Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-06-23
Seventy-eight Become Alumni Thursday-De-
grees Conferred Two Augusta Boys Award
ed Prizes

Brunswick. Me-. June 22-(speciaD.-
Seventy-eight members of the class of
1916 became alumni of old Bowdoin
Thursday morning at the 111th gradua-
ton exercises Of the college. The pro :es-
sion formed shortly after 10 in the morn
ing. and led by Marshal John H. Bates
IS Of Rochester. y. H., filed into the
Church on the Hill for the exercises which
should terminate the seniors undergrad
uate days. For Is minutes before the
start OF the speaking the audience that
filled the church enjoyed an organ recital
by Edward Hames Wass, instructor of
music.
Following the close Of the program at
the church the long lire of distinguished
Bowdoin alumni member Of the faculty.
overseers and trustees. and the gradual
ed class in caps and gowns, marched
slowly to the new gymnasium, where the
week was brought to a close with the an
nual commencement dinner and general
reunion.
The call to colors in the present interna-
tional crisis claimed large numbers of
Bowdoin alumni who had planned to re-
turn thus year to their alma mater, and
largely on this account the numbers
present were not quite as large as in the
past few years.
Graduation Exercises
Ninety-two degrees were presented
Thursday morning at the graduation ex-
ercises Of the class of 1916 held In the
First Congregational church at 1890
Seventy-eight were awarded to the men,
bers of the senior class, 10 men were
given the degree of doctor of medicine
from the Bowdoin Medical school, ana
four degrees out of course were granted
in the academic department. The order
Of exercises at the graduations follows:
Music.
Prayer.
Rev. Samuel Valentine Cole "A, presi-
dent of Wheaton college
Music.
Justice to the Uncivilzed,
Guy Whitman Leadbetter, So. Lincoln
The Metamorphosis of Faust,
sydney MacGllvary Brown. Webster,
Music.
Art and Science: Companions.
Alfred Charles kinsey, South Orange,
Poe A Poet Of Unrealities,
Donald sherman White, Indianapolis,
Ind.
Music.
Conferring Of Degrees
President William Dewitt HYDE
Prayer, ~, III
Benedicton.
A. 8. Degrees
The degree of bachelor of arts was
awarded to the following candidates:
Ralph Edwin Gilmore Bailey. as of the
class of 1910: Francis Howard Bate of tt
conderoga. y. Y. John Lincoln Baxter of
Brunswick. George Ernest Beale Of Lis
bon Falls, Adriel Timer Bird of Rock
land James Scott Bracket Of Phillips,
James Hiram Brewster of Lisbon Falls,
Sydney MacGilvary Brown of Webster,
Mass. Vaughan Forest Burnham of Port
land. Robert Campbell. Jr., of Everett,
Mass. Aaron Wallace Carney of North
Parsonsfeld Philip Linwood Carter of
Portland, Walter Emery Chase, Jr, Of
Bath. John Doane Churchill Of Minot.
Eugene Joseph Cronin of Lewiston, AL
fred Hall Crossman Of Newton Center,
Mass. Eudore Aphonse Drapeau of
Brunswick. Robert Rutherford Drummond
of Portland. James Alfred Dunn of NAL
man, Ora Liston Evans of Dover. Her
bert Henry Foster of Seattle, Wash,
Richard Stearns Fuller of Rockland, Ed
ward Philip Garland of Bangor, Allen
Joseph Ginty of Boston. Alex John Good |
skey of Collinsville. CT. George Douglas
Grierson of South Portland, Law
renee Joseph Hart of Bath. Ed
ward Cary Halves Cf Bangor, L. |
Alden Fairfield Head of Bangor, |
Hugh Merrill Hescock Of Foxcroft,
Carroll William HodGkins of Ports |
mouth. y. H., Laurence Irving of RoX-
bury. Mass, David Francis Kelley Of
Gardiner. Raymond Horace LARA bee !
of Bridgton, Guy Whitman Leadbetter
of Souh Lincoln. Edward Robert Lit
tie of Brunswick, William Mason
Bradley Lord of Portland. Charles |
Creighton Macdonald of Fichmcnd. |
Leland Stanford McElwee Of Houlton,
Urban Howe Merrill of Lawrence,
Mass. Norman Hunt Nickerson of Red
Beach, Lew Maurice Noble OF Phillips, |
Gordon Wesley Olson Of Vast Somer- !
VILE, Mass. LeClare Fall Parmenter of
Portland. Ralph Colby Parmenter Of
Portland. Hayward Treat Parsons of
Augusta, Maurice Clifton Proctor of
Portland. Raymond Miller Richardson
of Lynn. Mass. John Waterman Ro-
bic Of Gorham. Dwight Harold Hay
ward Of Portland. Abraham Beth
Shwartz Of Portland, Earle Revere
Stratton Of Hudson. Mass. George
Richard Stuart Of Augusta, Harry
Sa nborn Thomas Of Pennington Falls. !
Harry Trust of London, England;
Philip Francis Weatherill Of Arlington
Mass. Carl Alfred Weick Of Spring.
field, Donald Sherman Winter Of King
field. Donald Sherman White of In
Ind, John Glenwood Win
ter of Kingfield, Henry Gerard Wood
II Steuben. Willard Paine Woodman
81 Peabody, Mass. Ivan Hyde Yenet-
chi Of Scituatye. Mass.
Bachelor Of Science
Frederick James Lynch as OF the
lass Of 1915, Ralph Lester Barrett OF
East Sumner, Laurence Winslow
Garland of Saco, Frederick Ellery
-ruff Of West Roxbury, Mass. Don
Jerome Edwards of Portland, Lowell