Bowdoin College - Bugle Yearbook (Brunswick, ME)

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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

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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

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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