BOWDOIN COLLEGE
Commencement
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The Latin text quoted above has introduced Bowdoin’s Commencement Program since August 21, 1822. The names of the 24 graduates of the Class of 1822 were, for the most part, also translated into Latin for the program. In the early years of the College, each graduating senior was required to deliver a Commencement “part,” an oration on ancient or modern topics, which was frequently given in one of the classical languages, Latin, Greek, or Hebrew. The final Latin oration was given in 1893, but the tradition of Latin survives in the language used to dedicate the Commencement Exercises and to confer the bachelor of arts degree. The translation below was provided by Barbara Weiden Boyd, Henry Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek.
May it be good, felicitous, and well-omened: [an ancient Roman formula used at the outset of a ritual to ensure its success] To John Baldacci, esteemed Governor; to the Representatives and Senators who personally preside over the arts and letters for the State of Maine; and to the honorable and respected Trustees of Bowdoin College; to Barry Mills, distinguished President; to the entire academic senate; to the venerable religious leaders; in short, to all patrons of the human race everywhere, the young people hereby initiated into the arts and letters most humbly dedicate these exercises.
Held in a gathering of Bowdoin College, in Brunswick, in the State of Maine, on the ninth day before the Kalends of June, in the 2008th year of our well-being and in the 232nd year of the authority of the United States of America. DEGREES
This ancient formula is used by the President in conferring degrees:
Candidati pro gradu baccalaureali, assurgite.
Vir honorande, hosce iuvenes, quos censeo idoneos primum ad gradum in artibus, nunc tibi offero, ut a te instructus, eos ad gradum istum admittam. Placetne? (Placet.)
Pro auctoritate mihi commissa, admitto vos ad primum gradum in artibus, et dono et concedo omnia iura, privilegia, honores atque dignitates, ad gradum istum pertinentia.
In cuius testimonium hasce membranas litteris scriptas accipite.
Candidates for the Baccalaureate degrees will rise.
(To the Chair of the Board of Trustees) Honored sir, these young people whom I deem worthy of the first degree in Arts, I now present to you, that, if you so direct, I may admit them to that degree. Is such your will? (It is.)
(To the Candidates) By virtue of the authority vested in me, I now admit you to the first degree in Arts and do grant and confer upon you all the rights, privileges, honors, and dignities pertaining to that degree.
In witness whereof, receive these diplomas.
NOTE: The Baccalaureate degrees are awarded individually, and the graduating class requests that there be no applause until the last degree is conferred.
At the Commencement Exercises, Bowdoin displays the College flag and the flags of the United States of America, the State of Maine, and the home or dual-citizenship countries or territories of graduating students—in 2008, Barbados, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Monaco, Mexico, Nepal, Pakistan, People’s Republic of China, Republic of Korea, Romania, Republic of Singapore, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and United Kingdom. TWO HUNDRED THIRD COMMENCEMENT OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE
May 24, 2008
COMMENCEMENT MARCH Chandler’s Band
OPENING OF THE COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES Helen L. Cafferty William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of German and the Humanities and College Marshal
INVOCATION The Reverend Monsignor Marc B. Caron ’ Chancellor, Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland
THE STARSPANGLED BANNER Senior Members of BellaMafia, Boka, Chamber Choir, Chorus, the Longfellows, the Meddiebempsters, Miscellania, and Ursus Verses Andrea Gwyneth Lee Printy ’, piano
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS Peter M. Small ’ Chair of the Board of Trustees
FOR THE STATE Emily Ann Cain Maine State Representative, District 19
WELCOME Barry Mills President of the College
SENIOR COMMENCEMENT SPEAKERS
Striving for Intellectual Tolerance: A Challenge to Graduates Nathan Reuben Chaffetz ’ Class of 1868 Prize Winner
A Continuous Journey Before and After Bowdoin Vanessa Lisbeth Vidal Castellanos ’ Goodwin Commencement Prize Winner CONFERRING OF HONORARY DEGREES Barry Mills President of the College
Peter Buck ’, Doctor of Humane Letters Citation by Stephen G. Naculich Professor of Physics
Yvon Chouinard, Doctor of Humane Letters Citation by Matthew W. Klingle Assistant Professor of History and Environmental Studies
Gina Kolata, Doctor of Letters Citation by Patsy S. Dickinson Josiah Little Professor of Natural Sciences
Lucy R. Lippard, Doctor of Arts Citation by Linda J. Docherty Associate Professor of Art History
Earle G. Shettleworth Jr., Doctor of Humane Letters Citation by Clifton C. Olds Edith Cleaves Barry Professor of the History and Criticism of Art Emeritus
Barry N. Wish ’, Doctor of Humane Letters Citation by Barbara S. Held Barry N. Wish Professor of Psychology and Social Studies
CONFERRING OF BACCALAUREATE DEGREES
DEDICATION Barry Mills President of the College
Andrew Richard Fried ’ Class President
RAISE SONGS TO BOWDOIN Senior Members of BellaMafia, Boka, Chamber Choir, Chorus, the Longfellows, the Meddiebempsters, Miscellania, and Ursus Verses Andrea Gwyneth Lee Printy ’, piano
CONCLUSION OF THE COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES John H. Turner Professor of Romance Languages and College Marshal
RECESSIONAL MARCH Chandler’s Band CANDIDATES FOR THE A.B. DEGREE, MAY 2008
Andrew Richard Fried, Class Marshal
Alexander Lucius Abbott Mathematics and Psychology Dundas, Minnesota Brittany Erin Abery Government and Legal Studies Apple Valley, Minnesota Jacqueline Lee Abrams Government and Legal Studies; Minor: History Denver, Colorado Lillian Hope Abt Psychology; Minor: Visual Arts Menlo Park, California Andrea Marie Aduna Biology and Visual Arts Novato, California Sara Rose Afienko Psychology Kittery, Maine Amy Ahearn English; Minor: Education Studies Wenham, Massachusetts Kenneth Nobuyasu Livingston Akiha Asian Studies and Biology; Minor: Chemistry Oakland, California Nicholas James Alcorn Biology and Classical Archaeology; Tempe, Arizona Minor: Chemistry Krystle Beth Allen Russian and Student-Designed: History and Film Douglas, Massachusetts Bryan Shoichi Amagai Chemistry; Minor: Economics Tenafly, New Jersey Kathryn Michele Anderson Biology; Minor: Theater Houston, Texas Ingrid Marie Anid Government and Legal Studies; Minor: French Bronx, New York Michael Joseph Ardolino Chemistry; Minor: Italian West Hartford, Connecticut Katherine Neuhaus Armstrong Art History; Minor: Sociology Scarborough, Maine Laura Evans Armstrong Art History New Vernon, New Jersey Kenza Ashraf Government and Legal Studies; Minor: Sociology Queens, New York Kathleen Emery Auth French and History Wynnewood, Pennsylvania Tehilah Simone Azoulay Art History Longmeadow, Massachusetts
Bruce Cunningham Baird Jr. History; Minor: Government and Legal Studies Boylston, Massachusetts Michel Bamani Psychology and Sociology Portland, Maine Mallory Jayne Banks English; Minor: Teaching Belfast, Maine Krystal LaShaye Barker Mathematics and Economics; Minor: English Little Rock, Arkansas Steven Edward Bartus Government and Legal Studies; Enfield, Connecticut Minor: Philosophy Sebastien Belanger Mathematics and Economics; Minor: German Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada Laura Elizabeth Belden Sociology; Minor: Biology Cranford, New Jersey Anna Elisabeth Bender Biology-Environmental Studies; Minor: French Tokyo, Japan Sharon Leah Benjamin Biology; Minor: Spanish Old Bethpage, New York Cassandra Elizabeth Benkwitt Sociology-Environmental Studies; Minor: Biology Morrisonville, New York Corey Elizabeth Bergen Sociology and Spanish Walpole, Massachusetts Alex Nathaniel Bettigole Visual Arts Lakeville, Connecticut Caitlin Alissa Bevan Spanish; Minor: Teaching Holyoke, Massachusetts Christopher Martin Bird ’ Visual Arts Dorchester, Massachusetts James Francis Bittl English; Minor: Film Studies Ocala, Florida Lindsey Ka’uanoe Bonner History; Minor: English Corbett, Oregon Anna Erwin Booth Romance Languages; Minor: Anthropology Great Barrington, Massachusetts Dana Arielle Borowitz History; Minor: Film Studies Briarcliff Manor, New York Nicole Michaela Borunda English and Psychology; Minor: Teaching Coronado, California Timothy John Bourassa Art History; Minor: Economics Princeton Junction, New Jersey Carolyn Ann Boyle Economics and Government and Legal Studies China Village, Maine Daniel Farrell Brady Government and Legal Studies and Religion; San Carlos, California Minor: Theater Lisa Natasha Brathwaite Gender and Women’s Studies and Sociology; Dorchester, Massachusetts Minor: Africana Studies Benjamin Abrams Brennan Student-Designed: Architectural Studies and the Westport, Connecticut Built Environment Kerry Vanessa Brodziak Psychology; Minor: English Singapore, Republic of Singapore Dustin Daniel Brooks Government and Legal Studies; Island Falls, Maine Minor: Education Studies Jacqueline Ann Brosnan Biology Haverhill, Massachusetts Emily Conway Brown Anthropology-Environmental Studies Wilton, Connecticut J. Patrick Brown English and Religion New Orleans, Louisiana Jordan Matthew Browning Government and Legal Studies; Minor: Pacific Palisades, California Environmental Studies Megan Suzanne Brunmier Psychology; Minor: Education Studies Madera, California Katherine Elizabeth Buckland History; Minor: Sociology Milton, Massachusetts Noah Rodin Buntman Government and Legal Studies; Minor: Glencoe, Illinois Asian Studies Sarah Sterling Burns ’ Biochemistry and Russian Columbus, Ohio Christopher Lincoln Burrage Economics and Government and Legal Studies Brookline, Massachusetts Emily Elizabeth Burton Asian Studies and Government and Legal Studies Charlotte, North Carolina Jamie Lynn Burwood Mathematics and Psychology; Minor: Visual Arts Sidney, Maine Elizabeth Leigh Button ’ English Trumbull, Connecticut
