From Africa to Interest Groups and Beyond: Recent Bowdoin Faculty Books

On This Day

• 1968 : H. Richard Hornberger’s (Class of 1945) first book, MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, is published under the pseudonym Richard Hooker. Hornberger would go on write two sequels to the book, in 1972 and 1977. The book's main character, Hawkeye Pierce, is said to have played football at Androscoggin College, a school based on Bowdoin.