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Interview with Carroy Ferguson (Class of 1968) by Marcus Williams
Date: 2019-11-09
Creator: Carroy Ferguson
Access: Open access
- Carroy Cuf Ferguson ‘68 talks about being offered a free ride to Bowdoin and deciding between Bowdoin and Morehouse College. He shares stories about growing up in the segregated South and having near zero contact with whites, having to be bussed across town to attend high school despite living a block away from an all-white high school. He talks about being the first student of color to be admitted into the fraternity Sigma Nu, which had a discriminatory clause in it forbidding students of color from joining, and what it was like to fight that clause with his fraternity brothers. Ferguson shares stories about how it felt to have the “weight of [his] race on his shoulders), navigating Bowdoin in the mid- to late- sixties, and the pressures that came with that.
Interview with David Dickson (Class of 1976) by Aisha Rickford
Date: 2019-11-09
Creator: David Dickson
Access: Open access
- David Dickson '76 shares some remarks on his father, David W. D. Dickson, who graduated from Bowdoin in 1941, and his uncle who graduated in 1935. He talks about how the Bowdoin of their era had segregated fraternities that did not allow black students or Jewish students, and details his father’s experience with the emotional tax that such a reality posed. Dickson also talks about the importance of having the safe space of the African-American society that behaved as an “island on a lily-white campus.” He also talks about the former student organization, All Races United (ARU) and how students of marginalized backgrounds as well as “independent mainstream” students could come together in activism. Finally, Dickson shares how his experiences at Bowdoin affected the development of his racial identity.
Talia Cowen '16 interviews Hugh Cipparone '19
Date: 2016-01-01
Creator: Hugh Cipparone
Access: Open access
Interview with Sandra Martinez (Class of 2013) by Marina Henke
Date: 2019-11-10
Creator: Sandra Martinez
Access: Open access
- Sandra Martinez ('13) recounts life at Bowdoin as a Latina woman. She describes Bowdoin as a space where she came more into her cultural identity, while also being where she felt the limitations and challenges of being a minority on campus. Additionally, Martinez discusses the simultaneous division and alliance between the African American Society and the Latin American Student Organization, and the various means students went to in bridging or instating this distance. As a math major, Martinez confronted the realities of a faculty lacking in diversity, and explored how this impacted her academic career and confidence in the classroom. Finally she speaks to the way that she learned to command her opinions, against at times people’s wishes, and gives advice to future Bowdoin women of color for how they can make space for themselves.
Context Considered: Perspectives on American Art
Date: 1996-01-01
Creator: Linda Jones Docherty
Access: Open access
- "This brochure accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, from April 17 through June 2, 1996"--P. preceding t.p Exhibition curated and brochure prepared in collaboration with 12 Bowdoin students, classes 1994-1997.
Illustrated Handbook of the Bowdoin College Museum of Fine Arts in the Walker Art Building
Date: 1950-01-01
Access: Open access
- "Photography by Stephen E. Merrill, Brunswick, Maine"--T.p. verso
Catalogue of Etchings Presented to Bowdoin College by Charles A. Coffin of New York, May, 1923
Date: 1923-01-01
Access: Open access
- Contains biographical sketches.