As the days get warmer, the learners at Bates get younger and older. ‘Tis the season of summer sports camps and research conferences.
So after photographing the student lost-and-found collection at Ladd Library, we headed to Commons to check items recently lost in the dining hall, some presumably by youngsters attending one of several Bates sports camps, and other items perhaps misplaced by grownups attending the summer-long series of Gordon Research Conferences.
Misplaced at Commons by a youngster, these notes explain what they know about freestyle and what they hope to work on during the Bobcat Swim Camp. (Jay Burns/Bates College)
These notes from a young swim camper explain proper body position for a swimmer. (Jay Burns/Bates College)
On the side of youth were notes on wide ruled loose leaf paper. Charming and purposeful, they likely belong to a camper with the Bobcat Swim Camp run by Peter Casares, head coach of swimming and diving at Bates.
Under one heading, “What I Know About Freestyle,” the camper reported techniques such as keeping one’s head still. And what they want to work on: keeping arms straight and taking fewer breaths.
Another heading had notes about body position. Here, the camper drew a picture of a body in the water, showing proper alignment of the four H’s, “hands, head, hips, and heels.” (As Peter Casares likes to say about the importance of alignment, “The kayak is more important than the paddle.”)
Then we found, along with someone’s misplaced photo strip of party pix, dachshund-mermaid earrings (or is it mermaid-dachsund?); and yes, they’re available on Etsy.
And over at Ladd Library, we found another two dozen or so items that are lost and not yet found. And here they are:
- Three sets of headphones, including one with a logo celebrating 50 years of NCAA Division III sports
- Earrings and rings, various
- 64-ounce water bottle by Zulu
- Water bottle by Hydro Flask
- Bike lock key by Onguard
- Sweatshirt showing Snoopy as “Joe Cool,” with sunglasses, backpack, and cap on backwards (not pictured)
- Jacket from Bates field hockey, with two packets of mustard in a pocket
- Jacket from South Texas ISD Medical Professions, a high school in Olmito, Texas
- Reusable shopping bag by Hannaford
- Reusable shopping bag by Target
- Sweatshirt from Arlington (Mass.) Catholic Cougars baseball (not pictured)
- Book, Driving While Black, by Gretchen Sorin
- Book, New Religious Movements, by George D. Chryssides
- Charging cable, USB-C to MagSafe 3
- Susan Bates “Knit-Chek” tool made by C.J. Bates & Son Inc. when the famed company, at one time the largest U.S. manufacturer of crochet hooks and knitting needles, was based in Chester, Conn. The Bates factory closed in 1992, and the Susan Bates brand name is now owned by a Canadian company.
- Single knit glove with three imitation leather shank buttons
- Lift ticket from the Dartmouth Skiway
- Museumkaart, or Museum Card, that grants free entry to 400 museums in the Netherlands for one year.
- Thank you card, apparently sent to the holder of the above Museumkaart for use of the card during a visit. They wrote, “I’m so glad I got to visit you!!! Amsterdam was awesome and SO fun!! I LOVE YOU.”
- Eclipse glasses by Sonic advertising the “Blackout Slush Float”
- Prepaid laundry cards by CSC, the company that owns and services the washers and dryers in almost all student residences
- Lanyard, Bates-branded
- Carrying case, Texas Instruments graphing calculator by Elonbo
- Tumbler by Room Essentials (Target)
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