{"id":1758,"date":"2010-04-21T17:33:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T17:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=1758"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:40:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:40:51","slug":"scene-again","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2005\/spring05\/departments\/scene-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Scene Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;border: 0px initial initial\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Images\/Bates_Magazine\/spring05\/sceneagain.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" width=\"195\" height=\"130\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What goes around comes around. Particularly when it comes to college fund-raising campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 1922, it was <em>The Million Dollar Fund Campaign<\/em> (a name straight out of Austin Powers), for which the freshman class and President Clifton Daggett Gray (left) staged a \u201cShine Day\u201d at Lewiston\u2019s Empire Hat Shop, raising $34. According to the story, when Auburn mayor Charles S. Cummings (right) walked in, President Gray offered him a shine.<\/p>\n<p>The 1920s campaign focused on endowment and construction. Today, the $120 million <em>Campaign for Bates: Endowing Our Values<\/em> focuses on&#8230;endowment and construction (specifically new residence halls and a dining facility. Story, page 6).<\/p>\n<p>Last December, the current Bates president and local leaders again got together, albeit in a less-hokey fashion, when President Elaine Tuttle Hansen and Barbara Trafton, a former state senator whose husband, Richard, is a former Auburn mayor, announced the new Alonzo Garcelon Society for local donors, as well as a local campaign to raise $1 million in scholarship endowment for area Bates students. In her column this issue, President Hansen discusses the specific need for scholarship endowment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What goes around comes around. Particularly when it comes to college fund-raising&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"parent":1743,"menu_order":4,"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-1758","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1758","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=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10814,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1758\/revisions\/10814"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}