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bat e s no t e s
marketing agency....Andrew Gorayeb is now the boys lacrosse head coach at Sisters High School in Sisters, Ore., where he is also city manager.... Deborah Hansen, chef-owner-sommelier of Taberna de Haro in Brookline, Mass., talked with The Boston Globe about wines she likes to recommend. She thinks wine drinkers should follow the example of Catalans in northeastern Spain who enjoy the sparkler cava any time of day. “It’s common to have a glass in the afternoon when friends come over,” she says. She thinks a cured gravlax-style salmon would be splendid with the cava, as well as squid ink paella, a specialty of her restaurant....Rick Russell is the new president and CEO of GREER Laboratories Inc. in Lenoir, N.C. a developer and provider of allergy immunotherapy products and services. He is also CEO of Ares Allergy Holdings Inc., which includes GREER and other allergy-focused companies.
1987 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Val Brickates Kennedy brickates@gmail.com class president Peggy Brosnahan mmb263@cornell.edu
Caroline Baumann ’87, the new director of the expanded Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, says interactive technology “will allow visitors to play designer and explore the collection like never before.” Back from serving in the Peace Corps, Joyce Bareikis El Kouarti talked with Foster’s Daily Democrat in Dover, N.H., where she’s known for her roles with the Dover Chamber of Commerce, Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, and the Moose Mountains Regional Greenways. In 2012, “my wanderlust returned full force” and she joined the Peace Corps, serving two years in Cameroon. She worked with NGOs to foster economic development among farmers, created village savings-and-loan associations and conducted HIV outreach campaigns. “It was a very rewarding two years of my life.”...Caroline Baumann, the new director of the expanded Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, gave a wide-ranging interview
to MODERN Magazine before the museum reopened last December. Interviewer Al Eiber, a collector and museum trustee, praised her “intelligence, dedication and enthusiasm — a perfect combination to lead the newly renamed museum to the next level.” Caroline said every aspect of the museum has been renovated and reimagined, with 60 percent more gallery space — 16,000 square feet. “We’ve also completely reinvigorated the visitor experience by incorporating a number of interactive elements. Chief among these are a breakthrough Pen device, ultra-high-resolution digital tables, and dynamic spaces that encourage engagement. The Pen is really key to the whole experience” and in conjunction with the interactive tables “will allow visitors to play designer and explore the collection like never before.”...John Blanchette, who often acts and directs at L-A’s Community Little Theatre and coaches the Bates competitive ballroom dance team, joined the L/A Arts board.
1988 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class committee Mary Capaldi Carr mary.capaldi.carr@gmail.com Astrid Delfino Bernard flutistastrid@sbcglobal.net Ruth Garretson Cameron ruth.eg.cameron@gmail.com Steven Lewis lewiss@umhelena.edu Julie Sutherland Platt julielsp@verizon.net Kelly Fitzpatrick Martin is operations manager of the Maine Women’s Fund, which focuses on advancing the economic security of women and girls....Steve Morin, a leader in higher education philanthropy, is now vice president for university advancement at the Univ. of New Haven....Steven Robins was named president of Milestone Scientific Inc., a medical R&D company based in Livingston, N.J.
1989 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Donna Waterman Douglass 4498donnad@gmail.com steering committee Sally Ehrenfried sallye@alumni.bates.edu Deb Schiavi Cote debscote@yahoo.com Frank Barbieri is senior vice president of corporate development at YuMe, a video advertising technology company headquartered in Redwood City, Calif....Dancer-choreographer Michael Foley and his Fuzion Dance Artists previewed their spring concert and talked about the choreographic process at
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Darsie Alexander ’88
media outlet: The New York Times
headline:
When the world went pop
date:
April 8, 2015
takeaway: Think again when you think about Pop art Darsie Alexander ’88 co-curated last summer’s show, International Pop, at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. The ambitious exhibition, now at the Dallas Museum of Art, examines the various and surprising origins of the 1960s Pop art movement. In its extensive review, The New York Times says the exhibition makes the case that Pop art, far from having a solely American birth, was “sprout in countless homegrown versions” worldwide, and that the term has, for too long, been “too narrow to encompass the revolution in thinking it represented for a generation of artists.” Alexander, who in 2014 left the Walker to become director of the Katonah Museum of Art in Westchester County, N.Y., is credited by the Times with “tracing complex international crosscurrents” — fueled by jet travel, television, and the proliferation of picture magazines — that “led to germinations of Pop that are only now starting to be explored.”
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