to Cambridge.... Kelsey Barrett spent the summer in Seattle helping Cle Franklin ’02 with her Halfpint Homemade Ice Cream business and volunteering at Helping Link where she taught math to Vietnamese immigrants.... Siri Berman finished her contract at the American School of Mexico City, where she got a master’s in international learning styles.... Dave Burns earned a master’s in environmental management from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, focusing on natural resource and conservation policy. He’s applying for positions related to climate change mitigation/adaptation, protected areas, and international development.... Eli Clifton, who writes on U.S. foreign policy as well as trade and finance issues at the Washington bureau of Inter Press Service, contributes to journalist James Lobes’ Lobelog, which focuses on neo-conservatives and their worldview. Eli has a master’s in international political economy from the London School of Economics.... Katherine Creswell runs a two-acre organic garden for Bowdoin College and has begun her own farm in Brunswick, growing grains and beans.... Joanna Dove received the Post-Graduate Award from the Assn. of Bermuda International Companies. Joanna, who worked at Eze Castle Software in Boston for the past four years and was promoted from quality assurance analyst to associate product manager, plans to earn an M.B.A. at Oxford Univ.... Brian Gerrity went from working in athletic operations at the Univ. of Hartford to working in athletic marketing. He’s also in charge of corporate sponsorships.... Robert Gomez finished third among Maine men in the annual Beach To Beacon 10K Road Race in Cape Elizabeth last August. He was interviewed before the race by the Portland Press Herald, which noted that the former Bates running star, who is working on a master’s degree in chemistry from UMaine, won five 5K races in Maine the month before.... After five years in the real world, Larry Handerhan has returned to academia. He is pursuing a master’s degree in public affairs focusing on urban policy and planning at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. When not promoting transitorientated development or performing regression analysis, Larry hopes to see any Batesies living in the greater NYC area.... After traveling to Tanzania, Thailand, and Laos last summer, Cara Howieson started a full-time M.B.A. at the Univ. of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.... Collin Keyser joined the law firm of Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin in Lansdale, Pa., as an associate in the litigation department. Previously he was a law clerk to a judge in the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court.... Meredith Maller started law school at Maryland “and am a sometimes Charm City Roller Girl.” She was appointed to the board of A Taste of Home, an organization that supports the Maryland National Guard, and does a lot of work with the Homeless Persons Representation Project and Equality Maryland. She and her boyfriend, Ben, are engaged.... After five years in Boston, Sarah Neukom moved to Chicago and started a new position as an event coordinator at Red Frog Events. “I’m excited to join the other Batesies in the Windy City and explore what my new environment has to offer!”... Sally Pratt-Heaney and Matthew Wu ’03 were married Aug. 28, 2010, at the Plaza Hotel in New York. “We met spring semester when I was a sophomore and he was a senior...been together seven and a half years!” Sally wrote.... Gregory Rosenthal is still studying for his Ph.D. in history at Stony Brook Univ. and enjoying living in New York City. He’s engaged to Caroline Gillaspie (Mount Holyoke College ’08).... The latest creation of Lewiston filmmaker Craig Saddlemire is Cat Window, an experimental short film about two indoor cats and what they see out of their second-floor apartment window. “I have seen a lot of interesting things from these windows,” Craig told the Sun Journal. So have his cats Blake and Maple, sisters named after the streets that surround their home. He filmed Cat Window during the spring, summer, and fall of 2009. “Spring is when
the neighborhood gets interesting. There is a lot of opportunity for spontaneous education,” he said about his walks through downtown.... Zach Seely wrapped up two and a half years at the Internet startup Hulu and began his first year at the Wharton School.... Juyoung Shim works at UMaine–Orono as a research associate/lab manager. Daughter Hana is a high school sophomore. The family is hosting a student from Japan for a year.... Jon Steingold was quoted in a Variety article about the boutique talent agency Evolution Music Partners, where he manages its licensing operation. He joined the Los Angeles company to oversee its catalog and create opportunities for clients in video games, advertising, and film and television trailers. Variety described the seven-year-old company, which has an eclectic roster of film composers, songwriters, and music supervisors, as “an indie outfit with street cred that’s also strong when it comes to catapulting their artists into high-profile projects.” Jon told the publication: “We’ve found that licensing and creating original work opportunities for our clients go hand in hand. For example, we were able to get Dan Licht to score Konami’s latest Silent Hill game and Brian Reitzell to score THQ’s Red Faction: Armageddon, after I initially approached them about licensing from our catalog.” Jon sees Emma Giorgi pretty regularly.... Carrie Trevisan and Noah Corwin ’04 were married Aug. 28, 2010. She works as a registered nurse at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C. He is the operations manager of the Redwood Restaurant and Bar in Bethesda, Md.... Christopher van der Lugt, now in his second and final year for his M.B.A., secured a job as a principal consultant
agroecology at the Norwegian Univ. of Life Sciences. He had worked for the federal Bureau of Land Management on the Forty Mile River near Tok, Alaska, assisting with cleanup of gold mine sites and monitoring peregrine falcon nests. His obituary will be in the Spring issue.... Kelsey Engman was named the first head coach of the women’s squash program at Columbia Univ., which was elevated to varsity status this fall. Previously she spent two years at Tufts Univ. as a coach and was also an assistant squash pro at the Fairmount Athletic Club in King of Prussia, Pa. Kelsey was a standout player at Bates and captain of the team as a senior.
