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Bates safety and security teach area kids self-defense
Tuesday, February 2, 1999 3:53 pm
Three members of the Bates College Office of Security and Campus Safety are teaching a program of self-defense to area 5 to 7 year olds and their parents at Smart Start Developmental Child Care Center in Auburn from 6:15 to 7:30 p.m. through Feb. 25.
Bates and Lewiston-Auburn colleges to sponsor Martin Luther King Jr. "read-in"
Friday, January 15, 1999 10:10 am
In celebration of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, the Bates College Center for Service-Learning and Lewiston-Auburn College will co-sponsor a "read-in" by faculty, staff and students for grades 2-6 at 9:15 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 20, at the Longley Elementary School on Birch Street in Lewiston. In case school is cancelled due to snow, the read-in will be held Wednesday, Jan. 27.
Bates awards science grants to area schools
Wednesday, January 13, 1999 10:05 am
Bates College has awarded more than $20,000 to the Auburn Land Lab, Lewiston High School, Lewiston's McMahon and Longley elementary schools as well as Morse High School and Bath Middle School through the Bates College Science Education Outreach Grant program. The awards are sponsored by Bates and funded by major grants to the college from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the nation's largest private funder of research and education in science and health.
L/A Children's Chorus to perform holiday music concert
Friday, December 4, 1998 12:31 pm
The L/A Children's Chorus, under the direction of Brian Franck, will perform a concert of holiday music at Bates on Friday, Dec. 18, at 7:30 p.m. in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall. Admission is $8 at the door. Please call 207-782-5241 for more information.
Bates receives substantial grant for Longley Elementary partnership project
Wednesday, October 14, 1998 2:21 pm
The Bates College Center for Service-Learning has received an $89,000 grant from the National Corporation for Public Service for a partnership project with the city's Governor Longley Elementary School.
Bates geologists to lead Great Falls field trips
Tuesday, October 6, 1998 1:59 pm
Geologists are offering an unusual opportunity to explore the 420-million-year geological history so dramatically displayed in the rock outcroppings of the Great Falls here in Lewiston. Led by the Bates College geology department during Earth Science Week (Oct. 11-17), a series of field trips also will examine the significant role played by the falls in the settlement and development of the Lewiston-Auburn area.
Landscape painting exhibition opens at the Museum of Art
Friday, August 14, 1998 3:09 pm
"Notations of Color: Oil Sketching in Maine," a special two-month exhibit of landscape painting, will be on view in the Bates College Museum of Art from Aug. 28 to Oct. 30. The exhibit features small-scale oil sketches by more than 40 American landscape painters of the late 19th and 20th century.
Local youths to perform in Bates Dance Festival
Thursday, August 13, 1998 3:27 pm
Ranging in age from 6 to 17, 81 area students from the Bates Dance Festival Youth Arts Program will present a music and dance performance Friday, August 14, at noon in Lewiston's Kennedy Park.
Bates students join Auburn schools to lead environmental day camp
Tuesday, June 16, 1998 12:40 pm
The Auburn School Department, in collaboration with four students at Bates College, is opening an environmental summer day camp for students in grades 2-8 at the 13-acre Auburn Land Lab located in the C.P. Wight School at the northern end of Lake Auburn. Transportation is available.
Local residents among Bates grads
Monday, May 25, 1998 1:21 pm
Fifteen area residents received bachelor's degrees during Bates College's 132nd commencement exercises Monday in an outdoor ceremony on the main quadrangle. Doris Kearns-Goodwin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, delivered the commencement address to an audience of some 3,000.