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an hour in length. Short stories make wonderful subjects for operas,” he said....Lori Alison Heller published her second novel, The Never Never Sisters (NAL), about family secrets and women who reunite one summer in New York. Kirkus Reviews called it “a triumph of witty dialogue and characters as true to life as your best friends.”...Anne Macomber is now associate creative director at The Integer Group, a promotional, retail and shopper marketing agency, based in Lakewood, Colo....Scott Rose joined the Somerset, N.J., law firm Parker Ibrahim & Berg as a partner and chair of the firm’s Complex Commercial and Securities Litigation practice group.
1995 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class co-secretaries Scott Marchildon smarchildon@une.edu Philip Pettis ppettis@nhlawfirm.com class co-presidents Jason Verner jcv@nbgroup.com Deborah Nowak Verner debverner@gmail.com Robin Bitner and husband Scott Sanchez welcomed Milo Antonio Sanchez on Oct. 22, 2013.... After many years in Wisconsin and Georgia, Amy Haas “finally set down some roots, in Nashua, N.H. I opened Path of Life Chiropractic Health Center in Nashua in 2010. Being the boss has the best perk in the world: I get to bring my Labs, Izzy and Sagan, to work with me every day.”...Dasha Rafalovich (Tomsk Polytechnic Univ. ’08, Siberia, Russia) and Henry Hanley III were married Sept. 21, 2013.... Carolyn Kavanagh-Gaither writes, “Edmund (‘Joey’) and I just passed the two-year mark of a four-year assignment in Lagos, Nigeria. We are overseas thanks to Edmund’s job with Shell Oil. I left my position at ExxonMobil and am now volunteering here in Lagos and watching our kids (9 and 7) change before our eyes!”... Nisha Koshy left her litigation job behind to stay home with Sophia (10) and Lily (7). After practicing for 15 years, she doesn’t miss the law one bit. She and her girls enjoyed visiting Beth Lurvey Bounds and her family in San Francisco, and she plans a mini-reunion with Ingerlene Voosen and Bayne Gibby.... Patrick LeRoy and Dana Lemelin (Swarthmore ’99) were married April 11, 2014. Patrick writes, “My husband’s family is from Lewiston. In fact, they have a Bates connection — they used to own Clason House! Ironically, that’s the house I was a JA in from 1993–94. Kind of crazy, and we call it kismet.”...Judy Lorenz Romeo lives in central New Jersey with Steve and two boys, and
continues to work in healthcare communications. As a reminder of how small the Bates world is, one of Judy’s clients, and now friends, is Mark Thomson ’03....Gretchen Peterson was promoted to full professor at California State Univ., Los Angeles, and then elected chair of the Department of Sociology. “On Sept. 7, I married Mike Kozachenko. I am now in my 33rd year of playing softball and don’t plan to stop anytime soon.”...Anthony and Kirsten Geisel Phillips live with their four kids, cat, dog and horse in Brentwood, N.H. He works for Cabot Corp. where he has been employed for the last 12 years. She is a stay-at-home mom who still cringes when people say, “So you don’t work then?”...Robin Postman Benson and Al expected their first baby, a girl, this summer. Robin works as a full-time consultant and “CEO on call” for small businesses. They live in Granbury, Texas, and enjoy raising border collie cow dogs, Correinte cattle and team roping....Amy Starer Gifford enjoys life in the Green Mountains with Jason ’97 and sons Jabes (10) and Eben (7). Ever committed to helping kids develop a healthy relationship with food, she’s started working with VT Food Education Every Day, coordinating Junior Iron Chef Vermont and supporting schools with local purchasing and food service professional development....Laike Stewart and family — Melanie, son Maxwell (2) and daughter Hannah (1) — live in Miami where he enjoys his position at the Univ. of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine as associate director in the group that oversees and supports all animal-based research projects at the medical campus, undergraduate campus and marine school....Deb Nowak Verner and Jason live in Acton, Mass., with Ben (11), Sarah (10) and Kyle (8) along with two guinea pigs. Soccer, baseball, softball, swimming and violin keep their household very busy. Jason works at The Northbridge Group in Concord, and Deb works at McCarthy-Towne Elementary School in Acton.
1996 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class co-presidents Ayesha Farag-Davis faragdavis@aol.com James D. Lowe jameslowemaine@yahoo.com David Brennan was promoted to director of programs for the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation; he’s in his ninth season with the team. He enjoys living in Manhattan Beach, three blocks from the beach....In New York City, Anne Popadic Kohler and Mike welcomed Orson Autry Kohler on Nov. 16, 2012.
