Photos galore! The first big Bates day for families since 2019

A long time coming as students and their families get to connect on campus for Back to Bates, Part One. In a few weeks comes Part Two.

For Bridget Thompson ’22, her time at Bates has been full of discovery, as she found her people, her passions — in the classroom and on the sports field — and her post-grad plan.

Outside the Benjamin E. Mays Center, students traded compliments and encouragement — all the while creating social justice prints — as the Bates “Stringfellows” held their Free Press printmaking event.

In 1893, for the first time at Bates, “young ladies of the freshman class outnumber the young men.” And the guys didn’t like it.