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  Person of the Week: Katharine Lee Bates
Katharine's brothers entered the world of work at an early age to help their mother, Cornelia Frances (Lee) Bates, support the family in William's absence, and to ensure that their sister "Katie" would receive the finest education available.
Bates was a lecturer at Colorado College, in Colorado Springs, CO, in the summer of 1893.
Bates was an active member of numerous and wide ranging humanitarian, academic, and political organizations, including the American Association for Labor Legislation, the Antivivisection Society, the League of Nations and the American Poetry Society, to name but a few.
www.wellesley.edu /Anniversary/bates.html   (578 words)

  
  FALMOUTH MUSEUMS  ON THE GREEN
Miss Bates was inspired to write the poem in 1893, when she journeyed across the country to lecture at Colorado College’s summer session.
Katharine was traveling by train, able to relax and enjoy the views of sparsely settled territories.
Katharine continued perfecting her poem until, in 1911, she published the verses we know so well today in a volume of her own works entitled America the Beautiful and Other Poems.
www.falmouthhistoricalsociety.org /05/klbates.htm   (662 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Katharine
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 Katharine Lee Bates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Katharine Lee Bates - born in Falmouth, Massachusetts
In 1893 Miss Bates stopped in Chicago on her way to Colorado, where she was on the faculty of a notable summer school.
Miss Bates said she had "given hundreds, perhaps thousands of free permissions for its use." It has gone not only to every corner of the land, but is sung in Australia, substituting that country's name for America.
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 Katharine Lee Bates Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
American poet and educator Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929) was a leading force in the early development of Wellesley College in Massachusetts and a noted literary scholar.
Katharine Lee Bates was an educator and writer who is best known for her poem, "America the Beautiful." After its publication in the Boston Evening Transcript in 1904, the poem gained nationwide popularity for its celebration of the spirit and natural beauty of the country.
Bates, the youngest of four children, was born August 12, 1859, in Falmouth, Massachusetts.
www.bookrags.com /biography/katharine-lee-bates   (1315 words)

  
 The Katharine Lee Bates Page
Katharine Lee Bates was born on August 12, 1859 in Falmouth, Massachusetts to William and Cornelia Frances Lee Bates.
Bates and Coman lived as a couple for 25 years in what is sometimes referred to as a "Boston marriage." In 1912, Coman was diagnosed with cancer.
Bates retained the copyright on her poem to prevent it from being altered, but she never sought royalties for its publication or performance.
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 Bates, Katharine Lee - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
BATES, KATHARINE LEE [Bates, Katharine Lee] 1859-1929, American author, b.
For Singer Ray Charles, America Is Beautiful; To Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of His Famed Rendition of Katharine Lee Bates' Classic, Every Radio Station in America Is Being Invited To Simultaneously Play the Soul Legend's Patriotic Tribute At the Stroke of Midnight on July 4.
Katharine Coman: America's first woman institutional economist and a champion of education for citizenship.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-bates-k1a.html   (329 words)

  
 Songwriters Hall of Fame   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Katharine Lee Bates was born on August 12th, 1959 in Falmouth, Massachusetts.
In 1915, Bates was a founder of the New England Poetry Club and served as its president.
Bates remarked on the immediate and lasting success of the song stating: “That the hymn has gained, in these twenty odd years, such a hold as it has upon our people, is clearly due to the fact that Americans are at heart idealists, with a fundamental faith in human brotherhood.”
www.songwritershalloffame.org /exhibit_home_page.asp?exhibitId=194   (527 words)

  
 America the Beautiful Inspires Again
Bates felt as though the heavens had opened and the words were actually being given to her.
Lee Bates, daughter and granddaughter of Congregational ministers, was born August 12, 1859, in Falmouth, Mass.
Bates was honored by doctorates from Middlebury, Oberlin, and Wellesley Colleges and was the author and editor of about two dozen books, but is primarily remembered today for her hymn, "America the Beautiful."
www.congregationalist.org /Archivesold/Dec_01/Bates.html   (875 words)

