Bates Magazine Fall 2011

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Peter’s Freedom

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Honor behind closed doors Makeover for career development Andrew Cyr ’96 gets hip (and classical) Summing up the Hansen presidency

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F E AT U R E S 16 ‘Alive to Change’

By H. Jay Burns Photographs by Phyllis Graber Jensen In her final interview as Bates’ seventh president, Elaine Tuttle Hansen reflects on her 2002 inaugural vision and the realities that followed.

22 Career Intentions

By Bill Walsh ’86 and H. Jay Burns After a Chapter 11–style shutdown, Bates reinvigorated and redeployed its career-development program to win back students, faculty, and alumni.

28 Peter’s Freedom

By Carl Benton Straub The late Peter Gomes ’65 did what he did out of his audacious and confounding freedom as a Christian man.

32 ‘One of Us’

By H. Jay Burns Photographs by Phyllis Graber Jensen Behind the closed doors of an honors defense, young scholars undergo a final metamorphosis.

36 On an Urban Scale

By Bob Keyes Andrew Cyr ’96 is doing what few others have: making contemporary classical music hip and accessible.

P RO F I L E S 48 Derek Langhauser ’84

Langhauser helps colleges untangle dicey First Amendment issues.

51 William DePaolo ’99

DePaolo is undaunted by the trillions of bacteria cells in our stomachs.

54 Kim Hoffman ’04

Hoffman’s life raft invention creates water where there’s none.

DE PARTM E N TS 3 Open Forum

Remembering a new type of leader, Jim Carignan ’61.

­5 Quad Angles

The faculty approves a dance major, and alums return to honor the Plavin legacy.

13 Scene Again

Recalling the Lisbon Street mural project of 1971.

14 Sports Notes

Cody Newman ’11 brought trademark talents to chemistry research and lacrosse faceoffs.

38 Class Notes 66 Connections

A Bates listening tour takes a deliberate route to multicultural engagement.

68 Your Page

The silent boy wasn’t the only one who was failing.

Open to the World

Bates Celebrates Unbounded Learning To celebrate the reopening of Hedge Hall and Roger Williams Hall as modern academic centers, the college is readying a weeklong showcase of distinctive academic events. Please join Bates faculty, staff, students, trustees, and friends for this cornucopia of celebratory offerings — captivating, enriching, and infused with the ethos of principled global engagement. • Keynote speakers and lively academic discussion • Young alumni sharing experiences of engagement with the world • Music and poetry readings • Worldwide food and cultural fellowship in Commons • Festivities to formally dedicate the two renovated and expanded buildings

Unbounded Learning

More than a century ago, Hedge and Roger Williams opened their doors to scholars and students infused with the bold spirit of unbounded learning. Today, Hedge and Roger Williams brightly exemplify the imaginative reuse of historic campus architecture. The two halls are again a home base from which innovative Bates scholars and students can engage the world.

Symposium: Cost, Price, and Aid

Concluding the week on Oct. 29 is the college’s Presidential Symposium on Cost, Price, and Aid, featuring Sandy Baum, a sought-after national expert on higher education pricing and student aid, and Robert B. Archibald and David H. Feldman, authors of Why Does College Cost So Much?

The Dedication and Reopening of Hedge Hall and Rogers Williams Hall October 24 through 29, 2011 Dedication information and stories, photographs, and video about the Hedge and Roger Williams renovation project and the presidential symposium home.bates.edu/hedge-roger-williams

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Farm Semester

I thoroughly enjoyed the Winter 2011 issue and the story “Good Eggs.” My love affair with chickens began on a bulletin board at Bates in the spring of 1945. Because of the war and the draft, Bates students could graduate in two and a half years by attending summer sessions. I Good Eggs had been at Bates for two summers, but that was enough. I wanted some other experience. A small note on the bulletin board asked for volunteers for the Women’s Land Army. This meant working on a farm in Maine to help with the labor shortage. I landed on a family farm in Fairfield. For three months I took care of 1,500 chickens, helped in the fields, fed the bull, and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. If I hadn’t been at Bates it wouldn’t have happened. Were I at Bates now, I would certainly be involved in social-justice issues. The students who are involved will be influenced for life, as I was by working on a farm. Rohna Isaacson Shoul ’46, Newton, Mass.

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control of the situation. In the end, he got the street cleared and the stereos turned down, and the police were able to drive away without making arrests. This is what Jim said about that event: “If you’re in a crisis situation, you’ve got to change from confrontation to something short of that, where two or three parties are able to fulfill their expectations while respecting the other groups.” Jim had a reputation for taking risks and for solving problems face to face and in the moment. He once called an open forum in the Chapel on sexual harassment issues that turned explosive but, finally, productive. Afterward, the president told Jim that “one of these times you are going to roll those dice and it is not going to work — but I am glad it worked this time.” Jim brought an incredible spirit, optimism, and integrity to his leadership. One of his toughest times was going through not one, but two

also in this issue

The surrogacy of Rachel Segall ’91

Our man in Russia

A day at the dude ranch

Garcelon’s big debut

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Why the national

salmonella outbreak didn’t

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surprise Maine alums

Carignan’s Way

I wish to share a few lessons that I learned from a lifetime mentor and friend, Dean Emeritus of the College Jim Carignan ’61, who died Aug. 14, 2011. I got to know Jim professionally in 1999, when he asked me to join a civic leadership institute in Lewiston-Auburn. During our work together, he talked about his own growth as a leader. In the trajectory of his story, which became a case study during my doctoral studies, I saw parallels to what leadership theorists have learned about good leadership: At its core, it is about people and relationships. In his 33 years at Bates, Jim moved from a top-down, command-and-control leadership style to a collaborative and relational approach. As Colin Powell has said, “Leadership is not about organizations.... It is all about people — motivating people to get the job done.” Jim learned that leadership sometimes means serving as an intermediary and a facilitator of process — a servant leader. For example, I’m sure some alums recall when seniors, years ago, turned Wood Street into an out-of-control block party during Senior Week. The rowdiness attracted a great number of Lewiston police, and they were on the verge of arresting students when Jim showed up. He asked the police for 10 minutes so he could work with the students to get them to take

In 2003, Jim Carignan ’61 stands next to an oak planted near the Chapel to honor his retirement as dean of the college.

heart transplants. He was on a heart-lung machine for two days before a second heart could be found. In fact, the doctors were reluctant to do a second transplant. But Jim basically said, “Look, we didn’t come this far to turn down a heart. You take me in there and do it. I’ll make it.” Jim’s third heart was a woman’s heart — he joked that it was the reason he was able to see the relational side of leadership. In his good humor, his strong and sincere relationships, and his ability to read people, Jim was the best of leaders. He was, and is, a remarkable model. Joc Clark ’86, Paradise, Calif.

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Is Winning a Losing Proposition?

That was a beautiful photo in the Winter issue of refurbished Garcelon Field, iconic venue for fierce athletic competition. Ironically, a few pages beyond, Bates sociology professor Francesco Duina maintains that we Americans are too competitive and “obsessed” with winning. It makes us unhappy and disliked abroad. He says the Danish noncompetitive system is “more civilized” even though it “does deprive a lot of people of freedom.” He knows they are not the happiest people — “but they are content.” Americans of my generation will recall that most Danes were “content” to be deprived of their freedom under Nazi occupation, which they endured with only a murmur of resistance. If Americans were like “contented” Danes, America today would be a British dominion fenced in east of the Mississippi by foreign powers who had divided up everything west of it. But, hey, Professor Duina is a sociologist, not a historian. Neither is he a political scientist, but he thinks that Al Gore is viewed as a loser because he should have won the 2000 election because “his opponent was perceived as weaker.” Perceived by whom? Among those who have experienced American politics and politicians close up, I am not alone in perceiving Al Gore as a phony political windbag. Professor Duina says that he was inspired to write his book in part because of “George Bush’s insistence on ‘winning the peace in Iraq,’” which he calls “an absurd concept.” Would he apply that label to Barack Obama’s insistence on spending trillions of borrowed dollars on “winning the future”? Probably not. Bates would consider that racist, and he would be shunned in the faculty lounge (assuming that after all the recent building Bates actually has a faculty lounge!). Professor Duina seems an amiable young man who is probably not obsessed with winning. But he knows how to win in the competitive world of leftist, feminized academia: write a book denigrating America’s competitive spirit and throw in a few barbs at our 43rd president. Charles W. Radcliffe ’50, Annapolis, Md. Francesco Duina responds: Mr. Radcliffe, in his comments about my book, Winning, doubts whether I would be critical of President Obama’s recent fixation on “winning the future.” As it turns out, I have discussed our president’s language during town library meetings and in a number of interviews, including with David Phillippi for the blog New Books in Sociology and with Connecticut Public Radio’s Where We Live program. I’ve talked about President Obama’s language about the future, including wanting to be “No. 1” in the world, as “circuitous” and “terribly confusing and loose phrasing,” which is representative of our collective American tendency to view much of life in competitive terms,

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P RE AM BLE Spare Change

After calling Pettigrew Hall home for much of his faculty career, Sanford Freedman and his English faculty colleagues are now in Hathorn Hall. “Fifty-six boxes,” Freedman says, explaining how much stuff he, with help from his children and a moving company, lugged the 350 feet from Pettigrew to Hathorn. The reopening of renovated Hedge and Roger Williams halls (see page 12) started the domino effect of academic and administrative moves this summer: From Bardwell Street, the environmental studies faculty are now in Hedge, along with philosophy and religious studies, who moved from Campus Avenue. From Hathorn and Lane, respectively, the foreign language programs and the Off-Campus Study office have joined forces in Roger Williams. From Campus Avenue’s Alumni House, being demolished due to structural problems, the Office of Alumni and Parent Engagement is in Hathorn. From Schaeffer Theatre and Coram Library, the dance faculty have stepped into Pettigrew, joining the Bates Dance Festival, which moved from Frye Street. I’ve always thought that Bates is pretty good at not allowing stuff, whether buildings or history, to halt the occasional regathering of faculty in different places as academic needs change. As this issue shows, the concept of regathering resources isn’t limited to the academic realm. Starting on page 22, we explain how Bates made great and sometimes painful changes to improve the college’s career-development program. Elaine Tuttle Hansen, in her final interview as Bates’ seventh president (page 16), says that “the very nature of a liberal arts college is that we are always embracing change.” New students and new faculty bring with them new approaches to teaching and learning. Of course, each change takes something from our shared Bates language. Many alums now hitting middle age will recall, or try to recall, that Roger Williams was the dorm that once hit High Times’ “Pot 100” list. The Bill was also known as the “Dome of the Hopers” ­— just switch the first letters of “Dome” and “Hopers” to get the joke. Yet today, because the building has been out of commission for a few years, younger students don’t even know what building “the Bill” refers to. Still, there are threads that speak to both past and present. In Hedge more than a half-century ago, Bert Knight ’46 worked with chemistry professor Walter Lawrance. As the state-appointed “Rivermaster,” Lawrance tried to get paper companies along the Androscoggin River to limit their pollution. This fall, the environmental studies faculty and seniors are working on a community project, again based in Hedge, that asks a bold question: What will it take, politically, economically, environmentally, and personally, to make the most of the Androscoggin River? This fall, Sanford Freedman is teaching familiar courses like Shakespeare and 18th-century British literature. But the forces of change ensure that “every course is different every year,” he says. Each year, preparing a course is like “climbing a familiar mountain and taking a different route to the top.” See you at the summit, Sanford. H. Jay Burns, Editor jburns@bates.edu

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with serious consequences for how we live our lives, how we educate our children, and how we relate to others.

‘Friendliness Without Pretense’

Kudos for running the very interesting story “Family Affair” (Winter 2011), about my classmates Erik Mercer, Rachel Segall, and Tony Hurley. The article, as well as Rachel and Tony’s uncommon generosity, was a vivid reminder of all of the characteristics that caused me to apply to Bates 25 years ago and are ones that have kept me connected to it: its open and tolerant outlook, the firm commitment to diversity and egalitarian principles, and an enduring friendliness without pretense. Rachel and Tony’s gift to Erik and Sandro is a very contemporary twist on those ideals. The fact that Bates Magazine ran the story made me proud to be a Bobcat! Steve Moore ’91, Boston

Passing Thoughts

The article “The Gay Resume” (Winter 2011), which reported on a Homecoming 2010 panel discussion about the intersection of careers and sexual orientation, failed to address the larger implications of identity masking during the job search.
The very notion of passing as straight presupposes an understanding of several nuanced conversations. The first is what potential employers might deem “queer,” whether through attire and body language or through a resume that includes certain club affiliations. The second is procedural: How might one best succumb to hetero-normative stereotypes? And how would doing so merit a capacity for ethical decision making? The third would be qualitative: How do we measure the emotional, physical, and even monetary sacrifices that one undoubtedly undertakes in order to pass? 
To this regard, what does the article’s implicit approval of sometimes hiding one’s sexual identity say about other marginalized groups facing issues of discrimination? For example, a black woman cannot with the same ease hide her perceived race or gender, though research abound tells us that both categories will also place her at a disadvantage in achieving the career goals espoused by panelist LK Gagnon, “to be paid and be comfortable.” While this article does remind us that workplace politics are as complicated as ever, it surrenders to the ill-fated norms of presentday inequalities rather than offering a spirited advance toward the aspiration of our mission statement, where we “engage the transformative power of our differences” and cultivate the very noble notions of “informed civic action” and “responsible stewardship of the wider world.” Here, at this “college for coming times,” I would’ve hoped for this to be normal practice. 
 Walter Garcia Fairfax ’12, Stonington, Maine

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Spring forward

Bates Modern Dance Company alumni, shown here performing at their 2011 reunion last spring, are living evidence of what any academic major needs: sustainability.

Bates creates a dance major, and Bates dancers celebrate the Plavin legacy

By Doug Hubley Photographs by Phyllis Graber Jensen

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hen we last checked on the alumni dance community, in 2004, this passionate group had just handed over $450,000 to create Bates’ first dedicated dance facility, the Marcy Plavin Dance Studios. That April, they came back to Bates to perform, reconnect, and, most of all, honor Plavin as she prepared to retire, 35 years after founding the Bates Modern Dance Company and the current dance program. Seven years later, it was déjà vu all over again. In a three-day reunion culminating with a blockbuster April 30 performance, nearly 200 dance alumni celebrated Marcy Plavin as well as her late husband, Leonard, a friend to

generations of students and the unofficial photographer of Bates dance. And again, as they had in 2004, alumni also celebrated their contribution to an important advance for Bates dance: the faculty’s approval, in March, of a dance major. This time around, though, the contribution wasn’t financial capital, but human capital: the formative impact of dance on alumni, and their support for dance, influenced the program’s approval. The college’s Educational and Policy Committee reviews all proposals for major programs, and as the EPC considered the dance major in 2010–11, it saw compelling evidence of what any academic major needs: sustainability. FALL 2011  Bates  5

Refresher Students’ participation in dance makes a marked difference on their lives as alumni, says EPC member Heidi Chirayath, associate professor of sociology. “And, as alumni, they show a major commitment to Bates dance. So we’ve seen sustainable support of dance since April 1969. And in all likelihood we’ll see it for decades more.” Dance is Bates’ first new major since 1997, when Chinese, Japanese, and neuroscience were added. “We crested a tall mountain this past year,” says associate professor Carol Dilley, who has directed the academic dance program since 2003 and made approval of the major a top priority. “From the moment the major was voted in, there was a shift in tone towards dance on campus. Our students felt a new pride in being dancers, but also a heightened sense of seriousness about what they were studying. “Within a week, three students had declared majors in dance. We’ll graduate our first dance majors next year.” (The program has offered a secondary concentration since 1997, and a minor since 2007.) Among other factors driving the EPC’s recommendation for the major were the program’s current strength and continued growth, says Chirayath. Demand for dance courses continues to swell, and the major can only help on the admission side. “We know of

“We’ll graduate our first dance majors next year.” serious students of dance who decided not to attend Bates because there was no academic major,” she points out. The EPC also considered a rare opportunity: the chance to build a stronger relationship with the nationally recognized Bates Dance Festival. The new major requires students to attend a professional education program at the summertime festival, gaining both an immersive experience with top dance makers and exposure to the festival’s performance series. The major places Bates within a select group of colleges and universities: Of the nation’s approximately 4,200 colleges and universities, some 290 offer a dance major. “Dance is no longer only assumed to complement a more ‘serious’ area of study,” says Lindsay Reuter ’11 (who says she graduated with enough dance credits “for three dance minors”). “It’s an intellectually rigorous and self-sufficient area of study. It merits a major.” 6  Bates  FALL 2011

Marcy Plavin agrees. “This is the right time for what happened,” says the woman who shaped the dance program that we know today — and inspired those alumni whose dedication is the stuff of legend. In April, during the reunion concert, that attachment was evident even before the feet began to fly, as participants shouted, “We love you, Marcy.”

With the approval of a dance major, “we crested a tall mountain,” said Associate Professor of Dance Carol Dilley.

Moving from light to sweet to melancholy to intensely technical, the concert program concluded with a moving tribute to Leonard Plavin, who died in April 2010. Choreographed around dozens of his images, A Moment in Focus: Dance Images by Leonard Plavin brought to the Schaeffer stage nearly 90 MDC veterans. Droll, affectionate, and eloquently acknowledging time’s passage, Moment was pulled together just that afternoon, as dancers occupied rehearsal spaces from Skelton Lounge to the Plavin Studios to hone their sections. They “are so amazing,” Plavin said that night. “They go out for three hours, and they come back with a piece.” Conceived by Dervilla McCann ’77, Moment was a tour de force. Nine groups of dancers interacted with projected images Leonard had taken, mirroring poses from the photos and tying the tableaux together with moves in diverse styles. The images represented 50 different dances choreographed by Marcy, students, and guests. “The way people moved together and the way they laughed together, really made it clear to me that this was more than just a dance,” said McCann. “It has been extraordinary,” said one returnee, dance historian Suzanne Carbonneau ’76, “to see people who haven’t made a profession of it, but have kept dance in their life — and kept their connection to Bates through dance.”

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PHARMA REPORT, PART I For a story explicating the pace and costs of developing new pharmaceuticals, Bates talked to Steven Kates ’83, vice president of research and development for Massachusetts-based Ischemix (“A Drug Story,” Summer 2010). In a sort of biotech cliffhanger, the article by Bill Walsh ’86 used a product that Ischemix is developing, CMX-2043, to illustrate the challenges of bringing new drugs to market. In June, Ischemix announced that this drug designed to protect heart tissue in certain therapeutic situations has passed a milestone: In part of its Phase 2 clinical trials, CMX2043 was shown to be safe — and, although the trial was not designed to measure efficacy, results did suggest that it is effective in its intended use. ‘LEFT’ READS RIGHT USA Today was among news outlets offering a warm welcome early this year to Left Neglected, the second novel by Lisa Genova ’92, whose debut Still Alice was a best-seller (“Still Lisa,” Summer 2009). Alice, which Genova self-published until Simon & Schuster snapped it up in early 2009, is a fictionalized rendering of the toll of Alzheimer’s disease suffered by Genova’s grandmother. The new work continues this focus on the brain as Genova, who has a doctorate in neuroscience, depicts a hard-charging, multitasking woman learning to cope with severe brain injury suffered in a car crash. “Picking up anything written by Genova is quickly becoming, well, a no-brainer,” said USA Today reviewer Craig Wilson. BABY MAKES FOUR In August 2010, surrogate mother Rachel Segall ’91 gave birth to a baby girl for fathers Erik Mercer ’91 and Sandro Sechi (“Family Affair,” Winter 2011). Reprising her role this summer, Segall is now in her second trimester with a second baby for Mercer and Sechi. “We are excited, cautious, and optimistic,” Mercer reports. In August, the two dads and daughter Rachel Maria were headed to Sechi’s native Sardinia Rachel Maria so his family could meet Rachel Maria for the first time. “Her first birthday coincides with the annual feast in Sandro’s hometown,” Mercer said. “It should be wonderful!” PHARMA REPORT, PART II A year ago we visited Dr. Howard Scher ’72, an eminent authority on prostate cancer who combines a clinical practice at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center with research into possible therapies (“Better and Faster,” Spring 2010). In June, Scher was in the news for his role in a major study of the drug Zytiga, aka abiraterone. He was co-lead investigator of the study, “Abiraterone and Increased Survival in Metastatic Prostate Cancer,” which produced two major findings about treating the disease. First, the study documented Zytiga’s effectiveness in prolonging the lives of prostate cancer patients. Second, in what could improve measurement of the effectiveness of any cancer treatment, the study determined that the number of cancer cells that enter the blood stream directly affects the survival rate of patients with advanced prostate cancer.

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Bates embarks on its presidential search

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The search is under way for the successor to President Elaine Tuttle Hansen, who departed June 30 to become executive director of the Center for Talented Youth at The Johns Hopkins University. Nancy Cable, Bates’ vice president and dean of enrollment and external affairs since February 2010, was appointed interim president through June 30, 2012, by a unanimous trustee vote. Bates bylaws confer the power of presidential selection to the Board of Trustees, and trustees Valerie Smith ’75 and Michael Chu ’80 now co-chair a 14-member presidential search committee. The task at hand is a “great honor and responsibility,” they say, and one that carries equally great opportunity. “A presidential search brings attention to any national institution like Bates, and anyone who looks at our college will come away deeply impressed,” said Chu, a founder and managing partner at the venture capital firm Catterton Partners. “Bates is well-positioned and has an enviable reputation and standing among the most elite colleges,” said Smith, who became dean of the college at Princeton in July. The college search process is a deliberate and familiar one. Open listening sessions on campus in the spring preceded the publication of the traditional presidential prospectus, a

document that “fully reflects the key issues of the college,” Smith and Chu say, and lays out expectations for presidential contenders. Come fall, the committee will review the status of outreach efforts and begin to evaluate the candidate pool. By winter, the committee could be considering a final candidate. Summarized, the expectations of the next president are to increase the college’s fiscal capacity through fundraising; articulate a longrange plan for the college; enhance academic excellence; increase diversity and inclusion; strengthen leadership and governance structures; manage operations; and strengthen Bates’ relationship with Lewiston and Auburn. Also on the search committee are trustees Michael Bonney ’80, board chair; Alison Bernstein P’09, board vice chair; Darrell Crate ’89; Steve Fuller ’82; and Lena Sene ’00. Also, faculty members Marcus Bruce ’77, religious studies; Matt Côté, a chemist and associate dean of the faculty; Emily Kane, sociologist; John Kelsey, psychologist; and Gene Wiemers, college librarian. The student rep is Jacquelyn Holmes ’13 of Harvard, Mass. Eight staff members constitute an advisory panel. Trustee Emerita Catharine Stimpson of New York University’s Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education is advising the committee, and Shelly Storbeck, principal with the executive search firm Storbeck/Pimentel & Associ-

ates, is assisting with the search — she worked with Bates on the President Hansen search. The goal is for Bates’ new chief executive to move into Lane Hall 204 by July 2012. It’s an auspicious time for candidates to consider Bates, says Mike Bonney.

Trustees Michael Chu ’80 and Valerie Smith ’75 are co-chairing the presidential search committee.

“Bates just met an extremely ambitious annual fund goal,” he says. “Bates achieved great admission numbers for the Class of 2015. We have doubled the percentage of students from underrepresented backgrounds in just five years. “Bates has always been known for the strength of our values, but now we’re known more and more for the value of our strengths.”

View the prospectus and contribute ideas to the search www.bates.edu/presidentialsearch

ELDER CARE Akinyele Akinruntan ’12 of Memphis, Tenn., conducts a health survey with Somali elders, part of a project to evaluate the mental-health needs of the immigrant Somali population in Lewiston and Auburn. Akinruntan did the survey in his role as a Bates community-based research fellow, a program of the college’s Harward Center for Community Partnerships. Akinruntan’s Lewiston partner is Community Clinical Services, affiliated with St. Mary’s Health System. The project, says Akinruntan, seeks both to evaluate needs and to “uncover what and where the healthcare gaps are, helping to come up with new ways to help the immigrant population access healthcare and other important services.”

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‘Like a Tower’

Turning Points APPOINTED By unan-

imous vote of the Board of Trustees, Nancy J. Cable as interim president of the college, to serve from July 1, 2011, through June 30, 2012, while Bates conducts a national search for the college’s next president. Nancy J. Cable Cable follows Elaine Tuttle Hansen, who is now executive director of the Center for Talented Youth at The Johns Hopkins University. Cable, who earned a doctorate in the history of education from the University of Virginia, has held senior leadership roles at Denison University, Davidson College, and the University of Virginia, and joined Bates in February 2010 as vice president and dean of enrollment and external affairs. “Nancy’s senior leadership experience at exceptional colleges and universities, coupled with her deep commitment to the academic mission of the college,” made her the person for the job, said Trustee Chair Mike Bonney ’80. Pamela Baker ’70 to a two-year term as vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty. Baker, the Helen A. Papaioanou Professor of Biological Sciences, has been a Bates faculty member since 1989 and has served as associate dean of the faculty. She succeeds Jill Reich, who stepped down from the post June 30 and will return as professor of psychology following a sabbatical. Dean of Admission Wylie Mitchell, effective Aug. 12, after 33 years of service. “Wylie’s dedicated efforts have led to significant increases in applications to Bates, to stronger and more diverse students at Bates, and to a national recognition of, and respect for, the college’s uniquely personalized approach to admission,” Trustee Chair Mike BonWylie Mitchell ney ’80 and Interim President Nancy Cable said in announcing the retirement. Mitchell retired as dean of admissions emeritus, a title conferred only once before in the college’s history, to the late Milt Lindholm ’35. RETIRED

David Haines, professor of mathematics whose enthusiasm for applying that science led to, among other things, consultations with a local furniture company and the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. “The importance of communication, the importance of feeling, the importance of human relations” can’t be overlooked, Haines has said. He came to Bates in 1969. Carole Anne Taylor, professor of English, a powerhouse of a scholar who “played a crucial role in transforming the college from what it was [in 1978] into the Bates of 2011,” a place where social justice and cross-cultural awareness inform curriculum, classroom and campus life, said department chair Lillian Nayder. Helen Regan, visiting professor of education and acting chair, who came to Bates from Connecticut College in 2006. ACHIEVED A “triple crown” of Bates enroll-

ment gains: a record 5,196 applications for the Class of 2015; a more selective acceptance rate; and an improved yield from those accepted. Bates anticipates the Class of 2015 will number approximately 500.

Pausing on the Bates threshold, student writers read Do I walk through the woods or step? No, move or glide or slink. How did I get lost in the woods in the first place? “It’s a bit of a tradition amongst the creative-writing thesis students to have at least one poem tackle and wrestle with the ‘creative process,’” says Zoe Donaldson ’11. “Poem,” excerpted above, filled that role for her. Donaldson’s comical personality shone through as she read this dynamic, rhythmic 686-line verse at the Ronj on May 17. She was one of six seniors to present their creative writing theses in an event that afforded a chance to bring their work, the product of so much introspection and time, to life for an attentive audience. As the purple room filled up with friends and family drinking vanilla chai and yerba matte latte, the presenters parked on the edges of the stage to present and talk about their work. A double major in English and in art and visual culture, Bridget Brewer drew roars of laughter for her fictional prose and honest preface to a short story from her thesis, “Plays

PROMOTED To tenured faculty positions:

Helen Boucher, psychology; Gina Fatone, music; Christine McDowell, theater; Karen Melvin, history; and Hiroya Miura, music. From associate professor to full professor: Francesco Duina, sociology; Baltasar FraMolinero, Spanish; and Kirk Read, French. From lecturer to senior lecturer, Katalin Vecsey, theater. EXCEEDED Bates Fund goals of $5.5 mil-

lion and 45 percent alumni participation for fiscal year 2011. As of June 30, donor totals were $5,503,676 (up 16.5 percent over 2010) and alumni participation was 45.2 percent (up from 44 percent last year and 41 percent two years ago). DECEASED Lorraine Breton, Dining

Services staff, 1983 to 2000, on Dec. 2, at 77; Lillian Cloutier, Physical Plant staff from 1971 to 1984, on Jan. 10, at 94; Ralph Perkins Jr., a member of the Information and Library Services staff who worked in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives from 1986 until 2001; on June 26, at 76; and Bruce Wood Sr., Physical Plant staff from 1983 to 2005, on Feb. 3, at 70.

Well With Others.” Drawing on her Catholic upbringing, Brewer used humor and vivid imagery to depict a character who accuses his priest of molestation. Offering poems that explored how his hometown and his passion for karate have shaped his identity, Matt Gordon concluded with an untitled spoken-word piece that set the listeners bouncing in their seats as he rapped about emotions of anger and pride. Hallie Herz offered poems drawing on her Jewish heritage. “To Those Who Will Come Next” — which she reprised later in the month at Baccalaureate — concludes: I will build you memories like a tower, we will find ourselves leaning in to hear what will come next.

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Matter of Facts PHYLLIS GRABER JENSEN (4)

Long ago, colleges invested their endowment in the basics like railroads, utilities, and government bonds. From 50 years ago, here are some bread-and-butter businesses that Bates once invested in — and their status today after a half-century of economic Darwinism. Central Maine Power Co. THEN Maine’s electric utility NOW Maine’s Spanish-owned electric utility

Swift & Co. THEN U.S. meat packaging company starts selling

Butterball turkeys NOW Subsidiary of Brazilian company JBS S.A., world’s third-largest beef and pork processor

Borden Company THEN Sells famed Americana like Cracker Jack and Elmer’s Glue NOW Gone by 2005 after leveraged buyout. Elsie the Cow trademark belongs to a Swiss firm St. Croix Paper Co. THEN Maine-owned paper company employs 1,500 at its Baileyville plant NOW Sold twice since 1961, Baileyville plant now employs 400 The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. (A&P) THEN Dominant U.S. food retailer dubbed “Wal-Mart before Wal-Mart” by Wall Street Journal NOW In Chapter 11 bankruptcy Franklin Co. THEN Owned most of Lewiston in 1800s; donated land for Garcelon Field NOW Sold all Lewiston property in 1976 Hussmann Refrigerator Co. THEN Develops first doorless grocery store freezer case NOW Ingersoll Rand company still “keeping foods fresh around the world.” Eastman Kodak Co. THEN Synonym for photography NOW Stumblebums of digital era heading toward fifth straight quarterly loss National Dairy Products Corp. THEN Hits stride in food product development — hello, Kraft Singles! NOW Renamed Kraft in ’60s, it is North America’s largest food/beverage company Sources: Company websites, newspaper articles, Wikipedia.

COMMENCEMENT RECOLLECTIONS

Clockwise from top, psychology profes-

sor Su Langdon adds a yellow sou’wester to her regalia as a practical touch with showers in the forecast; outgoing President Elaine Hansen awards a degree to Frankie White of Silver Spring, Md., who is now a U.S. Supreme Court marshal’s aide; Physical Plant custodian Wayne Medlen poses with Mohamed Masid Cader, a native of Sri Lanka; and at Baccalaureate a senior gives the approving sign of the horns to the Senior Band, whose musical stylings included Marvin Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up” and Curtis Mayfield’s “People Get Ready.”

Quiz Q In May 1978, Bates officials tell the media that the college isn’t likely to pay $7,750 in fines levied by New York City. Why? A That spring, New York City’s “sophisticated computer system” for tracking parking fines identified major scofflaws, including a 1977 Plymouth Volare station wagon owned by Bates. The fines mystified college officials. “The car has never been to New York City and rarely goes off campus,” a spokesman said. “It is used to deliver campus mail during the day and as a security vehicle at night.” New York officials later admit computer errors.

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Ask Me Another Vilified by her husband, Catherine Dickens finds a 21st-century ally in Lillian Nayder Modern critics looking at Victorian meals are bound to be put off. The dishes have heft — fricassee chicken, fried potatoes, marrow pudding, macaroni and cheese, a lot of bacon, and Italian cream — but people didn’t eat everything that was presented to them at the table. There might be 10 dishes, but guests would pick and choose. Essentially, Catherine has been blamed for Victorian cooking, which has itself been misrepresented. Just recently, Susan RossiWilcox has read Catherine’s book in the context of Victorian cookery. What she shows is that Catherine Generations of biographers have fallen for Charles Dickens’ phony How did you get interested in Catherine story of his marital woes, Lillian Nayder says. was on the ball and used her Dickens? ingredients well. She wasn’t some It was curious to me that Catherine inept macaroni lover. You looked at the couple’s sex life, too. was always dismissed by critics, while DickBy knowing the time intervals between a ens’ side of the story was always accepted Was Catherine’s body compared to an ideal Victowoman’s deliveries and conceptions, we can — even though there was plenty of evidence rian body type? use mathematical models to determine the to suggest that he had fabricated tales about Victorians had a pretty clear sense of obesity. sexual activity of a couple that isn’t using conhis wife. Critics just didn’t want to go there. But the range of descriptions of Catherine traception. Critics have always claimed that Charles Dickens has shaped the language of shows that not everyone saw her and immeDickens, by 1850, had lost interest in his wife, her story — and he told a lot of lies about her. diately thought, “that woman is fat!” Some but their sex life was as active in the early thought she looked quite pleasant. Such as? 1850s as it was in the early 1840s. Most of the negative interpretations of To give you one example, the 310-day He wrote a letter that made its way into the her body reflect the way her marital history interval between Catherine’s eighth delivery New York Tribune, the so-called “Violated has been reinvented by critics, following Dickand her next conception in 1849 is about Letter,” in which he said that the “peculiarity ens’ lead. The criticism of how she looked the same as the interval after her second of her character” had “thrown all the chilwouldn’t have been launched had the marriage delivery in 1838 and suggests four acts of dren” onto the care of Catherine’s sister Georremained intact. gina, the Dickens family housekeeper. Untrue. intercourse per month. PHYLLIS GRABER JENSEN

After 22 years of marriage and 10 children, Charles Dickens famously dumped his wife, Catherine Dickens, in 1858. Wielding the power of his pen, he alleged that Catherine was mentally unbalanced and an unfit wife and mother; in truth, he wanted to take up with a younger woman, actress Ellen Ternan. For years, critics and biographers took his word for it. Now, Professor of English Lillian Nayder has debunked the novelist’s unkind portrayal of his wife with her 2010 biography, The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth.

It’s a complicated family plot. Catherine’s sisters — Mary and Georgina — have always been portrayed as taking his side.

Dickens’ various claims to and about them have cheapened and obscured the relationships among all the sisters. After the 1858 separation, Georgina chose to stay in Charles Dickens’ household, so that’s always been a particularly gnarly issue. There was a third sister, Helen — Catherine’s close friend and ally — but she’s been ignored until now. Why did Charles Dickens treat his wife that way?

He had some real explaining to do if he was going to force his wife out of the house. But he couldn’t admit publicly that it was because he was interested in a young woman the same age as one of his daughters. Divorce wasn’t an option because one had to show that adultery had been committed by the husband or the wife. Dickens didn’t want to go there. He was the novelist of hearth and home. 10  Bates  FALL 2011

What did you interpret from Charles’ practicing mesmerism, what we call hypnotism today?

He did mesmerize Catherine — initially in Pittsburgh during the 1842 American tour — but it didn’t have any therapeutic rationale because Catherine wasn’t ailing. I think he wanted to demonstrate that he could, in fact, control the very consciousness of his wife. In a similar way, Dickens has mesmerized generations of biographers. He’s a very powerful influence, and I’m trying to resist that. So when Catherine wrote a cookbook, later critics dismissed it as bad food from an unstable fat woman?

The book mostly offers meal plans, or bills of fare, and Dickens biographers have used it against her, as more evidence of why the marriage “didn’t work out.” Her husband was seen as light and mercurial, and she was seen as this burdensome body weighing him down with macaroni and cheese.

When did your students help test Catherine’s recipes?

During my Short Term several years ago called “Constructing Catherine Dickens.” I’ll never forget the image of two students in my kitchen making orange fritters, which are battered and fried orange sections. The oil was splattering everywhere but the fritters tasted really good. Then again, fried anything tastes good. What would Charles and Catherine’s story look like in today’s tabloid and social-media context?

There’s really no comparison because what’s considered appropriate in the situation of an injured wife has changed so drastically since the 1850s. Catherine made no public statement at all about her treatment by Dickens. Today, even Tiger Woods’ wife has had her interview with People magazine. Catherine always declined those opportunities.

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More than Good Intentions The Summer Scholars Program proves its worth

“I was able to meet good people, students and faculty, who shared my passion for

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the sciences.”

For four years, the college has had to explain the Bates Summer Scholars Program mostly in terms of good intentions. That is, to help meet the U.S. need for more diversity in the fields of mathematics and the sciences. But in May, good intentions happily turned to good results with the graduation of the inaugural 11 Summer Scholars among the Class of 2011. And a quick look at their immediate post-Bates plans suggests that the innovative program is a sound one. One graduate, a biological chemistry major, is entering dental school. A psychology major hopes to earn a second degree in

Bates Summer Scholars Mark Charest ’15 (left) of Westbrook, Maine, and Tyler Jones ’15 of Newport, Maine, work on sound measurements on Garcelon Field, part of a musical acoustics course taught by Professor of Physics John Smedley.

nursing, while a double major in art and interdisciplinary studies (public health) is a Teach for America chemistry teacher in Baltimore. A second biological chemistry major is studying medical economics at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics in Spain. The Summer Scholars are first-year students who get an accelerated introduction to Bates academics and residential life. Aimed at academically superior students from groups underrepresented in the sciences and math,

Bates Summer Scholar Yolanda Rodriguez ’15 of North Miami Beach, Fla., builds a model of geometric solids to answer some mathematical questions in a course taught by Grace Coulombe ’94, director of the Mathematics and Statistics Workshop.

the scholars take the equivalents of a semesterlong math course and science course. They come from all corners of the country, including Maine. “They’re Hispanic, Asian American, white, black,” says Michael Martinez, an assistant dean of student transition who worked with the 2011 Summer Scholars. “We want to make sure that Bates is not only doing a great job of recruiting diversity,” he adds, “but helping the diverse group of people that we bring in actually thrive when they get here.” Mostly, the program meets its goal by instilling confidence. “I felt comfortable enough to ask questions,” recalls Akinyele Akinruntan, a 2009 Summer Scholar from Memphis, Tenn. “I was able to meet good people, students and faculty, who shared my passion for the sciences.” A psychology major, Akinruntan mentored the 2011 Summer Scholars while also working with a community agency to study mental-health services for the immigrant Somali community in Lewiston (see photo on page 7). Relationship-building seems to be one of the salient benefits of the program, agrees associate dean of student transition Carmita McCoy. The inaugural scholars stayed close during their Bates experience, “hanging out, studying together, and keeping in communication even during the summer.”

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Bates in the News Unfair Warning

SHORT TERMS NumbersPay, a shopping site launched by Bates students, is one of CNNMoney’s “six hot dorm-room startups.” What distinguishes NumbersPay from other group-purchase sites is its price structure: The more buyers seeking a given item, the less each ultimately pays. Co-founders are Matthew Conetta ’12 of Ridgewood, N.J.; Stephen Pecora ’11 of Wyckoff, N.J.; Darren Cromwell ’12, of Lincoln, Mass.; and Cosmin Ghita ’12 of Bucharest, Romania…Kabul native Mustafa Basij-Rasikh ’12 (“Folks Back Home,” Spring 2010) spoke to Al-Jazeera about the Afghan government’s shortcomings in addressing humanitarian needs. He was in Afghanistan this summer working on a youth empowerment program that he co-founded…Finally, the Sun Journal profiled Asha Mohamud ’15, a daughter of one of the first Somali families to settle in Lewiston after fleeing their war-torn homeland. Mohamud and Naima Qambi ’15 of Auburn will be the first members of the local Somali community to attend Bates.

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Meet Hedge and Roger Williams Two old warhorses take the lead as academic spaces Though they won’t be formally dedicated till the end of October, Hedge and Roger Williams halls went back into service during the summer after some 16 months of deep renovation. Stripped down to their brick shells during the project, the buildings were thoroughly rebuilt. They are much stronger, thanks to steel skeletons that meet code requirements for withstanding seismic stresses. They’re bigger, with additions that embiggen floor space by about a third in Hedge and about a quarter in the Bill. Those glassy additions offer great campus views, too, and shed new radiance on a once-underlit portion of campus. Yet Hedge and the Bill are now much more miserly in energy use, with new insula-

borders of conventional behavior, it now shelters the foreign language departments and the language lab, both formerly in Hathorn Hall, and the Off-Campus Study office, which moved over from Lane Hall. Floor plans are designed to encourage a grand confluence of teaching and learning among sympathetic disciplines. “German and Russian weren’t always all in Hathorn,” says Professor of German Craig Decker. Even when they were, they were scattered through different floors. “Now all of our offices are together, with a common gathering point in the middle. That should be great for the department.” Embedding the Off-Campus Study office with the language departments holds similar

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If you were dubious about an Associated Press report that Bates is the nation’s most expensive private, nonprofit four-year college, your instincts are on target. The AP story — and the federal website it is based on — twists the facts. Hundreds of news outlets were quick to trumpet a U.S. Department of Education ranking, and the AP summary of it, that listed Bates, Colby, and three other colleges as the costliest U.S. schools of their type, by about $9,000. But the feds’ cost comparison is flawed. Those five schools each charge a “comprehensive fee” that includes room, board, tuition, and required fees. But all the other schools in the College Affordability and Transparency list are ranked just by tuition and required fees. Yep: apples vs. oranges. And while the ranking does use asterisks and a footnote to call out the difference between the comprehensive-fee schools and the others, that disclaimer is anything but obvious. The Associated Press story’s second paragraph read, “Counting pennies? Avoid Bates College...” Only in its sixth paragraph did the AP point out the apples-oranges discrepancy. The New York Times was among national outlets that invited Bates to expose the flaw in the feds’ reckoning. Bates spokesman Roland Adams pointed out that, accounting for financial aid, Bates’ average net cost ranks lower than 400 other institutions. He also noted, “Bates’ percentage increase in tuition and fees over the last three academic years is lower than that of more than 800 other institutions.” With two Maine schools in the unwelcome spotlight, the Maine Public Broadcasting Network focused specifically on the mixed-fruit issue in early July. Jane Wellman, an expert on college costs, told MPBN radio that the high-price label is not necessarily a bad thing, as affluent families will “equate quality with prices.”

