Slide show presents memories from Class of 2011 orientation
The Flagstaff-Bigelow group gathers round a roaring campfire. Photograph by Lincoln Benedict '09.
Participants in a trip to Flagstaff Lake and the Bigelow Range, led by Lincoln Benedict '09 and Aubrey Nelson '08, pose for their offical portrait. Photograph by Lincoln Benedict '09.
AESOP trip leaders are trained in wilderness skills and first aid, and their preparation culminates in a three-day expedition in the Bigelow Range. Photograph by Lincoln Benedict '09.
On Aug. 26, leaders of the Annual Entering Student Outdoor Program — known by its acronym, AESOP — have some fun before their first-year charges arrive. At nearby Range Pond, William "Dots" Loopesko of Denver, Colo., embodies poetry in motion. Photograph by Lincoln Benedict '09.
During the evening after Convocation, members of student groups, including these Outing Club members, do their best to entice new recruits at the activities fair. Photograph by Lincoln Benedict '09.
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Orientation for the Class of 2011, held Aug. 27–Sept. 6, helped ease first-year students into Bates life by offering something for everyone: meeting returning students while lugging belongings into residence halls, exploring Maine’s Great North Woods by canoe, enjoying barbecues and inflatables, and considering Bates historian John Cole’s sly, earthy Convocation talk about the correspondence between the teenage Marie Antoinette and her mother, Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa. In this slide show we share a few of these experiences.
