Peggy Rotundo, the associate director of Service Learning at Bates College, is running for reelection to the citywide, at-large position on the Lewiston School Board. Two years ago, I learned just how important the relationship is between the Lewiston School System and Bates College when I did a service learning project for an anthropology class at Lewiston High School. If it was not for the help of Peggy Rotundo, my project either would not have happened or would not have been as successful as it was. There are many students like myself who have had very successful Service Learning experiences in a variety of academic disciplines. During last year, students at Bates donated 15,000 hours of service in the Lewiston schools. Peggy Rotundo worked diligently to make many of those projects possible. She has also worked very hard on the school board to fight against efforts to cut important programs which would have sacrificed the educations of the young students of Lewiston. She has been a great advocate for Bates College and the community as a whole on the Lewiston School Board. I believe that she is one of the people on this campus who has worked the hardest to break the "Bates Bubble" and open the communication and educational lines between the college and the Lewiston community.

If you are already registered to vote in Lewiston, there will be shuttles to the polls sponsored by the Bates Democrats all day on Tuesday leaving from the mailboxes by Chase Hall. If you registered last year when you were living on campus and you continue to live on campus, you are still registered to vote. If you are not yet registered, the Bates Democrats van can take you down to City Hall on that day to both register and vote at that location. If you are not from Maine and you have not completed an absentee ballot elsewhere, you are eligible to register and vote in Maine.

Get out and vote on November 4, 1997 for Peggy Rotundo for Lewiston School Board!

Sincerely,

Renée A. Leduc '98