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commune of his founding in far southeast D.C., where he leads the restoration of the spectacular but neglected 205-acre Shepherd Parkway. He’s finishing a master’s in educational administration and policy at Howard Univ. and exploring new opportunities after eight exhausting years of teaching social studies in high-poverty schools....Dave Hurley teaches psychology at Stonehill College where he received the 2014 Athletic Department Outstanding Faculty Member Award, chosen by athletes and the department. He puts equal effort into lesson planning and picking out his Outfit of the Day. He is a well-dressed man. In his minimal free moments, he likes to bowl, watch the Sawx and relive his finest Bates memories with fellow Bostonians Chet Clem, Josh Kleinman, Mike Lopez ’04 and anyone else who happens to be in Somerville/ Cambridge that evening....Josh Kleinman passed his licensing exams to become a real architect. He works for Behnisch Architekten in Boston where he specializes in waterproofing methods and apparently makes other important contributions, too. Josh and his Rachael celebrated two years of marriage and he still thinks he doesn’t deserve her. He misses playing intramural sports, smiles frequently and desperately wants to hang out with Chet Clem, but the highlight of Josh’s 2014 was finally seeing Rihanna live in concert. Next up: Beyoncé with his Bates Blurb writer Dave Hurley....Angela Knox and Aung Pyaesone were married May 24, 2014. Angela earned a master’s degree in project management from Northeastern Univ. and now works as clinical trial project manager in Massachusetts General Hospital’s Department of Neurology. She also teaches part time in the regulatory affairs program at Northeastern....The Bangor Daily News looked at Working for the Weekend, a new Web series that follows Ben Leoni and fellow backcountry skiing friends into the boondocks of the Northeast. Ben created the series, and the contributing videographers included Lincoln Benedict ’09, whose own day job is as a video producer at L.L.Bean. Ben, a lawyer with the Portland firm of Curtis Thaxter, says backcountry skiing is “my release. You have to have a good work-life balance.”... Haley Lieberman and Michael Friedman were married May 3, 2014. She works in New York as a costume designer for operas and films and as a commercial stylist. He is the senior rabbi at Temple Israel in Westport, Conn....In May 2013, Meredith Maller Strahl earned a JD from the Univ. of Maryland Francis
King Carey School of Law. This past year, she completed a master of laws in taxation at Georgetown Univ. Law Center and joined the D.C.-based investment firm Brown Advisory as an associate strategic adviser, focusing on private wealth planning. Meredith’s husband, Ben, joined the dental practice of Giannini and Gray in Chevy Chase, Md. In their spare time, they enjoy sailing, kayaking and skiing, although their English bulldog Anna is ambivalent about any physical activity.... Tyler Middleton earned an MBA from the Univ. of Washington’s Foster School of Business in Seattle and works at Starbucks’ corporate headquarters....Sarah Neukom lives in Chicago and manages one of the city’s newest events spaces. When she’s not producing events at the Chop Shop and 1st Ward, she acts as chair of the associates board for StreetWise, which helps end homelessness in Chicago by creating stable jobs for men and women on the verge of poverty. With the influx of Batesies in Chicago, she attends every Bates/NESCAC event she can. And she can’t wait to start planning the 10-year Reunion with Larry Handerhan....Craig Saddlemire returned to campus for Short Term to lead one of four new practitioner-taught courses, a pilot program initiatiated by President Clayton Spencer to knit the Bates experience more closely to ideas about work (broadly defined). Along with Sarah Standiford ’97 and Aditi Vaidya ’00, he taught “Social Change Organizing and Advocacy.”...Whitney Sheen is a neurosurgery resident at the Univ. of Arizona. In June she married Richard James and changed her name to Dr. Whitney Sheen James.... Stephanie Shokal and Logan Masters were married in July 2013....Jacqueline Starnes and her husband moved to Maryland where she works for the National Aquarium in the development department. She is also a volunteer diver and aquarist....Diane Tolis and Jayne Nucete (Univ. of Missouri ’01) were married Oct. 19, 2013.... Daniel Vannoni, founder of Gecko Ventures and CEO and co-founder of Novopyxis, returned to Bates as part of its entrepreneurship speaker series....Cynthia Tufaro Verhave and Alex welcomed Madeline Parker, “named after the Bates dorm where we met,” on April 11, 2014. Isabel is almost 3....Blake and Katrina Bergevin Wayman celebrated their fifth anniversary. Dean is 2. They live in Hooksett, N.H., which is exactly like Boston except there is nothing to do or see there. The three travel frequently.... Vanessa Williamson entered
her third year of coaching swimming at Bates. “Raising my 4-year-old daughter and training for World’s Swimming Champs and loving life.”
