Alexa Barry
  • History
  • Class of 2012
  • Rindge, NH

Alexa Barry Graduates from Bowdoin College

2012 May 31

Alexa Barry of Rindge, graduated from Bowdoin College, majoring in History and minoring in Visual Arts.

The College's 207th Commencement exercises were held Saturday, May 26, 2012, when bachelor of arts degrees were awarded to 440 students from 40 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and 15 foreign countries.

More information about Bowdoin 207th Commencement here:

http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/008548.shtml

About Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College is a highly selective liberal arts college located in Brunswick, Maine, about 25 miles north of Portland. One of the oldest colleges in the nation, it received its charter in 1794. Bowdoin enrolls approximately 1,750 students from across the country and around the world.

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 and architect of the Ireland peace accord George J. Mitchell (1954), former U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen (1962), and Olympic gold medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson (1979).