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Wickie Smith Rowland’s firm, Drawing Room Ink, keeps her busy doing everything from designing gardens to painting a painting of a 12-foot Atlantic cod for a museum..... Susan Stich works at UCLA Outpatient Rehabilitation and lives in Venice, Calif., with her two daughters. Sadly, her husband, Jose Royo, died in May 2010....In New Hampshire, Dan Stockwell harvests wild mushrooms and sells them to restaurants and farmers’ markets. Nine years into running his 1983 Mercedes station wagon on waste vegetable oil, people are starting to think he might not be crazy. If only the EPA would make vegetable oil a certified fuel — it is still technically illegal under federal law.... Donna Waterman Douglass and Troy celebrated their 14th anniversary. She’s looking to sell her Outpatient Physical Therapy practice to pursue traveling part time so they can become snowbirds between Maine and Florida....Cathy Wygant is now the executive director of the Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce and bought a house with her fiancé, Todd Fossett.
1990 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class secretary Joanne Walton joannewalton2003@yahoo.com class president Eric Knight eric_knight@verizon.net Whitney Blanchard Soule works as director of admissions at Bowdoin. Win runs his own business in the Freeport area. Daughter Ellie is at Gettysburg College, and Lucy is at Groton School in Massachusetts.... Kathryn King Byrn, John and daughter Kelly (13) love life in St. Leon-Rot, Germany, where they bike around town and hike in the mountains overlooking Heidelberg. They were preparing for another year of travel before heading back to the states.... Susanne Salkind, managing director for The Human Rights Campaign, and Ali Vander Zanden ’06, political director for EqualityMaine, took part in a panel discussion at Bates entitled “Bobcats on the Front Lines: The World of Professional LGBT Activism.”
Bataan Death March Memorial Marathon at White Sands, N.M., commemorating the U.S. servicemen and Filipino soldiers who were forced to march to captivity in 1942. “I competed in the military ‘heavy’ division, wearing my utility field uniform, boots and a pack weighing 42 pounds. I’m not sure how I did overall among the almost 7,000 marchers, but I had a decent better-than-average time for my age group and in my category. This was by far the most challenging thing I think I have ever done.”...John Ducker received a Bates’ Best award at the annual Volunteer Leadership Summit in May for his contributions to Bates, including service as a Bates Fund class agent and decade captain. John is head of global business operations for the Rockport Co. He’s also published 15 poems in various journals and a book of golf poems, The Kiss That Caused My Slice, in 2009....Becky Farr Farwick is happily working as a YA librarian in Newport, R.I. “My daughter (4) and son (2) are growing beautiful and healthy. Chris has been home from Afghanistan for over a year now with no redeployment in the foreseeable future.”...Peter Oratowski is an Army sergeant with the 67th Forward Surgical Team (ABN), deployed to western Afghanistan but heading back to Germany before the holidays and then home to his wife in Mexico....David Strupp Jr. joined Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc. as a managing director, healthcare investment banking, based in New York....Katie Tibbetts Morello has had lots of changes. She and her son moved across the country to Oregon last year, and she’s engaged to someone she originally met overseas in middle school. She loves the weather and began a new job with Head Start....Elizabeth Tomlinson and Peter Sillin were married June 16, 2012. Betsy was most recently the director of international students and off-campus programs at the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Conn. Peter is the chairman of the history department and coach of the boys’ cross-country team at North Yarmouth Academy.