At center, Kirk Read, professor of French and past chair of the Bates Arts Collaborative, shows off his new office in Roger Williams Hall to Arts Collaborative members Emma Timbers ’14 and Doug Welsh ’14.

tion, sophisticated climate-control systems, and other green features. Functionally, the buildings have come full circle. The Bill was built in 1895 as a divinity school, but became a student residence in 1908. Hedge, from 1890, was a chemistry lab that was converted to housing in 1964. Now both are again academic buildings. Hedge has assumed the Bill’s original role, housing the religious studies department as well as philosophy and environmental studies. And where Roger Bill was once a student precinct beyond the

promise. “Placement in an academic building underscores the centrality of ‘study’ in study abroad,” says Steve Sawyer, director of the program. Common spaces are also designed to nurture intellectual hubbub. New lounges, thesis rooms, and common areas — including a so-called cultural kitchen in Roger Williams — afford a diversity of spaces for both studying and socializing.

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1971: LISBON STREET MURAL

Students paint the Lisbon Street mural in 1971 as an unidentified man films the work.

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1971 project to paint a colorful mural on a Lisbon Street brick wall was a sign of the times. Donald Lent, Bates’ new Dana Professor of Art, was looking for a Short Term project that would connect students to his civic efforts around urban renewal in Lewiston. The city, wanting to open a new pedestrian walkway linking upper Lisbon Street and Park Street’s retail and parking areas, had demolished a wood-frame building next to Edward’s Clothing Store, at 114 Lisbon St. The store’s newly exposed brick wall caught Lent’s eye. Encouraged by the city’s Urban Renewal Authority, Lent got permission from the building’s owner to paint a mural on the wall, then selected 13 students from 30 who showed interest.

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Lent had a knack for putting students on the right tasks. Norton Virgien ’74 was interested in filmmaking, so Lent charged him with producing a documentary about the project with his 8mm camera. Now an animated-film director in Los Angeles, Virgien told Bates Magazine in 2004 that the “thought processes that went into telling that story are still the ones I use today.”

“IT WAS A GREAT DYNAMIC.” Guided by Lent, the students developed sketches on butcher paper and painted the mural in white, blue, red, and a particularly tenacious traffic yellow. The mural’s narrative was straightforward: pedestrians moving through familiar Lewiston places. “I wanted the mural to connect to people in town,” Lent says. Silhouettes of downtown features included the onion domes of the Kora temple and the spires of the Basilica of St. Peter and St. Paul.

Bates had just approved an art major, and Lent was no fool: He stocked the project mostly with freshmen eager to prove their artistic zeal. Those were heady times, says Jonathan Lowenberg ’74, who came to Bates to major in chemistry but switched to art partly because of the mural project. “It was a great dynamic,” he recalls. “We were enthusiastic about the major, and the project was something completely new for all of us.” In ’71, urban renewal still seemed like a good thing. Lent recalls the project “feeling so integrated with what was going on in the town.” Lowenberg, whose Mirror portrait shows him painting the mural, remembers everyone thinking that the “mural was going to be there a long time.” But one day a decade later, Lent saw workers sandblasting the mural. “That felt awful,” he says. Lisbon Street was losing its retail businesses, and the clothing store had closed, to be replaced by an Asian restaurant. “Maybe,” Lent says, “the mural was more like an installation, designed for a specific place and time. After a while, it just didn’t fit into the plan.” Today, the wall belongs to an Indian restaurant. Tiny white and yellow paint chips from the mural still cling to the bricks. And if you stand back, you can still see the outline of one of the mural’s pedestrians, walking through the scene.

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Cody Newman ’11 brought trademark talents to chemistry research and lacrosse faceoffs By Andy Walter Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen

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fficial practices hadn’t yet begun in 2008 when men’s lacrosse coach Peter Lasagna one day noticed senior Craig Blake working with freshman midfield prospect Cody Newman in Merrill Gym. The two were facing each other, hunched over — the classic faceoff position. And as Lasagna approached, he heard something unexpected from a boom box nearby. Not pump-it-up music but the familiar sound of a lacrosse faceoff: the command “set,” which tells players to get ready, followed by the whistle, starting the action. The recording would repeat, and each time the cadence between “set” and whistle was slightly different, as it is in a game. “I was

stunned,” recalls Lasagna, who’s been a college head coach for 19 years. “I had never heard of that before or seen it before. But what a great idea!” In fact, Newman had made the recordings himself, back in high school in Montclair, N.J., and brought them to Bates. About the time that Lasagna was discovering Newman’s creative ability to break down and refine key parts of his sport, something similar was happening in Dana Chemistry Hall, where Professor of Chemistry Rachel Austin noticed Newman’s similarly intense and thorough academic work. Among other things, Austin is an oil expert. She knows how certain enzymes can

Bobcat News break down crude oil into water and carbon dioxide (useful for oil-spill cleanups), and how heat and pressure can turn biomass into what’s called pyrolysis oil. In this latter work, Austin is working with the Forest Byproducts Research Institute, headquartered at the University of Maine. Specifically, she’s part of one project to find ways to turn wood waste into heating and transportation fuels. Unrefined pyrolysis oil has water and oxygen in it, making it ineffective as a lubricant or energy source, so researchers are trying to find catalysts that can kick-start various chemical reactions to refine the oil. Enter Newman, whose honors thesis evaluated catalysts containing the metal ruthenium. As a junior, his thesis proposal won a national Beckman scholarship for outstanding undergraduate research. As a senior, Newman won the Milton L. Lindholm Scholar-Athlete Award for the highest GPA among varsity athletes, at 3.94.

able 46 percent of his career faceoffs, including 52 percent in 2010. On the short and light side at 5-foot-7 and 165 pounds (the team’s other primary faceoff man, Harry Kim ’12, is bigger and stronger), Newman uses quickness to beat his opponent. Making his move right at the whistle — pushing legality — became one of Newman’s calling cards, honed by those recordings in the lab of his own devising. Besides quickness and strength, a faceoff specialist needs to be intelligent, analytical, and inventive, Lasagna says. Faceoff tactics continually change, so “if you’re not constantly working at it and trying to improve, you can’t keep up.” In Newman, Bates lacrosse “had one of the brightest students and one of the toughest.” “He is extraordinarily hard-working,” Austin adds, noting that Newman is one of those rare people who accomplish so much “without coming across as a person who obsesses and frets about his work.”

A faceoff is “like a game of rock, paper, scissors.” “Cody’s work,” Austin says, “is beginning to give us a way to understand how and why certain catalysts work the way that they do.” His contribution, she adds, “moves us beyond just trying something and hoping for the best, which is where we have been.” Newman’s thesis is remarkable in another sense, Austin says. “I’ve been sitting at my desk turning his thesis into a publication. In 15 years at Bates, I have never been able to start with a student thesis and turn it into a manuscript.” In lacrosse, Newman is a faceoff specialist, meaning he trots onto the field at the start of each quarter and after each goal. When the official gives the “down” command, Newman and his opponent place their hands and crosses on the ground, parallel to the midfield line. The official places the ball between the players’ nets, gives the “set” command, and blows the whistle. By rule, the official must vary the cadence between “set” and the whistle. Thus sprung into action, the players try to outmuscle and outmaneuver each other. Tactically, “it’s like a game of rock, paper, scissors,” Lasagna says, each player using various moves and counter moves to control the ball. Newman, one of Bates’ primary faceoff men and team captain in 2011, won a respect-

Which is partly why his honors thesis is a manuscript waiting to happen. His thesis results “raise far more interesting questions than they answer, which is what scientists love,” Austin says. “Because the results are so clear, the questions the results raise are far more nuanced than the questions we were asking at the start of the project.” Along those lines, Newman, whose immediate post-graduate plans involve continued research with Austin, is asked if the mindset he brings to faceoffs is at all like those in research. Yes, he says. “We’re all role players on a team. No one does everything. You do your role to the best of your ability. The parallel in research is you’re working with other people to try and move a project forward.” In the academic realm, Newman’s command of various research skills is called “competence.” It’s high praise in the academic realm even if it sounds like an understatement in the rest of our overstated world. “Non-scientists don’t often understand the magnitude of the compliment intended by ‘competent,’” Austin says. “The ability to set a goal and meet it, in spite of whatever sort of technical hurdles there are, is one of the most important qualities a scientist can have. “And Cody has it.”

Linton Is Volleyball Coach

Former Bowdoin volleyball standout Margo Linton is the new head coach of varsity women’s volleyball. Linton arrives from Andrew College of Cuthbert, Ga., where she founded the volleyball program after previously serving as an assistant coach at Connecticut College. A Bowdoin math major from Menlo Park, Calif., Linton set career records in assists and service aces for the Polar Bears. She earned a master’s Margo Linton in secondary education from Eastern Connecticut State University in 2010. Linton succeeds Brett Allen, who remains head coach of women’s lacrosse. SOCIETY’S BEST Bates Scholar-Athlete Society inductees this year were Ted Beal ’64 (basketball, baseball), whose career spanned public school education, financial services, and entrepreneurship; Nancy Ingersoll Fiddler ’78 (Nordic skiing), the college’s first female Olympian; Candice Poiss Murray ’92 (field hockey, track and field), commissioner of the North Eastern Athletic Conference; and Ira Waldman ’73 (football), real estate lawyer and energetic Bates volunteer and Alumni Council member. Chick Leahey ’52, retired head baseball coach, was the faculty-staff inductee. DINGERS DOWN With less-lively bats causing a power outage in college baseball this spring, sluggers like Noah Lynd ’11 saw their dingers decline dramatically. Lynd, however, understood the phenomenon better than most. A physics major, he wrote his senior thesis on what happens when ball meets bat. Using a high-speed camera, dense physics formulas and deep baseball knowledge, he focused on the bat’s trampoline effect, the springiness that propels ball off bat at more than 100 mph. Despite a drop in homer output from last year to this (15 to 4), Lynd tied the Bates career home-run record by hitting his 21st in the last game of the season.

Jeremy Rogalski ’09, holding the Stanley Cup, and friends hang out with the famed NHL trophy. CUP CATS Jeremy Rogalski ’09, a video analyst for the NHL champion Boston Bruins, partook in one of the cool traditions accorded Stanley Cup winners: spending a day with the trophy. For his day, Rogalski (holding the Cup) treated the trophy to a backyard cookout with Bates classmates, friends, and family. As always, a Hockey Hall of Fame representative accompanied the Cup.

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From Day 1, President Elaine Tuttle Hansen set out to make the college’s rugged liberal arts framework even firmer by, paradoxically, asking Bates to be more open to change

‘Alive to Change’ by H. Jay Burns Photographs by Phyllis Graber Jensen

President Hansen shares a laugh with Professor of Religious Studies Marcus Bruce ’77 prior to Convocation 2010.

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3,167 Days

October 2002 President Elaine Tuttle Hansen, a scholar of Chaucer and feminist literary theory and former Haverford College provost, is inaugurated on Oct. 26.

January 2003 Bates hosts a major statewide diversity rally that fills and surrounds Merrill Gymnasium with more than 4,000 participants who show vigorous support for the local Somali community in the wake of anti-immigrant actions.

May 2003 Bates approves undertaking a Campus Facilities Master Plan to review campus facilities, infrastructure, and surroundings.

October 2004 In a 20-year study of its optional SAT policy, Bates finds no differences in academic performance or graduation rates between submitters and non-submitters. Phase I of the Campus Facilities Master Plan envisions New Commons, Alumni Walk, and a residence at 280 College Street, plus academic renovations to Hedge Hall and Roger Williams halls.

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ine years ago, Elaine Tuttle Hansen based her inaugural address on a line from Emily Dickinson: “I dwell in possibility.”

Those four words gave Hansen the opportunity to suggest what she believed was possible for Bates: that the college could meet the challenges of the era by cultivating its historic and distinctive capacity of being, as she said, “alive to change.” In her final Bates interview before assuming duties as executive director of the Center for Talented Youth at The Johns Hopkins University, she spoke with Bates Magazine editor Jay Burns about her 2002 inaugural vision and the realities that followed during her tenure as the seventh president of Bates College.

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he key line in your address comes early when you said, “Our goal is to be alive to change.” You then quote cultural theorist Gloria Anzaldua’s comment on personal identity: “Transitions aren’t what we go through. Transitions are what we are.”

The very identity of a college of the liberal arts and sciences is premised on the idea that we are always embracing change. A quarter of our students change each year. At a slower rate, we welcome new faculty and new staff. A great college embraces new people and their new habits, needs, and expectations. The curricular, educational, and social frameworks of a liberal arts college are just that: frames that contain constant transition. When I said this in 2002, I had no idea how dramatic the changes were going to be in my nine years at Bates. The economic upheaval beginning in 2008 demonstrates that the possibility of positive and negative change is always out there, and we have to expect it even when we can’t predict it. Early in my presidency we developed a 10-year financial model, which reflects the idea that you have to be proactive and keep adjusting your assumptions as part of the planning process. For example, before the

recession, we assumed a 5-percent average annual increase in tuition, which went back to the 1970s. Now we’ve significantly lowered that assumption. We used to assume an 8-percent total return (taking into account spending) on our endowment; we’ve since incorporated a lower assumption into our 10-year plan. We had to change our assumptions about campus housing in 2002 because of code issues in our wood-frame houses, and through our Campus Facilities Master Plan, we developed a framework to build the 280 College Street residence, New Commons, and Alumni Walk, and to renovate Garcelon Field as well as Hedge and Roger Williams halls. We had to learn to make plans. To design yourself as a planner is a little presumptuous — as Henry James wrote, “One’s plan, alas, is one thing and one’s result another.” But I do feel our facilities planning and college planning have been effective. So we run the college the way we ask students to run their lives. We ask them to develop fundamental skills and attitudes that should help them adapt, be flexible, and learn new things for the new jobs that don’t yet exist. Bates has to do the same thing.

Setting aside the economic meltdown, it should have been clear to anyone in 2002 that liberal arts colleges needed to take steps to face disruptions. We knew the trends putting pressure on liberal arts colleges, such as the decline in the percentage and numbers of students earning liberal arts degrees. So if we weren’t alive to change in 2002, we needed to be.

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ou opened your inaugural with a brief comment about rituals: “Rituals afford us prospective opportunities for expressing our hopes and aspirations, our desire for change, and our will to improve.”

In one sense, rituals reassure people. They emphasize, again, the framework that will contain future change — that’s why they’re rituals. At the same time, they always mark change. They are interestingly complicated, almost oxymoronic moments. In a similar way, I have found great pleasure in observing the construction on campus, something I hadn’t anticipated. Perhaps this is because new buildings and renovations create an image of stability yet they reflect great change. It’s a nice pointcounterpoint.

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February 2005 Begun in 1997, the Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Project concludes with some 440 interviews with those who worked with, knew, or were directly affected by Ed Muskie ’36.

September 2005 Bates announces that Maine students enrolled at New Orleans–area colleges devastated by Hurricane Katrina are welcome to take classes at Bates, without charge. Eighteen Mainers take up the offer.

December 2005 Bates announces that it will purchase electricity from renewable energy sources such as biomass and small hydroelectric generating plants.

Spring 2006 Bates breaks ground for a 152-bed residence at 280 College Street. July 2006 The Campaign for Bates: Endowing Our Values concludes by surpassing its $120 million goal.

February 2007 President Hansen is among the first to sign the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment, pledging Bates to become carbon neutral.

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November 2004 The public phase begins for the $120 million Campaign for Bates: Endowing Our Values.

Top, Hansen takes part in an economics class in 2008, part of her annual President for a Day tradition in which she and a student trade places for one day. Above, Hansen and Director of Athletics Kevin McHugh cut the ribbon at the dedication of renovated Garcelon Field in 2010. Left, Hansen talks with Owen Harris ’08 about his neuroscience research on therapies for Parkinson’s disease.

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May 2007 President Hansen convenes her first Presidential Symposium, on diversity and demographics in U.S. higher education.

June 2007 President Hansen announces the innovative “swing dean” program, where a dean recruits students during one year then joins the Dean of Students office to mentor the new students in their first year. The program reflects broader diversity efforts at Bates.

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very Bates president has wrestled in some way or another with the question of diversity and inclusion on this campus. In your inaugural, you described the challenge of creating and recreating a college that feels open both to those who never doubted attending college and to “those who have not been able to feel so confident about their destinies” and who “bring a wider variety of experience and perspective to the campus.” What does it means today for Bates to “invite those who have not been able to feel so confident about their destiny”?

At our 2007 Presidential Symposium, “A College for Coming Time: Diversity and the Changing Demographics of Higher Education,” I noted how many colleges and universities today are able to tell of both aspirations and frustrations around diversity. Bates is alive to this challenge. We know what it is to seek change while staying firm. Of all American colleges, Bates was among the very few that radically put its stamp on diversity long before anyone used that term. It’s part of our sturdy framework. But for a college founded by abolitionists, always open to women, and known for recruiting freed slaves — what does that foundation mean in the early 21st century, when the world has changed so much around us? The value and definition of diversity and inclusion is very different now than in 1855 or in 1945 with the return of students from World War II or in the 1970s when most of the baby boomers were going to college. At the symposium, we focused on the changing demographics. We know that fostering diversity and inclusion is as tough as or tougher now than it used to be. The competition for students is tougher. The financial challenge of providing need-based aid for students is greater. Maine is still mostly a white state and located in a region of the U.S. where high school enrollments have been decreasing. And yet, if I’m proud of anything during my presidency, I am proud that so many people took on the task of working harder to sustain our principles, and prepare all students for the future. Bates is more diverse

September 2007 Focusing on writing, quantitative skills, and interdisciplinary thinking, revamped General Education requirements go into effect for members of the Class of 2011.

February 2008 Bates opens New Commons. Continuing the college tradition of all students dining together, the facility is an “architectural symbol of what makes Bates so special,” says President Hansen.

September 2008 A gift of $2.5 million boosts the college’s already high use of local and organic food and inspires a yearlong food and sustainability initiative called Nourishing Body and Mind: Bates Contemplates Food.

May 2009 Ben Stein ’09 and Amrit Rupasinghe ’10 defeat Bowdoin to win the NCAA Division III men’s doubles tennis championship.

now than ever before, and our incoming Class of 2015 continues this trend: 103 U.S. multicultural students, up from 86 last year, a number that itself represented sustained improvement from prior years. Our increased diversity will continue to affect the culture of the college in ways we can anticipate and in ways we cannot.

should be made briefer. Walking to Gate 4 at LaGuardia Airport recently, I saw a sign in front of a telecom store: “Anything worth doing is worth doing faster.” What I view as the purpose of a higher education is opposite from the idea of getting it over with as quickly as possible. If you attempt to measure our value by that idea,

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n 2002, you said that while society places value on a college education to an individual, “there is no consensus about the social or civic value of higher education” generally.

Society’s understanding of the purpose and value of higher education has only gotten even less clear. As an example, recall that in February 2009 President Obama called for all Americans to commit to attending at least one year of college. The statement was met with praise by college leaders; ostensibly, the president’s speech expressed a consensus that American higher education represents a great public good. But when you look at reaction to the president’s suggestions — one critic dismissed it as just another government subsidy — you realize there is even less alignment between our view of higher education, as both beneficial to the individual and to society, and society’s diminishing belief that higher education is a public good that fosters social and human progress. The call for all Americans to commit to a year of college, while praiseworthy, does diffuse and make much more complex the whole concept of what going to college means in our country. If we have a country that is committed to going to college, yet no agreement on what that means, that pushes us further from a consensus of the public value of higher education. This lack of consensus of the value of a college education is seen in the national discussion of three-year baccalaureate degree programs, a discussion I’ve joined partly because Bates has a three-year option created by President Phillips in the 1960s. While I do understand that a three-year option is about money, an important consideration, the discussion suggests that a U.S. college education is something that can or

the purpose and value of higher education has only gotten even less clear.” you will never believe in Bates. Among other things, we are trying to cultivate the ability to listen, focus, and slow down in a world of, as writer Linda Stone said, “continuous partial attention.”

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resident George Colby Chase, whom you quoted at length in your inaugural, said that Bates must safeguard against existing “to gratify the selfish instincts of the more fortunate.” Bates should develop citizens who are “fit exponents” to increase the world’s “sweetness and light.” If Bates long ago evolved from the teacher-preacher culture of alumni professions, how does Bates prepare people to help society achieve greater “sweetness and light”?

The teacher-preacher culture has been part of some enduring narratives among Bates alumni. One particularly enduring Bates story that alumni in finance and business tell with real emotion is their feeling that they somehow fell from the high aspirations of the preacher-teacher model by pursuing lucrative careers. This narrative seems quite strong among alums of the 1980s, though some felt it more than others. Today, I believe we see absolutely no evidence for this narrative on campus. We see strength in the arts and encouragement for students to pursue great careers in the arts. And we have strength in the economics department and encouragement there.

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September 2009 President Hansen announces Choices for Bates, a strategic plan that is the product of two years of campus discussions. Goals are identified around the arts, natural sciences and mathematics, and the Bates learning experience.

October 2009 H1N1 influenza virus hits Bates as 250-plus students report influenzalike illness. All students return to good health.

December 2009 Bates appoints Nancy J. Cable as vice president and dean of enrollment and external affairs. Her newly organized division brings together admission, student financial services, communications and media relations, and career services.

February 2010 Burning biomass for campus heat and some electricity will be key to the college’s newly announced Climate Action Plan, which anticipates college carbon neutrality by 2020.

Through both our heritage and distinctive current programs, like the Harward Center for Community Partnerships, Bates will always have a culture of social engagement. We tend to seek and attract students who want to do good work, and our seniors desire to find work after graduation that aligns with their experience of having done meaningful and well-aligned academic work while at Bates. As President Chase said, our graduates seek work that “exemplifies to the less favored the meaning and uses of life at its best.” At the same time, Bates has taken great strides in better equipping students to discover and pursue careers that help them make full use of their new liberal arts habits and skills. This past year, we reorganized the Bates career program and redeployed it as the Bates Career Development Center. Again, this is part of Bates being a place that looks forward, anticipates, plans. So, in terms of helping society achieve greater “sweetness and light,” maybe your calling is to a profession directly connected to helping people. Or maybe your calling is to a lucrative profession. Either way, I hear our alumni talking passionately about how their Bates education has helped them be principled, bold, and engaged leaders in their chosen field and in their communities. And I hear the impulse to do good work when alumni talk about helping students and young alumni. This is their expression of doing good work. What I don’t see at Bates is one prescription for how you do good work. And there shouldn’t be one prescription, in my view.

If we look at that statement through the lens of residential life, one challenge is no different than ever before. We have 2,000 students, 1,700 of whom are in residence, all age 18 to 22! Still, I believe we have altered the atmosphere in our residence halls. This is not about casting aspersions on prior groups of students. It’s what Bates has done to help students themselves take responsibility for improving the reality of their residential life. It has helped that Bates built a new residence hall at 280 College Street. Its flexible, welcoming, and interactive spaces help communicate the fact that a student’s residential life is fully connected to other parts of Bates life. We have improved the training of junior advisers and residence coordinators, and Dean of Students Tedd Goundie has the perspective that student leaders can and should be empowered to be more accountable for the actions, programs, and outcomes in the residences. Of course, this is a lot to ask of our students. It can look like Bates is abdicating our responsibilities as adults. But the successes, when they come, are proportional to the amount we are asking students to invest in their community. I mean, talk about building!

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When I quoted author and child psychiatrist Robert Coles in that part of my inaugural, I was worried about children who grow up having cultivated perfection their whole lives. They have, as Coles said, “very definite notions” of what should come to them. They are attuned to accomplishing tasks but not attuned to self-reflection. So when they fail, as we all do at some point, do they have the ability not only to start over but also to learn something important about themselves?

n 2002, you offered the idea that Bates campus life should be about “experimentation and creativity,” with room for “both disagreement and mistakes within a certain zone of temporary safety [and] provisional protection.” What have been the challenges? The successes?

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eing alive to change includes updating our understanding of generational perspectives. In your inauguration, you spoke of young people being highly able and having an extreme emphasis on “self” and “selfhood” but not, ironically, possessing great self-awareness.

March 2010 Bates begins the restoration and expansion of two historic buildings, Hedge Hall and Roger Williams Hall, as academic spaces.

August 2010 Bates announces creation of an Office of Intercultural Education to coordinate academic, social, and residential programs for underrepresented student populations.

At our annual mid-May Senior–Trustee Luncheon, over and over we hear seniors reflect on the incredible value of taking risks and achieving — and the value of not being the best. And these are our stars. They will have great successes in their lives. But what they appreciate, in addition to high-powered academic excellence, is that Bates offered a path for them to try something new — join a club, sports team, or musical group — that requires them to stretch and risk not being the star. Sometimes it is a challenge to convey this part of the Bates culture and not make it sound like we encourage dabbling. It’s not that. When you listen to our seniors, they are very intense and serious about what they have pursued at Bates. Shot put All-American Liz Wanless ’04 used to say that she worked hard at throwing after being inspired by how so many people seemed to have their

“Over and over we hear seniors reflect on the value of taking risks and achieving — and the value of not being the best.” own passion at Bates: “I’m just another person trying to achieve a goal,” she’d say. I can hear in my mind other variations of this — “I learned that who I am includes this passion for doing something that no one else was going to expect me to do.” America used to hold this concept up as something highly valuable: the amateur ideal. By trying many things, failing at some, you get a sense of who you are, particularly in relation to others, and what you really love. This is Bates: broad-scale participation, passion, intensity — our Amore ac Studio.

September 2010 Bates redeploys and expands its career program: the Bates Career Development Center.

October 2010 Bates dedicates a restored and improved Garcelon Field.

March 2011 The Bates faculty announces approval of a major in dance.

May 2011 Bates announces formation of a Presidential Search Committee co-chaired by trustees Michael Chu ’80 and Valerie Smith ’75.

April 2011 President Hansen accepts the position of executive director of the Center for Talented Youth at Johns Hopkins.

Admission reports a triple crown of gains: record applications; a more selective acceptance rate; and a surge in “yield” — the percentage of accepted students who choose Bates.

July 2011 On July 1, Nancy Cable, vice president and dean of enrollment and external affairs, begins her term as interim president of Bates, through June 30, 2012.

Top, Hansen sits for a WRBC student interview in February 2003. Above, Hansen greets a Bates parent during firstyear orientation. Left, Hansen enjoys a personalized version of “My Girl” sung by Admission staffers at her farewell party on the steps of Hathorn Hall in June.

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Career Intentions After a dramatic overhaul, the rebranded and reinvigorated Bates Career Development Center seeks to win back students, faculty, and alumni By Bill Walsh ’86 and H. Jay Burns Illustration by Stephanie Dalton Cowan

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y 2009, the recession had turned Commencement into a day of reckoning. Seniors leaving the leafy environs of the Bates campus were entering the worst job market in more than a quarter century. During the Class of 2009’s senior year, the U.S. jobless rate soared from 6.2 percent to 9.4 percent. “Clearly these are awkward and difficult moments,” Commencement speaker Fareed Zakaria, the noted author and journalist, told the graduates. Before the recession, recalls Jim Hughes, the Thomas Sowell Professor of Economics, just about “any graduating economics major who wanted a job in banking could get one.” But by 2009, “only a few got jobs in the field they were interested in.” While other small liberal arts colleges raced to retool their career services — tapping deeper into alumni networks, expanding internship programs, and launching innovations such as “speed networking” and “taste of industry” visits to Silicon Valley, New York City and Washington, D.C. — the Bates career program was struggling to gain traction. In 2008 and 2009, just as the recession took hold, a series of leadership transitions had hobbled the office. Separately but simultaneously, Bates trustees were expressing growing concerns about the college’s overall visibility and desirability among prospective students and families in the higher education marketplace.

In response, President Hansen directed an administrative reorganization, gathering career advising, admission and financial aid, and communications and media relations under one vice president. In early 2010, Nancy J. Cable arrived at Bates from the University of Virginia after a long and successful tenure in a similar enrollment position at Davidson College. As vice president and dean of enrollment and external affairs, Cable’s first major move, in the spring of 2010, was to undertake a Chapter 11–style reorganization of the former Office of Career Services. After a brief shutdown, Bates infused its career program with new resources and new staff, and renamed it the Bates Career Development Center — all by the start of the 2010–11 academic year. A few months later, BCDC headquarters moved from the fringe of campus on Frye Street to 53 Campus Ave., opposite Chase Hall. If these actions seem dramatic, it’s because the stakes were high. Rob Cramer ’79 is the managing director of RBC Capital Markets in Boston and a longtime Bates career volunteer. He’s also a Bates parent. Parents expect value, and the value of a Bates education should include a robust career program “commensurate with Bates’ status as an elite college.” That means “the best information, the best preparation, and top-flight access to the career world after Bates.”

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And those expectations, many believed, were not being met. And at the alumni end of the Bates pipeline, trustees worried that graduating seniors were losing a competitive advantage in the increasingly brutal job market. Furthermore, they felt that Bates was missing an opportunity to send its In February, the NYC edition of the Finance Road Show included a visit to the New York Stock Exchange facilitated by trustee James McNulty P’11. Immersion into various career fields is the goal of the college’s road show program. graduates into the work world with big, grateful Bruce Stangle ’70, Jennifer Guckel Porter Appointed in July 2010, McRoberts smiles. ’88, Joel Goober ’70, and David Greaves ’80 arrived at Bates after eight years in career Indeed, the student-to-alum transition were building the successful Boston Bates development at Boston University School of at Commencement “is the time to capture Business Network. The goal was to help Management. Armed with her own liberal the continued engagement of an individual,” alumni expand their professional relationarts background (North Park University, says Stuart Abelson ’97, a Bates trustee ships, and there are now Bates Network Chicago), McRoberts engineered her own chapters in New York City, career overhaul about a decade ago, moving Washington, D.C., Chicago, from corporate PR to career counseling. and Portland, Maine. She earned a master’s in counseling Yet by late in the decade, from San Francisco State University (doing the Boston alumni cohort was grief and crisis counseling for a family-serespecially frustrated with leadvices agency along the way), then interned at ership changes in the career Berkeley before moving back East. office. They wanted to see a From experience, then, she knows that renewed emphasis on career “career development goes beyond getting a development that would link job. It’s about what you choose to do with to efforts in the emerging Bates your entire life.” networks. But having a job sure helps, a fact not “If students and parents lost on McRoberts. With Bates trustees, facunderstand that Bates offers ulty, senior administration, and parents all both strong career preparation expecting big things from BCDC, she knows “Career development is about what you choose to do with your and a thriving alumni network, that giving students the skills to compete sucentire life,” says BCDC director Karen McRoberts. then alumni will feel that a cessfully for jobs, graduate-school admission, Bates degree has more value,” Stangle says. and fellowships “is where the rubber hits the whose company, the ophthalmic clinical “And that helps the college.” road.” research firm Ora, is a leading recruiter and Too often regarded as an afterthought Long ago, the word “placement” disapemployer of Bates alumni (the current numof the student experience (raise your hand peared from the title of most college career ber is 12). if you remember the obligatory senior-year offices. Now, the word “services” is disap“If graduates feel that Bates has played visit to Frye House to peruse job postings), pearing. “It suggests the end game, what a helpful role in their career search, rather BCDC and its new director, Karen McRobyou think about when you’re leaving Bates,” than feeling that they’ve succeeded despite erts, hope to make career planning and McRoberts says. Renaming the office the Bates, that’s going to pay off for the college,” development a central part of the Bates expeBates Career Development Center, more than Abelson says. rience right from the start. a change in stationery, “is strategic, suggestDuring the mid- and late 2000s, alumni ing an ongoing, lifelong process,” she adds. in the Boston area like Steve Brown ’69,

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In this sense, too, the office’s major move to Campus Avenue from Frye Street (its home since the Nixon administration) is more than a simple address change. It’s about being seen, literally and figuratively, as part of the Bates experience. “If the college sees us as part of the community, it should have a trickle-down effect to students,” McRoberts says.

Abelson frames the concept in historical Bates terms. “It’s not Bates’ job to find a job for seniors. But it is Bates’ job to create an environment, resource base, and network where students can find a job or a graduate program. I mean, this is straight out of Benjamin Mays: Bates ‘making it possible’ for a student to empower themselves.” Yet finding the right mix of programs to get students to make career planning part of their day-to-day decision-making is the “challenge for every career center in the U.S.,” McRoberts says. “There is no cookie-cutter approach.” One-on-one counseling “is always going to be very important,” she says, so the personalattention theme is emphasized through daily BCDC walk-in hours and a newly created team of Career Peers, juniors and seniors who guide fellow students who are just beginning their career exploration. Sowell Professor of Economics James Hughes worked with BCDC to solve the knotty internship-for-credit problem. See sidebar, right. But the one-on-one approach can’t reach everyone, And short of advertising during the so BCDC has invigorated its larger events: Super Bowl halftime, BCDC has been making them class-focused, branding them putting itself in front of far more student with catchy themes, and publicizing the heck eyeballs than ever before. Every Wednesday out of them. at lunchtime, students see BCDC staffers “We’ve done a lot of work developing at tables in New Commons ready to programs that address what students need answer quick career questions and schedule to be thinking about” at different points of appointments. “The goal is to get students their Bates experience, McRoberts says. to cross Campus Avenue and come into the Last fall, the First-Year Career Success office,” McRoberts says. Initiative, playing off the CSI television franBCDC also has been a strong presence chise, was a networking session and orientaat Bates’ largest events (Orientation, Parents tion that attracted 50 first-year students (a & Family Weekend, Homecoming), and great turnout). Meanwhile, the Career Incepstaffers attend many Bates alumni networktion program, playing off the movie Inceping events off campus. tion, gave juniors advice on internships and Its higher profile on campus is part of job-seeking strategies. BCDC’s “goal to get out in front of the game “Larger events do take more time to and help students develop a four-year plan,” pull together,” McRoberts says. “But they McRoberts says. “Our hope is that as stuare more effective and efficient than giving dents move through their time here at Bates, the same 90-minute workshop to five stuthey learn to continually move career ideas dents over and over.” and strategies in and out of their decisionAt the same time, BCDC has created making.” other new events and jazzed up others. Re-

When Phillips Professor of Art Rebecca Corrie calls internships “crucial for professional development” in the art world, she’s stating a truism that applies across the Bates enterprise. Increasingly, internships are the linchpin between an excellent liberal arts education and easy entry into the professional world. “One of the biggest measures of success for people seeking to go into the work environment or graduate program is whether or not they have had internships,” says Bates Career Development Center director Karen McRoberts. BCDC is seeking to identify more internship opportunities earlier in students’ careers, giving them practical real-world experience that will pay off when they begin full-time interviews their senior year. A disconcerting phenomenon during the recession is a trend toward unpaid internships. While nonprofits and the government can offer unpaid internships (as volunteers), labor laws don’t allow for-profit businesses to hire unpaid workers. Businesses get around it by asking a student’s college to give academic credit for the unpaid work. “This has been a contentious issue over the years,” Sowell Professor of Economics James Hughes told The Chronicle of Higher Education last year. “Why is it that we have to evaluate this experience just so some multibillion-dollar bank can avoid paying $7.50 an hour?” Hughes argues that “work experience is the point of most internships. Academic credit only benefits the employer, who avoids having to pay the student for their good work.” Bates recently addressed the issue without giving in. When an employer insists that Bates give academic credit as a condition of employment, a new “Transcript Notation Policy” allows Bates to note the experience on the student’s transcript without giving formal academic credit. “BCDC was instrumental” in creating the policy, says Hughes, who also applauds the addition of a staffer dedicated to internships. “All of this should effectively widen the availability of internships to Bates students at all levels and in all disciplines.” — HJB

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percent of students play varsity, club, or intramural sports — to help them understand how the tools of athletic competition can be part of their career development strategies. In contrast to last year’s casual session that drew a couple dozen students to Merrill Gym, this year’s 71 attendees (including a strong turnout of 21 first-years or sophomores) found a more formal, conference-like setup in Alumni Gym. Business-casual attire was de rigueur, and keynote speaker Peter Wyman ’86, an Ocean Spray vice president, was in a suit. And, egad, the program was on a Sunday morning of Short Term. “We try to instill an idea that’s still true and meaningful in the work world: You never get a second chance to make a first impression,” McRoberts At New Commons, BCDC staffers Nancy Gibson (far left) and Kim Ma (left) answer questions and schedule appointments. says. “As students brand themselves for their professional lives, accountsume training was found in a recent “DIY” And, he adds, it hasn’t been hard to get ability and, literally, showing up are parts of event — again, at New Commons to give alumni to engage with the students. “Supthe overall package.” it visibility — called Building Your Career port from the Bates alumni in finance has Varsity rower Hannah Richardson Toolkit. been amazing. If I want to set up eight meet’11 of Washington, D.C., got the mesLast fall, the annual Finance Boot Camp ings, I make eight phone calls.” sage. “What stuck with me is that students attracted 40 students, in required business “My impression is that BCDC is proshould approach the job search process as attire, for a five-hour Sunday afternoon moting itself more,” says Sili Wang ’13 of they would a competition: with planning, class. Each fall and winter, BCDC continues Chengdu, China. An economics major, she persistence, and more effort than the other to offer finance “road shows” in Boston and visited the office just once her first year, but person,” she says. New York City, whirlwind overnight events visited several times this past year, taking From Hughes’ faculty perspective, in which alumni and parents in finance welpart in the Finance Boot Camp in the fall BCDC is starting to get that message out to come students into their work world. and both the Boston and New York City all students. “It is going to take another year Brad Adams ’92, a managing director Finance Road Shows. “They are definitely to completely turn it around, but I’ve no of the investment banking firm TM Capital getting more helpful.” doubt that it will happen.” Corp., has been a key force behind the BosThe rebranded BCDC was in full bloom But if BCDC is starting to win student ton event, now in its fourth year. in early May for the flagship workshop hearts and minds, restore relationships with “Bates students are great writers and known as GAME Day. A joint effort involvalumni volunteers, and win over longtime thinkers, but they’ve had no real exposure to ing BCDC, the Department of Athletics, and critics like Hughes, it may have a tough row investment banking,” he says. “Now, when the Friends of Bates Athletics, the program to hoe with the larger community of Bates an employer asks if they’ve had experience in targets athletes at Bates — where some 60 faculty, who have always acted as career adthis world, they can say yes.” visers for their students. 26  Bates  FALL 2011

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Take the Department of Art and Visual Culture, where the academic course “Museum Internship” offers what the name says: academic credit to students who intern with museums, including the Bates College Museum of Art. (A few other departments also offer course credit for internships.) “Internships are the path into the museum field,” says department chair Rebecca Corrie, Phillips Professor of Art and Visual Culture. “They are crucial for professional development.” (See sidebar, page 25.) Corrie says the department has worked “very hard over the last two decades” to help art students secure significant internship experience with leading museums, auction houses, galleries, and foundations. To prepare students for those internships, which can lead to post-Bates jobs, “we offer intensive coaching and endless advising,” she says. Yet along with pride in Bates art majors’ career successes is Corrie’s belief, shared by other academic departments,

Brad Adams ’92 interviews a prospective Ladd intern last winter. Alumni support for career-development programs “has been amazing,” he says.

that faculty have done more than their fair share of career advising over the years, being called upon by frantic students to proof resumes and personal statements and help with interviewing. Again here, BCDC is trying to correct this perceived imbalance through workshops, partnerships with Bates writing specialists, and better communication with faculty who oversee key graduate and medical studies programs (the latter being highly successful in recent years). “I’m not the expert who can help a student compare anthropology doctoral programs focused on the West Indies,” says Karen Daigler, the BCDC staffer who supports medical and graduate studies. “But I can certainly work with a faculty member and student to guide that process.” While Bates professors obviously “care deeply” about their students and their career paths, Daigler adds, they shouldn’t be burdened with the job of imparting careerdevelopment skills. Still, she knows, students tend to follow their professor’s advice, and faculty are unlikely to start urging students to visit BCDC if they think that the help won’t be top-notch. Abelson compares this dynamic to when a new company creates its human resources office, and there’s a learning curve as the company’s managers (read: Bates faculty) figure out if and how they should work with the HR office (read: BCDC). “Over the years, Bates career advising has been a little bit like that,” he says. From his trustee perspective, Abelson makes a suggestion. “Now that BCDC is coming into its own, I hope that the whole college community — and I mean faculty, alumni, administrators, parents, and students — give it a chance. Let’s accept that change is happening and embrace the change.” Ultimately, he says, the success of BCDC “is going to live in all our actions.”

