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8 Check out plans for the Den and Memorial Commons. Beer me!

28 Glimpses of China’s future were present when Paul Marks ’83 visited in I98I.

46 What’s keeping good food from poor people in Lewiston-Auburn?

president-elect clayton spencer “Unless higher education marries excellence and opportunity, it is not doing its job.” Page 38

2 Letters 4 Bates In Brief 24 Amusements 28 Features 56 Notes 92 History Lesson 96 From a Distance

Take a closer look at The Lady and the Ladder, an oil painting by Sophy Min â&#x20AC;&#x2122;12. Page 19

OPENING Thought: Julian Agyeman, Environmental justice advocate and author Source: Martin Luther King Jr. Day Memorial Service of Worship, Jan. 15, 2012, Bates Chapel

My green colleagues moan about cutting down rainforests, and how there may be a cure for cancer in that piece of rainforest cut down. But what about the human potential to cure cancer that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re wasting in the minds of young African American men who are more likely in prison rather than in college?

letters

Thank You, Elaine Thank you, Elaine Tuttle Hansen, for a most informative final interview (“Alive to Change, Fall 2011) and for giving Bates your best as our seventh president. The college has come into the next century able to cope, adapt and adjust while staying firm for what matters most: love of learning, embrace of diversity and the ability to cope, and as an institution, adding majors when relevant. The Fall issue was my favorite. Of course, it has Peter Gomes ’65 and Jim Carignan ’61 in it, but maybe it also has to do with my 50th Reunion this year. I sent the article “Career Intentions” to my grandson, a senior at Roger Williams University; he came with me to our 40th Reunion a decade ago. Maybe I’ll bring my 7-year-old granddaughter this year! Sharon Fowler Kenrick ’62 South Sutton, N.H.

Living Proof We’ve all heard tales of seeing one’s own obituary in the newspaper. Well, you’ve done it for me — almost. After traveling in the South Pacific for five-plus weeks (Cook Islands, Tahiti, Marquesas), I’m finally reading the accumulated mail, including the Fall 2011 Bates Magazine. At my age, 84, I usually check out the obits first. Sure enough, there’s an obituary for my brother-in-law Weston Attwood Cate ’43. The last sentence reads, “His sisterin-law was the late Dorothy Stetson Conlon ’50.” Wow! Perhaps someone would be good enough to send me

the details of my death so I could run an obit in the local paper, tell my lawyer and notify my beneficiaries — including Bates College. Then I could continue my life of travel and adventure and writing under a pseudonym. I would like to applaud Bates on its route to multicultural engagement, as described in the Fall issue. As someone who has lived and traveled much of her life internationally, I can attest to the importance of exposing young people to a culture beyond their own. Keep it up, and expand the connection. Dorothy Stetson Conlon ’50

Sarasota, Fla.

A lifelong traveler and the author of At Home in the World: Memoirs of a Traveling Woman, Dorothy has a new memoir, Born with Wings: Experiencing Life in Exotic Lands, available through Amazon. Her website is dorothyconlon.com. — Editor

Finished Well Just finished reading thoroughly the Fall issue of the magazine. Very good job. Much improved and worth reading. Rob Wilson ’51

Santa Fe, N.M. We hope the redesign keeps the improvement going. — Editor

Nighty Night! As mayor of Lewiston, I want to commend Bates students Mikey Pasek ’12 and Megan Murphy ’13 for organizing “College Night in Town” on May 9. Due to their positive interaction

Batesies and fellow Lewiston-Auburn college students gather at the Courthouse Plaza on Lisbon Street for an a cappella performance that concluded “College Night in Town” in May. Photograph by event co-organizer Mikey Pasek ’12.

with the Androscoggin County Chamber of Commerce, Lyceum Gallery and municipal departments, the event was an overwhelming success. The Lewiston and Auburn downtowns were filled with hundreds of college students throughout the evening — visiting restaurants, enjoying more than 30 musical performances and networking. Indeed, students from Bates, Kaplan University, University of Southern Maine LewistonAuburn College and Central Maine Community College seemed to have a very enjoyable time experiencing what Lewiston and Auburn have to offer. It was a great event to strengthen the communitycollege connection, and it is my understanding that future events will occur. I certainly hope so, as “College Night in Town” stirred up great energy and enthusiasm about downtown hot spots in the Twin Cities. In closing, I extend best wishes to all Bates students and their families. I am very proud of Bates’ presence here in the community, and it’s nice to know that students like Mikey and Megan are excited about interacting with the community at large. Robert E. Macdonald Lewiston

Author and world traveler Dorothy Stetson Conlon ’50 has her face painted by a shaman in the Amazon jungle of Ecuador in 2009.

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See a schedule of performances and events and map of participating venues at bates.edu/nightintown. — Editor

Word Up Can you stick with real words in the magazine? “Embiggen” (“Meet Hedge and Roger Williams,” Fall 2011) is a made-up word that adds nothing to the language since the concept it represents already has numerous options. Don’t add to the linguistics confusion. Dan Isaac ’77

Yarmouth, Maine

Danes Deserve No Disdain I must take issue with Charles W. Radcliffe ’50’s letter in the Fall issue of Bates Magazine. Mr. Radcliffe’s characterization of the Danes during World War II is simplistic and unhistorical. While it is mostly correct to say that when the Nazis first occupied Denmark, in 1940, there was “only a murmur of resistance from the Danish population,” there was a sensible reason for this behavior. Geographically and militarily it would have been foolish to resist openly the German troops. Only needless bloodshed and death would have resulted. Believe it or not, there are times when “the better part of valor is discretion.” However, almost from the start a resistance movement grew. Publication of illegal underground newspapers became among the most extensive in occupied Europe. Sabotage raids against industrial sites began in 1942; in the first three months alone of 1943

e dit or’s not e the Danish Resistance carried out 120 raids. But clearly the bravest, most heroic and humane Danish resistance to the Nazi rule was the rescue of the Danish Jews in October 1943 after the Germans decided to arrest all the Jews the country. At first the Danes, at risk of their own arrests, provided safe houses for their Jewish neighbors. Later in October the Danes smuggled most of their Jewish countrymen and -women to neutral Sweden. Out of approximately 8,000 Danish Jews, 7,220 got to Sweden. This operation was the largest mass rescue action of the war. While Mr. Radcliffe champions “America’s competitive spirit,” as especially manifested on Garcelon Field, he should also realize that competitiveness has many faces. During World War II, the Danes chose subtlety, subterfuge and, most important of all, humanity as their competitive face. Long after the war, Adolf Eichmann lamented about Denmark, “That small country caused us more difficulties than anything else.” The Danes must have been doing something right. Frederik L. Rusch ’62 New York, N.Y.

Please Write We love letters. Letters may be edited for length (300 words or fewer preferred), style, grammar, clarity and relevance to college issues and issues discussed in Bates Magazine. Email your letter to: magazine@bates.edu Or post it to: Bates Magazine Bates Communications Office 141 Nichols St. Lewiston ME 04240

Photo next page: Hanging out on a slackline on Cinco de Mayo.

The other day, the alumni Facebook page was humming with responses to this question from a staffer: “What would you like to see on this page?” Deep into production of this first issue of the redesigned Bates Magazine, your comments sure caught my eye. You said you wanted to know more about “what’s happening on campus,” more “stories about students” and more about “what students are thinking.” Three years ago, Bates Magazine took advantage of a readership survey tool offered by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. We asked alumni, parents and friends much the same thing: What do you want? What are you interested in? The results mirrored the Facebook discussion. While you expressed strong interest in staying connected with each other — through class notes, stories about alumni careers and obits — the topics that you are “very interested” or “interested” in have to do with campus life. • faculty selection, promotion, retirements (86 percent) • campus controversies (75 percent) • history and traditions (74 percent) • facilities and growth (73 percent) • student achievements, issues and opinions (71 percent) One reader summed up all the data: “Focus on the following things: (1) Pictures, old and new; (2) people on campus; (3) controversies or big deals on campus (4) plans for new buildings or other changes.” Seventy percent of you prefer to read the print issue, and 11 percent prefer online — but 19 percent want both. So we’re also revamping the online presence of Bates Magazine, trying to answer the riddle of how to meld the editorial efficiency of blog-style news posting with the compelling design of the print magazines. Maybe the survey and Facebook comments are obvious — a version of “It’s the economy, stupid.” Still, it reinforces that you want to have a conversation about Bates today, and you want it in the Bates vernacular: smart, authentic, inclusive, friendly and practical. We’ve learned less self-evident things too. Last fall at the President’s House, a group of Bates faculty, staff and alumni talked about the magazine’s role in campus and community life. “Lewiston is part of the Bates story,” said multifaith chaplain Bill Blaine-Wallace. CJ Conrad ’90, vice president at a local bank, took it a step further. “Don’t apologize for Bates’ place,” she said. So that’s why we have a Bates in Brief section devoted to Lewiston. Lately, Bates landscaper Bill Bergevin has been in busy, preCommencement mode, and the other day he was putting down black mulch outside Chase Hall. Besides keeping weeds down and moisture in, he said, mulch highlights your plants and flowers. Similarly, we hope the magazine’s new design helps colorful Bates stories catch your eye. And like the occasional need to rearrange your spice cabinet, we hope the magazine delivers Bates stories a bit more efficiently, whether it’s the story about President-elect Clayton Spencer, the fate of Memorial Commons or photographs of campus haunts. So…please enjoy this Bates garden. And let us know what you think. H. Jay Burns, Editor magazine@bates.edu

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Students

Bates has as many students from Malaysia as from Missouri (4).

