Bowdoin Bequests Decline Sharply in Year Says Sills
President Sills reports Bowdoin College receipts of 1538.86 in bequests and gifts for the year far below the ten year average of 370002.48, urging fiscal conservatism. He lists major gifts to funds and alumni accounts and notes rising interest in international affairs among students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sills
Bowdoin College
Frederick W. Pickard
Hoyt A. Moore
Charles E. Allen
Henry E. Andrews
William 8. Brimstein
Mr. Pickard
John Johnston
United States
Europe
Massachusets Hall
Thorndike Club
Hubbard Hall
Bowdoin Commencement Week Schedule Highlights
Bowdoin College outlines the June 12 to 15 program with events led by President Kenneth C M Sills, including the Baccalaureate at First Parish church, Class Day under the Thorndike Oak, dances, alumni meetings, organ recitals, outdoor theater, and the Commencement exercises and dinner. Tickets for the dinner and badges are available via the library desk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowdoin College
Kenneth C. M. Sills
First Parish
Thorndike
Hubbard Hall
Sargent Gymnasium
Alumni Council
Massachusetts Hall
Delta
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Alpha of
Maine
Alumni Association
Moulton Union
Society of Bowdoin Women
Congregational
Federal Street
College Chapel
Robert W. Woodworth
Alumni Fund
Bills
Memorial Hall
Jeffrey J. Carre
Chi Psi Lodge
All exercises scheduled on east Brunswick
Exercises are set in East Brunswick with details possibly available from the Alumni secretary regarding prices and access. Local readers are advised to contact the Alumni secretary for schedules and fees.
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East- Brunswick
Dyer Flaherty Post Auxiliary Installs Officers
The Dyer Plarh ty Post V F W Auxiliary installed officers Thursday at G A R Hall led by Myrtle Wilson president and Lena Pinkham senior vice president. Emma R Smith and Rose Weiman of Auburn served as installing officers. department members from Auburn and Brunswick attended. buffet lunch followed. next meeting set for Sunday at Mrs Wilsons 95 Lincoln Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dyer-Plaherty Post
G. A. R. Hall
Myrtle Wilson
Lena Pinkham
Ida Fancey
Edith Moody
Nora Morse
Ruth Gallagher
Evelyn Snow
Mary McNally
Doris Kingsbury
Harriet Otis
Bertha Hagan
Louise Dorsey
Lucy Kelly
Emma R. Smith
Auburn
National Council
Rose Weiman
Hobart
Brunswick
Floyd Preble
Elizabeth French
Cathedral chimes presented to Brunswick church
L Eugene Thebeau of Bath Iron Works Corp presents cathedral chimes to St Charles church in Brunswick in memory of his parents Louis V Thebeau and Josephine M Thebeau. The chimes were installed by Davis Cadillac Co Lewiston and played for the first time during Sunday services as Confirmation Day approaches.
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St. Charles Church
Brunswick
L. Eugene Thebeau
Bath Iron Works Corp
Louis V. Thebeau
Josephine M. Thebeau
Thebeau
Davis Cadillac Co
Lewiston
Greatest Rally Honors Sewall
Senator Sewall urged national defense, shipbuilding, and anti aircraft progress as vital to protect homes and governance. He praised Bath shipbuilders, pressed immediate Maine defense attention, and argued government must match business efficiency to produce the best government at the lowest cost. He urged voter cooperation and democracy through participation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Sewall
Europe
Augusta
Washington
Newell Receives Backing in Maine Economic Address
Senator Sewall praised Mr. Newell of the Iron Works as a courageous leader to attract industry to Maine. He stressed skilled craftsmen, education extensions, fair teacher salaries, improved highways, and joint government business efficiency as keys to growth. Newell thanked the crowd and urged readers to support the candidate for governor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Newell
Iron Works
Sewall
Maine
Bath
Morse High School
Hyde Windlass Co
West Bath Grange Monday Meeting Highlights
Miss Alice Darrah led a West Bath Grange program with 49 attendees including eight visitors. After the meeting hotdogs and coffee were served. Next week Charles Genthner will chair the program featuring readings, piano and violin pieces, songs, and dances by Mrs. Lucy Armstrong Miss Eileen Piper Miss Frances Grainger Miss Virginia Andre and others.
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Alice Darrah
West Bath Grange
Charles Genthner
Verye
Maine Battleflags
Lucy Armstrong
Liebesried
Frances
Claire Gravite
Reading
Eileen Piper
Rose of Tralee
Fred K. Sturtevant
Leonard Snowdon
Fred Martin
Frances Grainger
the Woodpecker
Virginia Andre
Mary Webb
Columbo
Committee report on topic seeks more time for study
The piece notes growing attention to the topic and asks for extended time for the committee to pursue investigation and report back. It also mentions R Gosnell, a senior next year from Sherman Mills, elected captain of the Brown Varsity track team, a discus record holder at 142 feet 114 inches.
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R. Gosnell
Sherman Mills
Brown
Gosnell
Ships Building in This Country Surpasses Million-Ton Mark
Merchant shipbuilding in the United States exceeds 1,000,000 tons with 281 vessels totaling 1,387,635 gross tons either building or contracted as of May 1. The American Bureau of Shipping notes continued growth across all sections, including the flagship America at Newport News and orders for C-2, C-3, and oil tanker classes.
