz Life Assurance Corp., Ltd. 1938-1942. Asst. to President and Secretary of Southeastern Cottons, Inc. 1942- 1946. Secretary-Treasurer and Director of Greenwood Mills, Inc. 1946 to date. Pesidence: 1 Grace Court, Brooklyn 1, N. Y. Community interests: Executive Vice President and Director, Long Island College Hospital. Chairman, Textile Section, New York Board of Trade, Trustee, The Knox School. Vice President, Bowdoin Alumni Association of N. Y. Director, N. E. Society in the City of New York. Director, N. E. Society in the City of Brooklyn. President Board of Place and date of birth: Cranston, L.L.B. New York Law School 1931. General Counsel for New York Metropolitan Area-General Acci- Governors, The Heights Casino CSquash and Tennis Clubl. Director Casino Holding Corp. Member, New York County Lawyers Associa- tion. Member, New York State Bar Association. Member, Commercial Law League of America. Member, New York Credit KL Financial Management Assn. Representative of American Cotton Mfrs. Insti- tute on General Arbitration Council of the Textile Industry. Director, Brooklyn Heights Assn. Chairman, Civil Defense Council, 84th Pre- cinct. Clubs: Arkwright Club, Amateur Comedy Club, Heights Casino, The Mer- chants Club, Rembrandt Club. Wife's Name: Eleanor Wilcox. Children: Joanna Holly Fuller, born Nov. 23, 1933, Packer Collegiate Institute, The Knox School, Bradford Junior College. While an under- graduate at the Knox School, was president of the school, and is at present, president of the Freshman Class at Bradford. Edward Martin Fuller, born Feb. 3, 1937. Brooklyn Friends School, Poly Prep Country Day School. 62 STUART W. GRAHAM Place and date of birth: Lynn, Mass. July 9, 1905. Business: Sales manager, Essex Oil Co., Swampscott, Mass. Service Record: Four years in Aircraft Instrument Division, General Electric Co., Lynn, Mass. Residence: 14 Brewster Terrace, Swampscott, Mass. Wife's Name: Ellen M. Connor. Children: David W. born 1935. Richard M., born 1939. 63 CLIFFORD LESLIE GRAY Place and date of birth, Fryeburg, Maine, Oct. 26, 1905. Advanced Degrees: University of Maine Summer session. Business: New York Yankees farm hand, Fort Wayne, Ind. fClass BJ 1928, Albany, N. Y. CClass AJ 19295 Central Maine Power Co., Fryeburg, Maine, 1929-303 Fryeburg Academy, 1930- Residence: Fryeburg, Maine. Community interests: Member of First Congregational Church, a former trustee member and Past Master of Masons, Past president Kiwanis Club, local school committee for nine years, past president Western Oxford Fish Ka Game Associationg past patron of O. E. S. Wife's Name: Katharine Elizabeth Gale, married May 23, 1928. Children: Malcolm Clifford, born March 4, 1943. Toward the close of my second season in organized baseball, a back injury ended any thoughts of continuing baseball as a career, but in retrospect it was a grand experience. I surely met some of the finest people one could meet-as well as a few who were definitely from the scrapings. After a year as an operator fpowerhousel for the C. M. P. Co., I began what will probably remain my life's work-teaching at Fryeburg Academy. In this instance the word teaching covers a broad field and unquestionably a multitude of sins. My actual classroom work has been confined to English and a variety of social studies courses. Of late years, however, I've been pounding away at English-and wondering how the hell some of this younger generation will ever make its wants known, even to Sears, Roebuck, et al. Extra-curricular activities? Those of '28 who have taught in private schools know the answer to that one. Baseball has been and still is my regular coaching stint, and I'm still enjoying it. Over the years, my teams have done well in their class, a few of my boys have gone on to do 64 themselves proud in faster company. CThree of my kids took great glee in helping the U. of M. defeat Bowdoinll I've also stepped into the foot- ball and basketball spots, but I hope those are behind me. Among other things I have been responsible for the discipline and much of the guidance of the forty-odd boys in our dorms. Since these youths come from all the social strata, I've had some strange experiences and many enlightening ones. I know there have been too many times when my patience and forbearance have failed, but I've tried to keep an even keel, knowing full well that some hellion today may be a hero tomorrow. CAs I look back to my youth, I almost think that I could teach some of the modern generation a few tricks long forgctten-I hopell The rewards are many, but frequently they are not tangible. In the past ten years, my interest has been closer to home, and Macky has now reached the stage where he is in many respects a match for the old man. Several years ago, Kathy and I undertook the construction of a camp on Lovewell's Pond near by. I managed to do most of the work, the camp is still rough and minus some conveniences, but there we spend our summers. Macky lives in or on the water most of the time. If he isn't swimming, he is seeking a way to catch a bigger fish or build a better hide-out. Even at camp, life is busy, but it is restful and usually comfortable. On the whole, it has been a good life for us. Surely no school teacher grows rich from his salary. We struggle to keep our economic heads even close to the surface, but there are compensations of other kinds. One in a while I have an opportunity to hunt or fish. KI don't always catch up with the quarry, but the woods, streams, and lakes are still beautiful up here.J There are congenial friends at hand, now and then some kid comes along to help reaflirm my faith in the innate worth of youth. If this old wforld cracks, I've the feeling that the older genera- tions will be most responsible. At least I'm convinced that, had I the past twenty-five years to re-live, I'd repeat much of them. Thin, gray- ing hair, bigger chin tsl, and a lowered chest haven't taken their full toll-yet! 65 MAURICE E. GRAVES Date and place of birth: Dec. 27, 1901. Clinton, Mass. Business : Assistant comptroller Northern Trust Co., 1937-45. 2nd Vice Pres. and Asst. comptroller, Northern Trust Co., 1945-51. Vice Pres. and comptroller of Northern Trust Co. to present. Residence: Roverwoods Road, Deer- field, Illinois. Community interests: Asst. treas- urer, Lawrence Hall, A Home for Boys, Inc. Wife' Name: Gladys E. CBobbieJ Graves. Children: None. Twenty-five years with the same woman and the same bank. In the case of the latter, pension age is closer ahead than graduation is behind. These years have seen steady advance in a non-banking area of bankingg control, system, and personnel management. Result: a bank V. P. of of which we now have more than we have page girls. Owner of our home although have lived in several. So far out in the country that community relations touch me but slightly, though have been active in the usual ones, girl scouts, community fund, but no public offices Long term connection with a boys' home in Chicago as assistant treasurer with co-participation by my wife, who for a time was president of the Women's Auxiliary Board of same home. Hobbies and sports are varied and partly unusual. Golf from 95 to 105. Hiking and climbing. Hobbies: Photography-I'm the guy in Maine with three cameras who didn't get a picture of last fall's 150th opening of college. Rockbound-lately interested in this. Mrs. G. does lapidary work fLook it upj. Physical change from 1928-weight now up to 175 with 10541 of increase in wrong place, hair, all there but slightly gray, teeth, have a few of my own. 66 NATHAN IRA GREENE Cl-ass T1'easu1'e1' Place and date of birth: Rochester, New York. March 6, 1906. Business: 1928-1931 Credit Dept., New York Trust Co., New York City. 1931- Canal National Bank of Port- land, Maine, Vice President, 1945-. Service Record: U. S. Coast Guard Temporary Re- serve fHooligan's Navyl Residence: 104 Spruce St., Portland, Maine. Community interests: Chairman Bowdoin Sesquecentennial Drive in Port- land. Chairman Red Cross Drive, Portland, 1952. Director Portland Red Cross 1951-52. Director Portland Community Chest 1949-51. Vice Chairman Community Chest Drive, Portland 1952. Director Maine Bankers Association 1951-52 New England Regional Director Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America 1951-52. Wife's Name: Esther Smith. Children: Timothy G. Greene, born July 27, 1932, Gov. Dummer Academy, Class of 1950. Bowdoin College, Class of 1954. Jane Priscilla Greene, born July 17, 1934. Waynilete School, Class of 1952. Skidmore College, Class of 1956. Nathaniel N. Greene, born Nov. 12, 1941. Butler School, Portland. In this day of fads and fancies, I have been disillusioned about most things but not skiing. Except for a four weeks' vacation with Dr. Shedd at the Memorial Hospital in North Conway in 1942 with a broken leg, I have been able to enjoy my favorite sport for twenty years. Certainly one of the many compensations of staying in the State of Maine is having skiing close by with snow conditions favorable for several months of the year. I hope that I will be able to say for many years to come: See you at Tuckerman's Ravine I 67 JOHN P. GULLIVER Place of birth: Portland, Maine. Business or profession: District Manager, The Emery-Waterhouse Co. Community interests: Portland Scout Council, Community Chest 3 Director, Sales Executive Club, Director,Port1and Club. Wife's Name: Bertha Crocker, Wheaton '35, Columbia M.A. '47, Married June 2, 1945. Children: John W., born November 1951. After leaving Bowdoin I attended Boston University Law School for one year, and Boston Insurance School for two years. I was in the Fire Insurance business two years in Boston, twelve years with Valvoline Oil Co. as Assistant District Manager in Maine. From 1942-46 in the Air Force in the China-Burma Theatre as personnel oihcer. After my dis- charge in 1946 I was Chief Personnel Relations Officer for the Veterans' Administration in New York. I attended New York University Graduate Business School in New York City for three years Cwhere I received straight A rank for a changel, and returned to Maine in 1950. 68 WILBUR PRESTON HARVEY Place and date of birth: Dover-Fox- Croft, Maine. Oct. 18, 1906. Other colleges: Boston University, 1942, Ed.M. Profession: Teacher at Portland Country Day School, 1928-1931. Teacher at the Huntington School 1931- Residence: 106 Weymouth St., Hol- brook, Mass. Community interests: Supt. of Sun- day School, Deacon of Congre- gational Church, President of P.T.A., Chairman Library Trust- tees, Chairman X-ray drive, Chrm. Red Cross Fund drive, com- mittee work of various kinds. Wife's Name: Evelyn Margaret MacLeod. Children: Phyllis E., born March 24, 1930, attended Braintree Grammar School and graduated from Sumner CHolbrookJ High School, married June 25, 1949. George A., born December 20, 1933, attended Braintree and Holbrook Grammar schools, graduated at top of class from Sumner High School in June, 1951. Now sophomore at Bowdoin College. Alison J., born May 16, 1948. Who had the bright idea that the wife or other person should write the biography for the present occasion? I shopped around with the thank- less idea to no avail. My wife drew herself erect and looked me straight in the eye. 'Tve mended your socks, cooked your victuals, and borne your children, but this is going too far. My children were quite direct. You've been around longer than we have, how do we know that you aren't a fugitive from justice for crimes you committed before we were here to look after you ? So here I sit, resigned to the grim reality of the aforesaid crimes. Chap. 1. In this chapter I was born on 3 farm, the same being a parcel in lot 13, range 5 in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine. Along with my God- 69 fearing parents and my parent-fearing sisters and brother, I assisted in Hwresting a meagre living from stubborn soil. fThe pharse is old but never properly understood before.J The soil was so stubborn that it almost ended my school days with the ninth grade. Chap. 2. The chief feature of this chapter will be found in my sur- prise when I discovered that there was a high school in the same town and a lot of other people. They played a game with pigskin, but it wasn't like any pigskin games I was used to. That was my introduction to skin games and a lot of other things, too, like student councils and debating societies Cyes, I said Societies .J Chap 3. fin which I have to be careful what I say, because there were witnessesj Yup! Bowdoin, by God! Four years of it. Fraternities, football games, dormitories fplaces where you sleep, or am I confusing them with classrooms ?J And professors, too. You know, I sometimes think those fellows knew more than the smartest boy in class. Chap. 4. This chapter is supposed to paint a picture of a promising young dignified teacher-more young than promising, and more digni- fied than teacher Con second thought, I'm not so sure that the teacher knows more than the pupilsl. By the end of the first year I was promising, however,- to love, honor, etc. Chap. 5. fln which prosperity was just around the corner.D After the Portland Country Day School had folded and my wife and I had looked around the corner in that town, we decided we had the wrong corner. I came to the Huntington School in Boston for an interview with the headmaster. Thought he might know something about prosperity. While there I got my foot caught in the door and haven't got it out yet. My faithful wife and daughter moved to Boston to be near me. Chap. 6 fin which I get gray headed over committeesj. Following ten years in Braintree, during which I did nothing but teach school and look fer prosperity, I moved to Holbrook with my wife and two children, where we still reside-with our three children. Our older daughter is married and about to raise a playmate for our younger daughter. Our son is at Bowdoin for four years Ctwo moreb of fraternities, football games, exams, dormitories, and professors. Life here has now settled down to a routine. In my spare time I repair the house and manage a Sunday School. In my spare time I take on such things as Chest X-ray campaigns and Red Cross fund drives. In my spare time I work in our half-acre garden fyou guessed itl, Hwresting a meagre living from the stubborn soil. 70 DONALD B. HEWETT Place and date of birth: Augusta, Maine. March 12, 1906. Business: United Shank Sz Findings Co., branch of United Shoe Ma- chinery Corp., Whitman, Mass., 1939-1952. Office Manager. Avon Sole Co., Avcn, Mass., Sales Dept., Jan. 1952- Residence: 35 Colonel Hunt Drive, Abington, Mass. Community interests: Mass. State Guard, 1942-45. Chairman, Town Finance Commit- tee, 1945. Chairman, Abington Chapter, American Red Cross, 1952. Wife's Name: Lucia Burbeck, married Oct. 10, 1931. Children: Marcia, born Jan. 7, 1942, grade 6, Abington Junior High Schcol. In September of 1929, the year after graduating from Bowdoin, I attended for one year, the E. E. Clive School of Acting at the Copley Theatre in Boston. This was a fascinating experience, playing bit parts with the regular company, some of whom are now well-known stars of stage and screen. Of course, I fully intended to become a famous actor my self-Broadway to Hollywood idea--but, somehow, it never material- ized, perhaps the principal reason being that I fcund that success does not come overnight, and I, having fallen in love and wanting to marry the gal, wished to make a living more quickly. So, I left Mr. Clive and went to work in my father's grocery store in Augusta, Maine. In October, 1931, Lucia Burbeck of Abington, Massachusetts, and I were married. For six years we lived in Augusta where I continued to work for my Dad until his retirement. I then became an automobile salesman until 3 siege of pneumonia laid me low. On the advice of my doctor, my wife and I went on a two-monthls sojourn in Florida. That was in the winter of 1937, and when I think of it-our last dime spent 71 to make this trip possible, and our country in the throes of the greatest depression in all itis history, yet nothing mattered to us because we were young and in love and the world was still our oyster. Undaunted by bread lires. apple sellers, and unemployment all around us, we returned from Florida to Abington, my wife's former home, and I, still the irre- pressible ham, decided that I would become a famous radio announcer. There seemed to be a slight difference of opinion about that, for after a few small jobs with local stations-no networks were to be for me, alas I- I committed the unpardonable error of repeating the previous day's news broadcast and was unfortunate enough to have the sponsor of the program listening in that day. You know the rest-it has to happen to every man once, I guess. My next attempt to conquer the business world ended in failure, too. I got a job with the Moxie Company touring New Jersey and parts of Pennsylvania in a sound truck. I spent the whole summer at that and on my return to Boston, I was given the dubious honor of selling that sparkling beverage to bowling alleys and night clubs. It didn't last long- nobody seemed to want to drink half as much as the company expected me to sell. After that brief and unprofitable experience, and after a long and more unprofitable period of being unemployed, I finally landed a job with the United Shoe Machinery Corp. in a subsidiary factory in Whitman, Mass. where shoe shanks are made. Here, after two years, I became office manager and remained there for thirteen years. On January 7, 1942, much to our great joy and delight, our daughter Marcia was born. She is our only child, a beautiful girl Cnatchb of wnom we are very proud. She is now eleven, in the sixth grade, and brings home math problems to daddy who is strictly an English major l Came the war, and although I was not in the armed services, I joined, along with other men of my age, the local State Guard unit. I often wonder about the safety of cur dear State had we ever been called upon to defend her! Finally the long conflict was over, and in the spring of 1946 we had the never-to-be-forgotten thrill of watching our new home being built. I'm sure there is nothing more gratifying to a man's soul than to own his private little castle. Be it grand or humble it somehow becomes a symbol of accomplishment. 