Bates debate ranked ninth in the world in 20I2.

Cultivating Female Farmers Inside African Fashion Show

Simone Schriger ’14

Romina Istratii ‘12 of Athens, Greece, will use a prestigious Watson Fellowship to investigate the intersection of gender and food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa. Women far outnumber men as farm workers in many African countries, yet gender bias and male dominance of economic and social institutions limits opportunities for female farmers. “This situation contributes to persistent food insecurity,” Istratii writes in her Watson proposal. At the same time, women’s voices are absent from existing research into gender bias in sub-Saharan farming practices, a void Istratii hopes to address. “The literature shows that women are crucial to food stability, but it fails to project what women think and how they see their role as forces of security and economic growth.” Each Watson recipient receives $25,000 to pursue their year-long project.

Joshua Ajamu ’14 of Breinigsville, Pa., models an agbada, a traditional West African suit, at the February show.

Students who buy books online before the semester begins arrive at the bookstore to find their purchases ready for them in an ecofriendly bag.

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Favorite Bates desserts: chocolate cookies, almond cookies and vegan brownies.

By I979, about half of Bates students used computers.

The Mustachio Bashio party in February concludes the wacky mustache season at Bates.

What do Batesies want?

At an April 6 candlelight vigil at Lake Andrews for the slain Florida boy (below), students wear hoodies and name tags that read, “Hello, My Name Is Trayvon Martin.”

What qualities in a career do you deem “essential” or “very important”? Interesting daily work —

93% Intellectual challenge —

87.5% Stable, secure future —

84.5% What qualities in a career do you deem “not important”?

Clean up your room! February break is when Jim Guzelian tries to get around to all of the college’s 965 student rooms. Guzelian is part of the college’s Environmental, Health and Safety program, and twice a year he and Ray Potter inspect every residential room, mandated by the state Fire Marshal’s Office. They look for the usual prohibited stuff, everything from ceiling tapestries and Christmas decorations wrapped around sprinkler pipes to hot plates, microwaves, George Foreman grills, crock pots and deepfat fryers. But the No. 1 problem they encounter is more mundane. “Clutter!” Guzelian says — not just messy rooms but hoarder-style junk. And, perhaps like at home, the offending students get a note asking them to clean up.

Limited working hours —

31% Social recognition or status —

26.5% High income potential —

9.5%

student Quote: “ You’re gorgeous, smart and sexy. More and more like me every day.” Umar Khan ’l3 to Asia Night co-host Amna Ilyas ’l3

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campus

Interim President Nancy Cable never knew the glory days of Chase Hall, when its bustling Memorial Commons was a beehive of student social life. That mealtime scene moved to New Commons in 2008, and Chase Hall, while still housing such facilities as the Bobcat Den and the College Store, became a ghost of its former self. Thanks to Cable, though, Chase will once again feel the rattle and hum of abundant student energy. At her urging, donors have responded with gifts for refreshing the building to meet a number of student needs. The makeover, planned for completion by late fall or early winter, will result in a pub, as well as possible new headquarters and storage space for the venerable Bates Outing Club. Cable, who came to Bates as vice president of enrollment and external affairs and agreed to serve as president during the yearlong search for Elaine Tuttle Hansen’s successor, has made the Chase overhaul a priority. The need is multifaceted, Cable explains, but at the heart of it is a simple and compelling reality. There’s currently no really appropriate space for all manner of collaborative activities for faculty and students, she explains. “And the entrance to Chase, so often the first place a visitor might see, needs to be more welcoming.”

The smallest residence is Leadbetter House, capacity five students.

NESCAC school with no campus watering hole. Much of the makeover is about things like new lighting; wall, floor and window treatments; and furniture designed for easy reconfiguration of the space. However, some major work is needed to bring the area into compliance with building codes, including the installation of sprinklers and an elevator. And a few new doorways will be cut to help traffic flow, and old partitions removed to open up space. About 40 donors saw the need

and supported the concept, “most of them parents, alumni and trustees who care deeply about Chase and care a lot about student and faculty life,” says Cable. With planning and design work in train during the spring, hammers will be swinging by the beginning of June, she hopes. Cable also hopes that the refit will allay concerns, stirred up during the campus master planning process of the prior decade, that Chase was a goner. “Chase Hall isn’t going away — it’s too beloved by too many alumni.” —dlh

muskie archives and special collections library

Multipurpose spaces planned for fast-paced Chase project

Ice out on Lake Andrews was March I9, about a month ahead of schedule.

A 1967 expansion of Memorial Commons in Chase Hall paved the way for coed dining. This summer, another Chase freshening will create new student spaces — plus the college’s first pub.

On a fast track, the project will be well under way by the time President-elect Clayton Spencer moves into 204 Lane Hall, on July 1, Cable says. The largest part of the dining hall — known by Batesies as the “Barn” or “Big Room” — could become a swing space if funds allow, accommodating myriad uses, from performances to speeches, from dance and exercise classes to simply snacking and socializing. It’s likely that the Den will be expanded to include a pub — ending Bates’ status as the only

The Peter J. Gomes Chapel On Oct. 25, Bates will celebrate the naming of the College Chapel as the Peter J. Gomes Chapel, in memory of Gomes ’65, author, preacher and beloved son of Bates. In the past year, Bates has tended to the chapel’s age-related issues, replacing the slate roof and tending to turrets, among other tasks. Though costly, slate roofing is in keeping with the college’s commitment to using slate on the campus’ most historic and visible buildings whenever possible. 8

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Campus postmaster Vinny Vincent often poses trivia questions to students picking up packages.

Most costly Bates meal: sole-stuffed poppers.

Ryan Donnell

The new addition on Hedge Hall features a glass staircase, offering inside-out and outside-in perspectives.

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Academics

“ Stimulus from association with a superior mind” is the founding mission of Bates honors program.

Rare Book Department, Free Library of Philadelphia

Resurrecting Fanny

As English professor Lillian Nayder continues researching the Dickens family, she’s finding that Fanny’s got talent.

James Parakilas settles at the piano. He begins to play. The notes, composed about 180 years ago, not been played — or heard — by anyone since. Hearing the music, too, is English professor Lillian Nayder. She rediscovered the music in the archives of Britain’s Royal Academy of Music while researching the life of the composer, Fanny Dickens, elder sister of Charles. Parakilas, the Moody Family Professor of Performing Arts, transcribed the music for piano and brought it back to life. Parakilas plays on: an anthem for four voices in F major, a single chant in D minor and a canon in F major. None takes longer than one minute to perform. “Fanny’s

Seniors didn’t “hand in” their honors theses this year — they uploaded digital versions.

timing and use of intervals in these pieces is quite sophisticated, and she handles multiple voices in different ranges quite well,” Parakilas tells Nayder. Today, the pieces are as forgotten as their composer. Nayder is the author of The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth, a look at Charles’ poor treatment of his estranged wife (Fall 2011 Bates Magazine). She is now turning to other women in Dickens’ life, as she drafts a historical novel that examines the complex relations among his sisters and sisters-in-law. As Nayder listens to Parakilas play, she envisions a young woman with considerable musical talent, with her own strong power of expression. She is getting to know her a little better. —mbk

Five former John Kelsey students flash their Bates pedigree — in the form of their Bates student IDs — at a May 19 event honoring Kelsey’s retirement as psychology professor and chair of the neuroscience program. The 2010 grads honoring Kelsey are, from left, Rebecca Lange, Lauren Shapiro, Tom Berry, Alexia Zhang and John Bladon. 10 Spring 2012

New English course: “Literary Imagination and Neuroscience,” by Sanford Freedman.

Great teachers “kindle fire in another soul because [their] own souls were first aflame,” said President Gray.

