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 on that day in 1726.

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 Liliana Restrepo ’26.

Liliana is an environmental studies and mathematics double major and a Hispanic studies minor from Orange, Connecticut.

Liliana is in her fourth year serving as secretary for Bowdoin Student Government, or BSG, and she co-leads the Bowdoin Public Health Club. She says that she has been struck by the abundance of opportunities at the College and has especially valued working as a grader and learning assistant in the math department and as a tutor in the Baldwin Center for Learning and Teaching.

She says her most memorable academic experience at the College is seeing how willing Bowdoin faculty members are to meet with students outside of regular class and office hours.

Liliana has spent two summers working for a public health department in Connecticut; that experience has furthered her interest in a career in public health, specifically in epidemiology and the mathematical modeling of infectious diseases. As she thinks about next steps, Liliana is currently applying to graduate schools to pursue a master’s in epidemiology.

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 2026:

• Divya Bhargava
• Alessandro Benedetto Carelli
• Ethan Christopher Danielson
• Kyra Elizabeth Hacker
• Ben Blagden Johnson
• Subi Kalra
• Mia Victoria Karlsson
• Nathan Joseph Kellerman
• Sam Autumn Koegler
• Tyler Campbell Lenk
• Graham Frederick Lucas
• Liliana Restrepo
• Hailey Frances Ryan
• Ben Isaac Sachs
• Young Seo
• Blythe Carson Thompson
• Elizabeth Daly Walsh
• Ai Lee Woods

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 2025:

From the Class of 2026:

• Christopher Joseph Aufiero
• Victoria Channing Bacall
• Olivia Grace Barrett
• Alessandro Benedetto Carelli
• Ella Ting-yi Chu
• Charlotte Lucia Kaplan Clements
• Ethan Christopher Danielson
• Ella Lane Ferrucci
• Ha Young (Victoria) Jang
• Julie Janssen
• Georgia Barron Katkov
• Juyeon Lee
• John William Logue
• Graham Frederick Lucas
• Phoebe Leigh Marin
• Abigail Elise Martin
• Kaavya Janaki Mundkur
• Anika Sen
• Justin Patrick Wright
• Julia Xiang-Wang

From the Class of 2027:

• Alexander Maceo Alessi
• Morgan Taylor Barnes
• Jon Matthew Behrens
• Catherine Elizabeth Benavides
• Anne Margaret Bermingham
• Max McGrath Bleakney
• Eri Bolton
• Yeo Bondar
• Lydia Rose Branson
• Michaela A. Brough
• Benjamin Thomas Chilson
• Matthew Brian Cohen
• Greta Julianna Colloton
• Nicolas Francesco Pizzarello Conway
• Maren D. Cooper
• Isabella Natalia Cruz
• Nyla Renee Danzy
• Anushka Pal Elavia
• Elliott James Ewell
• Emily Elizabeth Ferguson
• Isabelle Grace Fitzgibbon
• Thayer Kain Frankel
• Eva Montague Green
• Tavi Dante Greenfield
• Sophia Sanae Hammond
• Peter Klem Harris
• Gary Ruiz Hernandez
• Kelly Connor Hoffman
• William Robert Hofmann
• Silas Oliver Hultman
• Keito Naoshima Ishibashi
• Shawn Michael Jiminez
• Sree Jagannathan Kandhadai
• Conner Andrew Lee
• Daniel Lee
• Richard Feng Mian Lim
• Dorian Maillot
• Hayden Randolph Mann
• Shea Christopher McGrath
• Isabella Grace Mell
• Olivia Magraw Miller
• Amaya Elizabeth Nicklas
• Declan Palmer O’Connell
• Miles Joseph Palmer
• Rin Pastor
• Sarah Marie Peterson
• Erin Holly Pullinger
• Lucas Ribadeneira
• Andrew Daniel Robinson
• Noah Matthew Rossin
• Samuel Rafael Sacerdote
• Elise Mary Siciliano
• Aidan Thomas Singer
• Hannah Grace Smart
• Henry Schieffelin Smith
• Oliver James Tannahill
• Margaret Unger
• Daria Dmitrievna Volkova
• Brittany Nicole Yue
• Joseph Zhao Zheng

