What’s particularly fun about producing each edition of Ladd Library Lost and Found is imagining how any particular item made its way to the lost and found cubby located just inside the front entrance to the library.
Take this rabies dog tag. If it were a Maine tag, we might imagine it belonged to a dog that frequents campus with a faculty or staff member. But it’s from the town of Andover, Mass. How did it travel 125 miles from Andover to Ladd Library?
Or is the tag a student’s memento of their beloved family dog? Was the dog a campus visitor during last fall’s Back to Bates? Or is a lost Bay State pooch now roaming Lewiston?
As those questions roil about, we offer all the other items seen in the Ladd Library’s Lost and Found cubby on Feb. 8, 2024:
- Hand sanitizer by Dove with “eight hour moisturization”
- Bose wireless headphones
- Travel umbrella, 100 percent polyester, made in China, no brand
- Single 4-foot shoelace by Moncler
- L.L.Bean cup (minus lid) with the latitude and longitude of the flagship store (43°51’23.2″N 70°05’30.0″W) on one side and the image of a compass measuring tool on the other
- Warby Parker reading glasses
- Dempsey Challenge water bottle by Purist
- Gift card to Commons and Bobcat Den
- Small canvas tote bag, with a print of flipflops, a student giveaway last year by CHEWS, a team of students led by Director of Dining Cheryl Lacey that seeks to educate students about nutritional wellness and sustainable dining
- Post-it page markers
- Knit wool watch cap by R&B Inc. marketed as “U.S. government issue made to Department of Defense specifications”
- Knit dark green winter hat, no logo
- Hydro Flask water bottle with a sticker logo of Guayakí Yerba Mate, an organic beverage company based in California
- Electrical adaptor for a U.S. plug to Type G plug, which is used in many countries, from Bahrain and Bangladesh to Zambia and Zimbabwe
- Xiaomi ear buds
- Four pencil erasers, including a Pink Pearl latex-free eraser by PaperMate
- ID tag from the Burbank (Calif.) Community YMCA
- Sticker of Kibito, a character from the Dragon Ball universe, a loyal servant to the Supreme Kai, also known as Shin
- USB-C to lightning cord (white)
- USB-C to lightning cord (braided)
- Two Crayola colored pencils, one green-blue and the other salmon
- Sharpie Accent liquid highlighter, pink
- Papermate pen, black
- Fiskars non-stick scissors with Tetris pattern.
- Bostitch Twist-n-Sharp hand-held pencil sharpener
- Silver snake ring with green gem and blue detailing (still lost from October)
- Lululemon Glow On hair tie
- Ring with gem missing
- Black headband, no brand
- Costume sunglasses
- Sticker showing a colorful, Rolling Stones-style tongue emerging from a vintage Polaroid camera
- Book, Ten Questions: A Sociological Perspective, by Joel M. Charon
- Book, Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel, by Jeannette Walls
- Book, Perpetua’s Journey: Faith, Gender, and Power in the Roman Empire, by Jennifer A. Rea and Liz Clarke (other books in Lost and Found were Driving While Black by Gretchen Sorin and The Irish Diaspora by Donald Harman Akenson)
- Heart-shaped note of affection to Ellen — “I will always love you” — with the E made of glass beads
- Jar of edge control (a hair-styling product) by Softee
- Sticker with the word “Wanderlust”
- Set of keys for a bicycle lock by Onguard
- Hydro Flask water bottle with the Bates seal and a Sasquatch sticker by Stickers Northwest
- U.S. quarter coin featuring the 2008 statehood design for Alaska on its reverse: a grizzly bear appearing from the river with a salmon in its mouth with the state motto, “The Great Land,” which comes from the Aleutian word “Alyeska”
- Two graphing calculators, one a TI 83 Plus and the other a TI 84 Plus CE. The latter, introduced in 2015, adds a more powerful processor and a higher-resolution color screen
- Six earbud cases: four empty and two with buds
