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In his latest column, on the cusp of Black History Month, John Cross ’76 reflects on two alumni from the 1920s who, “each in his own way, put a shoulder to the wheel to advance human dignity and ensure social justice.” In looking through a bound copy of The Quill (Bowdoin’s literary magazine) for 1924 that had once belonged to President Kenneth C. M. Sills, Class of 1901, I came across a three-page essay on “Prejudices” by future Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist W. Hodding Carter, Jr., of the Class of 1927. After declaring that his initial impulse was to write a defense of the Ku Klux Klan, Carter proceeded to vent his anger at French Canadians, “Sons of Erin,” African Americans, and New Englanders whose ancestors had profited from the slave trade. By any standard, it was strong stuff to read in a College publication, especially coming, as it did, from a seventeen-year-old from Louisiana. It was with deep regret and no small measure of shame that Carter would later recall that for his first year at Bowdoin he refused to talk to (or even remain in the same room with) the College’s only African-American student at that time, who lived in an adjacent room in Winthrop Hall.
Continue reading Whispering Pines: Transformations and Trajectories  Longfellow around 1850, daguerrotype, Southworth & Hawes, Boston Nearly two centuries after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow introduced students to the “soaring” poetry of Dante’s The Divine Comedy, two recent Bowdoin grads have published new findings about the Longfellow-Dante connection in the prestigious journal Dante Studies. Both alumnae worked with primary documents in Bowdoin’s Special Collections and Archives to aid in their research. “I was looking at marginalia, Longfellow’s handwritten notes,” says Kelsey Abbruzzese ’07. “It was so amazing to think that Longfellow held this, he wrote on it, and here it is at the College where I can hold it and incorporate it into my essay.” Read the story. 
During the fall of 2010, seven students participated in an independent study with Environmental Studies Director Phil Camill and Program Manager Eileen Johnson in response to a request for a municipal-scale sea level rise impact analysis framework for coastal Maine. The project focused on the communities of Brunswick and Harpswell and involved community presentations and feedback throughout the process. Building upon the fall independent study, Maryellen Hearn ’11 and Krista Bahm ’11 worked with Camill and Johnson to refine the analysis, and their study, “Using a Boundary Organization Approach to Develop a Sea Level Rise and Storm Surge Impact Analysis Framework for Coastal Communities in Maine,” was published in the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. (The study is available to Bowdoin students, faculty and staff through the Bowdoin Library subscription to JESS.) “Most people think that the rocky, steep coast line of New England is less susceptible to sea level rise,” say Camill. “But, we found that there can be substantial potential impacts to transportation networks, property and intertidal ecosystems.” “The independent study was a great learning opportunity for the students and a valuable service to community, state and local partners” says Johnson. In addition to presenting findings, this work provides a template for other coastal communities in New England and is an example of the kinds of community based scholarship happening at Bowdoin. More than 50 middle schoolers from Lincoln Middle School’s English Language Learners program in Portland visited Bowdoin last Friday to learn about college and what it takes to get there. Their visit was organized by Mike Hendrickson ’13 and Robbie Harrison ’14 as part of the Bowdoin Alternative Winter Break program that focused on immigrant and resettlement issues. During the last week of winter break, a small group of students led by Hendrickson and Harrison spent time with the middle schoolers, talking to them about setting goals and the importance of education. [portfolio_slideshow] “Today was one of our ways of focusing them on college and future opportunities,” Hendrickson said. Harrison added,”It was a way for us to give them an idea of what they could set as a goal.” Continue reading Bowdoin Students Introduce Middle Schoolers to the Campus As part of the redevelopment of the decommissioned Brunswick Naval Air Station, the Town of Brunswick will receive more than 1,000 acres designated for conservation and recreational purposes. In anticipation of this transition, Brunswick is developing an Open Space Management Plan for the area. Environmental studies majors Michael Lachance ’13, Christopher “Woody” Mawhinney ’12 and Francis Joyce ’12 had the opportunity to get in on the ground floor of this experience by working with staff from both the town and the National Park Service. [portfolio_slideshow] The partnership provided a chance for students to be learn more about the redevelopment of the site while bringing valuable resources to the town’s planning process. Continue reading Slideshow: Out Standing in their Field: Environmental Studies Students Get Hands-On Experience  Christian Potholm Christian Potholm, Bowdoin’s DeAlva Stanwood Alexander Professor of Government, weighs in on both the “bipartisan seating” plan for President Obama’s upcoming State of the Union, and on Maine Governor Paul LePage’s upcoming State of the State address in the Maine Sunday Telegram.  In a Friday morning speech to members of the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce, Karen Mills—the Administrator of the Small Business Adminisration and wife of Bowdoin President Barry Mills—said the SBA is working to open access to new and different lenders for America’s small businesses.
A selection of gorgeous campus shots—all thanks to the noisy snowplow that roused photographer Michele Stapleton early Friday morning. [portfolio_slideshow]  Southwest Airlines announced Friday that its familiar blue, red, and orange jets will soon be landing at Portland’s recently expanded Jetport. Last year’s purchase of AirTran by the Dallas-based Southwest is leading to a consolidation of the two carriers, with 15 cities losing service. Twenty-two others (including PWM) remain on the list.
Frosty’s Donuts, a Maine Street institution for 50 years, closed its doors last June in what appeared to be the end of a delicious era in Brunswick. The Brunswick Times Record and Bangor Daily News set mouths watering this week when the publications announced that Frosty’s has been purchased and will reopen soon, using Bob and June Frost’s original signature recipes. | Bowdoin Athletics 2/3/2012 Women's Track & Field at 1st/4 Maine State Meet (Bates) | Recap 2/4/2012 Nordic Skiing at Vermont Carnival (Trapp Family Lodge) 2/4/2012 Women's Swimming & Diving at Colby 2/4/2012 Men's Swimming & Diving at Colby 2/4/2012 Men's Track & Field at Maine State Meet (Bates) 2/4/2012 Women's Squash Bowdoin at Bates 2/4/2012 Men's Ice Hockey Bowdoin at Hamilton Video2/4/2012 Men's Squash Wesleyan (Conn.) at Bowdoin 2/5/2012 Nordic Skiing at Vermont Carnival (Trapp Family Lodge) 2/10/2012 Nordic Skiing at Dartmouth Carnival (Oak Hill) 2/10/2012 Women's Squash Bates at Bowdoin 2/10/2012 Women's Ice Hockey Bowdoin at Hamilton Video |