This year’s GAME Day, a BCDC mentoring program geared to Bobcat athletes, served up winning career tips from alumni panelists AVOID THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE MISERABLE Rick Pitino coined “fellowship of the miserable” to describe sports fans’ negativity. In his GAME Day keynote, Ocean Spray vice president Peter Wyman ’86 told students to embrace positivity. “An athlete’s mental skills — being competitive, optimistic, accountable, hard-working, willing to lead, and positive — are highly transferable to the workplace,” he said. IT’S THE ACADEMICS, STUPID “Be upfront that you have worked hard in both academics and athletics, and succeeded at both,” said Patrick Quinn ’12, an economics major and football player who is interning with Wyman at Ocean Spray Inc. this summer. DIVERSITY IS DIVERSE “Diversity is multi-platform,” Wyman said. “It’s about socioeconomics. It’s about age. Gender. Ethnicity. Geography. As Bates graduates you should be able to create community and do business among all these differences.”

YOU HAD ME AT HELLO “Seeking a job starts with a conversation,” Wyman said. “And conversations start with ‘Hello.’ Don’t ever stop having conversations. If there’s someone you admire, have the selfconfidence to reach out.” THE BIG T “In your interviews, talk about your thesis experience as a way to show commitment, meeting deadlines, and being accountable,” said Brian Machunski ’08. HUMAN RESOURCES “Bates may not have the highest endowment, but we have the best people,” Pat Boyaggi ’03 said. “I promise you that Bates people will help you during your job search.” GAME Day career tips bit.ly/gameday-tips FALL 2011  Bates  27

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Peter’s Freedom The late Peter Gomes ’65 did what he did out of his audacious and confounding freedom as a Christian man By Carl Benton Straub

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Gomes Memorial Chapel The Rev. Peter J. Gomes ’65, D.D. ’96, author, preacher, pastor, and devoted son of Bates, died on Feb. 28, 2011. On Oct. 3, the college and the Gomes estate announced the naming of the Bates Chapel as the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Chapel, to be dedicated in the spring. The Gomes Chapel bit.ly/gomes-chapel

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everal years ago, a young Bates development officer and I arrived at Sparks House at Harvard for a visit with Peter Gomes. We were barely seated in his study when Peter looked at me and said, “If you’ve come to ask for money — don’t.” I was startled — money was not at all on our minds. So I quickly said, “Peter, if the college were going to ask you for money, it wouldn’t send lightweights like us.” Well, that made Peter pause. That lower lip went out, the chin went up, and he gave that eternal nod. “Good point,” he said. Like Peter’s other friends, it took me a while to learn to intuit the deep rumblings just beneath the fleeting surfaces of Peter’s humor, quips, and targeted disdains. It took me a while to know his tenderness, and the kindnesses that flowed from it. Many have spoken about Peter’s complex character. This is what I have seen: Peter said what he said, did what he did, and hoped what he hoped out of his audacious and confounding freedom as a Christian man. He called his life “a work in progress.” I will add that it was a work beyond the reach of pietism and beyond the range of moralism. Peter experienced the antinomies of life, the paradoxes and contradictions in living, and the ambivalences of being human. But he also experienced them being reconciled in him by a loving God. Out from

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Peter Gomes and Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe greet one other after Commencement 2006, when both received Bates honorary degrees.

this inner reconciliation, and because of it, he taught us. A traditional moment of his teaching in Harvard Yard was his benediction at the traditional Senior Class Chapel on the

“It took me a while to know his tenderness, and the kindnesses that flowed from it.” morning of commencement. It always passed over the platitudes, always transcended the academy’s prejudices. One year, he famously told the seniors that “you are going to be sent out of here for good, and most of you are not ready

to go. The president is about to bid you into the fellowship of educated men and women, and you know just...how...dumb... you...really... are.” After the seniors cheered their agreement, Peter continued on. “You know that you can no longer fool all the people even some of the time. By noontime today you will be out of here. By tomorrow you will be history. By Saturday you will be toast. That’s a fact — no exceptions, no extensions.” But there is always hope, Peter told the seniors. “The future is God’s gift to you. God will not let you stumble or fall. God has not brought you this far, to this place, to abandon you or leave you here alone and afraid. The God of Israel never stumbles, never sleeps, never goes on sabbatical. Thus, my beloved and bewildered young friends, do not be afraid. “God grant you life until your work is done, and work until your life is over.” Carl Benton Straub, professor emeritus of religion and the Clark A. Griffith Professor Emeritus of Environmental Studies, joined the Bates faculty in 1965. This essay is adapted from remarks Straub delivered at the tribute to Peter Gomes at Reunion 2011.

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Top, while on campus for Reunion 1998 to receive the college’s highest alumni honor, the Benjamin Mays Medal, Gomes creates a bit of theater by searching the ivy-covered walls of Carnegie Science for the Class of 1965 ivy stone. Above, Gomes parades with his class at Reunion 2005. Right, Gomes walks hand in hand at Commencement 2004 with his close friend, the late Milton Lindholm ’35, who received an honorary degree.

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“We will continue to be very peculiar people in a very ordinary world. I want us to stand out.”

His Beautiful Existence The tribute to the late Rev. Peter Gomes ’65 at Reunion was the kind of coming together that he savored, one that shared the “simple joys of our beautiful existence.” I met Peter in 1970 at Harvard Divinity School. He and I were both thin, and if I must say so myself, one Afro was as good as the other. Not yet was Peter Gomes the national treasure, not yet an icon. But he was then, and always was, sincere, earnest, talented, unique, smart, interesting, kind, and funny. In a sermon, Peter once argued that plagiarism has its place in a discussion of moral worth. We all strive to be honest and unique, he said, but few of us are truly honest, fewer still are unique. So life becomes a kind of imitation — a sort of plagiarism. The question is, to whom should we look for a vision of a good life? Peter Gomes’ life was a beautiful sermon. It was a good life. And one certainly worth plagiarizing from time to time. — James Lawson P’13 Peter Gomes once said that if we are to be true to our Bates identity and inheritance, “we will continue to be very peculiar people in a very ordinary world. I want us to stand out.” Peter’s journey taught me that standing out is a spiritual process. It is one that requires trial and error, deep reflection, and a certain sense of restlessness. His journey also taught me to savor the reunions we have in this life. These gatherings fulfill our common purpose: sharing the simple joys of our beautiful existence. — Marshall Hatch ’10

I would listen to Peter Gomes and Kate Stimpson lead the discussion during meetings of the trustee committee on honorary degrees. For a young trustee, it was like sitting at the feet of the masters. They were connected to every major thread in our country: economic, social, cultural, political. I saw how they offered their personal values to this important process, and I learned what it means to bring all the elements of your life together into service of this great institution. — Jamie Merisotis ’86 We all knew Peter as a best-selling author and one of the world’s great preachers. But he was also a pastor who could, with a twoword question, drive to the heart of things. Long ago, he helped me with cogent advice as my first marriage was ending. In subsequent years, he would occasionally peer gently at me and, with a simple two-word question, ask about my second one. “Knots holding?” For those of us who loved him, our presence here today reflects knots that are still holding strong. — Bill Hiss ’66

Top, Gomes greets Bob Dunn ’50 and Gladys Bovino Dunn’ 51 after he preached at the Alumni Memorial Service at Reunion 2010. Above, Norm Ross ’22 and Marjorie Pillsbury Ross ’23 enjoy a tale from Gomes at Reunion 1998.

These texts are adapted from tributes offered at the 2011 Reunion tribute in memory of Peter Gomes ’65 bit.ly/gomes-tribute

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Behind the closed doors of an honors defense, young scholars undergo a final metamorphosis

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Above, honors candidate Andrew Beck is sent to the chalkboard by his honors panel to illustrate one of his ideas about the Battle of Zama.

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s the Scandinavian voice rumbles from the speakerphone, geology honors candidate Keegan Runnals ’11 leans forward to hear better. The voice belongs to Icelandic geophysicist Páll Einarsson, the outside examiner for Runnals’ thesis defense held this April morning in a Pettengill Hall seminar room. Einarsson, teleconferencing from the University of Iceland, is questioning the final slide of Runnals’ brief public presentation. “You have this picture up, yah? With these arrows? And where do these arrows come from?” A casual observer finds little unusual about the slide. It’s a map of Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula, with a dotted line running through the island nation. The line shows the rift zone between the two tectonic plates under the island, the Atlantic and Eurasian plates. “The arrows show the spreading direction of the plates, from the Nuvel 1A model,” replies a confident Runnals, who knows Einarsson from doing Bates-funded honors research in Iceland last summer. Maybe because Runnals’ words needed to travel to Iceland, there was a lull before Einarsson asked a less geologic and more Socratic question. “The question really is, how do people find these spreading directions?” With that, the gloves come off. Each year, a bit more than 10 percent of the senior class undertakes a yearlong honors thesis. Compared to the regular thesis (completed by 98 percent of seniors), the honors version requires greater mastery of the topic at hand, and it’s more intense and ritualized. There’s no wiggle room on any deadlines. This year, the candidates had to turn in their black-bound tomes by 3 p.m. on

Before his geology honors defense starts, Keegan Runnals completes paperwork with politics professor Aslaug Ásgeirsdóttir, chair of the honors panel, while his adviser, Dyk Eusden ’80, checks the video setup.

March 25, and all candidates had to face one final test unique to the honors program: the oral examination, or defense, before a panel of scholars. While not as bedeviling as, say, “What’s the sound of one hand clapping,” the panelists’ probing questions effectively remove the training wheels and push the candidate away from certainty. Like this one posed to a biology major: “Why didn’t you explain the significance of the statistically insignificant differences?” This spring, Bates Magazine visited three defenses. Runnals, of Wolfeboro, N.H., used extensive fieldwork in Iceland to theorize that faults and fissures found on the Reykjanes Peninsula are due mostly to volcanic eruptions rather than earthquakes. Andrew Beck ’11 of Okemos, Mich., explained why the Romans were able to defeat Hannibal at the Battle of Zama just 14 years after Hannibal handed the Romans their heads at the Battle of Cannae. Carolynn Harris ’11 of Weston, Conn., contributed to ongoing Bates research, funded by the National Science Foundation, that seeks to reconstruct prehistoric ecosystems in the Gulf of Maine in order to better understand current fisheries problems (“Bare Bones,” Summer 2009). For most of the year, honors students lead a cloistered existence. Submitting the thesis begins a metamorphosis from private

thinker to public scholar, from the “intimate experience of working with a faculty adviser, to the external experience of defending your ideas to distinguished scholars,” says Dean of the Faculty Pamela Baker ’70. That’s how Beck felt. “When I wrote my thesis, I felt like a student — working with my adviser, Margaret Imber, to learn the topic and structure my argument.” Then everything changed for the defense. “Answering questions from scholars, I felt like a peer. “That was really cool.” The Bates honors program goes back to 1927, but the current form emerged in the 1970s during President Hedley Reynolds’ ambitious tenure. By expanding the faculty, Reynolds gave professors time to dig deeper into their own academic research and time to guide students into more specialized honors work. Reynolds and his deans added outside examiners to the honors process, which had an ulterior motive, recalls Reynolds Professor of History John Cole. “To create a firstclass institution, Bates needed a first-class reputation in graduate programs,” he says. “The initial goal was to bring in outside examiners from graduate schools to see our best students.” Most Bates honors panels comprise three members: two Bates professors and the outside examiner, a scholar who either

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travels to Bates or beams in via teleconference. Either way, the outside examiner adds spice to what feels like a one-act play. Such star power was in play for Andrew Beck’s thesis defense, held in the classical and medieval studies lounge in Pettengill Hall a day after Runnals’ session. Initially, the gathering feels casual until panelist Cole looks around and says, “Let’s deregularize these chairs.” The curtain has opened. For his analysis of Cannae and Zama, Beck drew upon the book Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity, a highly praised analysis by University of Virginia history professor J.E. Lendon. As the panel positions itself in the lounge, filling up on coffee and cookies, suddenly there’s J.E. Lendon himself at the door. It’s like the Annie Hall scene where Woody Allen pulls Marshall McLuhan into the conversation so McLuhan can tell the guy, “You know nothing of my work!” But at Bates, Lendon has been invited into the scene not to bury Beck but to challenge him and, after Beck answers the challenge, to praise him. As the defense begins, most of the verbal parrying is between Lendon and Beck. A photographer circles the room as they talk about the trustworthiness of ancient sources; whether the Carthaginian interest in commerce influenced their military culture; and whether Beck makes a misstep by introducing the oft-quoted Chinese military theorist Sun Tzu. “Why did you use Sun Tzu?” Lendon finally asks, point-blank. “Certainly there other equally boring observants of war,” he adds, noting that he thinks Sun Tzu’s insights can be “pretty feeble.” Beck replies, “I was trying to make a point about battlefield principles in an interesting way.”

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In the classical and medieval studies lounge, Andrew Beck has the attention of his honors panel.

Lendon, who, like other examiners, is paid $200 plus expenses, afterward grants that Beck’s citing of Sun Tzu is sound. Lendon says that, generally, one’s argument is improved by introducing a variety of ideas from outside the specific topic at hand. “But the proof is in the pudding,” he says. “Is what you bring in helpful?” In Beck’s case, the answer is yes. “The level of discourse was very high,” Lendon says, “the sort of discussion I would have in a graduate seminar.” And that’s really the point of the enterprise, he adds. “At the culmination of an education, we treat the students as one of us, even for a brief period. Sometimes it’s a disaster, and sometimes it works incredibly well, as it did here.” Beck is now in Baton Rouge, La., on the City Year program, mentoring in local schools and participating in education-related projects. Over in Carnegie Science Hall, Carolynn Harris’ defense is dizzying. Ostensibly biology, her work is rampantly interdisciplinary, also including geology, archeology, and history. With multiple disciplines involved, Harris’ honors panel grows like a Senate inquiry. Official adviser Will Ambrose, professor of

biology, is joined by geology professor Bev Johnson, who worked closely with Harris on aspects of her research dealing with isotopic analysis of ancient fish bones. “Navigating between the two of us has been hard enough,” Ambrose quips early on. Harris’ thesis investigates ancient ecosystems by comparing the eating habits of various fishes, historic and current. That’s done by looking at carbon and nitrogen isotopes in their bones: ancient bones selected by Harris from prehistoric sites on Penobscot Bay, and current samples taken from fish purchased at a Portland fish market and elsewhere. Working in the college’s Environmental Geochemistry Laboratory, Harris scoured the bones with a Dremel tool and bathed them in hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide. She then measured the bones’ isotopes using a stable isotope mass spectrometer, one of the few such machines in Maine designed to analyze modern and ancient organic matter. Her findings support ongoing Bates research, led by Johnson, that tells us something rather surprising about Maine’s ancient fish habitats and fish populations: They began to change well before Europeans arrived along Maine’s coastline. Native peoples

“Sometimes it’s a disaster, and sometimes it works incredibly well, as it did here.” during a brief lull. “And some jerk is always going to challenge you.” When challenged, the educated liberal arts graduate needs to be able to move beyond easy assumption but stop at the precipice of speciousness. “You have to be completely honest about the limits of your equations or variables or assumptions,” McMahon explains. “Be confident — but also be able to explain how your interpretations might have to change.” McMahon also talks about being a public scholar. He shares a story about going through customs in Los Angeles and meeting the R&B singer Ciara. She asks the usual question: what McMahon does for a living. “I had two minutes to make my research understandable.” (He is finding ways to learn the location of fish habitats merely by measuring isotopes in their bodies.) University of Virginia history professor J.E. Lendon listens intently as Beck explains an A scholar idea about Hannibal’s defeat at Zama. should be able to explain his or her work to the public, McChallenging the candidate has a larger Mahon says, whether in an elevator or going purpose, explains outside examiner Kelton through customs, “in a way that answers McMahon ’05, a biology postdoc with the their question, ‘Why should I care?’” Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who After fielding all the questions, Harris, also had the Ambrose-Johnson advising team who is working with a marine laboratory for his honors work. this summer, takes a breath and announces, “You will always have to make certain unprompted, that despite all the assumptions assumptions about your work,” he tells her she’s had to make, “I stand by my conclucaused some changes by fishing, but the reasons for other important habitat changes remain unknown, such as the decline in eelgrass beds. The multiple disciplines present at Harris’ defense means whiplash questions. A professor reminds Harris to distinguish between “fish” and “fishes.” Another wants to know how climate change affects sculpin distribution in Penobscot Bay, and why she used the Maquoit Bay environment in Brunswick as one baseline. And, for goodness sake, why didn’t she include clams in her research, too?

sions.” The group laughs in appreciation. “We’ve all been there!” says biologist Ronald Barry. During Runnals’ defense, Einarsson’s accented voice offers more and more questions about those arrows and the tectonic plate movements they represent. How do we know about the plate movements? What is the origin of measurements? Is it from GPS or magnetic anomalies? Then geologist John Creasy takes over, asking Runnals if he’s thought about how his theories would apply to faults and fissures on the ocean floor. Reflecting on the experience a few months later, Runnals says it was all good. “When you’re writing a yearlong thesis, it’s hard to think about every single aspect of your project in depth,” he explains. “So it’s good to know what the experts find important that you didn’t give much thought to.” It was all good for a couple other reasons. After leaving the room so the panel could vote (“Honors” or “No Honors”), Runnals and his adviser, Dyk Eusden ’80, return to learn that he’s been granted honors, as did all candidates in 2011. Runnals then asks his own question of Einarsson. “Is there enough material here to maybe produce a paper?” Yes, replies Einarsson. “This can be made into quite a substantial paper.” The answer brings the first smile from Runnals of the session, plus a quiet “Wow.” Runnals’ second question asks if Einarsson is willing to work with him on the paper. Again, the geophysicist says yes. And that’s where Runnals is right now, in Iceland, working with Einarsson on the manuscript. And a scholar is born. Is my honors thesis good enough? bit.ly/honors-video

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ndrew Cyr ’96 can only smile and giggle. It’s a little after two o’clock, and the upscale Café on the Beauty Level at Bergdorf Goodman is swimming with fashionable women glammed up in makeup, fur, and heel. Cyr sheepishly rises for a handshake and an awkward hug. He apologizes for choosing a restaurant that’s straight out of Sex and the City. “I asked at a board meeting this morning where I should meet for lunch, and two women recommended Bergdorf Goodman: ‘They have the best sandwiches.’” Yet, the choice works. Cyr has much to celebrate these days, and this modish spot on Fifth Avenue seems the place to catch his breath, relax, and allow himself to be fawned over. He orders a glass of water with lemon and a bowl of split pea soup, and saves room for dessert. Newly honored with a Grammy Award nomination, Cyr finds himself at the apex of Manhattan’s bustling new-music scene. At age 37, he is succeeding at what music directors at orchestras around the country have been trying to figure out for years: How to make contemporary classical music hip and accessible to a range of listeners, especially young people. Cyr is founder and artistic director of Metropolis Ensemble, a chamber orchestra and ensemble that commissions and performs new music for eager and enthusiastic audiences in nontraditional venues around Manhattan. Performing about once a month, Metropolis seeks venues that promote interaction and community among musicians and the audience. One month’s venue might be a bar, while the next might be Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center, where Metropolis performed Chinese composer Tan Dun’s Martial Arts Trilogy in August — “a splashy multimedia event” performed with “skill and exuberance,” The New York Times noted. The loose-knit group of a few dozen composers and musicians is clearly getting noticed in the city, and national exposure came last year with Metropolis’ multiple

Grammy nominations. Cyr didn’t win, but had a blast at the ceremony in Los Angeles in February. “It was an orgy in self-congratulations. We were all telling each other how great we are,” he says. Cyr received a nomination as best conductor, and mandolinist Avi Avital as best soloist, for their work on Avner Dorman’s Concertos, the first studio album from Metropolis Ensemble. David Frost, who produced the disc, won the 2011 Grammy for Producer of the Year. For Cyr, the best part is that people are responding. The audiences are fervent, and growing. The evening before our lunch, Metropolis Ensemble raised four times its financial goal at a benefit event, its first major public event since the Grammys. Cyr was flabbergasted. “It’s a big moment for us, a real endorsement from the people who support us,” he said over lunch. “We just tripled our budget overnight.” His success with such a bold venture speaks to his training at Bates. He often cites the influence of Bates music professors Marion Anderson and Bill Matthews, who encouraged him to think big. “They taught me how to ask questions,” Cyr says. “They are my mentors and guides, and important people to me. I looked up to them, and they taught me. When I failed, they helped me get back up. I was a young person in college. I was not a straightA student. They helped me at every turn.” Anderson remembers Cyr for his intellectual curiosity. “Over coffee after class, I learned that he had a real passion for classical music and, in particular, opera,” says Anderson, who retired in 2005 and now lives in Seattle. Anderson encouraged Cyr to pursue those interests, and the student did so vigorously, eventually changing his major from pre-med to music. Meanwhile, Matthews prodded Cyr — a native of the far northern Maine town of Fort Kent, where more than half the residents speak French at home — to explore his own French heritage. For his senior thesis, Cyr researched Franco-American songs, recorded local French singers, and

transcribed their lyrics into English. Later, he studied in France. He moved to New York in 2000 and is married to Kate Gilmore ’97, an acclaimed artist herself, in the performance and video realm (“Break on Through,” Summer 2009). They live in Brooklyn. Cyr’s vision for the Metropolis Ensemble began to evolve as he accompanied Gilmore to art openings. He noticed the galleries were filled with people just like him — young New Yorkers with an appetite for the arts. They come out for art openings, but not for classical music. “They listen to classical music. It’s on their iPods. But they don’t go to Carnegie Hall,” he says. “That traditional classical music concert experience doesn’t fit into the rhythm of their life.” Bates roots run deep in Metropolis Ensemble. Mikhail Iliev ’96 provided key legal advice and is now the ensemble’s treasurer. Sound engineer Nils van Otterloo ’96 helped to record early Metropolis concerts. And videographer Timothy Bakland ’96 has captured concert footage. With Bates friends and others under his wings, Cyr learned, on the fly, how to transform a performing arts start-up into an active arts-presenting organization in a city chock full of them. While good things may come from the Grammy nod, all will have to be earned. “It changes everything and it changes nothing,” he says. “We still have to do everything we do, although it should open us up to donors and allow us to communicate our message to a larger community.” In one of those “if you can make it in New York” moments, Cyr mentions an idea of starting a festival in China to serve the country’s growing demand for music programming. “Did you know there are 40 million piano students in China?” he asks. Bob Keyes writes about the arts for The Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram.

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Postcard from Campus June 10, 2011, 9:34 p.m. As alumni, family, and friends watch from Keigwin Amphitheater, Reunion fireworks create reflections in Lake Andrews and illuminate the Bates campus, including Page Hall (right) and Lane and Hathorn halls (center). Also helping to light the scene is a partial moon, five days before full moon. Photograph by H. Lincoln Benedict ’09.

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Class Secretary: Kathryn Gould Ball, 11 Kramer Ave., West Caldwell NJ 07006, macleodball@gmail.com Len Clough and Betty enjoy life at The McAuley senior residence in West Hartford, Conn. They are mobile enough to visit family in Memphis, celebrate her 65th reunion at Randolph College in Virginia, and travel to Paris and Nice with the New Britain Museum of American Art.... Fred Downing condensed a 10-tape oral history he and son James compiled on a trip from Maine to Seattle in 1951. The result is a 60-page document he will send to his grandchildren and other relatives. “It was a good way to refresh memories,” Fred reports.... Kate Gould Ball’s yearly schedule starts with two months in Tucson, Ariz., followed by a spring trip to Maine, a couple weeks at the Jersey shore in September, and the holidays in Maryland. She flew into Venice and then cruised around both sides of the Adriatic. Her season ticket at the Metropolitan Opera has been replaced with a nearby theater that shows Met operas.... In Sandwich, N.H., Lib MacGregor Bates received an L.L. Bean Outdoor Hero award for her contributions to the Wonalancet Out Door Club, including land conservation and trail creation, and her guidance of a group of retiree hikers known as the Over the Hill Hikers, also the name of a book about Lib and her good works. Lib is proud of how the camaraderie and support among the Over the Hill Hikers has helped members go places and achieve goals that they couldn’t on their own. She hopes her story will encourage others to do “impossible things” in life.... Les Thomas is well and still serves on his local library board.... Ginny Yeomans Ansheles received “the latest in walkers” from her children, giving her much more mobility. She feels lucky to have four of her children nearby. They often have gatherings at her place.... Earle Zeigler says getting about and involved is ever more difficult. Nonetheless, he and Anne cruised from San Diego along the coast of Mexico. “No paragliding this time as at Puerta Vallarta in 2010.” He continues as what he calls “the most-published, least-read writer in western Canada.”

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Class Secretary: Muriel Ulrich Weeks, 4941 Simmons Cir., Export PA 15632, muweeks@comcast.net Class President: Jane Parsons Norris, 93 Field Ave., Auburn ME 04210, janenorris@roadrunner.com Rohna Isaacson Shoul found a home for the peace work she did in the ’60s and ’70s at Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library and the Newton (Mass.) Public Library.... Scottie Miller Rowell and Waldo were excited to move to “a land-based cruise ship”: a continuing care retirement community near St. Petersburg’s downtown waterfront.... Gerry Nickerson Coombs is active in the Bath Community Forester Committee and enjoys Senior College courses.... Jay Packard Stewart received the East Hartford YMCA’s MacDonald Award for her leadership and dedicated service. Charlotte and Art Bradbury ’49 were among those who saw her receive it.... Helen Pratt Clarkson had a memorable 2010 with three family weddings, Arizona-Maine car trips, and her 85th birthday party.... Tooie Stewart Craven, who has lived in the same home since 1956, was pleased to receive old Bates pictures from Mike Lategola.... Fran Sudhalter Pliskin is coping with the loss of her husband, Irving. Married 62 years, they met at a Bates intercollegiate event (he went to Bowdoin).... Muriel Ulrich Weeks keeps busy with bridge, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Public Theater, several church jobs, and friends…. Priscilla White Ohler drives almost daily to see her husband, John, in his home for Alzheimer’s. They love to be together, especially listening to music.... Elizabeth Widger Arms had cataract surgery and, still a birder, looked forward to seeing the birds much better.... In Sidney, Maine, Pat Wilson Sanborn says all is as usual on the organic dairy farm, which her son tends. Her youngest grandchild, Hallie Balcomb ’14, is at Bates…. Connie Wood Norte and Dan ’45 lost their daughter, Cynthia, who struggled for years with MS, in August 2010, two days after Cynthia’s daughter was married. Dan, in his 11th year with ALS, requires much more help but fortunately still has his mind.

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Class Secretary: Roberta Sweetser McKinnell, 33 Red Gate Lane, Cohasset MA 02025 Class President: Vivienne Sikora Gilroy, 1009 Ridge Dr., Union NJ 07083, vgilroy@verizon.net

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Class Secretary: Elaine Porter Haggstrom, 21 Candlewood Rd., Trumbull CT 06611, ephag@aol.com Class President: Arthur B. Bradbury, 221 Country Ln., East Hartford CT 06118, chartbury@comcast.net The class extends its condolences to the family and friends of class co-secretary Barbara Cottle Aldrich, who died Aug. 30, 2011. Her obituary will be in the next issue…. Barbara Badgley Williams is happily involved at a Friends of the Library bookstore in Hilton Head, S.C.... Art Bradbury and Charlotte sing and play in The Hibernians, a family group of musicians with several gigs at J.J. Foley’s, an Irish pub in south Boston.... Barbara Cooper Decker is a special-ed teacher and is active in the volunteer program at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts.... June Cunningham Walch and Allan visited Florida where she enjoyed the swimming pool.... Jim Facos, who retired in Vermont after teaching at Norwich Univ., is the author of The Silver Lady, a novel based on his WWII flying experiences as a tail gunner; two plays; and several volumes of poetry.... Lois Foster Johnson and Charles are active in the Friendship Force, a nonprofit cultural exchange organization promoting friendship and goodwill through homestays.... Bud Horne and Betty looked forward to a Road Scholar trip from Boston’s Freedom Trail to the Canadian Maritimes and Bar Harbor.... Nancy Jepson Leslie and Dorothy Collins Buchanan met at Bates, married classmates, and stayed connected. After both lost their husbands, Jep and Mich began traveling together: Elderhostels, cruises, Alaska.... Danny Reale and Lee took their annual sojourn in Las Vegas and also cruised through the Panama Canal.... Bill and Shirley Pease Sawyers feel lucky to be active and well. Bill sings in the choir, and Shirl

finds ushers at church. They find Lakeland, Fla., a nice place to live with concerts to keep them busy. They spend summers at their cottage in Pennsylvania.... Ken Simpson, a son of the late Bates hoops star Bill Simpson, is looking for film of his father playing basketball and any other items relating to Bill’s All-New England basketball career. Ken can be reached at 109 Canal Rd., Easton PA 18042-9752; phone 610-252-1003 and email simpson.construction@yahoo.com.... Leon Wiskup and Dorothy had an adventurous trip to Egypt last November. “Aren’t we fortunate today to be observing Egypt’s future!” he wrote.

50 l reunion 2015, June 12–14 l

Class Secretary: Lois Keniston Penney, Apt. 302, 52 Missionary Rd., Cromwell CT 06416, hulopenney@ sbcglobal.net Class President: Weston L. Bonney, 263 Clifton St., Portland ME 04103, wbonney@maine.rr.com Bob and Gladys Bovino Dunn ’51 returned from Hawaii a few days before the tsunami hit the island.... At Covenant Village in Cromwell, Conn., Lois and Hugh Penney and Helen Papaioanou ’49 welcomed Dick ’44 and Marjorie Walther Keach ’46 back from Hilton Head.

51 l reunion 2016, June 10–12 l

Class Secretary: Dorothy Webb Quimby, PO Box 417, Unity ME 04988, dwquimby@unity.edu Class Co-Presidents: William R. Dill and Jean McLeod Dill, 25 Birch Ln., Cumberland Foreside ME 04110, wmrdill@gmail.com, jmdill@gmail.com Jane Emery Moore was unable to attend Reunion because, she says, “I’m on track to become another ‘Bionic Woman’! This year it’s knee replacements. Best wishes to all who managed to attend!”... Jean Johnson Bird had her aortic valve replaced. “All went well, so Phil and I hope to take our trip to Mongolia, Tibet, China, and Cambodia in the fall.

Kiss from a Rose DEODONNE BHATTARAI

Sun Journal. After Pearl Harbor, schools like Bates emptied as most men either volunteered or were drafted. The V-12 program eventually brought 782 young men to Bates, from July 1943 until the war’s end in 1945. Bates’ V-12 alumni include businessmen, teachers, lawyers, a justice on the Maine Supreme Court (Scolnik), and even a presidential candidate: Robert Kennedy. The Bates V-12ers have gathered for a lunch at Bates since the 1980s; this year’s event brought 11 men to Muskie Archives. Lou, a Lewiston native, still sounded incredulous. “I packed a bag. I walked six blocks. And I was in the Navy,” he said.

47 l reunion 2012, June 8–10 l

Class Co-Secretaries: Elizabeth Hill Jarvi, 286 Dublin Rd., Ludlow VT 05149, bjarvi2@tds.net; Jean Labagh Kiskaddon, Apt. 1AA, 375 Riverside Dr., New York NY 10025, jean.kiskaddon@gmail.com Class Co-Presidents: Stanley L. Freeman Jr., 7 Longwood Ct., Orono ME 04473, freemansun@verizon .net; Vesta Starrett Smith, 222 Dartmouth College Hwy., Haverhill NH 03765, vestasmith@charter.net Maine Sunday Telegram art critic Phil Isaacson reviewed a solo exhibition by Moroccan-born photographer Lalla Essaydi at the Bates College Museum of Art. He called it “an exquisite visual event.”... Sad news from Betty Kragelund Bois: Her husband, Joel Bois, died on March 10, 2011.... Jean Labagh Kiskaddon had an exciting adventure when she traveled to the South Pacific with her son and granddaughter to meet the descendants of a long-lost uncle on the island of Lifou, in the Loyalty Islands of New Caledonia.... Vesta Starrett Smith visited her two children in New York City in February and took a river trip in Ukraine from Kiev to Odessa in the spring.

At his 100th birthday party in February, Elden Dustin ’32 of Concord, N.H., gets a kiss from his granddaughter Rosamond Cain, who was named for Dustin’s late wife, Rosamond Nichols Dustin ’32. Wearing his Bates Phi Beta Kappa tie pin, Dustin was a French major who served as principal of Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn., where the school auditorium now carries his name.

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Had a wonderful trip to Paris last June, a birthday present from son Paul.”... Naomi McKee Purkis is now a great-grandmother, to D.J., who was born last September.... Raymond Moore reports some improvement in his vision. “Two months ago I would have been unable to write this note. After extensive testing, I was given six pairs of glasses, a small TVsize viewing machine, a big lamp, and several other ‘tools for sight.’ I have separate glasses for general wear, reading, writing, TV, sun, and ‘viewer’ glasses. My friends and relatives appear surprised when I get Jeopardy! answers correct (quite a few), and I tell them it is a result of Cultural Heritage.”... Joan Seear writes from Berkeley, Calif.: “Managed to smash my shoulder last June so spend lots of time exercising, trying to get it to function again. Had an extremely interesting month in Sri Lanka last October, especially seeing 300 or so wild elephants in Wasgamuwa National Park and several ancient capital cities. Household always busy — adopted Nepali are 14 and 12, so teenage years arriving. House will be 100 years old next year so continuing maintenance!”... Ruth Whittier Greim reflects on Bates’ influence in her and Jack’s life. “Bates gave me a chance to meet Jack and have a great married life, two daughters, and three grandchildren. That was benefit enough! We also gained an education, confidence, and maturity. Jack, of course, arrived with experience of his Army Air Corps years as a bomber-navigator; he already had the maturity and confidence that comes from war. I remember the first time I met Dot Quimby, in the balcony at the rear of the Chapel, where the ‘end-of-the-alphabet’ people were seated!”

Hi Neighbor!

52 l reunion 2012, June 8–10 l

Class Secretary: Florence Dixon Prince, PO Box 594, Monument Beach MA 02553, fdprince@alumni .bates.edu Class President: John F. Myers, 37 Eagle Wing Ln., Brewster MA 02631, johnmyers52@comcast.net The Portland Press Herald profiled Nancy Margolis, who left Portland almost 20 years ago for the chance to run an art gallery in fiercely competitive Manhattan and “has turned her namesake gallery into one of New York’s finest.” Writer Bob Keyes said it all started at Bates where Nancy became interested in ceramics, thanks to the wife of a faculty member who offered a clay class out of her home. “It was her first hands-on art experience, and it lit a fire that burns hot today,” Keyes wrote. After graduation, she set out to raise a family. After her fourth and final child was born, she went back to art. She operated a seasonal gallery in Ogunquit, later opened a yearround gallery in a former firehouse in Auburn, and eventually ended up on Fore Street in Portland. She closed the Portland gallery in the mid-’90s, and has been in the Big Apple since. In a version of “if you can do it in New York,” Nancy felt that New York would be where she could “have the kind of gallery I really wanted.” The Nancy Margolis Gallery is on West 25th Street in Chelsea, a hot spot for New York galleries, and her roster includes many artists from Maine and those with Maine roots.

53 l reunion 2013, June 7–9 l

Class Secretary: Ronald Clayton, 5 Augusta Way, North Chelmsford MA 01863, rondot@comcast.net Class President: Virginia LaFauci Toner, 11 Juniper St., Portland ME 04103, vatoner@aol.com Swede Anderson received the Alumni Community Service Award from the Alumni Council last fall. Paul is a College Key member, longtime volunteer fundraiser, and active in the Bates National Day of Service. Of his service to Bates, he once said that “institutions that you’ve been involved with — good causes that are sincere and beneficial to humankind — can’t exist without contributions from generous people.”... Curt Osborne ’53 says he “borrowed a friend’s wife and went for a two-week vacation in Iceland. Great time!”

54 l reunion 2014, June 6–8 l

Class Secretary: Jonas Klein, 19 Whipple Farm Ln., Falmouth ME 04105, joklein@maine.rr.com Class President: Marion Shatts Whitaker, 107 Hinesburg Road, Richmond VT 05477, petmarwhitaker@ gmail.com

John Gaffney ’48 and Isabel Planeta Gaffney ’48 welcomed Acton, Mass., neighbor Mike Ciummei ’12 for a Thanksgiving weekend visit last fall. The Bates connection was made through Ciummei’s grandfather, a friend of the Gaffneys. “It was fun to compare the Bates that was with the Bates that is. More than the food has changed!” writes “Pinky” Gaffney. An economics major, Ciummei is an infielder on the baseball team. The Gaffneys are past presidents of the Class of 1948.

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The class extends its condolences to the family and friends of former class president Neil Toner, who died May 22, 2011, especially wife Shirley and children Valerie ’83 and Wesley ’86. His obituary will be in the next issue…. Bob Greenberg was much impressed by the new Garcelon Field, scoreboard, and grandstand, and enjoyed visits with both old teammates and Chick Lahey ’52. Bob continues to play squash on his replaced knee, and despite some loss of lateral movement and challenged scoring, he’s still up to it.... Dwight Harvie’s wife, Naoko, who periodically travels to Tokyo to look after her family and family business, was in Japan shortly before the earthquake and tsunami and reports of the extreme difficulties faced by Japanese families. Dwight and Naoko spent much of his professional career living in Japan and more recently Hong Kong. He recently visited with Harry Meline in Portland and Jonas Klein in Falmouth.... A torn patellar tendon, acquired by slipping on late-winter black ice while in the service of his fellow retirement community residents, has hobbled Jonas Klein...for a while. Undaunted, he has happily acquired all rights to his book Beloved Island: Franklin & Eleanor and the Legacy of Campobello, republished it under his own

imprint, North Bay Books, and made it available as an e-book on Amazon Kindle. Jonas acknowledges that despite a Herculean effort, his grandchildren have chosen Dartmouth, Connecticut College, and Brandeis over Bates. Just maybe, great-grandchildren.... In Tennessee, Bill and Carolann McKesson Laird enjoyed Christmas with all the kids and spouses. “Classic examples of significantly different lifestyles, but we had a great time together.” Two children are in Chicago suburbs, and one in Atlanta. Bill attended his 60th reunion at Holderness School in Plymouth, N.H., and he and CA look forward to Lewiston in 2014!... Dick Liebe sends greetings from his “don’t care-for-winter” Tucson digs. He and Jan (Truesdail ’56) make their summer home on Keuka Lake in Hammondsport, N.Y. Dick had successful knee replacement and has resumed pain-free hiking. A highlight was a journey to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands with their daughter and family; “a dream trip for this geologist/marine biologist!”.... From Rochester, N.Y., Mario and Jill Durland LoMonaco report record snow depths in the annual competition for the Golden Snowball between Buffalo and Syracuse. This casual observation underscores the fact that the LoMonacos had a very good 2010 and that “no news is good news.”... Edie White Mason writes from Venice, Fla., that they rented a summer cottage in Boothbay Harbor and enjoyed visits with Lois Stuber Spitzer, Pat Small Skilling, CA and Bill Laird, Georgette Thierry Kafka, and Don Hamilton and Ginny LaFauci Toner ’53. However, “opening and closing two homes was getting to be a chore,” and the Masons will stay in Venice all year.... And in St. Petersburg, another Floridian, Carol Anderson Robinson, fondly remembers Bates and the five-year nursing program. Sadly, Carol lost her husband to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and, a year ago, a son to an unrecognized heart ailment. She is comforted by her faith and her work as a Jehovah’s Witness.... Bob Sharaf writes from Marco Island that he’s hoping to get to Reunion 2014 when his grandson Benjamin ’14, son of Adam ’81, will graduate. He wonders if there are any other three generations among ’54ers. Bob has logged 100,000 miles in 27 years of bicycling and cites the wear and tear on his body.... Sandy and Ted Thoburn have had a house built in the Haven, a new age-restricted development of Dell Webb in the Hilton Head area of South Carolina.... Don Weatherbee saw his book Southeast Asia: The Struggle for Autonomy republished and looks to a third edition ready for market in 2012. He has prepared testimony for a congressional commission on U.S.–China relations, and serves on Southeast Asian boards and foundations. Don does pretty much as he did before as a professor at the University of South Carolina — except that he doesn’t meet classes, grade papers or go to committee meetings! He and Epsey, who divide their time between Morristown, N.J., and Jamestown R.I., still sail and travel, and were ready to take a Norwegian coastal cruise this spring. Epsey’s oldest grandchild was married in Charleston, S.C., “the first time in four years that my three daughters and two sons plus spouses and seven grandchildren had been in the same place at the same time.” Don has located his Bates roommate Nguyen Ngoc Nha, whom he had not seen since 1968 in Vietnam. “Nick” is a retired electronics engineer who left Vietnam with his family for the U.S. and currently resides in San Jose, Calif.... Lynn Willsey and Bev (Hayne ’55) enjoyed winter holidays in Vermont with family and a host of friends. He feels blessed to be able to see so many Bates friends at both homes in Connecticut and Vermont.

