takeaway:
bat e s no t e s
Jason Perkins ’97
1997 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class co-secretaries Chris Gailey gaileycj@gmail.com Leah Wiedmann Gailey leah.gailey@gmail.com class president Stuart B. Abelson sabelson@oraclinical.com Stu Abelson, CEO of Ora Inc., a leading ophthalmic clinical research and product development firm, received the Bruce Stangle ’70 Award for Distinguished Service to the Bates Community from the Alumni Assn. His citation reads: “You not only love Bates, you show us how much, too. We honor your leadership in business, your contributions to the career development of so many Bates students and alumni, and your skill as an ambassador of the liberal arts who speaks distinctively about Bates’ capacity to prepare students for lives of purposeful work.”...Rob Blood is one of the new owners of the 113-year-old Whitehall Inn in Camden, Maine, which underwent a $1.7 million cosmetic lift and reopened with a new restaurant. On the National Registry of Historic Places, the inn is associated with poet Edna St. Vincent Millay and the movie Peyton Place. “The Whitehall has a great tradition of hospitality. We want to be good stewards of it,” Rob told the Pen Bay Pilot.... Nathan Cole, a partner at Heifetz Rose in Needham, made the 2014 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list of Rising Stars for the second straight year. The announcement was sent in by Monica Rodriguez ’12, a legal intern and paralegal with the firm....Billy Hayes joined Southeast Toyota Distributors in Deerfield Beach, Fla., as vice president of sales operations.... Jack Martilotta, an Iraq war veteran, teaches science and coaches the varsity football team in the Greenport, N.Y., school district....Boston TV station WCVB visited Eric Stirling’s West Branch Pond Camps near Greenville, which calls itself Maine’s longest continuously operating sporting camp. The camps have been in Eric’s family since 1910. “We like it just the way it is,” he said. “We like to keep it real, authentic, rustic, and made from original materials in the area.” That’s not to say things never change. “You really have to expand what you offer because the fishing crowd, it just isn’t what it used to be. What we see a lot more is couples looking for just peace and quiet. It’s more of the eco-tourism type thing.”...The Boston Globe spoke with Matt Tavares about his latest book, Growing Up Pedro,
which chronicles pitcher Pedro Martinez’s journey from the Dominican Republic to Fenway Park. Matt, the author and illustrator of more than a dozen children’s books, met Martinez in 2012 while both were signing books for a Jimmy Fund event. Unlike his earlier books profiling historic players like Babe Ruth and Ted Williams, Matt added, “it was great to be able to draw on my own memories of being at Fenway and watching Pedro pitch.” After all, “he was the greatest pitcher any of us have ever seen.”
1998 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class committee Rob Curtis robcurtis79@gmail.com Douglas Beers douglas.beers@gmail.com Liam Leduc Clarke ldlc639@yahoo.com Renée Leduc Clarke rleducclarke@gmail.com Tyler Munoz tylermunoz@gmail.com Annie Bourdon is founder and executive director of CarShare Vermont, Vermont’s first car-sharing organization. A sustainable-transportation enthusiast, she has been involved in the car-sharing industry since its arrival in the U.S. over a decade ago....Erica Ellis Suter was named a Best Lawyer Under 40 by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Assn. She has a solo criminal defense appellate and post-conviction practice in Maryland and has successfully advocated for the modification or vacatur of six of her clients’ life sentences and convictions based on actual innocence, due process violations, or ineffective assistance of counsel....Mike Ferrari, wife Meg, and big brother Rowan welcomed second son Quinn Robert Mitchell on Nov. 7, 2014.
1999 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Jennifer Lemkin Bouchard jlemkin@alumni.bates.edu class president Jamie Ascenzo Trickett jamie.trickett@gmail.com
Orion Magazine says Hannah Sessions ’99 and Greg Bernhardt ’99 are examples of “The New Farmers,” young farmers committed to small-scale agriculture out of a deep environmental ethic.
PHYLLIS GRABER JENSEN
Inc. in Cambridge, Mass.... Steven Young was named vice president-marketing director at Bank of Canton (Mass.).
media outlet: The Boston Globe
headline:
Allagash’s Interlude started as an accident
date:
Jan. 21, 2015
takeaway: A little experimentation can turn bad beer to good. Allagash brewmaster Jason Perkins ’97 tells beer blogger Gary Dzen ’05 of The Boston Globe how the brewery created its Interlude beer by accident. A decade ago, the Portland brewery found a “rogue yeast” in a batch of beer. Brewers tend to fear rogue yeasts for good reason — they can destroy beer. So the brewery dumped that batch, but the story didn’t end there. The rogue yeast was a strain of Brettanomyces, a wild yeast that, with some daring, can be used to make good beer. And that’s what Perkins did, creating Interlude, where the yeast joins a complex brewing process to craft one of Allagash’s “wild fermentations” — beers crafted with wild strains of yeast. “It’s a little sour but mostly fruity,” writes Dzen, “a little funky but not enough to remind you of wet socks.”
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