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servation,” he says....Elizabeth Strout says the HBO adaptation of Olive Kitteridge, her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, is “its own thing.” When she attended an advance screening of the miniseries, a network staffer handed her a package of tissues, she told the Maine Sunday Telegram. “I thought, ‘Oh, please, I wrote this, I’m not going to need these.’ But I did need them. I was aware I had come up with this, but (the film) is so much its own thing that I’d lose myself. Then I’d say, ‘Oh right, of course that happens.’ ”...Peter Sucsy reports daughter Anna ’17 has had an incredible Bates experience thus far....Keith Taylor received a Bates’ Best award as one of the college’s most valuable and hard-working volunteers, especially as a dedicated Bates Fund class agent. One year he rallied 122 classmates to give and reconnect with Bates. In the most recent recruitment process he found 12 new agents. “With relentless positivity,” his citation reads, “you help your fellow alumni see clearly the value and benefits of supporting Bates.”...Deb Thyng Schmidt and Doug ’78 look forward to the college graduations in the next academic year of daughters Sarah from Colorado State and Amy ’16 from Bates. Deb plans a mutual 60th birthday weekend in October with Jennifer Malia Takahashi, Mary Trigg, Lisa Pelletier Ferguson, Cindy Rockwood Wang, and Martha Farr....Pam Walch Constantine works at The Stephen Phillips Memorial Scholarship Fund in Salem, Mass., and serves on the board of an affordable housing organization....Jackie Wolfe is starting a new business, coaching baby boomers to become experts of their own bodies....RoseAnne Wyand Holladay and husband Breck travel widely, including mission trips to Eastern Europe and Latin America.
1978 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Chip Beckwith chipwith@yahoo.com class president Dean M. Berman dean@oceanedgefoods.com
Mark Mickalide ’78 has been baking artisanal breads for 23 years. “People ask me if I get sick of it. How do you get sick of bread? That would be like getting sick of cold water on a hot day.”
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Rick DeBruin is now classified advertising manager for the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram....Peter Edelman, a fellow in research and development at Boston Scientific, was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering....Mary Henderson Pressman received a Bates’ Best award. A Bates trustee and mother of Emily Pressman ’10, she chairs the Committee on Campus Life, staying close to the student experience. A former college admission professional, she has served for many years as an Alumni-in-Admission volunteer. Besides serving as a Bates Fund class agent, as a member of the Bates Fund Committee and the Bates Athletics Leadership Council, she and her husband Ronald joined the Benjamin Bates Society in recognition of surpassing $1 million in lifetime gifts to the college.... The Portland Press Herald caught up with Mark Mickalide, owner of Black Crow Bakery in Litchfield. “Twenty-three years into making bread at his rustic 1780 farmhouse, Mickalide has pretty much figured out a recipe for the good life,” the newspaper said. Mark bakes 750 loaves each week of artisanal breads that are sold at the bakery and at eight stores in Maine. He has a family heritage in bread-making, the trade his Greek grandfather plied when he first came to the U.S. With his wife, Tinker, he has built a comfortable career and lifestyle. “People ask me if I get sick of it. How do you get sick of bread? That would be like getting sick of cold water on a hot day.”
1979 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Mary Raftery mgraftery@gmail.com class president Janice McLean janmcle@charter.net Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley appointed Dana Petersen Moore to the Baltimore Board of License Commissioners....Sue Schulze Kozik joined Group Health Cooperative in Seattle as executive vice president and chief information officer. Sue is a Bates trustee....Lee Lynd, a professor at Dartmouth College’s Thayer School of Engineering, and a colleague founded the Mascoma Corp. in 2006 to convert waste paper sludge and inedible biomass into ethanol fuel to help wean the world off its addiction to crude oil. Last fall, the Lebanon, N.H., company made a long-hoped financial score by selling off its chief asset — a genetically modified yeast that makes it cheaper to produce ethanol — to Lallemand Inc., a Canadian developer and producer of yeast and bacteria products.
Lallemande had already been making and selling Mascoma’s proprietary yeast to ethanol plants around the country since 2012. Lee told the Valley News, “I am proud that Mascoma became a viable commercial enterprise, of the company’s team and culture, and that technology has been developed that can make a positive difference in the world.”