2006 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class co-presidents Chelsea Cook chelsea.m.cook@gmail.com Katharine M. Nolan knolan@alumni.bates.edu John Ritzo jritzo@energycircle.com Cali Lanza-Weil and Dan Burstein (Emory ’98) were married Nov. 9, 2013....Writing for the blog Political Violence @ a Glance, Aliza Luft probed the question of what led some Hutu to “evade participation and help Tutsi” during the genocide in Rwanda 20 years ago. And why, she asked, did some Hutu who killed Tutsi also, at other points, save Tutsi lives? She wrote: “Central to the way social scientists understand who participates in a genocide is the notion of dehumanization — the perception among killers that their victims are less than human. However, interviews often show how some Hutu civilians had nuanced perceptions of their victims, which led them to save some Tutsi, even as they continued killing others.... [It] seems as if the process of dehumanization is actually an outcome of participation in killing rather than a precursor to it.” Aliza is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the Univ. of Wisconsin– Madison and a visiting research scholar at The Graduate Center of the City Univ. of New York.... Hannah Lund and Ryan Taylor were married May 4, 2013.... Mike Metzger, special assistant to the Defense Department’s deputy chief management officer, talked about the unpredictable nature of his job with FCW, a publication covering the business of federal technology. He can spend one day working with Congress and the next briefing top-level Pentagon officials on efforts to reform DOD’s financial management. “I get to dip my toe into processes, standards and architecture, and I get to have a broad-based view of business operations of DOD. I really don’t know what my day is going to be when I go into the office, and I like that.” Mike, who is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, credits another unusual aspect of his education for his success: the Bates debate team. “It’s helped in my career, being able to use that critical thinking and organization of thought in writing, project management and being able to communicate in DOD.”... Hallie Preston and Philip Aaron Greene were married March 28, 2014....Katy Reedy Woodring and Ben welcomed Waverly
Lynn Woodring on Dec. 11, 2013. Katy is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Harvard; Ben is a student at Yale Law School....Mary Tong and Zaw Min Oo ’07 were married Feb. 2, 2013.
2007 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class co-presidents Keith Kearney kdkearney@gmail.com Rakhshan Zahid rakhshan.zahid@gmail.com Megan Birmingham and Stewart Wolf were married Nov. 9, 2013. She earned a master’s in nutrition and dietetics from NYU. He is the general counsel for the asset management division of the Amerevision Group, a financing and financial services concern, in New York. The New York Times recounted how the two were introduced in 2011 “through the meddling of a woman neither knew very well.” When they later talked on the phone, “the conversation never lagged and we didn’t have a hard time finding things to talk about,” Megan remembered....Emily Crawford ’10 and Danny Bousquet were married Oct. 5, 2013.... Brooke Dennee-Sommers and Carter Witherspoon were married Aug. 17, 2013....Akiko Doi and Christopher Theile were married Sept. 6, 2013. Akiko, who has a Ph.D. in cellular molecular medicine from Johns Hopkins, is a postdoctoral fellow at MIT. Chris, who has a Ph.D. in chemistry from Boston College, is a postdoctoral fellow at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. They live in Arlington, Mass....Sarah Drosdik and James Pelletier were married June 14, 2014. She is a nurse practitioner at Veterans Hospital in Boston. He earned an MBA from Boston College.... Darren Elwell was promoted to principal of Ware (Mass.) High School....Katherine Ferriter and Fritz Hauschild were married Oct. 19, 2013....Mary Bucci and Luke Feinberg were married Aug. 17, 2013. Luke is finishing a master’s at UC Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Science & Management. As a yearlong capstone project for the degree, he was part of a team looking at the feasibility of offshore wind energy development in central California along with Zach Jylkka ’10. At Bren, Luke specializes in energy and climate and corporate environmental management, pursuing a passion for renewable energy systems and climate change science and policy. He serves as the CalWind project manager and aspires to use the baseline of knowledge gained at Bren to be a facilitator for solving complex environmental problems. Zach, who grew up lobster fishing, is
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