Carla Florencia Cambiasso Helfer ’ Government and Legal Studies; Minor: Theater Exeter, New Hampshire Kristen Ellen Cameron Psychology; Minor: Economics Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada Courtney Alice Camps Sociology West Roxbury, Massachusetts Clara Emiko Cantor Visual Arts; Minor: Education Studies Sammamish, Washington Scott Clayton Caras Economics Cape Elizabeth, Maine Edward Willson Carr Biology Swansea, Wales Raymond Jepson Carta Government and Legal Studies Manchester, Connecticut Anne Louise Cathcart Art History; Minor: Film Studies Pasadena, California Nathan Reuben Chaffetz Economics New York, New York Janet Min Wa Chan Government and Legal Studies; Minor: Quincy, Massachusetts Mathematics Adam Chang Jiang Asian Studies; Minor: Biology San Francisco, California Janelle Marie Charles ’ Latin American Studies and Spanish; Minor: San Francisco, California English Jennifer Gloria Chávez Romance Languages Edinburg, Texas Alyssa Claire Chen Mathematics and Psychology; Minor: Education Mendon, Vermont Studies Catherine Daulton Chin Government and Legal Studies; Minor: Spanish Belmont, Massachusetts Alexander Garvey Chittim Mathematics; Minor: Economics Hopkinton, New Hampshire Youree Choi ’ Gender and Women’s Studies; Minor: Theater Methuen, Massachusetts Timothy Jiun Chu Economics and Government and Legal Studies North Massapequa, New York Alice Isabella Ciobanu Art History; Minor: Spanish Malden, Massachusetts Emily Meeds Coffin Government and Legal Studies and Spanish Lexington, Massachusetts Elizabeth Lee Cohen Student-Designed: Urban Studies and the Built New Haven, Connecticut Environment; Minor: Biology Lyndsey Tyler Colburn Visual Arts; Minor: Biology Concord, New Hampshire Lee Constance Colon Student-Designed: Cultural Issues in Film Merrick, New York Timothy Joseph Colton Jr. Government and Legal Studies; Minor: Economics Milton, Massachusetts Gabrielle Hélène Comeau French and History Essex, New York Eleanor Cook Connolly History; Minor: Art History Wayzata, Minnesota Sarah Yahner Connolly English; Minor: Biology Holden, Maine Gordon Griffin Convery Sociology Far Hills, New Jersey Alden Chandler Cook Physics; Minor: Mathematics Stanhope, Prince Edward Island, Canada Maura Christina Cooper English Kensington, Maryland Benjamin Weiland Coquillette English Cleveland Heights, Ohio Alexander Mason Dueñas Cornell Government and Legal Studies; Minor: Theater Solon, Maine du Houx ’ Mattie Esther Cowan Government and Legal Studies and Russian McLean, Virginia Alexandra Lee Cowen English; Minor: Asian Studies Scarsdale, New York Kathleen Theresa Coyne Psychology; Minor: Teaching Madison, Wisconsin Gerald Joseph Cresta Anthropology and English York, Maine Christiana Brinton Crooks English; Minor: Art History Greenwich, Connecticut Brooks Ryan Crowe Economics and Government and Legal Studies New York, New York Oliver Hilton Cunningham Government and Legal Studies-Environmental Denver, Colorado Studies Stephen Thomas Cunningham Government and Legal Studies Milton, Massachusetts Caroline Rebecca McIver Currie Biology Hanover, New Hampshire Claire Celeste Cutting Neuroscience; Minor: Chemistry Portland, Maine
Travis Andrew Dagenais History; Minor: English Mansfield, Massachusetts Virginia Corbet Dawson History; Minor: Government and Legal Studies Rye, New York Andrew Alan DeBenedictis Physics Wakefield, Massachusetts Paul David DeCoster English and Sociology; Minor: History Averill Park, New York Roberta Jean Dennison Biology Freeport, Maine Jessica Schlickman DePalo Gender and Women’s Studies; Minor: Dance Westborough, Massachusetts Tara Ann D’Errico Biology; Minor: Gender and Women’s Studies Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts Pooja Desai Government and Legal Studies; Minor: Teaching Jersey City, New Jersey Noah Eric Detweiler Government and Legal Studies Lexington, Massachusetts Ryan Allyn Devenyi Biology; Minor: Economics Hummelstown, Pennsylvania Ghazal Nahid Dezfuli Economics and Government and Legal Studies Chevy Chase, Maryland Mark Thomas Dinneen Computer Science Duxbury, Massachusetts William F. Donahoe English; Minor: Gender and Women’s Studies Henniker, New Hampshire Rachel Jane Donahue Neuroscience Half Moon Bay, California Rogan Donelly Anthropology Osprey, Florida John Douglas Draghi Jr. Computer Science New York, New York Armin Beurlot Drake Government and Legal Studies Lake Forest, Illinois Alida Peyton Draudt Psychology; Minor: Visual Arts Portland, Oregon Patrick John Driscoll Government and Legal Studies; Minor: Economics Braintree, Massachusetts Alison Claire Driver Gender and Women’s Studies-Environmental Seattle, Washington Studies; Minor: Spanish Jesse Daniel Keith Drummond Mathematics and Psychology Ashland, Massachusetts Van Du French-Environmental Studies; Minor: Sociology San Jose, California Patrick Lionel Duchette Economics and Government and Legal Studies Wales, Maine Natalie Clara Dudar Gender and Women’s Studies and German; Salem, Massachusetts Minor: Film Studies Lauren Patricia Duerksen English and Gender and Women’s Studies; Minor: Dallas, Texas Teaching Paul Edward Dwyer Jr. Economics Woburn, Massachusetts Caitlin Libby Edwards History; Minor: English Bangor, Maine Brendan John Egan English; Minor: History Westfield, New Jersey Courtney Lee Eustace Gender and Women’s Studies and Government Brattleboro, Vermont and Legal Studies; Minor: Teaching
Marissa Ann Fabiano Government and Legal Studies; Minor: Economics Austin, Texas Christian Taylor Fabros Government and Legal Studies; Minor: History Bronxville, New York Kenneth Michael Fahey Art History Washington, District of Columbia Jessie Marie Ferguson Government and Legal Studies and Music Palo Alto, California John Alden Ferriss IV Student-Designed: Medieval Studies; Minor: Vergennes, Vermont Latin Nicholas Leo Figueiredo Economics; Minor: History Wilmington, Massachusetts Morgan Elizabeth Finch Biology; Minor: Chemistry Falmouth, Maine Lara Claire Finnegan Psychology; Minor: Economics Buckinghamshire, England Jordan Lancaster Fliegel Government and Legal Studies and Philosophy; Cambridge, Massachusetts Minor: History Kerri-Lynn Foley History; Minor: Education Studies South Boston, Massachusetts Avery Forbes Art History and Visual Arts Fairfield, Connecticut Jonathan David Freedman Chemistry; Minor: Mathematics Great Neck, New York Andrew Richard Fried Government and Legal Studies; Minor: Psychology Melrose, Massachusetts Jeffrey Fallon Friedlander Music and Physics Del Mar, California Mark Christopher Fuller Economics; Minor: Mathematics Salt Lake City, Utah
Joseph Thaddeus Gardner Economics and Government and Legal Studies Peabody, Massachusetts Clark Sherman Gascoigne Government and Legal Studies; Minor: Theater Moreland Hills, Ohio Thomas Alden Gassert Mathematics; Minor: Physics Acton, Massachusetts Garrett Wilcox Gates Philosophy-Environmental Studies; Minor: Fairway, Kansas Biology Philip Wesley Gates English and Theater Shaker Heights, Ohio Rebecca Rachel Genauer Student-Designed: Film Culture Salinas, California Hae-Min Gil Psychology; Minor: Asian Studies Paramus, New Jersey Bradley Stirling Gillis Geology-Environmental Studies Mercer Island, Washington Michael Joseph Giordano Economics and Spanish Washington, District of Columbia Michael Aaron Glantz Asian Studies and Religion New York, New York Alexander Hwang Gluck Economics Chevy Chase, Maryland Ariele Manyin Gonzalez Government and Legal Studies; Minor: German Long Island City, New York Emily Catherine Goodridge English and Theater; Minor: Italian New York, New York Katharine Roshani Grant Neuroscience; Minor: Spanish Denver, Colorado Matthew Timothy Gray Asian Studies and French Westbrook, Maine Amberlee Rose Gustafson Religion Miami Beach, Florida Bernardo Francisco Guzmán Sociology; Minor: Education Studies Somersworth, New Hampshire
Diem Thi Ha Sociology; Minor: Government and Legal Studies Pomona, California Ian Blakeslee Haight Biology; Minor: English Rome, Italy Sarah Haile French and Government and Legal Studies Dorchester, Massachusetts William Danvers Hales History; Minor: Government and Legal Studies New Orleans, Louisiana Adam Walker Hall Chemistry; Minor: Biology Kutztown, Pennsylvania John Brian Hall Computer Science and Mathematics; Minor: Bow, New Hampshire Visual Arts Richard Ezra Hall Government and Legal Studies; Minor: Swarthmore, Pennsylvania Anthropology Kaitlin Cushman Hammersley Visual Arts-Environmental Studies; Minor: Sarasota, Florida Biology Sophia Noel Handel Romance Languages Newcastle, Maine James Martin Harris Neuroscience Goshen, New York Ryan Michael Hart Physics Park City, Utah Hannah Kathryn Harwood Gender and Women’s Studies-Environmental Tunbridge, Vermont Studies; Minor: English Bennett Hadley Haynes Anthropology-Environmental Studies Basking Ridge, New Jersey Katherine Walsh Herlihy Art History Needham, Massachusetts Andrew Richard Hippert Government and Legal Studies; Minor: History Spencer, Massachusetts Hillary Paige Hoffman History and Spanish Greenwood Village, Colorado John Brooks Hoffman English and Spanish Stamford, Connecticut Sara Ann Holby History-Environmental Studies; Minor: Biology Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania Steven Curtis Holleran History; Minor: Film Studies Carlsbad, California Jessica Shirley Horstkotte Sociology; Minor: Education Studies Winnetka, Illinois Forrest Miller Horton Geology-Environmental Studies Missoula, Montana Michael Thomas Howard Spanish; Minor: Government and Legal Studies North Reading, Massachusetts Jillian L. Hoyt Economics and Spanish Saco, Maine Carolyn Renee Hricko Biology; Minor: Chemistry Minot, Maine Pei Huang Biochemistry Boston, Massachusetts Kristen Elizabeth Huber Neuroscience Waterville, Maine Peter R. M. Hudson Religion Marietta, Georgia Colin MacEwen Hughes Economics Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada Jared Thomas Hunt English and German; Minor: Theater Hudson Falls, New York Edward James Hunter Sociology Readfield, Maine Samuel Claiborne Hyde Philosophy Yarmouth, Maine Katherine Starling Hyman Asian Studies and History Aspen, Colorado
Abigail Wells Isaacson Government and Legal Studies and Music Brunswick, Maine Justin Sanford Ito-Adler Religion; Minor: Sociology Belmont, Massachusetts
Jarrett Alexander Jackson Sociology Rockville, Maryland Joanne Jacquet Government and Legal Studies; Minor: French Everett, Massachusetts Felix Alexander Jaeckel Government and Legal Studies White Plains, New York Renee Kerri-Ann James Africana Studies and Sociology Springfield, Massachusetts Abhijeet Jivendra Jha Computer Science; Minor: Sociology Kathmandu, Nepal Suresh Paolo Jones ’ Chemical Physics; Minor: Mathematics Austin, Texas
Samuel Joseph Kamin Mathematics; Minor: Teaching Minneapolis, Minnesota Anna Elizabeth Karass Government and Legal Studies; Minor: French Whitefield, Maine Adam Duerr Karl Biology-Environmental Studies; Minor: Spanish Lancaster, Pennsylvania Matthew Moler Karlan Government and Legal Studies; Minor: Biology Darien, Connecticut Michael Joseph Karrat Jr. Government and Legal Studies; Minor: Economics Ashland, Massachusetts Nicholas Anthony Kasprak Music and Physics West Hartford, Connecticut Timothy John Katlic Physics; Minor: Mathematics Penfield, New York Bridget O’Neil Keating Government and Legal Studies; Minor: Teaching Short Hills, New Jersey Emily Ann Keneally Economics; Minor: Art History Hingham, Massachusetts Jennifer Kristen Kennedy Biology Wellesley, Massachusetts Emily Brooke Keuthen Economics and Government and Legal Studies Wellesley, Massachusetts Maxwell Ligon Key History and Spanish Greenwood Village, Colorado Hunain Khaleeli Economics and Spanish; Minor: Mathematics Karachi, Pakistan Elaine Grace Kilabuk History; Minor: Chemistry Burlington, Vermont Kelsey Ann Killmon Mathematics; Minor: Teaching Reston, Virginia Ji Soo Kim ’ Economics; Minor: Mathematics Seoul, Republic of Korea Andrew Thomas King History; Minor: Chemistry Clackamas, Oregon Hayley Marion King Psychology; Minor: Sociology Skowhegan, Maine Leslie King Asian Studies and Economics Lincoln, Massachusetts Stephen Michael Kolowich Government and Legal Studies; Minor: Concord, Massachusetts Philosophy Anna Kosovsky Art History New York, New York Kenneth Joseph Kozens III Government and Legal Studies; Minor: Economics Falmouth, Massachusetts Nathan Michael Krah Biology; Minor: History Bradenton, Florida Ekaphan Kraichak Biology; Minor: Education Studies Samutprakan, Thailand Hobart Patrick Heath Kropp Government and Legal Studies and History Clayton, Missouri Emily Grace Krull Neuroscience Boxford, Massachusetts
