Moreover, the Moon

AVANT-GARDE WRITER AND ARTIST Mina Loy helped introduce Italian Futurism to America, radicalize the aspirations of feminism, expand the aesthetics of Surrealism, and presage American Pop art, and she was admired by contemporaries ranging from Marcel Duchamp to Ezra Pound. But upon her death in 1966, she had largely been forgotten.

Today, her writing is well-known within literary circles thanks to scholarship by Roger Conover ’72, a biography by Carolyn Burke, and a recent study by Mary Ann Caws. And now through September 17, 2023, visitors to the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) can view the first comprehensive exhibition of her visual work, Mina Loy: Strangeness Is Inevitable, which contains more than sixty pieces by Loy, complemented by selected works by her friends and associates.

“Loy is sometimes difficult to categorize and has come in recent years to be celebrated for her free verse poetry, yet she was also a prolific and immensely creative visual artist,” says Anne Collins Goodyear, codirector of the BCMA. “Through her visual art, designs, poetry, letters, photographs, inventions, and patents, visitors will be introduced to the pioneering work of this bold and revolutionary woman, whose important influence is perhaps even more obvious today than it was during her own lifetime.”

CALLING IT: A CAREER

After more than forty years behind the microphone, twenty-four of them calling Boston Bruins games, broadcaster Dale Arnold ’79, P’07 announced his retirement in April. Arnold is the only person ever to have called play-by-play for five Boston professional teams— Bruins, Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, and Revolution, the Major League Soccer franchise. Pressed for a standout moment, Arnold recalls a Red Sox-Tampa Bay Rays game in June 2011. “Josh Beckett threw the greatest one-hitter in baseball history that no one in Boston will ever remember,” he recalls. “The engineers at Tropicana Field arranged for me to get a second television feed in the press box because the Bruins were also playing game seven of the Stanley Cup Final in Vancouver against the Canucks. As soon as the Red Sox game ended, we rushed to the clubhouse, and the entire team was watching the Bruins on television. When the second period ended, the team piled on the buses and raced back to the hotel, and I watched the Bruins win the Stanley Cup along with the entire Red Sox team in a closed-off lobby bar at the hotel.” Back in Maine, Arnold is looking forward to writing, his self-described “side hustle.” His third book, The Tough Guys, is due out in November.

State of Maine, State of Mind: Volume II

THEODORE A. PERRY ’60

(State of Maine State of Mind Publishing, 2021)

In his second volume of Maine stories, Ted Perry continues and expands on his earlier collection, State of Maine State of Mind: Upcountry Humor and Stories. As in the original volume, the book offers a conversation with Huck Colby, a common old-timer from Maine and a master of dry humor. After Bowdoin, Perry earned his master’s and PhD at Yale and has published many books on literature and philosophy. He has taught at Williams, Smith, the University of Connecticut, Loyola University, Hebrew University, and Ben Gurion University.

Athletics

Hitting It Out of the Park

Following a record-breaking senior campaign, Bowdoin softball star Angelina Mayers ’23 became the first All-American in program history and just the second to be named the New England Small College Athletic Conference Softball Player of the Year.

The senior led NESCAC in on-base percentage (.419), slugging percentage (1.335), and runs batted in (48), was tied for a conference-high with fourteen home runs, setting a Polar Bear single-season record, and ranked second in the league in runs scored (45). Mayers recorded a team-high fifty-one hits and finished the year hitting .412 and slugging .843.

Mayers, who joined Julia Geaumont ’15 to become the only two Bowdoin players to earn conference player of the year, was also recognized as co-recipient of the Lucy L. Shulman Outstanding Female Athlete Award, sharing it with All-American swimmer (and roommate) Anna Roberts ’23.

Now These Three Remain

SARAH DICKENSON

SNYDER ’77

(Lily Press, 2023)

Burden of Command

GEORGE A. SMITH ’63

(G. A. Smith, 2019)

Excursions in Number Theory, Algebra, and Analysis

ALBERT CUOCO G’74 (Springer, 2022)

Undue Hate

Associate Professor of Economics

DANIEL F. STONE (MIT Press, 2023)