champion Justin Freeman won his fourth Ski to the Clouds, which includes a grueling, 6-kilometer climb up Mount Washington, making it North America’s toughest 10k. Sam Evans-Brown ’09 finished third, while Beth Taylor ’12 won the women’s race. Justin was also the repeat winner in the Bretton Woods Nordic Marathon.... Citybizlist in Boston noted that Frank Lombardi III is a portfolio manager at Cubic Asset Management. He is a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society.... Sean Monahan is now a partner in the Boston law firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP in its finance and restructuring group. He has been named a “Massachusetts Super Lawyers Rising Star.”
99 l reunion 2014, June 6–8 l
Class Secretary: Jennifer Lemkin Bouchard, 369 West Windsor Dr., Bloomingdale IL 60108, jlemkin@alumni.bates.edu Class President: Jamie Ascenzo Trickett, 35 Fairview Ave., Reading MA 01867, jamie.trickett@gmail.com The Burlington Free Press profiled artists Hannah Sessions and Greg Bernhardt, co-owners of Blue Ledge Farm and Blue Ledge Gallery, near Middlebury, Vt., a cheese-making operation and studio/ gallery. The operation realizes a dream that began during Hannah and Greg’s JYA in Florence, when they fell in love. “We started dreaming up this idea in Italy,” Hannah said. “Their whole culture is so centered around food. It’s eye-opening. It’s a different world there.” Greg added, “We kind of came up with how we wanted to live our lives: We wanted to be together, work with our hands, raise our kids and do our art.” The couple has two children, 6 and 8.... Maria Barile finished her radiology residency at Beth Israel Deaconess and began a fellowship in pediatric radiology at Children’s Hospital Boston…. Damon Bowe has a new job at Booz Allen Hamilton in D.C., where he caught up with Melissa Vining Stundick, Colin Troha, and Jack Gomes…. The NESN reality show Boston Boxing followed Alex Budney and 30 other novice and intermediate boxers as they underwent intense training, culminating in exhibition fights…. Chris Colapietro, vice president of strategy and marketing at HighPoint Solutions, was a panelist at the Next Generation Pharma Sales & Marketing Summit in Baltimore.... Sean Findlen rejoined the Boston office of Weber Shandwick Worldwide as a vice president in the corporate/healthcare practice…. Josh Fix joined the band Train, playing second guitar and keyboards…. Addie Fletcher Dublin enjoys her work as a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist at East Boston Neighborhood Health Center…. Stephen Fortney and Mijanou Brown ’00 enjoy living in the Rocky Mountains in Logan, Utah, with Elias (3) and Sally (1). Both kids are in preschool at Valley Montessori where Mijanou works part time as an instructor. Stephen finished an M.S. in fluvial geomorphology at Utah State.... Beth Frissora is adjusting to life in Baltimore after a special year in Amsterdam working at Under Armour’s European headquarters. Chuck Tucker, Jim Felton, and Sarah Mongan all made the trip over…. Lisa Gralnek moved to Boston to build a new women’s strategy for Rockport shoes, a brand owned by Adidas…. Nate Harvey was board-certified in food animal practice and now works for a largeanimal practice in Quakertown, Pa. He enjoyed being on a Bates panel discussion with several other alumni in veterinary medicine…. It was a Batesfest at Mass General on July 1, 2010, when Liza McKnight Hickey and husband Brian welcomed Evelyn into their family. Liza writes: “Brian stepped out to get a drink and he ran into Jamie and Eric Trickett, who were coming into labor and delivery. Anderson Trickett and Evelyn Hickey were both born on July 1 and within those first few hours of life we were all sitting in our hospital rooms together snapping pictures of them and talking about our future Batesies, Class of 2032.”… Hillary Peakes Langlais owns and operates a yoga studio and teaches art at Harmony (Maine)
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Elementary. She and her husband have two boys…. Wealth-management startup Dynasty Partners, with Shirl Penney as partner, president, and CEO, had the Wall Street media buzzing that the firm’s emergence could signal a fundamental change in the full-service brokerage model for high-net-worth clients, where independent investment advisers have access to a platform of trading, clearing, research, and other support services. Bloomberg Businessweek quoted Shirl as saying that by eliminating pressure on advisers to sell house brands, Dynasty’s business model allows independent brokers to “sit on the same side of the table as their client and act as an adviser and get paid for advice, not have to act as a sales professional.”…. Abigail Phillips and Raghu moved back to Cleveland to fix up their 100-year-old “money pit” and work for FirstEnergy Solutions doing regulatory work for the retail electric industry…. Signe Rogers married Jeff Ulsamer in August 2010 and in the process acquired 110 sled dogs while he acquired two kids. She now “hauls ass — literally — we give dog sled rides in northwest Montana.”… Working at Vermont’s Stratton Mountain as a ski instructor and waiting tables in the base village last winter, Tim Sundberg ran into Julie Weiswasser, Mike and Sarah Picard Schlechter, and Molly Brownwood Gerster…. Erik Thomson and Sarah Weiss ’01 enjoy living in Gothenburg, Sweden, where he’s doing post-doctoral work. They saw Ben Ayers in London.
