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Bates-Morse Mountain offers New Year's hike
Monday, December 22, 2003 12:54 pm
Judy Marden, director of the Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area, leads a late-morning New Year's hike or snowshoe at the conservation area on Sunday, Jan. 4.
Jazz trumpeter Hargrove, classical Chinese music close concert series
Wednesday, December 17, 2003 4:15 pm
The Bates College Concert Series concludes in January 2004 with jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove on the 17th and Chinese musicians Tian Qing and Zhang Shan on the 24th.
Bates College Museum of Art photography exhibition depicts China in transition
Wednesday, December 17, 2003 12:10 pm
Focusing on the impacts of urbanization and industrialization in China, a nationally significant exhibition of documentary images by Chinese photographers opens at the Bates College Museum of Art with a lecture and reception at 5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 16, 2004.
Bates Choir to sing Schubert, Haydn
Thursday, December 4, 2003 10:01 am
The Bates College Choir sings music by Schubert and Haydn in 8 p.m. concerts Friday and Saturday, Dec. 5 and 6, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. The concerts are open to the public at no charge.
Terry Beckmann named vice president for finance and administration at Bates
Thursday, November 6, 2003 3:01 pm
Terry Beckmann has been named vice president for finance and administration at Bates College, President Elaine Tuttle Hansen recently announced. Beckmann has also been re-elected by the college's Board of Trustees to the position of treasurer, which she first assumed in January 2003.
Pianist Frank Glazer offers recital at Bates
Tuesday, November 4, 2003 3:51 pm
One of Maine's best-known pianists, Bates College artist-in-residence Frank Glazer performs in solo recital at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16, in the college's Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. The concert is open to the public at no cost. For more information, please call 207-786-6135.
Bates-Bowdoin feud lives again as Class of '60 players return
Thursday, October 30, 2003 1:21 pm
This weekend Alan Wayne ’60 will complete a coast-to-coast visit of two of the nation’s most historic college football fields. Last Saturday, Wayne was at the Rose Bowl with 61,788 spectators, reporting on the Arizona State-UCLA game. This weekend he will be in the stands at Garcelon Field with a number of Bates football alumni from his era.
Cultural ecologist, philosopher to deliver Andrews lecture
Thursday, October 30, 2003 12:35 pm
Known as a visionary cultural ecologist and philosopher, David Abram will give a talk titled "Wilderness and Shadowed Wonder: Some Words Against the Forgetting of the Earth" at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 3, in the Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall, Bates College. The public is invited to attend the annual Bertha May Bell Andrews Memorial Lecture in Ethics and Education free of charge.
Homeless activist to discuss 'works of mercy' in spiritual series at Bates
Tuesday, October 28, 2003 1:47 pm
Jim Greene, deputy director, Boston City Shelter Commission, will give a talk titled "Corporal, Spiritual and Political Works of Mercy on the Streets of Boston" at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, Campus Avenue, Bates College. The public is invited free of charge to attend this presentation, part of the series "Spiritual Journeys: Stories of the Soul 2003-04," sponsored by the Office of the Chaplain. Call 207-786-8272 for more information.
Jazz singer Kurt Elling is 'truly a musical phenomenon'
Tuesday, October 28, 2003 1:34 pm
Highly regarded as a jazz singer, composer and lyricist, Kurt Elling takes the spotlight for the next entry in the Bates College Concert Series at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.