55 l reunion 2015, June 12–14 l

Class Secretary: Marianne Webber Brenton, 16 Nelson Rd., Burlington MA 01803, mab4160@rcn.com Class President: Beverly Hayne Willsey, 324 Hollister Way West, Glastonbury CT 06033, stonepost@ cox.net Nancy Cole Grape reviewed the first novel by poet Robert Chute, Bates professor emeritus of biology, More alumni news and photos at community.bates.edu

for the Maine Sunday Telegram. Set in 1946, Coming Home: A Maine Mystery follows a traumatized World War II veteran who returns to his family’s Maine inn and finds a dead body. Nancy noted that Chute’s father once owned a country inn in Naples, “and echoes of that experience lend the book a strong sense of authenticity. Coming Home exudes a genuine sense of Maine’s landscape and how that landscape works to shape its people.”... Alan Dworkin lives full time in his South Carolina home, where he’s considered a local. “It is totally wonderful, and I stay in total contact with many friends. If anyone is considering a move to the Myrtle Beach area, I can answer many questions about the area, having been part or full time for over 21 years.”... Norman Sade is “still married to my first wife, father of four, grandpa of six, retired trial lawyer, resident of Portland, Ore., and Boca Raton, Fla., avid photographer, world traveler, and struggling golfer.”

56 l reunion 2016, June 10–12 l

Class Secretary: Sybil Benton Williamson, Box 222, Etna NH 03750, sybilw@alumni.bates.edu Class President: Richard Lee Hilliard, 139 Glen Echo Shore Rd., Charlton MA 01507, richard.hilliard@ nichols.edu Rick Hilliard continues to enjoy the college teaching career he began after finishing his business career nearly 25 years ago. He reports that for some reason his students continue to give him off-the-chart high ratings.... A regular contributor to the Portland Press Herald’s op-ed pages, Bob McAfee took a stand against the introduction of the popular sport of cage fighting into Maine, noting that the American Medical Assn. (of which Bob was president) has long called for a ban on sports involving fisticuffs, such as boxing, because of the damage it inflicts on boxers’ brains. He noted, “Let’s do what some Scandinavian countries do: penalize any boxer who hits above the collarbone as well as below the belt. Why do we value a boxer’s genitals more than his brain?”

57 l reunion 2012, June 8–10 l

Class Secretary: Barbara Prince Upton, PO Box 810, York ME 03909, pepiu@earthlink.net Class President: Paul D. Steinberg, 106 Peninsula Dr., Babylon NY 11702, imasearch@aol.com Doug Campbell took his annual trip to the Samoset Resort Hotel in Rockland, Maine, where he joins a Bangor High classmate who owns a timeshare there.... Nan Henson Hey testified before the advisory committee of the Food and Drug Administration, urging that the FDA make Benlysta the first drug approved in 52 years to treat the autoimmune disease lupus, of which her daughter Julie has a serious case. The FDA later approved the medication. “Benlysta will help many lupus patients, but not all, and not our daughter,” Nan said.... Elaine Johnson Tammi and daughter Karin Tammi, a shellfish biologist, published Scallops: A New England Coastal Cookbook, which weaves together scallop recipes with interviews with fishermen, marine scientists, and renowned chefs.... Judy Larkin Sherman and John enjoyed skiing at Okemo with Grant and Jo Reynolds.... Grant Reynolds, happy being a Vermonter again, has an article in Vermont History. It’s about a Vermont Civil War corporal, Frank Swan, who was stationed with his company along Lock 26 of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal. Swan kept volunteering for extra duty, and it turns out he was smitten with the lock keeper’s niece, and they were soon wed. Grant’s second novel centered on the 16th-century English-Scots border, The War with the Collingwoods, is out soon.... Bill Ryall plays the clarinet in several bands and sings with Edie in their church choir. He teaches astronomy in summer school.... Charlie Sanborn is on the boards of the World Affairs Council of New Hampshire and The Derryfield School in Manchester. He sings in his church choir and with the Canterbury Shaker Singers.... Conrad and Ruth Tuggey Bracklein have 10 grandchildren, including Sasha, adopted from Kazakhstan at age 5.

58 l reunion 2013, June 7–9 l

Class Secretary: Marilyn Miller Gildea, 2418 Thaddeus Dr., Mountain View CA 94043, marilyn@ gildea.com Class President: John Lovejoy, 425 Mountain Rd., PO Box 158, Wilbraham MA 01095, lovejoy@ crocker.com Sad news from Martha Boardman Swift: Her husband, Richard, died Sept. 19, 2010, after a long illness.... Virginia Davis’ MS prevents her from attending Reunions but she enjoys hearing from classmates.... In Casco Bay, Peaks Island, which is part of Portland, continues its secessionist rumblings. Island resident Kay Dill Taylor and others, however, reject the idea that most islanders are dissatisfied with being part of Portland. Writing in the Portland Press Herald, she notes that “some Peaks Islanders are proud to be part of the city of Portland. We understand the concept of sharing municipal revenues, and accept that we can’t always get everything we want, especially in these difficult economic times.”... Bill Dillon and Cindy took a cruise down the east coast of Yucatan, Belize, and Guatemala, including visiting the boundary between the North American and Caribbean tectonic plates in Guatemala where Bill, a retired geologist, had worked many years ago. Last summer, Bill was sailing in their wooden catboat with his second-oldest grandchild when “she said she wanted to be just like me when she grew up: ‘a scientist with lots of sailboats.’ A truly noble goal.”... Rose Stephenson Melvin is busy taking care of Bob, enjoying breakfast with friends, and doing lots of church work.

59 l reunion 2014, June 6–8 l

Class Co-Secretaries: Jack DeGange, 52 Farr Rd., Lebanon NH 03766, jack.degange@valley.net; Mary Ann Houston Hermance, 35 Briarwood Ln., Scituate MA 02066, donmar23@gmail.com Class Co-Presidents: Barbara Van Duzer Babin, Apt. 711, 197 Eighth St., Charlestown MA 02129, barbarababin@comcast.net; Calvin C. Wilson, 125 Markham Dr., Pittsburgh PA 15228, ccoolidgewilson@comcast.net Vicky Daniels Aberhart and John took trips on the Seine and Rhone in France and one on the Danube through Germany, precursors to a cruise on the waterways of Holland and Belgium.... Davio Danielson and Deborah Watrous have opened their retreat center, Nine Mountain, in the Berkshires, a beautiful, relaxed, natural, and intimate setting with great food, along with sleeping space for 26, “centrally located in the middle of nowhere.”... Gerry Davis, learning to type, is working on the journal he kept in the Peace Corps, 1962–63. Portland Press Herald columnist Steve Solloway spoke with Gerry and other former members of the Portland Sea Hawks, a semi-pro football team. “I got $45 [a game] and I would have paid that to play,” Gerry recalled. “I played at Bates...and didn’t want it to end.”... Jack DeGange was editor-production manager for a pictorial book focusing on the past 50 years of Hanover, N.H., which celebrated its 250th birthday last July 4.... Fred Drayton continues writing: music, lyrics, a play published in the Howard Univ. School of Divinity’s Journal of Religious Thought. He’s also busy with the Toastmasters Club he founded.... Dwight Haynes and Maryellen are active in church work. He served as interim pastor in two congregations.... Mary Ann Houston Hermance travels included Jamaica with Don; London with her daughter; and a cruise in Norway with a friend.... Cliff Jacobs continues as organist, choir director at the Mount Carroll American Baptist Church in Illinois and conducts community singalongs. He is president of the Carroll County Senior Services Organization and involved in designing a comprehensive bus/van transit system.... Jack Keigwin and Beverly are very active.

He is treasurer of Jacksonville Univ. and returned to the classroom to develop and teach courses dealing with “Management of Innovation” in the executive M.B.A. program.... Roger Langley was named the 2009–10 Outstanding School Volunteer by the Marion (Fla.) County Board of Education. He’s a longtime elementary school volunteer who helps with math (his worst subject at Bates); teaches geography by showing pictures of the places he’s traveled; and works in the media center.... Our hearts go out to Margie and Dave Lowry, whose 46-year-old daughter died of lung cancer. Despite this tragedy, they’re still active in education. Margie is adjunct faculty at Simmons College, and Dave substitutes in grades 6–9 at a private school. They are lucky to live near their eight grandkids.... Marilyn Macomber Ives enjoys working with her carriage horses, volunteers at the mustang rescue and therapeutic riding center, and fosters racehorses that are being retrained as riding horses.... The Maine Sunday Telegram profiled Sawin Millett, a longtime educator and public servant who is Maine’s new finance commissioner under Gov. Paul LePage. “It’s not a stretch to say Millett — who has served three previous governors in various roles — is the cornerstone to helping LePage reach his goals,” the newspaper said. Said a state senator, “Sawin is a real patriot in the most honorable sense of the word. He truly believes in public service.” Sawin credits his parents, Howard ’34, a teacher, principal, and school superintendent, and Marguerite ’36, primarily a homemaker, for instilling in him a sense of service.... Peggy Montgomery feels “very small” in light of all that goes on in the rest of the world. “We’re fortunate to have been born on this continent, and despite the hardships in this nation we’re on the right path. Our goals and principles, many that we learned at Bates, matter.”... Barbara Smith McIntosh and Ken had a wonderful trip to Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and Cape Town.... Barbara Van Duzer Babin was re-elected to the Charlestown (Mass.) Neighborhood Council, where she’s served for over 11 years. “It keeps me sharp. I’m thought of as the clear thinker, which irritates the heck out of the townies.”... Cal Wilson hopes to bring his Christmas fantasy, The Little Toy Soldier on the Covered Bridge, to the stage. He’s concluded radiation treatments after a bout with prostate cancer and looks forward to good health. (As do we all.)

60 l reunion 2015, June 12–14 l

Class Secretary: Louise Hjelm Davidson, 5823 Rushwood Dr., Dublin OH 43017, l.davidson@ sbcglobal.net Class President: Dean S. Skelley, 16330 Hidden View, San Antonio TX 78232, dean_skelley@alumni.bates .edu Pete Skelley represented Bates at the inauguration of Dennis Ahlberg as president of Trinity Univ. in San Antonio.

61 l reunion 2016, June 10–12 l

Class Secretary: Gretchen Shorter Davis, 1 Kingfisher Drive, Topsham ME 04086, gretchend@ alumni.bates.edu Class Co-Presidents: Mary Morton Cowan, 7 Hearthside Rd., Standish ME 04084, mmcowan@ gwi.net; Richard S. Watkins, HC 74 Box 22123, El Prado NM 87529, rwatkcapt@aol.com Jerry and Joan Metzger Badger send a great big thanks to Mary Morton Cowan and all of the “Fabulous Fiftiers” who did such an excellent job with our 50th. They look forward to seeing friends when travels take them to Rome (Maine, that is) or Wilbraham, Mass.... Sally Benson and Steve Nichols’ daughter Lauren ’00 and Nick Gurnon ’01 were married in November 2010. Carol Smith and Sally Marshall Corngold ’62 joined the many younger Batesies to celebrate. More recently, Sally and Steve

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enjoyed an evening with the Corngolds, Davises, and Van Brees.... Jerry and Gretchen Shorter Davis were featured in a brochure for the Road Scholar program, for which they’ve been volunteer ambassadors since 2000. The two have participated in nearly 60 Elderhostel / Road Scholar programs, from tropical ecosystems in Costa Rica to voyaging down the Rhine and Danube rivers. “We went to a liberal arts

has won the Outstanding Career in Social Work Award from the Boston Univ. School of Social Work Alumni Assn. The award honors a graduate who’s made “exceptional contributions to the profession.” Ken is vice president of community relations with the Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester, N.H. His career there began in 1966, and he’s credited with effective advocacy for new laws to

“The way that Mainers attend to the death of one of their soldiers,” writes Parker Marden ’61 , “offers a real sense of what it means to be from ‘here.’” college,” Jerry says in the brochure, “and became interested in a wide range of subjects.”... In Hawaii, Gail Emerson is a self-employed physical therapist. She continues hobbies of painting small pictures of animals and scenic places in New Hampshire, does the occasional crossword puzzle, visits family and friends back in New Hampshire during the fall foliage season, and enjoys her friendship with Ray, 87 years old. “In the winter, I can see the snow atop Mauna Kea, and Kilauea is still an active volcano. Come visit our ‘fire and ice’!”... Priscilla Hjelm Sylvia celebrated 25 years as her town’s commissioner of the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank, which preserves open space.... Celebrating their 50th anniversary, Sara Kinsel Hayes and Art ’60 attended the Rotary International Convention in New Orleans. They looked forward to a trip to Portugal and Spain.... Back in Maine for the last five years, Parker Marden was moved to write a column for the Portland Press Herald after the burial of Cpl. Andrew Hutchins, the second serviceman from New Portland to die in Afghanistan. Parker, a Massachusetts native and president emeritus of Manchester College in Indiana, said “the way that Mainers attend to the death of one of their soldiers, and the connections between folks on such occasions, offer a real sense of what it means to be from ‘here.’ I would never argue that a soldier’s loss is not profound wherever it occurs. In Maine, however, there is a remarkable connectivity that makes the state special. Those who live in Maine, from birth or by migration, are part of something that connects them to other Mainers. They belong to something special that defines us.”... Mary Morton Cowan’s biography Captain Mac: The Life of Donald Baxter MacMillan, Arctic Explorer continues to gain attention: It won a National Outdoor Book Award; was a 2010 Honor Book with the Society of School Librarians International; is recommended by the National Science Teachers Assn.; and was a finalist for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Crystal Kite Award. She also received a John Burroughs Natural History Young Reader Award at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

improve access for mental health services and with helping to shape the state’s community-based system of care.... Lou Riviezzo, a retired U.S. Air Force veteran who spent 20 years working in munitions, tiptoeing through bomb dumps and and performing weapons maintenance, has published TANS, a nonfiction book about Air Force life in the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s. “In my own way, I am paying homage to a group of people who, despite their many foibles, willingly put their lives on the line when called upon,” Lou writes.

62 l reunion 2012, June 7–10 l

Class Secretary: Judith Morris Edwards, 2720 Timberlake Rd., Charlottesville VA 22901, juded@ comcast.net Class President: Joyce Mantyla, Apt. 6, 2150 Ibis Isle Rd., Palm Beach FL 33480, tiojack@aol.com

Class Secretary: Cynthia Kalber Nordstrom, 917 Major Potter Rd., East Greenwich RI 02818, cknordstrom@verizon.net Class President: Al Squitieri, 24 Dorset Dr., Medford NJ 08055, asqurol@yahoo.com Orson Hathaway is a hip replacement “survivor,” which means “no more hula dancing.” Not counting his Bates years, he’s now survived eight Maine winters — despite open invitations from his son to live with him in Southern California. Orson earned induction into the Cribbage Hall of Fame with a 29-point score in 2008. After retiring in 2003, he tried to sell his Cincinnati Bengals season tickets “but no takers. Any reasonable offer considered!”... Van and Janet Miller Judd celebrated their 70th birthdays with a trip to Tahiti last year.... Ken Snow

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63 l reunion 2013, June 6–9 l

Class Secretary: Natalie Shober Moir, 50 Mill St., Baden ON N3A 2N6, Canada, nataliemoir@ netflash.net Class President: William S. Holt, 15 Running Tide Rd., Cape Elizabeth ME 04107, wholt@eyecaremed .com Peter Glanz, physics professor emeritus at Rhode Island College, returned to Bates to speak on “Global Warming 101: The Scientific Evidence.”

64 l reunion 2014, June 5–8 l

Class Secretary: John Meyn, 57 Salt Pond Rd., Friendship ME 04547, jemkpmeyn@aol.com Class President: Elizabeth Metz McNab, 151 Cherry Rd., Kingston RI 02881, ejmcnab@cox.net Seacoast Newspapers caught up with New Hampshire folksinger Tom Hall, who has been battling throat cancer. Tom has been unable to sing and speaks in a hushed voice, but plays on every week and continues in his role as a coordinator of the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival, an annual celebration of the music he loves, the newspaper reported. Tom, with his partner Linn Schulz, leads singalongs every Friday and a monthly session of rousing sea shanties at The Press Room in Portsmouth.

65 l reunion 2015, June 11–14 l

66 l reunion 2016, June 10–12 l

Class President: Alexander W. Wood, 76 Marlborough St., 16, Boston MA 02116, awwood@mit.edu Patricia Gilbert Keane, who retired from social work at the Chelmsford Senior Center in 2009, now lives in Concord, Mass., and loves it. “I live very close to the center of town and walk most anywhere. I’m also loving retirement and working out just what this ‘third’ chapter of life will be but so far, the journey is great!”... Karen Hastie Williams retired from the boards of SunTrust Banks Inc. in Atlanta and

Gannett Co. Inc. She is a retired partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm of Crowell and Moring LLP, where she focused on legislative and government contracting matters.... Kelley House runs his own sustainable building materials business in Brooksville, Maine, and for six months a year from his home on Greece’s Symi Island. One recent big project was for Acadia National Park. “I guess I buy into the theory that retirement is the enemy of longevity,” he said.... Alice Kaplan Rapkin has “no plans to retire as my husband sustained ulnar nerve sheath damage as a complication of surgery and he has not been able to work since — definitely not anything we had planned for nor anticipated, especially with the third daughter’s wedding in May 2011 and fourth daughter in a serious relationship. Three grandchildren doing well.”... Judy Marden offers thanks to alums who stepped up to help the Bates Outing Club celebrate its 90th anniversary last year, including co-chairs Ken Spalding ’73 and Leah Wiedmann Gailey ’97. Various highlights from last spring, summer, and fall included a work trip to the BOC lean-to on the Bates National Day of Service that brought back Erik Thomson ’99 and Brad Morse ’99 to supervise fixup; they were joined by Lisa McLellan Folk ’93, Scott Betournay ’01, Sam Chamberlin ’03, Rick Morrill ’03, and Amanda Devine ’03, who did trail construction with current student members. Sue Wagg Dye and Bill Dye hosted a work trip to the Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area, and Cindy Baker Wight ’90 and Keith Wight ’89 hosted a work trip at Giorgetti Park in Rutland, Vt. Judy notes that at Reunion, “Professor T.P. Wright and his wife, Sue, our BOC adviser from the early ’60s, came back to join in the fun.” In the fall, BOC students and alums did work trips on the Bates section of the AT, and went sailing on the Maine coast with Eric Denny ’89 and his Outward Bound staff. And, a hike in Virginia was led by Jerry Donohoe ’82.... Sally Utz Young is beginning her 14th year at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design running a mid-career fellowship. She enjoys international travel for work and pleasure, including an annual trip with Judith Dietz Win and family. She loves having a 6-year-old granddaughter.... In his first bid for public office, Lyn Whiston lost by three votes as a candidate for village trustee at the Glen Ellyn, Ill., town meeting. Still wanting to serve his community, he volunteered and was accepted to be on the town planning commission.

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Class Co-Secretaries: Alexandra Baker Lyman, PO Box 214, Woodstock CT 06281, toads@snet.net; Ingrid Larsson Shea, 4735 McKinley Dr., Boulder CO 80303, chezshea4@comcast.net Class President: Robert B. Bowden, 29 Clearview Rd., White House Station NJ 08889, rbbowden@ aol.com The joyful twin themes of retirement and grandparenting are rampant.... Stephanie Young Abbott and Ed traveled from their home in Reston, Va., to the Caribbean and South America. Steph retired in 2008, and Ed plans to follow suit at the end of 2011. They meet up with Kathy Butler Carlson and Glenn at least once a year.... Mollie Anderson Sperry works as a Chinese programs liaison for Yew Chung International School and as a tutor to dyslexic students. She enjoys being a grandmother of six and living in Hawaii.... Paul Argazzi revels in il dolce fa niente, “the joy of doing nothing,” since his retirement from fulltime teaching. Well, not exactly niente — he continues to teach math at Tunxis Community College, near his home in Farmington, Conn. Paul and wife Judi are the grandparents of Annie Rose, and they enjoy their condo at the Connecticut shore, biking, kayaking, and gardening. Paul has served for 25 years as president of the Lewis Mills Scholarship Fund in Burlington, Conn.... Bill Bensch finished 36 years as a software and system engineer with

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Lockheed Martin and its predecessor, GE Aerospace, in 2010. Biking, skiing (recently at Vail), reading the morning paper thoroughly, and keeping his house in repair means he’s busy. Anne still works as a real estate agent, successful even in current times.... In 2010, Tim Hall joined a bank consulting group closely allied with the FDIC, working exclusively in Florida. With Bryan Carlson, he’s raising funds for a new higher education company. Tim’s third grandchild was born in 2010.... The sudden death of our onetime classmate Bob Kinney Jr. ’70, on March 19, was a sad note. Bob served in the Marine Corps, including 13 months in Vietnam, from January 1965 to December 1967. He was a businessman, coach, outdoors enthusiast, and history buff who lived in Merrimack, N.H., with his wife, Sally Greenlaw Kinney ’69.... Pat Korol Wilson and husband Scott reversed the usual retirement plan, moving to cold from warmth as they relocated from Texas to Ghent, N.Y. Pat then got a job offer she could not pass up and took herself to warm climes again: Long Beach, Calif., luckily near her elder daughter, husband, and the Wilsons’ grandson (3). Scott plans to design and build their retirement home in Ghent in a few years.... Judy Lanouette Nicholson continues her work in tobacco prevention for New Hampshire Public Health. She visited with Ingrid Larsson Shea while attending a conference in Boulder, Colo., tried unsuccessfully to spot Rick Powers at JazzFest in New Orleans, and saw Pam Johnson Reynolds and

Dick on a rained-out ski weekend. Judy’s husband, Nick, officiates four sports, while son Matt is a first-year at Georgetown Law School.... John Ladik escaped winter briefly by vacationing with family in the Florida Keys.... Bruce Lyman is now a happy gentleman farmer, having relinquished the practice of medicine. His wife is surviving the amalgamation of households quite well. (Bruce shuttled for the past 16 years between Albany, N.Y., and home in Woodstock, Conn.) Last fall, Bruce hiked 90 miles of the Long Trail of Vermont in soggy, chilly stints. He sings in a community choir with Shirley Murphy Mongillo.... Harry Marsden’s travels took him to Cape Horn, where he conjured up the words of Keats while witnessing the confluence of oceans. Harry tutors adult, non-native speakers in English, and that is enough work for him.... Ellie Panton Barnett, formerly a nurse in Latham, N.Y., in the same medical neighborhood as Bruce Lyman, retired to Florida with husband Fred. Son Scott is a pharmacist in Middletown, N.Y., and daughter Maren a hair stylist in Florida.... Also retired, Bill Paris transports special-needs children to school and tends his perennial beds, laboring to decrease the squirrel population (humanely) in the bargain. Ellen retired in 2010, allowing the couple to spend entire summers in Westerly, R.I. Bill and Ellen’s older son William is an agent for Mass Mutual Insurance and son Jeff is a staff engineer for Fisher Price Toy Co. in New York City. Bill stays in touch with Ken Blank, who is also

retired from teaching and lives in Florida.... In Keene, N.H., Dave Sutherland moved his business, Ingenuity Country Store, to a new location on Central Square with help from sons Dave and Chris, daughters Maggie and Lauren, and all five grandchildren. Dave meets with retired high school friends for reminiscence as the “Lunch Bunch,” though Dave himself is decidedly not retired.... Jon Wilska is a man of that certain age, eligible for Medicare. While relieved not to be paying out of pocket for health insurance, he ponders his future. “If the pols are right that Medicare will run out of money in 2045 or so, I will be 100 by then and will just put myself on an ice floe, à la the Eskimo elders, and let nature take its course.”

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Class Secretary: Rick Melpignano, 79 Farm St., POB 119, Bellingham MA 02019, rickmel713@comcast .net Class Co-Presidents: Gerald A. Lawler Jr. and Jill Howroyd Lawler, PO Box 167, Dublin NH 03444, lawlerjer@aol.com Mark Horton, the Hanseatic League’s original bassist, is struggling with the painful condition fibromyalgia. He would like to hear from anyone who has this or a similarly “tricky and insidious” condition, and can be reached at peachykeen999@ hotmail.com. He’s certainly not backing down.

Top right, Dean Emeritus of the College Jim Carignan ’61, who passed away in August, attended his 50th Reunion with his wife, Sally ’62. Here, he congratulates his longtime Bates colleague, James Reese, associate dean of students, who received the College Key Distinguished Service Award on Friday of Reunion. (See the letters section for a tribute to the late dean.) Above, Chomba Kaluba ’10 says hello to Gretchen Shorter Davis ’61 and husband Jerry ’61 after she received the Papaioanou Distinguished Service Award on Saturday for her contributions as a trustee, Alumni Council member, and stalwart class leader. At right, Victoria Browning Wyeth ’01, with energy level dialed to 11, offers a gallery talk on Sunday in conjunction with the Museum of Art exhibition Andrew and Jamie Wyeth: Selections from the Private Collection of Victoria Browning Wyeth.

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Three Days of Reunion

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“I’m a bass player,” he says. “I’m ready to rock and roll.” Mark’s music is at myspace.com/ peachykeenboston.... Jill Jillson moved back to her native Cape Cod and built a house on the family farm. She teaches catechism to eighth graders at church, works with friends of the library, sits on the town archives board, organizes history articles for the local paper, and began a committee to organize the town’s 375th anniversary. Her siblings, dad, nephew, and cousin live within a five-minute walk.... Renée Phillips Reid’s four children all had their first babies in 2010. Renée has been dealing with some health issues but is giving it all she’s got. Her son Eric was deployed in May.... Jill Snyder, Linda Knox Large, and Jan MacTammany VanGemert, whose son lives in Geneva, toured Switzerland. Jill spent time in Lausanne where she studied French on her junior year abroad.... Lou Weinstein is on sabbatical from Thomas Jefferson Univ. in Philadelphia, where he is professor and chair of the department of obstetrics and gynecology. He and Andrea are in Charleston, S.C., where he was stationed in the military. This is the first prolonged time he has taken off in 35 years and he advises classmates to try it. Other than feeling guilty each morning, it is a great new aspect of his life.... Jane Whitney and husband Richard Hero are retired on the Maine coast at Eggemoggin Reach in Brooklin, where they’ve learned to sail. Visits to and from grandkids brighten their days, and commitments to their many committees and boards seem to tie them up more than their careers used to. They are “adopters” (trash haulers) for the Maine Island Trail Assn. for Potato and Stinson-Sheep islands.

69 l reunion 2014, June 6–8 l

Class Secretary: Bonita E. Groves, 507 Eastview Dr., Wilton NH 03086, beegroves@comcast.net Class President: Richard A. Brogadir, 43 Richard Sweet Dr., Woodbridge CT 06525, dbrogie1@aol .com Peter Bates’ photo exhibit, How Convenient! Boston Bodegas and the Immigrant Experience, will be at the Mayor’s Gallery at Boston City Hall in September. “They are photographs of colorful, quaint, and quirky bodegas in the Boston area,” he explains. “They were all taken at twilight and enhanced through a process called high dynamic range, which gives the photographs a highly detailed painterly quality.” Peter has paired each photograph with an interview and black-and-white photograph of the owner. “The owners speak of the struggles and tribulations of coming to the U.S. and becoming a successful (or sometimes a struggling) store owner.” Despite the long hours and possibilities of armed robberies, “the owners persist in obtaining their slice of the American dream.”... David King, a lawyer with Rudman & Winchell in Bangor, was named one of the top attorneys in Maine in 2010 by New England Super Lawyers magazine.... Dawn MacPhersonAllen runs Shaw’s Lodging in Monson, Maine, the last hostel on the Appalachian Trail. Among the hikers who passed through last season were Jan Swallow Young and Beth Eaton, who came to climb some local mountains.

70 l reunion 2015, June 12–14 l

Class Co-Secretaries: Stephanie Leonard Bennett, 76 Elm St., Medford MA 02155, slenben@comcast .net; Elizabeth E. Brown, Apt. E6, 1909 Oregon Pike, Lancaster PA 17601, efant127@yahoo.com Class President: Stephen J. Andrick, 15 Eastway, Reading MA 01867, steve.andrick@chartisinsurance .com Eric Bye’s recent travels included stays in Cuba, Chile, and Argentina.... G. Stanley McKnight, a professor of pharmacology at the Univ. of Washington in Seattle, was named a Fellow of the American

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Assn. for the Advancement of Science. He is one of 503 scientists nationwide to be given the honor. Stan’s current work is on genetic mutations that, by disrupting these signaling complexes in mice, lead to changes in energy metabolism, memory and learning, and heart function. His work has implications for understanding aging, weight regulation, fertility, drug addiction, and many other medical challenges.... Jim Rurak is semi-retired but he and wife Kathy are half the teaching staff at a center seeking to keep at-risk students in high school.

71 l reunion 2016, June 10–12 l

Class Secretary: Suzanne Woods Kelley, 25 Silver St., Monson MA 01057, suzannekelley@att.net Class President: Peter L. Hine, 118 Gurnet Landing Rd., Harpswell ME 04079, phine@snet.net Peter and Candis Yimoyines Hine have retired to their Harpswell, Maine, home, and are enjoying “the way life should be.”

72 l reunion 2012, June 8–10 l

Class Co-Secretaries: Pamela McCormack Green, 34 Val Halla Rd., Cumberland ME 04021, green1@ maine.rr.com; Dave E. Lounsbury, 1913 Greene St., Columbia SC 29201, davelounsbury@gmail.com Class President: Robert R. Roch, 150F Brittany Farms Rd., New Britain CT 06053, robert.roch@ alumni.bates.edu Classmates are invited to join our Facebook page: Log on to Facebook and search “Bates College Class of 1972.”... In Tel Aviv for many years, Mike Attinson notes that life is, in certain respects, very American: traffic jams, reality shows, shopping centers, and a population passionate about everything that happens there. He just left his job after 29 years and has started taking a paramedic course. He’s involved in a humanitarian disaster relief organization and expects to be involved in some form of disaster planning over the next couple of years.... In 33 years since earning an M.S. in analytical chemistry at UNH, Bruce Burgess worked in R&D toxicology with DuPont and in radio pharmaceuticals with Bristol-Myers Squibb. He now does analytical chemistry consulting. He and wife Denise live in southern New Hampshire; their children Matt and Bri live in New England. In his spare time Bruce frequents country auctions in search of new treasures for his hand-colored, landscape photography collection.... A delightful talk with Bill Doherty recalled one of his first jobs, as a salesman at Benoit’s men’s clothing store on Lisbon Street. Since then, he has led a varied business career, now as senior vice president for marketing and product development at NBTY, the major manufacturer and distributor of vitamins and nutritional supplements to retailers like Wal-Mart, CVS, and Target. Bill admits to “taking more time off” these days, invariably to visit The Villages in Florida where he and his wife, Pat, have a second home to which they plan to retire one day. Son William ’04 also graduated from Bates; daughter Erin graduated from UMass–Lowell.... In an ESPN.com commentary, Dan Doyle, an authority on sports in America and internationally, encouraged youth coaches to go beyond teaching just “textbook knowledge” of sports and become mentors with a “commitment to imparting valuable life lessons.” Coaches should not allow athletes to be seen as a clannish, elite group who are excused from special assemblies, car-wash fundraisers, and other kinds of schoolwide activities. Rather, coaches should channel athletes’ high visibility and prominence into pursuits that engage them with the larger community.... Steve Hoad, who runs Emma’s Family Farm in Windsor, was quoted in a Portland Press Herald story about a series of community-supported agriculture events around the state in February. Under the CSA

networking concept, customers pay farmers in the winter for produce delivered in the summer. Under some models, customers get a larger return on their winter payment. For example, a $125 share bought in the winter will yield $131.25 in produce; $297 will yield $320.75. “You gain 5 to 8 percent on your share, depending upon the level you purchase. That’s certainly better than any of today’s savings account.” Farmers gain the immediate use of money to acquire, feed, and care for animals. “We also gain the ability to meet market demand by understanding what you want and need in advance,” he adds. “Not only is there usually some return on the share purchase, but there’s all the quality of life returns — open land, rural character, the ability to watch life grow, and the friendly atmosphere of a farm or farmers market.”... John Paige got a master’s in teaching at UNH and has spent 38 years teaching, mostly in the Brunswick, Maine, public schools where he has experienced the full spectrum of elementary through high school education as well as administration. He is now principal of the Robert P.T. Coffin School and next year will be curriculum coordinator for all Brunswick schools. He and Lee Kennett Paige ’76 have three children, all grown. While supporting a local theater, where Lee is a frequent actress, teacher, and director, John plays tennis, skis cross-country, and avidly practices tai chi.... Due to declining health, Jerry Williams closed his law practice in downtown Farmington, Maine. “I am sitting here at my desk in front of the large window in the back half of my office known as Williams & Williams for the last 35 years of my life. I wonder to what uses this space shall be placed over the next 35 years.” Jerry’s father established the practice in 1946, and he continued it after his father’s death in 1975, the same year Jerry graduated from Suffolk School of Law and passed the Maine and Massachusetts bars.... The Santa Fe New Mexican caught up with food activist Mark Winne, who chronicles the fight of alternative food advocates in his latest book, Food Rebels, Guerrilla Gardeners, and Smart-Cookin’ Mamas: Fighting Back in an Age of Industrial Agriculture. The book tells how urban gardeners in Cleveland, farmers in New England, lower-income mothers in Texas, and other “unsung heroes” are reclaiming their connection to their food, health, land, and governments. Mark argues that industrial agriculture is systematically reducing food choices, and says all consumers should join this food fight. “As much as this is about the food we eat, it is about democracy and whether we as citizens and consumers have any role in controlling this much-larger system, or whether we have to just basically take what they hand out.” Mark lives in Santa Fe and serves on the Santa Fe Food Policy Council.

73 l reunion 2013, June 7–9 l

Class Secretary: Kaylee Masury, 174 Moses Gerrish Farmer Rd., Eliot ME 03903, kaylee.masury@ yahoo.com Class President: Katherine Kiefer, PO Box 177, Taconic CT 06079, Katherine.Kiefer.esq@gmail.com In extensive comments about energy resources and investing, BlackRock managing director Dan Rice told Bloomberg Businessweek in January that an expanding global economy would probably push oil prices above $100 in 2011 (right you are, Dan). While the gain may lift shares of oil and gas companies and eventually double the price of coal stocks, he offered caution if oil rises much higher. “I will be bullish on the stocks for part of the next surge, but I won’t be if oil gets to $120,” said Dan, who manages BlackRock’s $1.5 billion Energy and Resources Fund. “If the world keeps growing at this rate, it strains the whole system,” he said.... In Olympia, Wash., Chris Terp Madsen is a member of The Olympian’s Board of Contributors for 2011. She writes an op-ed every five weeks for the newspaper: theolympian.com; search for chris madsen. She’s

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Lisa Barry ’77, vice president of global affairs at Chevron, returns to Bates as the College Key Distinguished Alumna in Residence

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High Energy

Geology majors listen to Chevron’s Lisa Barry ’77, the 2011 College Key Distinguished Alumna in Residence, discuss the intersection of geology and oil exploration.

An animated Barry makes a point.

Associate Professor of Geology Beverly Johnson introduces Barry as College Key member Bill Hiss ’66 looks on.

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s the College Key’s Distinguished Alumna in Residence last March, Lisa Barry ’77 spoke in economics and sociology classes, met with students, offered a keynote address, and, in the afternoon session pictured here, spoke informally to mostly geology students. One topic, raised by geology professor Dyk Eusden ’80, was Chevron’s growing interest in Marcellus Shale, a potential massive source of natural gas located along the Appalachian basin. The positives of such a project, Barry said, include jobs, of course, and lowering U.S. dependence on imported energy. “From an energy-security perspective, it is especially meaningful,” she said. The downside is the nature of gas extraction from shale. It’s done by hydraulic fracturing, where highpressure liquid, mostly water, is shot deep into a well, where it breaks up the shale and releases trapped natural gas. The process uses millions of gallons of water, creating a veritable flood of water-use issues. “Where does all the water go?” Barry asked rhetorically. “Hydraulic fracturing raises policy issues related to the supply chain of water.”

Theodore Sutherland ’11, whose late grandfather was the Pan-African activist Bill Sutherland ’40, asks how Chevron manages global risk.

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trying very hard to not write about how much she still misses Maine.

74 l reunion 2014, June 6–8 l

Class Secretary: Tina Psalidas Lamson, 1 Intervale Way, Ipswich MA 01938, lamsonfamily@comcast.net Class President: Donald W. McDade, 838 Brighton Ave., Portland ME 04102, dmcdade@llbean.com Ken Gibbs, who practices interventional cardiology, joined the medical staff at Winter Haven (Fla.) Hospital.... Katanya Hamilton Woods and Paul, living in Wales, bought a condo in Rockport, Mass., and hope to spend holidays and vacations there with family and Bates friends.

75 l reunion 2015, June 12–14 l

Class Co-Secretaries: Deborah Jasak, 595 South Rd., Hopkinton NH 03229, wjasak@comcast.net; Faith Minard, 88 Blanford Pl., Bedford NH 03110, minardblatt@comcast.net Class Co-Presidents: Susan Bourgault Akie, 8 Mayfair Rd., Dedham MA 02026, sakie@ mountalverniahs.org; Janet B. Haines, 223 Hunnewell St., Needham MA 02494, janethaines@ alumni.bates.edu Jon and Nancy Johnson Young’s elder daughter Kristen married Matt Bartle on May 21, 2010.... Sandy Krot and her partner, Peter Remick, built a zero-energy home (one that produces as much energy as it uses) in rural La Conner, Wash. “We are still not quite done, but we are finally in and enjoying the fruits of our labor,” she says. Intrigued, we asked her to describe her home. Sandy’s house was built on an insulated concrete slab, and the walls were framed to use less wood and allow for 9 inches of blown-in cellulose insulation. Oriented to optimize passive solar heat gain, the concrete floors provide mass to hold the sun’s warmth, and the windows are triple-paned. Heat and hot water are supplied by a geothermal system supplemented by a roof-top solar hot water

heater; the heat is transferred through radiant tubes in the floor. Still to come are photovoltaic panels to provide the rest of the house’s electrical load, “so it won’t actually be a zero-energy home until they are installed.” A rain catchment system stores runoff in underground cisterns, from where the water is used for toilets and irrigation. Public water is used for drinking and bathing because, she says, “the filtering system required to filter rain water was costly, and we decided not to do that.” The home’s exterior features high-performing cement Hardi panels and Corten steel. Within, the trim and support beams came from reclaimed lumber, and countertops are from recycled materials or found in a salvage yard. The walls are finished with earthen plaster and no paint. Sandy says she and Peter are “not counting on recouping our expenses totally, but we may come close over the next 20-plus years. This was not an economical decision on our part. We simply felt it was the right thing to do.”... Valerie Smith is the new dean of the college at Princeton, the senior officer responsible for its undergraduate academic program. A Bates trustee, Val is Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature and was the founding director of its Center for African American Studies.... Janine Ventura Richards retired from a 36-year career teaching French and Spanish at Hamilton-Wenham (Mass.) High School at the same time her and Nicholas’ youngest daughter graduated from college. “After a little breather, I hope to find new employment adventures that do not entail evening and weekend homework, or writing bathroom passes.”

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Class Secretary: W. Jeffrey Helm, 34 Satuit Meadow Ln., Norwell MA 02061, jeffrey.helm@verizon.net Class President: Bruce A. Campbell, 17 Graystone Ln., Portland ME 04103, brucec@maine.rr.com In Washington state, Liam Antrim is with the federal Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, which covers 3,310 square miles of marine waters off the coastline, 25 to 50 miles seaward. Liam focuses on

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Bay State Batesies

As his family looks on, Rick Sullivan ’81, Massachusetts’ new secretary of energy and environmental affairs, takes the oath of office from Gov. Deval Patrick. Also shown are his wife, Lisa (center), then daughter Courtney, son Michael, mother Edith Lysaght Sullivan ’56, and father Richard Sullivan Sr. ’57. Rick’s son Richard III ’12 couldn’t attend the Jan. 5 ceremony because he was on a training trip with the Bates swim team. So he sent his proxy, a Bates tie, which, says Rick, “I wore with pride as you can see from the photo.” When Rick started working for state government, he was a teenage lifeguard at an old state pool in Westfield. “I guess I’m one of those stories that has climbed the ladder from entry-level summer help to now the secretary,” Rick said. “You have a marvelous touch,” Patrick said. “You are the right guy at the right place at the right time.” Rick said two top priorities are to acquire more open space and to boost clean energies such as solar and wind.

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marine policy issues, marine debris, oil-spill response preparedness, and management plan review, and stays involved in research programs, particularly monitoring of intertidal communities and nearshore water quality. He’s lived on the Olympic peninsula for 26 years, and says he enjoys easy access to the mountains and ocean.... Peter Malinowski joined North Shore Bank in Peabody, Mass., as vice president, cash management.... Kerri Salls spoke to the Rotary Club of Wellesley, Mass., in her capacity as president of Breakthrough Enterprise, a Westfordbased productivity and business process consultancy. Kerri has an M.B.A. in operations management and international marketing from Boston Univ.... Karen Stathoplos and husband Kim spent two restorative weeks in Carmel and San Francisco and met up with Martha Wright Nelson ’76 and husband Steve ’73 to see their new house in Monterey. Karen and Donna Clarico had a jolly time catching up in Kittery. Karen also performed in My First Time at the Old Port Playhouse in Portland and in a medieval festival in Kennebunk where the director persuaded her to do a belly dance as part of the festivities.... Janmarie Toker celebrated her 25th year fighting for workers’ rights in Maine as an attorney and partner at the Topsham law firm of McTeague Higbee. The granddaughter of a Portland longshoreman, she has spent most of her practice helping longshore workers navigate the legal system and has been a strong voice for members of Local 6, the largest union at Bath Iron Works. “Janmarie has been a fierce advocate for workers’ rights, especially longshore workers, ever since she joined McTeague Higbee,” said managing partner Jeffrey Cohen.

