91 l reunion 2011, June 10–12 l
Class Secretary: Kathryn Tibbetts Morello, 6010 Wake Crest Ct., Haymarket VA 20169, ktmorello@ alumni.bates.edu Class President: John A. Ducker, 252 Baker St., Walpole MA 02081, jducker1@yahoo.com
Portia Hard Clark ’98 PHYLLIS GRABER JENSEN
Baux (1910), at an auction at Barridoff Galleries in Portland. Zorach “played a key role in the creation of the image of Maine,” Tom said.... Christopher von Jako joined a medical device startup company, ActiViews Inc., as president. The company specializes in high-tech, innovative solutions for interventional radiology applications such as lung-needle biopsies and therapies.
Jenny Ruma Bova and husband Clint launched Bova Creative, a Powell, Ohio-based firm specializing in retail, manufacturer, and service-provider design solutions. Collectively they have more than 40 years of experience in the creative design field. They welcomed a son, Joseph C. Bova, on Dec. 2, 2009.... David Strupp joined Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group Inc. as a managing director. He has more than 17 years of healthcare investment banking experience, most recently at The Maxim Group.
92 l reunion 2012, June 8–10 l
Class Committee: Ami Lynn Berger, 1401 Portland Ave., St. Paul MN 55104, ami_berger@hotmail.com; Kristin Bierly Magendantz, 33 Glen Hollow, West Hartford CT 06117, kmagendantz@foundation .uconn.edu; Kristen Downs Bruno, 10 Mac Connie Ct., Seymour CT 06483, alfredbruno@sbcglobal.net; Roland S. Davis, 8 Infiniti Way, Auburn ME 04210, rdavis@bates.edu; Peter J. Friedman, 10 Brownstone Turn, Simsbury CT 06089, PeterJFriedman@ googlemail.com; Leyla Morrissey Bader, Apt. 8M, 405 E. 54th St., New York NY 10022, leylabader@ nyc.rr.com; Jeffrey S. Mutterperl, Apt. 4D, 340 E. 80th St., New York NY 10075, jeffmutterperl@aol.com Following six years with the Bates admission office, Kristen Belka Rosenfield and her family moved to New Delhi, where she is college counselor at the American Embassy School.... Kristin Bierly Magendantz joined Trinity College in Hartford as director of faculty grants and sponsored research.... As part of a comprehensive reorganization to advance diversity and inclusion, Roland Davis has been appointed director of the College’s new Office of Intercultural Education and promoted to associate dean of students. As an assistant dean of students since 2002, his broad range of responsibilities have included supporting all students with academic and personal issues and teaming with faculty and administrators to address the needs of students of color and lowincome students. .... Brooke Oliver Fritz is the new girls lacrosse coach at Radnor (Pa.) High School. As defensive and goalie coach at Radnor since 2008, she helped take the team to two state titles. A Radnor native, Brooke was captain and first-team All-American in lacrosse at Bates in her senior year.
93 l reunion 2013, June 7–9 l
Class Secretary: Kimberly Donohue Kavanaugh, 5 Everell Rd., Winchester MA 01890, k.kavanaugh@ alumni.bates.edu Class President: Madeline F. Yanford, 22 Shirley Ter., Southwick MA 01077, madelineyanford@earthlink.net
94 l reunion 2014, June 6–8 l
Class Secretary: Jonathan E. Lilja, Apt. 6, 6 Bayridge Ln., Rockport MA 01966; jonathanlilja@gmail.com Class President: Susan Spano Piacenti, 432 Butterfly Dr., Chesapeake VA 23322, susanpiacenti@cox.net Monika Burk loves her work as a traveling physical therapist in Alaska, Wyoming, Maine, and
A Beautiful Business As she planned her wedding in 2002, Portia Hard Clark ’98 knew she was embarking on a new phase of her life. But she had no idea she was also starting a new phase of her career. Clark wanted to do something special for her two bridesmaids, and when she came across some uniquely shaped freshwater pearls, she hit on the perfect idea: She would make them each a pearl necklace. Giving each piece an individual twist, she strung the pearls on gold or olive silk, instead of the traditional cream-colored silk. The jewelry earned raves, and Clark soon realized that she had created more than a simple gift. “By the time the honeymoon was over, I realized that [making pearl accessories] could work as a business,” she says.
