Sarah and James Bowdoin Day

The outstanding level of achievement demonstrated by these students requires intense focus, a deep pride in one’s work, and a passion for learning, and it warrants our full appreciation and congratulations.

History of Sarah and James Bowdoin Day

Our recognition of Bowdoin scholars goes back to 1941. In those days, the students were all men, and this honor was then named exclusively for James Bowdoin III. In 1997, the College—by faculty vote—decided it was appropriate to reestablish this tradition in the name of James and Sarah Bowdoin, who was an active partner in creating this College.

In an unusual move for the times, both Sarah and James Bowdoin signed one of the deeds transferring land from the Bowdoin family to the president and trustees of the College. Sarah’s journal of her daily life (which can be found in Special Collections here at Bowdoin) documents her family’s collection and curation of art, books, and scientific materials, which the College inherited with a deep debt of gratitude.

Today, we remember the Bowdoin family through this annual event, and with two other traditions: the Gilbert Stuart portraits of James and Sarah Bowdoin in the Museum of Art are decorated today with laurel garlands, and on this day, we also replace our large American flag on the Quad with a smaller flag that flew over the U.S. Capitol on August 7, 1963, to commemorate the birth of Massachusetts Governor James Bowdoin II.

The Almon Goodwin Prize

The Almon Goodwin Prize was established in 1906 by Mrs. Maud Wilder Goodwin in memory of her husband, Almon Goodwin, of the Class of 1862.

The prize is given to an exemplary member of Phi Beta Kappa, and this year’s recipient is Charlie McLarnon ’24.

Charlie, who comes to Bowdoin from Northborough, Massachusetts, is a mathematics major and a chemistry minor, a clarinetist in the Bowdoin Concert Band, and a member of the Bowdoin Debate Team. They are a 2021–2022 recipient of a Kibbe Science Fellowship for their research project “Quantifying the Effect of a Constrained Olefin Dimerization Catalyst,” which sought to identify the materials and conditions necessary to synthesize a catalyst with potential applications to the plastics industry.

This past summer, Charlie was an intern for the Committee for Public Counsel in Massachusetts, where they created reference materials for the office that summarized Massachusetts sentencing guidelines for judges, reviewed and wrote reports describing security camera footage, medical records, and other discovery to help the attorneys prepare for motions and trials, and researched the legality and ethics of electronic monitoring as a pretrial condition of release.

Charlie said of their experience, “The dedication to client-centered advocacy and passion for social justice that the attorneys at CPCS displayed has inspired me, and I plan to pursue a career as a public defender myself.”

Phi Beta Kappa

The Bowdoin shield is derived from the coat of arms of the Bowdoin family. Uses of the design and motto date from at least 1755, by the family of Pierre Baudouin; from before 1811, as James Bowdoin III’s bookplate; and since 1894 in Bowdoin publications.

The motto, Ut aquila versus coelum, may be translated, “As an eagle [soaring] toward the heavens.”

The Phi Beta Kappa Society, a national honorary society for the recognition and promotion of scholarship, was founded in 1776 at the College of William and Mary. The Bowdoin chapter—the sixth in order of establishment, was established in 1825.

Election is based primarily on scholarly achievement, but consideration is given to the student’s entire college record. Students elected to Phi Beta Kappa are expected to be persons of integrity and good moral character.

This fall, we recognize the following students who have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

From the Class of 2023:

• Lyle Altschul

From the Class of 2024:

• Julianna Brown
• Annika Carey
• Katie Draeger
• Darien Gillespie
• Grant Griesman
• Ezra Jones
• Kori Kelley
• Zach Leibowitz
• Calvin Lucido
• Stephanie McCurrach
• Charlie McLarnon
• Alexander Racape
• Emily Simons
• Nancy Xing

Book Award Winners

A book bearing a replica of the early College bookplate that distinguishes the James Bowdoin Collection in the library is presented to every undergraduate who has carried a full-course program and has received a grade point average of 4.0 in their courses during the last academic year.

This year:

• First-year recipients will receive David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History, by Julie L. McGee ’82 et al.
• Second-year recipients will receive Take Me to the River, by Bowdoin professor of art Michael Kolster.
• Third-year recipients will receive Mississippi: An American Journey, by Bowdoin senior writer-in residence Anthony Walton.

