Bowdoin College - Bugle Yearbook (Brunswick, ME)

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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

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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

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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