| 词条 | Joseph McKeen |
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| name = Joseph McKeen | image = Joseph McKeen first president of Bowdoin College.jpg | caption = | order = 1st | title = President of Bowdoin College | term_start = 1802 | term_end = 1807 | predecessor = Position established | successor = Jesse Appleton | birth_date = October 15, 1757 | birth_place = Londonderry, New Hampshire | death_date = {{Death date and age|1807|7|15|1757|10|15}} | death_place = Brunswick, Maine | alma_mater = Dartmouth College | residence = | profession = | website = | footnotes = }} Joseph McKeen (October 15, 1757 – July 15, 1807) was the first president of Bowdoin College of Brunswick, Maine. Life and careerMcKeen was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire, a town that his father and grandfather, John and James, who had come from the north of Ireland in 1718 to escape religious and political oppression, had helped to settle.[1] He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1774 when he was just seventeen years old. Except for a brief period when he fought under General John Sullivan in the American Revolution, he taught school in Londonderry until he became the Congregational minister of Beverly, Massachusetts in 1785. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1796.[2] He remained in that position as minister until 1802, when he became president of Bowdoin. At the time, Massachusetts Hall was the only building available for officers and pupils on campus. In his inaugural address, he famously said that "Literary institutions are founded and endowed for the common good, and not for the private advantage of those who resort to them for education." Bowdoin's annual Common Good Day for community service refers to this statement. He remained president until his death in 1807. He received a Doctor of Divinity degree from Dartmouth in 1803. Most of McKeen's publications were papers in theTransactions of the American Academy of Arts and Science and some occasional sermons. He is buried at Pine Grove Cemetery in Brunswick.[3] LegacyBowdoin College inaugurated the Joseph McKeen Center for the Common Good in September 2008. The center provides programs for students, faculty, and staff to engage with the community through volunteerism, community-based teaching and research, and summer and post-graduate internships and fellowships. A large plaque that quotes a portion of McKeen's inaugural address is displayed in the center's hallway. References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bowdoin.edu/mckeen-center/mission/joseph-mckeen.shtml|title= Joseph McKeen|publisher= Bowdoin College |accessdate= January 14, 2014}} 2. ^{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter M|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterM.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|accessdate=August 7, 2014}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://pejepscothistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/PGC-Walking-Tour-Booklet-REVISED.pdf|title=Pine Grove Cemetery Walking Tour|publisher=Pejescot Historical Society|accessdate=30 March 2017}} External links
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