Phyllis Graber Jensen Published on May 18, 2021
The month of May represents the end of the academic year. As the beauty of spring emerges, we experience bittersweet acknowledgments: of the work that remains to be done, the sudden anticipation of goodbyes, and contemplation of life after graduation.
Congratulations and thanks to all for the strength and determination you modeled during the challenging year of 2020–21.
Footwork
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Adelaide Armah ’23 of Accra, Ghana, gains control of the ball during the Bates women’s soccer team’s scrimmage against Bowdoin, held on Garcelon Field in early May..
Sunset Over Hathorn
Guest seating opens: 1pm
no guests seated after 2:15pm
Ceremony starts: 3pm
Seniors will only be allowed access to the ceremony for which they are scheduled. Seniors may not change their ceremony time.
After their ceremony, seniors have until 7 p.m. to move out of their campus rooms but we encourage all seniors to move out as soon as your ceremony is over.
Guests and Ticket Update
Each graduating senior
who is on campus for Commencement and participating in-person may invite two guests to attend in person. Guests must have tickets in order to be admitted to the ceremony on May 27.
Phyllis Graber Jensen Published on March 30, 2021
“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade,” wrote Charles Dickens in
Great Expectations.
Yes, we saw exactly what Dickens meant as March 2021 came in cold, became warm, and departed with some chill winds (all in all, a benign month, weather-wise).
But whatever the weather, our forward-looking faculty, students, and staff took it in stride, as you’ll notice in these campus scenes from This Month at Bates.
Finding Photos
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Joe Gromelski 74 Published on December 10, 2020
The top 13 Bates College Facebook posts during an unprecedented year put into sharp relief what the Bates community stands for: care for one another; respect for knowledge and science as embodied by Dr. Anthony Fauci and love and admiration for those whose work has made our lives and country better. (You also respond to beautiful Bates photography!)
As of today, the Bates Facebook page has 19,244 likes. So far in 2020, we’ve created 328 Facebook posts, many linking to Bates News stories. The posts have garnered 25,890 likes, prompted 1,270 shares, and attracted 1,331 comments. A total of 71,719 engaged users have performed some action on our posts.