  
 Isle of Lesbos: Poetry of Katharine Lee Bates
Katharine Lee Bates was an ardent feminist and the author of the song "America the Beautiful." She attended Wellesley college and later returned to join the faculty.
In 1912, Coman was diagnosed with cancer, and Bates nursed her until Coman died in 1915.
Statue of Katharine Lee Bates--shows a photograph of the statue in Falmouth, with plaque inscription.
www.sappho.com /poetry/k_bates.html   (515 words)

  
 KATHARINE LEE BATES
In the summer of 1893, when she was lecturing at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Bates joined a group that took a rough prairie wagonride plus a struggle by mule, followed by an exhausting hike to the top of 14,000 foot-high Pike’s Peak.
Bates, in her agony, published Yellow Clover: A Book of Remembrance celebrating their love and their common labor not only in education and literature but also their involvement in social reform with their colleague Vida Scudder.
Bates died at home in Wellesley at the age of seventy.
www.harvardsquarelibrary.org /poets/bates.php   (384 words)

  
 Katharine L. Bates
In 1893 Katherine Lee Bates, a poet and teacher, climbed to the summit of Pikes Peak.
In l893, when she was thirty-four, Katharine Lee Bates was invited to teach summer school in Colorado Springs.
Best-known for writing "America the Beautiful" Bates was a graduate of Wellesley College where she later served the head of its English department.
www.queertheory.com /histories/b/bates_katharine_lee.htm   (563 words)

  
 Notes for Katharine Lee BATES
Miss Bates was often photographed with her collie Hamlet, successor to Sigurd, and her parrot Polonius.
A feather from Polonlus is on display at the Katharine Lee Bates house on the Village Green.
Miss Bates was the fifth child born to William and Cornelia Frances Lee Bates.
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 The Katharine Lee Bates Shrine!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Katharine Lee Bates was born in a house on Falmouth's Main Street on August 12th, 1859.
Katharine Lee Bates wrote the words to one of the most famous and beloved songs in American History, America The Beautiful.
The real experts on the life of Katharine Lee Bates are the good folks at The Falmouth Historical Society, who maintain a museum at her former home on Main Street.
www.fuzzylu.com /falmouth/bates   (172 words)

  
 Daily Celebrations ~ Katharine Lee Bates, From Sea to Shining Sea ~ July 4 ~ Ideas to motivate, educate, and inspire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929), an English professor at Wellesley College, took a summer teaching job at Colorado College in 1893.
As a gift to the American people, both Bates and Ward gave up all royalty to the song--a tribute to America's greatness and a patriotic masterpiece of spirit, praise, and prayer.
About the immediate and lasting success of her tribute, Bates said, "That the hymn has gained such a hold as it has upon our people, is clearly due to the fact that Americans are at heart idealists, with a fundamental faith in human brotherhood."
www.dailycelebrations.com /070400.htm   (239 words)

  
 Probably it happened that Katharine Lee Bates has had the greatest journey visiting Veria . Katharine Lee Bates ponder ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Probably it happened that Katharine Lee Bates has had the greatest journey visiting Veria.
Katharine Lee Bates ponder Veria to be one of the most beautiful places in the world.
Compared to Katharine Lee Bates everything is likely to appear as something bad.
www.bad-bad-bad.com /poets/Poy20039.htm   (325 words)

  
 Lyrics and Music
The lyrics to this beautiful song were written by Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929) an instructor at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, after an inspiring trip to the top of Pikes Peak, Colorado, in 1893.
Bates revised the lyrics in 1904 and again in 1913.
In addition to those changes in the words, it is notable that the poem was not always sung to the tune presented on this website ("Materna," composed by Samuel A. Ward in 1882, nearly a decade before the poem was written).
www.niehs.nih.gov /kids/lyrics/america.htm   (351 words)

