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The Bowdoin Orient, Bowdoin’s student newspaper, began publication in 1871 and is the nation’s oldest continuously published college weekly. It provides news and information relevant to the Bowdoin community, especially concerning student social life, and maintains a tradition of editorial independence from the College and its administration.
Date: 2019-11-09
Creator: George Khaldun
Access: Open access
- George Khaldun ’73 came to Bowdoin from New York at the suggestion of a mentor, the director of a library where Kahldun had worked part-time in high school. He shares that he was at first apprehensive of moving to Maine but decided to apply since it would provide a change of pace from the inner city. He discusses his political affiliation as a Black Panther and the comradery he felt in finding others at Bowdoin who shared his revolutionary beliefs. Kahldun found these men in the Afro-American Society, where he could connect with black people from across the country. He says this community helped hone his political beliefs but also adjust to the rigors of Bowdoin academics. Kahldun admits to struggling during his first year, after finding support in the Society, he was able to succeed in school.
Date: 2019-11-10
Creator: Mark Richter
Access: Open access
- Mark Richter ('14) shares his experience as an Africana Studies student who grew up in Brunswick, Maine. He tells of his path to the Africana Studies department, as largely influenced by his classes with Professor Brian Purnell, including his course on the popular television show, 'The Wire.’ Richter describes how his academic work at Bowdoin provided him with a certain language to explore and discuss topics that he had not had the verbage for before. He recounts certain classes in the department which allowed for conversations surrounding race and identity that may not have happened normally on campus. Finally, Richter offers insight into how his major at Bowdoin has prepared him for work at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and given him tools as a white male to understand privilege and inequity.

Date: 2019-06-01
Creator: Laura Daly, Hannah Hughes, Emme Duncan
Access: Access restricted to the Bowdoin Community
Date: 2019-11-09
Creator: Noma Petroff
Access: Open access
- Noma Petroff shares her time working at Bowdoin, as secretary of the Senior Center (1975-1979), secretary of Afro-American Studies (1979-1985), secretary Women’s Studies (1990), and academic coordinator of Theater and Dance (1991-2016). She discusses her path to Bowdoin, and specifically her path to working in Russworm, coming from working at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and even leaving Bowdoin for several years to work on a Pennsylvanian farm. She recounts how she tried to serve as an ally to students of color on campus. Petroff describes the dynamic environment of Russworm during the early eighties, including the work she put into starting the center’s library. She shares stories from various work-study students who worked with her, including two students who fell in love after separately working under her. Petroff describes the transformations to the African American Studies department over her many years at the college, including highlights of working under both Randy Stakeman and Lynn Bolles.
Date: 2019-11-09
Creator: Steve London
Access: Open access
- Steve London '64 describes his family's long connection to Bowdoin, spanning three generations. He shares his father's experience at the College as a Jewish student in the 1930s who found most allegiance with the several black students on campus at the time. Speaking of his own time as a student, London describes how the civil rights movement greatly influenced his experience as an undergraduate. His time at Bowdoin and engagement with racial activism led him to later work with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference for two years shortly after graduating from Bowdoin. London outlines the ways that activism and understanding the role of identity and inequity were a central part to his time at the College, and his path afterwards.
Date: 2021-01-01
Creator: Anonymous
Access: Open access
- This is a response to the Documenting Bowdoin & COVID-19 Reflections Questionnaire. The questionnaire was created in March 2021 by staff of Bowdoin's George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives. Author is class of 2024.
Date: 1981-01-01
Creator: Reginald L. Jackson
Access: Open access
- Catalog for an exhibition co-sponsored by the Afro-American Studies Program, held at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery, 7-22 March, 1991.
Date: 2008-01-01
Creator: Vernon Scott
Access: Open access
- Catalog of an exhibition held at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from Sept. 9, 2008, through June 7, 2009. Essay by V. Scott Dimond
Date: 1970-01-01
Creator: James Morton
Access: Open access
- Catalog of an exhibition held at the Colby College Art Museum, April 4-May 10; the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, May 21-June 28; and the Carnegie Gallery, University of Maine, Orono, July 8-August 30. Sponsored by the Maine Federation of Women's Clubs.
Date: 2021-01-01
Creator: Anonymous
Access: Open access
- This is a response to the Documenting Bowdoin & COVID-19 Reflections Questionnaire. The questionnaire was created in March 2021 by staff of Bowdoin's George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives. Author is class of 2023.
Date: 1994-01-01
Creator: Justin P. Wolff
Access: Open access
- Exhibition catalogue from the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
Date: 1997-01-01
Creator: Anna-Maria Cannatella
Access: Open access
- "This brochure accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, from April 3 through June 8, 1997."