1' Last December in 1951 came the offer of another job. This was with the Avon Sole Co., makers of rubber soles and heels. I was hired as 72 Personnel Manager, but in the spring there came an opening in the sales Dept. and that's Where I am now. The work is most interesting and I am completely happy in it. So, here We are, pleasantly surrounded by tall pines and stately oaks, and good friends to spend happy evenings with over a fiercely fought card game-bridge, poker, samba, canasta-we play 'em all. And, oh yes, I still satisfy the old ham in me by performing in the local talent plays, although my wife somtimes mildly threatens to divorce me if I appear in any more. These mornings as I shave before departing for the oflice, the bath- room mirror reflects a reasonably Well-preserved 47-year-old, greying at the temples, and,-maybe it's the light-but I think I can detect a definite thinning of the hair on top. Well, allright, I'm getting bald! I'll see you in June and prove it. 73 BRADLEY P. Howns Place and date of birth: Springfield Mass. Oct. 26, 1906. Other colleges: Harvard Law School, L.L.B. Profession: Boston, Mass. Service Record: Residence: 6 Monument Terrace, West Med- ford, Mass. Community interests: City of Medford Alderman, 1939-44: Chairman Board of Aldermen, Jan. 1, 1944-Mar. 11, 1944: President of Plan E Civic Association 1949-3 Assistant City Solicitor, 1950 to date: Treas- urer of Cub Pack 8, Boy Scouts of America: 1940 Chairman for Med- ford in Greater Boston Community Fund Drive, Member of Board of Directors Medford No-Tavern No-Saloon Leagueg Director of Medford Chapter Red Cross. Wife's Name: Gueneth Caldon, married July 17, 1938. Children: Lana K., born Aug. 11, 1940. Bradley P. Howes, Jr., born July 4, 1942. Bill Alexander's sense of humor is still perfect, must be if he thinks that one can Write a biography of 25 years of living fat least I think it is and welll in 300 Words. The Fall of 1928, I entered Harvard Law School and truly worked hard for three years. It was perhaps a change from my undergraduate days. At least I got a degree in 1932. Yes, I tried a few games of football during this period and the least said probably the better. Started the practice of law in Boston in '32, and in spite of the fact that it kept me busy did find time to marry Gueneth Caldon on 74 , X 45 7 Law-1932 to date, 60 State St.. U. S. Army, inducted March 11, 1944, discharged Sept. 27, 1945. July 17, 1938. 'Twixt this time and going into service in March, 1944 as a Buck Private, we were fortunate to have had two children, Lana and Brad, Jr. When I left the service, it was not as a Brigadier General- only a Sergeant's rating. Reason for Separation Convenience of Gov't AR 615-365 85 WD Cir 269 1945 fAgeJ . Since September, 1945 have been prac- ticing law at 60 State Street, Boston, and have even been known to handle divorce cases, which of course, would not interest any of you classmates. The City of Medford, where we live, has conferred upon me the distinc- tion of Assistant City Solicitor, probably as a reward for having been an Alderman and Chairman of the Board prior to receiving the Presi- dent's Greeting in 1944. Thumbnail Sketch of me: Weigh perhaps a little more than in the days of training tables, but not much. My health is excellent, at least that is one man's opinion. Gray hair doesn't seem to have fallen to my lot, but my hair has. Hope you will recognize me at our 25th come June. Where the years have gone, I do not know, and I trust that you all have the same definite explanation to give. This does it, 'till I see you all. Good luck. 13 C. CALVIN P. HUBBARD Place and date of birth: North Dan-- ville, Vt. Feb. 15, 1907. Business or profession: Various posi- tions in cost accounting and al- lied fields from Massachusetts to New York City to Maine. Since 1948 Cost Estimator at Whitin Machine Works, Whitinsville, Mass. Service Record: Basic training in In- fantry Communications. Re- mainder of service time spent in Statistical Div. of S-1 at Army Ground Forces Replacement De- pots No. 1 and No. 4. Residence: 95 Maple Ave., Farnumsville, Mass. Wife's Name: Anne Marie White, R.N. No Children. Calvin Perry Hubbard was born February 15, 1907 in a farmhouse at North Danville, Vermont, to Mark Atwood Hubbard and Rosamond Melissa fPerryJ Hubbard. Mark Hubbard was a farmer and when Calvin was five years of age he went with the family to Massachusetts, eventually settling down in Gardner. Grammar school was normally passed through by Calvin and in 1921 he entered Gardner High School, where Calvin promptly became Cal , by which appellation he was thenceforth known. Our subject did not participate in high school athletics, primarily because ,he just wasn't an athlete and secondly because he worked during out of school hours. It was at this time that he became acquainted with the American system of manufacturing, to him a subject of absorb- ing interest, and one which was to become the subject of his 1ife's work. 76 While in high school Cal did some public speaking, winning a prize speaking contest and delivering the class prophecy at graduation. He also trod the boards, appearing in a French play and being in the cast of the senior play. An unfortunate experience along this line-he came down with the mumps the day before the play was presented. Parentheti- cally it may said that it was discouraging to the coach, also. Twenty- five years later she retained a most vivid recollection of the event. As a student Cal did well enough to be certified for college entrance in the necessary courses and entered Bowdoin College in 1924, a member of the Class of 1928. An indifferent student at Bowdoin, Cal took a fling at Jack Magee's track team but was still no athlete. He then went out for assistant mana- ger of hockey and apparently had a strong enough back and enough re- sistance to freezing water and weather to qualify for that. In his sopho- more year he was fortunate enough to be elected manager of hockey. After two years Cal left Bowdoin to repair his finances-a task which was to prove fascinating and difficult enough to keep him busily engaged until current date, with an excellent prospect of making a lifetime career of the same. In 1929 he met, and in 1930, married Anne Marie White of New- buryport. A registered nurse, she devoted the remainder of her life to her husband and home and exerted a steadying influence in time of trouble and a constant devotion which made her choice a successful husband and a happy man. After cost accounting experience in Massachusetts and New York Cal returned to Maine in 1937, living in South Portland until 1943. One happy experience during this period was the launching of the James Bowdoin at South Portland Shipbuilding Corporation. Cal at the time was employed in the neighbcring yard as an assistant chief timekeeper and managed to get across the fence to greet old Bowdoin friends. In 1943 F. D. R. decided the war could not be won without Cal's aid, so sent him the customary greeting. A fine specimen of manhood-so the physical showed-he was assigned to infantry communications for basic training. CShades of Jack Magee! The man who thought Jack was a hard taskmaster never took infantry basic training-at the age of thirty seven, anyway.J Our hero survived basic, somehow, and emerged with that lean Ctwenty-eight inch waistl and hungry look, together 77 with the disposition of a Maine Wildcat. Anti-climax came--he was ordered, because of civilian experience and approaching thirty-eighthood, to stay at Fort Meade as a statiscian in S-1. Translated into civilian this merely meant an office job, eight to eighteen hours a day. One most pleasant experience occurred at Meade. A soldier in a chow line turned to Cal and said Didn't you go to Bowdoin, Class of 1928? So did I-I'm Sam Prime! When the major part of Fort Meade was transferred to Camp Adair, Oregon, both Sam and Cal went, but the latter was fortunate and was discharged first, in September, 1945-he never knew what happened to Sam. After discharge from the service our subject returned to Maine but stayed two years only. Family affairs necessitated a return to Massa- chusetts and a position as cost estimator with Whitin Machine Works, of Whitinsville, was secured. The Farnumsville home, adjacent to Whitinsville, provided access to a large area of land and Cal resumed a hobby which had its inception in Maine. This hobby was gardening, with a heavy accent on hybridizing gladiolus. A collection of seedlings is growing and should result one day in the introduction of an outstanding new variety, achievement supreme for the hybridizer. Cal is a member of the Congregational Church, Delta Upsilon Fra- ternity and the National Association of Cost Accountants. 78 SAMUEL P. HULL Place and date of birth: Millbury, Mass. April 16, 1904. Business: Sales manager, Worcester ' Stamped Metal Co., Worcester, Mass. Residence: 225 Highland St., Holden, Mass. Community interests: Vice-president Worcester Sales Executive Club, Group chairman Community Chest, Red Cross, Chamber of Q Commerce. 1 Wife's Name: Hazel M. Woodman. Children: Samuel P., Jr., born Sept. 14, 1934. Williston Academy '52, Dartmouth College '56, Elizabeth W., born Nov. 17, 1939, 8th grade, Holden Grammar School. Married to the present Mrs. Hull during Ivy Houseparty in May 1928. Worked for American Optical Company, Southbridge, Mass., in Sales Promotion work the first year out of college. Two years at Warner Swasey Company, Cleveland, Ohio, as Sales Engineer. On the Beach 14 months until April of 1931. Sales Manager Canada Dry Gingerale 1931-1937, New England Division. Credit Manager Canada Dry Gingerale, New England Division, 1937- 1941. Oiiice of Production Management and War Production Board, October 1941 to April 1942. Worcester Stamped Metal Company, Worcester, Mass., April 1942 to the present. 79 EARL S. HYLER Date and place of birth: Brewer, Maine. June 2, 1905. Business: Asst. Loan Manager Bene- ficial Loan Society 1929-1943, New England Shipyard Inventory Dept. 1943-1945, Credit Mgr., L. C. Andrew, Portland, Maine 1945 to date. Residence: 25 Machigonne St., Port- land, Maine. Community interests: Treas. State Street Congregational Church, Portland. Wife's Name: Gladys M. Clark. Children: Earl S. Hyler, Jr., born April 4, 1935. Senior at Deering High School. The first few years after leaving Bowdoin were spent trying to get my feet on the first rung of the economic ladder. In 1933 married Miss Gladys M. Clark of Brewer, Maine. The same year moved to Portland where we have resided ever since. l have had three jobs since leaving college, and have tried to carry out my civic duties in a modest way. In the year past have taken part in the usual affairs such as Red Cross, Community Chest, etc., for many years I have been very interested in church affairs and have served as assistant treasurer and now treasurer of the State Street Congregational Church in Portland. I have had a great interest in foreign exchange student work, par- ticularly through the American Field Service. In the year 1950-1951 a German student made his home with us while attending Deering High School. In the summer of 1952 my son, Earl, Jr., was in Germany as an American exchange student under the sponsorship of the American Field Service. 80 GEORGE HENRY JENKINS Place and date of birth: Boston, Mass. April 25, 1905. Other colleges: Summer School, 7 sessions attended, 1928-1948: Harvard Univ., Boston Univ., Univ. of Southern California- all in the fields of Education and History. Business or profession: After 22 years of teaching, am now em- ployed as mechanical draftsman by Boston Woven Hose Sz Rubber Co., Cambridge, Mass. Service Record: None. 4-F because of two perforated ear drums. Residence: 51 Ingleside Ave., Winthrop, Mass. Have lived in this town of about 17,000 on Boston Harbor since 1909. Community interests: Church School teacher: Boy Scouts in past years. Not married. After twenty-two years of teaching, and primarily for reasons of health, I have spent the past two years in the field of business and draft- ing. A History major at Bowdoin, I began as a teacher of History and Mathematics, only to wind up teaching mechanical drawing. My fresh- man year at M.I.T. following a technical course in High School readily explain the change. My teaching experience has been most varied and extensive in the Secondary field, public and private, in six different states. I started in 1928 as principal and teacher in the four-teacher school at Errol, N. H., where 60? of the village's 300 population came to us from miles around. It was a new and rare experience, life in this isolated but friendly back- woods community. 1 S1 Dedham, Mass., high and freshman algebra followed for a year of the greatest pleasure in the classroom and permanent friendships among the faculty. Four years at Hebron Academy, 1931-1935, history and coach of track, are recalled with special pleasure, particularly when I meet many of the old boys at the annual Boston banquet. Three years at Suffield Academy, and five more at New London Berke- ley High, 1939-1944, both in Connecticut, I fondly recall, and have kept in close touch with. At New London during the war, I aided the U.S.O. handling the throngs of submariners that stormed the dances, often won- dering how many of these fine lads this dance would prove their last. In 1944 I accompanied my brother, CRev.J Albert, '31, to Pasadena to his position in church Work. In 1949 we drove out to visit him and his charming Californian wife, and I stayed on a year in a teaching position. On both trips we crossed the Rockies and visited the canyons of Utah and Arizona. In 1950 we drove back via Southern Arizona, Grand canyon, and Route 66. I live with my mother and sister in a large old house atop a hill com- manding a view of Boston-our home since 1930. My interests are varied. Absence from the home town has kept me out of touch with local politics and fraternal organizations. I try to keep informed cn national and international politics and events. I correspond with many relatives in England, and with friends made during my teach- ing days. I belong to a local adult stamp club. For years my brother and I sailed our ancient sailboat off Winthrop and in Boston Harbor. I am convinced that the independent school is far superior to the public in the all-round development of the boy and his preparation for college. There are some compensations to teaching that balance the in- adequacy of salary, and the long summer vacation is probably the first thought of many outside the field. We rejoice in the successful graduation from our own Alma Mater of those we have helped prepare for it. And we try to follow their progress thereafter. We feel a sense of the deep- est personal loss as we scan the various Rolls of Honor and find there names once so familiar to us, and every teacher dearly hopes that some- thing of his own social, political, or religious philosophy will become a las-ting influence, and, perhaps, comfort, in the lives of each of his pupils, and thus assuring for himself, the teacher, what another once termed, a kind of immortality . And now, Life Begins Canewj at Forty -plus! 82 1 l l CLARENCE H. JOHNSON Place and date of birth: Topsham, Maine. Nov. 25, 1906. Business or profession: See below. Residence: 929 Ridgemont Road, Charleston, W. Va. Wife's Name: Mary Chamberlayne. Children: Arthur Berry b. Jan. 7, '38, 9th grade Thomas Jefferson Jr. High. Elizabeth Lewis, b. May 11, 1940, 7th grade Thomas Jeffer- son Jr. High. Angela Hazelton, b. Mar. 21, 1942, 5th grade Fern- Bank Ele. Lewis Chamberlayne, b. Nov. 17, 1947, kindergarten. Paul Tebbetts, b. June 10, 1951. Business or profession: 7-9-28-Employed by Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company at Washington, D. C. as Student Accountant. 