  
 Katharine Lee Bates: BIO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Miss Bates was often photographed with her collie Hamlet, successor to Sigurd, and her parrot Polonius.
A feather from Polonlus is on display at the Katharine Lee Bates house on the Village Green.
Miss Bates was the fifth child born to William and Cornelia Frances Lee Bates.
www.fuzzylu.com /falmouth/bates/klbnotes.html   (990 words)

  
 Katharine Lee Bates Essays and Term Papers on Katharine Lee Bates Essay Paper Research
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 Katharine Lee Bates - Wellesley, Massachusetts - MA - school overview
Katharine Lee Bates - Wellesley, Massachusetts - MA - school overview
Bates is one of the best elementary schools in Wellesley.
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 One day it happened that Katharine Lee Bates has made an interesting trip in Kyparissia . Katharine Lee Bates ponder ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
One day it happened that Katharine Lee Bates has made an interesting trip in Kyparissia.
Katharine Lee Bates ponder Kyparissia to be something very interesting to visit.
In fact, surrealist thinkers have tried with little success to correlate the essence of Kyparissia with the essence of Katharine Lee Bates.
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 IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection
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 Katharine Lee Bates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Bates was a prolific poet and a professor of English and head of the English department at Wellesley, where she had been a student in its earliest years.
She crossed the country by train from Boston to Colorado Springs, She kept a diary, as she had since she was nine, and wrote down odds and ends of observation and poetry when she could.
She saw Niagara Falls, stopped off to visit a friend and see the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where she marveled at Mr.
academy.d20.co.edu /ate/bates.html   (283 words)

  
 Katharine Lee Bates Quotes
2 Quotes for 'Katharine Lee Bates' in the Database.
O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountains majesties Above the fruited plain.
All Quotes are provided for educational purposes only and contributed by users.
www.worldofquotes.com /author/Katharine-Lee-Bates/1   (114 words)

  
 Statue of Katharine Lee Bates-Wellesley Web   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
At the summit of Pike's Peak, Colorado in 1893 the opening lines of"America the Beautiful" floated into the mind of Katharine Lee Batesand gave new meaning to the spectacular view.
On a faculty outing to the famous peak, images of the journey reappeared in her inspired poetic vision of America.
William Bates in the parsonage of FirstCongregational Church of the Village Green, Katharine spent formative years in Falmouth.
www.wellesleyweb.com /kbates.htm   (181 words)

  
 KATHARINE BATES Autograph
Concluding paragraph of an ALS: "Katharine Lee Bates,"
My classes may remain in Egyptian darkness for all me. I would dearly like to keep with Miss Eastman.
Yours enthusiastically." Bates, a Wellesley English professor, wrote "America the Beautiful" in 1893 (revising it in 1904 and 1911).
www.historyforsale.com /html/prodetails.asp?documentid=174353   (182 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Katharine Lee Bates (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Katharine Lee Bates (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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 Amazon.com: Dream and deed;: The story of Katharine Lee Bates: Books: Dorothy Whittemore Bates Burgess   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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 Fun(d)raising Players
Served at the Seventh Annual Katharine Lee Bates Poetry Fest and Birthday Bash sponsored by the Falmouth Historical Society's Museums Grounds, Palmer Avenue, Falmouth on the Falmouth Historical Society's Museum Lawns
Served at the Sixth Annual Katharine Lee Bates Poetry Fest and Birthday Bash sponsored by the Falmouth Historical Society's Museums Grounds, Palmer Avenue, Falmouth
5th Annual Katharine Lee Bates Poetry Fest and Birthday Bash
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 KATHARINE LEE BATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
The mission of Bates Elementary School is to be a neighborhood school that exceeds state standards by providing a safe learning environment while meeting students' individual, academic, creative, and social needs through best instructional practice, frequent assessments, and ongoing home/school communications.
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