BRUNSWICK — Bowdoin College will hold its 209th Commencement ceremony at 10 a.m., Saturday, May 24. College President Barry Mills will preside over Commencement and award degrees on the terrace of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art on the Quad.
In the event of very severe weather, Commencement will take place in Sidney J. Watson Arena.
The college will confer bachelor of arts degrees on 485 graduates, including 49 students from Maine.
During Commencement, Bowdoin will award honorary doctorates to civil rights advocate Mary Bonauto, career diplomat Christopher Hill ’74, renowned ornithologist Richard Prum and pioneering physiological researcher Harriet Wallberg.
Notable Bowdoin graduates include writers Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, President Franklin Pierce, African-American newspaper editor John Brown Russwurm, Civil War hero Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, former U.S. Senator and architect of the Ireland peace accord George Mitchell, and former U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen.
Commencement can be viewed live online at www.bowdoin.edu/live/.
Go to www.bowdoin.edu/commencement/ for more information.
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