takeaway: Charles Perou ’87
media outlet: Medical Xpress
headline:
Solving cancer’s secrets
date:
April 21, 2014
takeaway: Better therapies follow better understanding of cancer genetics “Some fathers play ball with their sons,” Medical Xpress reporter Mark Derewicz writes in introducing cancer researcher Charles Perou ’87. “Chuck Perou’s father took his son to his pathology lab.” Derewicz’s talk with Bates biology major Perou surveys the genetic underpinnings of cancer and explains how ongoing research increasingly enables doctors to tailor the treatment to the disease. Perou has identified four major breast cancer subtypes that “are really indicative of underlying genetics. And it’s underlying genetics that dictate the behavior of tumors and their sensitivities to therapies.” Now a professor of molecular oncology in the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Perou is doing work that’s “fundamentally reshaping the scientific understanding” of breast cancer, The New York Times noted in 2012.
Park City Mountain Resort and runs the avalanche dog program. Diane earned a master’s in public administration and is city manager of Park City. After 22 years in the private sector she finds “municipal government fun, challenging and rewarding.”...Dave Reynolds welcomed Bates friends to his cabin near Westcliffe, Colo., last June for a week of hiking, rafting, flyfishing and reconnecting. “It was a grand affair,” he says. The crew included Joc Clark, Mark Scholtes ’84, Alex Johnston ’84, Dan Calder ’84, Nick Lindholm, John Abbott, Brad Turner and John Cutler ’87.... Mary Sulya Powell is director of operations for the Alcohol/ Drug Council of North Carolina and principal investigator for a Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services grant to enroll people in the federal health insurance exchange. An article about their project was featured in The Wall Street Journal. In 2014, son Brian finished his senior year at Camelot Academy where he was the center on the basketball team. Daughter Stacy is in high school at the Durham School of the Arts where she is a varsity tennis, indoor track and soccer player....James Tarbox and his partner were finally able to get married, in October 2013. For the last eight years, they lived in two different countries, and were continuous migrants between the U.S. and Mexico. The Supreme Court’s decision with respect to DOMA changed their lives overnight, and in ways that they thought they’d not see in their lifetime. Recently, James asked a friend who turned 60 what she thought of her 50s and she said, “You learn to work your way through loss and to say with great certainty, ‘This is who I am’ and live strongly from that position.”…Patty Walker has been in a transitional place in life after ending a 19-year relationship, going through the difficult process of separating belongings and getting their house ready to sell. Patty took three of their dogs, leaving two dogs and two cats. Between chocolate, long walks with the dogs and watching Dr. Who DVDs, she’s muddling through. Patty enjoys her work as a software trainer at a law firm in downtown D.C. She’s also on a search team with one of her dogs, a 10-year-old Lab-Australian shepherd.
1987 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Val Brickates Kennedy brickates@gmail.com class president Peggy Brosnahan mmb263@cornell.edu
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When Lynn Grondin Hannum ’87 ran into Peggy Brosnahan ’87 at a conference in Honolulu, they reconnected with a unique combination of immunology and fire dancers on the beach. Rich Barnard, who lives in Atlanta with his wife and two boys, works at Manheim Auto Auctions, part of the Cox Companies....John Blanchette works at Champoux Insurance as a commercial lines producer and manager. He coaches the Bates Ballroom Team, which competes on the collegiate circuit....Finishing her Ph.D. in immunology, Peggy Brosnahan hoped that 2014 brings a “real” job, a full marathon and her first ultra....Brooke Garrettson Carroll is head of school at Seneca Academy in Darnestown, Md. Brian hung out his own shingle as Brian Carroll Architect LLC. Andrew is 14, Molly 12....John Cutler launched a startup, New Grid Networks in California. He got in a lot of Maine paddling and adventuring with Dave Boothby....Kathleen Flaherty lives the cowgirl life outside Tucson, Ariz. She celebrated the 30th anniversary of meeting Bates Bunkie Molly Marchese Mullin. She gets back to Massachusetts to hang out with Molly and Chris Mullin ’85 and Kerry Crehan Dunnell ’86....Lynn Grondin Hannum, an associate professor of biology at Colby, ran into Peggy Brosnahan at a conference in Honolulu where they reconnected with a unique combination of immunology and fire dancers on the beach.... Alex Hammer published his fifth book and third Amazon bestseller, The Laws and Secrets of Success....Kari Heistad, CEO of Culture Coach International in Newton, Mass., received an award from UNA-USA for leadership in education....Erik Jarnryd is CEO of Harvey Building Products, a window manufacturer and building product distributor in the Northeast. Susanne Morrison Jarnryd heads the Bacaanda Foundation, whose mission is to improve the quality of life in rural Mexico through schools and dental clinics. Anders ’17 is at Bates....Molly Marchese Mullin got 30 bags of Doritos from Bates roommate Kath Flaherty to celebrate their 30 years of friendship....Lynne Margulis Buscher, who teaches fifth grade on Cape Cod, has been assigning the young-adult novel The Exceptionals, by Erin Heffernan Cashman....