1997 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class co-secretaries Chris Gailey gaileycj@gmail.com Leah Wiedmann Gailey leah.gailey@gmail.com class president Stuart B. Abelson sabelson@oraclinical.com Pat Cosquer, head squash coach at Bates, was featured in an MPBN story about the sport. “There still remains a little bit of the prep school, Ivy League mentality in squash,” he said, “but the game is moving out to the suburbs and into the cities to public schools and it’s really exciting.” MPBN noted that Pat “has embraced this new diversity, and brought in players from all over the world.” Bates has had more than 50 international players since the program started in 1985....Chris Deem joined the Tampa, Fla., law firm GrayRobinson in its Banking and Finance Practice Group.... Edible Brooklyn interviewed Andrew Knowlton, Bon Appétit’s restaurant and drinks editor, about his annual “journey of a thousand meals”: creating the magazine’s “America’s Best Restaurants” issue. Great food has drawn him to places that he never thought he’d want to visit, he says, and while “New York, San Francisco and Chicago used to be head and shoulders above...now it doesn’t matter where you go, you get great food, design and service.”...Jack Martilotta, head coach of the Greenport/Mattituck/Southold football team in Greenport, N.Y., was named the Lou Rettino High School Football Coach of the Week by the New York Giants of the NFL....Brewmaster Jason Perkins talked to the Maine Sunday Telegram at Allagash Brewing Co.’s launch of a Belgianinspired beer, Allagash Saison. “We have a lot of passionate beer drinkers here,” Jason said of the Portland brewery staff. “Our pilot program encourages our staff to submit ideas, and they come from everywhere.”...Geoff Pynn received the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award at Northern Illinois Univ. where he has taught philosophy since 2008. “There’s an old saying that teaching is the best way to learn, and I’ve found that to be absolutely true,” he told NIU Today....Sarah Standiford of South Portland, regional field manager with Planned Parenthood, spoke at the college’s Stringfellow Lunch Series featuring alumni activists....After the Boston Marathon bombings last year, a group of artists, including Matt Tavares, contributed artwork to an online auction supporting the Emergency and Trauma Fund at Boston Children’s Hospital. Matt, a children’s book illustra-
tor and author, donated a watercolor from his 2012 book, There Goes Ted Williams: The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived. He told The Boston Globe that he chose that painting “because Ted Williams did so much to help kids in Boston hospitals. I feel he would want to be a part of this if he was around.”...Jonathan White is the new director of admissions and recruitment at Armstrong Atlantic State Univ. in Savannah, Ga.
1998 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class committee Rob Curtis robcurtis79@gmail.com Douglas Beers douglas.beers@gmail.com Liam Leduc Clarke ldlc639@yahoo.com Renée Leduc Clarke rleducclarke@gmail.com Tyler Munoz tylermunoz@gmail.com Jennifer Anderton Camp and Mike (UVA ’98) enjoy the adventure of life with sons Jackson (6) and Ryder (4)....Cathleen Jasper Vincent and Ken welcomed Angus Vincent on Feb. 15, 2012. Broden is 7. Cathleen lives and works as an acupuncturist on Martha’s Vineyard....Ken Kolb, an assistant professor of sociology at Furman Univ., published a book, Moral Wages: The Emotional Dilemmas of Victim Advocacy and Counseling (Univ. of California Press, 2014), which focuses on the service providers who assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault....Former Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Peter Sanders was appointed the LA Fire Department’s first public information director.
1999 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Jennifer Lemkin Bouchard jlemkin@alumni.bates.edu class president Jamie Ascenzo Trickett jamie.trickett@gmail.com Sam Anderson is now senior managing director, head of capital markets and strategy at Medley LLC in New York....Tracy Barbaro and Zenas welcomed Reuben Grey Barbaro Lu on Dec. 6, 2013.... Julie DeLaite Mulkern and Ric welcomed John Clyde Thomas Mulkern on Oct. 10, 2013.... Julie Lundman and her husband welcomed Zoe Lundman Durrant on April 7, 2014....Lindsay Laws and Greg Powers were married Oct. 19, 2013....Rachel Walls splits her time between Jackson Hole, Wyo., and Portland, Maine, with frequent trips to New York. She’s curating exhibitions featuring the artwork of Marguerite and William Zorach and their daughter Dahlov Ipcar. Last winter she enjoyed the most skiing in years
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