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MondayOctober 11, 2004 |
Bates announces $120 million campaign, largest in its historyBates College announced the public phase of the most ambitious fund-raising effort in its history Oct. 9 – a $120 million campaign focused on endowment for greater student financial aid, academic programs and facilities improvements. |
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ThursdayJuly 29, 2004 |
Four alumni elected to Bates Board of TrusteesPresident Elaine Tuttle Hansen has announced four appointments to the Bates College Board of Trustees: Jamie P. Merisotis of Washington, D.C.; Karl-Olof Mills of San Francisco, Calif.; Mary Henderson Pressman of Kansas City, Mo.; and Valerie A. Smith of Princeton, N.J. |
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WednesdayApril 21, 2004 |
Molecular Insight chairman to speakThe Bates College Seminar Series on Entrepreneurship presents David Barlow, a member of the college’s class of 1979 and the head of Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals, Inc., in a discussion of his work at 7 p.m. Monday, April 26, in Chase Hall Lounge, Campus Avenue. |
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SaturdayOctober 26, 2002 |
Hansen inaugurated as Bates' seventh presidentThe value of a college education in terms of increased lifetime income is well understood, but less well understood is its social and civic value, Elaine Tuttle Hansen told more than 1,400 guests Saturday during her inauguration as the seventh president of Bates College and its first woman president. |
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WednesdayJuly 3, 2002 |
Elaine Tuttle Hansen assumes Bates presidencyElaine Tuttle Hansen, former provost and professor of English at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, assumed office July 1 as the college’s seventh president since its founding in 1855. |
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FridayJune 21, 2002 |
Four college Trustees namedGretchen Shorter Davis of Portland, Maine, and Henry J. Keigwin of South Dartmouth, Mass., have been elected to the college’s Board of Overseers by the alumni of Bates College; Michael W. Bonney of Sudbury, Mass., and David L. Foster of New York City have been appointed by college trustees to serve on the Board of Overseers, Bates College President Donald W. Harward announced. |
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TuesdayJune 4, 2002 |
Newprofessorship honors economist and commentator Thomas SowellBates College has announced the creation of a new professorship in honor of Thomas Sowell, the economist, writer and commentator called America’s “most valuable public intellectual” for his challenge to orthodox thought across the spectrum of society. |
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MondayDecember 17, 2001 |
Bates visiting professorship honors human rights leaderBates College has received a $1 million gift and pledge from the Orr Family Foundation, founded by trustee James F. Orr III, to support a distinguished visiting professorship in honor of human rights advocate Benjamin E. Mays, a 1920 Bates graduate who influenced a generation of civil rights leaders. |
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MondayDecember 17, 2001 |
Visiting Professorship Honors Benjamin E. Mays '20Bates College has received a $1 million gift and pledge from the Orr Family Foundation, founded by trustee James F. Orr III, to support a distinguished visiting professorship in honor of human rights advocate Benjamin E. Mays, a 1920 Bates graduate who influenced a generation of civil rights leaders. |
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TuesdayNovember 20, 2001 |
William E. Little Jr. appointed to Board of OverseersWilliam E. Little Jr. of New York City has been appointed to the board of overseers by trustees of Bates College, President Donald W. Harward has announced. |
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