for their businesses. Last winter she became a snowbird and spent time in Florida living and training at a tennis center with senior women national tennis players. This summer it was great to see Kathy Evans Wisner and her family at Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire.... Last year, Cheryl Croteau Orr’s oldest son, Matthew (18), was accepted to Bates, among other great places, but decided to stay in California and attend USC as an astronautical engineering student — Cheryl’s last-minute pitch for the Bates dual-degree engineering program didn’t succeed. “It feels like I was stepping on to the Bates campus and starting college just yesterday,” says Cheryl, who hopes to create a new Bobcat through her youngest son, William (16). The family vacationed in London, Paris, and Normandy. She fondly remembers traveling around Europe during JYA, but notes “it was nice to go back on more than a poor student’s budget and not have to stay at youth hostels. My French was rusty, but their English much better! The D-Day sites were simply awe-inspiring; the fear, the courage, the sacrifice of so many, including men the same age as my son, is something I hope we never forget.” Cheryl hopes to see college buddy Leslie Yim Walters and reminisce about when they were fresh-faced new students.... Pamela French MacPhee was rehired at Barnstable (Mass.) High School as an alternative-learning program math teacher. She is grateful for the opportunity to teach in the same school where son Tom graduated in ’09 and Will graduates next June; Andrew is in third grade. Pam married Bob Peek ’64 last July at their Free Christian Church in Andover, Mass. Some of you met Bob at our 25th Reunion. He was the first Bobcat mascot!... Maureen Graves-Anderson and her husband took their two kids, 13 and 11, on a bicycling trip to Iceland and Denmark. “If not now, when? They are at the right ages to endure some hardships and yet see some wonderful places.”... Eva Hamori loves her job as a senior project planner with Diversified Project Management in Newton, Mass., a good match for an organization aficionado like her. She plans and executes corporate relocations for clients and has happily run into some Bates alumni on her projects. In her North Andover, Mass., community, she serves as a library trustee and on a number of other boards. After a bout with cancer last year, she has made a full recovery and looks forward to a happy and healthy future with her longtime boyfriend, Dan.... James “Bill” Hunt has “returned from exile! I am back living in Bath, Maine, after two (long) years in Georgia.” He’s still in the software business as director of product development for Cicero Inc. of Cary, N.C. He moved back to Maine in May and had a wonderful summer sailing with daughter Caroline (13). Bill’s stepdaughter, Alexis, is a senior at Colby (“I know, I know”). He continues to study the philosophy of Objectivism and the works of Ayn Rand and maintains active discussions on Facebook with freshman year roommates Rick Pinard and Ken Morrill.... Vivienne Kaye West saw classmate and sister-in-law Laurie West Van Hook last summer in Vienna, where Laurie and her family live. They traveled in Austria, Slovakia, and Germany. That started off a busy summer for their kids, including a first trip to look at colleges for Vivienne’s son, who is starting his junior year.... Lou Kimball got married (for the first time) on July 12, 2009, to Boyd Swenson. “He has been an amazing mate and stepfather and is weathering the obstacles to being married to someone like me!” Lou has two boys, Trevor (15) and Casen (9), and stays busy around their school and sport schedules. She works as a mental health counselor in a community mental health setting in York County, Maine, and for the past two years has worked closely with psychiatrists doing intakes of clients for medication management. Lou has happily stayed in southern Maine (Kennebunk) and enjoyed a family vacation with the boys this summer.... Work this year has taken Heidi Lovett from Honolulu to Juneau, Alaska, to Seattle. She helps organize and facilitate meetings of the Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee, which advises the
Secretary of Commerce on all living marine resource matters. Her husband landed a job with the Small Business Administration, and they are house-hunting in the Silver Spring, Md., area. Happily, Heidi got her boys, Isaac (6) and David (4), out for the Bates National Day of Service in May in D.C. to help clean up a part of Rock Creek Park.... Heather Wygant McDonough and Don continue to enjoy life in Charleston, S.C., with their two oldest children in college and the youngest a high school sophomore. As early “Tea Partiers” they have become politically active, meeting with Sen. Lindsey Graham in addition to several visits to Washington, D.C., and had a blast at the NRA Convention in Charlotte. Don is still in home building, and Heather took a job with
Fitzmaurice Voicework and she was promoted to associate professor at Loyola University New Orleans in the spring.... David Richards spent another glorious summer leading book discussions for the Maine Humanities Council in Greenville. While attending the Forest Heritage Days competition in August, he happened upon his long-lost roommate, Greenville native Kendall Walden. He also took a fascinating tour of the Black Forest created by Peter Kliem ’60, and, sadly, mourned the loss of Berit Pepin, wife of book group regular and Moosehead summer resident Reid Pepin ’55. David is now on the Humanities Council board.... Stephanie Richards is a visiting assistant professor of biology at Bates and spent part of the summer teaching a forensic science