00 l reunion 2015, June 12–14 l
Class Secretary: Cynthia Macht Link, Apt. 2F, 17 West 73rd St., New York NY 10023, cynthiamacht@ hotmail.com Class Co-Presidents: Jennifer Glassman Jacobs, Apt. 1D, 107 West 68th St., New York NY 10023, jenniferglassman@gmail.com; Megan H. Shelley, 329 Branch Dr., Silver Spring MD 20901, mhshelley@ aol.com The Wall Street Transcript caught up with Emlen Harmon, a vice president in equity research at Jefferies & Co. Inc. Emlen, who covers mid- and small-cap banks in the Southeast and Midwest U.S., commented on trends in regional banking.... Oggie Ivanova-Sriram joined the U.S. Foreign Service and, together with husband Raj Sriram, who is also a diplomat, has her first diplomatic assignment at the consular section of the U.S. Embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh.... The financial planning profession has its salesmen and strategists, but in Michael Kitces the industry “has its intellectual,” according to Financial Planning magazine. “He understands how to exploit the nuances that change the approach to developing a client’s financial plan.” For example, his work has transformed ideas about withdrawal rates from retirement portfolios. While conventional thinking says retirees should draw a maximum of 4 percent per year, adjusted for inflation after the first year, Mike’s analysis shows that safe withdrawal rates can vary. Mike recently received an inaugural Influencer Award from Financial Planning; he’s director of research at Columbia, Md.-based Pinnacle Advisory Group and editor of The Kitces Report.... Nicole Rom, executive director of the environmental nonprofit Will Steger Foundation, took a month off to travel solo across New Zealand where she spent most of her time exploring the country’s Great Walks.... Matt Schlobohm, the Maine AFL-CIO’s public policy and political mobilization director, said defeating right-to-work legislation in Maine, which would exempt non-union members from paying union dues, is the top issue for his group this year. “People are working longer hours, they are working more jobs, it’s harder to get a good retirement, it’s harder to get good health benefits, and what this kind of legislation does is undermine workers’ ability to gain economic security.”... In February 2011, Lena Sene moderated a panel discussion on private equity in Africa at the 13th annual Africa Business Conference at Harvard Business School. A conference blogger noted that Lena brought forth several
lessons from the private equity experts, such as the fact that PE in Africa requires “a wide range of skills, on-the-ground knowledge, and long, complex feasibility and research. All of this takes more time and costs more money, meaning the team has to be even more efficient than in other markets.” Second, investors must stop thinking of Africa as one country, a bias that even sophisticated investors possess. In April, Lena joined the opening panel of the Africa Investment Conference in NYC co-hosted by Institutional Investor and the Kenyan government. She spoke about the growing breadth and depth of synergies between African countries and the global economy. Lena, a Bates trustee, is a director of Deer Isle Capital LLC.... Trevor Stevenson is the new executive director of the Jackson Hole (Wyo.) Conservation Alliance. “It seems like I can finally be of use to my home community,” he told the Jackson Hole News & Guide. Trevor spent much of his youth exploring the outdoors in Jackson Hole. “I really value the community and the connection the community has with nature,” he said. At Bates, Trevor said he started out studying biology but decided the best way to preserve nature was to learn how to connect with people. He graduated with degrees in environmental studies and sociocultural psychology.... Carlisle Tuggey McLean was appointed senior policy adviser on the environment to Maine Gov. Paul LePage. Carlie practiced environmental, land use, and climate strategy law with the Portland law firm of Preti Flaherty from 2005 to 2011. “Carlie has a key understanding of environmental law and we expect her to bring a great deal of knowledge in this area to the administration,” LePage said.... Jennifer Winslow Thomas, library media specialist at Bishop Stang High School in North Dartmouth, Mass., received the Web Seal of Excellence from the Massachusetts School Library Assn. The award recognizes excellence in a school library’s use of web tools.
01 l reunion 2016, June 10–12 l
Class Secretary: Noah E. Petro, 3636 Ransom Pl., Alexandria VA 22306, npetro@gmail.com Class Co-Presidents: Jodi Winterton Cobb, 118 High St., Newburyport MA 01950, jodimcobb@hotmail .com; Kate Hagstrom Lepore, 26A Burts Pit Rd., Northampton MA 01060, khlepore@gmail.com
Mollie Chamberlain is a teacher in the Lexington, Mass., school system, and Greg Hurley ’02 is a history teacher at Malden High School. They were married Aug. 14, 2010.... Anna Churchill is raising two kids in Belmont, Mass., while working and trying to find time for hobbies.... Jen Crawford works full time at the Massachusetts State House as the general counsel for the Joint Committee on Financial Services while also finishing a master’s in environmental science at UMass Boston. “After graduating from law school, I felt the tug toward academia and hoped that this new endeavor would help me work toward my goal of once again working in environmental law and policy.”... Erin Flynn Dow is the international student adviser at Worcester (Mass.) Academy. She and Christopher Dow were married in October 2009.... Elizabeth Kaplan Frew lives with husband Jason in New York City where she is a national account manager for Harper Collins Publishers. Their first child, Lauren Hannah Frew, was born in May 2010.... John Payne was named to the board of Wood River Health Services in Rhode Island. He is a real estate and probate attorney at Payne and Payne in Westerly, R.I.... NASA produced a profile and short educational video about planetary geologist Noah Petro, who works at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, where he studies the surface of airless bodies in space, primarily the moon. “I get to study data that no one has ever seen before,” he said. Gene Clough, longtime Bates faculty member who became Noah’s friend and guide, recalled meeting Noah during a classroom discussion of the geology of the moon. Noah introduced himself as being an enthusiastic fan of space exploration with plans to major in geology. “That day we began More alumni news and photos at community.bates.edu