On Opening Day, Aug. 29, as vehicles arrived at campus residences from Frye Street to Bardwell Street, the scene was the same: red-shirted upperclass students descending, greeting, and emptying them far quicker than they’d been filled.
Leaving their home in Medway, Mass., just before 6 o’clock, the family of Sarah DiPillo ’20 arrived at Bates by 8:30 a.m. and were instantly helped by those red-clad students at her 55 Campus Avenue residence.
They brought an older daughter to nursing school the week before, and that helped them prepare for the Bates trip. “We learned the importance of prior organization,” said her father, Paul DiPillo. “Double-check and triple-check, and don’t stress too much.”
He said, “I’m feeling very happy to see Sarah taking the next step, the next chapter in life. She’ll meet a whole new community of people from different walks of life, different states, different countries.”
“That will help shape her.”