Commencement 2025 Archives
May 31, 2024
Picture Story: Bates Commencement 2024 celebrates seniors who ‘have been tested, and have persevered’
This immersive picture story captures Commencement for the Bates Class of 2024, which came in with a pandemic and went out on May 26 in high style and great happiness.
May 31, 2024
Picture Story: Baccalaureate 2024, and a Bates class that found its common humanity
This immersive photographic display captures Bates’ distinctive Baccalaureate Service. Far from serious or somber, it is a “celebration that is…
May 31, 2024
From Iraq to Bates: ‘Sometimes, it’s the detours that lead us to our true destinies’
From shelling in Iraq to the shelter of Bates, Mohammed Shwani ’24 was able to find a public platform during…
May 26, 2024
Try not to let the success treadmill ‘obscure the actual living of life,’ Bates seniors told at 158th Commencement
One of the nation’s foremost journalists, NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly, offered three pieces of life advice to the Class of…
May 23, 2024
Make way for ducklings and the Bates Class of 2024 ivy stone
Amelia Hawkins ’24 wants her Bates classmates to graduate with a sense of hope, so she created an ivy stone design everyone can rally around: the ducks at Lake Andrews.