Stories about "1970s"
Marcus ’82 pens Globe Magazine story of ‘Uncle Arthur,’ famed gambling racketeer

Wednesday, October 17, 2012 10:33 am

From the 1950s to the 1970s Arthur Marcus was one of the best at his job.

Video: Dean Emeritus Milt Lindholm '35 remembered

Friday, April 2, 2010 11:23 am

Remembrances from four people who knew Milt as a father, admissions dean, colleague and friend were offered during a memorial service for Lindholm at the Bates Chapel on March 21

Robert Hatch, icon of Bates athletics, passes away at age 85

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 4:56 pm

• Click the thumbnails above to view the slide show Professor Emeritus…

Remembering Bob Hatch: 1991 Bates Magazine story at his retirement

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 2:30 pm

Below are edited excerpts from an article on Bob Hatch originally published…

Scene Again: Reynolds’ Ride

Monday, December 21, 2009 11:02 am

President Reynolds, who died in September 2009, defined his Bates presidency when he climbed into that U-Haul truck.

Bates Matters: Homage to Hedley

Monday, December 21, 2009 10:49 am

Like other members of the post–World War II baby boom who went into academe, I emerged from graduate school in the mid-1970s. Here at Bates, a new generation of professors like Martin Andrucki, Mark Semon, Steve Kemper, and Carole Taylor — plus many others, boomers all — arrived in response to what was promised them: the opportunity to be vigorous scholars and great teachers.

Supreme Court affirms Muskie's environmental legacy

Wednesday, May 17, 2006 12:00 am

The environmental legacy of the late U.S. Sen. Edmund Muskie '36, who was dubbed "Mr. Clean" for spearheading clean water and air laws in the 1960s and 1970s, found its way into a Supreme Court ruling May 15.

The Class of 1975 joins the ivy stone tradition

Thursday, May 4, 2006 12:00 am

Thirty-one years ago, the Class of 1975 graduated from Bates without giving an ivy stone to the College. But '75 never forgot, and in 2005 the class celebrated its 30th Reunion by giving an ivy stone to the College. Designed by Diane Kounkoulas Peterson '75, the stone arrived over the winter and on May 4, 2006, Bates head mason Wilfred Chouinard installed the plaque.

William Manning opens four-decade retrospective

Tuesday, December 31, 2002 2:12 pm

William Manning, one of Maine's leading abstract artists, shows more than four decades' worth of works on paper at the Bates College Museum of Art in an exhibition that opens with a lecture and reception at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 10. Admission to "William Manning: Works on Paper 1961-2002" is free and the public is welcome at the museum located in the college's Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.