77 l reunion 2012, June 8–10 l

Class Co-Presidents: Joel A. Feingold, 10 Oakwood Ct., Framingham MA 01701, blammo@rcn.com; Dervilla M. McCann, 178 Narrows Pond Rd., Winthrop ME 04364, meistermcn@aol.com Class Secretary: Steve Hadge, 8 Timber Trail, Tolland CT 06084, Steve_Hadge@alumni.bates.edu Don Leach was the subject of Wellesley Magazine’s Q-and-A feature. Long a member of the residential life staff, Don is resident director at Lake House on campus, where he’s famed for his breadmaking (he teaches the craft on Friday evenings) and, in general, for offering Wellesley students a place where the goal is not to get from here to there in speedy time. Such unscheduled places, Don said, are “where people can kind of show up because they want to, not because it’s one more thing that they have to do on their schedule.” Learning to follow what you want to do “is very much a piece of finding out that you can make a place that’s a home for yourself in the world.”... The Syracuse Post-Standard interviewed Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout prior to her appearance at the Central Library. Liz talked about her own writing process, saying, “I just obsessively rewrite. Although sometimes there are sections, sometimes you’re just lucky and a paragraph will just kind of come out. And that’s great. But that’s not ordinary in a day’s work. So I just rewrite constantly, constantly, constantly, trying to make sure that every sentence can hold the depth of the feeling I’m trying to get at.”... Charles Zelle, president and CEO of Minneapolis-based Jefferson Lines, was named chair of the board of the Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce.

78 l reunion 2013, June 7–9 l

Class Co-Secretaries: Deni E. Auclair, Apt. 5M, 300 Pelham Rd., New Rochelle NY 10805, d_auclair@ yahoo.com; Melanie Parsons Paras, 14 Whispering Ln., Holliston MA 01746, melaniep1010@aol.com Class President: George E. “Chip” Beckwith, Apt. 44, 200 Cabrini Blvd., New York NY 10033, chipwith@aol.com

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Richard Johnson received the Boston Athletic Assn.’s Will Cloney Award, presented to an individual who has promoted the running industry, especially locally. Dick has served as curator of The New England Sports Museum in Boston since 1982 and is the author or co-author of many books, including The Boston Marathon, A Century of Boston Sports, and Young at Heart, The Story of Johnny Kelley.... A Boston Globe story examining how ideal male and female body types have changed over the last century quoted Men’s Health editor Peter Moore. Among men, the trend is toward core strengthening exercises over “bulging biceps,” according to reporter Christopher Muther, who notes that “experts agree that physical ideals change faster now than ever before, although some standards continue to resonate with fitness buffs. [Moore] says readers are still writing in to find out how Brad Pitt achieved his Fight Club six pack in 1999.” Added Peter, “We also get requests for Jason Statham and Ryan Reynolds’ workout routines. Currently, our guys want to look like Georges St. Pierre, the UFC fighter. He has a great body, but it’s not the over-inflated Arnold Schwarzenegger look. That super-jacked look is not a natural one, and it’s not even comfortable to be that guy.”... Lester Wilkinson, an attorney with the Portland law firm Bernstein Shur, was appointed to the board of trustees at Spring Harbor Hospital in Westbrook.

79 l reunion 2014, June 6–8 l

Class Secretary: Mary G. Raftery, 16 Hobart St., Westerly RI 02891, mgraftery@gmail.com Class President: Janice E. McLean, 15 Bristol St., Worcester MA 01606, janmcle@charter.net In April, Brenda Garrand was honored by MaineToday Media as one of 15 “Great Women of Maine,” selected for their leadership, excellence, community involvement and contributions to the community. Maine’s two senators, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, were also among those honored. Brenda heads up a Maine-based communications firm that is routinely honored for both its creative work and the excellence of the firm’s workplace. Brenda is the firm’s founder, CEO, and strategic director.... Betsy Rybeck Lynd teaches seventh- and eighth-grade science and directs a school chorus after teaching second grade for more than 20 years. Lee teaches engineering at Dartmouth and is active as a cofounder of Mascoma Corp. Their oldest child was married last year.

80 l reunion 2015, June 12–14 l

Class Secretary: Christine Tegeler Beneman, 105 Spurwink Rd., Scarborough ME 04074, cbeneman@ maine.rr.com Class President: Mary Mihalakos Martuscello, Apt. 12B, 410 East Sixth St., New York NY 10009, mary@martuscellolaw.com Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc., headed by Michael Bonney, was named one of the “Top Places to Work in Massachusetts” for the third year in a row in the annual employee-based survey from The Boston Globe. Mike is chair of the Bates Board of Trustees.... Richard Fieldhouse, who serves on the staff of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, returned to Bates last fall for the 25th anniversary of the Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library. Rich took part in a panel discussion about the value of civility and public debate to influence the political process. Many of Muskie’s former staffers were on campus as part of the celebration, including four of his chiefs of staff.... Last December, WMURTV’s New Hampshire Chronicle and Foster’s Daily Democrat each featured Trudy Higgins Brown and her Christmas-themed gingerbread houses, deemed a “local legend” by the Daily Democrat. Nineteen years ago, after seeing a friend’s gingerbread house, Trudy created her own, covered it with candy, and was done. “Then,” she said, “I got bored and started

going a little crazy.” She now spends several weeks on each year’s creation, including lots of research. The past year’s theme was Santa and friends taking over a Portsmouth tugboat, so she photographed the tugboats, then created graph patterns for each part of the boat. “Here I can really play with the math,” says Trudy, a former math teacher.

81 l reunion 2016, June 10–12 l

Class Secretary: Katherine Baker Lovell, 6 Elston Dr., Downingtown PA 19335, cklovell@verizon.net Class President: Kathleen Tucker Burke, 31 Pilgrim Dr., Bedford NH 03110, sburke4155@aol.com Chris DeAngelis heads SSI Health, a new initiative by Survey Sampling International, a global provider of sampling solutions for survey research. Chris has been with SSI since 1986, and was lauded for creating highly effective sampling and survey designs for his clients. “Chris brings the knowledge, experience and passion for methodological excellence to deliver optimal sampling solutions for health-related projects,” SSI said.

82 l reunion 2012, June 8–10 l

Class Secretary: Gerard P. Donahoe Jr., 1339 Independence Ct. SE, Washington DC 20003, maineescape@aol.com Class Co-Presidents: Thomas E. Campbell, 41 Copley Woods Cir., Portland ME 04103, tom_campbell@waynflete.org; Neil D. Jamieson Jr., Prescott Jamieson Nelson & Murphy, PO Box 1190, Saco ME 04072, njlaw@maine.rr.com Philip Quillard is now executive vice president of ElderWood Senior Care, operator of 18 senior care residences in western and central New York.... 401(k) Advisors, a national retirement plan consulting firm, named David Scheetz a director of its mid-Atlantic regional office in Williamsburg, Va.... Cathy Tuxbury joined Ravenglass Technologies Inc., a technology consulting and software development company in Cazenovia, N.Y., as knowledge manager.

83 l reunion 2013, June 7–9 l

Class Secretary: Leigh Peltier, 451 Williams Crossing Rd., Coventry RI 02816, leigh11@cox.net Class President: Sally Nutting Somes, 27 Foreside Rd., Cumberland Foreside ME 04110, ssomes@ netzero.com Tom Brennan, natural resources manager for Poland Spring bottled water, was quoted in a Portland Press Herald story about the Maine brand, which is owned by Nestle, and its relationship to environmental regulations. “We don’t mind regulations,” Tom said. “We have to be absolutely focused on the stewardship of our resource. Our business would shut down instantly if those springs stopped springing.”... Andrea Gelfuso taught for a year in Italy and wrote a funny blog about trying to figure out how to complete basic transactions in a charmingly chaotic culture. She teaches environmental law at the Univ. of Denver and won an award for excellence in teaching. She has also taught a colloquium at the university called “Fuhgeddaboudit: Environmental Law and the EcoMafia in Italy.” Son Alex is in high school, her daughter is in third grade, and her husband is chair of the university’s geography department.... Steve Kates, vice president of research and development at the Bay State pharmaceuticals firm Ischemix, returned to Bates last fall to speak about drug discovery and development.... Andy Kling’s ninth title for Lucent Books, Technology 360: Web 2.0, was published last December. He and his wife moved to Shepherdstown, W. Va.... Larry Lackey was unopposed in his re-election to a three-year term on the Stowe, Vt., select board. A native of Stowe, Larry is director of regulatory affairs for Sovernet Communications, a Vermont-based telecommunications company....

The East Hampton-Portland (Conn.) Patch caught up with Jennifer Locke Berkenstock as she settled into her new role as probate judge. “I love research and writing and reading,” said Jennifer, who worked for a law firm in Middletown for 10 years and then had her own law practice for five. “Now, as judge of probate, I enjoy being able to determine how the cases are handled. You are really helping people directly.”... Laura Murray Montenegro lives in Tucson, Ariz., with horse and dogs. She teaches Spanish at a high school next to Saguaro National Park.... Leigh Peltier took a ski trip to Meribel, France, where she, the youngest in a group that went up to age 78, had to be rescued after a fall. She aspires to be one of those active seniors. She’s still vice president of The Preston Agency in Rhode Island.... Martha Pigott Donelan is associate director of development at Laguna Blanca School in Santa Barbara, Calif., where her children are in fifth and second grade. She finished sixth out of 30 women in her age group in the Santa Barbara Triathlon.... Doug Quintal and Karen welcomed Leah Grace Quintal on Aug. 28, 2009. He was promoted to program director at Emerson College’s department of marketing communication. He also presented a paper on social media strategy in sports marketing at the inaugural Conference on Sport and Society. “Finally, the Syphlloids are still together, and our version of the Rolling Stones’ ‘Gimme Shelter’ was featured on The Next Paradigm soundtrack.” Their CD Porn Stars and Hockey Fights came out recently.... The Portland Press Herald told how politics and public service are twin passions for Kevin Raye, Maine’s new Senate president. Kevin served 18 years on the staff of U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, lost a run for Congress in 2002, and won a state Senate seat in 2004. “I’ve always thought public service was a very honorable thing, a good way to serve people and make a mark in life,” he says. “From the time I was a little kid I was drawn to it — I loved politics, elections, and government from the time I was old enough to read.”... Barbara St. John Vickery, director of conservation programs for the Maine chapter of The Nature Conservancy, chaired a panel discussion at the Auburn Public Library on the effects of climate change on Maine’s natural environment and wildlife.... Christina Sturgis

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Classmates Spyro Mitrokostas ’81 and Cheryl Andrews ’81 are elected members of the Barnstable (Mass.) County Assembly of Delegates. As the legislative arm for Cape Cod county government, the board grapples with a range of issues, including recently the siting and review of onshore wind turbines. Mitrokostas, executive director of the Dennis Chamber of Commerce, represents the town of Yarmouth. Andrews, a dentist, represents Provincetown, where she is the past chair of the town’s board of selectmen. “It’s a fun twist of fate for the two of us,” Cheryl says.

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Derek Langhauser ’84

Say Anything? Enthusiastic speakers shout ideas on religion and politics through bullhorns in the middle of campus. Slogans chalked on walkways allege racist acts. And at the basketball game, fans insult the other team by wearing T-shirts emblazoned with one of George Carlin’s dirtiest seven words. At this bustling intersection of free speech and higher education is Derek Langhauser ’84, immediate past president of the National Assn. of College and University Attorneys and an expert on First Amendment issues. In higher education, he says, “there are a wide variety of instances in which [free speech] rights can be implicated. I might be dealing with students who want to hold a protest at a college, vendors who want to speak at a college, or people who use email in a threatening way.” Because colleges need to protect both academic freedom and students’ right to study in a harassment-free setting, “we want to respect both ends of the spectrum,” says Langhauser, who is general counsel for the Maine Community College System, which comprises seven colleges and nearly 18,000 students. In 2008, Langhauser was one of three editors who assembled NACUA’s definitive, 2,000-page compendium of legal articles related to First Amendment issues in higher education. The

is studying graphic design and digital media at Burlington County College in New Jersey to enhance her career as print journalist.

84 l reunion 2014, June 6–8 l

Class Secretary: Heidi B. Lovett, 3505 Woodridge Ave., Silver Spring MD 20902, blueoceanheidi@ aol.com Class President: Linda S. Cohen, Apt. 3, 7866 Greenlake Dr. N., Seattle WA 98103, linda@ lscdesignstudio.com

85 l reunion 2015, June 12–14 l

Class Secretary: Elissa A. Bass, 203 North Main St., Stonington CT 06378, bass.elissa@yahoo.com

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compendium includes articles like “Cheers, Profanity, and Free Speech,” which addresses the First Amendment issues raised when, in 2004, Univ. of Maryland basketball fans adopted a “F*** Duke” slogan, and “The Constitutional Rights of Politically Incorrect Groups,” focusing on whether a university should recognize a student group that prohibits gay students from becoming officers. Today, social media outlets like Twitter and Facebook present new dimensions to the application of basic legal principles, Langhauser says. Those media outlets, he says, “offer a different way in which people can express their views very quickly, very easily, and very broadly. They multiply the instances in which people can speak.” While the limits of free speech are constantly being defined (as the recent Supreme Court ruling on military funeral protests attests), the rise of electronic communication adds greater complexity to First Amendment issues. For example, while a college can limit who speaks on campus because it owns the property, it may not have the same control over someone who makes a harassing statement on Facebook — unless, say, the person makes the statement within the campus system, on a campus computer, or with the help of the campus email system. As Langhauser and others hash out these new forums for free speech in journals and in the courts, he remains grateful for his admittedly intense history major at Bates, which, supplemented by law training at the University of Maine School of Law, has helped him parse these issues thoughtfully and thoroughly. “My last two years at Bates, I averaged more than 100 pages of term papers per semester,” he recalls. “But the requirement to write so often and in such depth required me to focus my analytical skills, which served me well in law school and today.”

Class President: Lisa Virello, 2 Standish St., Hingham MA 02043, virello@comcast.net Nancy Hollenbaugh Heath and her husband, Ashley, were recognized for their contributions to the arts in Swindon, England, where they live, with a Swindon Does Arts Heroes certificate. Their friend and collaborator Doug Kirby said, “As a couple they are amazing, but individually they create so much enthusiasm about the arts.” Nancy is an education officer at the STEAM Museum of the Great Western Railway in Swindon, and has acted, directed, and stage-managed in both professional and amateur theater. She’s also taught drama, volunteers as a steward for local events such as the Big Arts Day, and manages master classes for the Arts Centre. Her husband is a radio journalist for BBC Wiltshire.... Robin Reynolds Starr, director of the American and European paintings and prints department at the

Massachusetts auction house Skinner Inc., returned to Bates to discuss her career in the arts.... Allison Webster Matlack, husband Dan, son Nathaneal (15), and daughter Hannah (17) made a winter getaway with a quick vacation to the Grand Canyon. “I know it was cold at Bates, but when you don’t have to shovel a driveway, dig out a car, or pay the heating bills, the winters didn’t seem so bad!”

86 l reunion 2016, June 10–12 l

Class Secretary: Erica Seifert Plunkett, 56 Morton St., Holliston MA 01746, esplunkett@comcast.net Class Co-Presidents: Erica Seifert Plunkett, 56 Morton St., Holliston MA 01746, esplunkett@comcast .net; Anne D. Robertson, 10024 Nord Rd., Bloomington MN 55437, anne-tom@juno.com; William J. Walsh Jr., 6724 Kenyon Dr., Alexandria VA 22307, messagebill@gmail.com; Catherine Lathrop Strahan, 26 Suffolk Rd., Sudbury MA 01776, strahanc@ comcast.net Denise Barton recently married Patrick Cahill ’83. They live in Marlborough, Mass., with son Charlie.... Cathy Bernier-Garzon is the literacy specialist at an elementary school in Millis, Mass. She enjoys swimming, skiing, and is trying her hand in a hiphop class.... John Boyle, a founding partner at FHO Partners in Boston, was named the CoreNet New England Chapter’s Global Service Provider of the Year. The award recognizes corporate real estate’s top professionals. John enjoys married life and being the father of young sons Jack and Rocco. He is on the board of the Walker School, which focuses on troubled kids. He enjoys golf and seeing football pals Dave Campbell and Peter Noonan.... Kristen Carlson Garnett and Jeff ’83 live in Madison, Conn., with their three daughters; the oldest heads to college this fall. Kristen holds multiple roles as a (nonprofessional) driving instructor, lacrosse mom, personal shopper, wardrobe consultant, stage mom, and valued dog walker.... John Eddy and Heidi live in West Hartford, Conn., where they’ve been since marrying 22 years ago. They have three children, the oldest starting college. John manages a team of IT developers at Travelers Insurance. He runs halfmarathons.... Eric Edstrom and Jamie live in Dallas with their four kids. He is the founder of ProfitLink Telecom Expense Management.... Andrea Elhom Weathers and Rich, in the Navy, have experienced life in many places, including Washington, D.C., and Nevada, and are now in Okinawa, Japan. They have two daughters in college.... Deborah Hansen is mothering teens, writing a book on Spanish wine, and running her restaurant, Taberna De Haro, in Brookline, where Katie Bash ’10 works in her kitchen. Sought out by The Boston Globe about restaurant trends, Deborah said customers increasingly enjoy seafood once considered unusual, such as razor clams, grilled fresh sardines from Spain, fresh anchovies, or salt cod. That chefs are turning to unusual fish “can be attributed to how depleted our fisheries are,” she says. On the wine front, she says that “everyone’s palate is tired of sweet,” noting that when she “nudges people away from sweet, oaky, highly alcoholic wines into a slightly more restrained and even tart style, it is so well-received.” She recommends Pena do Lobo, from Ribeira Sacra, an “up-and-coming wine-producing region of Spain. The wines are elegant and fresh, very expressive, with a lot of fruit but not sweet. People try it and say, ‘Wow, it’s so interesting. It’s not heavy, and there’s so much going on.’ They really get it in a way they didn’t used to.”... John Harris continues as an executive in pharmaceutical sales. He vacations in his favorite place, the Bahamas.... Betsy KlebanoffHills, husband John, and son Jack live in Seattle while she works in public health research and administration.... Leslie Latady Couper and Doug ’83 are in Falmouth, Maine, where she is a financial planner and senior manager at Northeast Bank. Their son and daughter are in college.... Cat Lathrop

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Strahan is managing her real estate business through a difficult economy in Sudbury, Mass. She and Phil have two boys in high school.... Mark Leahey returned to Kuwait on his fourth military deployment. He is the deputy commander of the 197th Fires Brigade of the New Hampshire Army National Guard. Michele Wygant Leahey ’85 manages the home front on top of her duties as a special education teacher.... Pam Livingston Verfaillie and Darryl transferred to Ohio, where he is a captain in the U.S. Coast Guard. Their oldest of three sons is at Alaska–Fairbanks. Pam signed up for the 3-Day Breast Cancer Walk and is ready for the next adventure.... Allen Loyd works as an artist and designer, designing sets for theater and opera and museum exhibits.... Sue Megroz Rosenzweig is at home with her four kids. Her service commitments include being president of the

a middle school sex ed curriculum. She and Conor live in Holliston, Mass., with daughter Molly, who’s in high school.... Peter Senghas and Kellie Thibodeau ’87 live in Acton, Mass., where he enjoys a second career as an elementary educator. They love road trips with sons Jacob and Sam.... Djuliani Soeharto Cordiano returned to the work force as a real estate agent in Austin, Texas, after moving from Honolulu with husband Henry and two daughters.... Scott Steinberg is dean of undergraduate admission at the Univ. of Southern Maine. He marvels at the creativity of his wife, designer Sarah McKnight Steinberg ’96, chauffeurs his daughters to various activities, plays the occasional music gig, and volunteers for the U.S. Tennis Assn.... Doug and Anna Gailitis Strout ’88 live in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, with daughters Ella and Helen. He continues to run his

Commenting about wine trends, chef and restaurant owner Deborah Hansen ’86 tells The Boston Globe that “everyone’s palate is tired of sweet.” board at their pre-school. Her comedic Bates moments have included Alumni-in-Admissions interviews and a cluster of super-smart science kids who brought insanely complicated portfolios and presentations.... Eve Meltzer Murray, who lives with husband Paul and two college-age kids on Matinicus Island, is working on a book about the current oneroom schools on the islands of Maine. The Press Herald reviewed her recently published collection of essays about the realities of island life, noting that “reading Murray’s wonderful essays is like being transported to a place at once exotic and somewhat familiar. Her writing is substantive, hard-edged and an absolute delight to come across. Well Out to Sea is insightful and should be in every Maine school library.”... Jeff Miller is extending his experience in politics with a run for township commissioner in Havertown, Pa., where he is now a Democratic ward leader. He and Rudy have two boys, Ben and Zach.... Lydia Miller and John and their three sons live on Orcas Island, off Seattle. She runs their inn, Pebble Cove Farm, and manages their rental property in Nicaragua.... Katie Murphy enjoys living in Berkeley, Calif., but travels as often as possible. She toured Guatemala with Eric Romanoff.... Ashley Parker Snider has a new job as director of admissions and public relations at Bishop Diego High School in Santa Barbara, Calif.... Barbara Peskin is an instructional technology specialist in Concord, Mass. She skied with Lisa Ballek Lonnegren and her family last winter.... Dave Reynolds teaches English and is department chair at Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs. He loves to hike, cross-country ski, and backpack with family and Bates friends. Daughter Emma is at his school while daughter Sage attends the elementary school where his wife, Kaja Beenhouwer Reynolds ’88, teaches. Dave is in touch with David Boothby ’87, Joc Clark ’87, and Alex Johnston ’84.... Hagar Riley and Lewis are parents to twins Luke and Lily and, after many years in the city, gave in and landed in suburbia.... Anne Robertson lives in Bloomington, Minn., with her husband and three boys. She teaches English as a second language.... Carolyn Ryan was named metropolitan editor of The New York Times. In her 3 1/2 years at the Times, she has “steered the paper’s coverage of some of the biggest regional political stories in recent memory,” executive editor Bill Keller told Times staff, including the downfall of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, for which the paper won a Pulitzer Prize. The Metro section is the paper’s “soul,” wrote Keller, and it requires an editor “both deft and driven, a balance of restlessness and patience, and a sturdy spine. An irreverent sense of humor helps. Carolyn Ryan is that kind of editor.”... Erica Seifert Plunkett continues at the Wellesley Centers for Women, currently on an impact evaluation study of

life/health store and stays young playing Ultimate in a Portland league.... Steve Sughrue teaches math and coaches soccer and tennis at Tabor Academy in Marion, Mass. He and Helene and sons Ollie and Owen like the balance between their hectic life and the small-town pace.... Bill Walsh works in Washington for the nonprofit seniors advocacy group AARP, where he is a senior strategist focusing on health policy. He presented a paper and represented AARP at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. He has two children, Daniel and Rebecca.... Wendy Wood Meaden still teaches in Butler Univ.’s theater department and travels a lot, including to Moscow, Prague, Bohemia, and Italy, and only occasionally by motorcycle. She also does freelance designing, draping, and costume-making. She and Tom have four kids and four grandchildren.

Amy Baker Mandragouras, an intellectual-property lawyer, was named managing partner of the Boston office of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP. A chem major at Bates, Amy’s focus is the biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and life sciences industries.... The Worcester (Mass.) Telegram & Gazette caught up with Doug Galpin Jacobs, owner and principal coach and instructor at the Worcester Fencing Club. His students range in age from 7 to 59, and he’s proud that his former students have joined college fencing teams at Princeton, Brown, Columbia, and elsewhere. Successful fencing, he says, requires “the ability to respond to situations as they develop.” And there’s no classic body type. “You don’t necessarily have to look like a traditional athlete. You have to be able to analyze and solve the problems presented by the opponent. It’s all about quick decision-making.”... Students in Bates professor Paul Kuritz’s directing course directed and acted in new plays from the Fusion Theater Co. of Albuquerque, N.M., founded by Dennis Gromelski.... Craig and Cindy Gerstl-Pepin ’89 moved to another new house in Burlington, Vt., then headed to China for six months with their family. Cindy was awarded a Fulbright lectureship to teach at Beijing Normal Univ. until the end of June. They looked forward to seeing Ben Malcolm and his wife in Thailand.... Chip Purrington is a managing director in the New York office of Communications Equity Associates, which provides investment banking services and private equity to global communications, media, entertainment, and information technology industries.

89 l reunion 2014, June 6–8 l

Steering Committee: Sally J. Ehrenfried, 1173 Plantation Ln., Mount Pleasant SC 29464, sallye@ alumni.bates.edu; Deborah Schiavi Cote, 18 Little Androscoggin Dr., Auburn ME 04210, debschiavicote@alumni.bates.edu Class Secretary: Donna Waterman Douglass, 355 Pond Rd., Wales ME 04280, ddouglass4498@ gmail.com

Veterinarian Peggy Brosnahan spoke at an alumni panel at Bates last November on “Navigating the Veterinarian Profession.”... Regina Marchi, assistant professor of media studies and affiliated professor of Latino studies at Rutgers Univ., returned to Bates to talk about the Latin American celebration El Día de los Muertos, or “Day of the Dead,” which has seen renewed popularity in the U.S. Since the 1970s, Latino artists have expanded the celebration north of the border, with altar exhibits, performance art, multimedia installations, and street processions, along with mass media coverage of such events. Regina is the author of Day of the Dead in the USA: The Migration and Transformation of a Cultural Phenomenon.

Langley Gace is now the aquaculture commercialisation manager of the International Copper Assn., which promotes the use of copper worldwide (copper, we learned, is used in aquaculture as an antifouling agent to prevent the growth of organisms that impair the flow of water through, for example, the enclosures where fish are raised).... The Portland Press Herald reviewed David Rohde’s book A Rope and a Prayer, which tells of his capture by the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2008. The harrowing story begins when a Taliban commander proffered an interview to David, a New York Times correspondent. “I knew meeting with the Taliban was perilous,” he writes. But he told himself “not to be a coward.... Many other journalists have done the same thing.” But David and his companions were captured, beginning seven months of captivity during which their captors demand a $5 million ransom and the release of Taliban prisoners. The book, co-written by his wife, Kristen Mulvihill, also illuminates U.S. efforts to free the captives. David eventually escaped on foot. A member of the Class of ’89, David completed his studies at Brown.

88 l reunion 2013, June 7–9 l

90 l reunion 2015, June 12–14 l

87 l reunion 2012, June 8–10 l

Class Secretary: Margaret M. Brosnahan, Apt. E6, Apple Creek, Stillwater OK 74075, MargBros@aol .com Class President: John L. Fletcher, 672 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach FL 32233, john@mgfagency.com

Class Committee: Mary Capaldi Carr, 5778 First Landing Way, Burke VA 22015, mary.capaldi@ gmail.com; Astrid D. Delfino Bernard, 35 Blueberry Hill Dr., Madison CT 06443, flutistastrid@ sbcglobal.net; Ruth Garretson Cameron, 12 Norton Farm Rd., Freeport ME 04032, ruthc@ suscom-maine.net; Julie L. Sutherland Platt, 2 Old Ayer Rd., Groton MA 01450, julielsp@charter.net; Adrienne Terry D’Olimpio, PO Box 202, Lyndon Center VT 05850, adrienne.dolimpio@ lyndoninstitute.org

Class Secretary: Joanne E. Walton, 10411 Ashcroft Way, Fairfax VA 22032, joannewalton2003@yahoo .com Class President: Eric D. Knight, 836 Potter Ave., Berwyn PA 19312, eric_knight@verizon.net College of Idaho professor Rochelle Johnson was named the 2010 Idaho Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Rochelle, who teaches English and environmental studies, is “an energetic and rigorous teacher, a colleague who willingly performs service of all kinds, and a noted scholar in the environmental

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humanities,” said President Marv Hedberg. She joined the college in 1999 and helped develop its environmental studies program.... Oncologist Sam Shelanski provides care at the Estes Park (Colo.) Medical Center’s Specialty Clinic.

91 l reunion 2016, June 10–12 l

Class Secretary: Kathryn Tibbetts Morello, 6010 Wake Crest Ct., Haymarket VA 20169, ktmorello@ alumni.bates.edu Class President: John A. Ducker, 252 Baker St., Walpole MA 02081, jducker1@yahoo.com Carl Fey is the new dean of Nottingham Univ. Business School China, based in Ningbo, China. A subsidiary of the Univ. of Nottingham in the UK, it is the first full-scale Sino-foreign business school. Carl says it has a unique business model because it’s based in China but all instruction in degree programs is in English. The business school has about 2,500 undergrads and 500 master’s students and a permanent faculty of 50 (25 percent Chinese and 75 percent from over 20 other countries) which is rapidly expanding.... The Delano (Minn.) Herald Journal caught up with Army Maj. Patricia McCracken Osmon, who spoke to students and others last Veterans Day. A 17-year Army veteran, she is now chief physical therapist with the 452nd Combat Support Group at Fort Snelling, Minn., and is also a member of the Delano School Board. To be in the military, Patricia said, means sacrifice. “It means young men and women scoring touchdowns or performing plays and not finding their parents in the audience. Serving in the military consistently challenges you to do things outside your normal/typical experience, and you carry this with you for the rest of your life.”... Kimberley Small Lyng is an assistant professor and co-chair of the communication department at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Mass. She teaches courses in both the communication and English departments, including “Media Writing” and “Advanced Journalism.” She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and two children.

92 l reunion 2012, June 8–10 l

Class Committee: Ami Lynn Berger, 1401 Portland Ave., St. Paul MN 55104, ami_berger@hotmail.com; Kristin Bierly Magendantz, 33 Glen Hollow, West Hartford CT 06117, kmagendantz@foundation .uconn.edu; Kristen Downs Bruno, 10 Mac Connie Ct., Seymour CT 06483, alfredbruno@sbcglobal.net; Roland S. Davis, 8 Infiniti Way, Auburn ME 04210, rdavis@bates.edu; Peter J. Friedman, 10 Brownstone Turn, Simsbury CT 06089, PeterJFriedman@ googlemail.com; Leyla Morrissey Bader, Apt. 8M, 405 East 54th St., New York NY 10022, leylabader@nyc.rr.com; Jeffrey S. Mutterperl, Apt. 4D, 340 East 80th St., New York NY 10075, jeffmutterperl@aol.com Joel Bines was named managing director in the Dallas office of AlixPartners, a global business-advisory firm. He joined the company in 2004.... Doug Coupe co-produced an independent music video in South Carolina starring fledgling singer/songwriter Emily Hearn and film icon Bill Murray. Entitled Rooftop, the video was a featured screening at the Charleston International Film Festival. The video was a decided departure from conventional music videos. “There was definitely a big guerrilla filmmaking element to this...don’t even ask me how we got some of these shots,” Doug told The Daniel Island News.... Neuroscientist Lisa Genova published her second novel, Left Neglected, about a career-driven supermom who suffers a traumatic brain injury. The novel “informs a little-known medical condition” and presents an “engaging story of a character who transcends what could have been a tragedy to find a fresh appreciation for life,” wrote Jessica Treadway in The Boston Globe. Craig Wilson wrote in USA Today, “Genova is a master of ...relating from the

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inside out what it’s like to suffer from a debilitating disease. This is a well-told tale from a keen medical mind. Picking up anything written by Genova is quickly becoming, well, a no-brainer.”... Cory Theberge returned to Bates to give a chemistry department lecture on “CGRP Receptor Antagonists for the Treatment of Migraine.” He is an assistant professor of medicinal chemistry at the Univ. of New England College of Pharmacy.

93 l reunion 2013, June 7–9 l

Class Secretary: Kimberly Donohue Kavanaugh, 5 Everell Rd., Winchester MA 01890, k.kavanaugh@ alumni.bates.edu Class President: Madeline F. Yanford, 22 Shirley Ter., Southwick MA 01077, madelineyanford@earthlink .net A 20-year friendship between Bates music professorcomposer William Matthews and pianist Duncan Cumming, a former student, led to the production of a CD entitled A Book of Hours (Albany Records). It includes four pieces composed by Matthews over a span of more than two decades. The Capital Trio, a chamber ensemble featuring Duncan, plays on two of them. A third is performed by Cumming and his wife, Hilary. Matthews, who has taught at Bates since 1978, is known for his stylistic versatility, dedication to making music for the community, and leadership in equipping the college for electronic music-making, the Lewiston Sun Journal noted. Duncan, a concert musician and assistant professor of music at SUNY–Albany, said of Matthews: “I’d like to think I’m one of the champions of his music. I’ve played his music from Los Angeles to Aberdeen, Scotland.”... Lance Rozear, Aaron Wey, and Sean Sawyer ’92 spoke at an alumni panel at Bates on “Navigating the Veterinarian Profession.” Lance founded Northeast Veterinary Imaging, a veterinary radiology practice in Branford, Conn.; Aaron owns and operates Upstate Veterinary Specialties in Latham, N.Y.; and Sean owns and operates PawSteps Veterinary Center in Northbridge, Mass.

94 l reunion 2014, June 6–8 l

Class Secretary: Jonathan E. Lilja, Apt. 6, 6 Bayridge Ln., Rockport MA 01966, jonathanlilja@gmail.com Class President: Susan Spano Piacenti, 70 Child St., Portsmouth RI 02871, susanpiacenti@cox.net Emily Daughters Hunsicker lives in Needham, Mass., with her husband and sons Owen (5) and Luke (3). She works in a professional development role at Goodwin Procter. She looks forward to her annual mini-reunion with Laura Allen, Sara Clough, Hope Guardenier, Anne Macomber, Lisa Manning, and Sally Theran.... Eric Eckelman and Angela Cheng were married Oct. 2, 2010. He left MTV to start his own video production company, JEAN, and also works as a freelance commercial director. He and Angela live in the East Village in NYC, where he still plays music and Ultimate.... Courtney Fleisher and husband Peter Schmidtke live in Salt Lake City, and she continues to treat traumatized children as a psychologist at Primary Children’s Medical Center. “We are on a mission to experience every natural hot spring in Utah. I’m working on building a Bates Alumni Network in Utah,” she writes.... Jason Grant and Gretchen Fricke (Harvard ’96) were married Feb. 26, 2011. They live in Concord, Mass.... Maureen Gwinn was named the acting assistant center director for risk analysis in the EPA’s National Center for Environmental Assessment. “I’m also keeping busy with some fun scientific outreach activities here in the D.C. area.”... Mike Horton works as the district data coordinator for Nantucket Public Schools. “We created a data coordinator position to start with looking at student data before we make curriculum and instructional changes.” He hopes to start a Nantucket Bates Club.... Denis Howard writes:

“One day after turning 40 last summer, I flew to Paris with my girlfriend Kristy. About four months later, while in New Brunswick for a short weekend getaway, she accepted my marriage proposal. That week also happened to be my first week as music director at community radio WERU-FM 89.9 in Blue Hill, Maine.”... Liam Hurley is now director of business services in the Shrewsbury (Mass.) School District.... Lauren Popell Velasco has started her 12th year on faculty in communication studies at Foothill College. Lauren, husband Mike, and son Kyle live in the San Francisco Bay Area. They all enjoyed a visit to the East Coast last September to share in the joy of Nisha Ahamed’s beautiful beach wedding.... Susan Spano Piacenti is back in New England, settled in Portsmouth, R.I., where she teaches yoga — her passion and salvation — and enjoys being close to relatives and friends. She remains a soccer mom to her boys, in fourth and second grades.... Jamie Wallerstein branched out of her comfort zone as an attorney doing care and protection work in juvenile court to doing divorce work in probate and family court. “Big steps for a non-lover-of-change, but I am optimistic.” Her “baby” turned 6.

95 l reunion 2015, June 12–14 l

Class Co-Secretaries: Scott R. Marchildon, 31 Windy Hollow Ln., Bowdoinham ME 04008, smarchildon@ une.edu; Philip Pettis, Boynton, Waldron, Doleac, Woodman and Scott, 82 Court St., PO Box 418, Portsmouth NH 03802, ppettis@nhlawfirm.com Class Co-Presidents: Jason C. and Deborah Nowak Verner, 4 Wilson Ln., Acton MA 01720, theverners@ juno.com Republican strategist Randy Bumps is now executive vice president at Direct Impact, a Washington communications firm specializing in public affairs, public relations, and corporate reputation campaigns. He had most recently been the chief political strategist for the independent expenditure unit of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.... Carl Dragstedt is completing his interventional cardiology fellowship at the Univ. of Florida. He has two children, Quinten (5) and Alivia (3).... James Houston received the David G. Russell ’66 Award for Outstanding Commitment to Bates Alumni in Admissions. “James approaches his AIA work as a true counselor,” said AIA coordinator Johie Farrar ’03. “Extensively networking with guidance offices, families, alumni, and my colleagues in Admissions, James never forgets that students are at the heart of this process.”... Brook and Molly Walsh Mullens ’96 live near Zurich, Switzerland, where he teaches at an international school. They have fun in the mountains with Isabel (9) and Beck (7).... Kirstin Schantzenbach Powers and Jimmy now live in Weston, Conn. She’s taking a break from practicing law to be with their three girls: Chase Cameron, born May 21, 2010, Logan (2), and Claire (5).

96 l reunion 2016, June 10–12 l

Class Co-Presidents: S. Ayesha Farag-Davis, 8 Infiniti Way, Auburn ME 04210, faragdavis@aol.com; James D. Lowe, 71 Hicks St., Portland ME 04103, jameslowemaine@yahoo.com Andrew Cyr’s work leading his Metropolis Ensemble in their first studio album earned him and the group a Grammy nomination in the category of best instrumental soloist performance with orchestra. In an interview with the Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger, Andrew said his willingness to take chances with his career was influenced by his wife, performance artist Kate Gilmore ’97. “She’s been a real inspiration for me. To see her journey helped me to empathize with how difficult it is for any artist to get their work showcased.” See the feature on Andrew in this issue.... Massachusetts singer-songwriter Mark Erelli talked with the Brattleboro (Vt.) Reformer about the songs

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on his eighth solo CD, Little Vigils, inspired by the nature walks he takes with his eldest son. “I’m a biologist by training,” said Mark, who has a master’s degree in evolutionary biology, “and I’ve always spent a lot of time in the woods, but I had really gotten away from that as a touring songwriter.” After buying a house in a rural area of Melrose, Mass., he’s “reconnected with that part of myself” through his oldest son, who loves to take nature walks. For Little Vigils, Mark and the band headed to Parsonsfield, Maine, to a 1700s-era Maine farmhouse that’s now a recording studio. “This project is the first time I ever holed up somewhere away from my family to make a record,” he said. “Having little kids now, it was just easier and more fair to all involved to truly immerse myself in the record for a few days, and then go home and be totally focused on my duties there.”... Brandy Gibbs-Riley, assistant professor of graphic design and design history at Colby-Sawyer College, returned to Bates to speak about a career in graphic design and teaching.... Loren Hayes is an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Louisiana–Monroe, where his research focuses on the evolutionary significance and neural mechanisms influencing rodent sociality and mating systems. Supported by the National Science Foundation, Loren does summer research in Chile on a rodent endemic to the country’s central and northern regions. This summer his student researchers include recent biology graduate Andrew Bernard ’11, whose Bates adviser was Will Ambrose, same as Loren’s.... The Korea JoongAng Daily profiled Hwaseung Group, which has grown from a small shoe manufacturer into a diverse corporation and South Korea’s leading manufacturer of automotive parts and fine chemicals. Jiho Hyun is the group’s vice chairman; he is the oldest son of co-chairman Hyun Seunghoon and the grandson of the Hwaseung Group founder.... The Burlington Free Press caught up with musician Jay Terrien just before he performed at the NBA All-Star game in Los Angeles, playing viola in Rihanna’s string section as part of the half-time show. He is a session player in LA, where he gets jobs on electric bass or acoustic viola; he studied the latter at Bates. He also plays electric bass guitar. “My musical skill set, playing both instruments, I have to be responsible for every genre of music. I do everything, and I like doing it all: pop jobs, rock jobs, orchestra jobs, country gigs.”

