Stories about "Benjamin Mays"
‘The embodiment of Bates values,’ Spencer is installed as president
Friday, October 26, 2012 4:00 pm
Bates formally installed Ava Clayton Spencer, described by her former boss as the "embodiment of Bates values," as its eighth president before a gathering of 2,500 on Friday afternoon.
MLK Day: A unique weekend of thought and reflection
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 2:44 pm
Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Bates College is an intense, community-wide…
King Day keynote looks at Mays '20 and his hopes for integrated church
Friday, January 22, 2010 1:01 pm
"Can we keep the faith when our dreams are imperfectly realized? I hope that we can." Monday was an especially fitting day for this question posed by historian Barbara Savage as she concluded her keynote speech for Bates' Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances.
Pulitzer-winning novelist Diaz speaks in Multicultural Center event
Thursday, April 2, 2009 11:35 am
Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Junot Díaz welcomed to campus.
Work, Truly Our Own
Sunday, May 11, 2008 11:49 am
Among workshops that Bates held on Jan. 21 to honor Martin Luther King Jr., one stood out by virtue of its subject: Bates itself.
MLK Day events highlight legacy of labor, justice, and dignity
Wednesday, December 22, 2004 12:55 pm
The Rev. John Mendez, pastor of the Emmanuel Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, N.C., and the Winston-Salem Chronicle's 1994 Man of the Year, is the keynote speaker for the 2005 Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances at Bates College.
Bates visiting professorship honors human rights leader
Monday, December 17, 2001 1:14 pm
Bates 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.
Presidential Medal of Freedom for Benjamin Mays '20?
Thursday, March 1, 2001 3:06 pm
Georgia senators Max Cleland and Zell Miller recently announced plans to introduce a U.S. Senate resolution urging President Bush to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the late Benjamin Mays '20.
Peter Gomes ’65 receives Benjamin Elijah Mays Medal
Monday, June 8, 1998 12:29 pm
The Rev. Peter J. Gomes, a 1965 graduate of Bates College and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and minister in the Memorial Church at Harvard University, received the Benjamin Elijah Mays Award Saturday, June 6 during reunion weekend at the Bates campus.