Stories about "Service"
Activists discuss creation of land trusts for low-income families in Spiritual Journey series
Tuesday, November 5, 2002 4:05 pm
Rosemary Haughton and Nancy Schwoyer will describe the creation of Wellspring House, a shelter, center for social justice and land-trust enterprise a lecture titled "Change and Exchange
Former U.S. surgeon general opens 148th academic year
Thursday, September 5, 2002 4:24 pm
On Sept. 4, former U.S. Surgeon General M. Joycelyn Elders opened the 148th academic year at Bates College with a challenge to the Class of 2006. In her second visit to Bates this year, Elders told a convocation gathering of about 1,000 students, staff and faculty that the students now starting here must summon the courage and the will to become transformational leaders for a new century fraught with pressing difficulties.
Former U.S. Surgeon General Elders to deliver Bates convocation address
Friday, August 30, 2002 4:21 pm
Former U.S. Surgeon General M. Joycelyn Elders will officially open the 148th academic year at Bates College with the convocation address "Leadership and Responsibility in the 21st Century: What Will Your Role Be?" at 4:10 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 4, on the college's main quadrangle. The rain site will be the Alumni Gymnasium.
Bates students named community research fellows
Monday, July 29, 2002 8:11 am
Bates College and its community-development partner LA Excels have announced three summer community research fellowships. The fellowships are the second phase of a two-year, $80,000 award from The Consortium for the Advancement of Private Higher Education and the Council of Independent Colleges that gives students interdisciplinary opportunities to research issues important to the Lewiston-Auburn community.
Ladd Internships help Bates students explore career opportunities
Monday, June 17, 2002 9:04 am
Thirteen Bates College students have been selected for summer internships through the Ladd Internship Program, which provides unique opportunities for career exploration at businesses and institutions ranging from the Ah Haa School for the Arts to Thieme Medical Publishers.
Trustees announce $1.7 million gift to endow Harward Center for Community Partnerships
Friday, May 24, 2002 4:01 pm
A $1.7 million gift to endow the new Donald W. and Ann M. Harward Center for Community Partnerships was announced Friday in a dedication ceremony on the Bates College Quad.
Senior receives national humanitarian award
Thursday, May 23, 2002 4:16 pm
Bates College senior Jenny Blau of Los Greenbrae, Calif., has been chosen as a recipient of the 2002 national Campus Compact Howard R. Swearer Humanitarian Award in recognition of her work in providing quality medical care for Latinos in Lewiston.
Harris Wofford to speak at dedication of Harward Center for Community Partnerships
Thursday, May 23, 2002 9:53 am
Harris Wofford, chairman of America's Promise, will be the keynote speaker at the dedication of the Donald W. and Ann M. Harward Center for Community Partnerships at 1:30 p.m. Friday May 24 on the historic Bates College Quad in front of Coram Library. In the event of rain, the dedication ceremony will be moved to Merrill Gymnasium.
Matt Lauer from NBC goes sky high with Lt. Cmdr. J.J. Cummings ’89
Friday, May 3, 2002 3:28 pm
U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. J.J. Cummings and his wife, Sara Hagan Cummings, both Bates '89, were interviewed March 26 and 27, 2002, when Cummings' aircraft carrier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, returned to Norfolk, Va., after an extended deployment off Afghanistan.
Bates student one of three to win Campus Compact award
Thursday, February 21, 2002 8:38 am
Senior Trung Trong Huynh of Portland is one of three students named to receive the Maine Campus Compact's 2002 Student Heart and Soul Award for outstanding contributions in community service and service-learning.