Aspiring railroad systems engineer Joanna Moody ’I4 won a Goldwater Scholarship.

What’s Your major?

John Cole, the Reynolds Professor of History, and daughter Elizabeth acknowledge warm applause at the surprise April 27 reception honoring the conclusion of his teaching career after 45 years on the Bates faculty.

An accounting of all academic majors for the Class of 2011 134 Humanities Majors Art and Visual Culture

28 4 4 32 11 2 3 7 10 4 8 2 10 9

Chinese East Asian Studies English French German Japanese Music Philosophy Religious Studies Rhetoric

Six Professorships Appointed

Russian

And a few words about the Bates names behind the endowed chairs recently assumed by senior Bates professors.

Spanish Theater

210 Social Sciences Majors Anthropology

13 50 34 44 47 22

Economics History Marcus Bruce ‘77

Jane Costlow

Rebecca Herzig

The Benjamin E. Mays Professor of Religious Studies

Clark A. Griffith Professor of Environmental Studies

Christian A. Johnson Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies

Mays ’20 is considered the “schoolmaster of the civil rights movement.” Established by trustee emeritus James Orr P’94.

Griffith ’53 is a Massachusetts cranberry farmer with the Ocean Spray cooperative.

Johnson was a Swedish immigrant turned NYC industrialist who created a philanthropic foundation.

Politics Psychology Sociology

70 Natural Sciences Majors Biology

24 12 7 19 8

Chemistry Geology Mathematics Physics

83 Interdisciplinary Majors African American Studies Glen Lawson

Lynne Lewis

Erica Rand

Charles A. Dana Professor of Chemistry

Elmer W. Campbell Professor of Economics

Dana professorships honor Bates’ preeminent teacher scholars.

Campbell ’27 rose from clerk to VP at a local bank. His first gift was $100 in 1954.

Whitehouse Professor of Art and Visual Culture and Women and Gender Studies David Whitehouse ’36 was an executive with Container Corp. in Caracas, Venezuela.

American Cultural Studies Biological Chemistry Classical and Medieval Studies Environmental Studies

Interdisciplinary Self-Designed Women and Gender Studies Neuroscience

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Bates accepted 25 percent of applicants this spring, a college record for selectivity.

Four points from experts at the College Cost Symposium Lumina Foundation president Jamie Merisotis ’86, Brown admission dean James Miller, policy expert Sandy Baum and economists David Feldman and Robert Archibald gathered at Bates last fall to debunk the conventional wisdom that college costs are out of control. bates.edu/cost

Similar to such industries as healthcare and legal services, higher education is delivered by highly educated/skilled professionals whose high salaries are determined by the market.

3. College degree-holders take home about 84 percent more compensation than non-degreed workers. Two-thirds of all posicreated in the next decade 1. College costs are proportionate tions will require at least a bachelor’s. to the considerable benefits of a higher education, but schools need 4. Colleges spend huge sums better measurements of learning. on areas like travel, technology “We need to shape the accountand financial aid to create a microability movement rather than be cosm of the real world that their shaped by it,” Feldman said. graduates will enter. Such expend2. Systemic factors beyond the itures don’t drive productivity, yet are essential to quality and value. control of colleges drive costs. “ Without a college degree, there’s a very good chance you’re going to be poor.”

Ryan Donnell

— Lumina Foundation president Jamie Merisotis ’86

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Applicants base their essays on a part of the Bates mission statement.

The Chronicle of Higher Education calls Clayton Spencer’s becoming president a 20II “best” moment.

The average principal of a Bates student’s debt is $I8,699 at graduation.

Of the CBB schools, only Bates has a multifaith chaplaincy.

A Gift is a Gift is a Gift If Bates wanted to achieve 50 percent alumni giving participation in 1864, it meant securing four gifts from eight grads. Today, Bates has an alumni base of about 17,600. To make it to the hallowed plateau of 50 percent participation, nearly 9,000 alums need to make a gift. That’s about 1,000 more alumni gifts than last year, when participation was 45 percent. Several alumni leaders have challenged their fellow alums: If 50 percent of alumni make gifts by June 30, they’ll kick in another $500,000 to alma mater. The goal is ambitious but doable, says Bates Fund director Christina Traister ’92.

calendar basics Spring 2012 June 8–December 15 Starstruck: The Fine Art of Astrophotography — at the Bates Museum of Art

Summer 2012 July 2–August 11 Bates Dance Festival — summer arts mainstay in Maine July 12–August 9 Midsummer Lakeside Concerts — at Keigwin Amphitheater on Lake Andrews August 17–19 Great Falls Balloon Festival — downtown by the Androscoggin River August 27 AESOP — adventures begin as Class of 2016 arrives September 1 New Student Orientation — everyone learns the meaning of “blueslip”

“ Bates alums understand engagement — it was part of their experience as students. We can do this.”

September 4 Convocation — the debut of President Clayton Spencer

Fall 2012 October 5–7 Parents & Family Weekend — see your kids! October 25 Dedication of Peter J. Gomes Chapel — “in this place of memory and hope,” he would say October 26 Inauguration of President A. Clayton Spencer — the eighth of Bates October 26–27 Homecoming — featuring games vs. Colby

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PUDDLE JUMP If only briefly during what Mainers call an “open winter,” the campus had the look of winter (otherwise, what’s the point of the Puddle Jump?). So it was in mid-January that students shed clothes and inhibitions and got shivery with it, after which photographer Phyllis Graber Jensen captured these post-dip moments frozen, almost, in time.

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Sports

Men’s track performers won 20 All-NESCAC honors this spring.

In one April week, Leah Maciejewski ’I2 won a Fulbright to teach in Poland while batting .750.

The men’s track team worked hard for its big wins in 2012, including the program’s second-ever NESCAC outdoor championship in April and first-ever New England and ECAC indoor titles last winter. For one element of the team, however, the grueling work was motivated by a painful snub two years ago that left them shut out of an NCAA championship meet. Failed Bid Rewind to November 2010. Bates’ cross-country runners have gathered at the home of head coach Al Fereshetian. Huddled around his computer, they’re waiting for the NCAA to announce the at-large bids to the Division III championship meet. They refresh the browser maybe a hundred times before the crushing news appears: Bates has not received a bid. To the runners, it looks like the selection committee has unfairly tried to balance the field by inviting more teams from outside the college-rich New England region. The snub “was one of the worst days of my coaching life,” Fereshetian says. Time to Prove Partly to prove a point to the NCAA, Fereshetian schedules an out-of-region meet at St. Lawrence University for fall 2011. The move is a masterstroke. The Bobcats, then 16

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Feisty running by the likes of Tully Hannan ’14 — who runs cross country in the fall — helped to propel the men’s track and field team to multiple titles in 2011–12.

ranked 22nd in the nation, soundly beat St. Lawrence and SUNY–Geneseo, two teams ranked higher in the polls. The point is made: New England has both quantity and quality, and deserves to be well represented. In November, Bates is among five NESCAC teams to receive an at-large bid to the NCAA meet (only three were selected in 2010). All five finish in the top 15, and Fereshetian wins NESCAC Coach of the Year laurels, partly because his barnstorming trip to St. Lawrence elevated the conference’s fortunes. Running Mad Since then, the distance runners who felt the snub in November 2010 have used that frustration to focus their efforts in cross country and, during the winter and spring, for Fereshetian’s track and field program. Not that they really need more reason to push themselves. In fact, the runners

Tom Leonard ‘78

Fury of a Bobcat Scorned

“love the pain” of intense competition, both against other teams and among themselves, says 17-year assistant coach Todd Goewey. “It may sound weird, but it’s true. They love getting the most out of each other.” So while the great thrower David Pless ‘13 was the most prominent athlete during the Bobcats’ recent triumphs, the distance runners stepped up with big efforts. The harriers who’ve kindled fire for the track team include John Stansel ‘15 of Newburyport, Mass.; Noah Graboys ‘14 of Glencoe, Ill.; Tully Hannan ‘14 of West Hartford, Conn.; James LePage ‘13 of Cumberland, Maine; Andrew Wortham ‘13 of Newton, Mass.; Ben Chebot ‘12 of Newton, Mass.; Mike Martin ‘14 of Slatersville, R.I.; and Ken Whitney ‘13 of West Hartford. Fereshetian has no doubt that the snub of the crosscountry team in 2010 got everything moving forward. “It was the genesis.”

David Pless ’13 prepares to throw the shot, en route to winning his second consecutive NCAA Division III indoor title and breaking the NCAA Division III Indoor record by 9.5 inches.