From the Class of 2023:

From the Class of 2024:

• Jenna Marie Albanese
• Alexandra Ritchie Ashraf
• Astrid Knowles Braun
• Katrina Leila Carrier
• Samuel David Cooper
• Rahul Dasgupta
• Cora Dow
• Katharine Ramsay Kurtz
• Corinne Elizabeth Lamond
• Zachary M. Leibowitz
• Jared Patrick Lynch
• Richard John McNamara
• Sejal V. Prachand
• Alexander Bryan Racape
• Zackery D. Reynolds
• Kelly Kristen Stevenson Jr.
• Luke Samuel Tingley
• Alexander Patrick Tully
• Gianna Caitlyn Turk
• Karin Arai van Hassel
• Lionel Anil Welz
• Nicholas Stetson Werner
• Nancy Xing
• Nicholas Takaki Tienhui Yoong

From the Class of 2025:

• Adepoju Olaoluwa Arogundade
• Nathan Clay Bailey
• Miles Mackinson Berry
• Ari Edward Bersch
• Alyssa Nicole Bommer
• Anna Fiona Bor
• Zoe Scott Buettner
• Lauren Elizabeth Burke
• Zachary Aaron Cheesman
• Abigail Rose Chriss
• Julia Ann DeLuca
• Tej Arun Dhingra
• Leah Matheson Dichter
• Inga Christhild Dovre
• Matthew Russell Duthaler
• Emma Marie Fasullo
• Emma Frances Bradach Gibbens
• Owen Murphy Gramley
• Daniel John Ratcliffe Grant
• Cooper Robert Harris
• Lori Hashasian
• Jingyuan Huang
• Olivia Marie Kenney
• Daniel Kotorri
• Stefan Nathaniel Langshur
• Maya Juliette Le
• Madeline Mackenzie Green Lincoln
• Spencer Jaden Mann
• Jane Elizabeth McCarter
• Vaishali Olduvai Miriyagalla
• Claire Madelyn Nguyen
• Jondall Taylor Norris
• Joseph Chansoo Park
• Owen Chian Ratliff
• Alicia Lorine Ross
• Cassidy Jessenia Scott
• Rachel Houston Scruby
• Isabel Singh Sharp
• Danielle Rose Simon
• Julia Joan Smart
• Jiahn Son
• Claire Alexandra Stoddard
• Caroline Griffith Vauclain
• Yaerin Anna Han Wallenberger
• Rowan Alexander Washburn
• Anya Rose Workman
• Seo Yeon Yook
• Mina Jasmine Zanganeh
• Mitchell Franklin Zell

From the Class of 2026:

• Charles Thomas Apolinsky
• Divya Bhargava
• Oliver Chyla Bruce
• Anna Chen
• Oliver Isaac Clachko
• Ethan Christopher Danielson
• Carly Jane Davey
• Anthony Michael DiChiara
• Anna Guethoff
• Kyra Elizabeth Hacker
• Cordelia Louise Howe Heyman
• Skyla Hong
• Miya Sachiko Imaeda
• Meredith Hailey Jenkins
• Surabhi Kalra
• Mia Victoria Karlsson
• Kiley Elizabeth Keating
• Nathan Joseph Kellerman
• Tyler Campbell Lenk
• Graham Frederick Lucas
• Kaya Annika Patel
• Liliana M. Restrepo
• Alec Edward Rothkowitz
• Hailey Frances Ryan
• Benjamin Isaac Sachs
• Sebastian Robert Sahlman
• Younghoon Seo
• Blythe Carson Thompson
• Elizabeth Daly Walsh
• Darcy Elliot Weber

Sarah and James Bowdoin Scholars

Sarah and James Bowdoin Scholars are recognized each year in the fall on the basis of work completed the previous academic year. The award is given to the twenty percent of all eligible students with the highest grade point average.

