Earth Day features 'read-ins' for local schoolchildren

The Bobcat looks forward to May 15, when Bates seeks 555 additional alumni donors to the Bates Fund in one day. Photo by Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College

Alumni make May 15 a “great day”

Post by: Victoria Stanton on Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Bates reaches 599 new alumni donors to the Bates Fund in one day.

Matthew Auer, Indiana University honors dean, named Bates College vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty

Post by: Bates News on Monday, May 13, 2013

A leading scholar and globally engaged expert, Auer is also a dynamic and effective academic leader, said Bates President Clayton Spencer.

Bates expects to award bachelor's degree to approximately 450 students, representing 35 U.S. states and 28 countries, on May 26. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College.

2013 Commencement honorary degrees announced; address by Stonyfield Farm’s Gary Hirshberg

Post by: Bates News on Tuesday, April 23, 2013

The honorary degree candidates “show us how the values that define the Bates experience can shape, and take shape in, the world,” said President Spencer.

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Tuesday April 14, 1998 2:46 pm	Earth Day features 'read-ins' for local schoolchildren In celebration of Earth Day 1998, the Bates Environmental Federation sponsors two “read-ins” for local schoolchildren at the Lewiston and Auburn public libraries April 22 at 2 p.m.
Tuesday April 14, 1998 2:38 pm	Morse Mountain tax exemption extended The Phippsburg Board of Selectmen and Bates College announced Monday, April 13, that an agreement was reached to continue the tax exemption of the Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area.
Tuesday April 14, 1998 2:33 pm	Peace activist concludes spiritual series Jane Smith Bernhardt, actor, playwright and peace activist, discusses, Art and the Conversion of the Heart in the last of a Bates lecture series Spiritual Journeys: Stories of the Soul April 28 at 4:30 p.m. in the Benjamin Mays Center. The public is invited to attend free of charge.
Tuesday April 14, 1998 2:24 pm	Theater at Bates to stage performance-theater festival Over a period of four weeks, April 23-May 16, Bates College students, theater faculty and returning alumni artists will stage the first Bates Performance-Theater Festival 1998 in a series of workshops and collaborations of cutting-edge performance theater on the theme of diversity and difference. Some of the performances include adult themes. The public is invited to attend all events free of charge.
Friday April 10, 1998 2:12 pm	Awardwinning photographer to lecture Awardwinning nature photographer John Sexton will discuss his photographic technique and give a slide presentation from his work April 25, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall.
Thursday April 9, 1998 2:10 pm	Maine environmental protection professional to discuss mercury in Maine's environment Ellen E. Parr Doering, chief of the air toxics section of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, will deliver a lecture titled Mercury in Maine’s Environment April 23 at 7 p.m. in Room 204 of Carnegie. The public is invited and admission is free.
Wednesday April 8, 1998 2:07 pm	Environmental historian to discuss the role of wood in civilization development Environmental historian John Perlin will read from his acclaimed book A Forest Journey: The Role of Wood in the Development of Civilization April 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives. The public is invited to attend free of charge.
Wednesday April 8, 1998 2:02 pm	Community energy development forum to feature Canadian chief “Models of Energy Self-Determination” a day-long forum focusing on community energy development, will be held at Bates April 25 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Chase Hall. Chief Abel Bosum of the Ouje-Bougoumou Cree First Nation will deliver the keynote address on his village’s award-winning alternative energy project at 9:45 a.m. Consumers, environmentalists, activists, students, business owners and government officials are invited to register for the forum by calling the Bates Office of Special Projects at 207-786-6077.
Tuesday April 7, 1998 1:58 pm	Legal scholar to discuss problems presented by stolen art Stephen Weil, emeritus senior scholar at the Smithsonian Institution’s Center for Museum Studies, will discuss Stolen Art: A Perpetual Legal Puzzle April 21 at 7:30 p.m. in Room 104 of the Olin Arts Center. The public is invited to attend, and admission is free.
Tuesday April 7, 1998 1:54 pm	Acclaimed essayist to discuss assisted suicide Nancy Mairs, an acclaimed essayist confined for many years to a wheelchair, discusses Life’s Worth: Rethinking Who Lives, Who Dies in the annual Bertha May Bell Andrews Memorial Lecture in Ethics and Education at Bates April 20 at 7:30 p.m. in the Benjamin Mays Center. Also on April 20 in the Mays Center, at 4 p.m., Mairs will read from her recently published book Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled. The public is invited to attend both events free of charge.