9-1-28--Transferred to Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Baltimore City at Baltimore, Maryland as Accountant. 1929-1936-Held various supervisory positions in the Accounting De- partment of Company at Baltimore. 1-15-36-Appointed Chief Toll Supervisor of Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia at Richmond, Virginia. 1-1-40--Appointed Auditor of Receipts of Company at Richmond. 3-1-41-Appointed Auditor of Disbursements of Company at Richmond. 11-1-45-Appointed Auditor of Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company at Washington, D. C. 3-1-49-Elected Vice President and General Manager of Company at Washington, D. C. 6-15-50--Elected Vice President and General Manager of Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of West Virginia - located at Charleston, West Virginia. 8-15-52-Elected Vice President and Member of Board of Directors of Company at Charleston, West Virginia. I seem uniquely qualified to write about Clarence ri. JUIUISOH because my father went to school in Lincoln, Nebraska with a man named Clarence 83 H. Jchnson, around 1903, which was three years before this Clarence Johnson was born in Topsham, Maine, and that seems very significant. Also because one of this Clarence J'ohnson's children is named Paul Tebbetts Johnson and my great-aunt Florence Eastman married a man named Harry Tebbetts and that seems significant too. Apparently my Clarence H. Johnson wasn't insufferable at Bowdoin because his Deke fraternity brothers made him an oflicer, but God knows when you look at part of' his record you can't help shaking your head since it shows he excelled at Mathematics, won the Smythe Mathematical award and even actually assisted in teaching the subject. At my own school the only man with such a record was pretty much of a slob, and was not the ideal of us refl-blooded American boys. Although Johnson, graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1928 with a Phi Beta Kappa key, he had played freshman football and was cn the snowshoe, outing and tumb- ling teams. He can still hoist both his feet up behind his neck, although for the last few years the feat has left him purple and pooped, and if he persists it will only be a question cf time until an artery lets go. Johnson signed on with The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company in Washington in 1928 as student accountant, and has subse- quently seen service with all four Chesapeake and Potomac Companies, rising steadily with each move, and doing almost nothing the business bibles say you should do to be successful except make his people want to give him the very best they have in them, which they do. As of now he is Vice President in charge of operations in the State and a member of the Board of Directors of the C. KL P., West Virginia Company head- quartered at Charleston, West Virginia. He works actively fand successfullyj in dozens of community enter- prises, and has five Clubs. He works actively Cand successfullyj as husband and father and has five children. He was married to lovely Mary Chamberlayne of Richmond, Virginia in 1937, and I will gladly accept a commission to do her biography also. Their children, in addition to aforementioned Paul Tebbetts, age 1, are Arthur Berry, age 14, Betsy, age 12, Angela, age 10, and Lewis, age 4. A tenet of corporation protocol says junior executives really ought to have smaller cars than the top man, and older models too. Johnson has his juniors in a pretty silly spot. His very own car is a 1946 Ford Tudor! CThe above was composed by Fielding Woods, a friend UD and busi- ness associatel. C, H, J, He is a member of or oflicer in some thirty-odd civic, social, business and professional organizations in and around Washington, D. C., Balti- more, Md., and Charlston, W. Va. 84 DANIEL EDWARDS KENNEDY, JR. Place and date of birth: Nashua, N. H. May 17, 1904. Business: Owner and operator of The West- on Studio of Interior Decorating' 582 Boston Post Road, Weston, Mass. 9 Residence: Training Field Road, Way- land, Mass. Community interests: During the war --Chairman of Scrap Drive and Captain of Aux. Police under Civil Defense. Chairman Red . Cross Water Safety Committee. At present-Captain of Auxiliary Police under Civil Defense: Past president Vokes Players: President-elect Weston Rotary Club. Wife's Name: Margaret Louise Kennedy. Children: Daniel Edwards, III, born Feb. 2, 1936. Rivers Country Day School 1943-48, Ncble 8z Greenough School 1948-. Headed for a career in medicine. -ii-Q:-1 On the day of our graduation in 1928 our elders, according to tradi- tion, handed over to us the world as our oyster. They forgot to mentizn, or perhaps they never guessed that the oyster was loaded-loaded with a deadly ptomaine which was going to plunge us, along with the rest of America, into a state of economic poison known as The Depression for long desolate years. And yet some wonderful things happened tc me dur- ing those years. I got married. I had a son. And with a small frazzled end of half a shoe string I started in business for myself. Pm still married. My son is now a Junior at the Noble and Greenough School and my busi- ness has grown from a one-room shop to an entire building devoted to interior decorating. It survived the shortages of World War II and the after-math of high wages and soaring operating costs. 85 During the war I was not in service but like every one else on the home front I kept pretty busy. I headed up the Scrap Drive and worked for the Red Cross. Under Civilian Defense I was Captain of the Way- land Auxiliary Police which organized and developed a large and efficient squad of fellow townsmen to augment the regular police department. In- cluded in this effort was the formation of a revolver team to train shooters for the war emergency. Later when this need disappeared the shooters continued on with their training as Special Officers for the town. When the Civilian Defense set-up was re-vitalized three years ago this nucleus of trained men was available and I am now again Captain of Auxiliary Police under Civil Defense in Wayland. My love for tennis has continued and been sustained by fierce com- bats on the home court with other beloved dubs on weekends in the summer. My hobby has been a very choice small theatre in my town, owned and operated by an amateur dramatic club called the Vpkes Players . Of this organization I have been President twice, Production Manager and, according to my long suffering family, general slave for many years. I am Vice President and President Elect of the Weston Rotary Club. I think that sums up my distinguished career which has been made up of hard work, good times, bad times and a whale of a lot of fun. 86 EDWARD C. LEADBEATER Place and date of birth: Alexandria, Va. Jan. 5, 1908. Business or profession: Banking--Guaranty Trust Co. CTrust Dept.J, New York City 1928-1939. Apple grower-Gould Hill Farm, Hopkinton, N. H. 1939 to date. A Residence: Gould Hill Farm, Hopkinton, N. H. CR.F.D. No. 1, Contoocook, New Hampshirej Community interests: Member School board 6 yrs., including 2 years as chairman, past-chairman Town Budget Committee and Town Plan- ning Board, Trustee Fryeburg Academyg Vice-president fafter 9 yrs. as treasurerj N. H. Horticultural Societyg member Executive Com- mittee New York and New England Apple Instituteg member and officer Congregational Church. Wife's Name: Lucille Johnson. Children: Erick, born July 2, 1942 Mary Morrill, born March 2, 1949. Ruth Karen, born July 14, 1950. 87 DONALD ARTHUR LEADBETTER Place and date of birth: South Port- land, Maine. Sept. 11, 1905. Other colleges: Peabody Law School, L.L.B. 1931. Business or profession: Employed by Gannett Publishing Co., 1930-38., Attorney 1938 to date. Residence: Portland, Maine. Community interests: Chairman Re- publican Committee, Portland, 1941-1944. Recorder Portland Municipal Court 1944-1948. Wife's Name: Priscilla B. Leadbetter. No children. Immediately after graduation subject had a brief fling at road con- struction ffollowing the great floods which extensively damaged the upper part of Vermontb and thereafter at selling furnaces and similar equipment, in which line of Work he demonstrated considerable lack of ability. Thereafter he was occupied with journalistic efforts in Portland for a period of more than seven years, which he found to be very pleasant though hardly remunerative. He finally came to rest in the practice of the law. At the time of the last War, subject was among those who were unable to pass the physical examinations and therefore did not have any record for service, but typical of those who remained, he took part in various duties for the civilian defense, the late-lamented OPA, and other similar undertakings. The above-named also at one time had an extremely short and transi- tory period in which he was active in a minor way in politics and in public life. After a term of ward and precinct endeavors as chairman of the Republican City Committee, he was graduated into the office of Recorder of the Portland Municipal Court. At the conclusion of that service one thing led to another until it appeared that subject would better devote his interests to golf, fishing, gardening, bridge, or other more worthwhile 88 activities. So except for such problems and controversies as are unavoidable in the practice of the law, the above-named leads a very pleasant existence. Like other members of the class, no doubt, the above subject has also been considerable of a joiner. Witness some of the organizations to which he has belonged: Cumberland County, State, and American Bar Associations: Casco-Homestead Savings 8z Loan Association, Woodfords Clubg Portland Club, nearly all the Masonic Ordersg Woodfords Congrega- tional Churchg various political Committeesg Purpoodock Country Club, Portland Country Clubg Maine State Golf Associationg Cumberland County Fish 8m Game Clubg Forest City Rod and Gun Clubg Maine Historical So- cietyg Kiwanis Club, no longer activeg Bowdoin Club of Portland, and miscellaneous and sundry other organizations, some of which have been nearly forgotten but which come in handy now in an effort to meet Bill Alexander's demand for a three hundred word biographyg and subject also has at various times been listed fat the instigation of friends?J in various projects for civic and community betterment. In conclusion the above-named, in reviewing the material here gathered together, is not at all sure that if he were to do over any part of the twenty-five years here reviewed he would change very much of it except possibly he would go just a bit lighter on the number of organi- zations which he has been a member of during these said years. 89 BERNARD LUCAS Class Alumni Fund Agent Place and date of birth: Kearsley, Lancashire, England. Aug. 17, 1907. Business: S. D. Warren Co., Dec. 1928 to present. Research Laboratory from 1928 to 1930. Manufacturing from 1931 to 1935. Sales 1936 to present time. Residence: 64 Lincoln Ave., Gardiner, Maine. Community interests: The usual, Church, Hospital, Boy Scouts, etc. Wife's Name: June Duff. Children: Robert G., born 1939-Gardiner High School. William D. born 1942-Grammar school. Bernard Lucas was introduced to society on August 17, 1907, in the damp, smokey atmosphere of a small community in Lancashire, England. He was brought by his parents in 1912 to the rural community of Gardiner, Maine, where he grew up and studied hard so he might be able to attend Bowdoin College as a member of the illustrious class of 1928. While he failed to do a lot of things he should have done and did a lot of things he should not have done, finally, in June of 1928 he was declared to have graduated as a Bachelor of Science, Chemistry to be more exact, and told to go and make a living in the cold world outside. After a very brief adventure in the rayon industry, he returned to paper making-his first love-and in December, 1928 entered the Research Laboratory of the S. D. Warren Co. It was quickly apparent, however, that Marshall Perley had wrought no miracle of science with Lucas, even with all ten courses of Chemistry in action. The product was no research chemist! Transferring to the manufacturing end of the business, and finally to the sales department in 1936, he stayed with the S. D. Warren Company, first at Cumberland Mills, then in Boston, and then at the Gardiner, Maine plant, where he started out originally. Since 1939 he has made his home and headquarters in Gardiner. While in Boston he met June Dui, of New Castle, Pennsylvania, and in 1937 they were married. Two sons, Robert Cage 141, and William fage 101 are now struggling with the three R's but are not yet 'old enough to cause the Bowdoin faculty any gray hairs. Now, after twenty-five years out in the cold, hard world, this bald- headed and bewildered member of the Class of 1928, as agent of the Alumni Fund, takes fiendish delight in hounding his former friends to separate them from what little moneys Uncle Sam leaves them at the end of each year. 90 ROGER M. LUKE Place and date of birth: East Boothbay, Maine. October 22, 1907. Other colleges: Webb Institute of Naval Architecture, June, 1931. New York University, B.S. in Mech. Eng. 1936. Business or profession: Naval architect, U. S. Navy, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Supervisor of shipbuilding, New York and Bath, Maine, 1931-1940. Asst. Chief Engineer, Hyde Windlass Co., Bath, Maine, 1940 to date. Service Record: None. Travelled considerably during the war as trouble shooter and instructor of Navy crews on Operation of Steering Gear, Windlasses and auxiliary deck machinery. Residence: 103 Middle St., Bath, Maine. Community interests: Served as councilman, alderman and member of Board of Assessors, Bath City Government. Scoutmaster, troop com- mitteeman and district committeemang vestryman and junior warden at Grace Church. Wife's Name: Mary Owen, married June 1936, at Upper Montclair, N. J. Children: William Owen, born August 4, 1939. Roger Alexander, born January 29, 1943, both attending Bath schools. Roger asked me to attend to his biography ages ago, in my usual procrastination I've ,put it off. I never knew Roger while he attended Bowdoin, but after living here in Maine sixteen years, I feel like a true Downeaster,'. We live a quiet, usual sort of life with average happen- ings, and there have really been no dramatic highlights. Molly Luke 91 B FLETCHER WEST MEANS Class Vice President Place and date of birth: Orleans, Nebraska. Sept. 28, 1905. L . . . . lsinessz 1928-1951 Treasurer of various subsidiary Water Companies controlled by Consumers Water Company. June, 1951 to date Vice President and General Manager Consumers Water Company, Portland, Maine, and Chief Executive Officer of most of the Subsidiary Water Companies of Consumers Water Company. Residence: 55 Stroudwater Road, Portland, Maine. Community interests: Director and Treasurer, Portland Y.M.C.A. 1940- 1946. Treasurer State St. Congregational Church 1934-1945. Deacon State St. Congregational Church 