Alumni
Many notable individuals have attended Bates College, including Civil War hero Holman S. Melcher (1862), prominent biologist and professor Herbert E. Walter (1892), president of Morehouse College and mentor to Martin Luther King Jr. Benjamin Mays (1920), U.S. Secretary of State Edmund Muskie (1936), U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (1944–45 as part of the Navy's V-12 program), Harvard minister and theologian Peter J. Gomes (1965), award-winning television journalist Bryant Gumbel (1970), U.S. Representative Robert Goodlatte (1974), CEO of Medco Health Solutions David B. Snow Jr. (1976), author and 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout (1977), corporate vice president at Microsoft Rick Thompson (1981), award-winning investigative reporter and news presenter Jonathan Hall (1983), published bioengineer John R. Hetling (1989), editor of Time Magazine Online Joshua Macht (1991), blues musician Corey Harris (1991), and neuroscientist and author Lisa Genova (1992).
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