Kori Mee-Yeong LaMontagne Anthropology and Government and Legal Studies Lexington, Massachusetts Kacey Amelia Lane Psychology; Minor: English South Portland, Maine Michael Yves Larochelle Biology; Minor: Chemistry Bangor, Maine Nicholas Alain Larochelle Biology; Minor: Chemistry Bangor, Maine Scott Fred Lavigne Computer Science and Mathematics and Economics Greenville, Maine Amanda Meghan Leahy Government and Legal Studies and History Abington, Massachusetts Richard Fuller Leahy Economics and Government and Legal Studies Larchmont, New York Kate Lauren Lebeaux Music and Spanish; Minor: Government and Shrewsbury, Massachusetts Legal Studies Julia Morgan Ledewitz History-Environmental Studies; Minor: Biology Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Eric Walter Lee English and Music Natick, Massachusetts June Kyuha Lee English and French Topsfield, Massachusetts Kristen Luke Lee Neuroscience Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts Benjamin Émile Le Hay Romance Languages; Minor: Government and Freeport, Maine Legal Studies Elizabeth Sylvia Leiwant Student-Designed: Public Policy New York, New York Alexia Rachel Lewis Physics; Minor: French Eden Prairie, Minnesota Rebecca Sempere Lewis Biochemistry Eden Prairie, Minnesota Sarah Alexandra Lewis Religion; Minor: Art History Los Angeles, California Rong Li Asian Studies Silver Spring, Maryland Margo Ellis Linton Mathematics; Minor: Teaching Menlo Park, California Jessica Rita Miyo Liu Psychology San Marino, California Brian Taylor Lockhart Biochemistry Concord, New Hampshire James Tyler Lonsdale Economics; Minor: English Westport, Connecticut Corinna Ariana Lopez Latin American Studies and Spanish Hadley, Massachusetts L. D. Lord Neuroscience Montreal, Canada Eric Loss Computer Science Laguna Beach, California Nathan Gordon Lovitz Sociology; Minor: Education Studies Fairfield, Maine John Edward Lynch Government and Legal Studies Westwood, Massachusetts
Stuart Winslow MacNeil Geology-Environmental Studies Lincoln, Massachusetts Meaghan Michele Maguire Latin American Studies and Spanish; Minor: Wolfeboro, New Hampshire Chemistry Luis Alfredo Malave Psychology and Spanish; Minor: Theater Philadelphia, Pennsylvania John Wesley Masland III Government and Legal Studies-Environmental Redmond, Washington Studies Dylan Emery Masters Chemistry; Minor: Physics Mill Valley, California Keith Matera Physics; Minor: Mathematics Meredith, New York Lana Caitlin Mathis German and Psychology Anchorage, Alaska Brandon Joseph Mazer Government and Legal Studies; Minor: History Clive, Iowa Matthew Christian McCall Economics and Psychology Natick, Massachusetts Rogan Carlesimo McCally English Westport, Connecticut Michael John McClellan Economics and Government and Legal Studies Marshfield, Massachusetts Betsy Martha McDonald Latin American Studies-Environmental Studies; Southborough, Massachusetts Minor: Spanish Ryan Douglas McDonough English Worcester, Massachusetts Jessica Laura McGreehan Geology and Gender and Women’s Studies South Portland, Maine Emilie Chilton McKenna Economics; Minor: History Fairfield, Connecticut Erica Xiao-Zhen McLeod Art History and English Honolulu, Hawaii Kiel Michael McQueen Government and Legal Studies; Minor: History Norwell, Massachusetts Elie Felix Mechoulam ’ Latin American Studies Monte Carlo, Monaco Farley Michael Mesko Government and Legal Studies-Environmental Vinalhaven, Maine Studies; Minor: Economics Eleanor Woodruff Meyer Art History and Visual Arts; Minor: English Bronxville, New York Diego Alonso Millan English; Minor: Music Malden, Massachusetts Carolyn Armstrong Miller Gender and Women’s Studies; Minor: Chemistry Raleigh, North Carolina Joshua Miller Government and Legal Studies; Minor: History Lexington, Massachusetts Heidi Horton Mills Biology; Minor: Chemistry Brunswick, Maine Samuel Schwartz Minot Biology Austin, Texas Nikolas Mitsopoulos Biology Manchester, New Hampshire Carl Justin Moon English New York, New York Grace Sargent Moore Sociology-Environmental Studies; Minor: Spanish Groton, Massachusetts Jacob Nyberg Murray English Dover, New Hampshire
Anastazia Azusa Naka-Blackstone Psychology Kanagawa-Ken, Japan Jillian Kate Neary Economics and Government and Legal Studies Westfield, Massachusetts Kendra Lee Neff Biology; Minor: Environmental Studies Stuart, Florida
Brittany Leigh Ogden Sociology; Minor: Education Studies Maynard, Massachusetts Elizabeth Lois Onderko Chemistry; Minor: Biology Glastonbury, Connecticut Laura Lynn Onderko Biochemistry and History Glastonbury, Connecticut Richard Liou-Yuan Ong Biology Los Angeles, California Ugonna Chukwunonso Onyekwu Africana Studies; Minor: English Dorchester, Massachusetts Maria Lee Openshaw Latin American Studies and Spanish Hampden, Maine Margaret Elizabeth O’Rourke Economics and Mathematics Blacksburg, Virginia Brian Jeffrey Orr Government and Legal Studies Simsbury, Connecticut Gayle Alexis Overbey Psychology; Minor: Teaching Washington, District of Columbia Hande Ozergin Neuroscience Bursa, Turkey
Lincoln Joseph Pac Biochemistry and German Bozeman, Montana Maxwell Benjamin Palmer Government and Legal Studies and Mathematics Newton, Massachusetts Vanessa Taylor Palomo History; Minor: Education Studies Northampton, Massachusetts Katerina Sophia Papacosma French and Government and Legal Studies; Munroe Falls, Ohio Minor: Economics Katherine Ashley Parét Biology; Minor: Latin Cheshire, Connecticut Grace Park Asian Studies and Government and Legal Studies Los Angeles, California Kai Perry Parker Africana Studies and History New York, New York Zachary Baxter Parker Philosophy; Minor: Physics Little Compton, Rhode Island Charles Robert Parrish Neuroscience San Francisco, California Claudia Andrea Paz History; Minor: Spanish La Cañada, California Alex Geoffrey Peroff Chemistry; Minor: Philosophy Montclair, New Jersey Anne Crittenden Pierce Classics; Minor: Education Studies Hinsdale, Illinois Patrick Jean-Marie Pierce Economics and Government and Legal Studies Newton, Massachusetts Asya Pikovsky French and Government and Legal Studies; Lexington, Massachusetts Minor: Economics Morgan Elizabeth Pile English; Minor: Film Studies Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts Sylvie Grace Moore Piquet Gender and Women’s Studies; Minor: Education Saint Louis, Missouri Studies Kelly Daylyn Pitts Biology-Environmental Studies; Minor: English Bel Air, Maryland Jonah Platt-Ross Government and Legal Studies; Minor: Spanish San Francisco, California Sarah Swan Podmaniczky English and Government and Legal Studies; Pleasant Valley, New York Minor: Mathematics Damien Lorenzo Poles ’ History Dorchester, Massachusetts Katherine Anne Popoff Asian Studies and Government and Legal Studies Old Lyme, Connecticut Frank Manuel Prieto Government and Legal Studies; Minor: Spanish Oradell, New Jersey Andrea Gwyneth Lee Printy Music; Minor: History Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Ivano Pulito Romance Languages; Minor: Film Studies New York, New York
Graham Kauhiakama Quill Classical Studies and Visual Arts Paia, Hawaii
Benjamin Evan Rachlin English; Minor: Spanish Concord, New Hampshire Oliver Greene Radwan Computer Science; Minor: Biology Chapel Hill, North Carolina Jonathan Daly Ragins History; Minor: Economics New Rochelle, New York David Robert Ransom Economics; Minor: Government and Legal Studies New Britain, Pennsylvania Rachel Rapp Spanish; Minor: Economics Andover, Massachusetts Kristen Patricia Raymond Government and Legal Studies and History; Dover, Massachusetts Minor: Africana Studies Laura Rose Rekedal Anthropology and Art History Little Silver, New Jersey Anna Marie Remillard Asian Studies; Minor: French Eagle River, Alaska Thomas William Reycraft Government and Legal Studies; Minor: Education Pelham Manor, New York Studies Robert Babak Rezvani Economics; Minor: Asian Studies Upper Montclair, New Jersey Elizabeth Ann Richardson Biochemistry; Minor: Latin American Studies Warren, Rhode Island Isabelle Payne Richardson Religion New York, New York Martin Nicholas Riessen Mathematics; Minor: Physics Williamsville, New York Anne Genevieve Riley Sociology and Spanish Towson, Maryland Alison Michele Rincon Sociology; Minor: Italian El Sobrante, California Liam Miguel Rios-Derman ’ Government and Legal Studies; Minor: English Brooklyn, New York Doran Cody Rivera Art History and Visual Arts; Minor: Africana Biddeford, Maine Studies Zachary John Roberts English; Minor: Religion Waterford, Connecticut Carrie Jane Roble Africana Studies-Environmental Studies; Minor: Farmington Hills, Michigan Biology Jonathan Morgan Rollins Economics and Mathematics White Plains, New York Caitlyn Anne Rosa Psychology-Environmental Studies North Brunswick, New Jersey Cassia Paigen Roth Latin American Studies and Spanish; Minor: Carson City, Nevada Gender and Women’s Studies Martha McNamara Royston History and Spanish New Haven, Connecticut Charles Haas Russell-Schlesinger Classics; Minor: Italian San Francisco, California