1946-1952. Director Children's Hospital, Portland, Maine, 1945 to date. Wife's Name: Laura Foster Scule, married Sept. 12, 1931. Children: Marcia Ann, born Dec. 12, 1932-now junior at Simmons College. I Boston, Mass., studying to become a graduate physical therapist. Fletcher W. Means, 2nd, born Aug. 16, 1935. Now a senior at Deering High School, President of Senior Classg half-back on 1952 Deering High School football teamg admitted to Bowdoin for fall of 1953. After leaving Brunswick with the rest of the guys in June of 1928, immediately took a job with Consumers Water Company of Portland, 92 Maine, one of those holding companies owning the common stock control of several water companies scattered from Winterport, Maine to Spring- field, Missouri. Probably where you live, the City or Town owns the local water works. Believe it or not, however, there are still a few stock- holder-owned water companies left in these United States, and Con- sumers Water Company controls and operates a few of those few. A little more socialism and a continuation of the soak the corpora- tions tax laws and the few will be no more. I could give you quite a lecture on this subject, but not in any three hundred words. Anyway, for the first twenty years plus, I was putting in a long apprenticeship in various phases of the utility business, but mostly in the accounting and financial end. Incidentally, my accounting course at Bowdoin came in very handy just as soon as I started work in 1928. In June of 1951 I was made Vice-President and General Manager of Consumers Water Company primarily because by that time I had about worn out my previous bosses with questions. So, as far as my job goes, I have really had only one and have lived in Portland continuously. For a person who still loves the wide, open spaces in the Mid-West, this is quite an accomplishment. In 1931 I married Laura Soule, a graduate of Simmons College Home Economics School. I highly recommend this course at Simmons to any young girl who would like to make life pleasant for some lazy man. Laura and I have been blessed with two healthy and intelligent children-Marcia now attending Simmons and Fletcher about ready to attend Bowdoin. In looking back over the past twenty-five years, I have few regrets and much to be thankful for, namely, a good education Cvery liberal, thanks to my association with the good class of 19283, an excellent com- munity in which to live and most important of all, good health and a healthy family. I look forward to the next twenty-five years with sincere pleasure. 93 LAU RENCE A. MORGAN Place and date of birth: Milton, Mass. May 26, 1906. Business or profession: 1928-1942, Salesman, Sales Mana- ger, Member of Firm-Hammons Sz Co., Inc.. Boston, Mass. and Portland, Maine, investment se-- curities. Service: Record: Joined Marine Corps 1942, overseas two years in World War II, entitled to 4 battle stars on Pacific Ribbon, Naval unit commendation. Personal let- ter of commendation from CG Pacific area. Present duty is that of Assistant Director and Public Information Officer, First Marine Corps Reserve District, Boston, Mass. Rank: Major. Residence: 6 Blanchard Blvd., Braintree, Mass. Community interests: Vice President P.T.A. 1951. Bowdoin Club of New Hampshire. Bowdoin Club of Boston. Member International Fencing League of America. Directed all fencing meets at Exeter Academy in 1939. Acted as track official at Exeter 1935-39. Republican Club. Wife's Name: Roxanne Christopher. Children: Christopher Alan, born March, 1938, freshman at Braintree High School. Hannah Hammons, born February, 1947, primary school. Ann Joselyn, born May, 1951. Melinda, born September, 1952. Upon graduation with that most noble of all Bowdoin classes, 1928, I promptly jumped into the investment securities business determined to make my first million within a reasonable period, say a year or two. If one can truthfully say that he enjoys alternately making a bundle of dough and then starving to death, it was a great life. I debated this situa- 94 tion for 14 years and finally decided To hell with it and joined the Marine Corps. Being a flag-waver from a long way back I was not surprised to find that I liked service life even though it does entail being shot .at on occa- sion. During World War II I managed to wade ashore a few times to investigate such likely spots as Guadalcanal, Munda, Bougainville and other islands of the Solomon group of no great account. For no good reason that I can think of, after two years in the Pacific, I returned in one piece. Duty stations during the past ten years have included San Diego, Calif., Columbia, S. C., Little Creek, Va., and, of course, Boston, where I have been for the past 3 years. However the word has been passed, Those who haven't been overseas during the recent fracas will be going -I can hardly wait! I plan to remain in the Marine Corps indennitely - am I a dope? I don't think so. 95 ELLSWORTH REYNOLDS IVIOSSMAN Place and date of birth: Boston, Mass. 1905. Other Colleges: M.A. Harvard University: Licence University of Paris and University of Rennes. Business or profession: New York City, Advertising 1928-1932: Cape Cod, Mass., J curnalism 1935-1942: War and State Departments, 1946- 1952 Japan and Washington. Service Record: 1942-1945 Lt. Commander, U.S.N.R. Fleet Air Wings. Residence: Dodge Hotel, Washington, D. C. Community interests: Art, music, literature, mild tennis, golf, swimming, etc. After listening to the political campaigns I don't know whether to confess that I work for the State Department or ask you to protect the school's good name by just leaving my space blank and printing Not heard from. For, by the time you go to print, we will all perhaps be fired andfor burned at the stake. I have been in Washington since June. Last year I took a graduate degree in Public Administration at Harvard after a five year government assignment feconomicsj in Japan. From 1942-1946 I served as Lieutenant-Commander, U.S.N.R., in air combat intelligence with the R. A. F. in North Africa and with Group I Fleet Air Wing II fafloatj from Tarawa to Okinawa in the Pacific. My first years after leaving Bowdoin were spent in New York City as a huckster with an advertising agency for which I did penance Knot adequatel with a year's study CCarnegie Exchange Fellowshipj at Paris and Rennes, France. Upon my return from France I played around at editing and publishing on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. I spent two years also in Hawaii. I have never married, devote most of my time to reading and working: I am particularly interested in foreign affairs-U.S.S.R. and Far East de- velopments. I hope to retire at an early age to the cranberry country and a small lake on Cape Cod. I regret that my jumping around has kept me out of touch with college affairs: up to last year I was abroad for ten years straight. And last year Harvard and my parents' illness fdeath of fatherj kept me pretty well tied down. 96 HOWARD MORGAN MOSTROM Place and date of birth: Saugus, Mass. Dec. 8, 1905. Business: 1928-29 B. Altman Sz Co., New York City. 1930- Loomis Sayles 8z Co., Inc. Residence: 69 Prospect St., Belmont, Mass. Community Interests: Ex-chairman: Belmont Red Cross, Belmont Family Service, Belmont Emer- gency Fuel Committeeg Belmont Evacuation Division Civilian De- fense, Dir. Waverley Cooperative Eankg Trustee of Cambridge Y.W.C.A. ' Wife's Name: Edith Nims. Children: Philip, born July 21, 1934, Belmont Hill School, Bowdoin College. Thomas, born July 2, 1937, Belmont Hill School. Richard, born December 15, 1939, Belmont Hill School. As you can see, my business years since graduation have been spent almost entirely with a well-known firm of Investment Counsel. This being so, there are special reasons to be well aware of a popular ther- mometer called the Dow Jones Industrial averages, and a business baro- meter known as the Federal Reserve Index of Industrial Production. No event from the days of the Gold Standard until Harry turned the Tidelands over to the Navy has failed to make the mercury go up or down and my temperature along with it. Moreover, my sinuses are increasingly sensitive to changes in barometric pressure. However, I have survived, and many are no longer in the Temple, Most of my community life and efforts have been at the local level. In World War II I was unable to shoulder a musket but there were many things to do at home. I tried to take the place of some who did go directly or indirectly to war. That is to say, I tried to provide heat for the aged 97 at home and sterile dressings for the young at the front, and with the Red Cross was present at the Coconut Grove fire. All told, they were busy days, and as rewarding as such duties can be in times of emergency. For me peat-moss and the Azalea have driven the golf-ball and divot from the sceneg in fact, we both derive much year-to-year pleasure from our horticultural efforts. Our neighbors and friends tell us that we have three fine boys, and they should know. Philip is at Bowdoin and we, therefore, expect to see even more of the Campus than in the past. Like many others, we believe we have a reasonable share of the world's goods-before taxes! And we look forward with hope and some confidence to the years ahead. 98 DONALD C. NORTON Place and date of birth: Brooklyn, N. Y. March 29, 1905. Other colleges: American Institute of Banking. Business: Banking-Chase National Bank, New York, N. Y., 1928-. Entire Period in Trust Dept. Asst. Personal Trust Officer, Jan. 1944, Per- sonal Trust Oificer, Jan. 1945. Second Vice President, Feb. 1953. Residence: Possum Hollow, Green Village, New Jersey. Community interests: Trustee and chairman Finance Committee of church-Boy Scout work. Wife's Name: Ruth B. Cunningham. Children: Frank H., born December 9, 1939. Caroline, born June 18, 1941. Phyllis, born July 17, 1942. Since graduation I've spent most of my time learning the ground work of Estate and Trust administration. I was married in 1938 and then followed a hectic period of 31 months in which our three children were acquired. Since that time the major portion of my time has been divided between raising a family, acquiring an 1815 house in the country, doing some writing cn my field of endeavor, outside work for a dozen years with the American Institute of Banking, spending sum- mers in Maine for the most part and keeping the major portion of my hair as of yore. If present plans continue unchanged we hope that the fall of 1958 will see another Norton hopeful in Brunswick. 99 DAVID M. OSBOR NE Mass Sept. 30, 1904. Business: 1928-1938 from clerk t3 Production Manager, Blanchard Lumber Co., Inc., Boston. 1938-1942 Vice-president., General Manager Eastern Pine Sales Corp., Boston. 1943-1946 reorganizing New York concern for bank. 1946-1948 Pres. XL Treas. Mason- Osborne Lumber Co., Inc., Bos- ton, Mass. 1948-1950 Sales Mgr., R. E. Cleaves Sz son Co., Portland, Maine. 1950- Eastern Manager, Ohio Box and Lumber Company, Dayton, Ohio Cofiice, Yarmouth, Mainel. Residence: Cross Road, Princes Point, Yarmouth, Maine CP. O. Box 194J. Community interests: During World War II very active in Civil Defense. acted as Chief of Fire Dept., Westwood, Mass. Wife's Name: Eleanor Mills, married June, 1930. Children: Judith Anne, born 1936. Senior at North Yarmouth Academy, will enter Westbrook Junicr College in Sept., 1953. Barbara Joan, born 1938. Sophomore at North Yarmouth Academy. I wish Bill Alexander had not used that word biography -as, with awe, I've always reserved that term for the great or the humble. Since leaving Bowdoin, my history has been in neither category. I struggled, in as near humbleness as possible, through the depression years we were loosed into, with the one shining glory-marrying my boyhood sweet- heart, herself an integral part of the social life of '28, yet never tainted with its professional legacy. My one approach to greatness was being drafted by a counsel of the six New England governors to head up, organize, and direct the 100 Place and date of birth: Newton, salvage, manufacturing, processing, and finally the selling of the two billion feet plus of timber blown down in the disastrous 1938 hurricane. In conjunction with the U. S. Forest Service, the SCC, the RFC Cpre graft eral, and the Northeastern Timber Salvage Administration, the Eastern Pine Sales Corp. was formed to spend sixty million dollars of Uncle Sam's money, and do this job. They got all the money back, plus a profit, which went as a dividend to the farmers and landowners who lost their timber. Needless to say, what little ability I had, was very ably bolstered by a greedy customer-one A. Hitler, who tcaok time to set the world afire. Hence, a six year program ended in four, because we just ran out of wood. So, I was recommended for a commission in the Navy-and being sick of a desk, sought active line duty. Here, a crochety old captain fwith glasses as thick as a coke bottlej thanked me, but said my eyes Chaving now taken on modest aidj just wouldn't do. My patriotism undaunted, I took active interest in establishing the Civil Defense activi- ties, and wound up becoming the local Fire Chief-resigning this position two weeks after the Fire Station burned to the ground, with all of our equipment. To this day, a whistle in the night, lands me upright beside my bed, rarin' to go. As the history shows, my life has been entirely spent in the lumber business-happilyf and reasonably profitably, tool in the production end, which has kept me in the woods, at the mill sources, where the product is made. People ask- What's your hobby? Well, in almost 30 years QI served my apprenticeship during High School, you seej in the woods, I have yet to wet a line or take my shot , but believe me in such a capacity, there's enough new things each day to keep one on the go-aided and abetted by bringing up two daughters-who luckily inherited their mother's assets, so presently, the local swains beat a path to the door. Our best break was our decision Cas the old man grew older, and the drive harderl to move to Maine. Being in Yarmouth, only 15 minutes from Brunswick, has allowed us all to join and enjoy many of the college activities-especially, football C3 afternoons a week during the 12 weeks of practiceb and the game schedules has caused a good many Sorry, R.A.'s to the boss, custcmers, and the home office. We fEleanor and the girls are most ardent-as those of you that have heard them in the stands can well attestj haven't missed a home or away game the four seasons that we have been here in Maine. So, with this proximity and contact, I have been fortunate in seeing many of our classmates perhaps oftener than many of you. And, I can truthfully say, We licked Casey's predictions-we're growing older- graciously. 101 DONALD W. PARKS Place and date of birth: Haverhill. Mass. June 16, 1906. Business or profession: 1928-1932 on staff of Portland Eve- ning Express, Portland, Maine. Parks' Diner, Waterville, Maine. 1948-51 law student at Waterville, ty Sheriff . 