1. Planned Giving Gets a Facelift
In addition to cleaner text, new photos, and a more organized format, we have added detailed information about gift specifics, new tables which summarize gift characteristics, and a link allowing you to "try out" your own calculations for the various gift types using PG-Calc software. Tools on the PG-Calc page will also enable you to e-mail your calculations to us directly, if you wish to do so, and/or request more information from us. We will be expanding on a page of links to other estate planning and financial resources for your convenience. Visit the new Planned Giving website today. http://www.bates.edu/planned-giving-home.xml

2. Five alumni appointed to Bates Board of Trustees
President Elaine Tuttle Hansen recently announced five appointments to the college's board of trustees: Darrell W. Crate of Beverly Farms, Mass.; Daniel E. Doyle Jr. of West Hartford, Conn.; John D. Gillespie of Guilford, Conn.; Joel H. Goober of Charlestown, Mass.; and Edmund Wilson of Glenview, Ill. http://www.bates.edu/x37460.xml

3. Fulbright award supports new graduate's program in Germany
Emily M. Peckenham, a 2003 Bates graduate from Orland, Maine, has received a Fulbright Student award for postgraduate work in Germany. Peckenham, an American cultural studies major with a secondary concentration in German, will spend 10 months in Düsseldorf, Germany, assistant-teaching an American-studies class in public school and researching German political street art. http://www.bates.edu/x35394.xml

4. Museum of Art director named
Mark H. C. Bessire has been appointed director of the Bates College Museum of Art, and will begin his job in early August. Bessire comes to Bates from the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the Maine College of Art (MECA), where he has been director since 1998. A graduate of New York University, Bessire earned an M.A. degree in art history from Hunter College, City University of New York, and an M.B.A. degree from the Columbia Business School, Columbia University. He was a Helena Rubenstein Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program and received a Fulbright Fellowship for study at the Sukuma Museum in Tanzania. http://www.bates.edu/x36030.xml

5. Senior creativity on display
The current issue of Bates Magazine offers a photo essay, "Portrait of the Artists," exploring the creative worlds of two senior art majors preparing for the ever-popular Annual Senior Exhibition at the Bates College Museum of Art. Complementing the magazine feature on the Bates Web is a review of the spring exhibition and a slide show featuring works from all 15 senior art majors. "In sophistication and sheer presence," writes reviewer Doug Hubley, "much of this work was ready for gallery walls in the real world." http://www.bates.edu/senior-exhibition-03.xml

6. Alumni honored during Reunion 2003
Dr. Helen A. Papaioanou '49, a revered and tireless Bates trustee emeritus and volunteer who served Detroit's inner-city children as a pediatric allergist, received the Benjamin Elijah Mays Medal, the College's highest alumni award, at the 135th Reunion Alumni Awards Ceremony on June 7. Three fellow alumni joined Papaioanou in receiving Reunion awards during the noontime gathering on the historic Quad: Jamie P. Merisotis '86, founding president of the Institute of Higher Education Policy in Washington, D.C., who received the Young Alumni Award; Dr. Stanley E. Hemsley Jr. '80, medical director, Primary Care Center at Cobbs Creek of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, who received the Community Service Award; and James L. Moody '53, a leading Bates philanthropist, retired chair of the Bates Board of Trustees and retired CEO and chairman of Hannaford Bros. Co., who received the Distinguished Alumni Service Award, which is named for Dr. Papaioanou. http://www.bates.edu/x35066.xml

7. Reunion 2003 slideshow
Whether you were there or not June 6-8, aren't you kind of curious what images the roving photographers captured? http://www.bates.edu/reunion.xml

8. Summer at Bates
Most Bates students have departed until September, but the summer campus remains alive with activity in classrooms and on the playing fields and stages. http://www.bates.edu/x35766.xml

Remember the Fosbury Flop? Check in with one alumnus who had a chance to coach alongside U.S. track legend Dick Fosbury. http://www.bates.edu/x37437.xml

The summer Bates campus pulsates with movement, thanks to the July 19-Aug. 16 Bates Dance Festival. The festival, presenting its 21st anniversary season, celebrates the diversity and creativity of contemporary dance with performances featuring modern, jazz, world dance and improvisation by acclaimed U.S. companies and established and emerging choreographers from around the world. The 2003 program features critically acclaimed new works by Vincent Sekwati Mantsoe, Doug Varone and Dancers, Sara Pearson Patrik Widrig and Company, Companhia Clara Andermatt, Stephan Koplowitz and Judy Smith of AXIS Dance Company, as well as performances by emerging choreographers Chris Elam, Marc "Bamuthi" Joseph, Larry Keigwin and others. http://www.bates.edu/dance-festival.xml

9. Bates People in the News
Bates College closed the broadcast of ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings on June 9, the last item in a montage of commencement speakers from several colleges, including Smith, Carnegie Mellon and the U.S. Naval Academy; the Lewiston Sun Journal notes that former Maine Supreme Court Justice Louis Scolnik received a special award on his 80th birthday by the group he helped create: the Maine Civil Liberties Union; and the Associated Press reports that Bryant Gumbel '70 is coming back to broadcast television. Gumbel, the longtime Today anchor who quit The Early Show on CBS a year ago, will be co-host of a new PBS show, Flashpoints USA, that will air four times a year. The series begins July 15 by examining how the country is balancing its homeland security with its freedoms of expression. http://www.bates.edu/bates-in-the-news.xml