08 l reunion 2013, June 7–9 l
Class Co-Presidents: Elizabeth Murphy, Apt. 601, 1931 N Cleveland St., Arlington VA 22209, elizabeth.jayne.m@gmail.com; Alison Schwartz, Apt. 904, 2351 Eisenhower Ave., Alexandria VA 22314, alisonrose.schwartz@gmail.com Tim McCall was awarded a fellowship toward a master’s degree by the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation of Washington, D.C. The fellowships support aspiring teachers of American history, government, and social studies.... CBS News anchor Katie Couric interviewed Scott Pierce, who co-writes the blog Tales from the Recently Laid Off, for a trend story about joblessness in America. One of two young bloggers interviewed by Couric, Scott had actually just gotten a job at Metacafe as a junior editor. He explained that after arriving in San Francisco, he got an internship at Wired (where he
Meredith Maller ’05 started law school at Maryland and is “a sometimes Charm City Roller Girl.” at a healthcare IT consulting company, NaviNet.... Daniel Vannoni was named the managing director of the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition, the world’s largest and oldest student-run business plan competition. The competition celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2010, fostering the creation of over 130 companies worth more than $15 billion over the last two decades. Dan is also an M.B.A. student at the MIT Sloan School of Management, focusing on entrepreneurship and innovation.
06 l reunion 2011, June 10–12 l
Class Co-Presidents: Katharine M. Nolan, 3188 Hillsboro Pike, Nashville TN 37215, knolan@alumni .bates.edu; John F. Phelan, Apt. 510, 1954 Columbia Rd. NW, Washington DC 20009, johnf.phelan@ gmail.com In a letter to the Portland Press Herald, Ali Vander Zanden, a member of the Maine People’s Alliance, hailed congressional passage of healthcare legislation. “Over the next few decades, the healthcare reform bill will aid millions of people, save our country billions of dollars, lower the cost of health insurance for those who can least afford it, and benefit small businesses all over America,” said the alliance’s former healthcare organizer.
07 l reunion 2012, June 8–10 l
Class Co-Presidents: Keith D. Kearney Jr., 3013 Sunset Ln., Suitland MD 20746, kdkearney@gmail.com; Rakhshan Zahid, Apt. 2B, 350 W. 18th St., New York NY 10011, rakhshan.zahid@gmail.com The class extends condolences to the family and friends of Nate Dorpalen, who died in a hiking accident in northern Norway on Oct. 7, 2010. Nate was studying for his master’s in environmental
was hired by executive editor Thomas Goetz ’90), then did freelance work before landing the Metacafe job. (He continues to freelance, recently interviewing actress Angelina Jolie and director James Cameron for Wired.) “It’s nice to know what it feels like to make money,” he joked. “I don’t feel bad about paying $2 for the bus.” Job-search author Ellen Gordon Reeves, who offered expert advice during the segment, said Scott did his job search the right way: by “showing initiative” with his blogging, which shows “writing skills and marketing skills,” and by doing “something every day, not just sitting home waiting for something to happen.”... Nate Walton is pursuing graduate studies in public policy and international relations at Brown Univ.
09 l reunion 2014, June 6–8 l
Class Co-Presidents: Timothy S. Gay, 88 Hancock St., Cambridge, MA 02139, timothy.s.gay@gmail .com; Arsalan Suhail, Apt. 2709, 400 N 4th St., St. Louis MO 63102, arsalansuhail@gmail.com Sulo Dissanayak returned to Bates in September to recount her experiences researching theatrical practices in Africa and Indonesia as a Watson Fellow. One of 40 recipients of the 2009 fellowship, she studied performance traditions in Indonesia and contemporary theater companies in South Africa. She hopes ultimately to teach contemporary drama in her native Sri Lanka.... Bio major Brian Klein, in graduate school at Tufts, had a proposal up for vote during one of the recent Pepsi Refresh grant cycles. The proposal was related to dairy “probiotics”: body-friendly microorganisms in certain dairy products that could serve as effective and safe treatments for oral diseases.... Molly Ladd is making a difference as a de facto teen librarian at the Lewiston Public Library, the Sun Journal reported. Now in her second year at the library, the AmeriCorps VISTA
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