1952-present-private law practice at Brunswick, Maine. Residence: 13 Pleasant St., Brunswick, Maine. Community interests: Methodist, Mason, former member of Kennebec Sheriff's Association, member Waterville Lawyers' Club, Cumberland Bar Association, Maine Bar Association, Counsel forthe Town of Brunswick. Wife's Name: Donna L. Kendall, married August 3, 1936. Contributed by D. K. P. For the past nineteen years I've been putting up with one of the products of a four year term of exposure to glories and greatness of Bowdoin Beata. Namely my betrothed and finally-snared spouse. How l've watched him as the bands played, his head bared, Stetson over his heart, as he exalted in the pleasures of the past and rejoiced at the wis- dom of his choice of Alma Mater! Back in 1936 it was no simple type of cajolery to wheedle this shining example of Bowdoin-trained masculinity into allowing me to wear all white for my own Summer wedding ceremony. His reckless attempt to get black forget-me-nots into my bridal bouquet or a black streamer hang- 102 1932-1948 in restaurant business- Me. and Kennebec County Depu- ing down my back while I trotted to the altar, I knew was a Bowdoin- color complex, and only my sincere pledge of devotion to the snow-white purity of the Polar Bear kept me from waiting at the church. From that day to this I've realized the deep love of this man I chose for the college he chose and as long as I revere the very slightest reference to that choice, he is a devoted and model husband. Don remained in the restaurant business with his Dad many years when I know he would have liked to have made a change to study fer a profession but he didn't let it get him down. What with fishing fhe's a purist, it's fly fishing only for himj, hunting over his English Setter, playing bridge and spoiling me he has managed a well-rounded life. After Don disposed of the business in 1948 and took a four month sojourn to Mexico and California fwith mel he began the study of law and successfully passed the Maine Bar exams and once again the love of dear old Bowdoin came to the fore and he chose Brunswick to open his office for a private practice. He has been appointed Corporation Counsel for the Town of Brunswick and is looking forward to a long and enjoy- able life here in his college town. 103 RICHARD FRANKLIN PHELPs June 16, 1905. Other colleges : ate School of Business Admin. Business or profession: Equitable Life Assurance Scciety, Boston 1931-33, Nat. Telephone Dir. Co., Boston 1934-36, Diebold, Inc., Boston 1937-413 Raytheon Manu- facturing Co., Waltham, 1942-46: Self employed, Overland Amuse- ments 1947-to date: Treas. Sz Sec. Lexington 8z Saugus, Mass. I Residence: 34 Fair Oaks Drive, Lexington, Mass. Community interests: Currently-Finance Comm. First Parish Church, Lexington, Treasurer, Men's Club, First Parish Church, Lexington. Wife's Name: Marie P. Larder, married September 5, 1936. Children: Susan Richardson, born June 6, 1938. Caroline Marie, born January 14, 1945. In retrospect it seems as though the year B. C. fBefore the Crashj Was only yesterday. As a student of sorts, I still feel that the miracle of the Century was : A. That I graduated with our Class B. That I Was accepted at the Harvard Business School C. That I got my MBA I know that at that time I, like many others, felt that the World was my oyster. After specializing in investment banking and finance fat the Business Schoolj it so turned out that in 1930 there were no pearls in the oyster. Statisticians, analyists and the like were then a dime a dozen. After all the insurance business has some association with finance, estates and the like so that is Where I started, dealing with the dead and the dying. My next stint was in advertising, with the organization that edits and publishes Classified Telephone directories. This was a most broadening 104 Place and date of birth: Lynn, Mass. M.B.A. 1930, Harvard Univ. Gradu- experience that opened my eyes to the scope and ramifications of business enterprises and services. As a matter of fact it opened my eyes to an entirely new field and in September of 1936 I married my current and only wife, Marie, at Norton, Mass. Shortly thereafter I was a New England representative for a bank vault and safe Company. This concern at the time was expanding and broadening their line and eventually I swung over into their systems division and promoted a new line cf office systems equipment in the area. Came Pearl Harbor and I went after a commission in the Navy, but Uncle Sam said that my teeth were not in as good condition as my head of hair and that I had better look elsewhere for a spot to serve my country. The Raytheon Mfg. Co. in Waltham gave me my opportunity. In oflice systems and procedures work and Industrial engineering I served out my full four years. By this time we had two daughters and not a son for Bowdoin in sight, so I hung up my shoes and looked for new worlds to conquer. A quick glance around the countryside, both during and shortly after the war, told me that there was more going on than met the eye. Kids were here for sure and would be coming along in greater numbers than ever dreamed of before. To cater to them and keep them amused and occupied would be a sure bet. I have always had an interest in miniature trains so at the first opportunity Ibought a train complete with engine, cars and track. This was to be strictly a side-line and hobby. At an Amusement Park where I set this equipment up, complete with station and all the dressings, it was an instant success. Shortly thereafter an idea was born. If kids would fight to get a ride on a train they would also fight for a ride on a fire truck. No manufacturer made such equipment so I enlisted the aid of my brother-in-law and together built a scale model of a tractor trailer' Hook Sz Ladder Fire Engine capable of carrying some 20 to 25 kids. Within the first week after it was finished and exhibited we had a half dozen or' more inquiries from would be purchasers. From that time on we were in business as manufacturers. The unit was an instant success and we have sold all we could produce to Amusement Parks and Operators across the country. One thing leads to another. Recently I have moved to a new and larger factory and am building a new type intermediate Roller Coaster. 'This is a man-size undertaking. Time alone will tell whether this will be a success or if I go broke in the process. Of one thing I am sure-I started my business career at the wrong end of the life cycle. I don't condemn the insurance business nor look askance at those who provide for the aged and infirm, but you can rest assured that if I am still here for the 50th I will still be making something for, or catering to the new crop of kids-God Bless 'emi 105 WILLIAM CURTIS PIERCE Place and date of birth: New York, New York. March 18, 1906. Other Colleges: Harvard, 1931. L.L.B. Business or profession: Lawyer, Sullivan 8z Cromwell, 48 Wall St., New York, N. Y., Oct. 1, 1931, to date. Became partner as of Jan. 1, 1941. Director Bonne- ville, Ltd., Wendover, Utah, 1945 to date. Director, Belgian- American Banking Corp., 52 Wall St., N. Y. and Director, Bel- gian-American Bank 85 Trust Co., 52 Wall St., New York, N. Y. Service Record: Indoctrination School, Quonset Point, R. I., Aug.-Oct., 1942 as Lieut., U.S.N.R. Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Dept., Washing- ton, D. C., Oct. 1942-Mar. 1943. U. S. Naval Air Station, Atlantic City, N. J., Mar. 1943-May 1944. Air Operations Officer, U.S.S. Admiralty Island QCVE 991 June 1944- Sept. 1945. During first 12 months of operation the CVE 99 steamed over 100,000 miles in the Pacific. Operated off Iwo Jima and Okinawa, and in July 1945, off the Japanese Coast. Returned home Oct. 1945 as a lieutenant commander. Residence: Lawrence Hill Road, Huntington, L. I., N. Y. 1088 Park Ave., New Ylork, N. Y. Wife's Name: Elizabeth Neall Gay, married June 19, 1929. Children: Martin Gay, born March 30, 1935, now in last year at Groton School. William Curtis, Jr., born December 22, 1938 died June 10, 1943. Elizabeth Gay, born August 12, 1942, now in 5th grade, Chapin School, New York City. Josiah, born July 26, 1946, now in lst grade, Buckley School, New York City. 106 Community interests: Trustee, Knickerbocker Hospital, New York City, 1946 to date. Active on various committees of the New York State Bar Association and of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York from 1946 to date relating to banking, trust and probate and other matters. rther- Bill Pierce says he hasn't a friend which I doubt very much. Fu h had one he wouldn't dare ask him to write 300 words, and more if e finally that the above information will have to sufiice. 107 THOMAS A. RILEY Place and date of birth: Bath, Maine. April 29, 1907. Other Colleges: Universities of Munich and Vienna. Yale A.M. Harvard Ph.D. Profession: Smith College 1931-38. Bowdoin College 1938 - Associate professor of German. Residence: 25 Boody St., Brunswick, Maine. Community interests: Active in St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Wife's Name: Elizabeth Dobler. Children: Peter, born February 4, 1932. Now in the Air Force. Born only nine miles from Brunswick, I have struggled hard all my life to get far away from my birthplace-only to be brought back to it by an unyielding, yet kindly and well-meaning fate. The years away were spent studying at universities in Germany and Austria ffour yearsb and teaching at Smith College. A year each at Harvard and Yale were somehow slipped in. Devoted now to widening the horizons of Bowdoin's youth, an international by training and nature, a lover of the theatre and the opera, I spend my days and years in a simple round of duties and amusements familiar to every Bowdoin graduate and undergraduate: the fraternity house, the College Library, the gymnasium, the football field, the Cumberland Motion Picture Theatre, and Louis' Restaurant. I love the College and the Town, yet yearn frequently for the lights of Berlin, Vienna, Rome, or Buenos Aires. Fortunately we at Bowdoin can lead double lives, as my past eight months in Europe show. More and more the sons cf my classmates are popping up as Bowdoin Freshman, looking like their fathers, but seeming so much maturer and wiser than we were at that age. I am compelled nowadays to say with Frost: Now I am old my teachers are the young. What can't be moulded must be cracked and sprung. I strain at lessons fit to start a suture. I go to school to youth to learn the future. 108 KENNETH K. ROUNDS Place and date of birth: Cornish, Maine. May 8, 1906. Business or profession: Banker, National City Bank of New York, June, 1928 to the present. Hongkong and Shanghai, 1929-1941. Sao Paulo and Rio de Janerio since 1942. Currently Manager in Sao Paulo. Residence: Sao Paulo, Brazil. Wife's Name: Lucille Halsey, Charleston, S. C. Children: Anne, born 1940 in China. Elizabeth, born 1945. Upon graduation Ken Rounds joined the National City Bank of New York. After a period of training in New York he went to Hong Kong in early 1929. From 1938 to 1941 he was in Shanghai. In January 1942 he was assigned to Brazil and has Worked in Sao Paulo, Recife and Rio de Janeiro. Some two years ago he returned to Sao Paulo as manager of that branch. Favorite form of recreation is golf and he is playing to his handicap of 7. Also does some hunting and fishing. Keenly enjoys his trip to Bowdoin every third year when in the U. S. on vacation, and con- siderers very fortunate those classmates who get back for Commence- ment and several football games each year. 109 HOWARD F. RYAN Mass. Aug. 25, 1907. Other colleges: Business or profession: ton, retailing. ticn, Penology. 1935-1944 Aetna Casualty SL Surety Company. 1945- Attorney, Insurance Broker, Boston and Salem, Mass. Service Record: Lt. fjgl U.S.N.R. 1944-45. Provost Marshal, U. S. Naval Training Center, Farragut, Idaho. Residence: 321 Lafayette St., Salem, Mass. Community interests: Massachusetts Bar, Federal Bar, Massachusetts and Salem Bar Associations, Marblehead Red Cross, Salem Y.M.C.A., Little League Baseball. Wife's Name: Mary G. Burke, married June 25, 1938. Children: John E., born Jan. 22, 1941. Salem Little League All Stars. H. Allen, born Mar. 21, 1942. Salem Little League. Paul F., born Apr. 6, 1943. Mark J., born Dec. 3, 1946. Variety is perhaps the keynote of my biography. The summer of 1928 was a good one spent as swimming instructor and life guard in Cooperstown, N. Y. In the fall Jordan Marsh Company in Boston offered an opening in its executive training course, and subsequently I became assistant buyer. Retailing did not appeal, and in early 1931 an oppor- tunity arose with Allyn 85 Bacon, text book publishers of Boston, as Sales 110 E W Place and date of birth: Amesbury, Harvard Law School, L.L.B. 1935. 1928-1931 Jordan Marsh Co., Bos- 1931-1932 Allyn Sz Bacon, Boston. 1932-1935 Mass. Dept. of Correc- Representative in Northern New England which proved to be a good move financially. In 1932 I entered Harvard Law School. During my vacation and third year, on a special assignment for the Massachusetts Department of Correction, I did case work study on inmates of the State Prison. It was a fascinating experience. In 1935 upon graduation from Law School I became attorney for the Aetna Casualty 8a Surety Company until 1944 when I was commissioned in the Navy. After indoctrination at Fort Schuyler, I was ordered to Farragut Naval Training Center in Idaho, as Provost Marshal. I was taken seriously ill in 1945, weathered the storm, and am thankfully still here. Released from active duty I opened a law oiiice and insurance agency in Salem, Massachusetts, moving the law office to Boston in 1948 and forming a partnership of Ryan, Kelly 85 McKenney, keeping the insurance agency in Salem. Today, we are looking forward enthusiastically to a new life in Arizona and are making our plans accordingly. In 1938 I missed the 10th reunion while taking the big step. On June 25th at Scituate, Massachusetts Mary G. Burke of Dorchester and Scituate became my ever-loving. The family now numbers six, four boys, John, Allen, Paul and Mark, making a lively household to say the least. I am a member of the Massachusetts and Federal Bar, and of the Massachusetts and Salem Bar Association. Politically I am a conservative independent. In conclusion while I can boast of neither riches nor honors, life has been interesting, and I look forward to the future expectantly. 111 CHARLEs H. SAWYER Place and date of birth: March 21, 1906. Business: Assistant Works Manager, Smith Lee Co., Inc., Oneida, N. Y. 1933- President and Treasurer, Lincoln Associate, Bangor, Maine fTimb- erlandsj 1939- Residence: 508 Main St., Oneida, N. Y. Community interests: Past Master Oneida Lodge 270, A. F. Xt A. M. Oneida Chamber of' Commerce. Wife's Name: Candace Lamberson Loud. Married June 19, 1937, New York City. Children: Caroline E., born September 25, 1938. Charles R., born May 16, 1940. John Stephen, born January 17, 1942. After two years in Buffalo with duPont and one in a New Hampshire paper mill, I finally settled down here in Central New York State. This is an excellent place to live, work, and raise a family, the only disadvantage from my standpoint being the distance from Brunswick. There are not many of us Bowdoin people in upstate New York. We have been able to get to the odd year Bowdoin game at Williamstown. Also manage to get to Maine fBangorD once or twice a year, and have had an opportunity to admire the new Bowdoin buildings. The visits of the Bowdoin Glee Club to Syracuse during the past several spring trips have been very welcome, and the concerts tops as always. Raising and supporting my family of two boys and a girl have kept me reasonably busy, but find enough time for plenty of fishing and hunting. Have not gained much weight around the middle as some are prone to do, but the bald spot gets larger year by year. It is our hope to get back to the 25th reunion this spring, and we intend to make every effort to do so. 112 CLARK S. SEARS Place and date of birth: Danvers, Mass. Oct. 15, 1906. Other colleges: Northeastern Law School, L.L.B. Profession: State Street Trust Co., Boston, 1929-1934: individual law prac- tice, 1934 to date, Salem, Mass. Service Record: Lieutenant, U. S. Navy, 1943-46. Residence: 400 Locust St., Danvers, Mass. Community interests: Town Counsel, Town Meeting member: Chair- man Planning Boardg Lions Club: the usual fund raising commit- tees. Wife's Name: DeLocha K. Sears. After college I thought I wanted to be a banker, but on a family compromise I went to evening law schcol. It was just as well for after five years at the State Street Trust Co. I knew I would be an old man before I would be able to receive a living wage. My law business has been very satisfactory. I have specialized in estates and trusts, title work and a general oflice practice, with the exception that I do not take any trial cases. My first marriage was mutually discontinued in 19433 my present wife and I live about two miles out of Danvers. We have about two hundred acres of land, most of which we rent for farming purposes, but it gives me an opportunity for hunting, skating, etc., and just being out of doors. We both play golf at least three times a week and enjoy all of the social functions at the Salem Country Club, as well as those in the community. We get away from it all' once a year by spending a month in Florida, usually after income taxes have all been filed. Whether or not we are able to get to our reunion this year will depend on When I am able to leave my practice for our Florida trip. 113 ARTHUR CHAPIN SEELYE Place and date of birth: Worcester, Mass. April 27 1905. Other colleges: M.I.T.