97 l reunion 2012, June 8–10 l

Class Co-Secretaries: Christopher J. Gailey and Leah Wiedmann Gailey, 8 Deerfield Rd., Freeport ME 04032, thegaileys@myfairpoint.net, leah.gailey@ gmail.com Class President: Lawrence L. Ackerman, 48 Sunrise St., Plainview NY 11803, larryack@hotmail.com Bates squash coach Pat Cosquer and wife Olivia bought a house in Portland’s Back Cove. They went to France and Holland in 2010 for squash, and he’s leading another squash tour to New Zealand this summer. Pat’s men’s team at Bates finished 15th in the nation with an 18-11 record; the women’s team was 15-11 and 11th in the nation.... Heather Davies Bernard enjoys her work as assistant general counsel at the Texas Department of Agriculture where she administers federal food and nutrition programs. She and Durel welcomed their first child, John “Jack” Bernard, in March 2010. She’s happy that Kyle and Regan Flaherty live in Austin now too.... Sharleen Davis-Ruiz left her job as a commercial litigator to take a breather, refocus her career, and help her husband grow his acupuncture clinic. Shayla Isabel Ruiz is now 1. Sharleen got a real-estate license to keep busy.... Billy Hayes was named director of customer and sales satisfaction for Nissan’s Americas region, based in Franklin, Tenn.... William Innis enjoys working at Boston ENT Associates. He and Anne, who celebrate their 10th anniversary this summer, are the parents of Maddie (2) and Katherine Skye, born

William DePaolo ’99

Gut Instincts Hundreds of trillions of bacteria make their home in the gut, outnumbering human cells in the body. Generally, these microbes go about their business quietly — digesting food, absorbing nutrients, and helping immune cells recognize invaders. But everyday factors such as stress, illness, or even a chance encounter with a normally benign food or substance can perturb the system, causing detrimental health effects. William DePaolo ’99 knows about such encounters. He recently directed a study showing how vitamin A can cause changes in intestinal bacteria, triggering an inflammatory response to gluten in those who are genetically susceptible. Previously, vitamin A was thought to help suppress inflammation in the intestine. DePaolo’s interest in the regulatory mechanisms of the gut was, itself, sparked by chance encounters. At Bates, his passion for science led him to apply for a Bates-sponsored Ladd Internship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. There, he studied solid tumor immunology under cancer doctor Howard Scher ’72, becoming mesmerized by bacteria’s sway over the human body. He went on to study mucosal biology at Northwestern University Medical School, where, in the aftermath of Sept. 11, he joined other U.S. researchers in investigating countermeasures and vaccines for potential biological weapons.

in September 2010.... Erin Matlack loves working as a nanny in Charlestown, Mass. She and her fiancé bought and rehabbed an antique cape in Holbrook. She sings with the Braintree Choral Society.... Katie McQuilkin Garnett and William welcomed Henry on Feb. 16, 2011. He joins Callie (6) and Liam (4). Katie planned to return part time to her pediatric practice in Lexington, Mass.... Anne-Marie Miller Treat and Ben ’98 welcomed Samuel Whittier Miller Treat on Nov. 2, 2010. He joins Rachel (9) and Adam (6). Anne-Marie works part time as a clinical social worker.... Maine news outlets highlighted the leadership of women’s advocate Sarah Standiford. In her capacity as executive director of the Maine Women’s Lobby, she wrote an op-ed for the Portland Press Herald commenting on right-to-work proposals before the Maine Legislature. Criticizing the bills, which in Maine would make paying for union benefits voluntary, she says that “there are two proven ways for women to increase their earnings. One is access to higher education.... The second way is to be part of a collective bargaining agreement,

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Doctorate in hand, DePaolo headed to the University of Chicago (where he sponsored his own Ladd intern) to study Yersinia pestis, the agent of bubonic plague. There, “in full garb and a protective suit” he helped direct studies showing how Y. pestis alters the immune system to make the plague so deadly. The findings made front-page news and were published in the journal Science. His interest in the complexities of bacteriahost relationships fully piqued, DePaolo then looked at how such relationships contribute to inflammatory bowel disease. Celiac disease, for example, is triggered by the ingestion of gluten, the protein found in wheat, barley, and rye. Yet only a small percentage of susceptible people get the disease. “That means there has to be an environmental trigger,” DePaolo says. Studies offered a clue: Celiac sufferers carry high amounts of an immune protein called interleukin-15 in their gut. DePaolo’s team genetically engineered a mouse to express high levels of IL-15. When the scientists fed gluten to these mice, they developed intestinal inflammation and antibodies against gluten, just as celiac patients do. When vitamin A was added to the mix, the symptoms got worse. These latest findings, published in the prestigious journal Nature, could lead to new treatments for celiac disease. Already, researchers are testing ways to neutralize IL-15 in those susceptible to the disease. DePaolo, a newly hired assistant professor at the University of Southern California, plans to take his studies a step further. With a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health, he’s investigating how infections that come into the intestine affect long-term health. “These microbes contribute so much to our health and day-to-day living,” he says. “If you’re someone with a genetic susceptibility, the pathogens you encounter in life are important in determining how healthy you may be.”

which levels the playing field for everyone.”... Jen Van Gelder is an account director at Baldwin/Clancy/ Rogan, a small ad agency near Boston. She and Greg, who live in Hingham, welcomed a son, Tucker James, in February.

98 l reunion 2013, June 7–9 l

Class Committee: Robert R. Curtis, 960 MacArthur Dr., Ballston Spa NY 12020, robcurtis@eatonvance .com; Douglas R. Beers, 14 Prescott Ct., Basking Ridge NJ 07920, douglas.beers@gmail.com; Liam Leduc Clarke and Renee Leduc Clarke, 639 Lamont St. N.W., Washington DC 20010, ldlc639@yahoo .com, rleducclarke@yahoo.com; Tyler W. Munoz, Unit 3, 24 Upton St., Boston MA 02118, tylermunoz@gmail.com Jon Allen, an assistant professor of biology at William & Mary, returned to Bates to give a talk on “Complex Life Cycles and the Evolution of Larval Form in Marine Invertebrates.”... By two minutes, defending

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champion Justin Freeman won his fourth Ski to the Clouds, which includes a grueling, 6-kilometer climb up Mount Washington, making it North America’s toughest 10k. Sam Evans-Brown ’09 finished third, while Beth Taylor ’12 won the women’s race. Justin was also the repeat winner in the Bretton Woods Nordic Marathon.... Citybizlist in Boston noted that Frank Lombardi III is a portfolio manager at Cubic Asset Management. He is a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society.... Sean Monahan is now a partner in the Boston law firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP in its finance and restructuring group. He has been named a “Massachusetts Super Lawyers Rising Star.”

99 l reunion 2014, June 6–8 l

Class Secretary: Jennifer Lemkin Bouchard, 369 West Windsor Dr., Bloomingdale IL 60108, jlemkin@alumni.bates.edu Class President: Jamie Ascenzo Trickett, 35 Fairview Ave., Reading MA 01867, jamie.trickett@gmail.com The Burlington Free Press profiled artists Hannah Sessions and Greg Bernhardt, co-owners of Blue Ledge Farm and Blue Ledge Gallery, near Middlebury, Vt., a cheese-making operation and studio/ gallery. The operation realizes a dream that began during Hannah and Greg’s JYA in Florence, when they fell in love. “We started dreaming up this idea in Italy,” Hannah said. “Their whole culture is so centered around food. It’s eye-opening. It’s a different world there.” Greg added, “We kind of came up with how we wanted to live our lives: We wanted to be together, work with our hands, raise our kids and do our art.” The couple has two children, 6 and 8.... Maria Barile finished her radiology residency at Beth Israel Deaconess and began a fellowship in pediatric radiology at Children’s Hospital Boston…. Damon Bowe has a new job at Booz Allen Hamilton in D.C., where he caught up with Melissa Vining Stundick, Colin Troha, and Jack Gomes…. The NESN reality show Boston Boxing followed Alex Budney and 30 other novice and intermediate boxers as they underwent intense training, culminating in exhibition fights…. Chris Colapietro, vice president of strategy and marketing at HighPoint Solutions, was a panelist at the Next Generation Pharma Sales & Marketing Summit in Baltimore.... Sean Findlen rejoined the Boston office of Weber Shandwick Worldwide as a vice president in the corporate/healthcare practice…. Josh Fix joined the band Train, playing second guitar and keyboards…. Addie Fletcher Dublin enjoys her work as a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist at East Boston Neighborhood Health Center…. Stephen Fortney and Mijanou Brown ’00 enjoy living in the Rocky Mountains in Logan, Utah, with Elias (3) and Sally (1). Both kids are in preschool at Valley Montessori where Mijanou works part time as an instructor. Stephen finished an M.S. in fluvial geomorphology at Utah State.... Beth Frissora is adjusting to life in Baltimore after a special year in Amsterdam working at Under Armour’s European headquarters. Chuck Tucker, Jim Felton, and Sarah Mongan all made the trip over…. Lisa Gralnek moved to Boston to build a new women’s strategy for Rockport shoes, a brand owned by Adidas…. Nate Harvey was board-certified in food animal practice and now works for a largeanimal practice in Quakertown, Pa. He enjoyed being on a Bates panel discussion with several other alumni in veterinary medicine…. It was a Batesfest at Mass General on July 1, 2010, when Liza McKnight Hickey and husband Brian welcomed Evelyn into their family. Liza writes: “Brian stepped out to get a drink and he ran into Jamie and Eric Trickett, who were coming into labor and delivery. Anderson Trickett and Evelyn Hickey were both born on July 1 and within those first few hours of life we were all sitting in our hospital rooms together snapping pictures of them and talking about our future Batesies, Class of 2032.”… Hillary Peakes Langlais owns and operates a yoga studio and teaches art at Harmony (Maine)

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Elementary. She and her husband have two boys…. Wealth-management startup Dynasty Partners, with Shirl Penney as partner, president, and CEO, had the Wall Street media buzzing that the firm’s emergence could signal a fundamental change in the full-service brokerage model for high-net-worth clients, where independent investment advisers have access to a platform of trading, clearing, research, and other support services. Bloomberg Businessweek quoted Shirl as saying that by eliminating pressure on advisers to sell house brands, Dynasty’s business model allows independent brokers to “sit on the same side of the table as their client and act as an adviser and get paid for advice, not have to act as a sales professional.”…. Abigail Phillips and Raghu moved back to Cleveland to fix up their 100-year-old “money pit” and work for FirstEnergy Solutions doing regulatory work for the retail electric industry…. Signe Rogers married Jeff Ulsamer in August 2010 and in the process acquired 110 sled dogs while he acquired two kids. She now “hauls ass — literally — we give dog sled rides in northwest Montana.”… Working at Vermont’s Stratton Mountain as a ski instructor and waiting tables in the base village last winter, Tim Sundberg ran into Julie Weiswasser, Mike and Sarah Picard Schlechter, and Molly Brownwood Gerster…. Erik Thomson and Sarah Weiss ’01 enjoy living in Gothenburg, Sweden, where he’s doing post-doctoral work. They saw Ben Ayers in London.

00 l reunion 2015, June 12–14 l

Class Secretary: Cynthia Macht Link, Apt. 2F, 17 West 73rd St., New York NY 10023, cynthiamacht@ hotmail.com Class Co-Presidents: Jennifer Glassman Jacobs, Apt. 1D, 107 West 68th St., New York NY 10023, jenniferglassman@gmail.com; Megan H. Shelley, 329 Branch Dr., Silver Spring MD 20901, mhshelley@ aol.com The Wall Street Transcript caught up with Emlen Harmon, a vice president in equity research at Jefferies & Co. Inc. Emlen, who covers mid- and small-cap banks in the Southeast and Midwest U.S., commented on trends in regional banking.... Oggie Ivanova-Sriram joined the U.S. Foreign Service and, together with husband Raj Sriram, who is also a diplomat, has her first diplomatic assignment at the consular section of the U.S. Embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh.... The financial planning profession has its salesmen and strategists, but in Michael Kitces the industry “has its intellectual,” according to Financial Planning magazine. “He understands how to exploit the nuances that change the approach to developing a client’s financial plan.” For example, his work has transformed ideas about withdrawal rates from retirement portfolios. While conventional thinking says retirees should draw a maximum of 4 percent per year, adjusted for inflation after the first year, Mike’s analysis shows that safe withdrawal rates can vary. Mike recently received an inaugural Influencer Award from Financial Planning; he’s director of research at Columbia, Md.-based Pinnacle Advisory Group and editor of The Kitces Report.... Nicole Rom, executive director of the environmental nonprofit Will Steger Foundation, took a month off to travel solo across New Zealand where she spent most of her time exploring the country’s Great Walks.... Matt Schlobohm, the Maine AFL-CIO’s public policy and political mobilization director, said defeating right-to-work legislation in Maine, which would exempt non-union members from paying union dues, is the top issue for his group this year. “People are working longer hours, they are working more jobs, it’s harder to get a good retirement, it’s harder to get good health benefits, and what this kind of legislation does is undermine workers’ ability to gain economic security.”... In February 2011, Lena Sene moderated a panel discussion on private equity in Africa at the 13th annual Africa Business Conference at Harvard Business School. A conference blogger noted that Lena brought forth several

lessons from the private equity experts, such as the fact that PE in Africa requires “a wide range of skills, on-the-ground knowledge, and long, complex feasibility and research. All of this takes more time and costs more money, meaning the team has to be even more efficient than in other markets.” Second, investors must stop thinking of Africa as one country, a bias that even sophisticated investors possess. In April, Lena joined the opening panel of the Africa Investment Conference in NYC co-hosted by Institutional Investor and the Kenyan government. She spoke about the growing breadth and depth of synergies between African countries and the global economy. Lena, a Bates trustee, is a director of Deer Isle Capital LLC.... Trevor Stevenson is the new executive director of the Jackson Hole (Wyo.) Conservation Alliance. “It seems like I can finally be of use to my home community,” he told the Jackson Hole News & Guide. Trevor spent much of his youth exploring the outdoors in Jackson Hole. “I really value the community and the connection the community has with nature,” he said. At Bates, Trevor said he started out studying biology but decided the best way to preserve nature was to learn how to connect with people. He graduated with degrees in environmental studies and sociocultural psychology.... Carlisle Tuggey McLean was appointed senior policy adviser on the environment to Maine Gov. Paul LePage. Carlie practiced environmental, land use, and climate strategy law with the Portland law firm of Preti Flaherty from 2005 to 2011. “Carlie has a key understanding of environmental law and we expect her to bring a great deal of knowledge in this area to the administration,” LePage said.... Jennifer Winslow Thomas, library media specialist at Bishop Stang High School in North Dartmouth, Mass., received the Web Seal of Excellence from the Massachusetts School Library Assn. The award recognizes excellence in a school library’s use of web tools.

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Class Secretary: Noah E. Petro, 3636 Ransom Pl., Alexandria VA 22306, npetro@gmail.com Class Co-Presidents: Jodi Winterton Cobb, 118 High St., Newburyport MA 01950, jodimcobb@hotmail .com; Kate Hagstrom Lepore, 26A Burts Pit Rd., Northampton MA 01060, khlepore@gmail.com

Mollie Chamberlain is a teacher in the Lexington, Mass., school system, and Greg Hurley ’02 is a history teacher at Malden High School. They were married Aug. 14, 2010.... Anna Churchill is raising two kids in Belmont, Mass., while working and trying to find time for hobbies.... Jen Crawford works full time at the Massachusetts State House as the general counsel for the Joint Committee on Financial Services while also finishing a master’s in environmental science at UMass Boston. “After graduating from law school, I felt the tug toward academia and hoped that this new endeavor would help me work toward my goal of once again working in environmental law and policy.”... Erin Flynn Dow is the international student adviser at Worcester (Mass.) Academy. She and Christopher Dow were married in October 2009.... Elizabeth Kaplan Frew lives with husband Jason in New York City where she is a national account manager for Harper Collins Publishers. Their first child, Lauren Hannah Frew, was born in May 2010.... John Payne was named to the board of Wood River Health Services in Rhode Island. He is a real estate and probate attorney at Payne and Payne in Westerly, R.I.... NASA produced a profile and short educational video about planetary geologist Noah Petro, who works at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, where he studies the surface of airless bodies in space, primarily the moon. “I get to study data that no one has ever seen before,” he said. Gene Clough, longtime Bates faculty member who became Noah’s friend and guide, recalled meeting Noah during a classroom discussion of the geology of the moon. Noah introduced himself as being an enthusiastic fan of space exploration with plans to major in geology. “That day we began More alumni news and photos at community.bates.edu

a conversation about the geology of the moon that never stopped,” Gene said. The NASA profile noted that Noah, as a first-time father, “is looking forward to introducing Liam to the fun in science with the help of his wife,” Jennifer Giblin.

02 l reunion 2012, June 8–10 l

Class Secretary: Drew G. Weymouth, 7 Briarwood Rd., Rutland MA 01543, drew@weymouthtech.com Class President: Jason M. Surdukowski, Apt. 2, 91 School St., Concord NH 03301, surdukowski@ hotmail.com Rachel Beckhardt Hinchliffe is a project manager in the Environmental Defense Fund’s Corporate Partnerships Program, based in the organization’s Massachusetts office. She works with market-leading companies to create environmental improvements that make business sense.... Elizabeth Berkey, who has an M.B.A. and a master’s in public health from UC–Berkeley, started work with Monitor Group doing strategy consulting, then moved from New York to Paris where she’s living semi-permanently. Most of her work is within the healthcare industry.... Gabe Clark, owner of Cold Spring Ranch in North New Portland, was a panelist at a Maine economic development forum. He and others noted that more people are starting farms in Maine. “All you have to do is manage it right, and what you have sitting on the ground is a source of income,” said Gabe, whose farm raises grass-fed beef cattle and relies on Maine businesses for nearly all components of its operation. “Ninety percent of the money I spend goes to businesses in Maine. I want to directly support jobs with my business,” he said.... Kaiulani Kaneta is a manager in the academic marketing department at Random House Inc. Her husband, Jonathan Bowen, works as an associate production manager at the Guggenheim Museum.... Meg Nakamura recently helped open the World Seido Karate Organization’s newest location in Westchester, N.Y., an organization founded by her father, Kaicho T. Nakamura. “The essay I wrote for my Bates application noted the influence that my father had on my life through his karate philosophy and humanitarian side, and now I’m a part of it,” says Meg, who is the assistant to the managing director of the pro tennis operations of the United States Tennis Assn. in White Plains, N.Y. Last year she married Aaron Bouska, director of government and

community affairs for the Botanic Garden.... Jake Riley is a project scientist on the environmental science team of Stantec in Topsham, Maine.... Jen Stankiewicz survived Texas, tutoring teen parents to pass the high school TAKS exams and working at a museum, and now lives in upstate New York.... Moriah Taylor and Christopher Hess, married last year, have careers in the extreme-sport and hospitality industries, including repeated seasons as scuba instructors in the Caribbean.... Drew Weymouth is an assistant principal at Wachusett Regional High School. He and wife Lauralynn’s son, Tyler, is 1.... Tony Zerilli was named head coach of the Gloucester (Mass.) High School football team, one of the top high school football programs in New England. A Gloucester native, he was a Fishermen football captain in 1997.

03 l reunion 2013, June 7–9 l

Class Co-Presidents: Kirstin C. McCarthy, 1334 13th St. N.W., Washington DC 20005, kirstinmccarthy@ yahoo.com; Melissa Wilcox Yanagi, Unit 1, 20 Braddock Park, Boston MA 02116, melissa.yanagi@ staples.com Staci Bafford and her husband live in Baltimore.... Joseph Cleary teaches high school social studies in Brentwood, N.Y., and is the chief delegate for the Brentwood Teachers Assn.... Yuko Eguchi Wright is finishing her Ph.D. dissertation on Japanese geisha music and dance.... Danielle Matteau is executive director of marketing and public affairs for the New Hampshire Fisher Cats, Double A affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays. She oversees all marketing and community relations efforts, sells sponsorship opportunities, runs the internship program, and handles team related issues. Danielle has been nominated by the Eastern League as Rawlings Woman Executive of the Year the last three years.... Liam Ryan says he is “living the dream.”

04 l reunion 2014, June 6–8 l

Class Co-Presidents: Eduardo Crespo, Apt. 714, 33 Gold St., New York NY 10038, ecrespo@alumni .bates.edu; Tanya M.L. Schwartz, Unit 612, 1225 13th St. N.W., Washington DC 20005, tanyaschwartz@alumni.bates.edu

Stephanie Borges is a learning specialist at the Maret School, a K-12 college prep day school in Washington, D.C. “I’m dedicated to effectively contributing to the development of education policy that will empower teachers and students in all areas of education.”... After seven years with Bates admission, Jared Cash is now the scholarship director at the Sen. George J. Mitchell Institute in Portland.... Ramon Garcia moved to the Boston area to continue his career search.... Carrie Masur Gillispie is a contractor to the U.S. Department of Education working on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.... The Brattleboro (Vt.) Reformer praised the work of printmaker and painter Helen O’Donnell, who had an exhibit at the local Through The Music gallery. She learned her trade in Florence at the renowned print studio of Il Bisonte, and her most recent work shows “a great fluidity and ease of line, especially in the monotone prints.” Her Hay Field, one of the largest prints in the show, is “richly textured with warm blacks, umber or sienna. Some of the smaller prints in the show accomplish remarkable evocations of depth and atmosphere.”... After completing a master’s in public administration at Norwich, Michael Philbrick started training to become a full-time police officer with the Montpelier Police Department.... The Vermont weekly Seven Days featured the eclectic musical ensemble Wooden Dinosaur, co-founded by Michael Roberts, the principal songwriter, and vocalist-fiddler Katie Trautz. The group’s 2010 debut album Nearly Lost Stars boasts an array of stylistic touchstones. “When we explore country and folk music, all of the other music we listen to is never really far from mind,” Mike says. Wooden Dinosaur employs guitars, strings, horns, and organs to accent what the profile described as Mike’s “esoteric” songwriting. Katie and Mike have been playing together since meeting at Bates. She is a driving force behind Montpelier’s Summit School of Traditional Music and Culture, a communityoriented folk-music academy. Mike has been influenced by travels to Mongolia on a Fulbright, where he immersed himself in its rich folk heritage. “Just being around folk musicians in Mongolia and seeing how they approach their own music and musicianship made me look into American music more deeply,” he says.... Noah Sabich is completing a Ph.D. in Francophone literature with a specialization in indigenous Tahitian (Ma’ohi) works.... Congrats to class co-president Tanya Schwartz, who received the Distinguished Young Alumni Award from the

Growl. Moo. Love?

Bride Carrie Masur ’04 and her Bates buddies adopt the Bobcat fighting pose, while groom Sean Gillispie, Williams ’04, and his Eph friends flash an impromptu Purple Cow hook ’em sign at their wedding last October.

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Kim Hoffman ’04

A Real Life Saver For centuries, lost sailors clinging to lifeboats had to grapple with a terrible irony: Despite the ocean that surrounded them, they were very likely to die of dehydration. But an ingenious solution by Kim Hoffman ’04 may send the problem to the history books. As part of a project during her studies at San Francisco’s Academy of Art, Hoffman was asked to design a product for a survival situation. “I grew up sailing, so I immediately began thinking about disasters at sea,” she says. While products that turn saltwater into fresh are nothing new, Hoffman took another tack: Making the lifeboat itself integral to the desalination process. She came up with the award-winning SeaKettle, a tent-shaped life raft that provides shelter, buoyancy, and up to three liters of fresh water each day. Seawater is handpumped up to a reservoir atop the raft, where it evaporates, leaving the salt behind. The water vapor hits a top canopy and condenses, then flows down into side pockets in the raft from which passengers can drink. The simple design overcame complex challenges, such as preventing seawater in the

Alumni Council last fall. “I’m really shocked and humbled to receive this honor,” she said last fall in her acceptance remarks. “Giving back to Bates comes automatically and easily, because I’m giving back just a fraction of what Bates gave to me professionally and personally.” She counts as Bates mentors Dean of the Faculty Jill Reich, sociology professor Emily Kane, economist Michael Murray.... Dan Sieck joined the Manchester, N.H., law firm of McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton, Professional Assn. as an associate in its corporate department.... Sara Trace is a postdoctoral fellow in the psychiatry department at the Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.... Mara Mueller and Chris Urban, married last year, live in Oaxaca, Mexico. She is a school-based clinician; he teaches Spanish.

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By Erin Peterson reservoir from sloshing into the freshwater pockets during rough seas. By constructing a Gortex cover over the reservoir, the freshwater vapor could escape while keeping the seawater trapped in the reservoir. “In product design, creative problem-solving is what I find most exciting and rewarding,” she says. She entered the design into the James Dyson Awards, a competition created by the inventor of the cyclonic separation vacuum. Named a U.S. finalist, Hoffman finished second overall in the international competition. The best industrial designs go beyond aesthetics, providing elegant solutions to basic problems, explains Hoffman, a Bates physics major. “The goal is to really understand what causes a specific problem, look at it from the most basic level, and think of different ways to get to a better solution.” For now, Hoffman is not seeking to patent or produce the SeaKettle herself. More than a year has passed since she disclosed the design, which under law makes it hard to patent the invention. Which is not a problem, she says. The goal of designing the SeaKettle and entering the Dyson competition was to gain recognition for her design work. And that was a complete success: Hoffman is now doing medical design with the global electronics firm Philips. Stunning and practical products from companies like Apple continue to underscore the importance of industrial design, she says. “It’s not just a way for companies to generate more revenue,” she says. “People and companies have learned to fully appreciate the value of design.”

05 l reunion 2015, June 12–14 l

Class Co-Presidents: Lawrence J. Handerhan, 3915 23rd St., San Francisco CA 94114, larry.handerhan@ gmail.com; Sarah K. Neukom, 78 Westland Ave., 307, Boston MA 02115, sneukom@alumni.bates.edu Jackie Bowie works in Vermont as a substance abuse counselor for Phoenix House Foundation of New England.... Jessica Ciak and Jason Zopf were married Aug. 28, 2010. Both graduated from the Univ. of Pennsylvania in May, Jason with an M.D. and Jessica with a master’s in nursing.... The Boston Globe interviewed Katherine Creswell, who manages the organic garden at Bowdoin College and spent a month last fall eating only food from Maine. “There are lots of people in Maine researching how self-sufficient can we be, and I tried to answer that in my senior thesis

at Bates,” she told the Globe. “This was a first-hand investigation of that question.”A runner and triathlete, Katherine ate oatcakes, griddle corncakes, and toasted sunflower seeds as quick snacks and “felt really good physically.” Although she missed nuts and peanut butter especially, “if you wrap your head around not having all the choices, there is tons you can eat: grains, meat, milk, root crops. Seafood is available in the winter. Dried beans last all year.” And, she adds, “choosing a local product is supporting our neighbors and community”... Noah Davis lives in Brooklyn where he sees many Batesies, including Nate Purinton ’06. He covers media for Business Insider’s The Wire, and also covers the U.S. national team for Major League Soccer. Noah is involved in a number of adult intramural leagues, including soccer and football, trying to equal his 2005 IM championship titles in both sports. He frequently wears his IM championship shirts to intimidate opponents. It works, infrequently.... Ashley Dunham is studying nutrition at Tufts Univ. and completing a dietetic internship at Tufts Medical Center.... Austin Faison works at Zix Corp. in Burlington, Mass. He graduated Pi Sigma Alpha from Northeastern Univ. with a master’s in public administration.... Josh Grubman and Rebecca Garrison were married in October 2010. They have a daughter, Quinn, and live in Boston where Josh works as an attorney.... Andy Haserlat played the Scarecrow in a new touring production of The Wizard of Oz. He’s always related mostly to the Scarecrow, he told the Springfield (Mass.) Republican. “I have a cartoony personality in real life, and it fits very well with his character on stage.... It’s important for me as an actor to portray for the audience that although brainless, he is the most caring and most loving of all of them.”... Dave Hurley is in a doctoral program in counseling and sport psychology at Boston Univ. He rang in New Year’s reliving Bates memories with Noah Davis in Brooklyn and delivered a well-received best man speech at the wedding of brother Greg ’02. He often puts up double-doubles playing power forward for his rec league basketball team but misses IM hoops in Alumni Gym.... Ben Leoni graduated magna cum laude from Vermont Law School with a concentration in environmental law and got a job at the Portland law firm of Curtis Thaxter. His legal peerreviewed article won Vermont Law Review’s writing competition and was nominated for the national Burton Awards for Legal Writing. He’s stoked to be back in Maine and hanging with Adam Soule and Brian Dupee ’06.... Kevin Madden works in the Boston office of Bingham McCutchen LLP as a first-year associate... Meredith Maller and Benjamin Strahl eloped to Las Vegas last year and plan to honeymoon in Thailand after finishing their respective graduate programs.... Jess Otis defended her Ph.D. in physiology, with a focus of fat metabolism, gastrointestinal and hibernation physiology, at the Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison and accepted a post-doctoral fellowship at the Carnegie Institution in Baltimore.... Sarah Paruolo continues graduate studies in Caribbean and U.S. Latino literature at Stony Brook Univ. in New York where she teaches in the comparative literature and women’s and gender studies departments. She looks forward to more Brooklyn-based adventures with Larry Handerhan.... Jason Rafferty completed a master’s of public health in maternal and child health and is now working on a master’s of education in human development and psychology at Harvard. He’s also returning to Harvard Medical School to finish his medical degree with aspirations to continue into pediatric practice.... Megan Richardson works in the marketing department at Camden National Bank. She and her boyfriend live in Northport, Maine, where she writes poetry and a weekly beauty blog.... Alison Roberts got her Maine K–8 teaching certification through the Univ. of New England. She was a student-teacher in a fifth-grade class in Lisbon.... Dan Ryan is a paralegal specialist for Michienzie & Sawin in Boston. His wife, Nicole Couto, is a claims analyst for ProMutual Group.... Annie Whiting ’06 and Sean Siff, married last year, live in Somerville,

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Mass. She is a registered nurse at Mass General in Boston; he is a marketing manager for iRacing. com.... Christopher van der Lugt finished an M.B.A. at Northeastern and now works at Denneen & Co., a growth marketing firm in Boston. “Looking forward to enjoy some time on the Cape this summer and seeing fellow Batesies around the state and nation.”... Allison Wensley returned to Bates to give a chemistry seminar.... Diana Wilkinson is pursuing an M.B.A. with a focus on environmental sustainability at George Washington Univ. She moved from New York where she led the research effort for the sustainability practice group at an executive search firm. She plays soccer and basketball regularly.

Family Crisis Services in Portland as an advocate for incarcerated women, organized an exhibition at Chase Hall Gallery entitled More Than a Rap Sheet, featuring the poetry and portraits of women prisoners.... Emily Williams is finishing training to be a certified nurse midwife.

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Molly Balentine lives in Ann Arbor and works in the outpatient physical and occupational therapy department through the Univ. of Michigan Health System. She ran in the 2011 Boston Marathon.... Jenna Barzelay is a special assistant to the U.S. trade representative, Ambassador Ron Kirk. When not traveling for her job, she lives in a group house in D.C. with Chris Foster ’07 and Alex Seitz-Wald.... Brendan Brodeur is a law student at New England School of Law in Boston.... As a policy analyst with the National Academy for State Health Policy in Portland, Maine, Jason Buxbaum thinks a lot about how federal health reform will affect states. In March, he ran into Zachary Lapin at a Jamba Juice during a layover at O’Hare.... Alissa Horowitz dances professionally and teaches dance to kids in the NYC area.... Portland Press Herald columnist Steve Solloway caught up with Matt Dunlap at the U.S. Cross Country Championships at Rumford’s Black Mountain. While technology has changed much about Nordic racing, Solloway wrote, the sport “has kept its soul.” To which Matt, assistant coach of the Univ. of Alaska ski team, added, “Everyone cares about each other.” (The Alaska head coach is Scott Jerome ’93.)... A widely published AP story described how Alexander “Zand” Martin paddled rivers, lakes, and other waterways during his 4,300-mile cross-country canoe trip that ended at Portland’s East End Beach last fall. Of the 130 or so weeks since graduation, “I’ve spent 98 weeks in a sleeping bag on the ground,” he wrote in his blog, either as a NOLS leader or on his canoeing adventure. “On time off, I visit friends and live their lives for a short time.” He’s now in New Zealand leading NOLS whitewater and hiking expeditions.... Missy Shaw worked as the location coordinator for both the recent season of NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice and Showtime’s second season of The Big C with Laura Linney, airing later this year.... Anna Stockwell is a web editorial assistant at the culinarytravel magazine Saveur, which specializes in essays about various world cuisines.... Patrick Whalen is working on a master’s in European affairs at Lund Univ. in Lund, Sweden.... Christine Wicks, who teaches at AppleTree Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., earned a master’s in early childhood special education from Johns Hopkins. She lives in D.C. with Lily Rossow-Greenberg, Erin Kelly, Becky Rubenstein, and Sophia Brown ’09.

Class Co-Presidents: Chelsea M. Cook, Apt. 313, 4607 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Washington DC 20008, chelsea.m.cook@gmail.com; Katharine M. Nolan, 3188 Hillsboro Pike, Nashville TN 37215, knolan@alumni.bates.edu; John P. Ritzo, 15 Howard St., Portland ME 04101, jritzo@energycircle.com Matt Chudomel, now at UMass­–Amherst, returned to Bates to give a chemistry seminar.... South Florida Gay News columnist Dan Woog profiled two-time NCAA champion hammer thrower Keelin Godsey, who gave props to Bates people like professor Erica Rand and coach Jay Hartshorn, who “was awesome” as Keelin made the transition to being identified as a male in 2005. “She asked all kinds of questions about how she could support me,” Keelin said. “She made sure I didn’t have to deal with any intrusions. She helped me talk to the team, and always stood up for me.” And, Keelin adds, “she never messed up my pronouns.”... Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer appointed Amanda Harrow to the Small Business Health Insurance Pool Board. Amanda, who lives in Helena, is the director of the Montana Small Business Alliance.... Marie Hemmelgarn Mueller and Zachary happily returned to Maine and live in Portland. She graduated from Boston College Law School in 2010 and moved up to join Zack, who is attending medical school at the Univ. of New England. They were married in 2010... Cali Lanza-Weil is a student at the George Washington Univ. School of Law. She’s interning this summer at the Alexandria (Va.) public defender’s office.... Jonathan MacMartin and Allison Marcoux announced their engagement. J.Z. works as an adjudicator for the state of Massachusetts; Allison is the managing director of Readak Educational Services in Acton.... Jenna Cook and Joe McDermott were married last year. She teaches art at Ashland (Mass.) Middle School. He works at BlackRock in Boston.... Ty Schmelz is head coach of boys basketball at Ranney School in Tinton Falls, N.J. Since 2007, he has also been head coach of Sea View Jeep in the semi-professional Jersey Shore Basketball League.... Jeremiah Vernon works for Site Structures, a landscaping design and installation company in Eliot, Maine. His wife, Nicole Aronski, teaches Spanish at Exeter (N.H.) High School. They live in New Hampshire, where they are starting an organic farm.

07 l reunion 2012, June 8–10 l

Class Co-Presidents: Keith D. Kearney Jr., 3013 Sunset Ln., Suitland MD 20746, kdkearney@gmail.com; Rakhshan Zahid, Apt. 2B, 350 West 18th St., New York NY 10011, rakhshan.zahid@gmail.com Matt Dillon joined the Brooklyn sales staff of Massey Knakal Realty Services as an associate.... Alyson Ginter was inducted into the Gilford (N.H.) High School Athletic Hall of Fame for her soccer, alpine and Nordic skiing, and tennis achievements. She still holds the Gilford record for most career points in soccer. She’s working on a doctorate in physical therapy at Franklin Pierce Univ.... Since finishing an M.S. in biology, Gabriela Munoz has been searching for a job in her field.... Jenny Stasio, who works for

08 l reunion 2013, June 7–9 l

Class Co-Presidents: Elizabeth Murphy, Apt. 601, 1931 North Cleveland St., Arlington VA 22209, elizabeth.jayne.m@gmail.com; Alison Schwartz, Apt. 904, 2351 Eisenhower Ave., Alexandria VA 22314, alisonrose.schwartz@gmail.com

09 l reunion 2014, June 6–8 l

Class Co-Presidents: Timothy S. Gay, 88 Hancock St., Cambridge, MA 02139, timothy.s.gay@gmail .com; Arsalan Suhail, Unit 1002, 1306 Lucas Ave., St. Louis MO 63103, arsalansuhail@gmail.com The Daily Mirror of Sri Lanka profiled Sulo Dissanayake, who used her Watson year abroad to study theater traditions in Indonesia and South Africa. Asked why she returned to Sri Lanka knowing that performing arts is not a viable career option in the country, she said that besides her family, “I knew that I can make much more of a change here instead of working in another country. We are at an extremely important time in the country, there’s more of a demand here and with demand there should be supply,” she said.... In February, Nordic standout Sylvan Ellefson was the surprise winner of the Boulder Mountain Tour in near-record time. “I’ve

never even led a race before!” Sylvan said of his first post-Bates victory. After the race, Sylvan immediately sought out former teammate and fellow competitor John Reuter ’08, who offered hearty congrats. Sylvan ranked 16th nationally at the end of 2011.... Active in the Maine League of Young Voters, Emma Halas-O’Connor weighed in against proposed Maine legislation, ultimately passed into law, that requires voters to have a photo ID that reflects their current residency and eliminates Maine’s same-day registration policy. The changes, among other things, make it harder for non-resident college students to vote in Maine. Noting that voter participation among young people has declined for 30 years, she said that “we need policies that encourage participation instead of creating obstacles.”... Matej Kenda is working on a master’s at Georgetown’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies.... The Baltimore Sun interviewed Patrick O’Brien for its campaign season story about the people, known as trackers, on both parties who follow candidates from stop to stop recording their public comments. A tracker for the Maryland Democratic party, Patrick followed Republican gubernatorial candidate Robert Ehrlich Jr., who called Patrick a “nice kid” who should be given a Starbucks gift card to keep him awake during all the events he attended.... Now in his second season with the Boston Bruins, Jeremy Rogalski was promoted to video analyst.... Jessie Sawyer is a local editor for Patch, an online, community-specific news and information platform. In a recent column she reflected on speaking to students at Avon High School, noting that “if I never asked the questions I did and didn’t fight the fears that questions can sometimes create, I never would have gone to Bates and majored in English, I would have stayed home instead of going abroad, and I would not have advanced in the journalism field.”... Liz Thompson works as an external affairs assistant at her alma mater Carrabassett Valley Academy, a prep school at Sugarloaf Mountain with a focus on competitive skiing/snowboarding. A member of its alpine women’s team in high school, she was the first Bates women’s alpine skier to qualify for the NCAAs in all four years.... Thomas Wesson is an actor in New York City with two full-length movies coming out this year. He also does off-Broadway theater.

10 l reunion 2015, June 12–14 l

Class Co-Presidents: Brianna R. Bakow, 28 Percy Rd., Lexington MA 02421, bbakow@bates.edu; Vantiel Elizabeth Duncan, Apt. 1063, 30 Third Ave., Brooklyn NY 11217, vantielelizabeth.duncan@ gmail.com

Maxwell Berger is a market analyst with Chatham Partners in Waltham, Mass.... Chomba Kaluba returned to Bates to talk about his work with a Zambian nonprofit organization that he founded and directs. He launched the Kachlite Foundation to empower communities to help themselves through sustainable microfinance projects involving livestock and agriculture. The foundation also promotes literacy as a tool to wipe out hardship and bring sustainable development and peace.... Josh Linscott is working on a Ph.D. in pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medical College.... Jean McIntyre received a fellowship to earn a master’s in computational science at William & Mary, after which she intends to seek work as a researcher or computer programmer in business or industry.... Kaleigh Pare is working on a master’s in museum studies at Harvard.... Marilla Pender-Cudlip is working in the Laboratory for Lipid Medicine and Technology, under Dr. Jing X. Kang at Harvard Medical School and Mass General. The lab studies the health effects of omega-3 fatty acids, how they work, and how genetic technologies can be used to further their benefits.... Harry Poole joined Shamrock Sports Group as the account manager for USA Ski Jumping.... Ariela Silberstein was living and working in Spain until June.... Brendan Small works for Digitas, a digital advertising firm and the largest ad firm in Boston. FALL 2011   Bates 55

T H E B AT E S W EDDI NG Please email your high-resolution digital Bates group wedding photo to magazine@bates.edu. Please identify all people and their class years, and include the wedding date, location, and any other news. Wedding photos are published in the order received.

FRIEDMAN ’04 AND GAGNE ’04 Rebekah Friedman ’04 and Matt Gagne ’04, Nov. 6, 2010, Seven Hills Inn, Lenox, Mass. Front: Laura Nafe ’04, Adam Crossman ’04, Catherine Crosby ’04, Meredith Katter ’04; middle: Pete Cimini ’04, Meg Helms Cimini ’04, Evan Mason ’04, Matt and Rebekah, Jordan Upton ’04, Sandy Rubin Upton ’04; back: Kim Hoffman ’04, Mike Lopez ’04, Jennifer Coty Frizzell ’04, Jeff Davis ’04, Molly Watson ’04, Ryan Deery ’02, Lynn Worthy ’04, Mark Ribeiro ’04.

JAIN ’02 AND PORTER ’02 Vanita Jain ’02 and Kevin Porter ’02, Aug. 15, 2009, Bedford Village Inn, Bedford, N.H. Front: Sudha Gollapudi ’02, Leah Battaglioli ’02, Rayann Dionne ’02, SooAe Jones ’04, Laura Medina-Fitt ’02, Vanita and Kevin, Jason Pinkham ’02, Laurel Col ’02, Stephanie Eby ’02, Lauren Bonenberger O’Neil ’04, Ryan Fitzgerald ’02, Michaela Tiffany ’02, Dominick Pangallo ’03, Kristin Smith Pangallo ’02, Shannon Patinkin ’03, Bill Hart ’02, Jon Bognacki ’04, Kate Dockery ’02, Matt Dominici ’02, Mark Powers ’03, Sam Huleatt ’02, Chris Jones ’02, Chris Hurld ’00, Scott O’Neil ’02, John Merriman ’02, Shane Delaney ’02, Matt Meyers ’02, Jake Riley ’02, Alex Wilson ’02, Ben Donaldson ’02, Ben Lamanna ’02.

CIAK ’05 AND ZOPF ’05 Jessica Ciak ’05 and Jason Zopf ’05, Aug. 28, 2010, Lake Winnipesaukee, N.H. Matt Daly ’05, Brittny Somley ’05, Karina Reynolds ’05, Jeff Kowaleski ’05, Jason and Jessica, Alexey Cherniack ’05, Eve Wilder ’05, Dan Neems ’05.

