Wikipedia:WikiProject Bowdoin College

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Welcome! This WikiProject will focus on creating and improving articles related to the Bowdoin College, including the college's history, academics, student life, people, and more. Specifically, our goals are:

To improve Wikipedia's coverage of Bowdoin College, and ultimately bring Bowdoin College to featured article status. To organize all Bowdoin College-related articles into the Bowdoin College category and appropriate subcategories so that they can be found easily. Check out the talk page to join in the discussion of how we can attain these goals!

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Fezamingruitat: I am the founder of this project. Bowdoin College means so much to me, and so I am creating and contributing to articles to further glorify it great alumni.

David Hale Clark: (háblame) For now, I'll be trying to get images and maybe create a few of the articles on the to-do list.

Thomas Goode: I will continue to edit articles in order to help move the project along,

Kayla Cruz

[edit] Bowdoin People

Famous Bowdoin graduates include U.S. President Franklin Pierce (1824), poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1825), novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne (1825), Civil War heroes Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1852) and Oliver Otis Howard (1850), U.S. Speaker of the House Thomas Brackett Reed (1860), Mayo Clinic co-founder Dr. Augustus Stinchfield (1868), Arctic explorer Admiral Robert Peary (1877), sex researcher Alfred Kinsey (1916), U.S. Senator George Mitchell (1954), U.S. Senator and Secretary of Defense William Cohen (1962), American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault (1973), Assistant Secretary of State Christopher R. Hill (1974), Author and activist Geoffrey Canada (1974), Olympic gold medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson (1979), Netflix founder and CEO Reed Hastings (1983), Musician and writer DJ Spooky (1992).

Bowdoin graduates have led all three branches of the federal government, including both houses of Congress. Franklin Pierce (1826) was America's fourteenth President; Melville Weston Fuller (1853) served as Chief Justice of the United States; Thomas Brackett Reed (1860) was twice elected Speaker of the House of Representatives; and Wallace H. White, Jr. (1899) and George J. Mitchell (1954) both served as Majority Leader of the United States Senate.

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WikiProject on Bowdoin College This article is part of WikiProject Bowdoin College, an attempt to thoroughly cover topics related to Bowdoin College. If you would like to help, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.