1980 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Christine Tegeler Beneman cbeneman@gmail.com class president Mary Mihalakos Martuscello mary@martuscellolaw.com Richard Broome is executive vice president of corporate affairs and communications for The Hertz Corp., based in Naples, Fla....Dave Trull and Nick Kofos ran their 12th Annual CFC Golf Tournament two summers ago. The surprise winner was John Whiting ’78, his first win, at anything, Dave insists. Defending champ Brad Smith succeeded in his strategy of not defending his title. David Greaves begged off from playing in the event for the 12th straight year but promised to make it “one of these years.”...After nine years, Kim Wettlaufer stepped down as the head of the Trinity Jubilee Center, Lewiston’s loose, come-as-you-are community center and soup kitchen. He made few rules during that time, the Sun Journal reported. “Rules wouldn’t work. It’s like a family, a little dysfunctional at times, but it’s a family,” Kim said. Now a volunteer at Trinity, the former All-American runner continues coaching the Lewiston High cross-country team and working as one of four partners who own a dozen Subway restaurants. Erin Reed ’08, Trinity’s development director, succeeded him as executive director. Erin, who began volunteering at Trinity as a Bates freshman, said she wants to be there for decades. “This is my place. I love it here.”
1981 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Katherine Baker Lovell cklovell@verizon.net class president Kathleen Tucker Burke sburke4155@aol.com Kathy Baker Lovell remains development director of Bridge of Hope Lancaster & Chester Counties, raising funds to help homeless single mothers and children move into permanent housing....Seacoastonline caught up with the Rev. Lillian Buckley, a Kittery native who for the last 15 years served as the pastor of Bow Lake Free Will Baptist Church in Strafford, N.H. Feel-
ing that the time had come to move on to something new, she recently resigned that position and is exploring new ways of serving while she teaches philosophy and world religion at Great Bay Community College. Talking about her life experiences — she is also a musician and a visual artist — Lillian recalled working with battered women and hospital patients while earning a master’s at Harvard’s School of Divinity. “I feel I was born to be involved in people’s lives at the worst times of their lives,” she said....Craig Comins is a vice president for the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America,... Thankful to stay afloat in grant funding in science at the Univ. of Washington, Leslay Correll Schecterson has a sewing business on the side....Laurel Dallmeyer is a family physician, with some of the same patients for 26 years....Maria Galvagna Mesinger, a partner at Lawson & Weitzen in Boston, sits on the board of her town library with Eva Hamori ’84....Francine Garland Stark, who has been working in the movement to end violence against women for 30 years, is the executive director of Hope and Justice Project in Aroostook County....Sparky Gardner is vice president of NJR Clean Energy Ventures in Wall, N.J....Gary Paul Gilbert works for NY State Assemblymember Michael DenDekker as community liaison....Walter Hoerman runs Lilac City Pediatrics, providing pediatric care in southeastern New Hampshire.... Scott Keenen enjoys applying his B.S. in physics as a HR executive in the oil and gas industry.... Practicing equine medicine in the Hudson Valley, Linda Kutrubes is also a union actor with many credits....Patti Lane had another successful winter of ski racing with New England Masters, culminating in being named to the USSA Masters Eastern Regional Team....Valerie Lasserre Coppens and Vincent travel widely across Europe and have a house in Bretagne, France....Anne Loewenthal Shain says her homemaker job continues to evolve and satisfy.... Sue Lovett got together with Felicia Garant ’82, Melissa Weisstuch ’82, Kathy Stien Kastrinelis and Mike Kastrinelis ’82, Ed Stanley, and Mindy Hanssen ’80....Nancy Madsen Cummings started a new job at the Mayo Clinic. She is the head team orthopedic physician for the Minnesota Lynx of the WNBA and a team physician for the Timberwolves....Minoo Malek Saghri will join husband Faraj, who was transferred to London, once their twin sons enter college in the fall. She attended Karen Just’s daughter’s wedding and was with Kate Hickson on a sailing trip.... M.C. McNeill McBain celebrated 34 years with IBM....Jean Monahan is a senior manager