Alumni, Families, and Friends

One of the most important features of Bowdoin is the generous enthusiasm of alumni, families, and friends.

Through volunteer efforts, financial support, social engagement, and countless other ways, the College remains a place of energy and opportunity, and students understand the special community they will join upon graduation.

Are You Sitting Comfortably?

Award-winning children’s author and illustrator Charlotte Agell ’81 shares some of her work with the Bowdoin community in a virtual book reading via Zoom.
Reed Hastings ’83 Makes $120 Million Gift to Historically Black Colleges and Education Fund
Reed Hastings ’83 and his wife, Patty Quillin, will donate $120 million to Morehouse and Spelman Colleges—two historically black colleges in Atlanta, Georgia—and to the United Negro College Fund.
Observations, Reflections, and Advice from a Prize-Winning Novelist
Enjoy a virtual conversation as Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Tony Doerr ’95, H’17, author of All the Light We Cannot See, catches up with English professor and fellow novelist Brock Clarke.

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Are You Sitting Comfortably?

Reed Hastings ’83 Makes $120 Million Gift to Historically Black Colleges and Education Fund

Observations, Reflections, and Advice from a Prize-Winning Novelist