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3 unusual facts about Bates College


Andrew Byrnes

Byrnes is a 2005 graduate of Bates College in Maine, where he rowed for the Bates Rowing Team and earned a masters degree in engineering from University of Pennsylvania in 2006.

Harmonie Club

Later, this building was refurbished and had an annex added, both of which were designed by Herts and Tallant, architects of the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Coram Library at Bates College.

Moses Cheney

Cheney's son Oren Cheney was the founder and first president of Bates College in Maine, and Moses' son Person Cheney served as a U.S. Senator and Governor of New Hampshire.


Alicia M. Soderberg

She attended Bates College, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 2000 with a double major in Math and Physics and participated during the summer in programs at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

Charles Franklin Phillips

Charles Franklin Phillips (May 25, 1910 – March 3, 1998) was the fourth president of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine and a well known economist and author.

Jabez Burns

Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, conferred upon Burns in 1846 the honorary degree of D.D., to which the faculty of Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, added that of LL.D.

John Jay Butler

The highlights of his teaching career included holding the professorship of systematic theology in the Whitestown Seminary at Whitestown, New York for 10 years, as well as holding the professorship of systematic theology in the seminary at New Hampton, New Hampshire for 16 years, and in Bates College at Lewiston, Maine for 3 years.

Jonathan M. Weiss

During his tenure as director of off-campus study, Weiss established programs of study in Dijon, France, and London, England, the latter a joint program with Bowdoin and Bates colleges.

New Hampton, New Hampshire

From 1854 to 1870, the institute was affiliated with Cobb Divinity School (later part of Bates College).

William Stringfellow

Born in Johnston, Rhode Island, he managed to obtain several scholarships and entered Bates College in Lewiston, Maine at the age of fifteen.


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