Nessrine Ariffin ’15 Is Best Fast In her debut, squash player Nessrine Ariffin ’15 confirmed she could be Bates’ best female player yet. In her first college match in November, she beat Trinity’s top player, Catalina Pelaez, ranked 187th in the world. From Penang, Malaysia, Ariffin finished the year 23–4, earned Second Team All-America honors and joined

Swimmer Gabrielle Sergi ’I4 has an edge: Her family owns a pool company.

Aisha Shah ’02 and Ricky Weisskopf ’08 as Bates squash All-Americans. Next fall, Ahmed Abdel Khalek ’16 — an Egyptian by way of Westminster School in Connecticut, the two-time defending U.S. junior champion and the sixth-ranked junior in the world — will join the men’s team. Squash is perhaps the most internationally diverse of all collegiate sports, and head coach Pat Cosquer ’98 keeps his team doubly diverse by recruiting students from the StreetSquash and SquashBuster programs in New York City and Boston, respectively. “They all want to be Bates students,” he says. “They don’t want to go where they’re known primarily as squash players.”

Mekae Hyde ’15

Alex Parker ’15

Lewiston Twosome At least in recent memory, first-year teammates Mekae Hyde and Alex Parker are the first Lewiston residents to play baseball at Bates. Baseball insiders like assistant coach Bob Flynn and equipment manager Jim Taylor can recall no others, and the college’s alumni database turns up nada. While they’re rare specimens, Hyde says the decision to attend Bates was, in the end, a “no-doubter”— the baseball term for a blast that leaves the park, no doubt about it. A catcher, Hyde did initially balked at attending Bates. “I really wanted to get away” and play Division I ball somewhere. But after a visit, he “just fell in love with Bates.” Parker, too, was on the “anywhere but Maine” trajectory. But like Hyde, a campus visit sold him. Hyde played for Lewiston High School, a Class A program, while Parker attended smaller St. Dominic High School in Auburn, a Class C power. Both locals came to Bates for the “right reasons,” says head coach Mike Leonard: a potent blend of academics and athletics. “They both work extremely hard. And they both want to help the team,” Leonard says.

Stephen Mally/NCAA Photos

Campus Pride says Bates athletics is a U.S. model for inclusion and friendliness to LGBT students.

“ It’s every little kid’s dream to play Division I, but you have to look at what’s better for you in the long term. Education is going to trump athletics every day.” — Mekae Hyde ’15

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Arts & Culture

A cool exhibition on astrophotography is at the Museum of Art through Dec. I5.

Current student bands include Almost Awkward and AndroSkaggin.

Giving Voice The specialty of teaching voice and speech requires a nuanced understanding of both the anatomy of the voice and the art of using it to establish character. For instance, “an Irishman who has lived in the U.S. for many years and was educated at Harvard will speak differently from an Irishman who has never left Ireland,” says Katalin Vecsey, senior lecturer in theater who has taught at Bates since 1996. This year’s winner of the Kroepsch teaching award, Vecsey moved to the U.S. from her native Hungary in 1995, but remains close to that nation professionally and otherwise. She maintains a residence in Budapest and stays close to the Hungarian theater community. Bates students profit from that proximity. Seven times since 1999, during Short Term, Vecsey and Dana Professor Theater Martin Andrucki have brought students to Hungary and the Czech Republic to study theater and film. The worth of the experience derives in part from the fact that repertory theater is much more common in Hungary than in the U.S. Many companies “have eight, 10, 15 plays in repertoire, and run those shows as long as there is audience interest,” Vecsey says. “One night they might play Hamlet, and the next a Beckett show, and then a Pinter play,” Vecsey says. “The actors have to know the texts and the blocking for each production.” For the Bates students, “the most valuable experience is that they can go on different nights to the same theater and see the same actor in several roles. And see how adaptable actors are.” Video: search “Vecsey video” at bates.edu

“ One night they might play Hamlet, and the next a Beckett show, and then a Pinter play.”

One thing Caroline Sheridan ’12, above, learned about her art in 2011–12 is that less is sometimes more. Having seen Sheridan crowd her canvases with pigment, Robert Feintuch, the senior lecturer who works with studio art majors leading up to the Senior Exhibition, at one point jokingly accused her of artistic “horror vacui” — fear of empty space. So she eased up and left more white space. “That was one of the best things I got from him,” says Sheridan, shown holding a self-portrait.

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Lecturer Robert Feintuch showed his paintings at the Akira Ikeda Gallery, Berlin.

The dance program “went major” in 20II, and the first Bates dance majors just graduated.

Sophy Min ’12 hangs her painting The Lady and the Ladder (left) and at right teams with Erica Long ’12 for an impromptu art sale in New Commons Building.

Why does she climb? Why does she jump? The woman in the painting is indeed her, Sophy Min ‘12 says, “but it should be open to interpretation.” During a junior semester in Florence on a Syracuse University program, Min won best in show for this oil painting, The Lady and the Ladder. As a Myanmar citizen moving through Italy and Europe, Min, an economics and studio art double major, had to travel carefully, and was subject to racial profiling by border authorities, sometimes mistaken for a Chinese citizen traveling illegally. In the painting, the Lady’s face is hidden — “as an artist I do not want to tell viewers who this is” — as she seems to advance slowly, rung by rung. She has to hike her native skirt, called a longyi, which is unsuited for climbing because it’s worn snugly by pulling the fabric to one side, then folding and tucking into the opposite side. As the Lady pulls up the skirt, she shows some of her leg. That’s still unusual in a country emerging from a 48-year military dictatorship. The Lady’s hair is a bit out of place. And she’s not wearing shoes. “But if she had been,” Min says, “I would’ve made her lose one shoe by the top, to show a struggle” At the top, the Lady jumps for joy. “It was a question for me,” Min admits. “How do I celebrate? I want her to be jubilant.” A friend served as the jump model, leaping happily over and over with Min taking pictures of each leap. “I knew what I wanted but it was hard getting it just right.” Spring 2012

BATES IN BRIEF SPRING 20I2

Lewiston

Refresher Course on Downtown Dining Steckino’s? The Warehouse? No Tomatoes? Marois? Whatever images of L-A dining you carry in your mind, here are some current downtown scenes from photographer Phyllis Graber Jensen to add to the mix. “Is Lewiston going foody?” is what classical and medieval studies professor Margaret Imber posted on Facebook after a Japanese restaurant opened in the old Ames department store space in the Lewiston Mall. A few of her faculty colleagues chimed in with a liking to the new place. In fact, as adventurous restaurateurs treat chowhounds to cuisines from French to Greek to Indian, these are good days to have an appetite in the Twin Cities — so much so that Mikey Pasek ‘12 launched Bates Night in Town, an evening of gourmandise and other downtown attractions for students during Short Term. The eateries shown here are Fuel, Marché and Mother India, all on Lisbon Street; Fishbones, two streets down, closer to the Androscoggin, on Lincoln Street; the Bread Shack, in Auburn; and an old friend, Luiggi’s, where the pizzas are famously “all made with meat unless ordered otherwise.” Mother India Maine 114 Lisbon St., Lewiston Luiggi’s Pizzeria 63 Sabattus St., Lewiston Fishbones American Grill 70 Lincoln St., Lewiston The Bread Shack 1056 Center St., Auburn Marché 40 Lisbon St., Lewiston Fuel 49 Lisbon St., Lewiston

Tip: Curious about these or other L-A eateries? Check them out on Yelp. 20

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The Carnegie greenhouse helps grow seedlings for the local Lots to Gardens urban agriculture program.

One hundred and fourteen alumni live in Lewiston; another I07 live in Auburn.

mother india Tandoori, of course, but also chutney, papadums, gulab jamun, kheer and kulfee.

Of Bates place names, Garcelon Field and Mount David carry the oldest Lewiston names.

Lewiston-Auburn sent five first-year students to Bates in 20II–I2.

fishbones Offerings with class and imagination in a former mill space. Lobster rangoon, anyone?

luiggi’s A Bates fave since 1953, where all pizzas are famously made with meat, unless you tell ’em otherwise.

marché Tasty crêpes, sandwiches and soups. Look up! There’s Julia Child’s The French Chef playing on the widescreen TV.

fuel A sleek interior where cocktails often dwarf sumptuous French bistro delectables.

bread shack Tucked away amid car dealerships, a cozy spot for artisan breads, baked goods and sandwiches with a continental accent.

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BATES IN BRIEF SPRING 20I2

The World

The first Bates student to pursue abroad study headed to Tokyo in I956–57.

