OBITUARIES James M . Carpenter, Professor and Art Historian and fiftie. , Colby came of age, embracing
former president of the New York State
art, music and the humanities in a way that
Baptist M i ni ters Council and of the Mas
had nor been prominent before." In
1 959
Carpenter founJe<l the Colby Col lege M u eum of Art, and he museum's director until Art and Mu ic
erveJ as the
1 966. The Bixler
enter, with it c la ·srooms
anJ the J ette Galleries, also had i ts gene ts
1 1 in a n ocean
swimming accident in Puerto Rico. He was
Congregati onal Church in Westboo k , M a i n e , unt il
1 976. For hi work w i th the
ceived a Colby Gavel. He repre entedColby
arpenter wrote a college
in numerous events on and off campus, and
textbook, Visual Art : A CriLical l ncroduc
on the SOth anniver ary of h is graduation
Lion, which wa
1 982 by
the College awarded him an honorary doc
Harcourt, Brace. Carpenter's <laughter, Jane
torate. H is wife, Margaret mith hearman
puh l i hed in
Pol iquin, also perished in the drowning
'26, died in 1 984. Other College relatives
accident and i survived by her hu hanJ,
include hi
Bruce, and by a on.
1 888, ' 1 5 , Clark '2 1 and E. Richard Drummond '28 and E l l worth Prince ' 1 8. urviv ing are a on, Philip A.
arpenter is urviveJ
and six grandchildren.
e u m of A r t , d i e d February
1 967, although he
first to hold the J ette Profe sorshtp. After
by hi wife, Dorothy, two sons, a <laughter
ment of Art and founded the Colby M u -
Springfield, retiring in
continueJ a pastorate with H ighland Lake
Ma sachusett Baptist Convention he re
arpenter, who in
hi retirement,
tus of art who developed Colby' Depart
Baptist C nvention. Later he
returned to the First Bapti t Church of
1 976 hecame the
with
James M. Carpenter, professor emeri
sachusett
uncle , Henry C. Prince and
Albert F. Drummond, both Cla s of
and c u in Prince A.
hearman ' S O , a daughter, M arjorie
Baptist Pastor
Shearman Bums '5 1
Evan J. Shearman '22, a Bapti t min 50 years, died February 1 in Portland, Maine. He was 9 1 . Born in Port
, 1 1 grandch ildren and 1 0 great-grandchildren.
ister for over
Distinguished Minister
7 7 . He was born in G lens Fall , N . Y . , and
land, he attended local chools anJ Deering
received a bachelor's degree and doctorate
H igh School. At Colby he wa a member of
Gabriel R. Guedj '26, a leader among
from Harvard Un iversity, where he taught
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and of mu
Bapti t conservative mini ter and a mov
for seven years. When he was recruited t
s ical club , was editor of the Oracle his
ing force in establishing the Con ervative
enior year and graduated as a member of
Baptist Assoc iation of America, d ied Feb
chair what was then Colby's Fine Arts
1 9 in Joshua Tree, Calif., at 90. H is
Department, he wa the College's only art
Phi Beta Kappa. He received a bachelor of
ruary
history professor. By the time he retired in
d i v i n ity degree from Andover N ewton
parent were Pari ians who ettled in French
1 980 he had developed a full department, 1 1 members and the i x th
ate of divin i ty degree fr m American Inter
which today ha
Theological Inst itute in
1 92 5 and a doctor
Algeria, where he was born in
1 902. At 1 3
he ran away to sea and joined the merchant
largest number of majors at the College.
national College in
1 940. He ministered at
marine, sailing under French, Briti h and
During a memorial serv ice i n Lorimer
Emmanuel Baptist Church in Brook lyn ,
American flag during and following World
Chapel on February 2 7 , Pre ident W i l l iam
N.Y., andwaspa torofFirstBapti t churches
War I. In
R. Cotter
aid, "The current facu lty and
in Woburn and Springfield, Mass . , and the
hi home, learning English and determin
staff in all our departments know that they
Church-in-the-Garden, Garden City, N .Y.
ing to educate h imself, he was converted
stand on the shoulder of giant ; and in the
In
1 95 8 he became d i rector of placement
dur ing a Salvat ion Army meet ing i n
1 920, after adopting America a
case of art , the shoulders of] im Carpenter,
and alumni secretary at Andover Newton
Framingham, Mass., and soon after was
a most gentle, mode t and caring giant."
Theological Institute. He also wa ea tern
called to the ministry. H is first pa torate was the Bapti t Church in Smithfield,
Former President Robert E. L. Strider lI
representative of the department offinance
said that before Profes or Carpenter came
and promotion of A m e r i c a n Bapt ist
Maine, where he preached while he was a
to the College, "there was no art depart
Churches and for several years erved the
student at Coburn Cla sical Institute i n
ment at all, and one can ay without exag
American Bapti t Convention on the fi
Waterv ille a n d at Colby. As a tudent he
geration that in the decades of the forties
nance and promotion counc i l . He was a
wa active in debatingand public speaking.
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Colby, May
1 992