Bates College

Lewiston, Maine

Graduates: 383

Degrees: BA, BS

Speaker: Chinua Achebe, novelist

Honorary degrees: Peter J. Gomes, minister of the Memorial Church and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard University; Natalie Webber Gulbrandsen, president of the International Association for Religious Freedom; and Edward O. Wilson, entomologist and Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard