Morse High School graduation marks second largest class
The Morse High School class of 1938 graduated 105 seniors led by Clifton Nickerson. Diplomas were presented by Supt. John Parker as Rev. Maney offered prayers. A large ceremony featured prizes, National Honor Society elections, and remarks on American history and youth responsibility.
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Morse High School
Morse High
Clifton Nickerson
Elgar
Bath Schools
Betty Ryan
Jean McCall
Jacqueline Bisson
Phyllis Haggett
Gordon Lake
Charles Moore
Henry Preble
Irving Baker
America
Jean Browne McCall
Ruth Louise Pratt
One Rose
Wee Ee
Horace P. Herrick
Eterna
John Parker Benediction
Charles M. Tubbs
First Honor Essay on Edison’s Character and Resolve
The piece extols Thomas Edison as the century’s greatest American for his genius and character. It highlights his youthful ardor, perseverance through failures, calm demeanor, humor in adversity, and drive to turn ideas into useful practice. The author urges readers to emulate these traits to achieve personal success.
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Margaret Brimigion
Thomas Edison
Edison
Devel
Youngest Bowdoin graduate Cressey of Bath 1938 class
Robert Haskell Cressey son of Mr and Mrs Harry Y Cressey of 554 Washington Street Bath youngest member of Bowdoin College class of 1938 who prepared at Morse High School and graduated in 1934 He is an A B in philosophy and a National Honor Society member on the Dean's list He belongs to the Thorndike club and plans graduate study at Bowdoin after teaching career starts.
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Philip Beaney
John Parker
Jean McCall
Nickerson
J. Edward Pomeroy
Clifton Nickerson
Margaret A. Mackinnon
Horace P. Herrick
National Honor Society
South End P. T. A
Dorothy Bourque
John W. Bourque
Spring Street
Henry Eames Wood
Edward Thomas, Jr
Edward T. Thomas
Phippsburg
Mary J. Scales
Elim Street
Elizabeth R. Moses
Miss McCall
Col. Dummer Sewall
Jacqueline Bisson
Margaret Brimigion
Phryllis Delano
Virginia Kingsbury
Gordon Lake
Kathleen Lewis
Doris Henderson
Betty Ryan
Patricia Sewall
Harold Stanton
Edward Thomaus
Ruth Pratt
Claire Grainger
Leal Merrill
Edward Hamplett
Martha Page
June McCall
David Rich
William Bennett
David Alkazin
Leah Merrill
Barbara Kenney
Lida Nadeau
Mary Ellen Cyr
Beulah Pratt
Doris Armstrong
Frank Curran
Doris Pettengill
Marjorie Achorn
Virginia Ingalls
James Skaling
Maurice Owen
Phyllis Darrah
Clarence Atwood
Catharine Ryan
Sally Ryan
Mary Darrah
Isabel King
Mary Grace
Robert Morse
Henry D. Small
Harold E. Brown
Robert Haskell Cressey
Harry Y. Cressey
Washington Street
Bath
Bowdoin
Morse High School
Cressey
Thorndike Club
M MCMillan Sets Sail For Arctic Expedition
Two Maine boys join Commander Donald B MacMillan on his 17th Arctic expedition. Donald Morse and Robert Nutter, with others from Bowdoin College and Dartmouth, plan a 6 000 mile voyage from Boothbay Harbor June 25 to Sept 10 visiting Halifax Sydney Baylor Islands and Moravian Eskimo settlements while studying geology botany and ornithology.
