Parents, families experience full spectrum of life at Bates
The International Club presents its second annual International Fair on the Library Quad, including a global market and musical performances.
Ira Waldman '73, P '08, '11, a donor to the Garcelon project, enjoys the game with Bates friend Diane Kounkoulas Peterson '75.
Students, along with alumni who are the parents and grandparents of currently enrolled students, pose for the annual Legacy photograph. Photograph by H. Jay Burns.
Bates plays Williams on Garcelon's new FieldTurf gridiron.
On a classically crisp autumn day, perfect for opening a beautiful new football stadium, even a 41-0 loss to Williams couldn't dampen all of the positive energy felt around historic Garcelon Field.
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While Bates dance clubs and the Modern Dance Company cast their spell over an SRO audience in Schaeffer Theatre, the Bobcats played their first football game on the newly refurbished and just-christened Garcelon Field.
With fall’s cold winds shaking the changing leaves and skittering down the length of Alumni Walk, students revisited the summer of 2010 — that is, their summer research — with a poster session in Perry Atrium.
Former members of the staff of U.S. Sen. Edmund S. Muskie ’36, one of Maine’s most influential politicians, gathered to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library at Bates — even as patrons of the Museum of Art heard about a Moroccan photographer who’s reclaiming the visual representation of women.
The Brooks Quimby Debate Council argued for and against Wikileaks, the Outing Club led a birdwalk through Thorncrag, Senior Project Manager Paul Farnsworth talked about the renovation of Hedge and Roger Williams halls — and Bill Hiss ’66 told, once again, the whole story of Bates.
All the while, proud parents and jealous siblings took it all in. That was Parents & Family Weekend 2010 at Bates.
–Doug Hubley