Jacob Sherr Sack Government and Legal Studies; Minor: History Wynnewood, Pennsylvania Ida Alem Sahlu Anthropology; Minor: Chemistry Silver Spring, Maryland Benjamin Creedon Sandell Student-Designed: Architectural Studies and the Sag Harbor, New York Built Environment; Minor: Sociology Andrew John Sargeantson Economics; Minor: History New Canaan, Connecticut George Stewart Schlesinger ’ English Cherry Hill, New Jersey Sara Witt Schlotterbeck French and Gender and Women’s Studies; Minor: Holliston, Massachusetts Government and Legal Studies Harry David Schnur Religion; Minor: Asian Studies Shaker Heights, Ohio Dave Scott German-Environmental Studies Hamilton Township, New Jersey Meredith Sunshine Segal Psychology Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Joanna Marie Galias Sese Art History and Visual Arts; Minor: French Arcadia, California Abhishek Sharma Biochemistry Lawrence, Massachusetts Elizabeth Wilkinson Shaw Romance Languages; Minor: Dance Brookline, Massachusetts Phillip Andrew Shaw Biology; Minor: Geology Everett, Washington Hanford Kin Ting Sheng French and Spanish; Minor: Economics Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Oriene H. Shin Asian Studies and Economics Westwood, Massachusetts Akira Andrew Shishido Biochemistry Cranbury, New Jersey Anjali Shrikhande Asian Studies; Minor: Government and Legal Mercer Island, Washington Studies Jonique Denise Simpson English; Minor: Sociology Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Andrew Phillip Sinnenberg Economics and Spanish Westfield, New Jersey Emily Skelly Skinner Neuroscience; Minor: Gender and Women’s Studies Boxford, Massachusetts Laura Morton Small Sociology; Minor: Education Studies Wayne, Pennsylvania Jeffrey Hallisey Smith Government and Legal Studies; Minor: Economics Needham, Massachusetts Samantha Mary Smith ’ English and Visual Arts Lexington, Massachusetts Stephen William Smith Government and Legal Studies; Minor: Education Blaine, Maine Studies Thomas Duncan Smith Biochemistry; Minor: Economics Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada Elena Anne Snavely History and Mathematics Greensboro, North Carolina David Edwin Samuel Sokolow History; Minor: Spanish Camp Hill, Pennsylvania David George William Soohoo Biochemistry Huntington, New York Allegra Luisa Spalding Spanish-Environmental Studies Kennebunkport, Maine Brandon Stamps Sparks Economics and Government and Legal Studies Missouri City, Texas Alison McClure Spencer History; Minor: Teaching Wayzata, Minnesota Samuel Holton Stack Asian Studies and Religion; Minor: English Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Andrew George Steltzer Asian Studies; Minor: Government and Legal Hampden, Maine Studies Sarah Kato Stern Government and Legal Studies; Minor: Newport Coast, California Art History Jacob Sam Stevens Neuroscience; Minor: Chemistry Fort Kent, Maine Shawn Xavier Stewart English; Minor: Education Studies New York, New York Benjamin Morgan Stormo Biochemistry Clayton, Missouri Hilary Simmons Strasburger English; Minor: Teaching Brunswick, Maine Naomi Leah Sturm Latin American Studies and Spanish; Minor: Blauvelt, New York Dance Sean Michael Sullivan Art History Londonderry, New Hampshire Dudney Sylla Sociology; Minor: Africana Studies Mattapan, Massachusetts
Taylor Anderson Talmage Computer Science; Minor: Philosophy Kingfield, Maine Fei Tan Economics; Minor: Asian Studies Waterville, Maine Nathaniel Benjamin Tavel Government and Legal Studies New York, New York Zachary Nils Tcheyan Economics and Music Chevy Chase, Maryland Donald Theodate Psychology; Minor: Chemistry Malden, Massachusetts Deborah Anne Theodore English; Minor: Biology Bethesda, Maryland Catherine Ewing Thomas History; Minor: Spanish New York, New York Steven John Thompson Government and Legal Studies; Minor: Sociology Mamaroneck, New York David Kelley Thomson History; Minor: Government and Legal Studies Kittery, Maine Michael Douglas Tillotson Anthropology-Environmental Studies; Minor: Seattle, Washington Biology Nicholas Nelson Tomaino Economics Gloucester, Massachusetts Conor Whitfield Tong History; Minor: Anthropology Gahanna, Ohio Janice Tong English; Minor: Biology New York, New York Drew Nicholas Tsakos ’ Biology Boston, Massachusetts Ryan Mathieu Turgeon Economics and Government and Legal Studies Auburn, Maine Kerry Anne Twombly Economics; Minor: Italian Massapequa, New York
Heather Anne Upham Mathematics; Minor: Economics Saratoga Springs, New York Lindsay Alexander Urquhart Biology; Minor: Chemistry Winchendon, Massachusetts
Alicia Jessie Velez Spanish Babylon, New York Vanessa Lisbeth Vidal Castellanos Latin American Studies and Romance Languages Los Angeles, California Eric Joseph Volpe Music and Philosophy Brookline, Massachusetts
David Alexander Wagoner-Edwards Economics Issaquah, Washington Michaela Louise Wallin English and Gender and Women’s Studies New York, New York Matthew Stanley Wang Biochemistry Marblehead, Massachusetts Nina Marie Ward Sociology and Spanish; Minor: Government and Cambridge, Massachusetts Legal Studies Megan Rocchio Waterman Sociology; Minor: Chemistry Le Roy, New York Timothy Robert Watson Government and Legal Studies; Minor: Education Quincy, Massachusetts Studies Brandon Green Waxman Neuroscience New York, New York Allison Douglas Weide Anthropology-Environmental Studies Hickory, North Carolina Hannah Nicole Weil English and Theater Miami, Florida Luke O’Connor Welch Visual Arts Auburn, Maine Thaddeus Stevens Welch III Economics; Minor: Psychology Richmond, Massachusetts David Kosuke Sakai Weller Government and Legal Studies Irvine, California Katherine Cable Wells History; Minor: English Davidson, North Carolina Michael Scott Westerman Mathematics and Physics; Minor: Economics Ann Arbor, Michigan Alexander Simmons White History and Religion Beverly, Massachusetts David Andrew Victor White ’ Mathematics; Minor: Computer Science Chicago, Illinois George Lamont White English; Minor: Africana Studies Boston, Massachusetts Katherine Elizabeth Whitley Psychology; Minor: Art History Birmingham, Alabama Hanne Altena Wieschhoff Gender and Women’s Studies and Sociology Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts Alex Wayne Wilkinson Biochemistry; Minor: History West Newbury, Massachusetts Nicole Marcia Willey Gender and Women’s Studies; Minor: Education Lewiston, Maine Studies Alessandra Racquelle Williams- Psychology; Minor: Theater New York, New York Bellotti Philip Rylan Wilson Economics and History Wynnewood, Pennsylvania Wellesley Lutricia Wilson Government and Legal Studies and Psychology Washington, District of Columbia Amanda Christine Wing Psychology; Minor: History Augusta, Maine John Temujin Winterkorn ’ Government and Legal Studies; Minor: Asian Albuquerque, New Mexico Studies Sarah Meredith Wissler History; Minor: Biology Windham, Maine Liana Rae Wolk English; Minor: History Narberth, Pennsylvania Aisha Anjali Woodward Government and Legal Studies Sedgwick, Maine Cody James Wyant Art History and Archaeology Austin, Minnesota Gregory Charles Wyka Geology-Environmental Studies; Minor: Lincoln Park, New Jersey Chemistry Jamil Uzair Wyne Religion; Minor: Film Studies Dublin, Virginia
Anita Xie Economics and Psychology Weston, Massachusetts
Kathryn Elizabeth Yankura English and German Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Michael North Young History and Russian Taipei, Taiwan Valerie Westcott Young Psychology; Minor: Government and Legal Studies Concord, New Hampshire William Samuel Yusah English and Theater Lexington, Massachusetts
Rachel Margaret Zack Economics Baltimore, Maryland Anthony Mario Zarrella Government and Legal Studies and Philosophy Fitchburg, Massachusetts Ann Rebecca Zeigler Government and Legal Studies Washington, District of Columbia Yi Zheng Asian Studies and Psychology; Minor: Economics New York, New York Yi Zhuang Computer Science and Mathematics Chengdu, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China
In Memoriam Sabrina Dianna Sampson-Knapp Philadelphia, Pennsylvania HONORARY APPOINTMENTS
SUMMA CUM LAUDE
Amy Ahearn Rachel Rapp Megan Rocchio Waterman Philip Wesley Gates Zachary John Roberts Yi Zhuang Lincoln Joseph Pac Jacob Sam Stevens
MAGNA CUM LAUDE
Kathleen Emery Auth Jonathan David Freedman Sarah Swan Podmaniczky Cassandra Elizabeth Benkwitt Rebecca Rachel Genauer Anne Genevieve Riley Anna Erwin Booth James Martin Harris Cassia Paigen Roth Caroline Rebecca McIver Currie Kristen Elizabeth Huber Harry David Schnur Andrew Alan DeBenedictis Jared Thomas Hunt Caitlin Marie Seifert Roberta Jean Dennison Abigail Wells Isaacson Alison McClure Spencer Ryan Allyn Devenyi Jennifer Kristen Kennedy Naomi Leah Sturm Alison Claire Driver Ekaphan Kraichak Fei Tan Morgan Elizabeth Finch Keith Matera Michaela Louise Wallin
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Ingrid Marie Anid Francesca D’Alessandro Du Brock Nikolas Mitsopoulos Michael Joseph Ardolino Kenneth Michael Fahey Grace Sargent Moore Mallory Jayne Banks Avery Forbes Anastazia Azusa Naka-Blackstone Krystal LaShaye Barker Mark Christopher Fuller Katerina Sophia Papacosma Lindsey Ka’uanoe Bonner Amberlee Rose Gustafson Ivano Pulito Daniel Farrell Brady John Brian Hall Benjamin Evan Rachlin Benjamin Abrams Brennan Ryan Michael Hart Sara Witt Schlotterbeck Katherine Elizabeth Buckland Pei Huang Brook Anderson Shaffer Scott Clayton Caras Katherine Starling Hyman Phillip Andrew Shaw Alyssa Claire Chen Anna Elizabeth Karass Akira Andrew Shishido Emily Meeds Coffin Matthew Moler Karlan David Edwin Samuel Sokolow Gabrielle Hélène Comeau Nicholas Anthony Kasprak David George William Soohoo Alexandra Lee Cowen Emily Ann Keneally Samuel Holton Stack Gerald Joseph Cresta Kate Lauren Lebeaux Heather Anne Upham Travis Andrew Dagenais Elizabeth Sylvia Leiwant Nicole Marcia Willey Paul David DeCoster Brian Taylor Lockhart Amanda Christine Wing Tara Ann D’Errico Dylan Emery Masters Gregory Charles Wyka Rachel Jane Donahue Carolyn Armstrong Miller Valerie Westcott Young PHI BETA KAPPA
Amy Ahearn Emily Ann Keneally Kathleen Emery Auth Jennifer Kristen Kennedy Cassandra Elizabeth Benkwitt Ekaphan Kraichak Anna Erwin Booth Elizabeth Sylvia Leiwant Benjamin Abrams Brennan Keith Matera Caroline Rebecca McIver Currie Grace Sargent Moore Andrew Alan DeBenedictis Lincoln Joseph Pac Paul David DeCoster Sarah Swan Podmaniczky Roberta Jean Dennison Rachel Rapp Ryan Allyn Devenyi Anne Genevieve Riley Alison Claire Driver Zachary John Roberts Morgan Elizabeth Finch Cassia Paigen Roth Avery Forbes Harry David Schnur Jonathan David Freedman Caitlin Marie Seifert Philip Wesley Gates Alison McClure Spencer Rebecca Rachel Genauer Jacob Sam Stevens Amberlee Rose Gustafson Naomi Leah Sturm James Martin Harris Fei Tan Ryan Michael Hart Michaela Louise Wallin Kristen Elizabeth Huber Megan Rocchio Waterman Jared Thomas Hunt Amanda Christine Wing Abigail Wells Isaacson Yi Zhuang Nicholas Anthony Kasprak
Students elected to Phi Beta Kappa wear green and white ribbons on their academic gowns. HONORANDS OF THE 2008 COMMENCEMENT
Peter Buck ’ Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.)
Peter Buck is a nuclear physicist and philanthropist who is perhaps best known as the co-founder of the Subway franchise restaurant chain. A native of South Portland, Maine, he earned master’s and doctoral degrees in physics at Columbia University. From 1957 to 1978 he held positions as a nuclear physicist with several companies. In 1965 he made entrepreneurial history when he loaned a seventeen-year-old family friend $1,000 to open the first Subway Sandwiches and Salads Shop. This endeavor grew to two stores the next year, sixteen shops by 1973, and individual franchise sales by the mid-1970s. By January 2008 there were 28,773 Subway restaurants in eighty-six countries. He established a foundation devoted to enhancing the quality of life in communities in North and South America, as well as an endowment to support cancer research programs. He has a particular interest in the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution, and the Peter Buck Chair in Human Origins there fosters scientific research in paleoanthropology.
Yvon Chouinard Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.)
