To the Bowdoin community, Today—on the eve of Earth Day—we have several exciting announcements about our commitment to sustainability and the environment: we have achieved carbon neutrality at Bowdoin two years ahead of schedule, we are entering into a pioneering renewable energy partnership that will create the largest solar array in Maine today, and we […]

To the Bowdoin community,​ With the passing of Trustee Emeritus Merton G. Henry of the Class of 1950 on Friday evening, April 6, at the age of ninety-two, Bowdoin and Maine have lost a great friend, advocate, and leader. Mert Henry was born on February 4, 1926, in the Penobscot Valley town of Hampden, Maine. […]

To the Bowdoin community, We learned the very sad news this week that Trustee Emerita Jane Ellen McKay died on Monday, March 19, 2018, at the age of fifty-eight. Her family has let us know that the cause of death was Jane’s ongoing battle with alcoholism and type 1 diabetes, information that Jane specifically wanted […]

To the Bowdoin community, It is my sad duty to inform you that Professor of English Celeste Goodridge passed away peacefully in Scarborough, Maine, on Saturday, March 3, at the age of 63, after a period of declining health. Celeste had been a member of the Bowdoin faculty ​since 1986 and was a valued colleague and a professor […]

To the Bowdoin community, It is my sad duty to report the death of Trustee Emeritus Thomas Clark Casey ’51 on February 9 in Newport Coast, California. Tom led a rich and active life—in fact, he had returned from a trip to Chile and Antarctica several weeks before his death. Tom was born on December 17, […]