{"id":6605,"date":"2026-04-15T15:57:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/giving\/?p=6605"},"modified":"2026-04-15T16:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:01:16","slug":"your-stories-our-shared-history-class-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/giving\/2026\/04\/15\/your-stories-our-shared-history-class-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Stories, Our Shared History: Class Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Whether you are across the country or just down the road from Lewiston, your milestones, large and small, matter to this community. A few sentences about a recent move, a volunteer project, a professional achievement, or a gathering with fellow Bobcats is all it takes. While social media posts disappear in an instant and may be seen by only a few, your class notes are included in the <em>Bates Magazine<\/em>, a record for many generations to explore.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we look toward our next print issue, we invite you to take five minutes to reconnect. Did you grab coffee with an old friend, retire, or start a new venture? Your classmates are waiting to hear from you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How to Share Your News:<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Via Email:<\/strong> Send a quick note (and a high-resolution photo!) to <strong><a href=\"mailto:magazine@bates.edu\">magazine@bates.edu<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Online:<\/strong> Visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/bates.edu\/alumni\/call-for-news\">streamlined submission form<\/a>, designed to be quick, easy, and mobile-friendly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>By Mail:<\/strong> We welcome receiving your letters at<br><em>Bates Magazine<\/em> Class Notes<br>2 Andrews Road<br>Lewiston, ME 04240<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Submission Deadline:<\/strong> Our team is always collecting notes, but to ensure your update is included in the Fall 2026 issue, please submit by <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-garnet-bright-color\">August 3, 2026<\/mark><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you are across the country or just down the road from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1045,"featured_media":6607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-6605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gift-planning","tag-gift-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1045"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6605"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6612,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6605\/revisions\/6612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}