2000 — Not-for-profit entrepreneur Ellen Baxter '75 presents a lecture entitled "Homelessness in New York City: The Courts, the Politics and Pragmatic Solutions,” in the chapel.
Dr. Charlotte F. Cole ’82 oversees Sesame Workshop’s global strategies and leads the development of all curriculum and research for its international projects, including recent projects in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Mexico, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Pakistan, South Africa and West Bank/Gaza.
Cole was the featured speaker at Tuesday’s Bowdoin Breakfast, delivering the talk ”Muppet Diplomacy: How Sesame Street is Working to Change Our World” in which she talked about the mission and the reach of the Sesame Workshop, whose name, Cole said, originated from “the concept of ‘open sesame’ and the idea that you can open the world of learning through opening Sesame.”
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Cole received her doctorate in human development and psychology from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, previously worked as a Senior Researcher at the Joslin Diabetes Center and a college course instructor, and is a member of the editorial board of theJournal of Children and Media and served as the publication’s first Review and Commentary Editor.
John "Jack" Grinold '57. Photo: Northeastern University.
John “Jack” Grinold ’57 has been inducted into the Beanpot Tournament Hall of Fame as its 53rd member.
The Beanpot Tournament is Boston’s 60-year-old ice hockey tournament, which pits Boston College, Harvard University, Boston University and Northeastern University against each other in the quest for the Beanpot trophy (a replica of a pot for cooking beans).
Grinold has been the associate athletic director for communications at Northeastern University for more than 50 years and is the secretary of the annual Beanpot tournament.
“Jack has the biggest picture of our Beanpot,” TD Garden Vice President of Events Steve Nazro said. “He sees the event in the context of Boston sports, and what it means to the complete fabric of college athletics … He is the soul of the Beanpot.”
Grinold has garnered numerous accolades over his career, including being honored by Northeastern as one of the 100 people responsible for the university’s growth and success. In 2003, Grinold was inducted to the New England Basketball Hall of Fame and in 2009 to the Massachusetts Hockey Hall of Fame. In 2008, Grinold and his wife, Cathy, established a $1 million endowment at Northeastern for men’s rowing. Grinold’s comments are included in the tribute video, “Sid Watson: The Legacy of a Coach.”
Thomas O’Halloran ’77, partner and portfolio manager at financial management firm Lord, Abbett & Co., was a guest on the Fox Business program After the Bell, talking about the companies he views as tomorrow’s growth leaders.
O’Halloran’s daughter Charlotte is a member of the Class of 2013.
Michael Bartini, of Wellesley, Mass., has been named Bowdoin’s Director of Student Aid, effective July 1, 2012. Bartini will succeed Steve Joyce, who has announced his intention to move to part-time status at the end of the current academic year.
Bartini brings more than 30 years of financial aid experience to Bowdoin, including eight years as director of financial aid at Brown University. For the past five years, Bartini has held a variety of leadership roles at The College Board. He previously served as director of financial aid at Washington and Lee University, where he also oversaw all federal programs for the School of Law. Bartini is a graduate of Westfield State College in Westfield, Mass., where he earned a degree in economics.
“We have enjoyed tremendous continuity of leadership in our student aid office and operations over the years, as the program has expanded to meet the needs of our students and their families,” says Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Scott Meiklejohn, who points out that when Joyce joined the Student Aid office in 1991, the College distributed $6.7 million in need-based financial aid. Today, Bowdoin provides more than $28 million to approximately 44% of the student body, with an average annual grant of $35,000.
“This aid plays a critical role in our ability to attract a diverse student body and advances Bowdoin’s long-standing tradition of providing opportunity to accomplished students, regardless of their ability to pay our fees,” says Meiklejohn. “Steve has been instrumental in building this outstanding program and serving as a trusted counselor to students and parents, and I am grateful that he will remain with us as Michael transitions to the director’s role.”
Leaders of student groups set up tables and set out email lists to recruit new members at the spring activities fair held last night in the student union. Students perused the offerings, from the Korean American Students Association to the curling team, from the equestrian team to the Bowdoin Haitian Alliance—and everything in between. If they want to dance, they can join the Salsa Club, the Swing Club, the break dance troupe, or EleMental, a lyrical hip hop crew. If they want to debate, sing gospel, write poetry, cook organic food, perform a musical, join a Christian fellowship, they just need to sign up.
Women’s Basketball — Jill Henrikson ’12 scored 25 points with nine rebounds and nine steals to lead the Polar Bear women’s basketball team in a 65-45 win over Eastern Connecticut State University Tuesday evening at Morrell Gymnasium.
A series of shorts by Lost and Found films explores the notion of home, including “This Must be the Place,” about photographer John Coffer and his log cabin on 50 acres in upstate New York.
I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy, and more picturesque skins, but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.
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
“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.”
Helen Gurley Brown, as pictured on the cover of the biography by Jennifer Scanlon (at right).
Columbia University’s graduate school of journalism is teaming up with Stanford University’s school of engineering to create a new center for media innovation that will strengthen the link between journalism and technology.
The center, which will have locations on both campuses, is being funded with a $30 million donation from Helen Gurley Brown, the 89-year-old former Cosmopolitan editor and subject of the critically acclaimed Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown(2009) by Jennifer Scanlon, Bowdoin’s William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of the Humanities.
The dean of Columbia’s journalism school, Nicholas Lemann, told faculty and students that the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation “will create the closest ongoing partnership I’m aware of between journalists and computer scientists.”
