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Lisa Peace Tito is medical director and surgeon at the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Breast Center in Plymouth, Mass. The family — husband, son (16), daughter (8) —“travel a lot, especially to warm places with scuba diving. Coolest dive spot was Papau New Guinea. Also have volunteered with my husband, also a surgeon, in Kenya.”... Charles Prast is CEO at adult entertainment powerhouse Private Media Group....Jeff Price is now the chief commercial officer of the PGA of America....Medical anthropologist Rochelle Rosen returned to Bates to speak on “Diabetes and Obesity: Applied Anthropology in Samoa.” She’s an assistant professor in the Department of Community Health at Brown Univ.’s Alpert Medical School and The Miriam Hospital....Bill Roy, who started five companies and worked at six others, has been in Florida for 10 years....Karl Steudel’s book, The Complete Guide to Acting in New England, comes out this year....Deb Whitney, who has been teaching in overseas posts for 17 years, moved with husband David and Isabel to Shanghai, China. “Here’s betting my daughter picks up Mandarin way faster than I do!”
1988 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class committee Mary Capaldi Carr mary.capaldi.carr@gmail.com Astrid Delfino Bernard flutistastrid@sbcglobal.net Ruth Garretson Cameron ruth.eg.cameron@gmail.com Steven Lewis lewiss@umhelena.edu Julie Sutherland Platt julielsp@verizon.net Darsie Alexander is now the executive director of the Katonah (N.Y.) Museum of Art....Doug Damberg lives in Cold Bay, Alaska, and is the refuge manager of the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. He and Carol “traded our urban Sacramento lifestyle for a backyard of bears, volcanoes and salmon in the Aleutians.”...The Maine Children’s Alliance gave pediatrician Steve Feder and Julia Sleeper ’08 individual Champions for Children Giraffe Awards for “sticking their necks out” for children. DO at Miles Memorial Hospital in Boothbay Harbor, Steve has advocated for obesity prevention, continued funding for MaineCare and Head Start, and other child health issues. Julia is executive director at the Tree Street Youth Center, which supports the youth of LewistonAuburn through academics, the arts and athletics....Bates trustee Jennifer Guckel Porter, founder and managing partner of The Boda Group, a Boston-based leadership development firm,
spoke at the college as part of its entrepreneurship series....The law firm Bernstein Shur named Ron Schneider to co-chair its Labor and Employment Practice Group.
1989 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Donna Waterman Douglass 4498donnad@gmail.com steering committee Sally Ehrenfried sallye@alumni.bates.edu Deb Schiavi Cote debscote@yahoo.com Frank Barbieri welcomed a daughter, Michiko Rose Barbieri, on Nov. 10, 2013....Lawyer Randy Bates was re-elected to a threeyear term on the Yarmouth Town Council....Anthropologist Caitrin Lynch returned to Bates for a talk based on her research on a factory’s reliance on elderly workers.... Peter Muise published a book, Legends and Lore of the North Shore. He has been blogging about legends and lore from around New England since 2008.... Mark Thompson, appointed to Colorado’s District Court bench in 2010, has been elevated to chief judge of the state’s Fifth Judicial District....Ruth Thompson Mann and Jonathan welcomed James Denis Mann on Oct. 28, 2013.
1990 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class secretary Joanne Walton joannewalton2003@yahoo.com class president Eric Knight eric_knight@verizon.net Jennifer Beggs VanBelle was appointed vice president and chief risk officer of Capital Management at GE Capital, based in Fairfield, Conn....Tina Brickley Engberg lives in Atlanta with Kaj ’91, who’s been with UPS for 20 years, and two boys, 8 and 11. She had her Cub Scout Den learn about weather with hurricane specialist Greg Postel of The Weather Channel....Larry Carbonneau met with the director of the Healthcare Crimes Unit of the Maine attorney general’s office, who turned out to be Bill Savage. Larry works for the Maine Department of Health and Human Services as a program manager in Licensing and Regulatory Services. His most recent new friend is Kim Gamel, an AP news editor based in Cairo....Ismael Elias Carreras and Andrea Snow are raising Caroline (16) and Julia (10) in Lexington, Mass. Andrea is a real estate broker with Hammond Residential and works alongside her mom, C.J. Snow ’63. Mel is a vice president of research at Maguire Associates, which focuses on enrollment management consulting for colleges and universities....
