BRUNSWICK — Bowdoin College’s 23rd annual Honors Day acknowledging the exceptional academic accomplishments of students and faculty was held on the academic year’s last day of classes, Wednesday, May 8, 2019.
Jenna Lynn Scott, of Saco and a member of the Bowdoin College Class of 2019, received the Richard E. Morgan Prize for Excellence in the Study of the Constitution. Scott is an education-government and legal studies major and a gender, sexuality, and women’s studies minor.
Bowdoin College has been educating leaders on the coast of Maine since the dawn of the American republic. Founded in 1794, Bowdoin is a highly selective college of approximately 1,800 students of distinction from across America and around the world. Bowdoin offers Bachelor of Arts degrees in more than 40 majors, including interdisciplinary programs.
A Bowdoin liberal arts education and residential life experience instill principled leadership, lifelong learning, and service to the common good. Visit Bowdoin College online at Bowdoin.edu and follow the college on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Notable alumni include 14th U.S. President Franklin Pierce (class of 1824), writers Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (both 1825), African-American newspaper editor John Brown Russwurm (1826), Civil War hero Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1852), Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary (1877), former Senate Majority Leader, architect of the Ireland peace accord and U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace George J. Mitchell (1954), former U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen (1962), and Olympic gold medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson (1979).
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