From the Class of 2028:

• Amelia Chan Alpren
• Peter Elkins Baltzell
• Cora Violet Bixby
• Saoirse Siobhan Burlingame
• Evan B. Carr
• Elizabeth Yaqiong Carter
• Bryan Bausin Cook
• Jasmine Decrem
• Evelyn Lee Dyer
• Kiran Ariel Iyer Elfenbein
• Adam Michael Eskin
• Muchen Feng
• Solencia Alaine Nadine Hamilton
• Merle Herrell Hezel
• Olivia Ho
• Catcher David Kemmerer
• Gianna Maria Keuer
• Alexander Krauss
• James Louis Kretz
• Mia Ana Lasic-Ellis
• Elizabeth Mi Jun Lee
• Kimberly Lopez
• Sophie M. Miller
• Madeline Toy Ohta
• Ella Elizabeth Ong
• Giovanna Lucia Parnoff
• Lillian Margaret Regal
• Emalee Seunghee Ro
• Liam Israel Rodriguez
• Isabel Marie Sandoval
• Zoe Sarah Schnitzer
• Sara Nash Schubert
• Audrey Bettina Stevens
• Grace Violet Tetreault
• Martina Tognato Guaqueta
• Alexandra Gwyneth Vella
• Ursula Margarethe von Goeler
• Jones M. Walther
• Jay Frances Whalen
• Khalil James Wilkinson
• Bowen Parker Willis
• Saron Seyoum Workineh
• Aidan Patrick Wyman
• Caleb Zuckerman

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 2025:

• Katharine Ann Gage

From the Class of 2026:

• Christopher Joseph Aufiero
• Victoria Channing Bacall
• Olivia Grace Barrett
• Alessandro Benedetto Carelli
• Claire Xiao Chen
• Runqin Chen
• Ella Ting-yi Chu
• Charlotte Lucia Kaplan Clements
• Daniel Talbot Courtine
• Madeline Anne Current
• Ethan Christopher Danielson
• Anthony Michael DiChiara
• Ella Lane Ferrucci
• Liam Padraig Foley
• Kira Hedges Gilbert
• Jacob Matthew Goodman
• Jonathan Edward Ryan Gordon
• Skyla Hong
• Ha Young (Victoria) Jang
• Julie Janssen
• Georgia Barron Katkov

• Juyeon Lee
• John William Logue
• Graham Frederick Lucas
• Phoebe Leigh Marin
• Abigail Elise Martin
• Emma Mazlish
• Kaavya Janaki Mundkur
• Iran Yamile Pacheco Martinez
• Anika Sen
• Younghoon Seo
• Avital N. Serlin
• Gabriel Ronald Shipper
• Michael William Sweeney
• Anne Patricia Vasquez
• Darcy Elliot Weber
• Piper Lyn Wilson
• Thomas Daniel Graney Wilson
• Justin Patrick Wright
• Julia Xiang-Wang

From the Class of 2027:

