{"id":469,"date":"2010-04-21T16:02:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T16:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=469"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:38:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:38:42","slug":"turning-points","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2008\/spring08\/quad-angles\/turning-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning Points"},"content":{"rendered":"

INAUGURATED<\/strong> The Betty Doran Stangle Professorship in Applied Economics, with a lecture Feb. 1 by Margaret Maurer-Fazio<\/strong>, who became the first Stangle Professor last August. Maurer-Fazio, who came to Bates in 1994, studies the effects of a liberalizing Chinese economy on that nation\u2019s labor markets. The Stangle Chair is made possible by a gift from Trustee Bruce Stangle<\/strong> \u201970 and his wife, Emily Siegel Stangle<\/strong> \u201972, honoring Bruce\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n

APPOINTED<\/strong> As registrar, Mary Meserve<\/strong>, effective Jan. 1. Meserve joined the registrar\u2019s office as records administrator in 1993 and rose through the ranks to become interim registrar, succeeding Meredith Braz<\/strong>, in November 2006.<\/p>\n

As associate dean of faculty, Associate Professor of Chemistry Matt C\u00f4t\u00e9<\/strong>, effective Aug. 1. A member of the faculty since 1991, he succeeds Maurer-Fazio<\/strong> as associate dean.<\/p>\n

SERVED<\/strong> The first board plan meal in Bates\u2019 new dining Commons<\/strong>, on Feb. 24, after nearly 17 months of construction.<\/p>\n

PUBLISHED<\/strong> Sounds, an innovative proposal for the role of sound in our perceptual experience, by Assistant Professor of Philosophy Casey O\u2019Callaghan<\/strong> (Oxford University Press, 2007); and Rational Animals: The Teleological Roots of Intentionality, which examines the intentionality of mental states such as beliefs and desires and their biological basis, by Professor of Philosophy Mark Okrent<\/strong> (Ohio University Press, 2007)<\/p>\n

Also, The Diary of a Maidservant, a translation of Krishna Baldev Vaid\u2019s novel from Hindi by Lecturer in Asian Studies Sagaree Sengupta<\/strong> (Oxford University Press, 2008); and Essays from Women Writers in Contemporary China and Selected Short Stories from Contemporary China, translations from Chinese by Professor of Chinese Shihu Yang<\/strong>, in collaboration with Yunqin Yang<\/strong> (both from Better Link Press, 2006).<\/p>\n

DEPARTED James Fergerson<\/strong>, founding director of the Office of Institutional Planning and Analysis, on March 3. In 1993 Fergerson established the office that evolved into OIPA, and over the next 15 years awed the campus with his skill in painting Bates by the numbers, statistically speaking.<\/p>\n

Fergerson (whose e-mails ended with the slogan \u201cTorture numbers long enough and they\u2019ll confess to anything\u201d) has become director of the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment at Carleton College. Ellen Peters<\/strong> \u201987, OIPA\u2019s assistant director since 1998, is now director of the newly renamed Office of Institutional Research and Assessment.<\/p>\n

Joyce Seligman<\/strong>, founding director of the Writing Workshop. Seligman was hired in 1981 to single-handedly establish a center to help students with their writing; the workshop now boasts five staffers. Officially retired at the end of July, Seligman will have more time to exercise a green thumb that is her second claim to renown at Bates. Colleague Pat Hager<\/strong> will serve as interim director for the rest of the academic year.<\/p>\n

DECEASED<\/strong> Evelyn A. Veazie<\/strong>, a member of the Dining Services staff from 1969 to 1993, on Jan. 12, at 93.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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