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Maine
Donald B. Macmillan
Arctic
Donald MacMillian Morse
John H. Morse
Augusta
Bath
Robert Nutter
F. Everett Nutter
Goodall Worsted Co
Sanford
Donald Morse
Staunton Military Academy
Staunton
Bowdoin College
James F. Wiles
Norway
Bowdoin
Wiles
U. S
Boston
Harold Evans
Newton Highlands
Mass
Dartmouth
MacMillan
Donald Hassell
East Orange
N. J
Cornell
Luther Howard
Brockton
Brockton High School
George F. Murphy
Pleasantville
N. Y
Charles Rounds
Princeton
Adrian van Sindersen
Brooklyn
Columbia
Chauncey Waldron
West Newton
Oberlin College
Harold S. Howes
Hyannis
Charles Hatcher
Gloucester
Cook
Boothbay Harbor
Nova Scotia
Newfoundland
Labrador
Baffin Land
Greenland
Halifax
Sydney
Baylor Islands
Bonne Bay
Battle Harbor
Davis Inlet
Hopedale
Nain
Hebron
Melville Bay
Bath High School Alumni Banquet Draws 600 Attendance
At Morse High School gym the 47th annual Bath High School Alumni banquet crowned Marius H. Page as president with Eugene M. Desmond as vice president and Mrs. Wilmer I. Voorhees and Mrs. Herbert Calderwood re elected to secretary and treasurer posts. The 25 and 50 year classes were feted and a trophy case gift from the class of 1913 was announced. Nearly 600 alumni attended with extensive recaps of class rolls and post banquet entertainment by multiple alumni groups and soloists.
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Bath High School
Morse High School
Marius H. Page
Eugene M. Desmond
Wilmer I. Voorhees
Herbert Calderwood
Elmer L. Norton
Fred D. Hill
Helen M. Moses
Warren F. Hawley
George E. Barker
Mr. Norton
Charles M. Fitzgerald
Augusta
John Parker
Alice N. Magoun
Bath
Frostina E. Marston
Margaret J. Adams
Grace C. Baker
F. R. E. Dean
D. T. Dougherty
Edward Given
Mary Hill
Topsham
J. Edward Hughes
Edith M. Ledyard
Charles T. Jackson
Fred W. Swanton
Washington, D. C
Rupert H. Baxter
Harry W. Tucker
Charles H. Cahill
May Spinney
Fred Stevens
Harry W. Crosman
Tucker
Middle Street
Melvin J. Marco
Earl Twitchell
Haddonfield
N. J
Leland S. Plummer
Harold S. Avery
Ralph Gay
Carl C. Anderson
Charles Fitzgerald
Otis N. Card
J. Edward Pomeroy
Philip L. Eaton
Edward V. Coombs
Voorhees
Calderwood
Clifton S. Nickerson
Frederick P. Moffatt
Warren Hawley
Y.M.C.A
Arthur F. Mayo
Thomas R. Huston
J. Ivan Kirkpatrick
John Wakefield
Angel
Read Pittman
David Rich
Robert Morse
George Tinney
Sweet Sue
Carolyn Belanger
Edward Butterfield
Alice Hogan
Hubert McCarty
Bath Iron Works Lowest Bidder On Destroyers
The Bath Iron Works Corp. submitted the lowest bids of 5 315 000 each for two of four 1 500 ton destroyers as part of a Navy program for 59 vessels. Electric Boat Co Groton sole bidder on three 1300 ton submarines at 3 475 000 each. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Quincy lowest on three 1 500 ton fleet tugs at 1 288 000 each. American Locomotive New York bid 1 746 000 on diesel machinery for an 8 500 ton submarine tender. Bethlehem second bidder on two destroyers at 4 696 000 each, with different specs. Congress funded 39 more ships. some already under way.
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Bath Iron Works Corp
Electric Boat Co
Groton
Conn
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp
Quincy
Mass
American Locomotive Co
New York
Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co
New Jersey
Navy
Congress
Navy Yard
Bath Iron Works bids shown for three plants
The Bath Iron Works Corp shows lower adjusted bids from three plants. Tron Works bids $5,067,000, Federal bids $5,082,000, and Bethlehem bids $5,494,000.
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Bath Iron Works Corp
Tron Works
Federal
Bethlehem
Sewall candidate for Senate head seeks Maine presidency
Hon Sumner Sewall of Sagadahoc county renominated in the Republican Primary without opposition announces his candidacy for the Maine Senate Presidency. Sewall, with two legislative terms, serves on appropriations financial affairs aeronautics radio control military affairs and fisheries. Other announced candidates include Arthur G Spear Mix Laughlin and Sanger M Cook. Memorial service noted for Queen Esther Rebekah Lodge and a luncheon hosted by Mrs Rodney F Ross for Mrs Claude S Gillette of Philadelphia.
