Comments on: Class of 2021 Arrives on Campus http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2017/08/class-of-2021-arrives-on-campus/ A repository for Bowdoin news archives Wed, 14 Nov 2018 20:25:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.11 By: Bob Sargent, Class of 1958 http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2017/08/class-of-2021-arrives-on-campus/comment-page-1/#comment-119269 Wed, 23 Aug 2017 14:28:55 +0000 http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/?p=136844#comment-119269 Grandson Beckett Slayton is Class of 2021, a legacy several times over: both parents, both grandfathers, and a great uncle as former faculty( John Sweet)!

]]> By: Christopher H. Hanks '68 http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2017/08/class-of-2021-arrives-on-campus/comment-page-1/#comment-119265 Wed, 23 Aug 2017 11:18:52 +0000 http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/?p=136844#comment-119265 In 1964 when I started, I took a bus to get to campus. Some fraternity guys schlepped my footlocker to my freshman dorm, Hyde Hall, and encouraged me in the most friendly way to stop by the house later for some food. Soon thereafter, I was issued my freshman beanie and had made for myself the neck placard we all had to wear for the first few weeks showing your name and the fraternity you had pledged. (You had to pledge a fraternity pronto in order to get fed. Otherwise, they were all pretty much the same.)

It was all great. Mom and Dad were nowhere to be found, and “orientation” consisted mainly of seniors instructing us freshmen to locate “Lawrence Hall” on campus.)

(Professor Lawrence Hall was my freshman English prof. One of the best professors I had at Bowdoin. He set himself on fire once first semester — when he put his lit pipe in his jacket pocket so he could shake both fists at us telling us the best sellers we had been reading (Advise and Consent, in my case) were all crap and that it was time to get to know Jane Austen and Emily Bronte.)

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