{"id":44163,"date":"2011-06-03T11:55:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T15:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=44163"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:36:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:36:53","slug":"44163","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/06\/03\/44163\/","title":{"rendered":"Reunion Weekend tribute to the late Rev. Peter J. Gomes &#8217;65 set for June 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/03\/gomes-100613_reunion_memorial_2008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/03\/gomes-100613_reunion_memorial_2008-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"gomes-100613_reunion_memorial_2008\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During this year&#8217;s alumni Reunion Weekend, Bates College will pay tribute to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/03\/01\/gomes-65-obituary\/\">the late Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes &#8217;65, D.D. &#8217;96,<\/a> with a offering of memories and tributes by friends and colleagues at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 11, 2011, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell Street. The event is open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Gomes, the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church at Harvard University, died on Feb. 28, 2011, of complications from a stroke he suffered in December. He was 68 years old.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/reunion.xml\">Reunion 2011 overview and schedule<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The Rev. Gomes was, among many things, a remarkable preacher, dedicated scholar and accomplished author,&#8221; President Elaine Tuttle Hansen said in her announcement to the Bates community.<\/p>\n<p>A best-selling author and long considered one of America&#8217;s most distinguished preachers, Gomes became a prominent spiritual voice against intolerance\u00a0after he announced in 1991 that he was gay.<\/p>\n<p>He was simply &#8220;Gomesie&#8221; to his Bates contemporaries, and he sustained a particularly intense and loving relationship with his alma mater and with Bates people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During this year&#8217;s alumni Reunion Weekend, Bates College will pay tribute to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"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":[7],"tags":[11648,7447],"class_list":["post-44163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","tag-religion-and-spirituality","tag-reunion-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44163","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\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44163"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113483,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44163\/revisions\/113483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}