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While documenting the visit by a guest speaker in one of Pettengill Hall’s ground-floor classrooms, I glanced out a window, toward Lake Andrews. I saw three empty Adirondack chairs facing the Lane Hall parking lot, aka “the Pit,” hemmed in by a pile of dirty, crusty snow. Late March in Maine is many things, but typically not a harbinger of spring. Rather, it's a reminder to practice patience and change your perspective, good advice for a photographer, perhaps better advice for us all.

— Phyllis Graber Jensen

Editor

H. Jay Burns

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Jin Kwon

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Kirsten Burns

Director of Photography

Phyllis Graber Jensen

Photographer

Theophil Syslo

Class Notes Editor

Doug Hubley

Contributing Editors

Mary Pols

Freddie Wright

President of Bates

A. Clayton Spencer (through June 30, 2023) Garry W. Jenkins (as of July 1, 2023)

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Production Bates Magazine is published twice annually at family-owned Penmor Lithographers, just a few minutes from campus. We use paper created with 100 percent postconsumer fiber and print with inks that are 99.5 percent free of volatile compounds.

On the Cover Garry W. Jenkins, who officially becomes Bates’ new president on July 1, poses for a portrait in front of the college’s oldest building, Hathorn Hall, during his first visit to campus on March 6. See page 27 for our story introducing Jenkins as the college’s ninth president, a leader who, in the words of a Bates alumna who considers him to be a mentor, “reminds me of my favorite Bates professors.” Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen.

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