Alexandra Delp lives in London with husband Christopher Troulser and has been helping their son Piers prepare for Common Entrance exams....Jennifer Eifrig published her first novel, Discovering Ren, which involves Egyptian mythology and draws on her experience working in museums....JP Fingado and Jennifer live in Milwaukee with Alexey (16) and Kaitlin (7). He sold his company, API Healthcare, to GE and is figuring out his next opportunity....Tom and Betsy Dodds George enjoy Seattle, a great place to raise Graham (13) and Lacy (9)....Sue Hubley, now retired from Bates, looks forward to volunteering on the 2015 Reunion Committee....Anne Jamieson Waehner works as HR director at Galt & Co., a management consulting firm. She enjoys raising two boys, 7 and 10....Mark Kennedy is back in Japan for his third tour of duty with his longtime employer, medical device manufacturer Hollister Inc. He got together in Tokyo with Haruki Umezawa ’93 and Ted Barksdale ’91....Diana Lee is earning an M.S. in environmental studies with a concentration in conservation biology at Green Mountain College....Greg Manthei and Jennifer moved back to their hometown of Newton, Mass., to raise their two boys close to family....Spencer Ordway is busy chasing Alexis (11), Julia (9) and Corliss (8) around to sports and after-school events. He and his sister, Laura Ordway ’93, are now the owners and directors of Winona Camps in Bridgton, a boys summer residential program....Tasker Smith teaches at MIT, mentoring students in the practical use of machine tools and rapid prototyping technologies....Molly Snow Robinson works in the children’s department at a public library and as an admissions application reader for Roger Williams Univ....Sarah Stone and her husband, Don Munsil, took over running MouseSavers.com, which provides information about deals and discounts on all things Disney....Karl Uhlendorf was named communications and advocacy director of Astellas, a pharmaceutical company. He works in Washington....Chris von Jako is now president and CEO of NeuroTherm, a privately held medical device leader in the field of chronic pain, after selling his previous company to a Fortune 500 medical device company in 2013. In May he completed his Ph.D. work in biomedical sciences by defending his thesis....Ted Walls married Azihan Tuleubay in the fall of 2013. Their son, Torehan Jean Walls, was born March 16, 2014....Joanne Walton, in Fairfax, Va., volunteers as much as she can while keeping up with Zoe (13) and Theo (7).
1991 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Katie Tibbetts Gates ktmorello@alumni.bates.edu class president John Ducker jducker1@yahoo.com
Elizabeth Rynecki ’91 searches for paintings by her great-grandfather, Moshe Rynecki, who died in the Holocaust and whose works portrayed Polish Jewish culture. “I keep thinking that if I find enough of them...I will understand.” As Marine Corps Maj. Jon Custis sat in a hotel lobby in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, taking a quick break from a conference he was leading, a fellow American plopped down next to him. Jon learns that the man teaches history to the son of the president of Tajikistan. “I learn he’s from Massachusetts and is well-acquainted with Bates. When I tell him it’s surreal to run across an American in Dushanbe who has such familiarity, he takes surreal to a new level: He’s a cousin of none other than Bill Hiss ’66, who, as I learn, was an academic adviser to a 2012 alum working in Tajikistan. I’ve had some strange and interesting thing happen in my travels, but that takes the cake. Then again, it was Dushanbe, which can be surreal in its own right.”...Josh Ferguson loves his work at Tesla Motors where he was awarded his most exciting patent so far for his design of the charge inlet/plugs for Model S.... Traci Higgins works at TERC, a nonprofit that researches and develops STEM curricula, in Cambridge, Mass. Her family has reconnected with alums like Kristin Johnson Bogue and made new Bates friends such as Karen Gunn Bulock.... Trina Janes works as a public affairs consultant in Chicago... Joshua Macht, executive vice president and group publisher of the Harvard Business Review Group, returned to Bates as part of its entrepreneurship speaker series...Lisa McGregor Pomeroy returned to the Gulf Coast of Mississippi where she’s active on the board of a cultural and education center....Bill Myers teaches a life skills class at Lewiston High. He and his staff are involved in the Special Olympics, and he’s proud that
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