Bowdoin College - Bugle Yearbook (Brunswick, ME)

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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

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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-

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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-