Yvon Chouinard is the founder, president, and CEO of Patagonia, Inc., a leader in the field of outdoor clothing and gear. A native of Lisbon, Maine, he is a pioneering climber and manufacturer of climbing equipment who participated in a number of first ascents, including the North American Wall on El Capitan in Yosemite without the use of fixed ropes. His book Climbing Ice (1978) and his climbing tools are credited with starting the modern sport of ice climbing. Launched in 1972, Patagonia reflects Chouinard’s environmental and social activism. The company continually seeks ways to minimize the environmental impacts associated with the manufacture, packaging, use, and discard of its products. In 2001 he co-founded One Percent for the Planet to support grassroots organizations committed to environmental protection. He is the author of Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman (2005), which outlines Patagonia’s business philosophy of encouraging creativity and healthy lifestyles among its employees.
Gina Kolata Doctor of Letters (Litt.D.)
Gina Kolata has reported on science and medicine for The New York Times since 1987. Before joining The Times, she was a senior writer for Science, and she has written numerous freelance articles for a wide variety of magazines. In her news articles and books she makes accessible to a wide audience the results of scientific research and the social, political, economic, and environmental issues raised by scientific inquiry. She was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in investigative reporting in 2000. Her books include Clone: The Road to Dolly, and the Path Ahead (1997), Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth about Exercise and Health (2003), and Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss–and the Myths and Realities of Dieting (2007), which was recently nominated for a 2008 James Beard Foundation Award. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, she graduated from the University of Maryland and studied molecular biology at MIT before returning to Maryland to earn her master’s degree in applied mathematics. Lucy R. Lippard Doctor of Arts (D.A.)
Lucy Lippard is an internationally known art and cultural critic, curator, and activist who has made an enduring mark on the world of art, feminist scholarship, and our understanding of cultural geography. Born in New York City, she graduated from Smith College and earned her M.A. at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. She is the author/editor of more than twenty books, including On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place (1999) and The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society (1998). She has curated more than fifty exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. For thirty years she has worked with artists’ groups such as the Artworks’ Coalition, Ad Hoc Women Artists, Artists Meeting for Cultural Change, The Alliance for Cultural Democracy, and Women’s Action Coalition. She is co-founder of artists’ organizations such as Printed Matter, The Heresies Collective, Political Art Documentation/Distribution, and Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America.
Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.)
Earle Shettleworth Jr. is the director of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission and is the Maine State Historic Preservation Officer. A native of Portland, Maine, and a graduate of Colby College, he earned his master’s degree at Boston University, where he held the first fellowship of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. He has played an important role in the preservation of Maine’s architectural, historical, and archaeological heritage for more than forty years. He became the Maine Historic Preservation Commission’s architectural historian in 1973 and has been its director since 1976. He is currently the longest actively serving state historic preservation officer in the United States. He is the author of numerous books on Maine’s social and architectural history, and delivers an average of thirty lectures a year. The lecture hall at the Maine Historical Society is named for him. Bowdoin College has sought his wise counsel on numerous occasions.
Barry N. Wish ’ Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.)
Trustee Emeritus Barry N. Wish has been a leader in the worlds of finance and philanthropy. Born in Boston, he attended law school at Boston College. He began his career with Merrill Lynch & Co., as a vice president and director at First Devonshire Corp., then as partner and shareholder at Kidder, Peabody & Co. He formed the New York investment arbitrage firm, Walsh Greenwood Wish & Co., in 1979. He sold his interest in the firm in 1983, and founded the Oxford Financial Group. He is currently chairman emeritus and active board member of the successor company, Ocwen Financial Corp. The Barry N. Wish Scholarship was established at Bowdoin in his honor, and Wish established both the Sidney Wish and Bertha Wish Sipkin Scholarship Fund and the Barry N. Wish Professorship in Social Studies. Classes and performances in Wish Theater are daily reminders of the many ways in which he has encouraged and inspired the Bowdoin community. HONORS IN MAJOR SUBJECTS
The departments of Art, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, English, Geology, History, Mathematics, Music, Psychology, Romance Languages, and Sociology and Anthropology, and the Biochemistry, Environmental Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, Latin American Studies, and Neuroscience programs award only one level of departmental honors. Other departments award honors at the levels of Highest Honors, High Honors, and Honors, and the recipients are so designated.
AFRICANA STUDIES Thomas Duncan Smith Isolation and Identification of WAK Associated Proteins Honors Kai Perry Parker David George William Soohoo Porgy and Bess, Cold War Propaganda, and the Evolution of The Use of a Cobalt (I) Catalyst in the Production of Linear the Civil Rights Movement, 1952–1956 A-Olefin Products
ASIAN STUDIES Benjamin Morgan Stormo Effects of Eastern Dwarf Mistletoe Infection on the High Honors Expression of Senescence-Related Genes in Host White Rong Li Spruce Security Implications of Future Force Development in the Era of Revolution in Military Affairs: A Dialectical Alex Wayne Wilkinson Comparative Analysis of the United States and the People’s Characterization of a Methylated Protein in Candida Republic of China albicans
Honors BIOLOGY Matthew Timothy Gray The MountŌ e Picture Scrolls: An Annotated Translation Honors and Commentary Kenneth Nobuyasu Livingston Akiha Fitness Effects of Sperm Competition in Caenorhabditis BIOCHEMISTRY elegans
Honors Nicholas James Alcorn Sarah Sterling Burns How Do Changes in Parental Investment Influence Larval In Vitro Granulopoiesis during Epigenetic Modifications: Development in Gulf of Maine Echinoids? Commitment of HL-60 Cells to RA-Induced Differentiation Regardless of the Presence of Epigenetic Kathryn Michele Anderson Agents Comparing Chemical and Structural Induced Defenses of Ascophyllum nodosum in Response to Damage by Herbivory Rebecca Sempere Lewis and Wave Action Localization of Glycine Rich Protein, Verbascose Synthase, and O-methyltransferase Green Fluorescent Fusion Proteins Jacqueline Ann Brosnan in Arabidopsis thaliana Developing RNA Interference Techniques in the Cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus Laura Lynn Onderko Investigating Neuropeptide Processing in Crustaceans Using Roberta Jean Dennison Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Fourier Regulation of Central Pattern Generators by the Ganglionic Transform Mass Spectrometry Sheath in the American Lobster, Homarus americanus
Lincoln Joseph Pac Ryan Allyn Devenyi Exploring the Role of D-N Arginine Methylation in Yeast Modulation of Contractions of the gm4 Muscle of the Translation Gastric Mill by FLRFamides in Cancer Crabs
Elizabeth Ann Richardson Carolyn Renee Hricko Metabolic Incorporation of Unnatural Azidosugars into Light Use in Eucalypts Exposed to Past, Present, and Helicobacter pylori Forecasted Future Atmospheric Conditions
Akira Andrew Shishido Binding Wall-Associated Kinase to Pectin In Vitro Nathan Michael Krah ENGLISH psbS Expression Affects Photosynthesis, Growth, and Fitness in Arabidopsis thaliana Honors Amy Ahearn Ekaphan Kraichak The Explosive Aftermath of Empire: Nuclear Weaponry in Community Structure of Macrolichens on a Boreal Island in South Asian Diaspora Fiction the Bay of Fundy J. Patrick Brown Samuel Schwartz Minot Stress Fracture: The Israel Trope and the Holocaust in Evolutionary History and Population Genetics of the Modern Writing Human Follicle Mite, Demodex folliculorum June Kyuha Lee Kendra Lee Neff Model Gestures and Manly Butterflies: Chang-rae Lee’s and Constraints on Tree Recruitment on Kent Island, New David H. Hwang’s Subversive Stagings of Asian American Brunswick, following Hare-Eradication Emasculation
CHEMISTRY Rogan Carlesimo McCally “And mani ther beth of fairy”: Social Criticism and the Honors Workings of Faërie in the Medieval Breton Lai Bryan Shoichi Amagai Purification and Absorption Spectroscopy of Long Polyenes Zachary John Roberts “Will Polar Bears Be OK?”: The Fate of the Text in the Michael Joseph Ardolino Postnuclear Era Cationic Cobalt Catalysis: Improving upon Alpha-Olefin Dimerization Deborah Anne Theodore Politics, Puerility, and Personal Happiness: Trollope’s Version Jonathan David Freedman of the Female Bildungsroman New Synthesis of Chromones Janice Tong Elizabeth Lois Onderko Passing as an Interior Journey: Unintentional Acts on the Characterization of Peptide Fragmentation Using Energy Color Line in Toi Derricotte and Danzy Senna Resolved SORI-CID ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Alex Geoffrey Peroff Atmospheric Studies of Organic Surfaces Honors Bennett Hadley Haynes COMPUTER SCIENCE Cultivating Alternatives: A Thai Fair Trade Rice Farmers’ Movement and Transnational Network Honors Oliver Greene Radwan John Wesley Masland III BD-SSAT: Combining Systematic and Local Search to Solve Conceptualizing the Precautionary Principle: The Case for Stochastic Boolean Satisfiability Problems a New Model of Environmental Decision Making under Conditions of Uncertainty Yi Zhuang Map Overlay: Simple, Practical, and Scalable Approaches GENDER AND WOMEN’S STUDIES
