Stories about "Lake Andrews"
Basking turtles, annoyed birds, 16 animals you might meet at Lake Andrews

Thursday, June 6, 2024 12:57 pm

Whether you’re an alum here for Reunion weekend, or a daily Puddle walker, here are 15 animals we’ve seen at Lake Andrews recently and over the years — and that you might see when you swing by the popular Bates pond.

Video: Campus osprey tries to build a nest at Garcelon

Friday, April 21, 2023 1:52 pm

Immense talent at finding prey doesn’t mean that an osprey, or any bird, will also be good at nest-building.

Bill Tucker ’66 and his wife of 31 years, Monica Drozd renew their vows at the Keigwin Amphitheatre on Friday, Sept. 24, in a ceremony officiated by Tucker’s classmate Bill Hiss ’66 and witnessed by Leadership Gift Officers Cary Gemmer Blake ’07 and Rebecca Lazure, both of Advancement. Also present was Colleen Quint ’86 and BCO writer Jen Wright.Hiss writes: “Bill and I had adjoining rooms in what is now Turner House in 1965-6, and have been clise friends ever since. Bill’s Bates story is a fascinating and very unconventional one…He first arrived in the late 1950’s, and with 4 years in between of active duty as an Army MP, finished in 1967. He then set a speed record for a Princeton Ph.D. In psychometrics, and moved into Camden, NJ, where he spent his entire career as a Psychology prof at Rutgers Camden. He wrote some masterful scholarly books both on the use of testing (an interest we have shared for decades), and on the hidden work of truly nasty right-wing foundations. To say that Bill has a lifelong commitment to racial and social justice is a big understatement.”“His Bates and family story is powerfully American: his paternal grandfather deserted from the Czar’s army as a Jewish conscript and walked from the Caucasus to Rotterdam to get a boat to America. His mother’s family, Viennese Jewish intellectuals, got out of Austria barely ahead of the Gestapo. Bill’s use of his Bates education has been masterful, and his philanthropic support goes to issues of racial justice, including some quiet support of bringing minority students from Camden to see Bates.”
At Lake Andrews, wedding vows reaffirmed among treasured Bates friends

Thursday, September 30, 2021 12:25 pm

When Bill Tucker ’67 and Monica Drozd decided to renew their wedding vows, they knew exactly where they wanted to be, and who they wanted to be with.

Slideshow: Osprey vs. goldfish at Lake Andrews

Thursday, September 12, 2019 10:00 am

Watch what happens when an osprey goes for the gold at Lake Andrews.

Recalling the 1998 restoration of Lake Andrews

Thursday, July 19, 2018 12:37 pm

Twenty years ago this summer, Bates began a major restoration of the Lake Andrews area. Learn what they found in the pond, and learn who got stuck in the muck.

Video: Experience two Reunion classics through time lapse

Friday, June 15, 2018 10:53 am

In just 90 seconds, check out the annual fireworks show and Alumni Parade at Reunion 2018.

Video: Anticipation, action, reaction at the 2018 Puddle Jump

Friday, February 2, 2018 11:09 am

The weather: pretty cold. The costumes: wigs and heels, goggles and pig noses, swimsuits and cow suits. Then: the jump.

Picture story: Puddle Jump 2017

Thursday, January 26, 2017 5:44 pm

Check out photos and video of the Jan. 20 Puddle Jump at Lake Andrews, a joyous student tradition that happily leaves the question “Why?” unanswered.

Photo Story: Leaping, skimming, and freezing at the Puddle Jump

Friday, February 19, 2016 11:37 am

The Bates Puddle Jump, the annual, you-have-to-be mad dash from shore to pond, has been going strong as a student rite of passage since 1975. A new wrinkle for 2016: Pond skimming!

Slideshow: 2015 Puddle Jump hits great heights

Monday, January 26, 2015 1:06 pm

The annual Puddle Jump, held on Jan. 23 as part of Winter…

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