Stories about "Reunion 2017"
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Q&A: Novelist Elizabeth Strout ’77 interviewed by President Spencer
Tuesday, June 20, 2017 11:09 am
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author talks about her approach to writing, being an English major at Bates, and how being a Mainer has given her the "opposite of a worldview."
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Slideshow: Reunion Alumni Parade, captured by Bates photographers
Thursday, June 15, 2017 1:26 pm
Photography by Phyllis Graber Jensen and Rene Roy found all the 'Cats, kids, dogs, hugs, smiles, signs, and banners of the great parade.
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Completed lives: the 2017 Bates Alumni Memorial Service program
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 3:04 pm
The program for the Alumni Memorial Service, held during Reunion, includes the names of Bates people who have died during the year.
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Video: The Alumni Parade is about ‘jumping right back into Bates’
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 2:27 pm
"This is surreal," said Ben Hughes ’12, "like five years didn't happen. And I imagine that's the way the Class of 1957 feels, too."