Winning Smile

View to a Kiln

The child nearest photographer Jenna Burke ‘13 in the photo above is Emmanuel — “a favorite of mine and a star on the soccer field,” says Burke, who met Emmanuel and his playmates during her stay in Rhotia, Tanzania, with a fall 2011 School for Field Studies program that also took her to Kenya. The program incorporated community service that entailed frequent sessions volunteering in primary schools. The sessions weren’t all work, as the visitors often went “just to play with the kids,” Burke says.

Catherine Elliott ‘12 is a ceramicist who creates bowls that are both beautiful and usable. She forms her vessels on a kick wheel, one at a time. A double major in studio art and politics, Elliott witnessed different approaches to ceramics work during the winter of 2011, when she lived and worked with an organization of potters in China. Case in point: The “Dragon Kiln,” a giant installation that she photographed on a hill just outside of Jingdezhen, the porcelain capital of China. Elliott’s photo (right), one of three student images on these two pages included in the 2012 Barlow Off-Campus Study Photography Exhibition, also depicts the kiln’s tenders, who, she explains, “spend hours crouched at the side of the kiln, feeding the flames.” (Perhaps the proximity to the heat has something to do with their choice of watermelon as refreshment.)

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An alumni career tip for success in the work world: “Have a bias towards saying yes.”

Sixty percent of Bates students will study abroad during their college time.

Joining an honored tradition, Sen. Ed Muskie ’36 once read George Washington’s inaugural speech on the Senate floor.

major destinations Study-abroad countries attracting the most Bates students in 2010–11: Italy

33 31 Denmark 28 France 24 Spain 16 Australia 11 Chile 11 Argentina 10 South Africa 9 Greece 8 United Kingdom

Keyless Entry Visiting Paris during the winter 2011 semester under the auspices of the Center for University Programs Abroad, photographer Olivia DaDalt ‘12 was captivated by this scene (above). The Pont de l’Archevêché is one of at least three Parisian bridges where romantic couples like to attach so-called love locks, or love padlocks, to symbolize their undying love. Writing their names on the locks, the lovers fix them to the bridge fencing and toss the keys into the Seine. (Perhaps more jaded couples favor combination locks.) In the background of DaDalt’s image is Notre Dame Cathedral.

“Italy is perennially the top destination for its appeal to art majors, quality programs, no requirement for prior language study, central Europe location and appeal to parents,” says Steve Saywer, director of Off-Campus Study. Source: Off-Campus Study Program 2011 Annual Report. The lists represent JSA and JYA students who studied abroad in 2010-11.

Viewers in 17 countries watched the webcast of the announcement of Presidentelect Clayton Spencer

Burundi Canada • Cyprus • Denmark • Finland • France • Georgia • Germany • India • Israel • Japan • Malaysia • Netherlands • Peru • Sweden • United Kingdom • United States • •

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am use me n ts

BOOKS

l i t era ry en t ertain ment

The College Store’s annual Non-required Reading List is an eclectic compilation befitting its source: Bates people near and far. As we await this year’s list, here are some facultysuggested titles from last year.

Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success by Matthew Syed

Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation by S. Bear Bergman and Kate Bornstein

Suggested by Helen Boucher, associate professor of psychology: “A book about the success of elite athletes. How do they perform at what seem to be otherworldly levels? How do they squelch self-doubt and why do they sometimes choke under pressure?”

Suggested by Erica Rand, Whitehouse Professor of Art and Visual Culture and Women and Gender Studies: “There are more people to learn from than Chaz Bono.”

Your Lyin’ Pies Julia Ofman ’15 evoked the familiar Bates theme of being torn between two Commons loves for the Dining Services Valentine’s Day poem contest:

The Moonflower Vine by Jetta Carleson Suggested by Michael Murray, Charles Franklin Phillips Professor of Economics: “Languorous, compelling story of a Missouri farm family in its early 20th-century beginnings and late 20th-century adulthood.”

But then, just as I pass the softserve machine I see you. My Commons crush. My heart stops, dead. You’re going to the same place I am, that island of delight — the dessert bar — but you’re coming from the Euro Station side. Your eyes are fixed on something, but it isn’t me.

I follow your gaze to try and locate the object of your affection, your lust. It’s Tollhouse Pie.

My pace quickens as I try to reach the table at the same time you do, to stage a “coincidental” wordless exchange between us, until I realize something far more serious is going on here. There’s only one slice left.

POETRY

I speed walk the last foot to get to the pie tray, and without even glancing at you I scoop it up. After it is securely in my possession, I look at you. My eyes, gleaming with victory, meet your crestfallen and pieless ones.

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Suggested by Bonnie Shulman, professor of mathematics: “What it means to be aware within our daily routines. Here is an ordinary woman, finding happiness and wisdom at the bottom of a laundry basket, and love in the kitchen sink.”

It’s Wednesday night, about 5:30 p.m. Commons is buzzing. After a very filling meal of noodles, beer tips, and “California Blend,” I’m on my way to dessert. I’ve earned it.

Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life by Karen Maezen Miller

I have no regret.

q u i rky finds

The Case of the Repentant Burglar At 6:08 a.m. on Dec. 20, 2010, a custodian noticed that the Crosley flat-screen TV in Frye Street Union was gone. After a few calls around campus, to see if it had been borrowed or was being replaced, Campus Safety and Security logged the incident as a theft. By summer, the case was still open but getting cold. Then the college got a call from a man in Minnesota. Apparently he was working through his addiction program. “He wanted to make amends — clean out the closet, come clean,” recalls Mike Voisine, an officer with Campus Security and Safety. The man admitted stealing the 42-inch TV for drug money during a cross-country drug and alcohol binge that ended in Maine. He said he had no connection to the college but wanted to pay back his crime. Voisine says the thief probably found a propped-open door to get inside. After checking with the Lewiston police to make sure they weren’t involved in the situation, Voisine and his security boss, Tom Carey ‘73, agreed to accept restitution. “And we received the full value, $1,249, from him and his parents,” Voisine says. “Highly, highly unusual,” Voisine adds. The college will not pursue criminal charges. “He came to us with a problem and a solution,” Voisine explains. “Bates is still a place where if you ask for some help, you’re going to get it.”

1. Burn the final draft 2. Eat lunch for an extended period of time (i.e., taco bar) 3. Pop champagne! 4. Spend at least 24 hours out of Ladd 5. Have a spa day 6. Go to the Goose — with adviser!

Mail Crawl Vinny Vincent, Bates campus mail supervisor, shows off the May 1987 issue of Canoe magazine that arrived at the college on April 13, 2012, a quarter-century after publication. It’s addressed to Andy Gooding ‘89, a sophomore in 1987. Of course, the first thing Vincent did when the aged magazine arrived at the Chase Hall mailroom was to email Gooding to let him know. In fact, Gooding remains a subscriber to the mag, renamed Canoe & Kayak.

(GETTING A) Life After Thesis

From thesis veterans, a few pieces of advice (above) posted on the “Thesis Board of Lore” in the Peer Writing Center in Ladd. Also seen in the center was a whiteboard featuring the following suggested PTSDs, or “Post-Thesis-Submission Doings”:

In the ‘80s, Gooding used to canoe the Androscoggin “when it was still yellow and foamy.” He now works at Marshall University, is married to Grace Tallman Gooding ‘89 and canoes various West Virginia lakes and rivers in one of his three canoes or his kayak. “For the serious canoeist, they’re like our golf clubs.”

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amuse me n ts a s k m e a nother

Who are the big names in selfcontrol research? Roy Baumeister and Kathleen Vohs are two. He lectured at Bates in 2009 — I’ll never forget his talk about self-control and the concept of free will. Vohs is an expert in the psychology of money. How does a Bates psych major go about developing thesis ideas? In our research methods class, Michael Sargent encouraged us to design projects that bridge and connect already established ideas. The idea is to form new platforms that future research can expand upon. When Helen Boucher explained that there was this out-of-thebox idea that she wanted to try with me, I jumped at the chance. Where did you get the specific idea to test money and self-control? Helen and I arrived at the final thesis idea by looking at Baumeister’s and Vohs’ work as well as some other papers. Vohs, in fact, actually told me that she was a bit disappointed that she didn’t come up with the research idea herself!