CHEW ’01 AND MASTRAPASQUA Carolyn Chew ’01 and Marco Mastrapasqua, Aug. 21, 2010, Clos La Chance Winery, San Martin Calif. Marco, Navneet Gautem, Joselle DeocampoGautem ’01, Erica Hugo, Tom Lin ’01, Carolyn.

HEMMELGARN ’06 AND MUELLER ’06 Marie Hemmelgarn ’06 and Zachary Mueller ’06, Aug. 6, 2010, The Log Cabin, Holyoke, Mass. Front: Derek DiGregorio ’06, Adam Worrall ’06; middle: Matt Moretti ’06, Marie and Zachary, Nichole Scott ’06, Sarah Abbott ’06; back: Kathryn Somers ’06, Donovan Driscoll ’06, Zachary Kernan ’06, Connor Boyle ’06, Sean Caplice ’06, Chris Palsho ’06, Adam Tokarz ’06, Margaret Forbes ’06, Amanda Grillo ’06, Jesse Robbins ’06.

SULLIVAN ’04 AND STREKEL ’04 Courtney Sullivan ’04 and Alex Strekel ’04, July 24, 2010, Stowe, Vt. Front: Courtney and Alex; back: Seamus Collins ’04, Jonas Sherr ’03, Michael Lopez ’04, Josh Eddinger ’01; middle: Nour Ziyadeh ’04, Alyssa Rollins ’04, Brooke Beebe ’04, Maya Dutt ’04, Julia McQuade ’04, Toby Pinn ’04, Anne Wrigley Collins ’04, Ann Pickard Eddinger ’04, Kristen Houghton ’04, Jaime Morgenstern ’04.

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SLEEPER ’05 AND CRESSEY Anna Sleeper ’05 and Eric Cressey, Oct. 3, 2010, Nonantum Resort, Kennebunkport, Maine. Standing: Danny Dodson ’05, Eric and Anna, Kelsey Barrett ’05, Larry Handerhan ’05, Julia Sleeper ’08, Patrick Williams ’11; sitting: Caitlin Hurley ’05, Sarah Neukom ’05.

ROSBERG AND CLEARY ’99 Jordis Rosberg (Amherst ’99) and Ian Cleary ’99, Aug. 7, 2010, Damariscotta, Maine. Kevin Carpenter ’02, John Nesbitt ’99, Alexandra Cherubini ’99, Karl Andersen ’99, Jordis and Ian, Tom Tucker ’99, Pete Putignano ’99, Christoph Stutts ’00, Rachel Walls ’99.

MASUR ’04 AND GILLISPIE Carrie Masur ’04 and Sean Gillispie (Williams ’04), Oct. 2, 2010, Glen Echo Park, Glen Echo, Md. Meredith Nutting ’04, Julie Gage ’04, Tory Peterson ’04, Beth Greene ’04, Sean and Carrie, Nikki Schulman ’05, Sara Trace ’04, Matt Baline ’04, Catie Hinckley Kelley ’04, Jon Kelley ’04, Scott Lombardi ’04.

PRALLE ’88 AND TAIT Jill Pralle ’88 and Trevor Tait, July 31, 2010. Anna Gailitis Strout ’88, Jill, Jennifer Boucher Jameson ’88, Lee Corkhill ’88.

HAMILTON ’06 AND HEMPSTEAD Megan Hamilton ’06 and Mark Hempstead, July 30, 2010, Portsmouth, N.H. Carolyn Court, Marcia Reinauer ’06, Amy Hempstead ’04, Megan and Mark, Joanna Good ’06, Elizabeth Scannell ’07, Lillian Nayder.

GORDON ’05 AND WEEKS Elizabeth Gordon ’05 and William Weeks, Oct. 1, 2010, Old Saybrook, Conn. Jess Perrie ’05, John Anderson ’04, Johanna Nolan Anderson ’05, Elizabeth and William, Elisabeth Wagoner ’05, Dalia Mechanic ’06, Elise Duggan ’05.

STERZEL ’04 AND MEANS ’04 Hanna Sterzel ’04 and Chip Means ’04, Sept. 18, 2010, Kingsley Pines, Raymond, Maine. Front: Ben Peck ’05, Dana DiGiando ’04, Jon Croteau ’05, Hanna and Chip, Dom Lambek ’04, Karen Moore Lambek ’04; middle: Matthew Fox Rosler ’05, Peter Pawlick ’05, Adrian Cohen ’07, Meg Taylor ’05, Ian Jones ’04, Carrie Smith ’04, Abbie Harris ’04, Lizzie Anson ’04, Will Gluck ’04, Andrew Stone ’04; back: Mark Boccard ’06, Charlie Hely ’07, Andy Peters ’05, Aaron Baker ’05, Jeff Marion ’04.

JURGA ’05 AND TORTORICI ’05 Sara Jurga ’05 and Paul Tortorici ’05, Sept. 17, 2010, Nonantum Resort, Kennebunkport, Maine. Front: Kara Jacob ’05, Laurie Lau Layton ’05, Tiffany Tropino Soriano ’05, Carrie Garber ’05, Sara and Paul, Joshua Grubman ’05, Melissa Pomeranz ’05, Jayme Hennessy ’05, Stacy Layton ’05; back: Ben Morley ’05, Ryan Williamson ’03, Joe Clough ’05, Russell Anderson ’05, Chris van der Lugt ’05, Gary Piandes ’99, Matt Bognacki ’05, Leslie Ishizuka ’05. FALL 2011   Bates 57

V I TA L STATS

Who, What, Where, When? To have your news included in this marriages and births/adoptions compendium, please email alumni@bates.edu or magazine@bates.edu with complete information, including full names and dates.

Marriages 1994

1991

Lisl Warren and Peter Carr, David Carr, Dec. 12, 2010

Angela Cheng and Eric Eckelman, Oct. 2, 2010 Courtney Fleisher and Peter Schmidtke, Sept. 5, 2010 Gretchen Fricke and Jason Grant, Feb. 26, 2011

1992

1997

1993

Kimberly Steimel and Paul A. Howard II, April 2010

1999

Jordis Rosberg and Ian Cleary, August 2010 Jessica Oas and William Charles Welch, Sept. 25, 2010 Signe Rogers and Jeff Ulsamer, August 2010

2000

Mona Ghazi-Moghadam and Andrew Dudek, Nov. 6, 2009 Lauren Nichols and Nick Gurnon ’01, Nov. 6, 2010

2001

Sarah Wilson ’02 and Mark Annotto, Oct. 10, 2010 Anne Bower and Sean Saddler, July 10, 2010 Mollie Chamberlain and Greg Hurley ’02, Aug. 14, 2010 Erin Flynn and Christopher Dow, October 2009

2002

SooAe Shaneyfelt ’04 and Christopher M. Jones, July 17, 2010 Kaiulani Kaneta and Jonathan Bowen, Aug. 30, 2010 Meg Nakamura and Aaron Bouska, Oct. 10, 2010 Moriah Taylor and Christopher Hess, Oct. 9, 2010

Alison Oakes Charbonnier and Peter Charbonnier, Daniel Ray, June 14, 2010 Karen Gleason Graham and Nicholas Graham, Wyatt Winston Graham, June 9, 2010 Sarah Woodard and Liam Flynn, Asher Charles Flynn, Aug. 21, 2010

1994

Jill Shahverdian and Drew Woods, Marcus Shahverdian Woods and Oscar Shahverdian Woods, July 2, 2009

1995

Sarah Goff Wilson and Scott Wilson, Gray William Wilson, Nov. 23, 2010 Kirstin Schantzenbach Powers and James Powers, Chase Cameron, May 21, 2010

1996

Phyllis Paparazzo-Skloff and Robert Skloff, Russell Owen Skloff, Aug. 1, 2010 Margaux D’Auteuil Peabody ’97 and Mark Peabody, Ayler Peabody, June 2010

1997

Tricia Monteforte and Sean Cahill, Oct. 10, 2010 Marie Hemmelgarn and Zachary Mueller, Aug. 6, 2010 Catherine Pautsch and Keith Hengen, July 31, 2010 Jenna Cook and Joe McDermott, July 10, 2010 Nicole Aronski and Jeremiah Vernon, Sept. 18, 2010

Christy Ballantyne Doxsee and Josh Doxsee, Amelia Elizabeth Doxsee, Jan. 13, 2011 Susannah Bothe and Robert Rogers, Finley Bothe Rogers, Sept. 25, 2010 Sharleen Davis-Ruiz and Jose Ruiz, Shayla Isabel Ruiz, April 2010 Lucy Fowler Glasson and Travis Glasson, Hilary Caroline Glasson, July 2, 2010 Katie McQuilkin Garnett and William Garnett, Henry Garnett, Feb. 16, 2011 Neha Hewitt and Aaron Hewitt, Rakhi Priya Hewitt, March 12, 2011 KC Hinkley Hubeny and Brad Hubeny, Logan Thomas Hubeny, Oct. 13, 2010 Anne Innis and William Innis, Katherine Skye Innis, September 2010 Anne-Marie Miller Treat and Ben Treat ’98, Samuel Whittier Miller Treat, Nov. 2, 2010 Kate Renyi and Chris Renyi, Andrew Wyatt Renyi, Dec. 31, 2010 Julie Herlihy and Thomas Tadros, Matilda Jane Tadros, Feb. 17, 2011 Lauren Templeton and John Templeton, Claire N. and Sara M. Templeton, Nov. 3, 2009 Jennifer Van Gelder and Gregory Gallagher, Tucker James Gallagher, Feb. 11, 2011 Mary Wilson White ’98 and Jonathan White, Josie White, Aug. 14, 2009

2007

1998

2003

Laura Griffith and Seth Kurlinski ’04, Aug. 21, 2010 Elizabeth Helen Drew and Alan Hunt, Sept. 11, 2010

2004

Ali Pincus and Jason Jacobs, Jan. 15, 2011 Samantha Pratt-Heaney ’05 and Matthew Wu, Aug. 28, 2010 Mara Mueller and Chris Urban, Sept. 18, 2010

2005

Jessica Ciak and Jason Zopf, Aug. 28, 2010 Rebecca Garrison and Josh Grubman, October 2010 Meredith Maller and Benjamin Strahl, November 2010 Nicole Couto and Dan Ryan, July 31, 2010 Annie Whiting ’06 and Sean Siff, Feb. 27, 2010 Anna Sleeper and Eric Cressey, Oct. 3, 2010

2006

Courtney O’Farrell and Matthew Shirley, Sept. 19, 2010

Births and Adoptions 1983

Karen Quintal and Doug Quintal, Leah Grace Quintal, Aug. 28, 2009

1988

Charlotte Alex Maguire and Kevin Maguire, Matthew William Maguire, April 14, 2010 Vanessa Ince and William Scott Kinzer, Alexis Keaomalamaokahikina Kinzer, Jan. 13, 2010

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Rebecca Swearingen ’99 and Alan Brown, Nathaniel Alan Brown, May 5, 2010 Christine Lear and Mark Lear, William Leonard Lear, Oct. 22, 2010 Adria Merrill Townley and Ian Townley, Zora M. Townley, July 10, 2010

1999

Jennifer Allard Zilinski and Daniel Zilinski, Emma Zilinski, September 2010 Kristin Anton and Brian Anton, Jack and Alexandra Anton, Nov. 24, 2010 Jennifer Lemkin Bouchard and Ryan Bouchard ’01, Avery Katherine Bouchard, Feb. 12, 2011

Molly Brownwood Gerster and Brennan Gerster, Bradbury Brennan Gerster, June 25, 2010 Kam Clark Davies and Michael Davies, Sabina Rose Davies, Jan. 7, 2011 Lisa DeMatteo Fields and Chris Fields, Ian Christopher Fields, Sept. 3, 2010 Meghan Dougherty Hoffman and Adam Hoffman, Amelia Hoffman, November 2010 Becki Gasior Altman and Greg Altman, Matty Altman, August 2010 Elizabeth McKnight Hickey and Brian Hickey, Evelyn S. Hickey, July 1, 2010 Sara Mayer Corman and Neil Corman, Paul Henry Corman, Dec. 30, 2010 Honor Hubbard and Josh Rosenblum, Lillian Eve Rosenblum, Jan. 19, 2011 Christin Sanders and Eric Sanders, Madeline Claire Sanders, Nov. 28, 2010 Jennifer Daigle and Greg Sundik, Alexander Gregory Sundik, Oct. 28, 2010 Dagny Kimberly and Adnan Yousuf, Montana Yousuf, March 27, 2009

2000

Jamie Homer Bruce and Ben Bruce ’02, Avery Katherine Bruce, Jan. 21, 2011 Leslie Moser Howes ’02 and Joshua Howes, Penelope Bray Howes, May 21, 2010 Cindy Kilbourne Baczewski and Joe Baczewski, Joseph Zygfryd Baczewski, Oct. 25, 2010 Bernadette Shaw and Ben Shaw, Samantha Ann Shaw, March 2011

2001

Jessica Ames Balicki and Scott Balicki, Nicholas Balicki, Sept. 16, 2010 Krista Anderson Mostoller and Matthew Mostoller, Maren Breen Mostoller, April 30, 2010 Jodi Winterton Cobb and Miles Lee Warrington Cobb, Anderson Redley Cobb, Feb. 5, 2011 Lila Solomon and Timothy Gagne, Eleanor Hannah Gagne, Aug. 17, 2010 Elizabeth Kaplan Frew and Jason Frew, Lauren Hannah Frew, May 2010 Laura Lent Schmidt and Kevin Schmidt, Alysse Schmidt, Sept. 14, 2010 Ian Lyon and Christopher Lyon, Oliver J. Lyon, Oct. 4, 2010 Nicola Meyer Orlov and Adam Orlov, Lilah Dee Orlov, May 15, 2010

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Aaron Millhiser and Ross Millhiser, Jasset Millhiser, Aug. 16, 2009; Winslow Millhiser, Dec. 16, 2010

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Kara Banigan Mertz and Gregory Mertz, Amaia Banigan Mertz, Feb. 20, 2011 Diana Birney Pooley and Matthew S. Pooley ’05, Nathan Samuel Pooley, Dec. 21, 2010

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Edited by Christine Terp Madsen ’73 1926 Virginia Whittier Ames, June 6, 2001 At a time when women were forced to choose between marriage and a career, Ginny Ames chose career all three times she could have married. A history major, she taught at Aroostook Normal School (now UMaine–Presque Isle) for 17 years before completing a master’s and doctorate in education at NYU and joining the faculty at Douglass College (now part

of Rutgers). She started as an assistant professor of hygiene and physical education, and became the head of the department before retirement 21 years later. She had shown her athletic ability while at the College: She lettered in soccer and tennis, earned her “B,” served on the athletic board, captained the hockey team and the hiking group, and managed the basketball team. She chose Bates over the Institute of Musical Art (now Juilliard), the better to prepare for a career. She continued playing violin and viola (and golf) well into her 80s. 1929 Libby Rachel Goldman, Jan. 5, 2011 Born in Lithuania, Libby Goldman moved to Auburn when she was 3 because a relative had written her family that they could buy a house for cheap. The relative had actually written that one could buy a horse for cheap, but the move worked out well. She was encouraged by a junior high school principal to go on to college; her parents had set aside money for all three children to get started in life, but her brothers gave up their shares to make Bates possible for her. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in French, and taught Latin, French, and algebra for one year at Jay High School. She hated it. She enrolled in business school, but the same high school principal stepped in again. She promised that if Libby taught at her school, she would like it. And indeed she did; she taught at that junior high school and then at Edward Little High School for the next 40 years. After retiring in 1971, she traveled extensively. At her 100th birthday celebration, she credited her longevity to a string of “nevers.” She never smoked, never drank, never learned to drive (all the walking kept her fit), never got married, never gave advice. “I just love people,” she told the Sun Journal. “I think that’s what kept me living. I love so many I don’t want to leave them.” She also prayed daily to “have the good sense to enjoy whatever is enjoyable” and to be given “the courage to take all the hard things.” She is survived by nieces, nephews, and cousins, among them Fran Morrill Schlitt, to whom she was especially close. 1930 Norma Merrill Harvey, March 15, 2007 Norma Merrill Harvey received a nursing degree from Central Maine General in 1933 and taught nursing at hospitals in Virginia, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Maryland. She retired in 1965. Her husband, Marshall Harvey, predeceased her. 1931 Lorna McKenney Brown, April 28, 2002 A French major, Lorna McKenney Brown was active in Lambda Alpha at Bates, serving as its secretary, vice president, and finally president. She married Theodore M. Brown ’32 shortly after graduation; he died in 1973. Her daughter, also deceased, was Margaret Brown Bondaruk ’54, whose husband, John Bondaruk ’54, survives. Her late sister was Charlotte McKenney Parker ’35. 1932 Vesta Brown Mitchell, Oct. 3, 2010 An English and Latin major, she sought employment in Texas and New Jersey after graduation, but returned home to Maine with perfect timing: She ran into her childhood friend and Bates classmate Elmer Mitchell while renewing her teacher’s license at Portland City Hall. They married two years later; he passed away in 1998. She taught briefly before her marriage, and worked in banking after her two daughters, Lynne Ramsey and Diane Welch, were grown. They survive her, as do four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. 1933 Dawn Elizabeth Orcutt, Nov. 25, 2010 Her college career cut short by the Depression, Dawn Orcutt remained close to Bates and her classmates. She taught school briefly in her hometown,

Lithuanian-born LIBBY GOLDMAN ’29 and her family moved to Auburn after a relative wrote that they could buy a house for cheap. The relative actually wrote horse for cheap, but the move worked out well. Ashland, before working as a stenographer at Sears and at Old Town Canoe. During World War II, she was a stenographer and clerk for the war department. She moved to New York City in 1954, where she was the executive secretary of Housing Security Inc. She retired to Millinocket in 1975, where she worked for the Millinocket Times. She regaled cousins, nieces, and nephews with her “joke of the week” from her home there. She is survived by many of them, including Ryan Spring ’98. 1935 Grant Milton Dixey, Jan. 29, 2011 Grant Dixey was a urologist in the Boston area and became chief of the department of urology at Boston Univ., from which he earned his medical degree. He served as president of the New England section of the American Urology Assn. and as president of the medical staff at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, Mass. He and his wife, Eleanor, owned a ski lodge in New Hampshire. Shortly before his 50th Reunion, he was making plans to resume skiing following knee surgery. “If there were an opportunity for a second time around the track,” he said, “I would be most happy to grasp it.” An avid fisherman and golfer, he was a member of three golf clubs. His wife predeceased him. Survivors include daughter Pamela Abbott; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Louise Williams Sweetser, June 8, 2010 Louise Williams Sweetser credited Bates with finding her a husband: “If I hadn’t gone to Bates, I wouldn’t have gone to Presque Isle to teach, where I met my husband.” An English major, she remained involved with literature throughout her life. She was a trustee of the Ipswich (Mass.) library for over 25 years, and was active in the library at her summer home in Dennisport, Mass. She also co-owned a bookstore in Ipswich for a number of years. She was active in DAR and in Eastern Star, where she was a 50year member. Her husband, Lawrence W. Sweetser, predeceased her. Survivors include daughters Carol Gilbert and Meredith Sweetser and brother Robert W. Williams III. 1936 Valeria Kimball Glaser, Dec. 20, 2010 Volleyball, archery, hockey, soccer, basketball, baseball — the list of sports that Val Kimball Glaser played while at Bates goes on and on. She served on the WAA Board and was its treasurer. She also served on numerous dance committees. In 1959, she earned a master’s in education from USC, supplementing her degree in Latin from the College. She taught Latin, English, and reading at high schools in Maine and California, retiring in 1969 when she married Leo Glaser. Together they traveled the U.S., enjoying time at their homes in Florida, California, and Maine. Survivors include nieces and nephews.

1937 Clara Marshall Whitney, April 22, 2010 Tommy Marshall Whitney lived in Nashua, N.H., for many years, where she taught at the Pilgrim Church and served as director of volunteers at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center. Survivors include daughter Judy Marzec and son Stephen Whitney; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Margaret Melcher Chamberlain, Sept. 13, 2010 Peg Melcher Chamberlain was deeply involved in Adelynrood, an Episcopal retreat and conference center for women in Byfield, Mass. She was chair of the chapel there for eight years. This work followed a career as a kindergarten teacher in Rhode Island; she also briefly taught English at South Portland High School. She married classmate George W. Chamberlain in 1942. Following retirement, they moved to Harpswell, where they raised sheep. George passed away in 1987. While a student, she was vice president of her class and of the WAA. As an alumna, she served as secretary of the Rhode Island Bates Club and as a class agent. Survivors include daughters Maralyn Fowler and Margaret Chamberlain; two grandchildren; a great-grandchild; sister Rosamond Melcher Toomey ’33; brother-inlaw William Chamberlain ’48; and nephew Garry Chamberlain ’67. Her late brother-in-law was Charles Toomey ’35. Granville Wallace Oakes, Nov. 17, 2010 For over 100 years, Bates has watched members of the Oakes family walk its campus. Granville Oakes was a member of the middle generation of five. His grandfather Henry graduated in 1877, his father Raymond in 1909. His sons graduated in the 1960s, and his grandchildren in the 1990s. He served as class president and as class agent for many years. His degree from Bates was in economics, which he supplemented with an M.B.A. from Harvard in 1939. The majority of his career was with Hartford Steel Ball, where he was a production manager. Later, he and wife Betty Stockwell Oakes ’37 opened a children’s clothing store, The Acorn Shop. Betty, herself part of a strong Bates family, passed away in 2000. He was active in several churches in the Hartford area, as well as the local soup kitchen and literacy program. He especially helped Laotian families resettle in Connecticut in the 1970s. Survivors include children Betsy Oakes, Peter Oakes ’66 and wife Sara Jones Oakes ’66, Raymond Oakes ’68 and wife Lynda Anastos ’67, and Robert Oakes; 11 grandchildren, including Kate Feiring ’93, Stacia Johnson ’91 and husband Kurt Johnson ’94, and Alison Oakes Charbonnier ’92; and 18 great-grandchildren. His late brothers were Robert ’49 and Henry ’32. Robert’s wife is Avon Cheel Oakes ’50, and their daughter is Thalie Kleijwegt ’79. 1938 Mary Chase Conover, Nov. 9, 2010 Mary Chase Conover’s love of chamber music was a constant. She retired as a math teacher in 1974 and then enjoyed a second career teaching and playing flute in a number of ensembles, some with her husband, Towne Conover. They especially enjoyed the Appalachian Mountain Club music committee, which organized events combining chamber music with skiing, hiking, and other AMC events. Shortly after World War II, she led an American Youth Hostel trip to Holland, Luxembourg, and France to rebuild hostels damaged by the war. When she returned, she worked briefly for AMC, where she met her husband. In 1990, she received the first exemplary citizen award from the Friends of Music of the Acton-Boxborough Regional High School. Alfred Lee Colesworthy, Jan. 15, 2011 Al Colesworthy thought nothing of skipping class for days at a time in 1936 to watch the flooding Androscoggin and its impact on the surrounding towns. His fascination with water — and anything

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you could use to travel on it — influenced his entire life. He vividly remembered watching as a 10-yearold the last six-masted schooner burn in Portland Harbor. Even when the weather prevented sailing, he indulged his passion by going “boatyarding,” to watch what was being built, repaired, or stored. During World War II he enlisted in the Navy and spent part of his time as captain of the Trim Fore, a boat he had studied before he enlisted. He took his future wife Dorothy sailing on their first date, and he taught his grandchildren how to handle a boat on the lobster boat he bought when he was 76. An economics major, he was a manager at Porteous and later earned his real estate license. Survivors include son Peter and five grandchildren. Grace Jack Hight, Nov. 28, 2010 Grace Jack Hight once described her life this way: “All winter getting three off to Sugarloaf each weekend for skiing. Summer evenings watching Little League games, and weekends hanging over rails at horse shows. Fall and spring being sure all fishing and hunting equipment is available and ready.” She took up full-time motherhood after teaching high school in Norway and Skowhegan, where she met her husband. She served on the Skowhegan school board for nearly 15 years, and had a significant role in building its high school in 1971. Her husband, S. Kirby Hight, owned and operated two car dealerships, and she ran the auto parts business associated with them for 40 years. Over the years, they amassed a collection of vintage and classic cars. Her husband survives her as do children Jane Edmunds, Louis Hight, and Walter Hight; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Her late sisters were Bertha Jack Marshall ’27 and Lucille Jack Swallow ’33. Another son died in infancy. Donald Dutton Pillsbury, Jan. 4, 2011 Don Pillsbury managed the crime and glass division of the Insurance Services Office (formerly the National Bureau of Casualty Underwriters) for 40 years. He was active in his church in New York City as a teacher and superintendent of the Sunday school and as an elder. He also was chapter leader of the John Birch Society. He served on the board of the Greater New York Sunday School Assn. In the 1960s, he was vice president and then president of the New York Bates Club. During World War II, he was a sergeant in the Army Air Force. His wife, Madeline Brown, predeceased him. Survivors include three sisters and nephew Andee LaFleur ’73. 1939 Dorothy Harms Alexander, Dec. 12, 2010 Her father was Professor of German and Spanish Samuel Harms and her mother was Aletha Rollins Harms, Class of 1913, and Dot Harms Alexander always enjoyed reading letters from students who received scholarships in her parents’ names. A psychology major, she worked as a psychiatric aide before marrying Charles Alexander ’38. After her three children were grown, she worked to index over 20 years of the Lexington (Mass.) Minuteman and then was a copy editor. In the late 1970s, following the death of her husband, she became a home health aide to senior citizens on Cape Cod. Survivors include children Cheryl Paplinski, Richard Alexander, and Janice Schott; seven grandchildren; one greatgrandchild; and brother Donald Harms ’44. Chester Randolph Parker, Jan. 21, 2011 Classmates Chet Parker, his wife Eleanor Smart Parker, and the late Dana Wallace called themselves “the Hardy Perennials” because they tried to — and usually succeeded — in attending any and all Bates functions. Though Dana passed away in 2007, Chet and “Smarty” were present at, and helped to organize, their 70th Class Reunion in 2009. Chet served as class president for decades, as well as on gift committees and Reunion committees. His degree from the College was in history and government, and he

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received a master’s in education from Boston Univ. in 1959. By that time, his long career in education was thriving. He served as teacher, principal, and superintendent in over a dozen towns in Maine, and was a past president of the Maine Parent Teacher’s Assn. and Maine Prevention of Blindness program. A proponent of school consolidation, he was a leader in establishing three school administrative districts in Maine. A longtime North Bridgton resident, he volunteered on the Bridgton Appeals Board and the Harrison-North Bridgton Water District. He played tennis into his 80s and skied and sailed nearly as long. Besides his wife, survivors include children Eleanor Schiavi ’64 and Randolph Parker; two grandchildren, one of whom is Deborah Schiavi Cote ’89; five great-grandchildren; and sister Marion Gibbs. 1940 Sylvester Martin Bronson, June 15, 2010 Martin Bronson attended Bates for only one year, when he was known as Saul Bronstein, before his father’s illness forced him to return home. A radiologist in Tennessee for many years, he grew trees and plants in retirement. He also worked with victims of child abuse and counseled drug and alcohol addicts. Leo Philippe Dube, Jan. 16, 2011 Leo Dube had to leave Bates early to help run the family’s Lewiston-based flower business. He was named Young Man of the Year in 1954 in Lewiston. The next year, he and his family moved to California, where he began a career in real estate. Survivors include three children and 12 grandchildren. 1941 Richard Lawrence Raymond, Oct. 9, 2010 A Massachusetts native transplanted to Michigan, he was known there for his “Boston humor.” A 1947 graduate of the Cornell School of Hotel Administration, he spent his career in food services. During World War II, he served in England in the Army’s finance division. An avid golfer, he was a member of two golf clubs, and also fished and bowled. Survivors include wife Kathryn Johnson Raymond; children Patricia Christopherson and Larry Raymond; five grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. 1942 Chandler DeNike Baldwin, Sept. 19, 2010 Chan Baldwin grew up about 15 miles from Yankee Stadium and liked to recall watching Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig play there. His interest in baseball was lifelong, and in retirement he enjoyed watching spring training games in Tucson, Ariz. His Bates degree was in economics, and he later attended the Wharton School. During World War II he served in the Army in the Philippines and in occupied Japan. His professional life was in group insurance, and he worked for Metropolitan Life, Travelers, and Phoenix Mutual, eventually becoming regional group sales supervisor for the Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington areas. His wife, Patricia Bradbury Baldwin ’42, died in 2009. Survivors include children John Baldwin ’67, Mary Ellen Urquhart ’77, and Tracey Newhall; 12 grandchildren; and 15 greatgrandchildren. Another daughter, Joan Slingsby, died in 2005. Mary Bartlett Gardner, Sept. 6, 2010 Mary Bartlett Gardner moved to Lewiston when she was 9 and her father joined the Bates faculty to teach business economics. An economics major herself, she worked in the field for four years before “retiring” to raise her family with husband Kenneth Gardner. She later earned her teaching credentials at the Univ. of Maine and enjoyed teaching more than she ever expected, she once wrote. She taught elementary school for 20 years in Windham, retiring in 1981. Her husband passed away in 1999. Survivors include children Gary, Joann, and Carol Gardner; two grandchildren; brother Stephen Bartlett ’44; sister

Barbara Hammond ’47 and brother-in-law Burton Hammond ’49; and nephew James Hammond ’81. Robert Nathan Langerman, Nov. 4, 2010 After back surgery when he was 90, Bob Langerman was impatient to get back on the golf course — his home in Naples, Fla., overlooked a 32-hole course. He and wife Goldythe Berman Langerman had retired there after his successful career in life insurance. One of the highlights of that career was being named Man of the Year by the northeast office of Prudential in 1975. He graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in economics, and delayed his career to serve in the Army during World War II. He took a crash course in Chinese and served as a liaison officer in Kunming for a year. He joined the family clothing business as its CEO before joining Prudential. He and son Fred later became partners in the business. As an alumnus, he was a member of many Reunion gift committees, a class agent, and president of the New Haven Bates Club. His wife and son Fred survive him, as do sons Lawrence and Peter and nine grandchildren, including Elliot Langerman ’03. Hartley Cabot Ray, Aug. 21, 2010 Lee Ray left Bates with a degree in religion, Phi Beta Kappa, and went on to the Univ. of Chicago for a bachelor’s in divinity. He cited the mentorship of professor Rayborn Zerby, whose creative concept of religion and progressive ministry shaped his own. In 1955, he preached at a nascent Unitarian congregation in Chicago on the importance of recognizing prayer that does not match the theological norm, and called this contemporary sort of prayer the sure cure for loneliness. He grew up in Auburn and was ordained at the High Street Congregational Church in June 1947. He served as a minister at Congregational and Unitarian churches in Texas, Illinois, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Certified as a family therapist and a pastoral counselor, he provided pastoral services to psychiatric patients at the Philadelphia State Hospital. After retiring from the ministry, he served as director of the Philadelphia Protestant Home for the Aging. He also studied at Andover Newton Theological School and Columbia. Survivors include wife Katherine Haiges Ray; daughters Bethel Hentz and Nadine Blackburn; and five grandchildren. 1942 Ruth Stevens Gardner Haley, Jan. 5, 2011 With a degree in sociology, Ruth Stevens was a social worker at the Letchworth Village in New York and the Roxbury Neighborhood House in Massachusetts before marrying Robert Gardner in 1945. After her two daughters were grown, she became certified as librarian at Salem State College, and was a school librarian in Rowley, Mass., until retiring in 1984. Two years later, she married Robert Haley; he died in 1998. She then moved to Belfast, Maine, to be closer to her daughters, and especially enjoyed the large variety of senior courses available in town. As an alumna, she was a class agent and co-chair of Reunion gift committees. Survivors include daughters Louise Gardner Foster ’70 and Judith G. Moore. Erland Stanley Wentzell, Aug. 7, 2010 If visiting the Bethel (Maine) Historical Society, keep an eye out for Erl Wentzell’s masterpiece: a carving of a horse-drawn sled loaded with 11 cords of wood. It is only one of the artistic accomplishments of his retirement, and no doubt was created from his memories of working with his father on the farm in Bethel. His Bates chemistry degree afforded him a long career in the field, including six years in Calcutta, where he managed a jute company. He also was a chemist for American Cyanamid and Ludlow Textile Co. In 1958, he joined S.D. Warren, eventually becoming an assistant superintendent. He retired in 1981. His first wife, Marilyn Howe Wentzell, died in 1960. He married Margaret Robinson Steeves in 1964. They were leaders in the Sebago Maple Grove

Grange for over 30 years and helped to start the AFS programs at Lake Region High School. He served on the Falmouth School Board and the Lake Regional School District. His wife survives him, as do children C. Stanley Wentzell, Judith Wentzell, Rowena Strout, and Shirley Keene; stepchildren Bonnie Dwyer and Gerald Steeves; 17 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren. 1943 Weston Attwood Cate Jr., Sept. 23, 2010 Weston Cate was a forward-looking historian: Long before it was fashionable, he was collecting seeds from historical strains of vegetables, “heirloom seeds,” recognizing that the extensive hybridization under way by seed companies would make them endangered species, as he called them. But his career as an historian was his second. His first career was foreshadowed by the neighborhood newspaper he wrote, printed, and distributed as a teenager. An English major, he wrote for local newspapers and teachers’ organizations throughout his first career as an English teacher. In 1953, he won a national contest sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary on the topic “Why I Teach.” In 1958 he became executive director of the Vermont state education association, then in 1974 began service as executive director of the Vermont State Historical Society. He produced a book on the history of the society and one on the history of Calais, Vt. In 2006, he received the lifetime achievement award from the Center for Research on Vermont. He served as an officer of many educational, historical, and religious bodies. His wife, Jean Stetson Cate, died in 2004. Survivors include children Weston, Paul, and David Cate, and three grandchildren, one of whom is Alison Cate Fanning ’09. His sister-in-law was the late Dorothy Stetson Conlon ’50. Gordon Leroy Corbett, Oct. 23, 2010 Gordon Corbett dutifully filled out questionnaires from the College over the years and at least once added some questions and answers of his own, such as, “When the going got tough, what helped you survive?” His multiple-choice answers were (a) humor; (b) family and friends; (c) religious faith; (d) professional counselors; (e) sheer determination that you would not let the bastards get you down. (The correct answer, we think, is “all of the above.”) He was a 1948 graduate of the Yale Divinity School, having served in the Army Air Corps. He served Baptist and Presbyterian churches in Alaska, California, Connecticut, Kentucky, Indiana, and New York, and held executive offices in the Presbyterian church in Kentucky and Alaska. He considered his work with refugees from the Hungarian Revolution one of the highlights of his career, along with his role in creating the Appalachian Regional Hospital System. He was a trustee of the hospitals as well as of Sheldon Jackson College. His wife, Winifred Pickett Corbett, survives him, as do children Christine, Douglas, Patricia, and Carolyn Corbett, and two grandchildren. Arthur Leighton Watts, Sept. 30, 2010 Art Watts took advantage of all Bates offered — he played tennis and basketball, served on the student council and as a proctor, sang in the glee club, took a flying course, presided over the publishing association and the Outing Club — before graduating with a degree in economics. That course in flying was especially valuable: He became an aviator during World War II. Afterwards, he began a career in insurance, using an introduction from classmate Tommy Thompson to open doors at Aetna. Some 36 years later, he retired as vice president of the central region. He was class president for 20 years, and served on his 50th Reunion Gift Committee. His first marriage to Eleanor Darling ’44 ended in divorce. His second wife, Lois Jackson Watts, survives him as do sons George and Richard, and four grandchildren.

Before it was fashionable, WESTON CATE ’43 collected heirloom seeds, recognizing that hybridization by seed companies would make them endangered species. Bradford Russell Adams, Nov. 2, 2010 Brad Adams attended Bates for one year before leaving to serve in the Navy during World War II. He worked for Nissen Bakery and for George Business Forms. Survivors include wife Marguerite Armstrong Adams; daughter Charlotte Asen; stepsons Maxwell Lewis and Donald Lewis; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. 1944 Philip Milford Goodrich, Jan. 5, 2011 Phil Goodrich spent the day of his graduation from Bates aboard ship near Naples, Italy, as an ensign in the Navy. He served 18 months on an amphibian attack ship, and landed at Okinawa, among other battles. His economics degree, supplemented with a master’s from Columbia, gave him entry into the business world, and David Whitehouse ’36 hired him at Container Corp. of America, where he remained for his entire 36-year career. He was president of his class for five years in the early 1960s. Survivors include wife Carolyn Knapp Goodrich; sons Donald, David, and Craig; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. 1945 Priscilla Crane Merrill, Sept. 20, 2010 Pat Crane Merrill worked on the Manhattan Project shortly after graduation and later as a research chemist developing diamond abrasives. She held international and U.S. patents on her work. After her children were grown, she returned to work as a teacher in Indiana. In between, she was president of several PTAs and served as secretary-treasurer of the Worcester Bates Club and as president of the Ohio Bates Club. She also volunteered with the American Red Cross, her church, and a local park. Her husband, Charles Merrill, passed away in 1995. Survivors include children Karen Barkman and Susan Peters. Mary Guiney O’Leary, Oct. 22, 2010 Mary Guiney O’Leary set her mind on a career in social work, and took her Bates degree in that field to Boston College, where she earned an M.S.W. in 1947 and met her husband, Thomas O’Leary, who also was working toward that degree. She worked briefly at the Boston Family Society, but left when she married, to avoid any perception of conflict of interest between their jobs. She reported she was busy enough with five children. She later worked as a substitute teacher in Andover, Mass. She was very active at the College, in the dance club, the Spofford Club, the Newman Club, among others, and she was class president her senior year. She was just as active as an alumna, serving as class agent and on Reunion gift committees. Her husband and a daughter, Beth Morrissey, predeceased her. Survivors include children Thomas O’Leary, Marilyn Earle, Mary Elizabeth O’Leary, and Dinae Barrett; nine grandchildren; and great-niece Jennifer Wilkins Morse ’10.

