Strahan is managing her real estate business through a difficult economy in Sudbury, Mass. She and Phil have two boys in high school.... Mark Leahey returned to Kuwait on his fourth military deployment. He is the deputy commander of the 197th Fires Brigade of the New Hampshire Army National Guard. Michele Wygant Leahey ’85 manages the home front on top of her duties as a special education teacher.... Pam Livingston Verfaillie and Darryl transferred to Ohio, where he is a captain in the U.S. Coast Guard. Their oldest of three sons is at Alaska–Fairbanks. Pam signed up for the 3-Day Breast Cancer Walk and is ready for the next adventure.... Allen Loyd works as an artist and designer, designing sets for theater and opera and museum exhibits.... Sue Megroz Rosenzweig is at home with her four kids. Her service commitments include being president of the
a middle school sex ed curriculum. She and Conor live in Holliston, Mass., with daughter Molly, who’s in high school.... Peter Senghas and Kellie Thibodeau ’87 live in Acton, Mass., where he enjoys a second career as an elementary educator. They love road trips with sons Jacob and Sam.... Djuliani Soeharto Cordiano returned to the work force as a real estate agent in Austin, Texas, after moving from Honolulu with husband Henry and two daughters.... Scott Steinberg is dean of undergraduate admission at the Univ. of Southern Maine. He marvels at the creativity of his wife, designer Sarah McKnight Steinberg ’96, chauffeurs his daughters to various activities, plays the occasional music gig, and volunteers for the U.S. Tennis Assn.... Doug and Anna Gailitis Strout ’88 live in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, with daughters Ella and Helen. He continues to run his
Commenting about wine trends, chef and restaurant owner Deborah Hansen ’86 tells The Boston Globe that “everyone’s palate is tired of sweet.” board at their pre-school. Her comedic Bates moments have included Alumni-in-Admissions interviews and a cluster of super-smart science kids who brought insanely complicated portfolios and presentations.... Eve Meltzer Murray, who lives with husband Paul and two college-age kids on Matinicus Island, is working on a book about the current oneroom schools on the islands of Maine. The Press Herald reviewed her recently published collection of essays about the realities of island life, noting that “reading Murray’s wonderful essays is like being transported to a place at once exotic and somewhat familiar. Her writing is substantive, hard-edged and an absolute delight to come across. Well Out to Sea is insightful and should be in every Maine school library.”... Jeff Miller is extending his experience in politics with a run for township commissioner in Havertown, Pa., where he is now a Democratic ward leader. He and Rudy have two boys, Ben and Zach.... Lydia Miller and John and their three sons live on Orcas Island, off Seattle. She runs their inn, Pebble Cove Farm, and manages their rental property in Nicaragua.... Katie Murphy enjoys living in Berkeley, Calif., but travels as often as possible. She toured Guatemala with Eric Romanoff.... Ashley Parker Snider has a new job as director of admissions and public relations at Bishop Diego High School in Santa Barbara, Calif.... Barbara Peskin is an instructional technology specialist in Concord, Mass. She skied with Lisa Ballek Lonnegren and her family last winter.... Dave Reynolds teaches English and is department chair at Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs. He loves to hike, cross-country ski, and backpack with family and Bates friends. Daughter Emma is at his school while daughter Sage attends the elementary school where his wife, Kaja Beenhouwer Reynolds ’88, teaches. Dave is in touch with David Boothby ’87, Joc Clark ’87, and Alex Johnston ’84.... Hagar Riley and Lewis are parents to twins Luke and Lily and, after many years in the city, gave in and landed in suburbia.... Anne Robertson lives in Bloomington, Minn., with her husband and three boys. She teaches English as a second language.... Carolyn Ryan was named metropolitan editor of The New York Times. In her 3 1/2 years at the Times, she has “steered the paper’s coverage of some of the biggest regional political stories in recent memory,” executive editor Bill Keller told Times staff, including the downfall of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, for which the paper won a Pulitzer Prize. The Metro section is the paper’s “soul,” wrote Keller, and it requires an editor “both deft and driven, a balance of restlessness and patience, and a sturdy spine. An irreverent sense of humor helps. Carolyn Ryan is that kind of editor.”... Erica Seifert Plunkett continues at the Wellesley Centers for Women, currently on an impact evaluation study of
life/health store and stays young playing Ultimate in a Portland league.... Steve Sughrue teaches math and coaches soccer and tennis at Tabor Academy in Marion, Mass. He and Helene and sons Ollie and Owen like the balance between their hectic life and the small-town pace.... Bill Walsh works in Washington for the nonprofit seniors advocacy group AARP, where he is a senior strategist focusing on health policy. He presented a paper and represented AARP at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. He has two children, Daniel and Rebecca.... Wendy Wood Meaden still teaches in Butler Univ.’s theater department and travels a lot, including to Moscow, Prague, Bohemia, and Italy, and only occasionally by motorcycle. She also does freelance designing, draping, and costume-making. She and Tom have four kids and four grandchildren.
