Jay Burns
Recently retired as editor of Bates Magazine, Jay now occasionally contributes stories to the magazine as well as Bates News.
Stories by Jay Burns
Tales of wayward trustees and lost telegrams from Bates’ founding trustee meeting
Thursday, April 4, 2019 4:38 pm
When you're launching a new college, as Oren Cheney was doing on this day in 1855, you sweat the details, you don’t suffer fools, and you watch your money.
In 1940, pilot Catherine Winne ’41 was the first Bates female student to take to the skies
Friday, March 22, 2019 11:17 am
In 1940, Winne learned to fly through a civilian pilot training program that was also about preparing for war.
18 items in the library’s Lost & Found on March 20, 2019
Friday, March 22, 2019 10:58 am
On a Wednesday afternoon busy with thesis, we saw a Ghostbusters T-shirt, Ray-Ban sunglasses, a snarky coffee mug, and a student paper about race-based clubs in high schools.
Did you know: In 1922, Bates College founded the Maine high school basketball tournament
Thursday, February 28, 2019 3:03 pm
In 1922, Bates’ promotions-minded athletics director invited eight schoolboy teams to compete for the first statewide high school hoops title. And a tradition was born.
Video: Winter Carnival torch lighting returned today with Maine Gov. Janet Mills
Friday, February 8, 2019 12:26 pm
Earlier today, a 20th-century Bates Outing Club tradition was reignited when newly…
NESCAC Chill Poll for Jan. 31, 2019: The Polar Vortex edition
Friday, February 1, 2019 12:10 pm
Bates and NESCAC dodged the worst of the polar vortex cold (this time), but we're simpatico with our neighbors to the west.
From the Archives: Old hockey puck and horse-drawn mail delivery
Friday, January 25, 2019 10:42 am
Mail delivery by horse-drawn carriage, and the hockey puck from a 1927 game that was “fast and furious and marked by many swinging sticks.”
We heard these six social justice terms on Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Bates
Thursday, January 24, 2019 11:34 am
Learn about these six terms: respectability politics, activism, intersectionality, decolonial feminism, allyship, and black formalism.
From the Archives: Chase Hall barbershop and 1939 Wedgwood
Thursday, December 20, 2018 12:54 pm
From Brylcreem to bow ties, here are a few items from the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library, elsewhere on campus — and beyond.
8 reasons why Edmund Muskie ’36 was an amazing political candidate in 1968
Wednesday, December 5, 2018 3:37 pm
Fifty years ago, Edmund Muskie '36 ran one of the “exemplary national campaigns of modern times.”