Gretchen Williams Graduates from Bowdoin College

2014 May 27

Gretchen Righter Williams, of Lincoln , Massachusetts, and a member of the Class of 2014, graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Bowdoin College with a major in Art History and a minor in Italian.

The College's 209th Commencement exercises were held Saturday, May 24, 2014, when bachelor of arts degrees were awarded to 454 students from 37 states, the District of Columbia, and 15 countries and territories.

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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).