• Eleanor Hayward Adams
• Jordyn Kay Ahlstrom-Hall
• Alexander Maceo Alessi
• Elena Michelle Alexander
• Daedalus Mory Arnold
• Jack Thomas Banks
• Morgan Taylor Barnes
• Dylan Thomas Beckett
• Jon Matthew Behrens
• Catherine Elizabeth Benavides
• Anne Margaret Bermingham
• Emi Ikeda Blakely
• Max McGrath Bleakney
• Eri Bolton
• Yeo Bondar
• Lydia Rose Branson
• Michaela A. Brough
• Adele M. Brown
• Benjamin Lior Carroll
• Grace Nary Chang
• Sawyer Chapin Weale
• Benjamin Thomas Chilson
• Caroline Rose Clinton
• Matthew Brian Cohen
• Greta Julianna Colloton
• Nicolas Francesco Pizzarello Conway
• Maren D. Cooper
• Isabella Natalia Cruz
• Nyla Renee Danzy
• Dell Davis-Batt
• John T. Donoghue
• Henry Michael Edelman
• Anushka Pal Elavia
• Nicholas Emil Enbar-Salo
• Elliott James Ewell
• Emily Elizabeth Ferguson
• Isabelle Grace Fitzgibbon
• Thayer Kain Frankel
• Eoin Patrick Gallagher
• Raphael Emmanuel Grand’Pierre
• Eva Montague Green
• Tavi Dante Greenfield
• Sophia Sanae Hammond
• Ian Weston Harris
• Peter Klem Harris
• Grace Kelley Harvey
• Julie Ai Hatano
• Ethan Emerson Hatcher
• Gary Ruiz Hernandez
• Dylan River Herring
• Kelly Connor Hoffman
• William Robert Hofmann
• Natalie Elaine Hood
• Silas Oliver Hultman
• Keito Naoshima Ishibashi
• Megumi Iwai-Louie
• Shawn Michael Jiminez
• Stella Grace Johnson
• Sree Jagannathan Kandhadai
• Abderrahim Kandoussi
• Maja Christin Keatley
• Asher Ramirez Kelly
• Giles Raymond Kinsella
• Ethan Y. Lam
• Conner Andrew Lee
• Daniel Lee
• Sydney Jie Lillis
• Richard Feng Mian Lim
• Luna Yu Lu
• James Patrick Lucey

• Trevin Cody Macomber
• Michael S. Mahedy
• Dorian Maillot
• Hayden Randolph Mann
• Rebeca Manzo
• Katherine Michel Mautz
• Chloe Mina McEaneney
• Shea Christopher McGrath
• Alden Charles Mehta
• Isabella Grace Mele
• Olivia Magraw Miller
• Kate Jung Min
• Amal Ahmed Mohamed
• Anna Fox Monaghan
• Anika Nagpal
• Caroline Katie Nicho
• Amaya Elizabeth Nicklas
• Clara Anne Noyes
• Declan Palmer O’Connell
• Eleanor Eun Jin O’Dwyer
• Ronan Colm O’Flaherty
• Miles Joseph Palmer
• Rin Pastor
• Whitney Meilu Pellegrino
• Sarah Marie Peterson
• Eric Chung-Ho Pieper
• Ilana Rose Posner
• Erin Holly Pullinger
• John Christopher Pyne
• Mary Rose Rainey
• Lucas Ribadeneira
• William Walker Riley
• Andrew Daniel Robinson
• Noah Matthew Rossin
• Sabrina Ines Rubenstein
• Abby Walsh Rubin
• Dashiell Henry Rumble
• Songa Isaac Rwamucyo
• Samuel Rafael Sacerdote
• Matthew James Servin
• Cameron Anne Shelly
• Mina Shenoy
• Elise Mary Siciliano
• Caroline Grace Simmonds
• Eric Daniel Ray Simmons
• Aidan Thomas Singer
• Hannah Grace Smart
• Henry Schieffelin Smith
• Matthew Martin Stein
• Jacob T. Stern
• Harper Julia Stevenson
• Caroline Altobell Stuhlfaut
• Oliver James Tannahillr
• Ursula Simone Tarrant
• Jasper Mark Deuel Thomas
• Sage Tonomura-MacDonald
• Katharine Hamilton Tran
• Margaret Unger
• Larsen Vincent Van Horn
• Daria Dmitrievna Volkova
• Lily Anwen Watts
• James Owen Weller
• Amy Maciel Wills
• Samuel Sawyer Wilson
• Anna O’Neil Yeh
• Brittany Nicole Yue
• Joseph Zhao Zheng

From the Class of 2028:

