Bowdoin’s Alumni Service Award and Alumni Council Award for Faculty and Staff, selected by the Alumni Council, recognize members of the Bowdoin community for their exemplary achievement and dedication.
Bowdoin’s Alumni Service Award and Alumni Council Award for Faculty and Staff, selected by the Alumni Council, recognize members of the Bowdoin community for their exemplary achievement and dedication.
(L. to r.) David Dickson ’76, P’13, Ann L. Kibbie, Scott A. Meiklejohn
Alumni Service Award
For his longstanding and exceptional devotion to the College, David A. Dickson II ’76, P’13, has received the annual Alumni Service Award, the Bowdoin Alumni Council’s highest honor. A scholar, educator, and Bowdoin parent, Dickson embodies an ethos of service to the common good and to Bowdoin—work that began during his undergraduate years and continued throughout his career as a professor, administrator, and advocate. Read more about Alumni Service Award winner David Dickson II ’76, P’13.
Alumni Council Award for Faculty and Staff
For bringing curiosity, creative energy, and dedication to her students, colleagues, and the entire Bowdoin community, Associate Professor of English Ann L. Kibbie has been selected by the Alumni Council to receive the 2026 Alumni Award for Faculty and Staff.
Kibbie arrived at Bowdoin in 1989 with a bachelor’s degree from Boston University and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Since then, her scholarship has broken new ground by investigating the interplay of the historical, cultural, economic, and scientific elements that underpin Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature. Read more about Alumni Award for Faculty and Staff winner Ann L. Kibbie.
For his longstanding and dedicated service to the College, Scott A. Meiklejohn, a trusted advisor and key member of the leadership team through four Bowdoin presidents, has been named a recipient of the 2026 Alumni Award for Faculty and Staff.
Meiklejohn has worn many hats since arriving on campus in 1997—those of senior capital support officer, associate vice president for development and alumni relations, senior vice president for planning and institutional advancement and assistant to President Barry Mills, dean of admissions and financial aid, senior vice president for development and alumni relations, and special advisor to the president. Read more about Alumni Award for Faculty and Staff winner Scott A. Meiklejohn.
The awards will be presented during Reunion Weekend (May 28–31, 2026).