ECONOMICS Honors Alison Claire Driver High Honors “We Keep Working”: Development, Dependency, and Scott Clayton Caras NGO Autonomy in the Dominican Republic Business Cycles: An Analysis of Leading Economic Indices GEOLOGY Honors Kerry Anne Twombly Honors The Impact of Deflation and Disinflation on Growth: An Forrest Miller Horton Empirical Analysis EBSD and HRXCT Analysis of Elongated Garnets of the Spring Point Formation, Casco Bay, Maine GERMAN Asya Pikovsky The Dream and the Reality: Freedom of the Press in the Highest Honors Absence of a Constitution Jared Thomas Hunt Towards a Contemporary Brechtian Dramaturgy: HISTORY Reimagining Gender in Der gute Mensch von Sezuan Honors Kathryn Elizabeth Yankura Caitlin Libby Edwards Not a Chick Flick: Understanding Sommer vorm Balkon in Speaking in Science: The Universal Language Movement in the Context of East German Cinema Seventeenth-Century Europe
High Honors Elena Anne Snavely Lana Caitlin Mathis Dominican and Franciscan Self-Identification as Preachers Defying Stereotypes of the Migrant Experience: Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Literary Negotiations of Legal, Cultural, David Edwin Samuel Sokolow and Gendered Identity within Two Worlds The Global Impact of the Russo-Japanese War
Honors David Kelley Thomson Natalie Clara Dudar Oliver Otis Howard: The Paradox of the Christian General Negotiating the Diaspora: Bleeding Boundaries in Fatih Akin’s Dialectical Cinema LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
GOVERNMENT Honors Cassia Paigen Roth High Honors Planning the Argentine Family: The State, the Church, and Anna Elizabeth Karass Feminism in the Twentieth Century Imagining the Diaspora: The Politics of Displacement Naomi Leah Sturm Hobart Patrick Heath Kropp El agua, hay que dejarla correr : Música y danza folklorica y la The Politics of Memory: Historical Revisionism and the transformación de la tradición en la comunidad peruana de Peace Processes in Ireland and Israel Nueva York
Maxwell Benjamin Palmer MUSIC Click Here to Contribute: The Impact of the Internet on Campaign Fundraising Honors Jeffrey Fallon Friedlander Sarah Swan Podmaniczky Love, Stars, and the Moon: A Four-Movement Work for Transatlantic Cooperation in the War on Terror: Europe and Chamber Choir and Piano Quartet the CIA’s Secret Rendition Abigail Wells Isaacson Nathaniel Benjamin Tavel Concerto for Orchestra The Lost (and Found) Guide to Defeating Insurgencies: A Case Study Analysis of the U.S. Marine Corps Small Wars Kate Lauren Lebeaux Manual Modernity, Exoticism, and Gender in Zarzuela
Honors Eric Walter Lee Jordan Matthew Browning Reading Jewishness in the Reception History of Gustav The Communitarian Critique of Liberalism: The Mahler Philosophies of Michael Sandel and Charles Taylor Andrea Gwyneth Lee Printy Alexander Mason Dueñas Cornell du Houx Sonorum Septem Missa Civic Engagement and America’s College Youth Zachary Nils Tcheyan Patrick Jean-Marie Pierce Birthday Party The Selfish Life of Selflessness: Lessons from Rousseau’s Criticism of Liberalism NEUROSCIENCE PSYCHOLOGY
Honors Honors Claire Celeste Cutting Sara Rose Afienko Identifying Differentially Regulated Genes after The Role of Rationality and Agency in the Denervation in the Cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus Conceptualization of Delusion
Rachel Jane Donahue Kacey Amelia Lane Hippocampal-Cortical Interactions in a Declarative Empathy and Prosocial Behavior: Shy Children’s Regulation Memory Task of Negative Emotion
James Martin Harris Meredith Sunshine Segal The Role of Pushover in Compensatory Dendritic The Relationship between False-Belief Understanding and Regeneration in the Cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus Social Competence: A Training Study
Kristen Elizabeth Huber Caitlin Marie Seifert A Comparison of the Modulatory Effects of Native Reading for Reading’s Sake: Sustained Silent Reading FMRFamide-Related Peptides on the Stomatogastric Programs and Students’ Attitudes toward Reading Nervous System in the American Lobster, Homarus americanus RELIGION
Kristen Luke Lee Highest Honors The Role of the Hippocampus in “Episodic-Like” Memory Harry David Schnur in Rats Ritual Contest in Maine: Cambodian Buddhists, Zoning, and the Politics of Place L. D. Lord Rapid Steroidal Influences on Visually Guided Social SOCIOLOGY Behavior in Male Goldfish Honors Hande Ozergin Anne Genevieve Riley Effects of Subliminal Exposure to Emotional Faces on Social Personal Troubles, Collective Trauma: Resistance and Perception in Humans Recovery in a Deindustrialized Millinocket
Charles Robert Parrish STUDENTDESIGNED MAJOR IN Information Flow between the Orbitofrontal and Perirhinal FILM CULTURE Cortices in Rats Performing an Odor Recognition Memory Task Honors Rebecca Rachel Genauer Jacob Sam Stevens Frozen in Motion: Donald B. MacMillan’s Arctic Films, Complex Modulation of Cardiac Activity by FMRFamide- 1920–1935 Related Peptide Hormones in the American Lobster, Homarus americanus STUDENTDESIGNED MAJOR IN HISTORY AND FILM Brandon Green Waxman A Study of the Effects of Vasotocin Receptor Expression on Honors Social Behavior in the Goldfish, Carassius auratus Krystle Beth Allen How We Fought: Hollywood’s War, 1942–1945 PHYSICS STUDENTDESIGNED MAJOR IN Highest Honors PUBLIC POLICY Andrew Alan DeBenedictis Superstring Tension in the Presence of an Orientifold Plane Honors Elizabeth Sylvia Leiwant Keith Matera A Broader Definition: Including Parents’ Voices in Shells around Black Holes: The Effect of Freely Determining the Quality of Child Care for Children Specifiable Variables on Solutions to the Constraint Ages 0 to 6 Equations of General Relativity APPOINTMENTS, PRIZES, AND AWARDS
Commencement Awards
Goodwin Commencement Prize: Vanessa Lisbeth Vidal Castellanos ’ Class of 1868 Prize: Nathan Reuben Chaffetz ’ DeAlva Stanwood Alexander Prize: First Prize: Daniel Farrell Brady ’ Second Prize: Wellesley Lutricia Wilson ’
General Scholarship Awards
Brooks-Nixon Prize: Abigail Wells Isaacson ’ Almon Goodwin Phi Beta Kappa Prize: Amy Ahearn ’, Yi Zhuang ’ George Wood McArthur Prize: Amy Ahearn ’, Yi Zhuang ’ Leonard Pierce Memorial Prize: Sarah Swan Podmaniczky ’ Dorothy Haythorn Collins Award: Nicholas Iver Simon ’ Abraxas Award: Huntington High School: Emily Louise Norton ’, Rachael Marie Norton ’
Departmental Prizes
Africana Studies Lennox Book Prize: Kai Perry Parker ’
Art Anne Bartlett Lewis Memorial Prize: Art History: Alice Isabella Ciobanu ’ Visual Arts: Lyndsey Tyler Colburn ’, Avery Forbes ’ Art History Senior-Year Prize: Timothy John Bourassa ’ Art History Junior-Year Prize: Jessica Haymon Gorlov ’, Alexa Jaye Schwartz ’ Richard P. Martel Jr. Memorial Prize: Jonathan Daly Ragins ’, Joanna Marie Galias Sese ’
Biochemistry John L. Howland Book Award in Biochemistry: Maria Beth Koenigs ’
Biology Copeland-Gross Biology Prize: Jacqueline Ann Brosnan ’, Lincoln Joseph Pac ’ Donald and Harriet S. Macomber Prize in Biology: Ryan Allyn Devenyi ’, Samuel Schwartz Minot ’ James Malcolm Moulton Prize in Biology: Tanya Todorova Todorova ’
Chemistry ACS Award in Analytical Chemistry: Mark Hunnewell Newman ’ Hypercube Award: Jason Ansen Iskarpatyoti ’ Kamerling Laboratory Award: Brian Ward Powers ’ Merck Index Award: Michael Joseph Ardolino ’ Philip Weston Meserve Prize in Chemistry: Lindsay Gayle Heuser ’ William Campbell Root Award: Alex Geoffrey Peroff ’ U.S. Chemical Rubber Company Freshman Award: Teresa Ann Arey ’, Alicia Michelle Satterly ’ U.S. Chemical Rubber Company Laboratory Award: Oronde Malik Cruger ’, Sarah Thompson Dale ’
Classics Hannibal Hamlin Emery Latin Prize: Elizabeth Bryant Gillespie ’ J. B. Sewall Greek Prize: Samantha Danielle Waxman ’ J. B. Sewall Latin Prize: William Wright Hameline ’
Computer Science Computer Science Senior-Year Prize: Yi Zhuang ’
Economics Paul H. Douglas Prize: Archibald Kenyon Abrams ’, Crosby P. C. Cook ’, Sarah Griffin Landrum ’, Kerry Ann Persen ’, Kelsey Wilson Read ’ Noyes Political Economy Prize: Scott Clayton Caras ’, Fei Tan ’, Kerry Anne Twombly ’
Education Maine Teacher Certification: Nicole Michaela Borunda ’, Samuel Joseph Kamin ’, Kelsey Ann Killmon ’, Margo Ellis Linton ’
English Academy of American Poets Prize: William Johnstone Cogswell ’ Philip Henry Brown Prize: Jared Thomas Hunt ’ Honorable Mention: Travis Andrew Dagenais ’ Hawthorne Prize: Rachel Hermans Goldman ’ Nathalie Walker Llewellyn Poetry Prize: Gemma Louisa Leghorn ’, Carl Justin Moon ’ Non-Fiction Prize: Stephen Michael Kolowich ’, Hannah Marie Larson ’ Pray English Prize: Amy Ahearn ’, Zachary John Roberts ’ Forbes Rickard Jr. Memorial Poetry Prize: Edward Stevens Gottfried ’, Elissa LeMieux Rodman ’ David Sewall Premium: Sean Nicholas Campos ’, Alexander Michael Streim ’ Mary B. Sinkinson Short Story Prize: Benjamin Evan Rachlin ’ Bertram Louis Smith Jr. Prize: Caitlin May Hylan ’
Environmental Studies Academic Award in Environmental Studies: Cassandra Elizabeth Benkwitt ’, Alison Claire Driver ’, John Wesley Masland III ’ Community Service Award in Environmental Studies: Bennett Hadley Haynes ’
Geology Geology Book Award: Caitlin Chien Clerkin ’, Rachel Katherine Eveleth ’, Christopher Alan Necchi ’ Arthur M. Hussey II Prize in Geology: Forrest Miller Horton ’
German Old Broad Bay Prize in Reading German: Johanna Hope Clarke ’, Jared Thomas Hunt ’, Lincoln Joseph Pac ’ German Consular Prize in Literary Interpretation: Jared Thomas Hunt ’ Government and Legal Studies Philo Sherman Bennett Prize: Anna Elizabeth Karass ’, Maxwell Benjamin Palmer ’ Jefferson Davis Award: Jordan Lancaster Fliegel ’
History Dr. Samuel and Rose A. Bernstein Prize for Excellence in the Study of European History: Caitlin Libby Edwards ’ Class of 1875 Prize in American History: David Kelley Thomson ’ Sherman David Spector of the Class of 1950 Award in History: Elena Anne Snavely ’
Latin American Studies Latin American Studies Prize: Cassia Paigen Roth ’, Naomi Leah Sturm ’
Mathematics Edward Sanford Hammond Mathematics Prize: Yi Zhuang ’ Smyth Mathematical Prize: Seth Isaac Glickman ’, Susanna Ruth Kimport ’, Asa Benjamin Palley ’
Music Sue Winchell Burnett Music Prize: Nicholas Anthony Kasprak ’
Natural Sciences Sumner Increase Kimball Prize: Ekaphan Kraichak ’ (Biology), Keith Matera ’ (Physics)
Neuroscience Munno Neuroscience Prize: Jacob Sam Stevens ’
Philosophy Philip W. Cummings Philosophy Prize: Samuel Claiborne Hyde ’
Physics The Edwin Herbert Hall Prize in Physics: Michael James Eldridge ’, Jason David Immerman ’ The Noel C. Little Prize in Experimental Physics: Ryan Michael Hart ’, Alexia Rachel Lewis ’
Psychology Frederic Peter Amstutz Memorial Prize: Sara Rose Afienko ’
Religion Edgar Oakes Achorn Prize: Sarah Lord ’, Hannah Kay Scheidt ’ Lea Ruth Thumim Biblical Literature Prize: Birgitta Marie Polson ’
