Roger Mills Hawthorne papers

Roger Mills Hawthorne (Bowdoin 1929), was born in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire on January 24, 1905. From 1929 to 1973, he was a free-lance writer and journalist in Massachusetts, Maine, and Washington D.C. In 1939 and 1941, Hawthorne accompanied Admiral Byrd as a failed representative for the United States Antarctic Service, and it was on the first of these expeditions that the admiral named a 3,400-foot peak on Thurston Island in the Amundsen Sea after him. Hawthorne later received a Congressional Honor Medal for Antarctic Exploration (1946). He was also information officer of the New Zealand Legation, Washington D.C. (1942-1948); executive assistant to the president of English-Speaking Union, New York City (1948-57); executive director of Stetson Law Center Foundation, St. Petersburg, Florida (1958-59); president of the White House Correspondents Association (1937-38); and New Zealand representative for the International Whaling Conference (1947). Hawthorne was married first to Blanche Boardman (1931), and then to Sylvia Moulson (1935), and two children, Mark and Prudence. He died on May 12, 1973, in Pocasset, Massachusetts, following a long illness.