How did you test money’s effect on self-control? We divided about five dozen students into a control group and test group. The test subjects first completed an editing task to deplete their self-control. This is called “ego depletion.” They had to read a dense art history paper and cross out every “e” that was not adjacent to, or two letters away from, another vowel. Then they were exposed to money- related words. That “primed” their minds with money. From prior research, we knew that the idea of money evokes feelings of strength or efficacy. What we learned is that money also counteracts the ego-depletion effect. It does this by reducing the difficulty of and the effort exerted on maintaining self-control. Your paper notes that self-control helps us “achieve [our] goals and live harmoniously with others.” How? In our lives, success or failure is governed by our ability or inability to set and maintain goals in a demanding world —

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be it a daily schedule, positively interacting with a friend or aspiring to a better future self (with that killer body!). Losing our self-control threatens all this. In its most severe form, it significantly limits what we are able to accomplish as a person. So it’s essential we understand ego depletion and how we can better counteract this threat. Some proven ways to do this are with humor and glucose intake. We suggest using the idea of money. How did you maintain self-control during thesis? Working on thesis is horribly stressful, as any Batesie will tell you: all-nighters, traditionally low self-control and lots of 3 a.m. Facebook chats. So I changed my computer background to a stack of money. I had no clue if my experiment was even working, but if something was really going on here, I might as well benefit from it. Other already-proven ways to maintain selfcontrol are, as I said, humor and glucose intake. I’d go on candy hunts in my dorm for a bit more self-control.

A trending topic in psychology is selfcontrol: how and when it works, and why it sometimes doesn’t. A recently published psychology study, based on a Bates senior thesis, suggests that thinking about money can boost self-control. The study appears online in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. It’s co-authored by Associate Professor of Psychology Helen Boucher and psychology major Monthe Kofos ’11, based on his thesis research with Boucher last year. Do you find yourself using these findings now? Definitely! I am known among my friends as being a busy person, and I constantly push my self-control to the limit each day. I’m currently working in an inpatient psych ward at the local hospital as a counselor, trying to get into grad school, attempting to maintain all my extracurriculars from college, and striving to keep a healthy body and active social life. Without lots and lots of self-control, I’d fall apart at the seams! So after realizing that ego depletion does exist, I know I need all the help I can get to fight it.

Any tips? I keep my paycheck in my pocket at work rather than leaving it in the staff room (so I can touch it when a patient tries my self-control). I also have a money screen-saver. And, above all, I try to laugh and smile as much as possible. Life is not a carefree fairytale all the time, and while we might not always be able to change a situation, we can certainly try to make the best of it — using, of course, proven psychological principles!

Q&A

Mind your money, says Monthe Kofos ’11

q u iz time

THINKERS

Match the Minds Chosen in the 1930s by a faculty committee headed by President Clifton Daggett Gray, a series of stained glass portraits of great Western minds adorn the Chapel. In the lineup below, who’s who?

Hint: Principia keeps the bod in motion

Hint: The original Renaissance man

Hint: Wrote a “river of gold,” says admirer Cicero

Hint: ’Cause this scientist is radioactive (sadly)

Hint: When in doubt, choose Heaven

Answers: (A) Isaac Newton; (B) Leonardo da Vinci; (C) Aristotle; (D) Marie Curie; (E) Dante Alighieri

How strong is your knowledge of Bates’ quirky, cool and colorful past?

dog Lola

(who belongs to photographer Dana Rose Lee ’07 of New York, N.Y.) relates to the world primarily as a Bates fan, but what canine breed would she call her own?

March on Lewiston

So, why the parade? Was it to:

A. Chesapeake Bay Retriever?

The year is 1956. Bates students get city approval for a parade. Led by a police escort, 150 students and 15 vehicles head down College Street, hang a left on Sabattus Street and return to campus on Central Avenue. They carry banners, burn a flag and conclude with a water fight between Milliken and Whittier houses. And it takes place between 6:15 and 8 p.m.

a. Applaud Elvis Presley’s first No. 1 single, “Heartbreak Hotel”?

B. Weimaraner?

b. Join the Soviet Union’s May Day celebration?

D. Bichon Frise?

c. Hail Don Larsen’s World Series perfect game? d. Cheer the first episode of As the World Turns on CBS?

C. Vizsla?

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Answer: C. Vizsla

e. Celebrate Tunisian independence from France?

BATES FROM HEAD TO PAW

HISTORY TEST

Clearly,

Answer: B -With banners reading “Poor Joe Is Dead” and “Down with the USSR,” the students’ May 2 parade was a sign of the times, mocking the former Soviet Union’s famous annual May Day extravaganza. Spring 2012

BRIGHT FUTURE

China's economy was awakening in I98I. And so were a group of students led by Professor George Fetter. by h . jay bu r ns ph otog r aph s by stev e stone ’83

In 1981, Paul Marks ’83 (right) listens to the Bates guide, Mr. Xu, who bet Marks that he couldn’t learn Chinese.

Like the vivid hues of spring’s first flowers, the flashes of color in these images of China three decades ago signal big changes to come. In spring 1981, Professor of Sociology George Fetter took 27 students to China to observe a country in transition. Looking at these photos, taken by trip participant Steve Stone ’83, you can see how reforms under Deng Xiaoping were steering the country toward world economic power. You see, for example, billboards offering consumer products, like electronics and clothing, for the first time. Stone kept his Ektachrome slides safe through the years, digitizing them recently and sharing them with Bates Magazine as the trip’s 30th anniversary got him thinking about the experience. Another student on that landmark Short Term was Paul Marks ’83, and he was back on campus last fall for the dedication of Hedge and Roger Williams halls as new academic centers. Marks is now CEO of the global aerospace technology firm Argosy International Inc., based in Shanghai. He’s done business in China since 1988, and at the dedication he spoke about that transformational trip with Professor Fetter. Back in ’81, most Chinese citizens still had good reason to blend in with the crowd — politically, socially and even sartorially, by wearing bland clothing. The nation was wary after Mao’s brutal Cultural Revolution, which had ended in 1976. The lingering feeling was that “you didn’t want to be identified as the next possible target if the political winds changed again,” says Margaret Maurer-Fazio, the college’s Stangle Professor of Applied Economics and an expert on China. If the winds shifted one way, “you wouldn’t want to be accused of being a bourgeois capitalist ‘roader,’” she says. If the wind shifted the other way, “you wouldn’t want to be accused of clinging to feudal Chinese culture.”

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Left: Paul Marks, here talking with students during a Bates Career Development Center lunch last fall, has done business in China since 1988.

198 1 George Fetter said his first China trip was the product of “four years of negotiations and a lifetime of yearning.” So the adults in these photos are wearing mostly unremarkable, drab clothing. But look at the young children in a traditional classroom: They’re wearing bright orange, blue and rose-color sweaters. A little boy and girl watching a Bates student blow bubbles wear bold red and blue coats. Like the billboards, it’s a sign of what’s to come. “In traditional Chinese society, many people would consider themselves lucky to get one new set of clothing each year, on the Chinese New Year,” says MaurerFazio, who studies the dramatic impact that economic liberalization has had on China’s labor markets. “And in Mao’s day, the economy was focused on heavy industry, and consumer goods were in short supply.” In the newly colorful clothing of these children, she says, “you see today’s modern, consumer society.” Thirty-one years ago, when Fetter and his students landed at the Beijing Capital Airport to begin their Short Term, the airport wasn’t today’s glorious, gargantuan Norman Foster–designed facility. It was a simpler airport “and a simpler China,” Marks recalled during his address last fall. “I watched peasants hoe fields adjacent to the runways. The only peasants nearby today are landscapers for the villas by the airport.” Between Marks and Mike Bonney ’80, chairman of the Board of Trustees, there were jokes aplenty at the dedication ceremony about the Roger Williams’ former identity as a funkadelic dorm, where beer flowed like, well, beer. As Marks quipped to his friend Liz Drolet ’84, “The contractors handled the remedial aspects of both asbestos removal and beer odor in a technically proficient manner.” The Bill and Hedge, he noted more soberly, are now enlightened by

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intellect rather than soaked with beer. “Now that’s progress,” Marks notes. Roger Williams is home to the college’s language programs and Off Campus Study Office, while Hedge houses religious studies, philosophy and environmental studies.

Left: The absence of motorized vehicles on urban China streets in 1981 is striking.

Far left, top: Bates student and Chinese youths play basketball in 1981. While here the Americans overall seem taller than their counterparts, socioeconomic development since then has meant the average height of an urban Chinese male has increased by nearly three inches. Far left, middle: Factory workers wear drab but politically safe clothing. Far left, bottom: Long an economy focused on heavy industry, China's reforms under Deng Xiaoping by 1981 were slowly steering China toward becoming a capitalist and consumer economy.

Below: Some things don't change: Red flags still fly over Tiananmen Square today as they did in 1981.

Marks himself was an unenlightened student early in his Bates career. Then came the 1981 Short Term trip to China. It was the second in two years led by Fetter, who once said of his first trip that it was the product of “four years of negotiations and a lifetime of yearning.”

In fact, that first visit was notable enough that Sen. Ed Muskie ’36 spoke about it on the Senate floor. “It is a tribute to Professor Fetter’s commitment to educating American students about a culture so distant but so important in today’s world.”

