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George Wigton talks with his basketball team during a winning 1968 game vs. Bowdoin.
Bovine BurpBusters and the methane study, IBU study with the local brewery, the student interviews about the Bates spaces they love, and the Campus Construction Updates. I even had to look up the “Not Today, Satan” reference. A good motto for all of us. THEOPHIL SYSLO
Terry Byrnes P’05
Vero Beach, Fla.
About Facial I loved the article on facial hair. (“Slideshow: Eleven great Bates beards and mustaches from yesteryear,” BatesNews, Sept. 24, 2021). Many of us wore beards and mustaches in the ’70s, but none like those shown. Ken Paillé ’78
Chapel Hill, N.C.
Professor of French and Francophone Studies Kirk Read modeled this outfit at the 2021 Trashion Show, which he and Assistant Dean of the Faculty Kerry O’Brien designed. The outfit’s signature trash was face coverings — 152 of them. “Nous nous masquons donc nous sommes, ‘We mask, therefore we are,” said Read, the first professor to model an outfit at the student-run annual show.
These outfits are brilliant, funny, and meaningful. (“Slideshow: Students’ dazzling Trashion Show outfits,” BatesNews, Nov. 17, 2021). Congratulations to all the designers and models for this light-hearted message about waste. And to everyone else: Unless you are obsessed with recycling like me, take the advice in the story about recycling only beverage cans/bottles and clean paper/cardboard. They account for most of the marketable volume and value in the residential waste stream, 2
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and the other materials can indeed do more harm than good. Marge Davis ’76
Mount Juliet, Tenn.
‘Not Today, Satan’ I couldn’t resist sending you a note of congratulations on yet another outstanding magazine. The photo on the cover of Stella James Sims captured my curiosity right away. The history of the earliest women at Bates was fascinating — I had no idea. Imagine what they had to do to be there. Then, I started reading about the student projects:
Thomas James Bollin, Class of 1879, and his mutton chops.
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