Washington state. “Bought a ‘camp’ in the Maine woods and now have roots once again in my native state.”... Amy Clary joined Bates’ Writing Program this fall as a writing specialist for the humanities. Amy, who has a Ph.D. in English from the Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette, was previously at the American Univ. of Beirut, where she taught literature and advised M.A. theses of students from a variety of disciplines.... Heather Doyle McPeake is the IP manager at Goodwin Procter LLP. She lives in Amesbury, Mass., with husband David and daughter Hannah (5).... After two and a half years as the regional legal adviser in the Caribbean, Jason Fraser went to Ethiopia as the deputy director for USAID/Ethiopia, helping to manage close to $1 billion of development assistance, HIV/AIDS, education, and food security funding. “My work in the Caribbean has been extremely eventful culminating in the disaster relief and assistance that was mobilized for the people of Haiti.”... Maureen Gwinn enjoys her work at the U.S. EPA in human health risk assessment and does a lot of K–12 outreach for both the EPA and the Society of Toxicology. She’s also more involved with the Washington Bates Club and caught up with Mac McLean, Audra Kelly, and Mei Lun Chau at one
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A small shop in Portland, Maine, where she lives, agreed to sell her creations — earrings, bracelets, and necklaces — and strong sales during that holiday season gave Clark the confidence to buy more supplies and expand her offerings. Though the idea and the business seem remarkably fortuitous, Clark has long been interested in fashion. She majored in French at Bates and wrote her senior thesis on fashion at the turn of the century in Paris; not long after she graduated, she landed a job as a fashion assistant at Good Housekeeping. When she moved from New York to Maine to be closer to her future husband, Josh Clark ’96, she was already thinking about how she could turn her love of fashion into a business. “I thought about going into a business designing skirts,” she says. “But I liked the idea of creating pieces myself that match a person’s personality, or designing jewelry that has color themes or fits specific occasions.” Her business has grown by word of mouth, aided by a few appearances on models in fashion magazines like Allure, with the nifty credit “Pearl necklace by Portia Clark.” Recently, her work got a boost when L.L. Bean asked her to design pieces for their Signature line. It’s been especially rewarding, she says, to partner with a creative, Maine-based company that’s committed to small, local businesses. While her business is growing, don’t expect a Portia’s Pearls necklace to appear on the Home Shopping Network anytime soon. “I want to continue to remain small enough to offer a personal touch to every piece that I make,” she says. That means hand-selecting each cultured Chinese freshwater pearl, creating the piece locally in Maine, and placing it inside a custom, handmade felt case instead of a throwaway box. “Pearls are classic, and I like to challenge myself every day to keep the designs fresh and always moving forward.”
event.... Denis Howard is now a part-time teller at Bangor Savings Bank. He continues to host a weekly Americana and eclectic roots music program Friday mornings on Community Radio WERU-FM 89.9 in Blue Hill. He lives with his girlfriend, Kristy Pottle, and her two children, Emmit (6) and Althea (4).... Kim Howland still lives in San Francisco and skis in Tahoe.... Amy King, who works at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Mass., earned a master’s in information technology from Harvard Univ. Extension School.... Jonathan Lilja is a financial planner in Wellesley, Mass., spends his free time with son Pete, and volunteers on the Rockport town ambulance.... Catherine Muldoon completed a Ph.D. in biblical studies at Boston College and began a teaching job at the College of the Holy Cross. Her dissertation is being published in the Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series. She lives in Somerville, Mass., with husband Tom Lawton.... Jonah O’Hara is a college counselor at St. Stephen’s Episcopal School in Austin, Texas. He expects to move on campus in two years when faculty housing is available for him, Rebecca, John David (4), and Patrick (1). He had a fabulous dinner with the Bates crew teams that trained there last March.... Arlen Percival and W I N TER 2011 Bates 43