From the Class of 2023:

• Caleb Patrick Adams-Hull
• Brooke E. Asherman
• Althea J. Aslanian
• Caitlyn Rita Berry
• Gretchen Murphy Clauss
• Merline Rhian Feero
• Thomas Michael Lang

• Hattie Alexandra Sargent Slayton
• Stephen George Simoes
• Eliza Browning Strout
• Alexander Francois Tesson
• Abby Wang
• Diyaa Raishma Yaqub

From the Class of 2024:

• Jenna Marie Albanese
• Ahmad Adeeb Abdulwadood
• Francisco Adrian Adame-Perez
• Alexandra Ritchie Ashraf
• Matthew C. Audi
• Mei Leah Bock
• Astrid Knowles Braun
• Samara Kane Braverman
• Katrina Leila Carrier
• Cameron J. Coffey
• Sarah Grace Conant
• Samuel David Cooper
• Rahul Dasgupta
• Cora Dow
• Charles Joseph Galicich
• Min Guo
• Jane Charlotte Hirschman
• Jillian Garner Horton
• Charlotte Allison Howie
• Hannah Ashley Kim
• Alexander Kozic
• Katharine Ramsay Kurtz
• Corinne Elizabeth Lamond
• Connor Joseph Latona
• Zachary M. Leibowitz
• Brandon Lozano-Garay
• Jared Patrick Lynch

• Jorja Isles Markella
• Sarah Ashlin McClelland
• Richard John McNamara
• Abigail Faith Mueller
• Adam Charles Nelson
• Elliot J. Norwood
• Emma Rose Paterson-Dennis
• Sejal V. Prachand
• Alexander Bryan Racape
• Christine Da Silva Ramos
• Zackery D. Reynolds
• Anika Skye Rubocki
• Kelly Kristen Stevenson Jr.
• Josephine Price Tidmore
• Luke Samuel Tingley
• Alexander Patrick Tully
• Gianna Caitlyn Turk
• Karin Arai van Hassel
• Juliana Keyes Vandermark
• Lionel Anil Welz
• Nicholas Stetson Werner
• Carson M. Williams
• Nancy Xing
• Nicholas Takaki Tienhui Yoong
• Tianrui Zhang

From the Class of 2025:

• Jack Kerry Andrews
• Adepoju Olaoluwa Arogundade
• Nathan Clay Bailey
• Emma Ruesink Barker
• Cora E. Baxter
• Miles Mackinson Berry
• Ari Edward Bersch
• Taira Alexander Blakely
• Paul Harris Boardman Jr.
• Alyssa Nicole Bommer
• Anna Fiona Bor
• Margaret Tennant Broaddus
• Zoe Scott Buettner
• Lauren Elizabeth Burke
• Hayden Barton Byrne
• Amy Cai
• Zachary Aaron Cheesman
• Anju Sophia Chenaux-Repond
• Katherine Thompson Cheston
• Abigail Rose Chriss
• Addison Davis
• Julia Ann DeLuca
• Diego Armando DeSousa
• Tej Arun Dhingra
• Leah Matheson Dichter
• Inga Christhild Dovre
• Matthew Russell Duthaler
• Rhys Aled Edwards
• Zelia Talulah Rose Egan
• Erica Erdenesanaa
• John Michael Swiggum Erlandson
• Emma Marie Fasullo
• Cara Sydney Nova Fields
• William Henry Gaston
• Emma Frances Bradach Gibbens
• Marc Zephyr Gilmore
• Joshua Steven Goldstein
• Karen Gonzalez
• Owen Murphy Gramley
• Daniel John Ratcliffe
• Grant Cooper Robert Harris
• Lori Hashasian
• Ella Alexandra Henry
• Mary Elise Henthorn
• Brendan James Hill
• Frances Isabelle Hornbostel
• Stuart Sloan Howard
• Ziyou Hu
• Jingyuan Huang
• Zunain Husain
• Benjamin Fletcher Israel
• Yusur Omar Jasim
• Jasmine Jia
• Luna Jiang-Qin
• Daniel Seongmin Kang
• Ryan Minje Kang
• Olivia Marie Kenney
• Jack William Kinsella

