Stories about "Maine/world"
'Seed of Sarah' author Judith Magyar Isaacson, former Bates dean, honored by Maine Women's Hall of Fame
Tuesday, February 10, 2004 4:00 pm
Judith Magyar Isaacson of Auburn, author of the acclaimed "Seed of Sarah: Memoirs of a Survivor" and a champion of women's rights at Bates College during the 1970s, is one of this year's two inductees into the Maine Women's Hall of Fame.
Bates-Morse Mountain offers New Year's hike
Monday, December 22, 2003 12:54 pm
Judy Marden, director of the Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area, leads a late-morning New Year's hike or snowshoe at the conservation area on Sunday, Jan. 4.
Pianist Frank Glazer offers recital at Bates
Tuesday, November 4, 2003 3:51 pm
One of Maine's best-known pianists, Bates College artist-in-residence Frank Glazer performs in solo recital at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16, in the college's Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. The concert is open to the public at no cost. For more information, please call 207-786-6135.
Bates-Bowdoin feud lives again as Class of '60 players return
Thursday, October 30, 2003 1:21 pm
This weekend Alan Wayne ’60 will complete a coast-to-coast visit of two of the nation’s most historic college football fields. Last Saturday, Wayne was at the Rose Bowl with 61,788 spectators, reporting on the Arizona State-UCLA game. This weekend he will be in the stands at Garcelon Field with a number of Bates football alumni from his era.
Weekend of events to celebrate Bates-Morse Mountain
Sunday, October 26, 2003 3:48 pm
A play, a special presentation and a hike this week will continue a series of events celebrating the 25th anniversary of Bates College's stewardship of the Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area, 600 acres of land that include Maine's last undeveloped barrier beach.
Rent-A-Husband founder to speak at Bates
Wednesday, October 8, 2003 10:27 am
The Bates College Seminar Series on Entrepreneurship presents Kaile Warren, founder of the nationally known handyman business Rent-A-Husband, at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, in Chase Hall Lounge, Campus Avenue.
Bates to host NCAA Men's Tennis Tournament
Tuesday, October 7, 2003 11:06 am
Bates College has been selected as the host for the 2004 NCAA Division III Men's Tennis championships, pending ratification by the NCAA Management Council at a meeting on Oct. 20th. The team tournament will begin on Wednesday, May 12th, and the individual tournament will run from Saturday May 15th through Monday, May 17th at the Wallach Tennis Center.
McDuffee dedication honors ‘vitality, leadership and courage’
Friday, August 22, 2003 10:47 am
A sports scoreboard rarely merits more than a passing glance. You check who's winning, maybe the inning or time remaining, before turning your attention back to the action on the playing field. Yet at its Bates dedication ceremony on Sept. 20, the new Morgan W. McDuffee '02 Memorial Scoreboard attracted long, pensive looks -- not for any winning score enumerated in its amber lights, but for its promise to become a campus symbol of loss turned to hope.
Opportunities flourish in Bates senior’s gardens
Friday, August 8, 2003 10:46 am
Scion of a farming family in Sandwich, N.H., Booty has put her agricultural experience to work for Lots to Gardens, a Lewiston-based nonprofit founded in 1998 by another Bates student, Kirsten Walter. Booty — who is as passionate about civic involvement as she is about raising food — is the youth coordinator for the program, which uses gardening projects to strengthen community and support local young people.
High School science fair to feature more than 450 projects
Monday, April 28, 2003 9:08 am
The fourth annual Lewiston High School Science Fair takes place in the high school gymnasium at 156 East Ave. from 3 to 6 p.m. Thursday, May 8. Presented in partnership with the Bates College Center for Service-Learning, the fair features more than 450 projects created by students in grades 9 through 12.