Marcus ’82 pens Globe Magazine story of ‘Uncle Arthur,’ famed gambling racketeer

The Bobcat looks forward to May 15, when Bates seeks 555 additional alumni donors to the Bates Fund in one day. Photo by Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College

Alumni make May 15 a “great day”

Post by: Victoria Stanton on Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Bates reaches 599 new alumni donors to the Bates Fund in one day.

Matthew Auer, Indiana University honors dean, named Bates College vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty

Post by: Bates News on Monday, May 13, 2013

A leading scholar and globally engaged expert, Auer is also a dynamic and effective academic leader, said Bates President Clayton Spencer.

Bates expects to award bachelor's degree to approximately 450 students, representing 35 U.S. states and 28 countries, on May 26. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College.

2013 Commencement honorary degrees announced; address by Stonyfield Farm’s Gary Hirshberg

Post by: Bates News on Tuesday, April 23, 2013

The honorary degree candidates “show us how the values that define the Bates experience can shape, and take shape in, the world,” said President Spencer.

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Wednesday October 17, 2012 10:33 am	Marcus ’82 pens Globe Magazine story of ‘Uncle Arthur,’ famed gambling racketeer From the 1950s to the 1970s Arthur Marcus was one of the best at his job.
Tuesday October 2, 2012 10:07 am	Former Maine labor commissioner to discuss Frances Perkins, first female Cabinet member Laura Fortman, Maine’s former commissioner of labor, gives the lecture “Frances Perkins: New Deal Legacy and Lessons for Today” on Oct. 10.
Wednesday September 5, 2012 3:45 pm	Convocation 2012 reveals common ground in art of compromise What’s political compromise got to do with a Bates education? As Convocation 2012 reveals, plenty.
Thursday July 26, 2012 11:00 am	Boone ’52, former Montford Point Marine, joins Congressional Gold Medalists Nate Boone is one of 20,000 Marines who went through segregated basic training in the ’40s.
Tuesday June 5, 2012 12:44 pm	In NAACP project, students get fresh lesson in value of old papers Thanks to a two-year collaboration among the Portland branch of the NAACP, the University of Southern Maine and Bates, valuable papers of the Portland branch are being made accessible to researchers and the public for the first time.
Wednesday March 14, 2012 3:30 pm	Plastas book explores prejudice, progress in women’s activism between world wars Plastas book explores prejudice, progress in women’s activism between world wars
Friday March 9, 2012 4:42 pm	Public radio follows pianist Frank Glazer’s ‘Long Road’ Public radio’s popular interview program The Story visits pianist and Bates artist-in-residence Frank Glazer.
Monday November 14, 2011 7:07 pm	Audio slide show: Jennifer Flanagan ’12 is Grace Hoylard in ‘Bus Stop’ Jennifer Flanagan ’12 of Sherborn, Mass., discusses her role as Grace Hoylard in the Bates theater production of Bus Stop by William Inge.
Thursday May 26, 2011 12:04 pm	Video: Dick Gregory and the ‘end of recess’ The activist expounds upon a pointed social and educational observation that “recess is over.”
Monday March 7, 2011 3:34 pm	Environmental studies lecture to unveil life in post-Soviet Siberia Vladimir Munkhanov, a teacher, historian and lawyer from Siberia, visits Bates College to present the lecture Buryat Traditions and the Modern World: Siberian Lives in Post-Soviet Russia at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 16, in Room 204, Carnegie Science Hall, 44 Campus Ave.

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From the 1950s to the 1970s Arthur Marcus was one of the best at his job.

Former Maine labor commissioner to discuss Frances Perkins, first female Cabinet member

Laura Fortman, Maine’s former commissioner of labor, gives the lecture “Frances Perkins: New Deal Legacy and Lessons for Today” on Oct. 10.

Convocation 2012 reveals common ground in art of compromise

What’s political compromise got to do with a Bates education? As Convocation 2012 reveals, plenty.

Boone ’52, former Montford Point Marine, joins Congressional Gold Medalists

Nate Boone is one of 20,000 Marines who went through segregated basic training in the ’40s.

In NAACP project, students get fresh lesson in value of old papers

Thanks to a two-year collaboration among the Portland branch of the NAACP, the University of Southern Maine and Bates, valuable papers of the Portland branch are being made accessible to researchers and the public for the first time.

Wednesday

March 14, 2012
3:30 pm

Plastas book explores prejudice, progress in women’s activism between world wars

Friday

March 9, 2012
4:42 pm

Public radio follows pianist Frank Glazer’s ‘Long Road’

Public radio’s popular interview program The Story visits pianist and Bates artist-in-residence Frank Glazer.

Monday

November 14, 2011
7:07 pm

Audio slide show: Jennifer Flanagan ’12 is Grace Hoylard in ‘Bus Stop’

Jennifer Flanagan ’12 of Sherborn, Mass., discusses her role as Grace Hoylard in the Bates theater production of Bus Stop by William Inge.

Thursday

May 26, 2011
12:04 pm

Video: Dick Gregory and the ‘end of recess’

The activist expounds upon a pointed social and educational observation that “recess is over.”

Monday

March 7, 2011
3:34 pm

Environmental studies lecture to unveil life in post-Soviet Siberia

Vladimir Munkhanov, a teacher, historian and lawyer from Siberia, visits Bates College to present the lecture Buryat Traditions and the Modern World: Siberian Lives in Post-Soviet Russia at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 16, in Room 204, Carnegie Science Hall, 44 Campus Ave.