Stories about "131st Commencement"
Area residents are among Bates grads

Monday, May 26, 1997 12:41 pm

Twenty area residents received bachelor's degrees during Bates College's 131st commencement exercises on Monday (May 26) in an outdoor ceremony on the main quadrangle. Oscar Arias, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning former president of Costa Rica, delivered the commencement address to an audience of some 3,000.