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Bates\u2019 135th Commencement<\/strong><\/p>\n Seek satisfying careers and strike a balance between work, home life, and friendships, former Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich told graduates at the 2001 Bates Commencement on June 4. \u201cToo many rich people these days don\u2019t much like what they do during most of their waking hours,\u201d he said. \u201cFind a job that makes you happy. Ideally, one that also makes the world a slightly better place to live in. Find a mate whom you love and will love you back. Have children who will grow into decent men and women, because you are a decent and loving parent. And make time for good friends.\u201d<\/p>\n Reich, who said he left the Clinton cabinet because he was unable to strike a balance between work and personal life, noted that graduates today express great worries about their financial future.<\/p>\n \u201cMuch of your concern about earning enough money, I think, has to do with the widening gap between rich and poor in this country,\u201d Reich said. \u201cThe reward for landing on the prosperous side of the gap is far greater than it was 30 years ago. And so is the penalty for landing on the poorer side.\u201d Reich told the 434 graduates and their families that he has \u201ccomforting news\u201d for them: \u201cCollege graduates almost always land on the winning side of the gap. Not because they have a piece of parchment, but because they have the right tools to gain new knowledge.\u201d Joining Reich as honorary degree recipients were Anna Quindlen, Pulitzer Prize-winning essayist and novelist; Mary Frances Berry, civil rights champion and scholar; Bruce Alberts, president of the National Academy of Science; and James Moody \u201953, retired Hannaford Bros. CEO and now Bates Trustee chairperson emeritus.<\/p>\n For Moody, June was a time of honors and transition. At the June meeting of the Board of Trustees, he turned over the Trustee chairmanship to Burton Harris \u201959 of Swampscott, Mass. Moody served as chair for 14 years. Harris, a former law partner and chairman of the prominent Boston law firm Bingham Dana, served as executive director of the Massachusetts Industrial Finance Agency. A Trustee since 1983, he chaired the search committee that brought President Harward to Bates in 1989. In recent years he has been an independent business consultant, and has completed the furniture artisan program of the famed North Bennett Street School in Boston\u2019s North End. Moody will retire from the board in 2002 after 33 years of service, becoming Trustee emeritus, an honor accorded members \u201cwho become 70 years of age prior to the Annual Meeting of any year,\u201d according to the bylaws of the College.<\/p>\n Ninety Years Young<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cTake a Chance on Me\u201d is the familiar if campy anthem from ABBA, the Swedish pop band of the 1970s. But a similar refrain was heard throughout Reunion weekend from alumni, circa 1951 through 1976, who forever regard Milt Lindholm \u201935 as the admissions dean who \u201ctook a chance on me.\u201d<\/p>\n Milt had a June to remember. Feted with hugs and handshakes at Reunion for his 90th birthday (see coverage this issue), he then accepted the congratulations of the state of Maine. State Sen. Peggy Rotundo, also Bates\u2019 associate director of the Center for Service-Learning, introduced a Legislative sentiment honoring Lindholm on his 90th birthday. \u201cBates has served the sons and daughters of Maine from the beginning,\u201d Rotundo said. \u201cMilt worked hard to recruit many Maine students,\u201d she added, praising the work Milt and his wife, Jane, have done for Bates, \u201cwhich has helped make Bates a better community, just as their quiet and steady service to Lewiston-Auburn has helped the community.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m grateful for this honor, especially since it is from Maine people dedicated to service,\u201d Lindholm said. Reflecting on all the attention, he added with the famous Lindholm chuckle, \u201cI\u2019ve come to the conclusion my greatest accomplishment is to turn 90!\u201d<\/p>\n A few weeks later, Lindholm evoked memories of the fictional benefactor John Beresford Tipton from the 1955-1960 CBS television show The Millionaire.<\/em><\/p>\n Lindholm is the executor of the estate of the late Bates treasurer emeritus Norman Ross \u201922 and his wife, Marjorie Pillsbury Ross \u201923. In a Tiptonesque turn, Lindholm had the honor of hand-delivering Ross bequest gifts of $1 million to Bates and $500,000 each to Central Maine Medical Center (Norm chaired the board of trustees there) and to the United Baptist Church (where the Rosses were members for more than 70 years).<\/p>\n Lindholm presented the CMMC check to a surprised administrative assistant and then brought another $500,000 check to the United Baptist Church on Main Street in Lewiston.<\/p>\n At Bates, President Harward took a break from his office work to accept the gift, which creates an endowed fund for the general purposes of the College. On a radiant summer day, he and Lindholm walked outside to pose for photographs near restored Lake Andrews (an appropriate setting, since the Rosses championed the beauty of the Bates campus). \u201cNorm and Marjorie Ross were essential parts of our community and its institutions for nearly a century,\u201d said President Harward. \u201cNot only do these gifts extend their impact in perpetuity, but they remind us of the kind of commitment and support a community needs to remain vital.