{"id":50781,"date":"2011-11-08T20:14:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T20:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=50781"},"modified":"2024-07-01T16:36:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T20:36:31","slug":"harvard-crimson-peter-gomes-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/11\/08\/harvard-crimson-peter-gomes-65\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Crimson reports on Chapel’s naming for Peter Gomes ’65"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Peter Gomes '65 preaches in the Bates Chapel during the Alumni Memorial Service at Reunion 2010, his last public appearance at the college.<\/p><\/div>\n

Harvard Crimson<\/em> staff writer Justin Worland reports on the Bates Chapel’s naming in memory of Peter Gomes ’65<\/a>, the late Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church at Harvard.<\/p>\n

Worland quotes Bates multifaith chaplain Bill Blaine-Wallace, who said that “Peter Gomes is adored still at Bates. He so loved this college. Having a friend like Peter certainly made me feel blessed.\u201d<\/p>\n

The story quotes Gomes’ sermon at the 2010 Alumni Memorial Service at Reunion: “True reunion is not just a meeting of those who may be walking around, but is that reconnection with those whom we do not see, whom we do not hear, but whose names we know.”<\/p>\n

The chapel’s official dedication in Gomes’ memory will occur in the spring.<\/p>\n