BOWDOIN COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT S, M 23, 2015 QVOD BONVM FELIX FAVSTVMQUE SIT INLVSTRISSIMO PAUL LEPAGE GVBERNATORI CONSILIARIIS ET SENATORIBUS QVI LITTERIS REI PVBLICAE MAINENSIS PROPRIE PRAESVNT SOCIISQVE CVRANTIBVS COLLEGI BOWDOINENSIS HONORANDIS ATQVE REVERENDIS CLARISSIMO BARRY MILLS PRAESIDI TOTI SENATVI ACADEMICO ECCLESIARVM PASTORIBVS VENERANDIS CVNCTIS DENIQVE VBIQVE GENTIVM HVMANITATIS FAVTORIBVS HASCE EXERCITATIONES IVVENES IN ARTIBVS INITIATI HVMILLIMI DEDICANT HABITAS IN COMITIIS COLLEGI BOWDOINENSIS BRVNSVICI IN RE PVBLICA MAINENSI ANTE DIEM X KAL IVN ANNO SALVTIS MMXV RERVMQUE PVBLICARVM FOEDERATARVM AMERICAE POTESTATIS CCXXXIX 1 DEGREES This ancient formula is used by the President in conferring degrees: The Latin text quoted on the preceding page has introduced Bowdoin’s Candidati pro gradu baccalaureali, assurgite. Commencement Program since August 21, 1822. The names of Femina honoranda, hosce iuvenes, quos censeo idoneos primum ad the twenty-four graduates of the Class of 1822 were, for the most gradum in artibus, nunc tibi offero, ut a te instructus, eos ad gradum part, also translated into Latin for the program. In the early years of istum admittam. Placetne? (Placet.) the College, each graduating senior was required to deliver a Commencement “part,” an oration on ancient or modern topics, Pro auctoritate mihi commissa, admitto vos ad primum gradum in which was equently given in one of the classical languages, Latin, artibus, et dono et concedo omnia iura, privilegia, honores atque Greek, or Hebrew. The final Latin oration was given in 1893, but dignitates, ad gradum istum pertinentia. the tradition of Latin survives in the language used to dedicate the Commencement Exercises and to confer the bachelor of arts degree. In cuius testimonium hasce membranas litteris scriptas accipite. The translation below was provided by Jennifer Clarke Kosak, Associate Professor of Classics. Candidates for the Baccalaureate degrees will rise. (To the Chair of the Board of Trustees) May it be good, felicitous, and well-omened:* Honored madam, these young people whom I deem To Paul LePage, esteemed Governor; worthy of the first degree in Arts, I now present to you, to the Representatives and Senators that, if you so direct, I may admit them to that degree. Is such your will? (It is.) who personally preside over the arts and letters for the State of Maine; (To the Candidates) and to the honorable and respected Trustees of By virtue of the authority vested in me, I now admit Bowdoin College; you to the first degree in Arts and do grant and confer to Barry Mills, distinguished President; upon you all the rights, privileges, honors, and dignities pertaining to that degree. to the entire academic senate; to the venerable religious leaders; In witness whereof, receive these diplomas. in short, to all patrons of the human race everywhere, the young people hereby initiated into the arts NOTE: The Baccalaureate degrees are awarded individually, and the and letters graduating class requests that there be no applause until the last degree most humbly dedicate these exercises. is conferred. Held in a gathering of Bowdoin College, in Brunswick, At the Commencement Exercises, Bowdoin displays the College in the State of Maine, flag and the flags of the United States of America, the State of on the tenth day before the Kalends of June, in the Maine, and the home or dual-citizenship countries or territories 2015th year of our well-being of graduating students—in 2015, Australia, Bermuda, Brazil, and in the 239th year of the authority of the Canada, Chile, People’s Republic of China, Colombia, France, United States of America. Gambia, Germany, Hong Kong SAR, India, Ireland, Italy, Republic of Korea, Macao SAR, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mongolia, * An ancient Roman formula used at the outset of a ritual Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, to ensure its success. Taiwan, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, and Vietnam. 2 TWO HUNDRED TENTH COMMENCEMENT OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE May 23, 2015 COMMENCEMENT MARCH C’ B OPENING OF THE COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES J M. Y Gary M. Pendy Sr. Professor of Social Sciences and College Marshal INVOCATION R R E. I ’69 Director of Religious and Spiritual Life THE STARSPANGLED BANNER S M C C, C, S C G D D N H ’15, Piano INTRODUCTORY REMARKS D J B ’80, P’16 Chair of the Board of Trustees FOR THE STATE A S. K J. United States Senator WELCOME B M President of the College SENIOR COMMENCEMENT SPEAKERS “Ahead of You” S L ’15 Goodwin Commencement Prize Winner “Lost and Found” J T. L ’15 Class of 1868 Prize Winner 3 CONFERRING OF HONORARY DEGREES B M President of the College JILL LEPORE, DOCTOR OF HUMANE LETTERS Citation by Jennifer R. Scanlon Associate Dean for