Romance Languages Goodwin French Prize: June Kyuha Lee ’, Sara Witt Schlotterbeck ’ Eaton Leith French Prize: Elizabeth Marie Kirby ’ Philip C. Bradley Spanish Prize: Meaghan Michele Maguire ’ Sophomore Prize in Spanish: Erica Camarena ’, Alexandra Lane Reed ’ Russian Russian Prize: Shelby Hannah Davies ’, Michael North Young ’
Sociology and Anthropology Distinguished Community Service Award: Brittany Leigh Ogden ’ Matilda White Riley Prize: Anne Genevieve Riley ’ Elbridge Sibley Prize: Megan Rocchio Waterman ’
Theater and Dance Bowdoin Dance Group Award: Naomi Leah Sturm ’ Award for Excellence in Dance Performance: Ariele Manyin Gonzalez ’, Vanessa Taylor Palomo ’, William Samuel Yusah ’ Abraham Goldberg Prize: Philip Wesley Gates ’ Masque and Gown Student-Written One-Act Play Prize – Best Playwright: Katharine Margaret Sherman ’ Alice Merrill Mitchell Prize: Emily Catherine Goodridge ’, William Samuel Yusah ’ William H. Moody ’56 Award: Anna Erwin Booth ’, Daniel Farrell Brady ’, Clara Emiko Cantor ’, Caitlin Libby Edwards ’, Eleanor Woodruff Meyer ’, Elizabeth Wilkinson Shaw ’, William Samuel Yusah ’ George H. Quinby Award: Natalie Rose Jimenez ’, Jennifer January Therrien ’
Faculty Prize
Sydney B. Karofsky Award for Junior Faculty: Michael J. Kolster, Assistant Professor of Art
National Awards
Diplomatic and Consular Officers, Retired (DACOR) Bacon House Foundation Fellowship: Anna Marie Remillard ’ Fulbright Teaching Award: Amy Ahearn ’ (Malaysia), Lana Caitlin Mathis ’ (Austria), Grace Park ’ (South Korea), Courtney Reichert ’ (Austria) Fulbright Research Award: Andrew George Steltzer ’ (Japan) Graduate School Experience: Fellowship for Advanced Undergraduates Majoring in German: Theresa Kathleen Weaver ’ Munich Summer Fellowship: Robert John Burkhardt ’, Johanna Hope Clarke ’ Thomas J. Watson Fellowship: Steven Curtis Holleran ’
Undergraduate Student Research Awards
Beckman Scholarship: Samuel Schwartz Minot ’ James Stacy Coles Summer Research Fellowship in Chemistry and Biochemistry: Sarah Thompson Dale ’, Michael Scott Farthing ’, Sarah Palmer Luppino ’, Joshua Leon Magno ’, Ta-Hsuan Ong ’, Yasmine Nicole White ’ James Stacy Coles Undergraduate Research Fellowship: Nicholas Scott Selden ’ Martha Reed Coles Undergraduate Research Fellowship: Maud Guernsey Taber-Thomas ’ Community Matters in Maine Summer Fellowship: Caroline Maria Burns ’, Seth Robert William Kelley ’, Nikolai Isamu Kubota-Armin ’, Sarah Austen Richards ’, Allison Caitlin Ruane ’, Jason Stuart Spector ’ Davis Projects for Peace Grant: Stephen Edward Bartus ’, Anna Elizabeth Karass ’, Aisha Anjali Woodward ’ Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation Coastal Studies Research Award: James Edmund Anderson ’, Elizabeth Eleanor Barton ’, Nicholas Eben Crawford ’, Rachel Anne Dicker ’, Isaac David Irby ’, Drew Rotondo Trafton ’ Faculty Research Grant Fellowship: Bryan Shoichi Amagai ’, Katharina Bilotti ’, Elita Marie DeFeo ’, Luke Warren Fairbanks ’, Samuel James Hankinson ’, Matthew Palmer Kwan ’, Morgan Elowe MacLeod ’, Rhysly Bauzon Martinez ’, Carl William Morrissey ’, Christopher Philip O’Donnell ’, William Krishna Richard ’, Kristina Marie Sorg ’, Leah Anne Wolberg ’, Michael Joseph Wolovick ’ Freedman Summer Research Fellowship in Coastal/Environmental Studies: Mark Hunnewell Newman ’ Freedman Summer Research Fellowship in Computer Science: Jeremy Rivard Fishman ’ Gibbons Summer Research Internship: Angela Gabrielle Fabunan ’, Hillary Dexter Hooke ’, Christopher Randall Jacob ’, Benjamin Robert Moore Lovell ’, Duncan Banbury Masland ’, Christopher Alan Necchi ’ Robert S. Goodfriend Summer Internship: Matthew Thomas Carpenter ’, Sean Martin Weathersby ’ Peter J. Grua and Mary G. O’Connell Faculty/Student Research Fellowship: Norah Ann Maki ’ Howard Hughes Medical Institute Summer Fellowship: Rachel Judith Ackerman ’, Chaiyaboot Ariyachet ’, Tamlyn Margaret Frederick ’, Han Guo ’, Khristianna Maui Jones ’, Adam Charles Kaplan ’, Alex Danielle Keeney ’, Maria Beth Koenigs ’, Claire Ann Lewkowicz ’, Pablo Obregon ’, Terrence Kevin Pleasant Jr. ’, Nicholas Enrique Sanchez ’, Pawat Seritrakul ’ Hughes Family Summer Research Fellowship in Environmental Studies: Ross Wilder Cowman ’ Idea Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) Pre-Doctoral Fellowship: James Martin Harris ’, Louis-David Lord ’ Idea Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) Summer Fellowship: Julie Iris Endrizzi ’, Emily Ruth Gabranski ’, Molly Anne Kwiatkowski ’, Hayley Frost McHugh ’, Matthew Allen Shew ’, Caitlin Kristen Stauder ’, Claire Rankin Williams ’, Teerawat Wiwatpanit ’, James Jae-Hyung Yoo ’ Kappa Psi Upsilon Environmental Studies Fellowship: Nicholas Evan Cohen ’, Nathaniel Benjamin Herz ’, Molly Anne Masterton ’, Lily Noelle Morse ’, Jessica Rose Sokolow ’, Joanna Sibilla Taatjes ’ Kent Island Summer Fellowship: Nathan Kennedy Elliott ’, Nathan LaFollette Johnson ’, Mary Helen Miller ’, Kathryn Samantha Nichols ’, Meredith Katherine Steck ’, Allison Douglas Weide ’ Kibbe Science Fellowship: Elise Marie Krob ’ Edward E. Langbein Sr. Summer Research Award: Leah Alexandra Stecher ’, Janice Tong ’ Latin American Studies Research Fellowship: Michelle Marie Argueta ’, Julia Rae Seltzer ’ Littlefield Summer Fellowship: Zoe Alexandra Anaman ’, Oronde Malik Cruger ’, Maria Caroline Nicolais ’ Logan Environmental Studies Fellowship: Kristen Elizabeth Gunther ’ Maine Space Grant Consortium Fellowship: Alison Palmer Chase ’, Jaclyn Irene Davis ’, Susanna Ruth Kimport ’, Morgan Elowe MacLeod ’, Daniel Christopher No ’, Erin McDonald Taylor ’ McKee Photography Grant: Eleanor Talbot West ’, Thomas Mason Wilcox ’ Thomas A. McKinley ’06 Grant: Fatoumatta Kunjo ’ McKinley Winter Break Mini Grant: Bowdoin Men’s and Women’s Ice Hockey Teams, Janhvi Manoj Doshi ’, Andrew Steven Edwards ’, Jamilah Banu Gurwala ’, Rosemary Elizabeth Laflam ’, Tenzing Tashi Sherpa Lama ’, Elizabeth Kyu-eun Lee ’, Yong Mei ’, Kelly Daylyn Pitts ’, Xin Sun ’, Rebecca Caitlin Van Horn ’ Mellon Global Environmental Studies Student Fellowship: Emily Israel Guerin ’ Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship: Rory Robert Brinkmann ’, Jasmine Cherita Graham ’, Christine La Kue ’, Fatoumatta Kunjo ’, Lynzie Alexandria McGregor ’, Ahmad Hassan Muhammad ’, Tony Curtis Perry Jr. ’, Rebecca Rose Schouvieller ’, Jessica Anne Walker ’ Nikuradse-Matthews Summer Fellowship: Sara Mary Griffin ’, Kara Courtney Maloney ’ Nyhus Travel Grant: David Kelley Thomson ’ Paller Research Fellowship: Julia Craig Bond ’, Emily Ruth Gabranski ’, Matthew Raymond Ginther ’, Nicholas Iver Simon ’ Preston Public Interest Career Fund Summer Fellowship: Mariel Elizabeth Beaudoin ’, Emma Lucille Cape ’, Ramaa Sudhir Chitale ’, Kyle Edward Dempsey ’, Benjamin Robert Denton-Schneider ’, Skye Oliver Lawrence ’, Kathleen Chong Lewis ’, Peter James McLaughlin ’, Sophia Ransom Seifert ’, Yonatan Tzvi Shemesh ’, Qingqing Tan ’, Rebecca Caitlin Van Horn ’ RoboCup Fellowship: Nicholas Charles Dunn ’, Tucker Ryer Hermans ’, Andrew Robert Lawrence ’, George Petrov Slavov ’, Johannes Heide Strom ’ Rusack Coastal Studies Fellowship: Alexandra Wilson Bassett ’, Annie Huntington Hancock ’, Alexa Rose Kaubris ’, Wallace Scot McFarlane ’, Jessica Laura McGreehan ’ A. Raymond Rutan IV Scholarship Award for Summer Study in Theater: Mo Zhou ’ Surdna Foundation Undergraduate Research Fellowship: Julia Craig Bond ’, Christopher Scott Carlin ’, Robert Joseph Halliday ’, Daniel Adam Hetherman ’, William Jay Oppenheim III ’, William Miles Pope ’, Aditya Narayanan Ranganath ’, Liza Roseanne Shoenfeld ’, Tanya Todorova Todorova ’, Samuel Michael Tung ’ Nellie C. Watterson Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts: Katharine Margaret Sherman ’ Wolstencroft Summer Research Fellowship: David Isaac Falkof ’
Extracurricular Awards
Lydia Bell Award for Initiative and Leadership in Public Service: Aisha Anjali Woodward ’ James Bowdoin Cup: Amy Ahearn ’ Bowdoin Spirit of Service Award: Michael Yves Larochelle ’, Nicholas Alain Larochelle ’ Curtis E. Chase Memorial Award: John Brian Hall ’ Common Good Book Award: Bennett Hadley Haynes ’, Sara Witt Schlotterbeck ’ General R. H. Dunlap Prize: Tana Mara Scott ’ Henni Friedlander Student Prize: Michel Bamani ’ Andrew Allison Haldane Cup: Elizabeth Sylvia Leiwant ’ Lucien Howe Prize: Amy Ahearn ’ James S. Lentz Leadership Award: Oliver Hilton Cunningham ’, Sara Ann Holby ’ Maine Campus Compact Heart and Soul Award: Ian Fisher Yaffe ’ Michael Francis Micciche III Memorial Award: Emily Meeds Coffin ’, Nicole Marcia Willey ’ Bowdoin Orient Prize: Gerald Joseph Cresta ’, Nicholas Paul Day ’, Jessica Haymon Gorlov ’, Brian Taylor Lockhart ’, Joshua Jed Miller ’, Seth Cummings Walder ’ President’s Award: Kiel Michael McQueen ’, Meredith Sunshine Segal ’ Franklin Delano Roosevelt Cup: Sean Christopher Morris ’ Student Employee of the Year: Lara Claire Finnegan ’ Paul Andrew Walker Prize: Stephen Michael Kolowich ’, Anne Genevieve Riley ’
Athletic Awards
Academic Achievement Award for Men: John Brian Hall ’ Academic Achievement Award for Women: Amy Ahearn ’ Annie L. E. Dane Trophy for Outstanding Leadership: Catherine Daulton Chin ’ The Harvey Award for JV and Club Sports Leadership: Lauren Patricia Duerksen ’ Outstanding First-Year Female Student Athlete: Ingrid Kathryn Oelschlager ’ Outstanding First-Year Male Student Athlete: Benjamin Robert Denton-Schneider ’ Outstanding Male Athlete: Nicholas Leo Figueiredo ’ Lucy L. Shulman Award for Outstanding Female Athlete: Valerie Westcott Young ’ Wil Smith Community Service Award: Jessica Shirley Horstkotte ’ Society of Bowdoin Women Award: Meaghan Michele Maguire ’ Frederick G. P. Thorne ’57 Award for Outstanding Leadership: Andrew John Sargeantson ’ The Sidney J. Watson Award: Roberta Jean Dennison ’, Brendan John Egan ’ Baseball Francis S. Dane Baseball Trophy: Patrick Lionel Duchette ’
Basketball William J. Fraser Basketball Trophy: Andrew John Sargeantson ’ Paul Nixon Basketball Trophy: Jordan Lancaster Fliegel ’, Andrew Richard Hippert ’ Women’s Basketball Alumnae Award: Maria Louise Noucas ’ Women’s Basketball Best Defense Award: Alexa Rose Kaubris ’ Women’s Basketball Bowdoin Pride Award: Maria Louise Noucas ’ Women’s Basketball Most Improved Award: Caitlin Elizabeth Hynes ’
Football “Boiled Owl” Football Award: Timothy Joseph Colton Jr. ’ Winslow Robinson Howland Football Trophy: Matthew Christian McCall ’ Wallace C. Philoon Football Trophy: Kevin Michael Sullivan ’ William J. Reardon Memorial Football Trophy: Timothy Joseph Colton Jr. ’ The Philip H. Soule Award: George Lamont White ’
