SCHOOL NOTE

Bowdoin College honors its top students
    BRUNSWICK – Bowdoin College held its annual Sarah and James Bowdoin Day ceremony Friday, Oct. 31 to honor those undergraduates who distinguish themselves by excellence in scholarship.     Those 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.
    Whitney Anne Grass, Class of 2010, of Mars Hill was named a Sarah and James Bowdoin Scholar.
    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.