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9 unusual facts about Bowdoin College


Francis Fessenden

He was educated in the local schools and then graduated from Bowdoin College in 1858.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Harriet Beecher Stowe House in Brunswick, Maine is where Stowe lived when she wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. Her husband was teaching theology at nearby Bowdoin College, and she regularly invited students from the college and friends to read and discuss the chapters before publication.

In 2001 Bowdoin College purchased the house, together with a newer attached building, and was able to raise the substantial funds necessary to restore the house.

At the time, Stowe had moved with her family into a home near the campus of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where her husband was now teaching.

Henry F. May

He was an assistant professor, and then associate professor, at Scripps College from 1947 to 1949 and taught as a visiting associate professor at Bowdoin College from 1950 to 1951.

James Bowdoin III

When Bowdoin College was founded in Maine, he gave the new school 6,000 acres (24 km²) and $5,500.

John Sterling Rockefeller

In 1935, Rockefeller gave the island to Bowdoin College under the condition that it be maintained as a sanctuary and a scientific station for students of all institutions.

Robert Casadesus

His pupils included Claude Helffer, Grant Johannesen, Monique Haas, Mary Louise Boehm and William Eves, who appeared on the Bell Telephone Hour fine arts documentary TV series and was a longtime piano instructor at Bowdoin College.

Smallwood Reservoir

It was called the Bowdoin Canyon for Bowdoin College of Maine which sponsored an expedition in 1891 to visit the falls.


Alpha Rho Upsilon

Alpha Rho Upsilon (ΑΡΥ; usually pronounced ARU) was a fraternity at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, from 1946 until it was disbanded in 1990.

Charles Carroll Everett

Everett graduated from Bowdoin College in 1850, after which he studied at the University of Berlin.

Charles Hawes

Born in Clifton Springs, New York, he was raised in Bangor, Maine, and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1911 where he was "editor of The Quill and a devoted student of the classics".

Charles Thomas Ireland, Jr.

Educated at Bowdoin College and then Yale Law School, Ireland had worked at the ITT Corporation before he was appointed CBS president in 1971, making him third in power to Frank Stanton and William S. Paley.

College Terrace, Palo Alto, California

All of the street names in the College Terrace neighborhood are named after East Coast colleges and universities such as Amherst, Bowdoin, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Oberlin, Princeton, Cornell, Wellesley, Williams and Yale.

John Stevens Cabot Abbott

Dr. Abbott graduated at Bowdoin College in 1825, prepared for the ministry at Andover Theological Seminary, and between 1830 and 1844, when he retired from the ministry in the Congregational Church, preached successively at Worcester, Roxbury and Nantucket, all in Massachusetts.

Jonathan M. Weiss

During his tenure as director of off-campus study, Weiss established programs of study in Dijon, France, and London, England, the latter a joint program with Bowdoin and Bates colleges.

Louis O. Coxe

Coxe then moved to Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine in 1956, where he remained (except for brief appointments at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, and the University of Aix-Marseilles, France) as head of the English department until his death in 1993 after 11 years suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

Paul Franco

Paul N. Franco (born 1956) is a professor of government at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and a leading authority on the British political philosopher Michael Oakeshott.

Richard E. Morgan

Richard E. "Dick" Morgan is a conservative author, contributing editor of City Journal, and the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Government at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.

Silas Dinsmoor

Through his mother, Martha McKeen, he was related to Joseph McKeen, the first president of Bowdoin College in Maine.

Spartacus to the Gladiators at Capua

Spartacus to the Gladiators at Capua is a rhetorical monologue written by Elijah Kellogg for a student competition at Bowdoin College in 1842, and later published by Epes Sargent, one of the judges, in his 1846 School Reader.

Stanley Druckenmiller

Harlem Children's Zone was founded by Druckenmiller's college friend and fellow Bowdoin College alumnus Geoffrey Canada.


see also

John J. Studzinski

Studzinski is also on the board of directors of several organizations: Bowdoin College, FAPE, Passage Day Care Center for the Homeless, American Patrons of the Tate, the Royal Parks Foundation, and the Royal College of Art.

Thomas McCann

Thomas A. McCann, head football coach at Bowdoin College (1913–1914) and the University of Maine (1917)