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United States
American Bureau of Shipping
American
Bureau of Shipping
Bureau
Great Lakes
Liner
America
United States Lines
Newport News
Maritime Commission
New York
Italy
Mississippi Shipping Company
American Export Limes
The
Seas Shipping Company
Robin Line
Commission
Fifth generation dedicated Sunday at Corliss Street church
The Curtis family marked a fifth generation dedication at Corliss Street church with Rob ert Earl six months old, son of Robert Sutter and his wife of 21 Pine Street. His great grandmother Lizzie French held him as family members Nancy Jean, Anna Emily, Henry Joseph, Richard Emerson, Robert Cahoon, Roberta Annette, Ralph Raymond Jr., and Sylvia Alice observed the ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curtis
Corliss Street
Robert Earl
Robert Sutter
Pine Street
Lizzie French
Nancy Jean
Everett G. White
Anna Emily
Sven B. Lonn
Henry Joseph
Richard Emerson
Henry Deschaine
Robert Cahoon
Rodney S. Upham
Roberta Annette
Albert J. Larrabee
Ralph Raymond, Jr
Sylvia Alice
Ralph R. Palmer
Thieves Steal 114 Baby Chicks From Turner Brooder House
Deputy H A Pratt investigates the theft at the Carrol Pulsifer homestead in North Turner village. Thieves forced the brooder house door and left 38 chicks. 114 were taken from a shipment arriving a day earlier from a mail order house.
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H. A. Pratt
Turner
North
Turner Village
Fast Wind to Link Washington with Maine on Deluxe All Coach Train
Maine Central and partner lines will launch The East Wind deluxe all coach flyer linking Washington DC to Bath Rockland and Bangor with daily service 11 hours 10 minutes from Washington to Portland and 13 hours 40 minutes to Rockland. The six car train offers reserved seating, lounge and grill cars, and through connections with Pine Tree Limited for Bangor and Portland.
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Bath
Rockland
Maine Central Railroad
Maine Points
Washington, D. C
Brunswick
West
Washington
Boston & Maine
Maine Cermtral
New Haven
Pennsylvania
New England
Baltimore
Wilmington
Chester
Philadelphia
Trenton
Newark
New York
State of
Maine
Wells Beach
Kennebunk
Od Orchard Beach
Portland
East Wind
Bangor
Augusta
Waterville
Maine Centrals
Worcester
E.s. T
Boston
North Station
Dover
N. H
Seaver
Pine Tree Limited
Ds.t
Pennsylvania Station
Appointment of Fr Harold Cloudman to West Point announced
Fr Harold Cloudman Jr son of Mr and Mrs F Harold Cloudman of Newcomb Place Portland is named among 24 national winners to attend the United States Military Academy at West Point He is a 1938 Westbrook High School graduate and has been at Millard School Washington DC He will report July 1 His father is captain of Company D 3rd Infantry Maine National Guard
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Harold Cloudman, Jr
F. Harold Croudman
Newcomb Place
Portland
United States Military Academy
West Point
Westbrook High School
Cloudman
Millard School
Washington, D. C
Co. D
Maine National Guard
Five Bath Seniors Graduate From UMaine Commencement
Five Bath residents and one from Wiscasset earned degrees at the University of Maine 68th commencement. Warren R. McNeil received a B S in forestry. Donald M Marshall earned mechanical engineering and a Coast Artillery commission. Frank S Martin was baseball manager with Phi Mu Delta. Ellen H Stevens earned B A in history and government. Virginia F Pease, an All-Maine Woman, earned a B A. Katharine A Conley earned an M A in English.
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Bath
Wiscasset
University of Maine
Warren R. McNeil
Gratton McNeil
Owls
Phi Sta Kappa
Donald McC. Marshall
Stephen S. Marshall
Coast Artillery
Sigma Nu
Frank S. Martin
Cedric A. Martin
Phi Mu Delta
Ellen H. Stevens
Hiram T. Stevens
Virginia Frances Pease
Harvey R. Pease
Miss Pease
Prism
Sophomore Eagles
Katharine A. Conley
Night world and wartime plea in May sermon
A Baccalaureate sermon recalls Borgny Hammer’s Oslo trip and wartime fears. The speaker warns of looming evils from greed and conflict, urges youth to fight for right, truth, and justice, and cites pacifists and passivists while stressing commitment to standards.
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Borgny Hammer
Norway
Oslo
Abraham Lincoln
Low
Pittsburgh
Hitler
James
Paul
Corinth
Love Your Enemies in War and Peace
A wartime meditation urges fighters to seek friendship with peers and even foes. It recalls Goethes and Beethovens among a people and cites a Bergen bishop who granted Christian burial to enemy soldiers. The speaker challenges youths to fight evil while loving enemies and to rebuild a world without hatred.
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Hitlers
Goerings
Goebbels
Goethe
Kant
Bach
Beethoven
Bergen
Norway
Hill Top Farm feeds Maine camps and hotels on hilltop
Mrs. Charles H. Mills describes the growth of Hill Top Farm in Belgrade from a half acre to supplying twenty five boys and girls camps hotels and adult camps with fresh vegetables and dairy. The farm sits atop a high hill overlooking a chain of lakes drawing summer visitors. Previously supplies were shipped from Boston.
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Charles H. Mills
Belgrade
Hill Top Farm
Maine
Boston
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United States Navy
Atlantic
West Bath
American Bureau
Olive Plummer
Plummer
Bath Opera House
E. M
Boothbay Harbor
Corliss Street Church
U. of M
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