Stories about "Service"
What It Took: Love led Anthony Phillips ’10 to ask, ‘How can we make other people’s lives better?’
Thursday, April 4, 2024 10:00 am
For Anthony Phillips, what it took to find a life journey worth pursuing was the love, resolve, and faith his mother and grandmother passed on to him. Their example led him to the community-focused work he’s now doing as an elected member of the Philadelphia City Council.
Bates faculty member Kati Vecsey helps give voice to a fellow Hungarian’s right-to-die case
Thursday, November 16, 2023 11:33 am
Dániel Karsai, a Hungarian human rights lawyer, has ALS and wants the right to die with dignity. Vecsey, a Bates faculty member and voice expert, is helping him voice his case before the European Court for Human Rights, Nov. 27–28.
A Veterans Day moment at Bates, ‘all that has been sacrificed and shared’
Friday, November 10, 2023 2:50 pm
Sophia Cattallani ’25 of Skaneateles, N.Y., kept her trumpet zipped in her…
Generosity, care, and kindness remind us ‘to hold onto hope’ in the wake of tragedy
Friday, November 3, 2023 10:25 am
"Generosity and care and eagerness to help, to support, to embrace...remind us of human goodness. They remind us to hold onto hope," said President Garry W. Jenkins during a Vigil for Grief and Remembrance held in Gomes Chapel on the one-week anniversary of the Lewiston shootings.
For Bates students, a trip to the Appalachian Trail is a trip back in time
Friday, October 6, 2023 9:32 am
During Orientation, a group of first-year Bates students paid a visit to…
What It Took: Lexi Inger’s morning walk that became a pep talk
Friday, September 29, 2023 1:33 am
Inger didn’t have the kind of first year at Bates that she anticipated. But disappointment led Inger discover a daily meditation practice that gave her resilience, strength, and a daily dose of joy.
Bates College alumni honored at 155th Reunion
Monday, June 12, 2023 9:57 am
At Reunion on June 10, 2023, five alumni received awards for their contributions to Bates and to the wider world, and the football jersey of Howard Vandersea '63 was retired.
Picture story: It was the Friday before Commencement…
Friday, June 3, 2022 2:24 pm
Photographs of honors, inductions, traditions, and bravos on the Friday before Commencement 2022 at Bates College illustrate the sweet intensity of it all.
Slideshow: See how students’ internships become life-guiding forces
Tuesday, August 18, 2020 12:30 pm
From studying the diets of sea urchins to working with Lewiston's immigrant communities, Bates students forged their way into the world this summer with Bates-funded internships.
Campus Construction Update: July 24, 2020
Thursday, July 23, 2020 12:04 pm
“Things are looking awesome” at Veterans Plaza, reports Shelby Burgau, who is managing the project for Bates.