Gretchen Williams among Top Students Honored at Bowdoin College

2011 Nov 1

Bowdoin College held its annual Sarah and James Bowdoin Day ceremony Friday, October 28, 2011, to honor those undergraduates who distinguish themselves by excellence in scholarship.

Gretchen Williams, from Lincoln, a member of the Bowdoin College Class of 2014 was named a Sarah and James Bowdoin Scholar .

Students who are designated Sarah and James Bowdoin Scholars are in the top (highest GPA) 20 percent of each class for the previous academic year. In addition, those scholars who earned a GPA of 4.0 are designated Sarah and James Bowdoin Book Award winners.

Bowdoin College is a small, 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.

The designation of Sarah and James Bowdoin Scholars honors James Bowdoin III and his wife, Sarah. James Bowdoin III was the earliest patron of the College and was instrumental in its founding in 1794. Sarah Bowdoin also gave many gifts to the College, including most of the Bowdoin family portraits in the collection of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.