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In celebration of Earth Day 1998, the Bates Environmental Federation sponsors two “read-ins” for local schoolchildren at the Lewiston and Auburn public libraries April 22 at 2 p.m.

Morse Mountain tax exemption extended

The Phippsburg Board of Selectmen and Bates College announced Monday, April 13, that an agreement was reached to continue the tax exemption of the Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area.

Peace activist concludes spiritual series

Jane Smith Bernhardt, actor, playwright and peace activist, discusses, Art and the Conversion of the Heart in the last of a Bates lecture series Spiritual Journeys: Stories of the Soul April 28 at 4:30 p.m. in the Benjamin Mays Center. The public is invited to attend free of charge.

Tuesday

April 14, 1998
2:24 pm

Theater at Bates to stage performance-theater festival

Over a period of four weeks, April 23-May 16, Bates College students, theater faculty and returning alumni artists will stage the first Bates Performance-Theater Festival 1998 in a series of workshops and collaborations of cutting-edge performance theater on the theme of diversity and difference. Some of the performances include adult themes. The public is invited to attend all events free of charge.

Friday

April 10, 1998
2:12 pm

Awardwinning photographer to lecture

Awardwinning nature photographer John Sexton will discuss his photographic technique and give a slide presentation from his work April 25, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall.

Thursday

April 9, 1998
2:10 pm

Maine environmental protection professional to discuss mercury in Maine's environment

Ellen E. Parr Doering, chief of the air toxics section of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, will deliver a lecture titled Mercury in Maine’s Environment April 23 at 7 p.m. in Room 204 of Carnegie. The public is invited and admission is free.

Wednesday

April 8, 1998
2:07 pm

Environmental historian to discuss the role of wood in civilization development

Environmental historian John Perlin will read from his acclaimed book A Forest Journey: The Role of Wood in the Development of Civilization April 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives. The public is invited to attend free of charge.

Wednesday

April 8, 1998
2:02 pm

Community energy development forum to feature Canadian chief

“Models of Energy Self-Determination” a day-long forum focusing on community energy development, will be held at Bates April 25 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Chase Hall. Chief Abel Bosum of the Ouje-Bougoumou Cree First Nation will deliver the keynote address on his village’s award-winning alternative energy project at 9:45 a.m. Consumers, environmentalists, activists, students, business owners and government officials are invited to register for the forum by calling the Bates Office of Special Projects at 207-786-6077.

Tuesday

April 7, 1998
1:58 pm

Legal scholar to discuss problems presented by stolen art

Stephen Weil, emeritus senior scholar at the Smithsonian Institution’s Center for Museum Studies, will discuss Stolen Art: A Perpetual Legal Puzzle April 21 at 7:30 p.m. in Room 104 of the Olin Arts Center. The public is invited to attend, and admission is free.

Tuesday

April 7, 1998
1:54 pm

Acclaimed essayist to discuss assisted suicide

Nancy Mairs, an acclaimed essayist confined for many years to a wheelchair, discusses Life’s Worth: Rethinking Who Lives, Who Dies in the annual Bertha May Bell Andrews Memorial Lecture in Ethics and Education at Bates April 20 at 7:30 p.m. in the Benjamin Mays Center. Also on April 20 in the Mays Center, at 4 p.m., Mairs will read from her recently published book Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled. The public is invited to attend both events free of charge.