a century of june At age 101, June Lovelace Griffin ’36 still has a passion for painting and a way with words pho to g raphy by ph y lli s g r abe r je nse n reporti ng by h . jay bu r ns
At age 101, June Lovelace Griffin ’36 is one of the college’s oldest alumni, and she still lives in her own home near the Bates campus. Although she wrote travel stories for newspapers and magazines for decades, that work was just “cut and dried,” she says. Her real passion has been, and continues to be, her painting, which she does every day in her home studio. We visited with Griffin last fall, and here’s what she said about Bates, her life, and her art.
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