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Athletic Director Suzanne Coffey resigns to take AD post at Amherst

Wednesday, June 14, 2006 12:00 am

After 21 years with the Bates College Athletic Department, Director of Athletics Suzanne Coffey has announced her resignation to become athletic director at Amherst College in Amherst, Mass.

Alumni awards highlight 138th annual Reunion

Friday, June 9, 2006 12:00 am

Bates alumni arriving for their College's 138th Reunion anticipated traditional revelry and fellowship as well as a chance to honor their own. All awards will be presented Saturday during the midday Alumni Awards Ceremony, held in Merrill Gymnasium due to rain.

John A. Tagliabue memorial minute

Thursday, June 1, 2006 9:24 am

For John Tagliabue, who devoted 36 years to Bates as teacher, colleague, friend, raconteur and poet laureate, neither a memorial minute, nor even two voices, begins to suffice. Everyone who knew him has their favorite John stories, inadequately represented here. But we hope you'll indulge us in rather more than a minute and remember this renowned American poet by reading his poems again or for the first time.

John Tagliabue, professor emeritus of English, dies at 82

Thursday, June 1, 2006 12:00 am

Professor Emeritus of English John A. Tagliabue, a member of the Bates faculty from 1953 to 1989 and author of six books of poetry, including New and Selected Poems, 1942-1997 (National Poetry Foundation, 1998), died May 31 in Providence, R.I., where he had lived with his wife, Grace, since 1998.

Bates graduates 387 in 140th Commencement

Sunday, May 28, 2006 12:00 am

Sent on their way with armfuls of good advice — including best-selling historian David McCullough's suggestion that "however little television you watch, watch less" — 387 Bates College students made the transition from seniors to alumni at the college's 140th Commencement, on May 28.

Bates boards biofuel bandwagon

Tuesday, May 23, 2006 12:00 am

Bates College, which last fall contracted to buy all its electricity from renewable sources, has taken another step toward environmental sustainability with an arrangement to heat some of its student residences with cleaner-burning biofuel. In late March, Bates started heating 12 residential houses on Frye Street with so-called B5, a blend of petroleum heating oil with 5 percent biofuel made from soy or canola oil.

Faculty photographers exhibit their work in Chase Hall Gallery

Wednesday, May 10, 2006 12:00 am

Three Bates College faculty members who share a passion for photography have mounted their images in an exhibit titled "After Image" in Chase Hall Gallery, 56 Campus Ave. Open to the public at no charge from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily, the exhibition continues through May 15.

Two concerts, 88 keys equal a great weekend in Olin Concert Hall

Wednesday, April 26, 2006 3:54 pm

One of them classical, the other jazz, two concerts feature standout Maine pianists this weekend at Bates College.

Rigor, creativity drive Short Term

Wednesday, April 26, 2006 12:00 am

Bates' Short Term has come a long way since it was established 40 years ago. This five-week spring session started out as an efficiency measure. It enabled Bates to get more use from its facilities, and enabled students to complete the Bates education in three years instead of four, if they so desired. (For more about the history of Short Term, see the article "May 1966: The first Short Term.")

Modern Dance Company, choir offer weekend performances

Thursday, March 30, 2006 12:00 am

It's a rich long weekend of music and dance performance at Bates as the college's choir and its Modern Dance Company hold a total of six performances over four days. The Bates College Choir performs Mozart's "Requiem," the composer's final work and one of the most intense and finely drawn interpretations of the Roman Catholic Mass, in concerts at 8 p.m. Friday, March 31, and Saturday, April 1, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. In four performances from March 31 through April 3, the Bates Modern Dance Company presents new dances and dance videos in Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St.

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