A FUN FAREWELL

A small dinner in honor of retiring president Clayton Rose and Julianne Rose was held May 12, 2023, at the Schiller Coastal Studies Center, where Clayton’s senior colleagues celebrated the outgoing president and joked about his initial reluctance to sit for a presidential portrait. Trustees and senior officers presented the Roses with a gift of a painting by A. LeRoy Greason Professor of Art Mark Wethli, who is also retiring from the College at the end of this academic year.

Campus Life Would I Lie to You?

Who owns a competitive racing pigeon? Who has an irrational fear of sparkling water? Who has outrun a bear on a hike? And who hasn’t?

Successfully separating fact from fiction is the name of the game in “Would I Lie to You?”—the wildly entertaining Jack Magee’s Pub event fashioned after the popular BBC game show of the same name and abbreviated by the Brits as WILTY. Bowdoin’s version served up contestants who included professors, coaches, Res Life staff, and even President Clayton Rose for a head-to-head contest of ultimate bluffing. Each participant scripted two true stories of their own—just one or two sentences long—and was also provided a mix of other true tales that had been collected from the community. The challenge for panelists was to convincingly sell their anecdotes to the audience of students gathered in teams of two to six people.

After asking a few probing questions to try to suss out who was lying and who was telling the truth, student teams gained a point for correctly guessing when a statement was true, with Gelato Fiasco gift cards hanging in the balance for those most successful at figuring out the fibs. Organizers in student activities say everyone involved in the game enjoyed it so much that they hope “Would I Lie to You” might reveal itself again next year.

Game On