Stories about "Class of 1999"
Area students to graduate from Bates

Wednesday, June 2, 1999 12:00 am

Two area residents received bachelor's degrees during Bates College's 133rd commencement exercises Monday, May 31 in an outdoor ceremony on the main campus quadrangle. Richard C. Holbrooke, career diplomat and chief negotiator for the 1995 Dayton peace accord that served to suspend ethnic cleansing and warfare in Bosnia, received an honorary doctorate of laws and delivered the commencement address to an audience of some 2,500 at the ceremonies in front of historic Coram Library. Beneath sunny skies, Bates President Donald W. Harward conferred bachelor's degrees on 417 graduates.

Sedney named Ruggles Scholar

Thursday, May 6, 1999 1:12 pm

Gwen Sedney of Falls Church, Va., has been named Bates College's 1999 Ruggles Scholar, a fellowship awarded to a junior for academic excellence in the liberal arts and sciences.