{"id":2036,"date":"2008-12-02T14:01:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T19:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:31:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:31:12","slug":"robert-kinney-39-awarded-mays-medal-at-benjamin-bates-society-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2008\/12\/02\/robert-kinney-39-awarded-mays-medal-at-benjamin-bates-society-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Kinney '39 awarded Mays Medal at Benjamin ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Society meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Benjamin ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Society<\/p><\/div>\n

E. Robert Kinney ’39, LL.D. ’85, has been awarded ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½’ highest alumni honor, the Benjamin Elijah Mays Medal, for distinguished service to the College and to the larger community worldwide. Kinney, a former CEO of General Mills, received the honor from the Alumni Council Nov. 8 in Minneapolis, at the third gathering of the Benjamin ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Society, philanthropists who have given $1 million or more in lifetime gifts to the College.<\/p>\n

The Benjamin ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Society recognizes the extraordinary philanthropy and personal commitment of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ donors who have made the College a primary priority, and includes donors with $1 million or more in lifetime gifts to the College. Membership is the highest distinction conferred upon benefactors of the College and is given in the spirit of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½\u2019 first benefactor, Benjamin ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, whose gifts were instrumental in the earliest days of the College.<\/p>\n

To learn more about the Benjamin ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Society, please contact Kelly Kerner, Vice President for College Advancement at 207-786-6247 or kkerner@bates.edu<\/a>. [More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

E. Robert Kinney ’39, LL.D. ’85, has been awarded ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½’ highest alumni honor, the Benjamin Elijah Mays Medal, for distinguished service to the College and to the larger community worldwide. Kinney, a former CEO of General Mills, received the honor from the Alumni Council Nov. 8 in Minneapolis, at the third gathering of the Benjamin ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Society, philanthropists who have given $1 million or more in lifetime gifts to the College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_estimated-read-time":"","_post-template":"","_header-color":"","_photo-credit":"","_header-effect":"","override_related_with_tag":"","_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,220],"tags":[1596,7544],"class_list":["post-2036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-service","tag-benjamin-e-mays","tag-robert-kinney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62505,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions\/62505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}