The Bowdoin Breakfast
The Bowdoin Breakfast is a lecture series with full buffet breakfast, featuring prominent Bowdoin alumni, faculty, parents, staff, or Maine leaders who speak on topics of business, academia, arts, or public issues. The public event is held approximately five times during the academic year and typically draws an audience of 150 to 200 people. Members of the public and the Bowdoin community are welcome.
Location: Thorne Dining Hall, Bowdoin College
Program Schedule
7:00 — Doors and registration open
7:15 — Full buffet breakfast
8:00 — Lecture begins
8:40 — Q&A with the speaker
9:00 — Program ends
To Register for a Breakfast
A reservation form and payment are required by noon, three business days prior to the Breakfast ($12 for the general public; $6 for Bowdoin faculty, staff, and students). To have your name placed on the Bowdoin Breakfast mailing list, call the Office of Stewardship Programs at 207-725-3257 or email aschaff@bowdoin.edu and let us know if you would prefer to receive invitation announcements by mail or email. Invitation announcements will be sent approximately three weeks prior to each Breakfast. You will receive a registration form to return to us by mail. Payments are made by cash or a check made payable to Bowdoin College. We are unable to accept credit card payments. Bowdoin employees may provide their department Projects code, and students may provide their ID numbers for payment.
Buffet Menu Prepared by the nationally-acclaimed Bowdoin College Dining Service
- Scrambled Eggs (regular and low-cholesterol)
- Red Potato and Sweet Onion Frittata
- Pancakes
- Home Fried Potatoes
- Sausages
- Oatmeal with Dates (brown sugar on side)
- Pollack's Baked Fruit Compote
- Vanilla Yogurt
- Granola with Skim Milk
- Fresh Whole Fruit
- Homemade Muffins, Scones, English Muffins
- Orange Juice carafes on tables
- Coffee, Tea, Decaf served at tables
Parking
Parking is quite limited near Thorne Hall, so please consider carpooling. Parking spots can be found on most side streets, in the lot at the corner of College Street and Sills Drive, and at the back end of the Hannaford parking lot.
2009 - 2010 Bowdoin Breakfast Dates
and Speakers
Tuesday, September 29
Kevin Salatino, New Director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Thursday, November 5
Jane Seagrave '76, Senior Vice President for Global Product Development, The Associated Press
"All That Twitters is Not Gold: Making News Pay in the Digital Era"
Founded before the Civil War, The Associated Press has continued to set the standard for credible journalism even as news distribution expanded from printed newspapers to include radio, TV, Web sites, cell phones and other wireless devices. Jane Seagrave oversees AP’s current challenge – one shared by all ‘traditional’ media -- how to capture the value of fact-checked news in an era of instant information.
Tuesday, February 9
Shelley Hearne '83, Managing Director of Pew Charitable Trust Health and Human Services Program
Tuesday, March 2
Joseph Tecce '55, Associate Professor of Psychology, Boston College, and world-renowned expert on body language