Amy Baker Mandragouras, an intellectual-property lawyer, was named managing partner of the Boston office of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP. A chem major at Bates, Amy’s focus is the biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and life sciences industries.... The Worcester (Mass.) Telegram & Gazette caught up with Doug Galpin Jacobs, owner and principal coach and instructor at the Worcester Fencing Club. His students range in age from 7 to 59, and he’s proud that his former students have joined college fencing teams at Princeton, Brown, Columbia, and elsewhere. Successful fencing, he says, requires “the ability to respond to situations as they develop.” And there’s no classic body type. “You don’t necessarily have to look like a traditional athlete. You have to be able to analyze and solve the problems presented by the opponent. It’s all about quick decision-making.”... Students in Bates professor Paul Kuritz’s directing course directed and acted in new plays from the Fusion Theater Co. of Albuquerque, N.M., founded by Dennis Gromelski.... Craig and Cindy Gerstl-Pepin ’89 moved to another new house in Burlington, Vt., then headed to China for six months with their family. Cindy was awarded a Fulbright lectureship to teach at Beijing Normal Univ. until the end of June. They looked forward to seeing Ben Malcolm and his wife in Thailand.... Chip Purrington is a managing director in the New York office of Communications Equity Associates, which provides investment banking services and private equity to global communications, media, entertainment, and information technology industries.
89 l reunion 2014, June 6–8 l
Steering Committee: Sally J. Ehrenfried, 1173 Plantation Ln., Mount Pleasant SC 29464, sallye@ alumni.bates.edu; Deborah Schiavi Cote, 18 Little Androscoggin Dr., Auburn ME 04210, debschiavicote@alumni.bates.edu Class Secretary: Donna Waterman Douglass, 355 Pond Rd., Wales ME 04280, ddouglass4498@ gmail.com
Veterinarian Peggy Brosnahan spoke at an alumni panel at Bates last November on “Navigating the Veterinarian Profession.”... Regina Marchi, assistant professor of media studies and affiliated professor of Latino studies at Rutgers Univ., returned to Bates to talk about the Latin American celebration El Día de los Muertos, or “Day of the Dead,” which has seen renewed popularity in the U.S. Since the 1970s, Latino artists have expanded the celebration north of the border, with altar exhibits, performance art, multimedia installations, and street processions, along with mass media coverage of such events. Regina is the author of Day of the Dead in the USA: The Migration and Transformation of a Cultural Phenomenon.
Langley Gace is now the aquaculture commercialisation manager of the International Copper Assn., which promotes the use of copper worldwide (copper, we learned, is used in aquaculture as an antifouling agent to prevent the growth of organisms that impair the flow of water through, for example, the enclosures where fish are raised).... The Portland Press Herald reviewed David Rohde’s book A Rope and a Prayer, which tells of his capture by the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2008. The harrowing story begins when a Taliban commander proffered an interview to David, a New York Times correspondent. “I knew meeting with the Taliban was perilous,” he writes. But he told himself “not to be a coward.... Many other journalists have done the same thing.” But David and his companions were captured, beginning seven months of captivity during which their captors demand a $5 million ransom and the release of Taliban prisoners. The book, co-written by his wife, Kristen Mulvihill, also illuminates U.S. efforts to free the captives. David eventually escaped on foot. A member of the Class of ’89, David completed his studies at Brown.
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90 l reunion 2015, June 12–14 l
87 l reunion 2012, June 8–10 l
Class Secretary: Margaret M. Brosnahan, Apt. E6, Apple Creek, Stillwater OK 74075, MargBros@aol .com Class President: John L. Fletcher, 672 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach FL 32233, john@mgfagency.com
Class Committee: Mary Capaldi Carr, 5778 First Landing Way, Burke VA 22015, mary.capaldi@ gmail.com; Astrid D. Delfino Bernard, 35 Blueberry Hill Dr., Madison CT 06443, flutistastrid@ sbcglobal.net; Ruth Garretson Cameron, 12 Norton Farm Rd., Freeport ME 04032, ruthc@ suscom-maine.net; Julie L. Sutherland Platt, 2 Old Ayer Rd., Groton MA 01450, julielsp@charter.net; Adrienne Terry D’Olimpio, PO Box 202, Lyndon Center VT 05850, adrienne.dolimpio@ lyndoninstitute.org
Class Secretary: Joanne E. Walton, 10411 Ashcroft Way, Fairfax VA 22032, joannewalton2003@yahoo .com Class President: Eric D. Knight, 836 Potter Ave., Berwyn PA 19312, eric_knight@verizon.net College of Idaho professor Rochelle Johnson was named the 2010 Idaho Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Rochelle, who teaches English and environmental studies, is “an energetic and rigorous teacher, a colleague who willingly performs service of all kinds, and a noted scholar in the environmental
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