Slide show features 2010 Commencement day photos
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Bates College Registrar Mary Meserve checks the diplomas on Commencement morning. Of the 455 graduates, 241 are women and 214 are men. Forty-nine come from Maine, and 28 of the states were represented in the class. Twenty-six of the graduating students come from other countries.
Always uplifting, the 2010 Commencement ceremony had a conversational, convivial spirit, as presenters on stage passed laughs around, friends and families jostled for camera angles and cheered on their graduates, and the breeze shook loose maple seeds that came glittering down like confetti in the sun. Photographs by Phyllis Graber Jensen.
