Embarking on a New Voyage

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RENNY A. STACKPOLE, who has served as Curator of the Whaling Museum, has accepted a position as the Educational Director of the new schooner Bowdoin Associates, an organization launched recently. The historic Maine-built schooner which, under Admiral Donald B. MacMillan, made twenty-one trips to the Arctic, taking groups of students to Greenland and Baffin Land waters, has, over the past five years, been completely rebuilt. It will now enter a new phase of its unusual career, one in which the former use of the vessel will embrace invitations for students and teachers to "come aboard" and learn the maritime history of New England and America. The wide range will include students from schools and colleges in the Boston area, and, during the summer months, voyages to the Labrador coast, under Captain John Nugent.

In embarking on his new duties, Mr. Stackpole will have his headquarters at Camden, Maine. He has been a teacher in the field of History for a number of years, having taught at Tabor Academy, Moses Brown, and in the Nantucket schools. A graduate of Boston University he also participated in the Munson Institute of Maritime History at Mystic Seaport, and received his M.A. at the University of Connecticut. His work at the Nantucket Whaling Museum has attracted wide attention.

His many friends wish him much success in his new activities, feeling that his enthusiasm for these studies will be an asset for his new work. They also hope that this new voyage will have the customary end result of the return to the home port.