Richard Nixon had made his historic visit back in 1972, but it was a trend toward people’s diplomacy — nongovernmental exchanges such as those by Fetter and his students — that did much of the real work of normalizing relations between the U.S. and China through the 1970s and into the ’80s. Right: By 1981, amid enduring images from China, like this photo of visitors to the Great Wall, subtle socioeconomic changes were under way.

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Marks’ parents initially objected to his going to China. Up to that point, “my academic performance was not stellar,” Marks said. A long trip to China looked like a boondoggle. But Fetter had faith in Marks even though there was little obvious reason for it (which is the whole point of faith,

Left: When Bates students arrived in China in 1981, billboard advertising of TVs, clothes and the like was a fairly new phenomenon. The rise of the consumer had begun.

anyway). He called Marks’ parents, promising that the experience would change the course of their son’s life. It did. “Everything was different and amazing,” Marks recalled. During five weeks in Beijing and other cities, “I became hooked on China. I wanted to understand this chaotic, totally different world.” Marks had grown up in New York City, where the music of the city was honking horns and emergency sirens. Beijing was a “city of bicycle bells — not the Beijing of today.” Marks returned to Bates eager to learn Chinese, but Bates didn’t have a Chinese language program. What the college had, as noted in the 1981 Catalog, was a “Self-Instructional Program in Less Commonly Taught Languages.” In practice, the “program” was a black book in French professor and foreign-language chair Dick Williamson’s office, which he would flip through to find someone able or willing to teach a language not offered in the curriculum of French, German, Russian and Spanish. Marks’ first instructor was the wife of a Taiwanese dentist in town. She tried to teach him Mandarin, “and I tried to teach her how to teach.” Marks was soon joined by CJ May ’80 as the college’s first students of Mandarin. For Marks, the late Williamson’s help, along with Fetter’s and history professor Ernest Muller’s, represented the college’s can-do spirit. It’s also “typical,” Marks says. “Professors go beyond the call of duty to find opportunities for their students to engage, explore and find themselves.” Today, Marks says he’s encouraged by strides in Chinese instruction and Asian-focused academic programs and opportunities at Bates. “You can be quite proud — I am quite proud — to see where the college’s journey has arrived.” Back in 1981, the Bates group’s official guide, Mr. Xu, told Marks that foreigners never learn their language. Marks rose to the challenge, betting the guide five bucks that he could indeed learn Mandarin. “Mr. Xu owes me five bucks. Or 31.7 RMB.” n

Top: People’s diplomacy: John Vivian ’81 invites children to blow bubbles as their elders watch.

Were you a participant on George Fetter’s 1979 or 1981 trips to China? Share your recollections and photos at magazine@bates.edu.

Middle: Children in a classroom wear brightly colored sweaters, a sign of new socioeconomic forces at play.

Bottom: In cities and villages in 1981, bicycles were still the dominant mode of transportation. Beijing was “a city of bicycle bells,” Marks recalls, “not the Beijing of today.”

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Above: Unidentified Pub Crawl specimens.

What lurks

in Lake Andrews?

By H. Jay Burns

We thought the stuff of Lake Andrews had been pretty well catalogued. There was Professor Smith’s sailboat, anchored mid-pond by prank-addled students in the early 1960s. Then there was the maintenance Jeep that fell through thin ice in December 1971. And during the Puddle’s 1998 drainage and restoration, the not-so-deep depths yielded, among other things, a bowling ball, mangled bike, stereo, bed frame, chairs, tennis shoes, bottles, cans and three 30-pound snapping turtles. Now, thanks to biology major Hannah Schultz ’12, we’ve got some recent additions to the Puddle’s motley catalog.

Below: Fish larvae at 300x magnification.

GREG ANDERSON

Dragging for critters.

Say hello to the genus Daphnia, also known as a water flea — though they're not insects but crustaceans, magnified 130 times.

Using the college’s scanning electron microscope, she took these photographs of the Puddle’s tiny creatures, including fish and insect larvae, itty-bitty crustaceans known as copepods and ittierbittier algae. She did the work two years ago for a Short Term course in scanning electron microscopy, working with Greg Anderson, assistant in instruction, and Bob Thomas, biology professor. Schultz collected the specimens by tossing a plankton net into the Puddle. After sorting and prepping her catch, she photographed the specimens with the college’s research-grade JEOL JSM-6100 ’scope (which you can pick up for around $35,000, used). She chose the Puddle project after noticing an irony. “Students love the Puddle — we’re like, ‘Woo-hoo! Puddle Jump!’ — but we don’t really know anything about it,” she says. “It was fun for me to get my hands dirty and learn about the Puddle from a scientific point of view.” Nothing she found in her catch particularly surprised her or Bates’ biologists, but that was the fun part, “finding both concrete,

Coming your way is the genus Skistodiaptomus, a kind of crustacean known as a copepod, magnified 70 times.

recognizable things” and a diversity of creatures. She expected lots of copepods (they’re a dime a dozen in freshwater ponds) but the fish and dragonfly larvae fell into that “well, lookee here” category. On one level, knowing how to use a scanning electron microscope is just another helpful skill for a science major. On another, it did remove Schultz’s safety net, bringing her closer to what she is now: a confident bio major capable of doing original research. “When you have trouble in a lab, a lot of times the teacher can come over and magically make it go away,” she says. “With this project, I had to work through things myself.” For her senior thesis, Schultz looked at Lyme disease and whether catbirds can be “reservoirs,” meaning a carrier of the diseasecausing Borrelia bacteria, like deer and rodents.

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Catbirds are an intriguing research subject because their migratory range includes Canada, “where new Lyme disease foci have been found,” Schultz says. Lyme disease is spread by ticks that feed on carriers and, ultimately, on humans. As recently as 1990, disease-carrying ticks were nearly nonexistent in Canada, but by 2020 are expected to be found in 80 percent of populated Canadian areas, according to a recent study authored by Canadian researchers. Schultz, a New York City native from the Upper West Side, is working with blood samples from gray catbirds in Pennsylvania, where the bird is common (the species is found throughout the Northeast). She and her adviser, department chair Don Dearborn, whose own research includes host-parasite interactions, are developing new protocols for their study by reviewing the limited prior research. It’s painstaking work that involves genetic screening of hundreds of blood samples. “Time-consuming and crazy,” she says.

You can see the emerging wings on this dragonfly nymph, magnified 15 times.

But she counts herself fortunate. “I don’t know where else I would get the opportunity to do research for a year with the kind of support I’m getting at Bates. “I mean, Don’s office is right next door, he has his door open all the time and his cell number on the white board in here,” she says, pointing to the whiteboard over her shoulder in the Carnegie lab. Despite the pressure of thesis work, Schultz knows that “success” doesn’t mean drawing some startling conclusion about catbirds and Lyme disease. “There are scientists who have been at this every day for a decade, and they know not to make quick assumptions. That’s just how science is. You can add to the information, but you can hardly ever just say, ‘Hallelujah! I figured it all out!’” n

Time for a diatom, from a group of algae, magnified 2,300 times.

Hannah Shultz ’12

From her formative upbringing as the daughter of a college president to her innovative policy work at Harvard, Clayton Spencerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rise as a U.S. higher education leader culminates in her wow debut as president-elect of Bates â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and her avowed commitment to leading Bates toward a stronger marriage of excellence and opportunity.

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On a Sunday afternoon in December, the Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building had become a bustling event venue, as Bates leaders sat onstage before hundreds of students, faculty and staff who had put aside studies, holiday errands and football games to meet their next president. Clayton Spencer was backstage, listening for her name — her cue to come forward. Interim President Nancy Cable welcomed the throng, followed by Presidential Search Committee co-chair Michael Chu ’80. And when trustee chair Mike Bonney ’80 wound up his introduction with the simple words, “Welcome, Clayton Spencer,” she stepped from behind the curtain, smiling, grasping the pages of her speech and ready to greet a crowd eager to know more. A little choked up, she began a new relationship with her new college. She surveyed the gathering and spoke her first word as president-elect of Bates College. “Wow!”

made for the job Ava Clayton Spencer was born in December 1954 to Samuel and Ava Spencer in Concord, N.C. “I grew up as the daughter of a college president. I used to sneak across campus to watch commencements as a kid,” she recalls. “Dinner conversation was about the issues facing the college.” Previously president of Mary Baldwin College, Sam Spencer began his 15-year tenure as president of Davidson College in 1968. By then, those dinnertime topics included the Vietnam War, civil rights, coeducation (Davidson was still all male) and fraternities.

