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Tina Browne and Catanna Berger were married July 12, 2014.... Jared Cash was named interim vice president for enrollment at UMaine Farmington. He’s been at the Sen. George J. Mitchell Institute for Scholarship and Research as scholarship director for four years....The Boston Globe caught up with Lauren DuBois, who continues her passion for basketball as the varsity girls’ coach at Manchester Essex Regional. “Basketball was always such a big part of my life. I was happy to get the opportunity to continue to be part of the sport and try to share my passion for the game,” Lauren said. A star at Bates, she’s in her 11th year at Manchester Essex, where she teaches U.S. history and psychology and is chair of the social studies department. Her teams have twice reached the Division 4 state final....Rebecca Kushins and Jennifer Valente were married in August 2014....Caroline Renyi Del Percio and Matthew welcomed Emelia Del Percio in July 2013....Ben Schippers, co-founder of software development startup Happy Fun Corp. in Brooklyn, N.Y., was inducted into the Bates Scholar-Athlete Society during Commencement Weekend on campus and was also the keynote speaker at the induction ceremony. A Bates squash player who played at the No. 1 spot and captained the team, Ben was lauded for his athletic accomplishments and for his contributions to the college as an alumnus. He has provided internships at HFC, mentored and advised students, and, in 2014, joined the college’s Purposeful Work initiative to coteach a new Short Term course on digital innovation.
2005 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class co-presidents Larry Handerhan larry.handerhan@gmail.com Sarah Neukom sneukom@alumni.bates.edu Charlotte Birkner Zawel is senior associate, media solutions at Millward Brown Digital in Boston. She and her husband, Marc, welcomed Lily Alexandra Zawel on May 8, 2014....Grant Brown received the 2014 Martin Rosenberg Academic Achievement Award from the American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries. He is vice president and a retirement plan consultant at Compensation Planning Inc. in Warwick, R.I....Bill Cartun is the director of basketball operations on the Univ. of Colorado men’s basketball staff....Michael Corey Brown Dowling and Suzannah Cyr Dowling welcomed Cora Alyce Dowling on Oct. 17, 2014....Ryan Fitzpatrick, senior
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director of category management at online retailer Wayfair in Boston, was named to the new retail advisory board of Home Accents Today, which covers the home furnishings field....Dan Frost, a math teacher at Thornton Academy, traveled to Norway to take part in climate research. As teacher-in-residence, he worked with Bates professors Will Ambrose and Mike Retelle and colleagues from other institutions in launching a project to create a 1,000-year record of ocean conditions from evidence found in clamshells. Ambrose and Retelle received a $337,228 National Science Foundation grant for their three-year research project, which will analyze the natural record archived in clamshells over the course of a millennium to plot changes in sea temperature where the Barents and Norwegian seas meet. Dan studied with Retelle and served as teacher-in-residence with the research team during its first session of field work two summers ago. “He was involved in every aspect” of the research, Retelle said.... As Harvard’s defensive line coach, Mike Horan helped lead the Crimson football team to a 10-0 season and the Ivy League title in 2014. “It’s nice to be at a place where winning is such an important part of the culture,” he told a Stoughton newspaper. A star defensive back at Bates, Mike is in his seventh season on the Harvard staff....Stacy and Laurie Lau Layton welcomed a son, Charles Ethan Layton.... Leah Skowron Kingman is now assistant director of European and decorative arts at the Robert C. Eldred Co., an auction and appraisal firm in East Dennis, Mass....Janele Lynn (Penn State ’04) and James Tuttle were married Sept. 20, 2014.
2006 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class co-presidents Chelsea Cook chelsea.m.cook@gmail.com Katharine M. Nolan knolan@alumni.bates.edu John Ritzo jritzo@energycircle.com Maggie Boudreau and Matt Biggart were married July 27, 2014....Katherine Kokosinski and Joel Colony were married Sept.
