A Conversation with Claudia Marroquin ’06: The College Search and Admissions Process
Tuesday, June 1
Noon EDT

Claudia Marroquin ’06, incoming senior vice president and dean of admissions and financial aid at Bowdoin, discusses how to go about conducting a college search and the admissions process. Open to all and geared toward families with students completing their sophomore or junior year in high school. The event will be a Zoom meeting format with a live question-and-answer session.

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How to Make the Perfect Lobster Roll with Bryan Holden ’09 and Maggie Seymour ’16
Thursday, June 3
7:00 p.m. EDT

Lobster is an essential ingredient of an on-campus Bowdoin Reunion Weekend celebration. Join Bryan Holden ’09, chief development officer of Luke’s Lobster, and actor Maggie Seymour ’16 to learn how to make Luke’s Lobster’s famous lobster roll at home. Bryan will do a live demonstration and share everything you need to know about lobsters, and Maggie will moderate a live question-and-answer session with event attendees.

If you want to make a lobster roll along with Bryan and Maggie, an ingredient list for the session will be sent with your registration confirmation email. Luke’s Lobster is offering a special Bowdoin Reunion discount code, BOWDOIN10, valid for 10% off your order, which you can use to purchase ingredients directly from Luke’s Lobster Online Market. Place your order by Sunday, May 30, to have the items delivered in time for the demo.

To make your meal complete, Bowdoin’s Dining Service has shared recipes for campus lobster bake favorites: corn, cucumber, and blueberry salad and blueberry cake. Bon appétit Polar Bears!!

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A Conversation with Artist Shaun Leonardo ’01
Friday, June 4
3:00 p.m. EDT

Acclaimed artist Shaun Leonardo ’01 will offer a presentation about his work and his new role as codirector at Brooklyn-based Recess, a nonprofit organization dedicated to partnering with artists to build more just and equitable creative communities. His presentation will be followed by a question-and-answer session moderated by Shelley Langdale ’85, curator and head of modern prints and drawings at the National Gallery of Art. Shaun and Shelley are both members of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art Advisory Council.

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Challenges and Choices: Rapid Change in the Arctic
Andrew Hartsig ’95, director of the Arctic Program at Ocean Conservancy, Susan Kaplan, professor of anthropology and director of the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center at Bowdoin, and Laura Henry, professor of government at Bowdoin, explored the social and environmental challenges and choices in the contemporary Arctic. Their discussion was followed by a Q&A moderated by Genevieve LeMoine, curator and registrar of the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum at Bowdoin.

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A Better U.S. Approach to China: A Talk by Susan A. Thornton ’85, P’22
Susan A. Thornton ’85, P’22 is a visiting lecturer in law at Yale Law School and senior fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center. In 2018, she retired from the State Department after a twenty-eight-year diplomatic career focused primarily on East and Central Asia. In leadership roles in Washington, Thornton worked on China and Korea policy, including stabilizing relations with Taiwan, the U.S.-China Cyber Agreement, the Paris Climate Accord, and led a successful negotiation in Pyongyang for monitoring of the Agreed Framework on denuclearization.

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A Conversation on the Earliest Images of the Bowdoin Campus with the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Maine State Historian Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. H’08 offers a presentation about the College in the nineteenth century. After Shettleworth’s remarks, he and John Cross ’76, secretary of development and college relations, join in a Q&A moderated by the Museum’s codirectors, Frank Goodyear and Anne Collins Goodyear. This program was presented in conjunction with “Maine’s Lithographic Landscapes: Town & City Views, 1830-1870,” an exhibition curated by Shettleworth that opened at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art last December.

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