-B.S. degree. Business: Newport News Shipbuilding Zia Dry Dock Co., Virginia 193141935 Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, 1935-- 1946. Riley Stoker Corp., Worcester. Mass. 1947-. Residence: Nicarga , Spencer, Community interests: Spencer Red Cross, Vice-Chairman, Disaster Service Chairman, Town Chair- man Boy Scout Drive, Youth Dance Chairman. Wifeis Name: Galli, Eugene Rrepecki-d' Oresko. Children: Nicholas Arthur Chapin, born July 15, 1936. Germantown Academy, Philadelphia, Pa., Bancroft School, VVo1'cester, Mass., David Prouty High School, Spencer, Mass. After obtaining my engineering degree from lVI.I.T. in Marine Engi- neering and Naval Architecture in 1931, I worked off my early growing pains at Newport News, Virginia, plugging at aircraft carrier designs for four years, and putting in spare time on sailing, swimming and horse- back riding. In 1935 I moved to Philadelphia with a newly acquired wife and a new job. The job was along old lines but leaning toward cruisers and battleships instead of carriers. The wife was along new lines-lovely lines, and life began to improve immeasurably. In 1936 our son came into the world and spare time went out. We gradually moved away from the center of the city to get more space for little Nick to thrash around in, and the further we moved the better we liked it, until we finally came up to Massachusetts and settled down to live on a seventy-six acre farm in a charming two hundred year old house, where we are doing things with Nubian dairy goats and Guernsey cattle, and wonder why people ever want to live in cities. 114 EDWARD B. SIMPSON nan Place and date of birth: Bridgton, Maine. Sept. 3, 1906. Business or profession: Aug. 1929 to Feb. 1931-Manager Trainee, W. T. Grant Co., Hous- ton, Texas: Feb. 1931 to Apr. 1931-Wichita Falls, Texas 3 May 1931 to Jan. 1933 Assistant Man- ager, Salt Lake City, Utah: Jan. to Nov. 1933, Manager, East St. Louis, Nov. 1933 to Oct. 1935 Manager, South Bend, Ind. Oct. 1935 to Nov. 1936, Mgr., Colum- bus, O.: May 1942 to present, Manager, Hammond, Ind. Residence: 8937 Southmoor, Highland, Indiana. Community interests: Director and Vice-President Hammond Kiwanis Club: Director Chamber of Commerce: President Hammond Merchants Association, Director Hammond Chapter Red Crcss: Chairman Com- mercial Division Red Cross: Board of Governors Hammond Century Club. Masonic Order: Blue Lodge, Bridgton, Maine: Scottish Rite Consistory 32 degree, Houston, Texas: Noble A.A.A.O.M.S. Hammond, Orak Temple. Wifeis Name: Dorothy Jordan. Children: Charles Dana, born July 20, 1943-Fourth grade, Lincoln School, Highland, Indiana. My wife, Dorothy, Bates '27, gave up her 25th Reunion last year to go to the Kiwanis Convention with me in Seattle in June. We had a wonderful trip, going by way of Canada, visiting the Canadian Rockies, Lake Louise, the Banff, Vancouver, Victoria, and a boat trip to Seattle. After the convention we went south to Los Angeles, and then back to Chicago. This year I intend to bring that nice Bates girl to Brunswick to help me celebrate. 115 Qwmfms 4 POWELL STEWART Place and date ot' birth: Norwood. Ohio. 1907. Other colleges: M.A., Harvard. Ph.D., Univ. of Texas. Profession: Assistant professor of English, University cf Texas, since 1929. Service Record: 1942-45 - Ground School Instructor, Bombardier, Director of Ground School, U.S. A.A.F. rank of Captain. All serv- ice in continental U. S. Residence: M. B. 2305, University of Texas, Austin, Texas. Wife's Name: Mary McKee. Children: Bruce, born 1945, now in 2nd grade. Having been reared for 17 years in Cincinnati, Ohio, where I sailed with high grades through a classical high school, I came to Bowdoin, where I rubbed my juvenile provinciality rather roughly against the equally youthful and every bit as provincial attitudes of eastern boys to whom Albany was the far west. In the process, some cf the hard corners got rubbed off, and what remained was rather modified by the neither youthful nor provincial molding of the faculty. For two years at Bow- doin, I pursued courses preparatory to work in engineering, and then trans- ferred to the University of Cincinnati, enrolling as a chemical engineering student. Two weeks there convinced me that my heart belonged to Bow- doin and my mind to literature and not scienceg so back I came to Bruns- wick, where two further years of courses in English justified my switch by leaving me with a cum attached to my degree. Secure in my laurels, I next stormed John Harvard's boys' school on the Charles, but was able after a full year's seige to capture nothing more than a bare M.A. This prize, however, I was able to barter for an instructorship in English at the University of Texas, wherever in the world that was. Finding that it was on the map, I closed the deal and 116 was able to get there, to my surprise, by train, not horseback. And there, except for the war years, I have been ever since. When I walked into my first class, in freshman English, the gruff voice of a football player in the back row boomed out, Say, ask him how old he is ? Today, alas, I run no such dangers, for although I'm still a toofer, a curious shift has taken place: I weigh the same as I did at Bowdoin, and yet I've lost most of my hair, a goodly number of teeth, a heavy load of youthful ideas, and the terrific weight of feeling that I must reshape the world. At any rate, an apple-polishing student now describes me in a theme as a genial elderly gentleman, and genial and gentleman earn him an A. During the war I was as hot a bombardier as ever dropped a prac- tice bomb in the old pickle barrel, but the day I was granted my rating and pinned on my wings I was grounded because of age. That, class- mates, was a full ten years ago! The best four years of my life ? For one reason only I can't reply that they were my Bowdoin days. As my best four years I have to name the last twelve, those since my marriage,-and-rnyr wife isn't looking over my shoulder. Son Bruce, aged 8, is already up to my shoulders Cno cracks that that doesn't make him very bigj, and if I'm ever going to convince him who's boss I'll have to do it soon before he begins taking me over his knee. I very seldom ride, play polo no more, do handstands only when my cups give me delusions of being young, but for exercise and relaxation I sail, in the summer on a 28 foot sloop in Michigan, and all winter in a 20 foot double-ender of my own construction. The only Bowdoin men I ever see are Ed Fletcher, who teaches here, Maurice Graves, who enter- tained me heartily in Chicago, and Hog Hawthorne, who touches Texas once a year. And although I'd like to, perhaps it's just as well I can't attend the 25th reunion, for I wasn't for Ike, as letters I've recently had from Bowdoin assume all loyal Bowdoin alumni were. But still, if some- one will only endow me, Illl send my son to Bowdoin in the fall,-of 1963. 117 JOHN STYLES STODDARD Place and date of birth: New Britain, Conn. March 19, 1905. Business or profession: President and General Manager, Stoddard Bros., Inc., Hartford, Conn. Internal Auditor, Remington Arms, Inc., Bridge- port, Conn. Supervisor Accounts Payable Dept.. Bridgeport Lycoming Div. Avco Mfg. Corp., Stratford, Conn. Residence: 145 Glenwood Ave., Stratford, Conn. Community interests: Member Executive Committee, Boy Scouts, Civilian Defense. Wife's Name: Esther Hirschfeld of Meriden, Conn. Children: John L. Stoddard, born Dec. 17, 1929. Graduate of Univ. of Conn. Sergeant, U. S. Army-Psychological Warfare Group-two years in Korea. John Styles Stoddard-Born March 19, 1905 in New Britain, Connecti- cut. Attended Meriden Grade School and Meriden High School for two years. Then my Dad decided if I was ever going to get into Bowdoin, I had better transfer to a preparatory school. I entered the Choate School, Wallingford, Connecticut in 1921 where I spent the next three years, graduating in June, 1924. While at Choate I won my letter for three years in football and managed the crew which incidentally was National Preparatory School Champs that year. In my senior year, I was awarded prizes for excellency in History and Mathe- matics. In the fall of 1924, by the skin of my teeth and a big push by Prof. Morgan Cushing, I slid into Bowdoin with a condition in Latin ftook the College Board Exam in Latin nine times and never passedj. Regretfully, I state that my career at Bowdoin lasted only one year during which I became a member of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity. Five days after leaving Bowdoin in June, 1925. I started my first job at the Prince George Hotel in New York City where for the following 118 year and one-half I was given an opportunity to learn the hotel business. For two years after that I owned and operated The Hearthstone Inn at Berlin, Conn. In the fall of 1927 Esther Hirschfield of Meriden, Conn. and I were married. A son John L. was born December 17, 1929. CBecame a widower in 1934.5 A The Hearthstone Inn was sold in 1929 and socn after I entered into business with my brother manufacturing prune and tomato juice and apricot nectar under the name of Stoddard Bros., Inc., Hartford, Conn. I resigned as President and General Manager of the company three years later to enter the Accounting field in industrial plants in the vicinity of Bridgeport, Conn. For several years I was Internal Auditor at Remington Arms, Inc., Bridgeport, Conn. I was with Chance Vought Aircraft Division of United Aircraft Corporation, Stratford, Connecticut as Assistant Supervisor of Contract Terminaticn Accounting Department until the company moved to Dallas, Texas. I am presently Supervisor of Accounts Payable Department at Bridge- port-Lycoming Division of Avco Manufacturing Corporation, Stratford, Connecticut. 119 REGINALD KITTREDGE SWETT C0-chairman 25th, Reunion Committee. Place and date of birth: Bradford, Massachusetts. Dec. 24, 1906 Business: Treasurer, Swett Bros., field, Mass. Residence: 896 Longmeadow St., Longmeadow, Mass. Community interests: Director Y.M.- C.A., Springfield, Director of Two-State Y.M.C.A.g Director of Chamber of Commerce of Spring- field, Incorporator of Springfield College, Springfield Hospital, and Wesson Maternity Hospitalg Member of School Building Com- mittee, Longmeadow , Chairman of Springfield City Traffic Committee. Wife's Name: Mary Hamilton. Children: Mary Jane, born June 28, 1934, graduated MacDuffie School for Girls, Springfield. Now attending Wheaton College, Norton, Mass. as a freshman. Peter, born Jan. 15, 1940, 6th grade at Longmeadow Center School. Looking at Bowdoin in retrospect after twenty-five years, I am grate- ful that it is still a liberal arts college. In spite of a pre-medic training and one year of medical school, Bowdoin taught me how to live and mature in this competitive world. The philosophy taught at Bowdoin has made me realize the value of the individual and that human dignity means more than material wealth. This principal is practiced here at Swett Brothers with gratifying results. It goes beyond our own plant Overall Picturel' to the Big Picture which covers the outside community. Our fellow associates are all respected as individuals and the eighty employees all carry their share inthe Overall Picture . I am looking forward to greeting all my fellow classmates this June. 120 Heating Sz Appliance Co., Spring'- midi' A i f fp . 41 5,3 1. Y I 'Q fe' at y f KENNETH LEE TALBOT , A iw .3-,ff Place and date of birth: Bangor, ti 1 A Maine. April 25, 1905. I? 'lf My A.. Other colleges: 1 .W New England College of Pharmacy, B.S. Reg. Pharmacist. Business: Pharmacist. I'm the steady type, at Clough 8m Shackley, 6615 Beacon St., Bos- ton, since leaving Pharmacy Col- lege. Only job I've ever heldg as junior clerk, senior clerk, assist- ant manager, manager. Service Record: Ended up as Staff Sgt., in ETO. Drafted in April, 1942 and left in August 1945. While in Army reached Ireland, England, France, Germany. Spent about two years overseas. Was there for D Day. Residence: 121 Chambers St., Boston, Mass. Not married. Being a pharmacist did keep me off the streets and out of the gutters for at least three evenings a week. Shouldn't brag but I do cook and get a kick from it. Generally hlave company in to test my new dishes. May I state that I'm well-known for my Italian Spaghetti Sauce and Meat Balls. Spent a year in TB San and as they were short of school teachers I had my classes! Fun, but kept me busy keeping ahead of the various patients. Often wonder if Tom Riley, my former room mate at Bowdoin has the same trouble. During past two years have spent most of it in Vets. Hospital for Cardiac condition. Got rather boring at times. But new operation has been performed and my condition has much improved. Oh, yes, did spend one summer three years ago in Paris and France. Secretary's note: Ken lost his struggle for health after he sent this information to us. 121 DONALD R. TAYLOR Place and date of birth: Bangor, Maine. January 8, 1907. Business: Life insurance salesman. 12 years in Bangor, Maine. Life Ins. General Agent 3 years in Portland, Shipyard 'Coordinator' 3 years in Portland. Hardware and furniture merchant, Taylor-Berry, Inc., 7 years to present in Bucksport, Maine. Residence: Bucksport, Maine. Community interests: Secretary-treasurer Bucksport Civic Club. Wife's Name: Rubye M. Taylor. Children: Joanne and Suzanne, born April 30, 1937, identical twins. Bucks- port High School. Both smarter and prettier than I was-must get it from Rubye. - I've delayed four months hoping a light-handed mood would come along, but will have to write now regardless, or miss publication, and these printed lines aiord the only way I can be with you this June. I bought out my business partner's interest last Fall and since then I'm a Captain of Industry with no crew and not much pay. Being your own boss under these circumstances is the greatest contradiction ever. Now, and for some time to come, I'm working days, nights and Sundays, literally, to keep the operation going. On cross-examination from the twins recently as to why I majored in Philosophy at Bowdoin, I said it was so I could enjoy my leisure hours more intelligently. Oh well, at least I can be philosophical about having- no leisure. I hope all you guys who are able to give tidy sums to the Class Fund have escaped the ulcers that usually go with that ability. I am rela- tively poor and my health is correspondingly good. Sound sleep is the answer, and particularly of late I have noticed that because of the com- bined circumstances of working so hard and long, going without coiee- at the night meal and, naturally, because of my advancing years too, when I finally do hit the sack at night, I can't stay awake for a second. 122 RICHARD SALTER THAYER Place and date of birth: Stoneham, Mass. Oct. 31, 1905. Other colleges: Boston University Business School. Business: Eastern Steamship Lines, treas- urer's office, 1928-293 Purchasing Dept. 1929-30. Assistant to Port Captain, 1930-37. The Macallen Co., Boston. Maintenance Manager, 1937 - Assistant to General Mgr., 1939 -Purchasing Agent, 1945 - Assistant Treasurer, 1947. Residence: Nanepashemet Street, Marblehead, Mass. Community interests: Chairman Marblehead Chapter, American Red Crcss 1937-44. Town Finance Committee, 1937-44, Secretary, 1940, Acting Chairman, 1940. Board of Directors Marblehead Neck Improvement Association 1945, Secretary 1946-485 Vice-President 1952. Board of Directors Marblehead Taxpayers Association, 1945. Secretary 1946- 483 Vice-President 1952. Wife's Name: Eleynore Rowe, married Jan. 20, 1934. Children: Ellen, born Nov. 22, 1945-Grade 2. Joan, born April 4, 1947-kindergarten. Sarah Louise, born Oct. 11, 1948. Nothing noteworthy about childhood except summers at Marblehead where sailing was chief sport. Was Commodore of Pleon Yacht Club Coldest Junior yacht club in Americaj 1920-25. As skipper of this club's crew won the first National Junior sailing championship in 1921, and was runner up the next year. After college worked for Eastern Steamship Lines and exercised by playing with the Boston Hockey Club. Went to Poland with this team representing the United States in the World's Championship in 1931. 