• Kristen Alexis Kinzler
• Jessica Lauren Klein
• Chun-Wen Ko
• Daniel Kotorri
• Stefan Nathaniel Langshur
• Maya Juliette Le
• Jonathan Gordon Lerdau
• Madeline Mackenzie Green Lincoln
• Cameron Parks Lindsey
• Carina Lim Li Xin
• Natalie Yoke Phaik Loh
• Luisa Isabelle Louchheim
• Spencer Jaden Mann
• Jane Elizabeth McCarter
• Vaishali Olduvai Miriyagalla
• Jack Moore
• Amanda Gail Newcombe
• Claire Madelyn Nguyen
• Oscar Koziol Nigam
• Jondall Taylor Norris
• Emmanuel Amoako Okyere
• Jason Alexander Olaru-Hagen
• Emma Pond Olney
• Joseph Chansoo Park
• Zoe Sierra Peterson
• Mira Ann Pickus
• Regine Pierre-Louis
• Benjamin Esteban Pinto Arroyo
• Owen Chian Ratliff
• Jack Morgan Roberts
• Marc Abram Rosenthal
• Alicia Lorine Ross
• Sebastian Bartolome Mauricio Sanchez
• Mia Juliet Schwartz
• Cassidy Jessenia Scott
• Rachel Houston Scruby
• Isabel Singh Sharp
• Elana Ruth Levy Sheinkopf
• Nicholas Andrew Sibiryakov
• Danielle Rose Simon
• Julia Joan Smart
• Jiahn Son
• Claire Alexandra Stoddard
• Khue Anh Tran
• Vincent T-Khang Tran
• Talia Katherine Traskos-Hart
• Grace Diane Travis
• Caroline Griffith Vauclain
• Vaughn Xavier Walsh Vial
• Yaerin Anna Han Wallenberger
• Rowan Alexander Washburn
• Kaitlin Elizabeth Weiss
• Maya Patricia White
• Roger Martin Wilder
• Augusta KaMaileOnaOna Kellogg Winterbottom
• Anya Rose Workman
• Seo Yeon Yook
• Mina Jasmine Zanganeh
• Mitchell Franklin Zell
• Noah Zuijderwijk

From the Class of 2026:

• Gwendolyn Wenjie Frances Abbott
• Charles Thomas Apolinsky
• Victoria Channing Bacall
• Olivia Grace Barrett
• Caroline Elizabeth Berney
• Divya Bhargava
• Yasmin Biyashev
• Mila Laurita Bonometti
• Oliver Chyla Bruce
• Chinwe Fleming Bruns
• Alexander Chase Byrne
• Alessandro Benedetto Carelli
• Anna Chen
• Runqin Chen
• Elizabeth Chmielewski
• Aniqa Chowdhury
• Oliver Isaac Clachko
• Amanda Marie Cooney
• Avery Jordan Cutler
• Ethan Christopher Danielson
• Carly Jane Davey
• Anthony Michael DiChiara
• Cameron Hong Edgar
• Grace Schoen Elliot
• Athalia Barker Esty
• Nina Elizabeth Fearon
• Nicholas James Fortier
• Ruby Fyffe
• Kira Hedges Gilbert
• Evan James Grauer
• Cedar Rose Greve
• Anna Guethoff
• Larah Gutierrez-Camano
• Kyra Elizabeth Hacker
• Cordelia Louise Howe Heyman
• Skyla Hong
• Miya Sachiko Imaeda
• Ha Young Jang
• Meredith Hailey Jenkins
• Benjamin Blagden Johnson
• Surabhi Kalra
• Marley Kamin
• Mia Victoria Karlsson
• Kiley Elizabeth Keating
• Nathan Joseph Kellerman

• Samantha Autumn Koegler
• Jeongdahl Lee
• Jung Yeon Yeon Lee
• Tyler Campbell Lenk
• Zellie Lipman
• Graham Frederick Lucas
• Abigail Elise Martin
• Emma Mazlish
• Nadia Miller
• Shihab Sohan Moral
• Ashley Bridget Morash
• Aurelie Nishimwe
• Adam Grant O’Connor
• Caleb Stopford Packard
• Kaya Annika Patel
• Elizabeth B. Perot
• Ella Nicole Perry
• Lierin Grace Peterson
• Kyra Kate Phelan
• Grace Raymond
• Liliana M. Restrepo
• Alec Edward Rothkowitz
• Hailey Frances Ryan
• Benjamin Isaac Sachs
• Sebastian Robert Sahlman
• John Anderson Schubert
• Anika Sen
• Younghoon Seo
• Chloe Keyo Sheahan
• Aidan Dean Sheeran-Hahnel
• Lily Shelley-Kodroff
• Gabriel Ronald Shipper
• Patrick F. Sullivan
• Selima Terras
• Jeremy Dante Tewari
• Blythe Carson Thompson
• Isabelle M. Tsuchitori
• Pranavsai Vadlamudi
• Anne Patricia Vasquez
• Elizabeth Daly Walsh
• Darcy Elliot Weber
• Emilia Irene Wheatley
• Alexander Moffat Wiseman
• Ai Lee Woods
• Marianna Sofia Zingone