Ice Hockey Hannah W. Core ’97 Memorial Award: Kathleen Theresa Coyne ’ Hugh Munro Jr., Memorial Hockey Trophy: Michael Scott Westerman ’ John E. “Jack” Page Ice Hockey Coaches Award: Paul David DeCoster ’ Seventh Player Award: Michaela Rose Calnan ’ Peter Schuh ’96 Memorial Award: Michael David Corbelle ’ Harry G. Shulman Hockey Trophy: Sebastien Belanger ’, Richard Fuller Leahy ’ Christopher Charles Watras Memorial Women’s Ice Hockey Trophy: Kathleen Theresa Coyne ’ Women’s Ice Hockey Founder’s Award: Kristen Ellen Cameron ’
Lacrosse Mortimer F. LaPointe Men’s Lacrosse Award: Michael Joseph Giordano ’ Ellen Tiemer Women’s Lacrosse Trophy: Roberta Jean Dennison ’, Grace Sargent Moore ’ Paul Tiemer Men’s Lacrosse Trophy: Owen Ballard Smith ’ Paul Tiemer III Men’s Lacrosse Trophy: Brian Jeffrey Orr ’
Nordic Skiing Polar Bear Award for Best Female Skier: Courtney Anna Martin ’ Polar Bear Award for Best Male Skier: Walter Prior Shepard ’
Rugby (Women’s) Coach’s Award: Alexandra Lee Cowen ’ Charlie Hews Spirit Award: Maria Beth Koenigs ’ Barry Honan Spirit Award: Hannah Robinson Wadsworth ’ Most Improved Player: Back: Hannah Marie Larson ’; Forward: Jessica Dare Weinberg Weaver ’ Most Valuable Player: Back: Alivia Jean Moore ’; Forward: Emily Skelly Skinner ’ Outstanding First-Year Player: Back: Carolyn Claire Levin ’; Forward: Morgan Taggart-Hampton ’ Soccer The Bicknell Award: Roberta Jean Dennison ’ George Levine Memorial Soccer Trophy: Brendan John Egan ’ Christian P. Potholm II Soccer Award: Claire Celeste Cutting ’, Brendan John Egan ’
Softball Bowdoin Softball Achievement Award: Shavonne Lord ’ Bowdoin Softball Team Award: Catherine Daulton Chin ’
Squash Reid Squash Trophy: Palmer Robinson Higgins ’, Emilie Chilton McKenna ’, Jacob Sherr Sack ’ Most Valuable Player Award: Andrew Kemper Bernard ’, Lauren Bell Gesswein ’, Emilie Chilton McKenna ’ Spirit Award: Elizabeth Bryant Gillespie ’, Emilie Chilton McKenna ’, Jacob Sherr Sack ’
Swimming Charles Butt Swimming Trophy: Jessica Shirley Horstkotte ’ The Robert B. Miller Swimming Trophy: Benjamin Evan Rachlin ’ Sandra Quinlan Potholm Swimming Trophy: Carrie Jane Roble ’, Michael Douglas Tillotson ’
Tennis Samuel A. Ladd Tennis Trophy: Garrett Wilcox Gates ’ Bowdoin Tennis Most Improved Award: Alexander George Caughron ’, Elizabeth Joy Pedowitz ’ Bowdoin Tennis Most Valuable Player Award: Garrett Wilcox Gates ’, Elizabeth Joy Pedowitz ’ Kristina Sisk Tennis Trophy: Elizabeth Joy Pedowitz ’
Track and Field Leslie A. Claff Track Trophy: Brendan John Egan ’ Bob and Jeannette Cross Award: Amy Ahearn ’ Bob and Carl Geiger Award: Nathan Michael Krah ’ Elmer Longley Hutchinson Memorial Trophy: Timothy John Katlic ’, Eric Walter Lee ’ Major Andrew Morin Award: Michael Jordan Krohn ’ Evelyn Pyun ’02 Memorial Award: Courtney Lee Eustace ’, Sarah Swan Podmaniczky ’ Colonel Edward A. Ryan Women’s Track and Field Award: Laura Lynn Onderko ’
Volleyball (Women’s) Coach’s Award: Margo Ellis Linton ’ Defensive Player of the Year: Stephanie Deanne Drumright ’ Offensive Player of the Year: Gillian Grace Page ’ Most Improved Player: Amanda Meghan Leahy ’ Graduate Scholarships and Fellowships*
Charles Carroll Everett Scholarship: Nicholas James Alcorn ’, Anna Elizabeth Karass ’ Garcelon and Merritt Scholarship: Monica S. Alborg, Letizia Alto, Cathryn M. Christensen, John L. Elias, Brian A. Hagan, Lystra P. Hayden, John W. Martel, Dylan M. McKenney, Wayne S. Moss, Jennifer J. Mueller, Jennifer M. Palminteri, Lawrence J. Peacock, Andrea Pelletier Dr. Ralph Fessenden Goodhue Scholarship: Kendra Emery ’ Timothy and Linn Hayes Scholarship: Kacey Amelia Lane ’ Guy Charles Howard Scholarship: Selina A. Asante ’, Georgina D. Campelia ’, Anjali D. Dotson ’, Maureen E. Guiney ’, Michael P. Healey ’ George and Mary Knox Scholarship (July 2007): Michael W. Farrell ’, Andrew A. Herring ’, Adnan Prsic ’, William E. Soares III ’, Kyle D. Staller ’, Daniel W. Wolf ’ Lancaster Graduate Scholarship: Caroline A. Corcoran, Maria S. Cormier, Tyler D. Post ’, Erin S. White ’ Henry W. Longfellow Graduate Scholarship: Genevieve A. Creedon ’, Claire M. Falck ’, Ole F. Kersten ’, Jennifer L. Malia ’ Wilmot Brookings Mitchell Graduate Scholarship: Genevieve A. Creedon ’, Jennifer L. Malia ’ Galen C. Moses Graduate Scholarship: Laura A. Windecker ’ O’Brien Graduate Scholarship: Selina A. Asante ’, Abhijeet J. Jha ’, Erin E. Krivicky ’, Bari K. Robinson ’, Aisha Anjali Woodward ’, Alana M. Wooley ’, Cody James Wyant ’ Lee G. Paul Scholarship: Michael P. Doore ’ Dr. Clinton Noyes Peters and Alice F. Peters Medical Scholarship: Kristopher R. Bosse ’, Gabriel M. Civiello ’, Megan I. Greenleaf ’, Joshua J. Ney ’, Heather L. Provencher ’, Ponnila Samuel ’, Alissa A. Waite ’ Robinson-Davis Fund Scholarship: Law School: Mayra A. Alvarado ’, Michel Bamani ’, Travis M. Brennan ’, Peter P. Holman Jr. ’, Brandon Joseph Mazer ’, Norman J. Moser ’, Kimberly A. Pacelli ’ Robinson-Davis Fund Scholarship: Medical School: Catherine J. Avener, Angus L. Beal, Rosamund Davis, Jessica J. Deane, Nicolas G. Ellis, Theodore Elsaesser, Mellory E. Giberson, Abby A. Gross, Joseph E. Kaserman, Anna S. Liberatore, Lawrence J. Peacock, Lauren Wendell Sherman David Spector of the Class of 1950 Scholarship for Graduate Study in History: Michael Joseph Lettieri ’, Matthew Patrick Spooner ’ Earl Kendall Van Swearingen Fund Scholarship: Shanique P. Brown ’, Kendra Emery ’, Arij Faksh ’, Kirstin E. Leitner ’, Alexander D. Moore ’, Adam Schwartz ’, Jessica L. Stern ’ Nathan Webb Research Scholarship: Genevieve A. Creedon ’, Claire M. Falck ’, Ole F. Kersten ’, Jennifer L. Malia ’
* Students from Maine who are not Bowdoin graduates are eligible for some scholarships. Bowdoin graduates are listed with their class year, while no class year is indicated for non-Bowdoin graduates from Maine. ACADEMIC APPAREL
The formal academic attire that distinguishes faculty and graduates at academic ceremonies is a symbol at once vertical and horizontal. It stretches back into history, to the roots of academic institutions, while at the same time it forms a bond of union among contemporary academic scholars. The gown, cap, and hood, which would certainly seem quaint today if worn on our city streets, were originally the ordinary apparel of our medieval ancestors. The gowns varied in elegance according to the rank and wealth of the owners, and the hood had the practical function of being pulled over the head for warmth. Many of the medieval uni- versities had strict rules on the subject; at Oxford, for example, the master of arts had to swear that he owned the dress prescribed for his degree and that he would wear it on all proper occasions. Undergraduates were required to wear their gowns whenever they appeared in the public street. After the sixteenth century in Europe different styles prevailed, but the older style was retained for certain legal, official, clerical, and, especially, academic uses. In America the gown has been used to some extent since colonial times. It was only in the late nineteenth century, however, that widespread interest—sparked perhaps by the observance in 1886 of the 250th anniversary of the founding of Harvard—brought about several developments. In 1887 an enterprising member of the graduating class of Williams College designed academic gowns for the graduates to wear at the Commencement ceremony. The garb was significant and dignified; it was both traditional and democratic; it answered a need, and it quickly became popular. In 1895 an intercollegiate code, standardizing the design and the color of each part of the academic regalia, was accepted by nearly all American colleges and universities. The gown is usually black, and the cut of the sleeves differs for bachelors, masters, and doctors. In addition, the doctor’s gown has panels of velvet (usually black) down the front and on the sleeves. The cap is generally black, with a tassel, which is either black or the color of the field of study; a doctor’s may be gold. The most common style of cap is the Oxford “mortar board,” with a square flat top, but some variations are permitted. The hood is the most distinctive part of the costume. It is made of black and trimmed with velvet. Both the length of the hood and the width of the trim vary with the level of the degree, the doctor’s being the longest and having the widest velvet border. The color of the velvet indicates the field of study in which the degree is earned: for example, white for arts and letters (bachelor of arts), dark blue for philosophy, brown for fine arts, golden yellow for science, scarlet for theology. The lining of the hood is the color and style of the university that confers the degree; these are all specified in the standard code of the American Council on Education. Bowdoin College’s lining is white and green to symbolize the Bowdoin pines. Whatever the degree or university, those who don the gown and hood symbolically take their places in the long procession of scholars who have pursued truth and learning and passed it on to others. The consciousness of that fellow- ship is at once a reward for past efforts and an inspiration for the future.
Hood Border Colors Indicating Fields of Learning
Agriculture Maize Library Science Lemon Arts, Letters, Humanities White Medicine Green Commerce, Accountancy, Music Pink Business Drab Oratory (Speech) Silver Gray Dentistry Lilac Philosophy Dark Blue Economics Copper Physical Education Sage Green Education Light Blue Public Administration, Engineering Orange including Foreign Service Peacock Blue Fine Arts, including Public Health Salmon Pink Architecture Brown Science Golden Yellow Forestry Russet Social Work Citron Journalism Crimson Theology Scarlet Law Purple Veterinary Science Gray RAISE SONGS TO BOWDOIN
Words by K. C. M. Sills, Class of 1901 New Lyrics by Anthony Antolini ’63 Music by C. T. Burnett Arr. by Thornton W. Allen
Raise songs to Bowdoin, praise her fame, And sound abroad her glorious name; To Bowdoin, Bowdoin lift your song, And may the music echo long O’er whispering pines and campus fair With sturdy might filling the air. Bowdoin, from birth, our nurturer and friend To thee we pledge our love again, again.
While now amid thy halls we stay And breathe thy spirit day by day, Oh may we thus full worthy be To march in that proud company Of poets, leaders and each one Who brings thee fame by deeds well done. Bowdoin, from birth, our nurturer and friend To thee we pledge our love again, again.