• Asha Maria Adiga-Biro
• Nassiratou Ali Djibo
• Amelia Chan Alpren
• Katie Stella Athanasoulas
• Peter Elkins Baltzell
• Camille Marine Baratier
• Cora Violet Bixby
• Zainakai Elias Blair-Roberts
• Christopher Bowers
• Saoirse Siobhan Burlingame
• Augustin Shadowens Burrows
• Evan B. Carr
• Elizabeth Yaqiong Carter
• Margaret Ann Chioffi
• Kyler Amy Choi
• Annabel Elizabeth Close
• Jedediah Cohen
• Bryan Bausin Cook
• Ruby Willow Cosgrove
• Jasmine Decrem
• Vincent Van Diep
• Evelyn Lee Dyer
• Elliot Seth Dziedzic
• Sol Eisenbeis
• Kiran Ariel Iyer Elfenbein
• Karim Mohamed Omar Mahmoud ElSedfy
• Adam Michael Eskin
• Gillian Larkin Fairfax
• Ari Benjamin Faulkner
• Muchen Feng
• Edward Chen Jin Fontaine
• Natalie Cannon Garre
• Giovanni Grassi
• Zachary James Green
• Solencia Alaine Nadine Hamilton
• Wesley Haynes
• Elinor Holleran Hershkowitz
• Merle Herrell Hezel
• Olivia Ho
• Judith Rye Hughes
• Erin Elizabeth Jones
• Basant Kaur
• Liam Jonah Kelly-Thompson
• Catcher David Kemmerer
• Gianna Maria Keuer
• Maya Jean Khalil
• Anna Kim
• Matthew Hahn Yoon-Sup Kim
• Grace Bay Kinum
• David Brooks Kitchel
• Allison Grace Hunter Korn
• Alexander Krauss
• James Louis Kretz
• Phoebe Hope Kreutz
• Dessa Kuritz
• Mia Ana Lasic-Ellis
• Benjamin Tri Le
• Elizabeth Mi Jun Lee
• Shawna Lin
• Emily Grace Liu
• Ana Julia Santos Lopes
• Kimberly Lopez
• John Ernest Luehrman

• Sophie Alexandra McDevitt
• Eamon Andrew McGlashan
• Andrei Melnikov
• Cam Meyer
• Sophie M. Miller
• Charlotte Hui-jia Ng
• Madeline Toy Ohta
• Miriam Bella Oliveri-Schneider
• Ella Elizabeth Ong
• Zachery Marin Ozols
• Space Pace
• Charlotte Adams Pare
• Avery Lee Park
• Bobin Park
• Reyhaneh Parnian
• Giovanna Lucia Parnoff
• Jessica Zaniya Penilton
• Milo Maxim Pishev
• John Kuriakose Punnachalil
• Lillian Margaret Regal
• Emalee Seunghee Ro
• Camilo Rodriguez
• Liam Israel Rodriguez
• Isabel Marie Sandoval
• Julia Danielle Sayette
• Theo Albert Schenck
• Zoe Sarah Schnitzer
• Sara Nash Schubert
• Keira Isabel Scott
• Maggie Eila Segal
• Hazel Keyo Sheahan
• Jason Taishan Sherrick
• Qingling Shi
• Claire Kim Shim
• Madina-Bonu Sotvoldieva
• Audrey Bettina Stevens
• Claire Frances Stone
• James Hyuntay Stuber
• Anna Frances Sullivan
• Oliver James Mason Swabey
• Grace Violet Tetreault
• Lillian Mavis Tetreault
• Brian George Tilford
• Martina Tognato Guaqueta
• Campbell Kelley Treschuk
• Margot Marlene Trout
• Alexandra Gwyneth Vella
• Benjamin Campbell Vinocur
• Ursula Margarethe von Goeler
• Cormac Anthony Walsh
• Jones M. Walther
• Jay Frances Whalen
• Lily Gabrielle Wheadon
• Khalil James Wilkinson
• Bowen Parker Willis
• Maeve Magalloway Woodruff
• Saron Seyoum Workineh
• Aidan Patrick Wyman
• Margaret Belladean Zeiger
• Caleb Zuckerman