In Prague, Rick Pinard ’84 hosted a celebration for the Indian festival Onam. “It must have been unusual for neighbors to see men in lunghis and ladies in sarees running around. I also discovered that instead of racing with eggs on spoons, Indians use lemons.” the Charleston Museum, working in their historic homes.... The third ’84 marriage reported this year came from Leigh Michl, who married Shannon Seymour, a graduate of Mount Holyoke and Boston Conservatory (master’s in opera vocals), on Feb. 20, 2010. They headed to Greece (where Shannon lived for nine years) in September for their honeymoon.... Marjie Needham has responded very well to chemotherapy for breast cancer and was scheduled for a mastectomy this fall, followed by radiation. She appreciates all the well wishes and support and is happy she has still been able to work full time as the dean of students at Darrow School in New Lebanon, N.Y. “I never thought the mountains could replace the coast, but the beauty of this original Shaker village on the edge of the Berkshires is awe-inspiring.” Toni (her oldest) is a paramedic in Boston; Ben (her first-born) graduated from college in June and is a company member with the Louisville Ballet; after two years of college, Lea is taking time off to dance in NYC; and Drew got his license and has started his junior year at Darrow.... Karen Palermo Saxena and her husband competed in the Duathlon World Championships in Scotland for age-group runners. Karen’s son graduated from college, her older daughter is starting her second year of college, and her youngest started high school.... 2010 has been a busy year for Rick Pinard in Prague. He still works at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Program Evaluation Department supporting the development of democracy and civil society in countries with problematic regimes. Rick hoped to wrap up his doctoral thesis at Charles Univ. He was involved with the Stolpersteine Holocaust memorial organization, placing engraved commemorative stones in Prague in front of houses from which Holocaust victims had been deported. In August, he and his family hosted (probably the first) Onam celebration (the main festival of the Indian state of Kerala) at their home. With Keralite friends, they jointly prepared the Onamsadiya (traditional foods), pookalam (colorful floral design), and played traditional games in the garden. “It must have been unusual for neighbors to see so many men in lunghis and ladies in sarees running around, but it was great fun. I discovered also that, instead of racing with eggs on spoons, Indians use lemons.”... Artemis Preeshl is on a Fulbright as a senior researcher at Kalakshetra, the arts and cultural academy that’s considered the Juilliard of India. She is researching two- and three-dimensional visual literacy, which will culminate in a cross-cultural presentation in film, theater, and dance. She is presently at Osho, an ashram center that promotes dynamic meditation in Pune. Last summer, she completed certification as an assistant teacher of
course with Lee Abrahamsen to 10 incoming firstyear students known as Summer Scholars. Stephanie, husband Tony, and son Tristan (12) enjoyed summer travels to Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks. The highlight was a week at Pine Butte Guest Ranch in Montana. Owned by the Nature Conservancy, it was a great opportunity to relax and learn about the local flora and fauna. “The science geek in me comes out,” she says. Among the things she learned is that thatcher ants taste like zesty Italian dressing.... Laury Schwartzberg is in the Seattle area and invites classmates to get in touch when they are passing through. There are a few Batesies around and she could pull together friends for a drink or a coffee. (Of course, it’s Seattle!).... With wife Kathy, Glen Strong enjoyed hosting a couple of Bates interns through the Career Discovery Internship Program. They shadowed him at his investment advisory business in Canton, Ohio, now five years old. Glen and his wife will celebrate 20 years of marriage in 2011 with a trip to Italy. He happily reports he traded a smoking habit for a running habit that included a 10k the day he wrote this note!... Linda Webster and her parents traveled to China to adopt Emily on July 26, returning home two weeks later, a day before Emily’s second birthday — a lucky date in Chinese: 080808. So while other classmates are looking at colleges redux, Linda won’t be thinking about college until, well, near our 40th Reunion. That said, Emily is a wonderful, amazing, tough, curious, bright little girl! Linda is still in Philadelphia, and would be delighted to hear from any Batesie with or without advice on potty training, sleep issues, toddler feeding, etc.... Tim Wright, the popular morning radio host on WMGX, 93.1 FM, left the station over the summer, the Portland Press Herald reported. It was “a fun 15 years,” Tim said. “I’m looking forward to getting some sleep, to not hearing the music of John Mayer as much, and not having to constantly discuss the legal problems of Lindsay Lohan.” He said he and his family plan to stay in Maine.
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Class Secretary: Elissa A. Bass, 203 N. Main St., Stonington CT 06378, bass.elissa@yahoo.com Class President: Lisa Virello, 2 Standish St., Hingham MA 02043, virello@comcast.net Rich Maloney completed a Ph.D. in law and public policy at Northeastern, where his research focused on cultural and urban policy. While teaching a class for Boston Univ. in London last summer, he spent some time with Linda Tamkin Waller and her lovely family.
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