{"id":1538,"date":"2010-04-21T17:28:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T17:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=1538"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:39:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:39:02","slug":"former-faculty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2005\/summer05\/departments\/class-notes\/former-faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An exhibit at the Eclectic Art Gallery and Elizabeth Whelton Studios in Nashua, N.H., featured several still-life paintings by Professor Emeritus of Art <strong>Don Lent<\/strong>. The exhibit, <em>Bring It to the Table: Food, Cooking and the Ritual of the Meal<\/em>, is part of a series the <em>Nashua Telegraph<\/em> says &#8220;unites the city&#8217;s love of fine food with a love of fine art,&#8221; as patrons can &#8220;enjoy an early art exhibition and then have dinner&#8221; at the gallery&#8230;. <strong>Phil Moresi<\/strong>, who led Bates men&#8217;s basketball to its first postseason tournament as an interim coach in 1991-92, was honored last fall by the New England Basketball Hall of Fame with the first Jim Calhoun Award. Moresi, the longtime Ashland (Mass.) High basketball coach and athletic director, is a legend in New England high school basketball circles, and the Calhoun award, named for the UConn men&#8217;s basketball coach, honors high ideals and the best in coaching philosophy. &#8220;It was one of those evenings I just can&#8217;t explain to people,&#8221; Moresi told a local newspaper. &#8220;You&#8217;ve given so much to the sport over the years, and you&#8217;ve given back to individual players and teams and coaches. And now all of a sudden it comes back to you. I can&#8217;t tell you how humbled I am, because out of the thousands of coaches in New England, that I would be the first one to receive it is humbling.&#8221; The New England Basketball Hall of Fame is overseen by the Institute for International Sport at the Univ. of Rhode Island, founded by Dan Doyle &#8217;72.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exhibit at the Eclectic Art Gallery and Elizabeth Whelton Studios in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"parent":1462,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":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":""},"class_list":["post-1538","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11489,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1538\/revisions\/11489"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}