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class president John Ducker jducker1@yahoo.com
class committee Ami Berger ami_berger@hotmail.com Kristin Bierly Magendantz kristin.magendantz@trincoll.edu Kristen Downs Bruno alfredbruno@sbcglobal.net Roland Davis rdavis@bates.edu Peter Friedman peterjfriedman@gmail.com Leyla Morrissey Bader leyla.bader@gmail.com Jeff Mutterperl jeffmutterperl@aol.com
Jon Custis finished his first official marathon, the 23rd
Maria Bamford talked about her career as a standup comic,
1991 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Katie Tibbetts Morello ktmorello@alumni.bates.edu
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voiceover actress and quirky character in Target commercials in an interview with the Univ. of Minnesota’s UM News. Her lengthy credits include multiple appearances on the late-night talk show circuit, her own web series and comedy albums. A Minnesotan-turned-Californian, she quipped, “I am so mad at (my mother) for raising me in an upper-middle-class household with plenty of (violin) lessons and a great education.” She attended Bates, then the Univ. of Edinburgh before finishing college at Minnesota, where she received a degree in creative writing. Her struggles with mental health appeared for a time while she was at the U of M, she says, and she has high marks for an outpatient treatment program she went through while there. “One of my passions is mental health,” she said. “I’m very interested in that subject for personal reasons, [and] I have continued to benefit from professionals and medications.”...Ted Bernhard received a Bates’ Best award at the annual Volunteer Leadership Summit in May for his contributions to Bates. Ted has been an adviser in the Bates Career Development Center for 14 years and currently sits on the Bates Fund Executive Committee as co-chair of the Mount David Society....In Charleston, S.C., a local TV station caught up with Doug Coupe, co-producer of the forthcoming movie Warrior Road, a coming-of-age story being shot in Charleston and the Lowcountry. “We want the film to showcase some of the great talent in our area,” Doug said. “We have high expectations and lofty goals, and hope to have it screened at some of the top-tier film festivals.”...Roland Davis is now assistant head of school at the Middlesex School, an independent boarding school in Concord, Mass. He left Bates after a decade as director of the Office of Intercultural Education and associate dean of students.... Cole and Leyla Morrissey Bader welcomed Tucker Callan Sinclair Bader on June 7, 2012.
1993 Reunion 2013, June 7–9 class secretary Kimberly Donohue Kavanaugh k.kavanaugh@alumni.bates.edu class president Madeline Yanford Gorini madelinegorini@me.com Bill Farrington and Mary Sporcic Farrington ’96 welcomed Anne Catherine Farrington on March 11, 2012....Shahana Koslofsky Mallery lives in Portland, Ore., with Dave and daughters Rhea (7) and Alessa (4). After having her own private practice for seven years, she’s now on the faculty at Pacific Univ.’s School of Professional
Psychology. She visits with Telle Zeiler in Seattle periodically.... Katie Moran Madden was named to the Bates ScholarAthlete Society in May. An AllNew England and All-American swimmer as a student, Katie then worked in Bates Admission until 2005. Active in Bates affairs, she and Reese have two daughters, Mia (7) and Campbell (5), and live in Norwich, Vt. Katie is active with Camp Dudley and Camp Dudley at Kiniya, and the boys’ and girls’ YMCA-affiliated camps on Lake Champlain in New York and Vermont. She also volunteers for the Marion Cross School and the Montshire Museum of Science, both in Norwich, Vt., and works as an applications reader for Dartmouth College....Kevin Moore helps manage the IT department at J.Crew in New York City. “One of the great perks is the dress code is not much different than my days on the Bates campus (with a few less winter boots).” His boys are 3 and 5....Chris Parrish was elected assistant division director of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Lidar Division. He is the lead physical scientist in the Remote Sensing Division of NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey....Zohra Saifee Haziq lives in Bonney Lake, Wash., with husband Mustafa, Naveed (13) and Lena (6).
1994 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Jonathan Lilja jonathanlilja@gmail.com class president Susan Spano Piacenti susanpiacenti@cox.net Ben Cline and Elizabeth welcomed twin daughters Catherine Ann and Sarah Margaret on Feb. 16, 2012....Carrie Curtis Young teaches English in Baltimore. She and her husband welcomed their first child. They hang out with Mei Lun Chau and Kate Ganley Wickham and Barnaby....Jason Grant and Gretchen, who were married in February 2011, welcomed Clara Margaret Helen in November 2011. He works in Cambridge, Mass., as an editor for Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Complete Works....Emily Jackson Sanborn and James ’96 live in Orono with their two daughters. She does a bit of consulting and sings in a group that focuses on peace, tolerance and social justice. He competes in triathlons and is a whitewater kayaker.... Jon-Jon Lilja works at GW & Wade, a financial planning firm, and volunteers on the town ambulance crew in Rockport, Mass....Kim Marsella and her husband, Blue Neils, welcomed Cooper Donovan Neils on Nov. 11, 2011. She is now associate