Bowdoin College - Bugle Yearbook (Brunswick, ME)

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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

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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

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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