Stories from January 2006
Freeman '98 named to U.S. Olympic ski team
Wednesday, January 18, 2006 3:13 pm
Kris Freeman becomes the second Bates alum to earn a place on a Winter Olympics team, the first being Nordic skier Nancy Ingersoll Fiddler '78, who competed at the 1988 and 1992 games.
Volunteer cast, crew sought for Bates film project
Thursday, January 12, 2006 2:02 pm
Paul Kuritz, a professor of theater at Bates College, seeks volunteer actors and film crewmembers to join him and members of the Bates community in creating a screen adaptation of "A New Life," a short story by Mary Ward Brown.
The Class of '31 Clock gets a facelift
Thursday, January 5, 2006 10:39 am
The Class of 1931 Clock atop the Hathorn Hall porch is a small but eye-catching Bates landmark. Yet for the last few months the clock had, as the saying goes, shown the correct time only twice a day. So the College took it down and repaired it (faulty relays was the diagnosis), and on Jan. 5 Physical Plant staff and a technician from Simplex-Grinnell re-installed the fixed face.
Bates basketball set to be webcast on BatesCast.com
Wednesday, January 4, 2006 1:56 pm
Bates College Director of Athletics Suzanne Coffey announces that the college will sponsor its first-ever audio webcasts of athletic contests, beginning with the men’s basketball team’s home game against Colby College on Saturday, Jan. 7.
Stratton receives Fulbright award for Sri Lanka research
Wednesday, January 4, 2006 1:38 pm
Rory Stratton, a 2005 graduate of Bates College, is researching Islamic art and architectural history in Sri Lanka with the support of a Fulbright grant.
College Concert Series presents jazzman Kenny Garrett
Wednesday, January 4, 2006 1:28 pm
The quartet led by jazz saxophonist Kenny Garrett performs in the Bates College Concert Series at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 6, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.