Faculty and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of the Humanities in Gender and Women’s Studies KAREN GORDON MILLS, DOCTOR OF LAWS Citation by Christian P. Potholm II ’62 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander Professor of Government MOLLY NEPTUNE PARKER, DOCTOR OF FINE ARTS Citation by Susan A. Kaplan Professor of Sociology and Anthropology and Director of the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center DAVID F. SWENSEN, DOCTOR OF HUMANE LETTERS Citation by Michael M. Franz Associate Professor of Government and Legal Studies BARRY MILLS, DOCTOR OF LAWS Citation by Cristle Collins Judd Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Music CONFERRING OF BACCALAUREATE DEGREES DEDICATION B M President of the College J M F ’15 Class President RAISE SONGS TO BOWDOIN S M C C, C, S C G D D N H ’15, Piano Words appear on the last page of this program. CONCLUSION OF THE COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES W H. B Isaac Henry Wing Professor of Mathematics and College Marshal RECESSIONAL MARCH C’ B 4 CANDIDATES FOR THE A.B. DEGREE, MAY Joshua Michael Friedman, Class Marshal Emery Clayton Ahoua ’14 Psychology Newark, New Jersey Ellery Altshuler History Miami, Florida Leah Claire Anderson Mathematics; Minor: Economics Simsbury, Connecticut Leigh Alexander Andrews Neuroscience and Russian Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Demetra Brooke Angelakis Economics Gladwyne, Pennsylvania Muska Anwar ’14 Psychology Fort Pierce, Florida Dillon Brady Arévalo Mathematics and Education; Minor: Philosophy Arcata, California Hannah Christine Arrighi Government and Legal Studies; Minor: Italian Groton, Massachusetts Shelby Elizabeth Aseltine English; Minor: Teaching Wilton, Maine Emily Suzanne Athanas-Linden History; Minor: French Bethesda, Maryland Maddie Elizabeth Baird Computer Science; Minor: Italian Dundas, Ontario, Canada Mary Bryan Barksdale Gender and Women’s Studies and Earth and Oxford, Mississippi Oceanographic Science Rachel Leanna Barnes Economics and Earth and Oceanographic Science Smith’s Parish, Bermuda Sivana Leigh Barron Biology; Minor: Earth and Oceanographic Science Weston, Massachusetts Halla E. H. Bates Anthropology; Minor: Spanish Williston, Vermont Maxwell Ethan Bearse Biochemistry; Minor: Chinese West Barnstable, Massachusetts Noëlle Zoë Bellamy French; Minor: Anthropology Portland, Maine Grace Wendy Bensimon Psychology; Minor: Spanish Weston, Connecticut Joshua Alexander Benton Biochemistry; Minor: Government and Legal Studies Great Neck, New York Kelsey Stuart Berger Earth and Oceanographic Science Sherman Oaks, California Anna Elina Berglund Earth and Oceanographic Science; Göteborg, Sweden Minor: Education Studies Sara Anne Binkhorst Sociology; Minor: Teaching West Hartford, Connecticut Dustin Robert Biron Biochemistry; Minor: Economics Lancaster, Pennsylvania David Paul Black Sociology; Minor: Theater Corpus Christi, Texas Jackson Frost Bloch Biology Falmouth, Maine Isaiah Wesley Bolden Earth and Oceanographic Science; Minor: Chemistry Mureesboro, Tennessee Christian Steven Boulanger Mathematics; Minor: Economics Winchester, Massachusetts Sawyer Austin Bowman Computer Science and Spanish; Minor: Chemistry Cornelius, North Carolina Patricia Ann Boyer Sociology; Minor: Gender and Women’s Studies Mantoloking, New Jersey Noah Dickinson Bragg English and Theater; Minor: Latin American Studies Brookline, Massachusetts Christopher McKinley Breen Economics; Minor: Mathematics Westlake Village, California Elena Maureen Densmore Britos English Portland, Maine Samantha Ryan Broccoli Visual Arts Hinteregg, Switzerland Callen Theodore Brooks Physics; Minor: Philosophy Williamstown, Massachusetts Elizabeth Carol Brown Environmental Studies-Biology Saint Louis, Missouri Margaret Allys Bryan Art History and French Holden, Maine Max Joseph Bucci Computer Science and Physics Glastonbury, Connecticut Steven John Buduo ’14 Government and Legal Studies; Minor: Visual Arts Worcester, Massachusetts Gabriela Rebeca Buentello Asian Studies Austin, Texas Emily Jenkins Bungert Neuroscience; Minor: Dance Mattapoisett, Massachusetts Zachary F. M. Burton ’14 Earth and Oceanographic Science and German Eureka, California Daniel Carlo Byrnes Mathematics; Minor: Computer Science Miami Beach, Florida 5 Christopher Daniel Cameron Economics and Mathematics Reading, Massachusetts Samuel Patrick Canales Government and Legal Studies; Saco, Maine Minor: Economics Douglas Asher Ring Caplan Government and Legal Studies; Minor: Spanish Harrisburg, Pennsylvania David McCauley Caputi Government and Legal Studies; Minor: History Brunswick, Maine Samantha Paige Caras Anthropology and Gender and Women’s Studies; Encinitas, California Minor: Spanish Elizabeth Ann Carew Biology; Minor: Archaeology Falmouth, Maine Ryan J. Carney Economics Eggertsville, New York Kendall Leigh Carpenter