Jean-Elizabeth Rupp Bollinger, Nov. 18, 2010 Jean-Elizabeth Rupp Bollinger was at Bates for only one year but remained in contact with the College and her classmates throughout her life, and vowed to send all eligible students its way. Some 45 years after the fact, she could still recall where she sat in Chapel, and who sat next to her. Her husband, Benjamin Bollinger, predeceased her. Survivors include children Elizabeth Andrews, Bruce Bollinger, and James Bollinger, and seven grandchildren. V-12 William Milliken Moody, Oct. 4, 2010 Bill Moody started at Bowdoin, transferred to the Bates V-12 program, and then went to the ROTC program at Brown, earning varsity letters at each school, a feat that earned him the nickname “3B Moody” by Ripley’s Believe It Or Not. He saw active duty in the Korean War, and returned to his native Portland to marry Jane McLane Smith in 1951. A few years later he bought Rufus Deering Lumber Co., and became very active in civic and business affairs. He co-founded Greater Portland Landmarks, and volunteered for many organizations. He was vice president and later president of the board of trustees at the Waynflete School. Survivors include his wife, three children, and four grandchildren. Francis Edward Winslow Jr., Jan. 11, 2011 Frank Winslow came to Bates as part of the V-12 program and graduated from Harvard. He earned a medical degree at Duke and completed training in pediatrics at the Univ. of Maryland. In 1961, he established his practice in Raleigh, N.C., where he served as chief of pediatrics at Rex Hospital and WakeMed. He was a founding board member at the Tammy Lynn Center for Developmental Disabilities. Survivors include children Cecelia Covington Winslow and Francis Winslow III, and two grandchildren. 1947 Wallace Adolph Johnson, Jan. 2, 2011 Wallace Johnson transferred to Bates from Springfield College and graduated with a degree in history. He earned a master’s in education from the Univ. of Vermont and a doctorate from Calvin Coolidge College. During World War II, he served in England and France, and received a Purple Heart. He taught in Chester, Vt., was a guidance counselor in Auburn and Worcester, Mass., assistant principal in Grafton, Mass., and principal at Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School. In 2005, he was named volunteer of the year by Elder Services of Cape Cod. Survivors include wife Marion Anderson Johnson; daughters Louise Johnson Bacon ’75 and Nancy L. Johnson; and two grandchildren. Charlotte Grant Walker, Oct. 26, 2010 Charlotte Grant Walker settled in Poland Spring, where her husband, Ted Walker, and his family had lived for generations. Together they built a home on family land. She used her degree in mathematics to help run his mechanical contracting business. She was instrumental in building the Alvan B. Ricker Memorial Library in Poland Spring. She served as president of the ladies’ auxiliary of the Maine Assn. of Plumbing, Heating and Cooling Contractors and was a member of the National Assn. of Women in Construction. Survivors include her husband; sons Peter, Thomas, and David Walker; six grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. 1948 Shirley Travis Blake, Dec. 6, 2010 Valedictorian of her high school class in Sanford, Shirley Travis Blake returned to teach in its schools after graduating from the College with a degree in political science. She was a member of Beta Sigma Phi, an international women’s friendship network, and of the Order of the Eastern Star. Her husband,

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Robert Blake, passed away in 1992. Survivors include children Frances Thibaudeau, Shirley Shelley, and Steven Blake; eight grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Arthur Carl Hansen, Sept. 5, 2010 Arthur Hansen happily returned to his native Maine after World War II to start his college years at Bates. A bomber flight instructor, he was en route to the Pacific to pilot a B-29 when the war ended. With a degree in economics and a minor in history, he enrolled in a master’s program at Columbia but found himself distracted by ads seeking pilots for the Berlin Airlift, a chance to make history rather than study it. However, distraction also appeared in the form of a fellow student, Roberta Gerdy, whom he married in 1953. He returned to Maine with both master’s degree and new wife, and started a 41-year career as a history and government teacher at North Yarmouth Academy, from which he retired in 1990. The school has an annual award in his name. He remained in the Air Force Reserves until 1966 and retired as captain. He was known for his handmade and restored furniture, and enjoyed working with his wife in her antique business. She predeceased him. Survivors include children Evan, Carl, Diana, and Terry Hansen; five grandchildren; and brother Glen Hansen ’48 and wife Elizabeth May Hansen ’47. John Joseph Margarones, Nov. 15, 2010 As a boy in Old Orchard Beach, John Margarones listened to his immigrant father, a barber with a fourth-grade education, converse in his native Greek with Bates President Clifton Daggett Gray, a classicist, during haircuts. It was President Gray who admitted John as a student after service in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He went on to earn two bachelor’s degree (Bates, B.A. in history and government, Gorham State, B.S.), two master’s degrees (Univ. of Conn and Boston Univ.), and a doctorate (Boston Univ.) Appointed to the faculty in 1966, he transformed the education department to integrate a hands-on approach. The goal, he said, was to give aspiring teachers skills that can’t be learned in a college classroom. He continued to help out in his father’s barber shop until 1971, and lived in OOB nearly his entire life. He published several books on the history of the town, and was inducted into its high school hall of fame. Before Bates, he was on the faculties of the Univ. of Connecticut and Hartford Univ. He was the first president of the Maine Chapter of the Assn. of State Teachers and New England Colleges, and president of the Maine Teachers Assn. Survivors include wife Viola Fedorczyk Margarones; children Estelle ’88, Joseph, Margot, Katherine, and Melissa ’96; and nine grandchildren. Charles Isaac Pendexter, Sept. 30, 2010 A geologist by training, Charles Pendexter was a gardener by choice. His undergraduate degree was in geology, and he received a Fulbright to study in London. He then earned a master’s and a doctorate at Washington Univ. His career was as a research geologist with Exxon. Following his retirement in 1981, he rented an apartment in Gorham and set about building a garden on a patch of land the landlord regarded as a dump. He spent up to six hours a day in the garden, and was especially fond of roses and lilies. His uncle was George Pendexter, Class of 1900. Survivors include a cousin, Jane Pendexter Delson ’72. James Miller Towle, Jan. 23, 2011 An economics major, James Towle worked in sales, primarily with radio stations and automobile dealerships. He was a member of the East Longmeadow (Mass.) School Committee, a Little League coach, and a church volunteer. He enjoyed model railroads, Masters swimming, and golf. His wife, Arlene Mack Towle, died last year. Survivors include children

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DONALD GRAVES ’52 gave this advice to teachers of writing: Write. Just as art instructors create art, and music instructors create music, teachers who teach writing should write. Bradford, Phillip, Andrea, and Gregory; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Ellen Swift Marston, Jan. 13, 2011 Ellen Swift Marston was a founding member of the Topsham Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She and her family served a mission together at the temple in Washington, D.C. Survivors include husband Bruce Marston; children Susan, Marilyn, Serena, and Thomas; 10 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren. 1949 Irving Charles Davis, Oct. 7, 2010 Hank Davis served in the Air Force during World War II, and was recalled to active duty during the Vietnam War. His military career spanned 30 years, and he retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel. An economics major, he worked for Travelers Insurance and for the Maine Department of Economic Development. He was a longtime member of the Herman Masonic Lodge and American Legion Post No. 4. Survivors include children Dale Goodwin and Mark Davis; three grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Charles Edgar Fehlau, Dec. 5, 2010 Chuck Fehlau was able to leave high school after three years and take courses at Bates before military service intervened. He was in the Navy during World War II, stationed in Argentina and Newfoundland. When he returned to the College, he threw himself into his studies and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude in physics. He had a long career with General Electric, eventually becoming the engineering manager in the heavy military electrical department. A licensed navigator, he was a member of the U.S. Power Squadron for many years, and a member of several yacht clubs near his home in Syracuse. He served in the Lutheran Campus Ministry at Syracuse Univ. for many years, and was an active member of his church. Survivors include his wife, Lois Javier Fehlau ’49; children Eric Fehlau, Patricia Nickles, Karl Fehlau, and Kenneth Fehlau; eight grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and sister Lois L. Kemp ’53. Another sister, Ruth E. Prince ’51, predeceased him. Maurice Stillman Flagg, Aug. 16, 2010 Maury Flagg took his degree in English and turned it into a long career in public relations and fundraising, primarily for the Red Cross. He took a five-year leave from the Red Cross to serve as director of information services to President Johnson’s Committee on Mental Retardation. During that time, he also served briefly as director of communication and information for the Council for Exceptional Children. He was also very active in town and county affairs in Arlington, Va. Survivors include children Maurice (Buck) and Anthony Flagg, and two grandchildren. Another son, Richard, predeceased him.

Robert Duane Ramsdell, Jan. 9, 2010 A psychology major at the College, Bob Ramsdell switched fields and earned a doctorate in philosophy at Boston Univ. He went on to found the philosophy department at Framingham State College and was on its faculty for 30 years. He was a contributing member of the Philosophy of Education Society. Following retirement in 1990, he taught at the Harvard Institute of Learning and Retirement. His marriage to Nancy Haines ’54 ended in divorce. Survivors include partner Shirley Bean and stepchildren Eric, Marilyn, and Ethan Zimmer. Winifred Sweet Register, Sept. 25, 2010 Despite living in California for most of her life, Winnie Sweet Register never lost her Maine accent. She and husband Frederick Register tried to move back to New England once, early in their marriage, but decided California was the place to be. She worked on and off over the years as she raised her family, including as a payroll clerk for the U.S. Navy, as an associate engineer at Lockheed, and as a substitute math teacher. She also taught piano and volunteered for community concerts. Her husband survives her, as do children Daniel, Damon, and Valerie Register, and five grandchildren. Her late sister was Arline Sweet Noss ’49. 1950 Robert Daniel Cook, Nov. 11, 2010 Robert Cook turned 17 just in time to join the Navy near the end of World War II. He returned home to attend Bates, where he was a history and government major. He was active in the Newman Club and played intramural sports. In 1952, he joined Aetna Life Insurance Co, and retired 37 years later as a director of the company. Survivors include wife Joline Huard Cook; children Kathie Brielmann and Robert D. Cook Jr.; and two grandchildren. Donald Edwin Davis, Sept. 24, 2010 Don Davis deferred college until after service in the Navy during World War II. A math major, he returned to campus shortly after graduation to marry Barbara “Scotty” Mason in the Chapel. In 1960, he completed a master’s of science degree at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His career was at Pratt and Whitney, where he was an engineer, retiring in 1987. He and his wife led the beautification committee in Bloomfield, Conn., planting some 28 gardens and seven highway medians. He was a ski instructor at Butternut and Blandford ski areas. Along with his wife, survivors include children Donna Davis Keenan ’75, Scott Davis, and Andrea Davis-Griffin; son-inlaw Russell Keenan ’75; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Diane Wolgast Parker, Dec. 20, 2010 Diane Wolgast Parker and her husband, David, took full advantage of sabbaticals and vacation time to travel spontaneously and leisurely throughout Europe. Both were teachers in New York. Diane earned her teaching credentials through SUNY and taught in Great Neck, N.Y. She advocated for civil rights and universal healthcare. Fully involved in the life of her retirement community, she especially supported its scholarship fund for its employees. Her husband died in 2007, and son William in 2006. Survivors include daughter Pamela Parker and three grandchildren. Frank Leslie Walker Jr., Oct. 24, 2010 A biology major at Bates, Frank Walker made his career at Liberty Mutual as a claims adjuster and then manager of claims in Manchester, N.H. He used his knowledge of biology to grow roses at his home there. He taught himself to invest by reading, one of his favorite pastimes, and in turn became an experienced investor. His wife, Madeline Cutler Walker, died in 2007. Survivors include children Cheryl Walker and Brian Walker, and four grandchildren.

1952 Donald Hiller Graves, Sept. 28, 2010 Generations of Bates students have worked in Commons, but Donald Graves probably had better memories than most: It’s where he met his future wife, Betty Lewis Graves ’55. After a master’s in education at Bridgewater State Univ. and a doctorate at SUNY–Buffalo, he found his calling as an advocate for children’s writing. At the Univ. of New Hampshire he taught early childhood education, established the Writing Process Laboratory, and soon became an internationally recognized expert on the subject of children’s writing. His best advice for elementary school teachers: Write. Just as art instructors create art, and music instructors create music, teachers who teach writing should write. He was the author of 26 books, the best known being Writing: Teachers & Children At Work, which revolutionized the way writing is taught in schools and is still in wide use. In 1982, he received the David H. Russell award for distinguished research in the teaching of English from the National Council of Teachers of English; today, the NCTE presents an award in his name. Eager cyclists, he and his wife prepared for their European trips in September by bicycling the Kancamagus Highway. She survives him, as do children Marion Chang, Alyce Graves, Caroline Hodsdon, William Graves, and Laura Graves; eight grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Dorothy Wood Gugelman, Oct. 23, 2010 Dotty Wood Gugelman was a kindergarten teacher in Phoenix for 24 years, having moved there with her first husband, Glendon Collins ’51. She brought computers into her classroom in 1982, and found simple computer programs her students could use. She married William Gugelman following the end of her first marriage. He had a condo in Hawaii, where they headed as soon as school was out. She retired in 1991, but continued to tutor at-risk kindergarten students in Prescott, Ariz., where they had moved. She also was a reading aide at a local elementary school and a volunteer at the Veteran’s Hospital. She joined the Daughters of the American Revolution in 2005. Her husband survives her, as do children Gary and Alan Collins, and two grandchildren. A daughter, Virginia, died in infancy. John Stanley Patterson, Jan. 11, 2011 Stan Patterson said his experience in debate at Bates served him well throughout his life — more than his degree in economics. Following service in the Army, he had a long career with Lockheed Missiles & Space Co., starting with personnel work and retiring 31 years later as director of marketing support. In the 1970s, he and his wife, Katie Lang Patterson ’55, and their children lived in Beirut, where he was regional director for the Middle East and Africa. He returned determined to do whatever he could to bring a peaceful end to the conflicts in the region. He became active in the World Affairs Council of Monterey Beach, and in 1989 received the Outstanding Leadership award from the National Assn. of Arab-Americans. He and Katie returned to Lebanon last year to serve as managing director of a public-private organization assisting in rebuilding Lebanon’s government infrastructure. He was on the executive board of the Arab-American Chamber of Commerce, and a past president of the LA chapter of the National Assn. of Arab Americans, as well as a member of the national board. His deep involvement in Middle East affairs complemented the delight he took in his Scottish heritage. He played in bagpipe bands and was instrumental in the formation of the Western U.S. Pipe Band Assn., which he served as president for many years. Along with his wife, survivors include children James ’75, John Jr., and Jeffrey Patterson; six grandchildren, one of whom is Micahela Cyr Patterson ’05; and two great-grandchildren.

BARBARA CLAPP KAWLICHE ’64 created a website devoted to youth development at a time when few other sites were available. She made the site she wished she had been able to find. 1953 Joan Huston Tainter, Oct. 21, 2010 Joan Huston Tainter remained in Auburn, her hometown, and taught French and Latin at the Walton School and then English at Falmouth High School. The sojourn in Falmouth was brief: She returned to Auburn and Edward Little High School after one year to teach English there. Her husband, Burchard Tainter, predeceased her. Rosemary Feck Caldwell, Jan. 15, 2011 “Bib” Feck Caldwell left Bates after two years and finished her degree in English at Simmons. In 1971, she and husband John founded ETC Mailing Services, of which she was CEO at the time of her retirement. Her husband and her son, Mark Caldwell, predeceased her. Survivors include children John and James Caldwell, and four grandchildren. 1954 Robert Murdoch Miller, Jan. 19, 2011 Robert Miller left Bates after one semester to join the Navy. He graduated from Stetson Univ. and earned a master’s from the Univ. of Florida. Survivors include partner Roderick C. Clark and siblings Arthur and John Miller and Mary Miller Kelly. 1955 Alfred Herbert Kafka, Oct. 27, 2010 Al Kafka was well into his second successful career when he found his third standing in front of him. A government major, he went on to law school at Boston Univ. and then entered the Army. He served in the Judge Advocate General’s office at the Presidio in San Francisco. He started his second career by forming a law firm with two of his brothers and was a practicing attorney for over 50 years. But when one of his legal clients offered to barter for legal services, he realized the untapped potential of business-to-business barter, and started Bartermax. The company offered a network of bartering, not limited to direct swaps of goods, and set up a system for companies to “bank” their bartering. He served as chair of the board of the National Assn. of Trade Exchange as well as its president, and was a recognized leader in this field. Survivors include wife Valerie Jackson Kafka; children Rebecca Manor, Benjamin Kafka, Elizabeth Escarzega, and Victoria Allen; and five grandchildren. 1957 James Milton Muth Jr., Sept. 11, 2010 Jim Muth brought basketball to the Arctic. It happened while he was serving in the Navy, though history is unclear if they played on ice or aboard ship. Following Navy service, he joined Connecticut General Life Insurance Co., and continued there until retirement in 1991. He and wife Margo Driesen Muth moved to Cape Cod, where they had summered for many years. She survives him, as do children Deborah Reilly, Robert Muth, and Timothy Muth; four grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

Richard Albert Levine, Nov. 4, 2009 Dick Levine left Bates after three years and finished his degree at Adelphi. He was a financial consultant on Wall Street. His son, Michael, is a member of the Class of 1980. Edward Mace Pike, Sept. 1, 2010 After two years at the College, Edward Pike earned a B.S. degree from Boston Univ. in 1962 and an M.B.A. from Northeastern in 1972. After working for General Electric and United Shoe Machinery, he purchased two foundries near his home in Newburyport and made custom fittings for boats. Survivors include children William and Robert Pike and Mary Fisher; seven grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. 1959 Martin Wayne Kane, Jan. 28, 2010 Wayne Kane was captain of both the football and the baseball teams his senior year and received football’s Goddard Award in 1956. He started with Mutual Life Insurance Co. right out of Bates, and continued in the insurance field his entire career. In 1976, he started his own agency offering group insurance. In 1958, he married Beverly Jacobson ’61. 1960 Ruth Brockner Ellwood, Oct. 8, 2010 Ruth Brockner Ellwood attended Bates for one year before transferring to Central Connecticut State Univ. She also held a master’s from Trinity College. An elementary school teacher, she was the master teacher in a nationally recognized pilot program for students who were poorly adjusted socially and emotionally. She taught special education for 35 years in Bloomfield and Vernon, Conn., and served several terms as president of both towns’ educational associations. Survivors include husband Donald Ellwood; son Michael Ellwood; and two grandchildren. 1962 Gilbert A. Clapperton, Dec. 29, 2010 He wasn’t “warm and fuzzy” with his students, said one colleague of Gil Clapperton. He was a “warm and compassionate man,” according to another. At Loyola Univ., his students knew they would get a solid education even without pampering. A clinical psychologist, he held a master’s from UNH and a doctorate from Baylor in that field. He was recruited by Loyola in 1968 to establish its department of psychology and serve as its chair. During his tenure, he established both the university’s master’s and doctoral programs in clinical psychology. In private practice, he specialized in psychological evaluations and stress management for police departments in the Baltimore area. A Lewiston native, he married his sixth-grade sweetheart, Helene Cloutier, in 1960. Despite living in the midst of crab country, she said, and considering himself a pretty good amateur crabber, he still preferred lobster. She survives him, as do sons Scott and John Clapperton. His late father was Gilbert Clapperton ’32. Arthur Woodbury Ridlon, Nov. 27, 2010 When Art Ridlon spoke to the Daughters of the Confederacy in Dayton, Va. — the first Yankee to ever address the group — he received a standing ovation. His interest in the Civil War, among his many interests, was sparked by the movie Gettysburg. He had chucked Maine winters for those in West Palm Beach after a successful tenure at an insurance agency in Bath, and found small-town life there not unlike Maine — except, he said, “Ace Hardware doesn’t sell snow shovels.” Just before he moved to the South, he took up tennis, a sport he would enjoy for the rest of his life. He won the Bath city championship in 1980 and the Palm Beach County championship in 1982. Ten years later, after he and Cindy Ohlin Ridlon ’65 divorced, he and second

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wife Ann moved back to Boothbay Harbor, where he joined the firm of J. Edward Knight. His tennis again started to shine, and he won two gold medals at the Senior Olympic Games in 2001. He competed at the 2003 National Senior Olympic Games and made it through the first round. He also devoted time to instruct high school players. At his death, Art was class president and had served previously as class agent. His long involvement with children with disabilities will culminate when the first gymnasium at Ability Tree in Siloam Springs, Ark., is named for him. Besides his wife, survivors include sons Sam Ridlon and Joe Butler, and five grandchildren. 1964 Barbara Clapp Kawliche, Jan. 9, 2010 Barbara Clapp Kawliche recognized early on that the Internet could be used to make the world better. She created a comprehensive website devoted to youth development, Youthwork.com, at a time when few other sites were available. She made the site she wished she had been able to find. Her interest in youth sprang from her degree in psychology from Bates and her M.S.W. from Boston Univ., and she worked professionally in the field before and after tending to her sons’ growing up. She also worked with AdCare, which provided recovery services for professionals in the field of substance abuse. Her belief in human rights and equality for all was enhanced by home stays in Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Lithuania. Her husband, Stanley Kawliche ’48, survives her, as do sons David and Gregory Kawliche; one grandchild; stepson Boris Kawliche; and two step-grandchildren. John Robert Strassburger, Sept. 22, 2010 John Strassburger came to Bates intending to study mathematics, but history professor Ernest Muller set him on a new path. Some 20 years later, John returned the favor by becoming president of Muller’s alma mater, Ursinus College. He earned a master’s at Cambridge Univ. and Ph.D. at Princeton. He taught at Hiram College and worked for the NEA as acting director of its education programs, where he was awarded the Distinguished Service Award. He served as dean of the college and executive vice president at Knox College for 10 years. In 1995, he was inaugurated as president of Ursinus, retiring in June 2010. There, he instituted a first-year course called “Common Intellectual Experience,” an interdisciplinary inquiry into the beliefs and truths that underpin life, just one of many changes — in academics, student quality, endowment, and facilities — that he brought to campus to strengthen its commitment to a liberal arts education. A tribute to him noted that “we hear often of transformational leadership. John embodied it.” His early experience at Cambridge, still wrapped in class distinction and social inequality, convinced him that education could be a great equalizer, and he sought to bring that democratic ideal to Ursinus. He regretted that being the college president meant he didn’t have time to teach, but he served as chair of the board of the Council of Independent Colleges, as well as on the boards of the American Academic Leadership Institute, American Council on Education, President’s Council of Project Pericles, and the Lenfest Foundation. Survivors include wife Trudy Mackie Strassburger; daughters Sarah and Trudy; and two grandchildren. 1965 Philip James Brookes, Sept. 16, 2007 Philip Brookes spent most of his career attached to the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. He was the director of the graduate degree programs there, having previously served as deputy director of the program and as director of the communicative arts program. While earning a doctorate at the Univ. of Kansas, he was an instructor. At CGSC, he was twice recognized by the Army for his outstanding performance. His marriage to Lois Paynes Lindner ended in divorce.

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AL MAXWELL ’75 described himself this way: “I am an earthy crunchy techno-dweeb.” Peter John Gomes, Feb. 28, 2011 Despite all the accolades, despite 39 honorary degrees, despite being named one of Time’s seven most distinguished preachers in America in 1979, despite being a best-selling author, what defined Peter Gomes to Peter Gomes was that he was a Batesie. “My ultimate epitaph,” he said to a Reunion gathering in 1998, “should be that I went to Bates.” Except for his parents, he explained, he owed “everything valuable, precious, and honorable to Bates.” A history major, he threw himself into life on campus, and was president of the Choral Society, Campus Association, and Chase Hall Dance Committee. He sang wherever he could, assisted in the music department, and reveled in what he called a “peculiar” college, one that admitted women and minorities decades ahead of others. As he did in other realms of his life, the friendships he made in his very first days at Bates he cultivated and nourished forever. He once recalled walking into the Chapel “to cry in privacy” after his parents dropped him off at Bates his freshman year. “There I saw a tall, spare, bald-headed man slowly picking up the litter in the pews. I took him to be a janitor. He noted my distress, and in a solemn but friendly voice said that I’d soon feel better about college.” That man turned out to be Dean Harry W. Rowe ’12, “with whom I would be friends for the rest of his life. At my most vulnerable moment, he was the human face of Bates.” Although his family and friends back in Plymouth, Mass., assumed he would become a minister, he wasn’t certain until he spent the year after graduation at Harvard Divinity School, a challenge proposed to him by a Bates professor. He received the S.T.B. degree there in 1968 and was ordained in his hometown. He taught history at the Tuskegee Institute for two years and served as choirmaster and organist. He returned to Harvard in 1970 as an assistant minister and two years later became its acting minister. In 1974, he was appointed Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Minister in the Memorial Church, the university’s leading religious officer. In 1991, as much to his surprise as anyone else’s, he announced that he was gay during a Harvard rally in Tercentenary Theater. This, he said a few months later, gave him an unambiguous vocation: to address the religious causes and roots of homophobia. “I will devote the rest of my life to addressing the ‘religious case’ against gays,” he told The Washington Post. Gomes authored many books, including the best-sellers The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart and Sermons: Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living, as well as numerous articles and papers. He received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Bates in 1996, the college’s Benjamin E. Mays Award in 1998, and had been a Bates trustee. Survivors include several cousins, as well as his numerous sermons and books. 1967 Douglas Michele Camarco, Dec. 9, 2010 In addition to his B.S. in math from the College, Doug Camarco held an M.B.A. from Rutgers. He was a CPA and worked for ITT for 19 years. He then moved to the Maine State Retirement System, and ended his career at Boston Univ. Survivors include companion Cheryl Kerrick; children Michele James and Jeffrey Camarco; and three grandchildren. William Sanford Rafter Jr., Nov. 26, 2010 Successful as a businessman and mayor, Bill Rafter found a way to combine the two to turn around

the financial status of Gloucester, Mass., and save its residents money in the process. His first career was in trash and recycling, which grew out of his grandfather’s landscaping business. He developed cutting-edge recycling systems that gained national renown. His business became so profitable it drew the attention of the rubbish giant BFI, which bought him out. He worked in the mortgage industry for a few years before running for city council in Gloucester, and then for mayor. He proclaimed that he would never be a skilled politician, but that the real issue in town was managerial. “I believe in government by consensus,” he said during his first mayoral campaign in 1991. He inherited $1 million in debt when he took office; a year later, he submitted a budget that showed an operating surplus of $200,000 and cut long-term debt in half. Survivors include wife Christina Foley Rafter; children Robert Foley, Caitlin Sumner, and W. Sanford Rafter III; and six grandchildren. 1968 James Edward Day, Jan. 28, 2011 Jim Day attended Bates for part of his undergraduate education, and earned a degree in business from the Univ. of Maine. He was a registered Maine CPA and had his own firm in Biddeford. He served in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, retiring as reserve captain. Survivors include a number of nieces and nephews. 1970 Judith Schultz Botwick, Oct. 3, 2010 Judith Botwick left Bates after two years to marry William Botwick. She later completed her degree at Oakland Univ. She was a healthcare executive in Tucson. Survivors include her partner, Bob Rossi, and son Jason Botwick. 1971 David Walter Carlson, Sept. 26, 2010 David Carlson studied city planning at Pratt Institute after receiving a degree in psychology from Bates. He then joined Planners Diversified in New Jersey, and later established the firm’s Cooperstown (N.Y.) branch. In 1991, he and his wife, Linda Pierce Carlson ’70, started their own firm as consultants in city planning in central New York. The firm obtained over $200 million for its client communities. Along with his wife, survivors include children Steven and Lauren. 1975 Kenneth Joseph Gallant, Jan. 16, 2011 Ken Gallant, a biology major, worked briefly as a research assistant at the Univ. of Chicago medical school and then taught for several years before starting osteopathic training at the Kansas School of Osteopathic Medicine. He once told the College that there is “an unlimited reward for being able to help people through medicine.” He worked in emergency medicine in Sanford and Lewiston before establishing his solo family practice in Arundel. As an alumnus, Ken sponsored several interns over the years. He also enjoyed a sideline as a Maine humorist. Survivors include children Aaron and Chloe and stepdaughter Alexandra. His great-uncle was George Nash, Class of 1901. Donna Gregory Lubow, Sept. 7, 2010 Donna Gregory Lubow moved from job to job until she found her calling in teaching. She worked at the Board of Cooperative Educational Services and, in 1996, joined the staff of Lindenhurst (N.Y.) High School, where she soon became a favorite English teacher. “The news of her passing brought dismay to every person it reached,” wrote the school newspaper in an article recounting anecdotes and lessons learned from her. The school plans to start a scholarship fund in her name. In addition to her English degree from Bates, she held a master’s from SUNY. Survivors include partner Lars Hjelmquist; son Akil Lubow; and mother Pearl Gregory.

Alfred Winthrop Maxwell III, June 26, 2010 Al Maxwell described himself this way: “I am an earthy crunchy techno-dweeb.” His earthy crunchy side is evident in his early career building energyefficient “off the grid” structures, including his own shelter at West Carry Pond. The techno-dweeb came a bit later, when he joined Lotus Corp. and then IBM, from which he retired in 2008 as a senior software engineer. In between, he held several jobs with the state of Maine, most notably with the Energy Audit Program, designed to evaluate and curtail excessive energy consumption in schools and state buildings. He also became a financial planner during this time. In 1998, he married Janet Vermeulen, and they moved to a farmhouse set on 60 acres in Bridgton. There, he kept his Maule M4 airplane in a hangar he built himself. He took a number of trips to the Far East to feed his interest in Eastern philosophies. He felt a special connection to Nepal after trekking through its mountains. A physics major, he was a registered professional engineer in Maine. Survivors include his wife; mother Dianne Maxwell; and brother David. 1976 Russell John Erickson, Dec. 20, 2010 Russ Erickson worked for the Social Security Administration for 33 years and received several Commissioner’s Citations. He developed WAC, the agency’s national and international case management system. He also taught computer programming at St. Joseph’s and Andover colleges. A committed cyclist, he biked to work and took long trips through Florida and Maine. He rode in The Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, a seven-day trip that bills itself as “the oldest, largest, and longest bicycle touring event in the world.” A history buff, he led walking tours through Portland as part of Portland’s History Docent Program. Survivors include wife Teeter Bibber; children Rilla and Dana Erickson; and three stepchildren. 1980 Patricia Marion James, July 30, 2010 “PJ” James joined the Bates admission staff after graduating with a degree in psychology and spent two years as an assistant dean. Then, she told another staff member, she had to move on because of her fears she would “become a lifer.” She moved on to a career with Bristol-Myers Squibb, where she became the manager of curricula for USP Learning. (United States Pharmacopeia is a non-governmental official standards-setting authority for prescription and other medications sold in the U.S.) While a student, she was a Benjamin Mays Scholar and was nominated as a New York City Urban Fellow. She directed and coordinated educational and referral services at the Androscoggin County Jail while at Bates, and was an intern at Riker’s Island. Even though she didn’t want to be a “lifer,” she remained close to the College, most notably as a member of the Alumni Council. She was also a class agent, an Alumni-in-Admissions volunteer, and a member of the College Key. Survivors include son Jared James; mother Cecilia James; sisters Melissa Webb and Courtney Steele; and dear friend Joanne Stillmun ’80. 1982 Mark Kevin Dickman, June, 18, 2010 Mark Dickman left Bates after one year and worked in the electrical distribution industry, most recently with Electrical Wholesalers Inc., in Hartford. Survivors include fiancée Marianne Enes; mother Marjorie Dickman; and brother Jeffrey. Mary Sinnamon Michelman, Dec. 17, 2010 When Mary Sinnamon Michelman graduated with a degree in biology, she was named a Dana Scholar and received the Abigail Smith Award, given to the senior man and woman who have done the most to contribute to residence hall spirit. She went on to earn a master’s in biological oceanography from

In Acton, Mass., environmental activist MARY SINNAMON MICHELMAN ’82 kept a close eye on the W.R. Grace pollution cleanup. “The irony of her contracting cancer,” said the chair of the Board of Selectmen, “is not lost on the community.” the Univ. of Rhode Island. She spent two years on a fishing trawler, then moved inland, to Acton, Mass., where she became known for her volunteer work on environmental issues. She organized Earth Days and stream cleanup days. She was president of Acton Citizens for Environmental Safety, and kept a close eye on the W.R. Grace pollution cleanup. “The irony of her contracting cancer,” said Lauren Rosenzweig Morton, chair of Acton’s Board of Selectmen, “is not lost on the community.” She had survived breast cancer and a double mastectomy only to have the cancer return. Survivors include husband Tom Michelman and daughters Julie and Valerie. 2002 William Adams Thomas III, Aug. 21, 2010 Adam Thomas had a peripatetic four years at Bates: He studied in six countries on three continents. Beyond learning about different cultures and languages, he said more than anything else he learned understanding. He put that knowledge to work after graduation by earning a law degree from the Univ. of Pittsburgh School of Law and becoming a telecommunications attorney dedicated to the public interest. He focused on democratizing knowledge, and worked with Public Knowledge, an organization that defends consumer rights in the emerging digital world. The organization has started a fellowship in his name. He previously worked with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and was a fellow with Free Press. He fought off three bouts of a rare brain cancer, but its fourth recurrence proved too strong. Survivors include wife Katie Strumpf; father Bill Thomas; and brother Ian Thomas. 2006 Nathan Dowd Dorpalen, Oct. 7, 2010 Nate Dorpalen died while backpacking on the Lofoten Islands in northern Norway. He was a master’s candidate in environmental agroecology at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Pursuing this degree was a natural progression after earning a bachelor’s degree in environmental sciences from the College. He was interested in small-scale organic farming, and had worked at farms in Maine, Alaska, and North Carolina. While at Bates, he apprenticed himself to the town of Palermo, where he learned forestry, carpentry, and orchard management. Immediately after college, he worked in Alaska, assisting with cleaning up gold mine sites and monitoring peregrine falcon nests. He hiked Denali and also hiked in Siberia. Survivors include parents Peter and Mary-Louise Dorpalen; twin sister Erica Dorpalen; and grandmother Rose-Marie Dorpalen. To celebrate his life, family and friends hiked up a mountain near his parents’ home in Connecticut.

Friend Sally Donavan Goodrich, Dec. 18, 2010 Sally Goodrich and her husband, Donald, took inspiration from their son’s outlook on life when they were confronted with unspeakable despair on Sept. 11, 2001. Their son was Peter Goodrich ’89, who was aboard the second airplane that hit the World Trade Center. They said, and his friends would agree, that Peter had “insatiable curiosity about life in all its various forms.” Sally and Donald decided to find a way to spark that curiosity in Afghan students, taking funds donated or awarded after the attacks to build a 26-room school for girls in Afghanistan. “The idea that we could go to Afghanistan...where the planning for our son’s death took place and provide an alternative way of looking at the world was very appealing to us,” said Don. They sponsored over a dozen exchange students from Afghanistan to the U.S., housing many of them themselves, and helping them obtain scholarships to American colleges. Among them is Mohammed Mustafa Basij-Rasikh ’12. To date, the foundation they formed in their son’s name has raised over $1 million. Survivors include her husband; son Foster Goodrich; daughter Kim Trimarchi; five grandchildren; and Peter’s wife Rachel Carr Goodrich ’90. Staff Joseph Woodhead, Oct. 18, 2010 In his 25 years as an assistant coach of track and field, Joseph Woodhead created a legacy of unparalleled success. His specialties were the indoor weight throw and the outdoor hammer throw. During those years, 15 Bates throwers won 43 All-America awards, including six NCAA championships. In February 2009, following renovations to Merrill Gymnasium and Slovenski Track, the throwing area was named in his honor. He won many coaching awards. Woodhead himself was a record-setting hammer thrower at Springfield College, as well as an All-New England football lineman. He also had a standout career at Lewiston High School. He coached at Lisbon High School for many years, winning four state championships. Among survivors are wife Mary Ellen Woodhead and sons Andy and Mike. Emeriti L. Ross Cummins, Sept. 21, 2010 L. Ross Cummins stepped into various roles during his 37 years at Bates. He was a professor of education, chair of the department of education and psychology, and director of guidance and placement. Educated at Yale — bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate — in psychology, he served a term as president of the Maine Psychological Assn. During World War II, he became chief clinical psychologist at Battey General Hospital in Georgia, and left the Army in 1945 to establish the Veterans Administration Guidance Center in Savannah. A world traveler with a special fondness for London, he continued to participate in campus events after retirement. His wife Margaret died in 1983. Survivors include daughter Jane Cummins Fowler; two step-grandchildren; and four step-great-grandchildren. Honorary Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke, Dec. 13, 2010 The College honored Richard Holbrooke’s dedication to peace with an honorary degree in 1999. Bates President Donald Harward used these words to describe him: “Diplomat, scholar, forger of the prism of resolution, you have extended to international conflict opportunities for accord. Your efforts at the unfinished work of peace have offered the promise, through diplomatic negotiation, of the sanctity of inviolable rights, as well as the responsibilities of justice.” He was the driving force that ended the war in Bosnia in 1995, and was a key player in the Obama administration’s efforts to convince President Karzai of Afghanistan to take responsibility for security in his country. President Obama called him “simply one of the giants of American foreign policy.”

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he framework is genuine — to listen,” Anecia O’Carroll says. She’s talking about “Multicultural Voices,” the college’s alumni listening tour that started in Atlanta over the winter. O’Carroll, who oversees multicultural and international programs for the Office of Alumni and Parent Engagement, is member of the Alutiiq tribe of Alaska. As such, the Bates tour is modeled less on the trendy presidential campaign versions seen in Iowa these days and more on O’Carroll’s own background and experiences. The Bates tour, she says, is strongly influenced by the tradition of the Native American talking circle, where each person’s voice is distinct, not lost in a din.

“It’s an ancient approach to resolving problems and promoting understanding,” says O’Carroll, an expert in career counseling, psychotherapy, and multicultural initiatives who has lived in diverse communities around the world. Fairchild McGough Dixon ’94, who attended the Atlanta session, says the “rousing discussion” felt like a Tuesday night seminar class from college days past. “It’s what I most miss about Bates,” she says. In recent years, Bates has been resolving problems and promoting understanding with various alumni cohorts, notably in the athletics realm through Friends of Bates Athletics and the LGBT realm through Bates PRIDE.

“The tour is an opportunity to ‘have a real conversation about Bates.’” In that context, the current listening tour seeks to improve the relationship between the college and its multicultural and international alumni. Measured through traditional metrics such as giving or volunteering, their engagement with Bates is low, says O’Carroll, and that’s why Bates “needs to hear from this cohort.” Today on the Bates campus, student diversity is at an all-time high, and new programs seek to make the campus as welcoming as its heritage says it should be. The listening tour, then, is an opportunity for multicultural alumni to “have a real conversation about what’s going on at Bates,” said student participant Ben Hughes ’12, a native of Atlanta. After Atlanta, the listening tour visited New York City in April and in August stopped in Washington, D.C., for a session in the Patrons Lounge at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. Kevin Rodriguez ’95 attended the New York City session, held at the Salmagundi Club. It only makes sense, he says, to “seek input from multicultural and international alumni — we are a great resource. And it offers alumni a unique way to give back to the college and future students.” As Rodriguez implies, alumni engagement is a two-way street. “This cohort should be able to reap all the benefits and privileges that come with a Bates education,” O’Carroll says, “and should also share the responsibility of giving back to Bates.” The listening tour is creating a definition of “Bates alum” with more hues. Atlanta attendee Dixon, who is white and a native of Louisiana, recalls that Bates was “seductive” to her as a student because it offered an environment “where it would be OK to be a smart woman.” At the same time, her Southern drawl made her ripe for stereotyping. “I took extreme issue with the notion that the South was the only region guilty of racial inequity,” she says.

During the listening tour, attendees have talked about the “benefits and privileges” idea that O’Carroll mentioned. “Minority” students and alums, broadly defined here in terms of racial, socioeconomic, or geographic identities, also suggest that they’ve not equally benefited from the Bates name as alums who fit neatly into the Northeast culture. Dixon, for example, recalls returning home to Louisiana and realizing that Tulane fraternities offered their alums more networking oomph than the Bates name. Rahel Wondwossen ’05 attended the New York City session. After teaching in New York

From the listening tour, she learned about various Bates initiatives around diversity and inclusion. “I left feeling like the college is moving in the right direction.” O’Carroll says the process of reAnecia O’Carroll engagement must be sensitive. “Bates has not been too present in their lives, so this is no time to show up out of the blue and ask for anything.” Now, the challenge is to maintain deliberate forward motion. “After listening comes responding, then listening again,” she says. “It’s a cycle of discourse and responsive action. We will let affinities form or re-form, and, yes, accept gifts of time and support for Bates as they naturally come forward.”

Bates diversity on Facebook on.fb.me/diversity-matters Listening tour video www.vimeo.com/21344918 The listening tour is creating a definition of “Bates alum” with more hues.

City with Teach for America, she is the new high school principal at New Orleans College Prep charter school. This fall, one of her former students, a Latina from the Bronx, is at Bates. “It’s a huge victory for her — and a challenge,” Wondwossen says. “Clearly, she will receive an excellent education at Bates, along with the support she needs.” But Wondwossen, who is African American, knows that her student will have to learn quickly how to navigate a new, predominantly white culture at Bates. “I had attended a predominately white school, so I had more code-switching skills” — that is, the ability to shift between linguistic styles — “that allowed me to transition in and out of various cultural groups,” Wondwossen says. “She has never experienced such an environment, and I was worried about her feeling isolated.”

Tour Stops The tour visits Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Boston in the coming months, welcoming the voices of multicultural and international alumni and their allies. For more information about the Multicultural Voices listening tour, contact Anecia O’Carroll at aocarrol@bates.edu or 207-755-5992.

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or a Saudi Arabian woman, coming to the United States to attain a bachelor’s degree in politics means facing challenges from many different directions. In coming here, I have to defy the stereotype of the submissive “Saudi woman” that is embedded in the culture I grew up in. And here in the U.S., I have also faced assumptions, thrown around as if they are facts, about the difficulties I must have faced living in such an “oppressive” culture. Many of us place oversimplified labels on people’s identities. Me included. As a volunteer in the Lewiston public schools, I was assigned to work with a Somali boy in the second grade. He had been figuratively but not literally abandoned by the school because of his poor academic performance. His nickname was Little Man. He was the quiet kid. He never asked a question and never solved one. When spoken to, he only stared. Whether he understood our words as we uttered them was a mystery. The fact was, he was failing. I was at first burdened by this assignment. I did not possess the supernatural powers that I believed necessary to help a child that even professional educators failed to help. The irony hit me. There I was, a Saudi woman in Lewiston, Maine, asked to help a refugee boy from Somalia. Who would have ever thought that I would get here? Either I did possess some superpowers, or I just had great faith in my abilities.

Either I did possess some superpowers, or I just had great faith in my abilities. And that’s when I realized that Little Man probably just didn’t have faith in his own abilities. Thus, I demanded that Little Man meet the standard. I asked him to write his alphabet letters exactly as shown in the laminated alphabet sheet taped on his desk. Little Man resisted change initially. When he leaned back and wrote loosely, I made him erase any letter that didn’t look ideal.

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Getting tired of having to redo his letters, he voluntarily sat up straight and tried to get them right once and for all. By the end of the day Little Man’s writing performance was shockingly outstanding! As the days went by, I saw a drastic change in Little Man’s behavior. He sat up straight when he wrote, sometimes stood up even. He asked to stay in class for recess to work with me on assignments. He became one of the first to complete class tasks. After writing a letter perfectly one day, Little Man yelled, “Yes!” and quickly pressed his hands on his mouth. It was too late; I had heard him, and knew he was just as happy as I was, seeing that he was capable. From this experience, I learned that people who seem submissive to their circumstances, and remain silent, are not necessarily silent because they approve. They are silent because they see no way out and are unaware of their capabilities that can take them places. To make a difference, I must empower them by first introducing the tools through which they can change their lives. Little Man was not little in my eyes anymore. He was never little. In our minds, we were too big to understand him. A politics major with minors in education and women and gender studies, Leena Nasser ’12 of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, is studying on the Bates Semester in France program this fall with faculty members Kirk Read (French) and Joseph Hall (history).

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Fallen, then Risen Dean of the Faculty Pam Baker ’69 (left) and Sarah Aschauer water a new oak planted on the Quad after Convocation on Sept. 6. The earliest Bates professors and students shared the duty of planting trees on what was then a bare plain, and this principled ethic carries forth today with a tree-planting ceremony at the start of each academic year. Led by the Multifaith Chaplaincy, the ceremony honors Bates people who have passed away in the past year. This year’s memorial honored, among others, the Rev. Peter Gomes ’65, Dean Emeritus of the College Jim Carignan ’61, and Campbell Professor of Economics David Aschauer. A tribute to the Rev. Gomes is on page 28, to Dean Carignan on page 3, and to Professor Aschauer at bit.ly/aschauer. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen.