{"id":162534,"date":"2024-05-10T10:10:23","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T14:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=162534"},"modified":"2024-05-10T13:51:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T17:51:22","slug":"video-scenes-from-the-jenkins-inauguration-cheers-high-fives-and-hugs-in-a-place-of-warmth-and-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2024\/05\/10\/video-scenes-from-the-jenkins-inauguration-cheers-high-fives-and-hugs-in-a-place-of-warmth-and-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Scenes from the Jenkins Inauguration,  selfies, high fives, and hugs in a &#8216;place of warmth and welcome&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The May 4 installation of President Garry W. Jenkins&#8217; featured historic firsts \u2014 Bates&#8217; first Black and first openly gay president\u2014 and also cheering students, hugging friends, high-five greetings, and plenty of selfies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These video highlights kick off with the early-morning robing in Commons, hitting a crescendo with the installation ceremony in an elegantly transformed Merrill Gymnasium, and winding down with a relaxing outdoor buffet lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Take in these heartwarming and inspirational moments from the inauguration of Garry W. Jenkins:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-embed-aspect-16-9\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<lite-youtube videoid=\"aumOmahMVWM\" params=\"modestbranding=1&#038;rel=0\" playlabel=\"Moments from the Inauguration of Garry W. Jenkins | Bates College\" title=\"Moments from the Inauguration of Garry W. Jenkins | Bates College\" >\n\t\t\t<\/lite-youtube>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>(Theophyl Syslo\/Bates College)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leading up to the timeless ritual of the installation was the academic procession, with a long line of Bates leaders, trustees, faculty, alumni, delegates led by a festive marching jazz band, joined by boisterous students, faculty, staff, alumni, community members from far and wide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Jenkins himself said, &#8220;This place \u2014 our college \u2014 is a place of warmth and welcome, and you have made that abundantly and beautifully clear. And for that, I thank you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The May 4 installation of President Garry W. Jenkins featured historic firsts \u2014 Bates&#8217; first Black and first openly gay president\u2014 and also whopping cheers, an eclectic slate of live music, and droves of Bates friends and supporters on campus from far and wide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":162488,"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,"_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":[4,14,31,11009],"tags":[165,12349],"class_list":["post-162534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-life","category-faculty-staff","category-lewiston-auburn","category-the-college","tag-history","tag-jenkins-inauguration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162534","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=162534"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162697,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162534\/revisions\/162697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}