Douglas Farrell Graduates from Bowdoin College

2013 May 30

Douglas Farrell of Bangor, graduated from Bowdoin College, with a major in Chemistry-Environmental Studies and a minor in Earth and Oceanographic Science.

The College's 208th Commencement exercises were held Saturday, May 25, 2013, when bachelor of arts degrees were awarded to 452 students from 42 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and 14 foreign countries and territories.

More information about Bowdoin 208th Commencement here:

http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2013/05/464-seniors-awarded-degrees-at-bowdoins-208th-commencement

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).