123 Came out second best to Canada 2-0. Realized a lifetime ambition by beating Yale 1-0 before the trip and Harvard 6-3 after our return. Married Elynore Rowe 1934 after a year's courtship, on 329.90 a week. Lost two children 1935 and 1941, but now have three girls born 1945, 1947 and 1948. Became civic minded in 1937. Left Eastern to work for The Macallen Company fmical the same year. Bought a house in 1944 and have been paying for it ever since. Helped organize Marblehead Taxpayers Association 1949. Until 1950 played on a softball team which won the league champion- ship 3 out of 5 years. Take winter vacations skiing in New Hampshire. Have maintained interest in music, presently taking lessons and playing clarinet in Marblehead Community Orchestra. 1949 won New England Purchasing Agents award with paper on How to Buy Mica . June 1952 was a technical advisor to the United States delegation on Mica at the International Standards meetings in New York. Scheduled to address the American Ceramics Society symposium on mica January, 1953 in New York. 124 PAUL TIEMER Place and date of birth: Orange, N. J. June 11, 1905. Business or profession. Advertising, Scripps-Howard News- papers, New York City, 1932- 1937. Advertising, Time, Inc., 1937- 1938. Advertising, Paul H. Raymer Co., Radio Station representatives, New York City, 1938 to present. Residence: 124 Myrtle St., Boston, Mass. Community interests: Little Theatre, Summit, N. J. and Wilton, Conn. 'Various ofiices P. T. A., Wilton, Conn. Wife's Name: Ellen Doane Newell of Bath, Maine. married 1932. Children: Paul, Jr., 20 years old. Deerfield Academy, now sophomore at Dartmouth, and Alpha Delt like his old man. Soccer and Lacrosse are his sports and skiing for recreation. Between the engine room of a tanker to the Persian Gulf, and last summer driving a combine in the Kansas-Nebraska wheat harvest, he seems to get around. Jane deGroot, 18 years old. Senior at Northfield School. Likes drama- tics and swimming. Hopes to go to Skidmore or Smith, and likes Mathematics, not like her old man. Perhaps this piece should start at the end and read backwards, to- ward the beginning. But that might make it hard to stcp at the right place. Maybe we'd meet ourselves coming the other way. That could easily happen. Before Bowdoin-well, all that was covered by the Montclair Academy CN. J .J Ye Yeare Booke. Then came that in between period. Between wars, between depressions, between dates, between the Dean's Ofiice and . . . but that part's all in The Bugle or it's too easy to be reminded of just what went on by reference to said book, as anyone in- terested can do. And now comes this more recent span that's neither the end nor the beginning, and possibly not quite all that's going to remain in between. 125 Right now, weight is 165 pounds. In college it ran around 150, so not too much has taken place there, although we're a little above our usual heft at the moment. The top of the head is still mostly covered and brownish albeit rather short and scanty on that very important upper area. My family and I landed on Beacon Hill early in 1952 when I came to Boston tc take over the New England office of the company I have been with since 1938. Before Boston, the title was V. P. and Sales Manager in the New York oflice, and Wilton, Connecticut, had been the home address for ten years. The principal thing our business attempts to do is keep the broadcasting and television stations we represent around the country happy by selling a lot of their time to advertisers like may- be some of you are. Back around 1938 while putting on a Little Theatre show in Summit, N. J., where we then lived, fhaving sampled Greenwich Village for a few years,D a fellow ham acquaintance mentioned, after rehearsal cne night, that he sold time-and what did I do? Why, live been selling Time, I allowed, and right there is how I got out of the magazine business and into radio. Before the stop-over on Time, it was five or six years in the national advertising department of the Scripps- Howard newspaper chain. And now we're about back to the date cf the wedding which was formalized on a Saturday afternoon at the Little Church Around the Clcrner in N. Y. C. My bride was a Uwoiking goil in those days fnot that her job hasn't been much tougher sincel so we both asked for the morning off. Right after Bowdoin an alumnus employment-helper cautioned that out in life, now, it was best to get one's feet on the ground as quickly as possible. That may have been why my first job was a runner out of an office on the thirty-sixth floor of 44 Wall Street. The senior partner, also Bowdoin, must have followed me out one day, and forg'otten to re- turn, fcr shortly thereafter the firm went into receivership and passed out of existence. Somehow there's been time for other things too and sailing, fishing and hunting seem to have occupied most of it with some skiing and a few turns on the blades thrown in during the of season. Breeding land showing Beagles was well on its way to becoming happy-home-breakerm upper number one when the war came along and conveniently settled that one. But we still love the little fellows. Paul Jr. seemed to have a plausible answer for going to Dartmouth and its Engineering Schooln with Lacrosse and Soccer as added attractions. And at this writing Jane has it about narrowed down to Skidmore or Smith for this fall, although boards of admission and woman's whimsy may alter the final outcome. Guess we'll have to wait for the next generation to send a son to Bowdoin in the fall. But between summers on Casco Bay and frequent trips back and forth through Brunswick, the steps of Hubbard Hall don't seem so very far away after all. 126 STEPHEN DAIN TRAFTON Class President Place and date of birth: Auburn, Maine. May 7, 1907. Other colleges: M.B.A., Harvard Graduate School of Business. Business or profession: Vice President and Trust Officer, Manufacturers National Bank, Lewiston, Maine. Residence: 161 Wood St., Lewiston, Maine. Community interests: Treasurer and Director-Central Maine General Hospital, Lewiston: Trustee Au- burn Y.M.C.A. Wife's Name: Eloise Atwood. Children: Dain Atwood, born Sept. 22, 1938, now at Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. H. Thomas Allen, born Oct. 31, 1941. Jennifer Frances, born July 19, 1945. In June 1928, I went off to Harvard Business School thinking I had the world by the tail! We studied the causes and effect and duration of the 1929 recession . Boy, did we have that figured wrong! Then four years in the shoe business, and in late '33 I tried my hand at Banking. Am still living in Lewiston, except that for the last twelve years we have spent our summers on a small farm in the Town of Webster CSabattusD. I suppose just the desire to dig my feet into the soil a bit. Even built a small pond for swimming, fire protection, fish, etc. My family, a little reading, a week or so of fiy fishing each spring, a small amount of traveling, plus the usual Community activities, take up my spare time. Have reached the stage where I no longer think I'm young, but still don't think I'm too old. Looking forward to seeing you all next June. 127 ROBERT H. TRIPP Place and date of birth: Worcester, Mass. Jan. 11, 1905. Business: Graton 85 Knight, Worcester, Mass. Dept. Head 1926-1932. O. C. White Co., Worcester, Mass. Sales Manager, Jan.-June 1933. American Handicrafts Co., New York, N. Y. President and owner, 1933-1952. Service Record: Filling war orders Army-Navy E . Residence: Dubois, Wyoming. Community interests: Pres. Chathan Manor Associates 19425 Rotary Club, East Orange, N. J. 1945-1952, Chamber of Commerce, East Orange, President Worcester Academy Alumni Association of New York, 1947, Morning Star Lodge A.F.8zA.M.g Eureka Chapter, R.A.M. Wife's Name: Ina Lawson. Being one of the brighter, more studious members of the Class of 128, with the help of Dean Nixon, I managed to graduate from Bowdoin twc years ahead of the rest of my class. Of course my real reason for completing my studies so quickly, was that I could forsee the depression and decided that a two years jump on my classmates in the business world would be advantageous. Following this line of reasoning, my first job upon graduation and one which I felt would give me great training for the future, was Life Guard and Swimming Instructor at Megansett on Cape Cod. Here my studies in wrestling and track at Bowdoin proved of great value and coupled with a coat of tan, made me a great success, particularly with the young hope-to-be-married set. Unfortunately the bathing season was soon over and I sought employ- ment with the Graton 8: Knight Company cf Worcester, Massachusetts, where they put me in charge of their Service and Adjustment Dept. 128 fstraightening out messes between customer and Company accountsb. Not knowing a debit from a credit, they soon put me in charge of their new Leathercraft Department. Leathercraft is something like cutting paper dolls only you do it in leather. With the depression coming on, I could see a great future, because more and more people would need to relax by cutting out paper dolls or doing Leathercraft, so I ran the De- partment until December, 1932. By that time, lots and lots of people were cutting out paper dolls and doing Leathercraft, so I gave up the Department and tried selling electrical fixtures for six months, hoping to shed a little light on the depression gloom. However, the Boss and I disagreed on methods, so in six months I was back in the Leathercraft business and established the American Handicrafts Company in New York in June, 1933. By that time almost everyone was cutting out paper dolls or jumping out windows, so the business prospered. However in 1937 it was still tough sledding so to save payroll, I. married my Secretary, Ina Lawson. To teach her the value of the great outdoors, and particularly free meat for the shooting, we spent our hunting moon in Maine. Since then Ina has accompanied me on many trips in Maine, British Columbia and Wyoming. In the meantime, with Ina's help, the American Handicrafts Company expanded into the largest Handicraft firm in the country carrying practi- cally everything in the line of equipment, tocls and materials used in all of the handicrafts, with stores in Los Angeles, New York City and East Orange, N. J. After carrying the business through the war years with many con- tracts with the Army and Navy Medical, Veterans Administration and Army Special Services, the problem of running a large business increased many fold, so that in September 1952, feeling the need of a change ourselves, we disposed of the Company and have moved into a country where the hunting and fishing are at its best. We have venison, ducks and rabbits in the freezer, although we didn't arrive here until the 21st -cf November. Next year there will be trout, pheasant and elk added to our menu, with perhaps moose and mountain sheep. I At the moment we haven't a plan in the world except to enjoy life and to find some little occupation to keep us happy in Wonderful Wyom- ing . Dubois is ninety miles southeast of Yellowstone National Park on U. S. Rt. 287. The latch string is always out for any members of the Class of '28, 129 PAUL FRANCIS VANADIA ,1 Place and date of birth: Enna Sicily, Italy. Sept. 12, 1906. A Other colleges: I Various courses, including French and History at Columbia Univ. Mercer Beasley School of Law, L.L.B., 1934. Business or profession: Various jobs from 1928 to 1934, , Wall St., news reporter, welfare worker. Admitted to practice of law in New Jersey in 1936. Executive Secretary of Newark Area New Jersey Office of Civil- ian Defense, Director, 1941-43. K ...J Employed by Western Electric Co., 1943- 1947 in Business Methods Dept. as supervisor of Industrial and Public Relations. Presently engaged in practice of law, General Counsel for L-R Heat Treating Co., 107 Vesey St., Newark, N. J. Residence: 16 Helen Ave., West Orange, N. J. Community interests: On staff of New Jersey State Office of Civilian Defense Director during World War II. Wife's Name: Ann Federici. Children: Peter Francis, born Dec. 11, 1941, will graduate from Gregory School, West Orange, N. J. in June 1953. Arrived in New York City from Sunny Sicily at the age of 6, Francesco- Paolo Vanadia moved with his family to Newark, New Jersey after one year. Like most boys, Paul got through measles, mumps and public school. At Barringer High School, from which he was graduated at the age of 17, one of his teachers, a Bowdoin graduate, steered Paul to Bowdoin. Paul says that his four years at Bowdoin taught him how to live, but not how to earn a living. Or perhaps it was the Great Depression that 130 made him feel like that. At any rate, Paul tried bank clerking, working in Wall Street brokerage houses, and newspaper reporting fwhere he suceeded in getting the fancy title of Real Estate and Business Editor on the old Newark Star-Eagle, predecessor of the present Newark Star Ledger, but little in the way of hard cashl before enrolling at Mercer Beasley Law School fnow Rutgers University Law Schooly in 1931. While attending law school he worked as a Social Welfare Case Worker for the City of Newark, and also found time to court a girl and get married in 1933. After receiving his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1934 Paul was a law clerk for two years, at 35.00 a week, before he was admitted to the practice of law in the State of New Jersey. During World War II Paul volunteered for the Special Services, but was not accepted. He shut his law office, became a member of the State Ofiice of Civilian Defense and worked for 3V2 years in the Business Methods Department of Western Electric Company, in Kearny, New Jersey, where he became a supervisor, in charge of Industrial and Public Relations. In 1947 he resumed the full time practice of law, and is now also a licensed real estate and insurance broker. In 1952 he accepted a position as General Counsel for L-R Heat Treating Co., in Newark, New Jersey, one of the largest commercial heat treating plants in the east. Paul maintains law offices in Newark. As a leisure time project and hobby fand perhaps with an eye toward his retirement yearsj Paul recently acquired title to a group of seven cottages on the Jersey coast, near the Spring Lake railroad station, his cottage colony is known as Mercer Court. Paul insists that real estate income property is a hedge against both inflation and depression. All we're sure of is that we have lived through both. Married to Ann Federici, a former school teacher, Paul resides with his Wife and 11 year old son, Peter Francis, in West Orange, New Jersey. 131 l . FRANK S. VVALCH Place and date of birth: Brunswick, Maine. Jan. 27, 1904. Business or profession: 1928-30 Transportation, Nyack, N. Y.g 1930-1936 Real Estate, Brunswick, Maine g 1936-1939 Textiles, Brunswick, Maine, 1939 Manufacturing, New Britain, Conn., 1940- Ship Machinery Mfg., Bath, Maine. Residence: 28 Bowker St., Brunswick, Maine. Wife's Name: Phyllis Perry. Children: Stephen P., born May 23, 1945-grade school. Dennis A., born Nov 18, 1948. Martha P., born Apr. 14, 1950. Ellen V., born July 21, 1952. Having been born about 200 yards west of the college, and moving at the age of six to a point 200 yards east of the campus, where I have lived most of the time since, I hereby claim the distinction of having seen Bowdoin earlier, later, and more frequently than any other member of '28, My other distinction will be to prove to my classmates that life does begin at forty, for it was at that mature age that I first took a wife, and started to raise my brood of four active children who, though I am proud of them, at times nearly drive me mad. In politics I am a conservative reactionary Republican and that is probably why I believe in holding on to that which is good. For that reason I have lived in the same house for 42 years, held the same job for 13 years, owned the same car for 12 years, and been married to the same woman for 815 years. After graduation my financial aspirations were for a considerable time thwarted by a combination of youthful philandering and wandering, too starry ideals, and a bout with the great depression. As I get older I find there is a lot of money in the world, and I spend considertable time trying to get hold of my share of it, without too much success. At pres- ent I hold down one regular job as well as several side lines. One of these side lines is an apple orchard in the town of Bowdoin, Maine which I naturally call the Bowdoin Orchards. This I am enlarging to 2,000 trees. I also give in occasionally to the urge to buy and sell real estate, that is, to buy distress property cheaply, improve it, and hope to resell at a profit. My present ambition is to retire from my present job, develop my several side lines into my regular work, and perhaps sleep till nine once a month and take a couple of week ends off a year, but for the time being with six hungry mouths to feed I will have to continue my present schedule for awhile. 