page_title: Lane Hall
section_title: Trustees of the college
hierarchical_section_title: Lane Hall / Trustees of the college
caption_attribution_description: English: President of Bates College, Clifton Daggett Gray
context_page_description: Lane Hall is a later 20th-century neoclassical building serving as the principal workplace and headquarters of the central administration of Bates College, located at 2 Andrews Road in Lewiston, Maine. It has been the principle administrative headquarters of every Bates president since Thomas Hedley Reynolds in 1964. Lane Hall was named after George Lane Jr., who served as treasurer of the college and secretary of the corporation.
  The building name, Lane Hall is used to refer metonymically to the central administration of Bates College. The Board of Trustees combined with the office of the presidency create the Bates College Corporation, the highest level of authority for the college and its extended domains. The members of the Board of Trustees, central administration, and the president are afforded certain and selected powers, privileges, rights and immunities through the Laws of the President and Trustees of Bates College, the highest ranking document in the Corporation of Bates College.
  The hall, often confused with the official residence of the president, provides no residential space for any executive offices.
context_section_description: The college's Board of Fellows and Board of Overseers combined to create a united Board of Trustees featuring alumni, and accomplished members of society associated with Bates. The President and Board of Trustees of Bates College are afforded certain and selective rights that they are free to exercise in their official capacity. The property and government has historically been vested in its founder, and in his each President thereafter, including each of the following groups by ruling of the Laws of the President and Trustees of Bates College. The Laws of the President and Trustees of Bates College ensures the following:
  
  The number of active members on the Board of Trustees is constitutionally set to be barred from exceeding a maximum of forty people with a minimum set at three members. When the allowed and mandated amount is reached only then can the Board of Trustees establish their quorum. The members are directly responsible for the election and eventual appointment of a Chairperson of the Board, Vice-Chairperson of the Board and a Secretary of the Board. With the aforementioned completed, the Board of Trustees may pursue the nomination, confirmation, and appointment of new members. All members of the Board of Trustees have a good standing term limit of up to five years, with a maximum of one selection. Although a rarity, a Trustee may serve for longer than ten years (or two terms of five years each) and may even serve at the incumbent president's pleasure. In order for such a status to be reached the Trustee must be appointed by the Executive Committee, and must be confirmed by two-thirds majority vote by the entire Board of Trustees. Only the President of the College and the Chairperson of the Board of Trustees may convene a meeting unprompted and unscheduled in the event of a confirmed emergency.
  The Board of Trustees may convene independently of the Corporation, that is to say, the office of the presidency and central administration to discuss sensitive or legally personal matters effecting the welfare of the college or its administration. Independent meetings may choose to bar the president or any member of the central administration from attending. An age limit of seventy years old is set for each and every Trustee unless one has been selected to serve at the incumbent president's pleasure.
  The Board of Trustees is to elect a Treasurer of the Board of Trustees, who is to also serve as the Treasurer of the Corporation. This office is separate and distinctive from the central administration's Treasurer and Vice President for Finance and Administration. More specifically the Corporation's Treasurer is directly resonsible for its "stocks, bonds, debentures, notes and other such instruments".
  Due to the provisions of Title 13-B of the Maine Revised Statutes, any member of the Corporation of Bates College, including the president and trustees, in good faith and standing, has totaled immunity from all financial and economic expenses through the charter's indemnification policy. Enacted only when directly protecting, securing or promoting the overall welfare of the College.
  The Board of Trustees establish the numerous Committees to secure the administration and wellbeing of the College. The Committee on Academic Affairs was established to oversee the College's athletic program and the academic activities and meet with the Faculty's Committee on Faculty Governance to discuss and promote the academic program of the college. The Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid was created to reviews policies and decides the direction for new admissions standards.
caption: 3rd President of Bates, Clifton Dagget Gray established the Board of Fellows and Board of Overseers after briefly considering combining them to form an appointed Board of Directors. Since then the college's Board of Fellows and Board of Overseers combined to create a united Board of Trustees.
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