The Everett P. Pope Lecture Series, sponsored by the Bowdoin Marine Corps Society, enables the Bowdoin community to engage with foreign policy and national security practitioners and experts.
Major Pope, USMC, graduated from Bowdoin in 1941, where he was captain of the state champion tennis team and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He fought in the Pacific at Guadalcanal and Peleliu. In 1945 he received the nation’s highest decoration for valor, the Medal of Honor, for leading his rifle company at Peleliu.
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EVERETT P. POPE
Everett P. Pope Lecture Endowment
We believe the Pope Lecture has enriched the intellectual life of Bowdoin, and hope that it is both inspiring Bowdoin students to public service. The endowment for the Pope Lecture will ensure that it will have a permanent place at Bowdoin.
Contributions to the Pope Lecture may be made by credit card at this link or by check made out to Bowdoin College with Everett P. Pope Lecture Fund in the memo line.
Send check to:
Nancy C. Milam | Director of Gift Planning
Bowdoin College
4100 College Station
Brunswick ME 04011
Our ANNUAL SPEAKERS
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The 2020 lecture was not held due to Covid 19.
Everett P. Pope Lecture Sponsoring Committee
Jack Abbott
Co-founder Bowdoin Marine Corps Society, a LifeTrustee and former Treasurer of the USS Constitution Museum, and the former President/CEO of Boston Financial Management
Bowdoin ’63
Gil Barndollar
Co-founder Bowdoin Marine Corps Society, Senior Research Fellow at the Catholic University of America’s Center for the Study of Statesmanship and a Senior Fellow at Defense Priorities.
Bowdoin ’04
Barbara Elias
Associate Professor of Government at Bowdoin College specializing in international relations, insurgency warfare, U.S. foreign policy, national security, and Islam and politics
Admiral Gregory G. Johnson (Ret.)
Retired United States Navy Admiral and the former commander of U.S. Naval Forces, Europe and Allied Forces, Southern Europe.
Jean Yarborough
Professor of Government and Gary M. Pendy, Sr. Professor of Social Sciences at Bowdoin, with teaching responsibilities in political philosophy and American Political Thought