13, 2014....Chelsea Cook and Jon DeCarlo welcomed Owen Frederick DeCarlo on Aug. 17, 2014....Kathleen Keif and Mitch Cote-Crosskill were married June 27, 2014....Allison Coville Bray welcomed a daughter, Aurora Bray, on Nov. 11, 2014.... Kara Dietrich Shuler welcomed Chase Andrew Shuler on Sept. 3, 2014....Marisela Fermin-Schon ’08 and Jacob Grindal were married Aug. 30, 2014....Keelin Godsey was inducted into the Bates Scholar-Athlete Society during Commencement Weekend in June. He was honored both for his outstanding athletic accomplishments as the most decorated athlete in Bates history — a 16-time All-American, two-time winner of NCAA Division III titles in the women’s hammer, and an NCAA record in the hammer that still stands today — and for his “activism, leadership, and intentional visibility as a transgender athlete,” said Whitehouse Professor of Art and Visual Culture Erica Rand, who introduced Keelin. She told the audience that Keelin’s story has been featured in numerous publications, including the important 2010 think-tank report that formed the basis of the NCAA’s transgender inclusion practices; a 2012 Sports Illustrated cover story on transgender athletes; and in Keelin’s own publications, including an essay for the jock issue of Original Plumbing. “Beginning in his senior year,” said Rand, “when he competed for Bates as an out transgender athlete, he has, in addition, influenced the institutional work that continues to make Bates a nationally recognized leader regarding the participation of trans and gender-nonconforming athletes, as well as LGBTQ+ athletes in general, at all levels of competitive and recreational sport.” Keelin earned a doctorate in physical therapy at Northeastern Univ. and is now on staff at the Center for Rehabilitation at Berkshire Medical and serves as an assistant throws coach at Williams College....Molly Graham is assistant director of the Rutgers Univ. Oral History Archives....Kate Hluchyj and Matias Stella (Virginia Tech ’00) were married Nov. 2, 2013. Both have MBAs, Kate from the Univ. of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business and Matias from Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business.... Emily Hoffer and Brendan Levine (St. Lawrence ’06) were married Aug. 2, 2014....Margaret Joyce Zuehl welcomed Zachary Thomas Zuehl on Aug. 11, 2014.... Kristin McCurdy Motley and J. Brooks Motley welcomed a son, Warren H. Motley. They live in Portland....The online news site BostInno featured Todd Myers, a foodie who launched a startup
to give digital pros and cons of Boston’s restaurants. “There are so many personal stories,” he said of Yelp reviews. “But all you really want to know are the basic takeaways.” He seeks to solve that problem with Tally, a social Web application designed to capture the crowd’s opinion on virtually any subject. Tally limits users to 140-characters, which keeps the reviews to the point. But people can post as many times as they want under a category and classify their comments under “The Good” or “The Bad.” The result: an easily digestible, digital pros and cons list that makes it simple to share opinions. “It’s as if you asked everyone on the Internet a question, and people could just raise their hand,” Todd said.... Michael Nelson is the new director of student services for the Old Rochester Regional School District in Massachusetts.... Brenton Pitt, a financial professional with Centinel Financial Group LLC in Marshfield, Mass., was named a Five Star Wealth Manager by Five Star Professional for 2015....Christina Saunders is a Denver-based attorney and partner at the law firm Sparkman + Foote LLP.... Laura Tomaselli is involved in a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for Memorias Del Fuego, a documentary about the women who fought in Nicaragua’s Sandinista movement and are still fighting for social equality four decades later. She traveled there to interview some of the women. Laura has shot, produced, and edited documentaries for publications including The Atlantic Monthly, SAVEUR, and Vice Magazine....Emily Trono and Tim Klein (Ithaca College ’06) were married Aug. 9, 2014.... Sarah Wilson and Kristen Fries Wilson ’07 welcomed twins, Penelope Margaret Wilson and Maxwell Fries Wilson, on Nov. 8, 2014.
2007 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class co-presidents Keith Kearney kdkearney@gmail.com Rakhshan Zahid rakhshan.zahid@gmail.com
Eric Obeng ’07, a leader of the Bay Area Bates Network, received a Bates’ Best award. “No matter which city I live in or company I work for, there’s always one constant: Batesies are just around the corner.”