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Sumner Sewall
Sagadahoc
Maine
Senate
Sewall
House
Arthur G. Spear
Mix
Gail Laughlin
Cumberland County
Sanger M. Cook
Somerset County
Sewall Haus
Bath Voters Respond To Primary Indication In Bath
Bath shows strong support for county and state incumbents with Sheriff Messenger winning Bath by about 200 over Whit ney while Furber and Small lead in county races. Governor Barrows carries Bath by 600, Oliver tops Holland, and Register Stevens and Judge Glidden lead unopposed. Delegates for Legislature reveal Justis Miller and Jennie Butler Miller ahead.
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Bath
Charles W. Messenger
Richmond
Walter L. Whitney
Ralph O. Dale
Charles T. Small, Jr
Sherwood Aldrich
Topsham
William A. Furber
Edwin C. Patten
Harold P. Small
Register of Probate
John L. Jack
Marius H. Page
Joseph W. Randlette
George A. Sprague
Fred H. Thompson
Stanley E. Wallace
Justis H. Miller
Jennie S. Butler Miller
Butler
Col
George A. Baker
Frank O. Dunton
Charles E. Syde
William T. Donnell
Lewis O. Barrows
Roy Lynde Fernald
James C. Oliver
William A. Holland
Portland Register of Deeds
Hiram T. Stevens
Walter S. Glidden
Probate Court
Sumner Sewall
Joseph W. Connolly
Portland
Congress
Harold B. Emery
Limington
Sagadahoc Primary Yields Narrow GOP Victories
Sagadahoc voters nominated county officials and legislators with few surprises. County Attorney Ralph O. Dale was not renominated, Sherwood Aldrich won the top GOP nod in Bath Topsham areas, and Joseph Randlette captured the county commissioner race. Gov Barrows narrowly led Fernald, Oliver led Holland, and Sheriff Messenger posted the largest margin. Democratic nominees included Connoly for Congress and Whitney unopposed for sheriff with strong Democratic support in Bath.
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Sagadahoc
Ralph O. Dale
Sherwood Aldrich
Topsham
Charles T. Small, Jr
Bath
Joseph W. Randlette
Richmond
Marius H. Page
George A. Sprague
Lewis O. Barrows
Roy L. Fernald
James C. Oliver
William A. Holland
Register of
John L. Jack
Harold P. Small
Small
Fred H. Thompson
Stanley E. Wallace
Edwin C. Patten
William A. Furber
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Virginia Etta Kingsbury
Blue Bells of
Scotland
Jules Levy
Margaret Elizabeth
Capua
Barcarolle
Jacques Offenbach
Virginia Kingsoury
New World
Old World
Edward Bok
United States
Republic
Bowdoin Graduate
M'Millan
North Land
Frank G. Reed
Mechanic Street
Lucien Ames
Charles Berry
Frank Preble
Ruby Preble
Madge Armstrong
Iris Armstrong
City
Howard P. Hill
Donald and
David
Saco
High Street
Jean
Ann Desmond
Hardings
Bath Cycle Club
Bath Iron Works
Washing
D. C
Queen Esther
Queen Esther Rebekah Lodge
Ins
Frank H. Beal
Rodney F. Ross
North
Claude S Gillette
Philadelphia
Barrows
Fernald
Waldo County
Governor Barrows Fernald
Holland
Oliver Ard Fren
Barrow Fernald Case
Arrowsie
Ward
Bowdoinham Tee
Georgetown Quart
Phippsbur
Topsham Baste
Giaces
Sewall West
Woolwich
Pete Taeda
Oes
Oliver
Arrowshae
Saeeli
Georgetown
Phippsbury
Glidden Richmond
Peeeene
West Bath
Whitney
Register of Deeds
Joseph W. Larrabee
Raymond M. McIntire
Samuel F. Dorrance
Bowdoinham
Weston A. Allen
Thomas W. Bor_jeson
Clifford W. Gray
Howard W. Moody
W. Wallace Gardner
Joseph W. Connoly
Harold B Emery