Stories about "Lewiston-Auburn"
Harward Center for Community Partnerships hosts Partnerships Day
Saturday, May 13, 2006 12:00 am
The Bates College Harward Center for Community Partnerships, in coordination with the college's Student Volunteer Fellows, will hold a Community Partnerships Day from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, May 12.
Harward Center presents extensive program for grand opening
Thursday, January 19, 2006 3:50 pm
Marking a new chapter in Bates College's commitment to the Lewiston-Auburn community and to community-based education, the Donald W. and Ann. M. Harward Center for Community Partnerships presents a grand opening and welcome for its first director, David M. Scobey. The Jan. 25-27 celebration features three days of academic and cultural events, all of which are open free of charge to the Bates and Lewiston-Auburn communities. For more information call 207-786-6202.
2006 Bates King Day theme highlights the road to peace
Friday, December 23, 2005 3:02 pm
A pioneer in the field of African American women's history and chair of the Department of African American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, Professor Sharon Harley is the keynote speaker for the 2006 Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances at Bates College.
Bates College Choir offers two December programs
Friday, December 2, 2005 2:51 pm
John Corrie, lecturer in music at Bates College, directs the college choir in two December programs open to the public at no cost. The choir sings Johann Sebastian Bach's "Magnificat" and Morten Lauridsen's "Lux Aeterna" at 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2, and Saturday, Dec. 3, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. For more information, please call 207-786-6135.
Rabbi discusses mid-career change in Bates spirituality series
Thursday, December 1, 2005 2:57 pm
Rabbi Hillel Katzir of Auburn's Temple Shalom Synagogue-Center discusses his journey of religious heritage, culminating in a mid-life career change, at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Ave., Bates College.
Bates library accepting food for fines
Friday, November 4, 2005 3:31 pm
From now through the holidays, Bates students, faculty and staff are being asked to bring back overdue books and videos to the college's George and Helen Ladd Library and, instead of paying fines, donate food for the needy. All donations will be delivered to the Good Shepherd Food Pantry.
Bates community gathers to honor Rosa Parks
Wednesday, November 2, 2005 3:34 pm
In honor of Rosa Parks' legacy of leadership and life contributions to the struggle for civil and human rights, the Martin Luther King Day Committee and the Multicultural Center of Bates College held a program in memoriam and appreciation from 4:15 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2, in the Benjamin Mays Center.
Bates to hold annual Graduate and Professional School Fair
Monday, October 24, 2005 3:49 pm
Bates College hosts its annual Graduate and Professional School Fair from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25, in the Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building, Central Avenue.
Program links student volunteers, community needs
Monday, September 19, 2005 4:23 pm
For the fourth year, Bates College students are coordinating a program that matches fellow students with volunteer opportunities in the Lewiston-Auburn region. Seniors all, the four student volunteer fellows at Bates during the 2005-06 academic year are Emily Hoffer of Danville, Vt.; Sarah Mengel of Westport, Conn.; Christopher Petrella of Somers, Conn.; and Katie Seamon of Leverett, Mass.
At Bates, ‘everyone’s been great’ to students sent by Katrina
Tuesday, September 13, 2005 11:39 am
The school year wasn't supposed to start this way. Instead of easing into her New Orleans apartment and her Tulane University course work, Maddy O'Brien of Winthrop, Maine, found herself spending school's first week as an evacuee 125 miles away in Lafayette, La. — one of the hundreds of thousands unsure of what Hurricane Katrina had done to their lives.