Slideshow: Smiles, cheers, songs, and a toast at the $19 million gift announcement
The surprise announcement of $19 million in new gifts to Bates took place on Feb. 5, 2016, in historic Memorial Commons amid cheers, smiles, song, and a toast to the seven Bates families whose gifts will create six new professorships and launch the college’s Program in Digital and Computational Studies.
Faculty members Jim Parakilas (right), the Moody Family Professor of Performing Arts, and Robert Strong (right), lecturer in English and director of national fellowships, listen to remarks during Friday's gift announcement celebration in Memorial Commons. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)
Alumni Council members Larry Handerhan '05, Lisa Romeo '88, and Jenn Bouchard '99 join the concluding toast during the gift announcement celebration on Friday, Feb. 5. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)
During the $19 million gift announcement celebration on campus Friday afternoon, Michael Bonney ’80, chair of the Bates College Board of Trustees, talks about the $10 million gift, the largest in the college's history, that he and his wife, Alison Grott Bonney ’80, have made to Bates. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)
From left, Alison Grott Bonney '80, Michael Bonney '80, and President Clayton Spencer . (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)
Matt Auer, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty, says that the six new professorships give Bates "an unprecedented opportunity to shape the faculty and curriculum of the future — in terms of excellence, diversity, and intellectual scope.”(Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)
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