132 THOMAS ELIOT WEIL Place and date of -birth: Chicago, Illinois. June 23, 1906. Other colleges: Graduate work in History, Univ. of Illinois, 1928-29. Business or profession: Foreign Service Officer, Dept. of State. History instructor, Scarborough School, Scarborough-on-Hudson, 1929-313 passed Foreign Service Examinations 1932, instructor in Army and Navy preparatory schools, Washington, D. C., 1932- 342 administrative assistant, Federal Housing Administration, 1934-353 commissioned Foreign Service Ofiicer, 1935. Assignments: Consulate General, Marseille, France, 1935-363 Department of State, 1936-373 Consulate General, Canton, China, 1937-383 Embassy, Chung- king, 1938-413 Consulate General, Shanghai, 19413 in Japanese cus- tody, 1941-423 Legation, Wellington, New Zealand, 1942-453 U. N. O. Conference, San Francisco, 19453 U. S. Mission, New Delhi, India, and Embassy, New Delhi, 1945-483 Embassy, Kabul, Afghanistan- First Secretary and Charge d' Affaires-1948-493 Department of State, 1949-523 Deputy Director, Office of South Asian Affairs, 1951- 523 National War College, Fort McNair, Washington, D. C., 1952-53. Residence: 307 West Bradley Lane, Chevy Chase, Maryland. After July 1953: cfo Foreign Service Mail Room, Dept. of State, Washington 25, D. C. Wife's Name: Joan Patricia Bayliss, married Jan. 21, 1948. Children: Thomas Eliot, Jr., born Oct. 19, 1948 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Susan Spencer, born Nov. 26, 1949 in Washington, D. C. Richard Dawes, born March 30, 1952 in Washington, D. C. Among the many pleasing features of Eliot's Washington assign- ment are the Bowdoin dinners and smokers, and the prospect of seeing 133 Brunswick-for the first time in 24 years-before he leaves for a new foreign post in 1953. Eliot has found that Bowdoin reunions overseas have made up in zest and heartiness all that they lacked in numbers. During the late thirties, as a result of the untiring efforts of a thin line of heroes which included Ken Rounds and Ira Crocker, Bowdoin Beata was sung on festive occasions up and down the China Coast almost as frequently and cacaphonously as Sweet Adeline . Eliot claims the distinction of having participated in the largest meeting of Zeta Psi brethren ever held in Central Asia. When he arrived at the Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1948 he found that two Zetes- Ambassador Ely Eliot Palmer CBrownJ and George Eliot Palmer fBritish Columbiaj-had preceded him there. The total number of known Zetes in that far-off capital was thus swelled to three. An achievement in international relations of which Eliot is justly proud is his success in persuading Joan Patricia Baylliss of Auckland, New Zealand, to become a Foreign Service wife. Having survived a pro- longed state of single bliss, he now takes to domesticity like a duck to water and throroughly enjoys the role of pere de famille. Eliot is also enjoying his assignment at the National War College, and is becoming hardened to the heckling of three-year-old Susan-shown in the accompanying snapshot at a pre-Christmas party--who impishly belabors him with the stern command: Daddy! You do your lessons! Tommy, aged four, studies football pictures in the ALUMNUS avidly with a view to ascertain which'player-if any-is carrying the ball, while Richard at nine months seems well on the way to qualifying as a guard or a center. Tommy is already of the opinion that Bowdoin is a pretty fine school -though it must be admitted that this reflects a certain amount of gentle thought-control on the part of his father. It's a safe bet that when Tommy arrives at his next foreign post the first treasure to go up on the wall of his bedroom will be his battered but unbowed Bowdoin banner, vintage of 1928. 134 I 1 rx , HAL C. WHITCOMB Place and date of birth: Pittsburgh, Pa. Aug. 16, 1907. Other colleges: Yale, A.B., 1929 Northwestern University School of Commerce, M.B.A., 1949. C.P.A., Illinois cert. No. 3896. Business or profession: Comptroller's Staff, Mack Trucks, Inc. 350 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. Service Record: Professional practice as Manage- ment Consultant in Essential War Industry. Residence: Waverly, Pennsylvania. New York: The Yale Club, Vanderbilt Ave at 44th St. Wifels Name: Margaret Elizabeth Murphey of Decatur, Illinois, married 1934. Children: Roger Pitt, born April 24, 1936, Class of 1954, Phillips Andover Academy, Andover, Mass. Julia Hale, born October 25, 1940, Junior High School, Waverly, Pa. 135 JOHN KESTER WINNER 13? Place of Birth and date: Arlington, Mass. September 22, 1905. Business: Frozen food broker in New York City. Residence. 237 Upper Mountain Ave., Upper Montclair, N. J. Community interests: Community Chest, Red Cross campaigns. Wife's Name: Virginia Hunt. Children: Donn Charles Winner, born Oct. 30, 1934. Freshman at Bow- doin. Penelope Ann, born Aug. 13, 1940. Mt. Hebron Junior High School. John Christian, born Dec. 29, 1944. 2nd grade Edgemont School, Mont clair, New Jersey. 136 After leaving college, a session in the banking business, followed by underwriting banking. 'Ihen a marriage to a baby industry which, in spite of my participation in it, has grown. During World War II, consul- tant to the Navy on certain technical problems, and the Dept. of Agri- culture on the storage and transportation of frozen items. My work is not only a livelihood, but a hobby. Fatherly pride knew no bounds when Donn chose Bowdoin, and was accepted. I hope Kit fChristianJ will also find his way to Maine, but not turn out to be a traitor by joining the fraternity his brother is join- ing-although it may have improved since my rascally freshman room- mate, Dick Thayer, disgraced its halls, aided by other miscreants! Penny wants to go to Bowdoin, too! Any suggestions? I 137 RAYMOND ARMITAGE WITHEY Nov. 5, 1904. Business: The First National Bank of Boston Waltham, Mass. Service Record: geant, World War II. g Residence: 25 Bacon St., Waltham, Mass. Community interests: Isaac Parker Lodge, A.F. Xt A. M., Waltham, Mass., Assistant Collector and Secretary of Men's Club, First Congregational Church of Waltham, Hovey Players Dramatic Club, Republican Club, Republican Ward Committeeman. Wife's Name: Bernice R. Withey. Children: None. Salem, Massachusetts being my birthplace, I must have inherited a desire that many of that city's old seafaring men had-to keep moving to new places. After I left Bowdoin I spent some time in Cuba and upon returning to the States worked in about every section of this country, traveling for Grant Company and Western Union, not settling down long enough to enter the holy bonds of matrimony until I reached the age of 40. Then life really began for me when I realized that there might be something to that thing called marital bliss. So, in 1945 I gave up my wanderings and took myself a wife! At first it was a little diflicult to give up my bachelor habits, but my better half says that I am a model husband-believe it or not! We have been in Waltham four years and I shall be satisfied to live here the rest of my days. Community aiairs have played an important part in my life these past few years and I'm interested in many things I should have been years ago. So here's one old buck Who is really happy and contented, although it took over twenty years to find out what really is worthwhile in life. 138 Place and date of birth: Salem, Mass. 7 Havana and Santiago, Cuba., W. T. Grant Co., Western Union Tele- graph Co., Raytheon Mfg. Co., U. S. Army Signal Corps., 1st Ser- CHARLES WooDMAN Place and date of birth: Westbrzok, Maine. Nov. 30, 1904. Other Colleges: Univ. of Edinburgh Medical School. +928-1932. M.D. degree. Profession: Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Morristown Me- morial Hospital, Morristown, N. J. Service Record: Captain Medical Corps, 1942-45. Residence: Far Hills, N. J. Wife's Name: Helen Swann. Children: Anthony-South Kent School, South Kent, Connecticut. Christopher-St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H. Charles Loring-Gill School, Bernardsville, N. J. I was born Nov. 30, 1904 at Westbrook, Maine, the son of Dr. and Mrs. G. M. Woodman. Attended Westbrook High School, Westbrook Seminary, Bowdoin College, Class of 1928 and the University of Edin- burgh Medical School, Class of 1932. The next four years were spent as interne and resident in preparation for the practice of obstetrics and gynecology at the Royal Maternity Hospital, The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, the Methodist Episcopal Hospital, Indianapolis, and the Women's Hospital, New York City. Following my marriage to Helen Swann of Milton, Mass. in October, 1936, we settled down in Far Hills, N. J. to raise three sons, Anthony, Christopher, and Loring, ages 14, 12 and 9, and to practice obstetrics and gynecology at Morristown, N. J. In 1940 I became a Diplomate of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and at present am Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Morristown Memorial Hospital. Apart from the years 1942 to 1945, which were largely spent in New Orleans, Italy and France with the U. S. Medical Oorps, life has been satisfactorily hectic and wakeful. 139 RAYMOND G. WORSTER Place and date of birth: Sept. 2, 1905. Other colleges: Union Theological Seminary, New York City. Bachel-cr of Divinity degree. Profession: Clergyman. Danville, Vermont, 1931-3, Waterbury, Vermont, 1933-403 Foxboro, Mass., 1940- 49. Residence: 2365 Pemberton Drive, Toledo, Ohio. Wife's Name: Lucille Minton, also or- dained so The Rev. Lucille M. Worster, B.D. to you. I I Children: Raymond G., Jr., born June 15, 1932, St. Johnsbury, Vt., Foxboro, Mass. High School, Deerfield Academy, 1950. Oberlin COhioJ College, 1954. Ann M.,-DeVilbiss High School, 1955, Toledo, Ohio. Plans to go to Colby College. After leaving Bowdoin, I attended Union Theological Seminary, N. Y. C. Did some student work at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church and in the summers on the Maine Coast and in the Hell For Sartin region of the Kentucky Mountains. Hair raising experiences there. Fell in love with a theologue who was also contending for her B.D. Degree. We were married on the day after commencement. She was from the south but I managed to persuade herito go with me to a Congregational Church in Northern Vermont, a few miles from the Canadian border. Town by the name of Danville. They stood us there as long as they could and we went to Waterbury, Vermont where along with church work I took ski lessons, but it didn't do any good. Ten years, all told in Ver- mont. Then we landed down in Foxboro, Massachusetts. Succeeded in 140 getting to be a town character there and enjoyed life a great deal. Stayed ten years and hated to leave. I hope it is not necessary to mention that in these several places I was constantly at work trying to convert sinners. 1949 found me in these good flat lands bordering Lake Erie. fToledo, Ohioj. It is a fine church here, however, and I reckon it's good for my soul to try to convert the mid-west as well as New England. It's harder work in New England, but I think I'd rather be there. I forebear listing all my accomplishments. Have spent most of my life trying to be a good parish minister. 141 QUENTIN S. WRIGHT Place and date of birth: Nutley, N. J., Aug. 10, 1906. Other colleges: Lehigh University. Business or profession: General Insurance Broker-17 years- 225 Broad- way, New York City. Service Record: Pfc. Air Corps, basic training Miami Beach: Clerical School Ft. Logan, Colo., O.R.T.C., Kearns Utah. P.O.E.-Ft. Lawton, Wash- ingtong P.S.S. Anchorage, Alaska. Residence: 42 Orchard Lane, Rye, N. Y. Community interests: Active in American Veterans Committee, appointed representative of Vet's Administration Volunteer Service at F. D. R. Vet. Hospital, Montrose, N. Y. Wife's Name: Elizabeth H. Wright. Children: John M., born August 1, 1946. Nancy A., born June 8, 1950. Born in Nutley, N. J. which at times has been hard to live down. Moved to East Orange, N. J. and attended Newark Academy in Newark, N. J. To Bowdoin for one year-transferred to Lehigh-left college Feb. 1928. Finally, after many months, found a job in the mortgage business in New York, where I spent eight years-until the impossible happened. 557- guaranteed mortgages suddenly became worthless, and company was taken over by Insurance Dept. of New York. Out ,cf job-studied for Insurance Broker's license-selling life and general insurance ever since. Oct. 16, 1940-Army Registration-never forgot my smug and smirky feeling-they can't take me-too old-Ha! 4F-married 10f 26! 41- still smug and comfy I! The impossible happened again-promoted to 1A- one week furlough and seven years business to dispose of somehow in that time. Lived nine lives in that one week. At each post was advised 142 . .A .,. I wou1dn't be sent overseas-tool old-hmm-learning the Army game- until I landed in Anchorage, Alaska-Personnel Officer scratched his head and said: You shouldn't have been sent here . Hmm!!! Spent about 17 months in Anchorage-many times thinking of Brunswick where it was warmer in January. Learned to ski, but not well enough to prevent breaking my right leg-but good-open reduction-screws in the bone-in cast six months. Finally landed in Denver, Colo. at Fitzsimmons General Hospital. Spent much time with my wife, who had a radio program at KOA, Denver. Dis- charged Nov. 1946. Interesting highlight of stay in Anchorage from Alumni News: Alaska-The first dinner meeting of the Aleutians was held on March 2, place not reported for security reasons. Present were Brig. Gen. Wallace C. Philoon '05, Lt. Col. Clayton M. Ela '22, Pfc. Quentin S. Wright '28, Capt. Walter D. Hinckley '34, Capt. Kenneth Sullivan '39, and Capt. J. Douglas Wallace '41, A pleasant and profitable Bowdoin evening was enjoyed but, due to its non-static membership no permanent organization is planned for the immediate future. 143 SCENES FROM OUR TWENTIETH REUNION The following members of the class didn't send in any information George G. Beckett 22 Arlington St. So. Hamilton, Mass. Harding P. Bryant 17 Denny Road, Bath, Maine Robert E. Burns 2480 16th St., N. W. Washington 9, D. C. Fred Clark, Jr., M.D. 3919 Terracina Drive Riverside, Calif. William L. Cobb 18 Morton St., Andover, Mass. Joseph Coult, Jr. 6 Court St., Morristown, N. J. Van Courtlandt Elliott cfo Roxbury Latin School West Roxbury, Mass. Benjamin H. Frazier 31 Marchant St., Gloucester, Mass. Edgar A. French Marshneld Hills, Mass. Walter O. Gordon Penn. State College State College, Pa. Addison B. Hastings Lewis Road Irvington-on-Hudson, N. Y. Chester F. Hogan, M.D. 62 Maine St. Houlton, Maine John J ewett Rancho Lcs Amigos, Hondo, Calif. David Katz 315 West 98th Street New York City Richard P. Laney, M.D. Skowhegan, Maine Wilbur F. Leighton, M.D. 336 Danforth St. Portland, Maine Albert L. Lydston 204 Aldrich Road, Portsmouth, N. H. Ermon L. Markella 286 Forest Ave., Brockton 16 Mas John A. Marsh 90-11 Northern Blvd. Jackson Heights 72, N. Y Bernard F. McGary 25 Perry Ave., Lynnfield Center, Mass. Richard W. Merrill 101 Vvest Broadway, Bangor Maine John K. Morris 360 Harvard Avenue Cambridge 38, Mass. Clarence E. Mulliken 1114 East Monroe St. Bloomington, Ill. Irving Newton 404 Scott Ave. Syracuse 3, N. Y. Richard V. Noyes Pittsfield, Maine Maurice J. Quinn 169 Church St. Berlin, N. H. Stuart E. Stanley lfryeburg, Maine Ralph C. Stearns cfo E. K. Day Co. Rumford, Maine William L. Walsh 1109 South 19th Street Arlington 2, Va. Howard P. Whitney The Citadel Charleston, S. C. 1 . U' 'v a ' ,4 n 0 I Y a ,.-4 '. 4 f n 5 1 v . OO' Q , 1 . , . 7 . ' ' . Q v . v 1 1 . . I f. .. . .. . U lip Al ' 0 n 4 ,. 1 ' f 4' 1 I .5 S . an ' gb I I I 1 Q-f'. .mv 'A !. 3 ', 4. 5 Q' i I QW fn ,. 1 .- I 1 xl-'. i Lo h 1 w - v , ' I A Q 34 xW v 1 ,4 ' A 1,1 ,I A4 . l q. ,. s Q 'i :S ,Y 1 I -f - ., Av- , This book was made possible in large part by the generosity of Benjamin Butler r I