\u201d<\/p>\n Their Eyes Lit Up<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019ve probably never seen Prometheus Bound<\/em> on stage,\u201d Lisa Maurizio said with a laugh, \u201cbecause it\u2019s very grim and nothing happens.\u201d With Prometheus shackled to a rock for much of the play, it ain\u2019t Neil Simon. But Maurizio, assistant professor of classics, took on the challenge of bringing the play to the Schaeffer stage<\/a> during Short Term.<\/p>\n Around and Beyond the Quad <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Perhaps the largest first-year class ever<\/strong>, approximately 590 students, was expected in residence Sept. 5 for the start of Bates\u2019 academic year. (The size of the Class of 2005 rivals the largest group ever, the Class of \u201997 that arrived 523 strong in 1993.) The incoming class was selected from 4,424 applications, Bates\u2019 third straight record year. Among other qualities, never before have so many states (41) been represented in a Bates first-year class….<\/p>\n New Bates Trustees<\/strong> are Susan Bove Kinney \u201978 of West Simsbury, Conn.; Rick Powers \u201967 of Old Greenwich, Conn. (both elected to the Board of Overseers from the alumni ballot), as well as David Barlow \u201979 of Wellesley, Mass., and the Rev. Professor Peter Gomes \u201965 of Cambridge, Mass. Kinney is medical director at Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. in Hartford, Conn., while Powers is president of the U.S. personal products division of Playtex Products Inc. Barlow is president of the private investment firm Black Diamond Capital. Gomes, who rejoins the board after a five-year hiatus, is the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in The Memorial Church at Harvard University (see Class Notes for Gomes\u2019 latest honorary degree)….<\/p>\n Bates\u2019 10-year reaccreditation last spring yielded a feel-good report<\/strong> from the team evaluating the College. The eight-member group of college scholars and administrators, led by Middlebury president John M. McCardell noted that \u201cthe fundamental culture of Bates College is remarkably egalitarian, respectful of every individual, becomingly modest, averse to self-promotion, wary of adornment…. Bates has emerged as a national college of genuine excellence, competing for students with the very best institutions in the country.\u201d…<\/p>\n How do Indian students with scarce educational resources consistently outscore U.S. students in math and science? Ian Bleakney \u201991, supported by the inaugural Barlow Alumni Travel Grant,<\/strong> hopes to find the answer. A science teacher and department chair at Merritt College High School, a small public high school in Oakland, Calif., Bleakney traveled to India this summer, where he studied teaching strategies and administrative methods in the city of Pune. Learning about Indian public science education and, on a broader level, how Indian administrators run their schools effectively despite scarce resources, Bleakney hopes the Indian educational model will provide ideas for U.S. educators, especially those who teach in low-income areas. David \u201979 and Ann Barlow established the endowed program for teachers as part of their $1.5-million gift creating a range of endowed study-abroad programs for Bates students and alumni….<\/p>\n Playwright and Professor of Theater Martin Andrucki (\u201cThe Playwright and the POW,\u201d winter\/spring issue) was honored as the College\u2019s newest Charles A. Dana Professor of Theater<\/strong>. He also has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar in Hungary for spring and summer 2002….<\/p>\n Margaret Maurer-Fazio, assistant professor of economics, and Francisca L\u00f3pez, associate professor of Spanish, won Phillips Faculty Fellowships<\/strong> for a full year\u2019s paid research leave. Maurer-Fazio will continue her work on the integration of China\u2019s urban labor markets. L\u00f3pez will explore the impact of globalization and European integration on contemporary understanding of Spanish identity, particularly in the context of the country\u2019s rapid transition from dictatorship to democracy.<\/p>\n More Bates News<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cBates Now\u201d on the Bates Web site offers expanded coverage of these news items and others: www.bates.edu\/bates-now.xml<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cBates is able to enhance hands-on learning while addressing community needs,\u201d wrote President Harward in Connection<\/em>, a magazine devoted to New England higher education and economic development. Harward\u2019s summer-issue essay discussed various Bates service-learning efforts in Lewiston and Auburn, including an $80,000 grant funding 10 Community Research Fellowships for Bates students. The fellows work with community leaders and Bates advisors on a range of projects spearheaded by LA Excels, Bates\u2019 community-development partner.<\/p>\n \u201cDeep in the woodsy heart of Maine\u201d is how Time<\/em> magazine began a 150-word article in May on the internationally recognized Bates Dance Festival. Generously illustrated with two campus photos, the piece was part of a \u201cCollege Detours\u201d feature showing how families can \u201ctransform a routine summer tour of campuses into a cultural education for the whole family.\u201d The article ended with a note that Bates visitors \u201cmay also want to check out Bowdoin in Brunswick and Colby in Waterville.\u201d<\/p>\n