{"id":135078,"date":"2020-08-14T08:35:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T12:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=135078"},"modified":"2020-08-14T14:05:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T18:05:02","slug":"bates-remembers-don-lent-and-leigh-campbell-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/14\/bates-remembers-don-lent-and-leigh-campbell-64\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates remembers Don Lent and Leigh Campbell &#8217;64"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Don Lent<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/07\/Lent_Don_0001-undated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/07\/Lent_Don_0001-undated-720x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-134761\" width=\"360\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/07\/Lent_Don_0001-undated-720x900.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/07\/Lent_Don_0001-undated-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/07\/Lent_Don_0001-undated-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/07\/Lent_Don_0001-undated-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/07\/Lent_Don_0001-undated.jpg 1790w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Don Lent, the college\u2019s Dana Professor Emeritus of Art, died June 22, 2020. (Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dana Professor Emeritus of Art Donald Raymond Lent, an artist, teacher, and mentor who built the visual arts program at Bates, died June 22, 2020, at age 86.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe was a calm presence in charge,\u201d says one of his former students. \u201cHe was a true educator \u2014 dedicated to quietly helping each of us develop our own artistic expressions and expand our knowledge and experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2020\/07\/09\/dana-professor-emeritus-of-art-donald-lent-dies-at-age-86\/\">Read more about Don Lent&#8217;s contributions to Bates<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Leigh Campbell &#8217;64<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/08\/leigh-gromelski.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"386\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/08\/leigh-gromelski-386x300.jpg\" alt=\"Leigh Campbell '64 in a familiar spot: at the scorer's table keeping the Bates scorebook for a men's basketball game, vs. Catholic University on Jan. 5, 2008. (Joe Gromelski '74)\" class=\"wp-image-134923\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/08\/leigh-gromelski-386x300.jpg 386w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/08\/leigh-gromelski-900x699.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/08\/leigh-gromelski-1536x1193.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/08\/leigh-gromelski-200x155.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/08\/leigh-gromelski.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Leigh Campbell \u201864, a longtime director of financial aid at Bates, died on July 31, 2020. (Joe Gromelski &#8217;74)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leigh Payson Campbell \u201864, a longtime director of financial aid at Bates whose empathy and expertise engendered gratitude and loyalty among generations of Bates alumni, died on July 31, 2020, at age 79.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recalling his ability to find solutions to her financial challenges at Bates, an alumna recalled, &#8220;We always came up with a solution that kept me feeling whole, reminding me that I was \u2014 and am \u2014 part of the greater Bates family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/05\/leigh-campbell-bates-obituary\/\">Read more about Leigh Campbell&#8217;s contributions to Bates<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In different but equally powerful ways, the late art professor Don Lent and financial aid director Leigh Campbell &#8217;64 gave so much to generations of students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":135080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_estimated-read-time":"","_post-template":"","_header-color":"#000000","_photo-credit":"","_header-effect":"parallax","override_related_with_tag":"","_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,11010,9946,11009],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-arts","category-exclude-from-loops","category-the-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135078"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135147,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135078\/revisions\/135147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}