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...Bowdoin's Halifax-born Kenneth C. M. Sills, 72, longtime (34 years) president of the college. A former Latin instructor, famed for his fidgets (he used to tear whole handkerchiefs to shreds while teaching), "Casey" Sills mellowed into a pleasant, paunchy "ex-scholar," famed for his love of Dante, for eating (so goes the legend) eleven lobster stews at a sitting, and for liking to run his piny campus just as if Longfellow were still there: "Excellent teaching in wooden halls is much better than wooden teaching in marble halls...
Marcus C. ("Marc") Connelly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Litt.D Senator Margaret Chase Smith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D Kenneth C. M. Sills, retiring president of Bowdoin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D...
Citation: "The inspiring influence" on her husband and "every member of the Bowdoin family with whom she has come in contact...
...Bowdoin Prizes...
John B. Rehm '52 won both $100 undergraduate Bowdoin prizes in the Classics field for his translations into Latin and Attic Greek. Milman G. Parry 2G won $200 for a Greek essay, while Cecil B. Pascal 2G received Honorable Mention. Kenneth J. Reckford '54 won the John Osborne Sargent prize of $200, while Roland F. Perkins '52 won a $100 prize for excellence in Latin, to complete awards in the Classics field...