{"id":147571,"date":"2022-06-24T16:03:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T20:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=147571"},"modified":"2022-06-27T12:41:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T16:41:43","slug":"from-bates-history-pin-picture-fob-and-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2022\/06\/24\/from-bates-history-pin-picture-fob-and-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"From Bates History: Pin, picture, fob, and trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here are a few items from the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library and elsewhere:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Self portrait <\/h5>\n\n\n\n

This is George French, Class of 1908, leaning on an Edison phonograph and wearing his class track uniform, presumably in his Parker Hall room. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s likely a self-portrait: French was a lifelong photographer. Behind him are probably his own photos, mostly of Bates friends and teammates. There are a few other things in the photo, as we discovered last winter<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A baseball, football, and track standout who also played the mandolin, French was the official photographer of the Maine Development Commission for years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You look fobulous! <\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Longtime Bates trustee Oliver Barrett Clason, Class of 1877, received this Bates watch fob from his fellow trustees. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Longtime Bates trustee Oliver Barrett Clason, Class of 1877, received this Bates watch fob from his fellow trustees in 1916. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A lawyer in Gardiner, Maine, Clason was a longtime state legislator who was Maine Senate president in 1899\u20131901. Clason House, on College Street, is named for him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note that the Bates seal on the fob is a different version from today’s seal. It displays the date Bates was chartered, March 16, 1855. The current seal has just the year, 1855.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting a Handle <\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Under 8 inches tall, this battered trophy cup has an oversized history. The Class of 1911 won it during an interclass competition in exercise drills, e.g., Indian clubs, dumbbells, and swords.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It later traveled with class member Roger Guptill to the Congo where he was a missionary. He lost it, then got it back years later, minus its handles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This battered trophy cup has an oversized history. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Science symbols <\/h5>\n\n\n\n

This lapel pin is from the Jordan Scientific Society, a bygone student club formed in 1910 to \u201cfoster an active interest in all fields of science,\u201d said the Mirror<\/em>. (It was for male students; the women\u2019s science club was Ramsdell.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Historical
This lapel pin is from the Jordan Scientific Society of the early 20th century. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Through crowd-sourcing from Bates science professors, we believe the following to be true: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 The owl suggests wisdom <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 It\u2019s perched on a mortar, symbolizing chemistry <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 The telescope is for astronomy and physics <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 The tripod legs could suggest the tenets of the scientific method: observation, hypothesis, and testing <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 The skull might suggest biology <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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