The Board of Trustees selected the College's honorary degree recipients at last weekend's tri-annual meeting.
Harvard graduate Roger Angell will receive a doctorate of letters at graduation in May. His career started as a managing editor for a weekly magazine while he was stationed in the Pacific with the United States Army Air Forces.
His career then evolved to writing about baseball, becoming senior editor at The New Yorker, receiving such honors as the Authors Guild Award for Distinguished Service to American Letters, and most recently serving as a Kelly Writers House Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania in 2005.
Harvard Medical School Assistant Professor Nawal Nour has been selected to receive a doctorate in science. Nour serves as a physician and OB-GYN at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, in addition to being the founder and director of its African Women's Health Center, the nation's only African health practice.
In 2003, Nour was awarded the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for her national and international efforts to educate patients, families, and fellow doctors on the health and policy consequences of female circumcision.
Recipient of a doctorate in fine arts, Kiki Smith is a renowned graphic artist and sculptor. Her critically acclaimed work has been displayed in such places as the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
In 2000, Smith was awarded the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture.
Doctorate of letters recipient Beverly Tatum serves as Spelman College president and is a nationally recognized expert on race relations. She has conducted research in the area of teen racial identity development, the impact of race in classrooms, and African-American families' experiences in predominantly white communities.
Among her books are "Assimilation Blues: Black Families in a White Community" (1987) and "'Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?' and Other Conversations about Race" (1997).
Doctorate of laws recipient Donald M. Zuckert '56 began his involvement with Bowdoin College as a student, and moved on to leadership roles ranging from overseer of the College in 1987 to chair of the Board of Trustees from 2002 to 2005 and finally to trustee emeritus in 2005.
In 1986, Zuckert also established the Donald M. Zuckert Visiting Professorship, aimed at attracting individuals from government or the arts to teach at Bowdoin and provide public lectures and performances.
Following Bowdoin tradition, the College's 201st Commencement Exercises, slated to be held on May 27, 2006, will include events with the honorary degree recipients as well a keynote address by an honorary degree recipient.