That wasn’t all: in the city of Charlotte and surrounding Mecklenburg County, the landmark busing case Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education was heading to the Supreme Court. “Because we were in a small town in North Carolina, guests of the college would stay with us or have a meal. I was a teenager by then, and I’d gone from listening to the adults from a window seat in the living room, to wanting a seat at the table and attending the various talks and lectures at the college. I soaked up everything.”

fatherly advice “ What I learned from my father,” Clayton Spencer says, “and what I’ve learned and relearned throughout life, is that whatever you’re doing, you have to be authentically you.” Samuel Reid Spencer Jr. served as president of Davidson College, his alma mater, from 1968 to 1983. Spring 2012

Spencer’s pursuit of a law degree reflects her desire to do “the conceptual thinking I love, while staying engaged in the facts on the ground.”

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Spencer studied history and German at Williams College, making her the second Bates president to have a bachelor’s from there, after T. Hedley Reynolds, Williams ’42. She then read theology at Oxford University and earned a master’s in the study of religion at Harvard. She is the first to have a law degree, from Yale. Of her decision to not seek a doctorate in religion, she says that she “wanted a life that combined ideas and action, and therefore landed at Yale for law school. I was able to do the kind of conceptual thinking I love, while staying engaged in the facts on the ground. That dialectic, between ideas and facts on the ground, has informed my life ever since.”

“The field of religion fundamentally deals intellectually and morally with contradictions. How do you stay optimistic when you know that you’re going to die, when you know that bad things are going to happen to good people? “Religion takes on these contradictions, placing you between the poles of the contradiction and making you think dynamically about finding a way forward. Dialectical thinking is how I move through practical problems. It’s the furniture of my mind.”

Speaking of “poles of contradiction,” Spencer tells a story about working on Capitol Hill for the late U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy, as chief education counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, which Kennedy chaired. “I first met the senator when we were trying to pass direct lending for student loans, moving from a guarantee-agency system to funding directly from the federal government to colleges. I wrote a memo about how we were going to move 100 percent to direct lending in one fell swoop. “I was called in to meet with the senator. He sat in his well-worn leather armchair. And he said, ‘Clayton, I’ve read your memo. It’s a really smart memo. Why don’t you take a walk with me down the hall?’

Spencer dines with student leaders in New Commons as she meets and greets on campus after the announcement of her election on Dec. 4.

“He took me to the office of Jim Jeffords, then a Republican senator from Vermont before he went independent. Jeffords was the swing vote on the committee. He said, ‘Jim, my new education staffer here thinks this directlending thing is going to go through, no problem, at the markup next week. Can you tell her how many votes you have on the Republican side?’ “Jeffords said, ‘Well, Ted, I’ve got one or two on my side, but you ought to be more worried about your side. You don’t have a majority of the Democrats yet.’ “The senator walked me back, and he said, ‘We’ll give it several weeks, we’ll work it and then we’ll get this done.’ That was how I was introduced to getting things done on Capitol Hill: It takes more than smart memos to win the day.”

Spencer visits Cutten Maintenance Center to thank staff for turning the Gray Athletic Building into a grand venue for the presidential announcement. From left, Dan Nein, Mike Adams and John Griffiths.

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“The Senate is a culture of persuasion, as is a college campus,” Spencer says. “Sen. Kennedy cared passionately about ideals, but he knew that ideals were sterile unless you could somehow put them into action. He was one of the most productive legislators in U.S. history because he knew when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em.” Given Kennedy’s stature and power, Spencer, in effect, was chief education counsel for not just the committee but “the entire Senate and the country,” says Nick Littlefield, former Kennedy chief of staff. “Clayton was a leader. She could master the substance of any issue; she could build the bipartisan alliances to get the initiative passed; and she could communicate the objective and details of the initiative in a charismatically persuasive way. “She was one of the most respected staff directors I’ve ever known.”

Spencer joined Harvard in February 1997 as a consultant for federal policy issues. The following year, she was appointed associate vice president for higher education policy reporting to the President, and in 2005 she rose to the new position of vice president for policy. Working directly with four different Harvard presidents, Spencer became known for her collaborative approach, effectiveness in getting things done and passionate commitment to access and affordability. Of her involvement in various university-wide initiatives, from a task force on the advancement and support of women in academic life to the role of the arts and international strategy, Spencer is especially proud of her part in three projects at Harvard: • The merger of Harvard and Radcliffe College and the subsequent transformation of Radcliffe into an institute for advanced study;

Bates staff and faculty gather in the Fireplace Lounge in New Commons to ask questions of and hear from their new leader.

turning crimson • The redesign and dramatic expansion of Harvard’s financial aid program; • The creation of the Crimson Summer Academy for academically talented high school students from financially disadvantaged backgrounds. “I learned a great deal by observing a variety of leadership styles,” she says. “The most basic lesson is this: Effective leadership is based on persuasion, not on hierarchy or on one’s position on an organizational chart. Leadership is most effective when you bring cooperative work to bear on solving hard problems. “I believe this is one of the most fun things to do in life. You take on a hard problem, get the best thinkers around the table, invite the great ideas and then move toward actual, concrete outcomes. In my experience, achieving a unity of ideas and action will motivate the entire community and propel an institution forward.”

Her highly effective yet low-key style caught the attention of The Harvard Crimson, which in 2008 published a profile headlined “Right-Hand Woman.” “...[C]olleagues say she studiously avoids imperiousness,” wrote Clifford Marks, now a reporter for the National Journal. “Fellow trustees of Williams College, on whose board she has served for five years, say that Spencer is an exceedingly modest ‘coalition-builder,’ experienced in organizing support in the ego-dominated halls of both Washington and Cambridge. ‘It’s not Clayton’s style to hold herself out as “I know more than you do,”’ said Williams trustee Michael Keating. ‘She’s very careful to say, “Based on what I know, I have this point of view.”’”

With trustee chair Mike Bonney ’80, the president-elect takes audience questions after the presidential announcement.

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the gomes connection Spencer says she was “very privileged” to work at Harvard with the late Rev. Peter Gomes ’65 in his role as the Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church. “Peter had such rich and contradictory gifts, and you saw them all in a dynamic blend that was enormously powerful. “I was introduced to Bates in part through Peter’s love for the college. Peter wrote in one of his later books, The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus, that Jesus ‘wants us to live in the full implications of our human gifts.’ That’s a pretty interesting way to encapsulate the essence of the liberal arts, and the Bates experience as well. “Clearly that’s a lesson he took very seriously and deeply.”

coming to the party “In the course catalog, you describe yourselves as a community of people who love ‘ideas, artistic expression, good talk and great books.’ Who wouldn’t want to be at that party? “When I read the presidential prospectus,

I was blown away by Bates. It was love at first sight. Any college that leads its mission statement with an affirmation of the ‘emancipating potential of the liberal arts’ is a place I want to be. “Then there’s the fact that from your earliest beginnings, Bates welcomed women and African Americans into the full standing of the scholarly community, at a time when that simply wasn’t done. I love a place that does what is right, rather than what is expected. “Another quality that comes through loud and clear is the lack of pretension, that sense of being down to earth, having an authentic way of moving through the world. And that suits me to a T.” Adding to the allure is the college’s place in the state of Maine and the city of Lewiston. “I find this state fascinating and I respect its reserve — the fact that it’s hard to crack.”

what’s fun? “Movies — all kinds. Solving hard problems with smart people. Basketball. Arugula salads. Being a mom [daughter

On announcement day, a proud mom with her proud children, Will and Ava Carter.

Ava Carter is a Harvard junior; son Will Carter is working on Wall Street with a degree from NYU]. Good friends. Catching up with James Reese, a 10th-grade classmate!”

not what we have, but what we do “One of the legacies of the 2008 financial crisis is that we can no longer, in our society, equate wealth with excellence in higher education. But Bates knew that long ago: Bates was founded on the idea that it’s less about what we have and much more about what we do. That is tremendously appealing to me. “The important thing for us now is to make sure that Bates is delivering on the liberal arts model as much as we say we are, and to make sure that the value added in this experience is worth the price.”

win, at some cost “I am simple-minded. My view is that in athletics, as in everything else, it’s not worth doing unless you do it with the same commitment to rigor and excellence that you apply in other fields.”

take cake, forget humble pie “I know Bates is famous for being humble, but I hope now that the college can step up and claim its excellence and rigor. Bates is doing important work in shaping a direction for the liberal arts in this new century. You see it in the Harward Center for Community Partnerships, in the general education

curriculum, and in the ongoing commitment both to individual and collaborative work for theses and capstone projects. “To my mind, Bates is poised to be a leader in transforming the liberal arts for today’s world.”

knowledge and wisdom “Given the welter of information and stimuli that confront people today, it is important to give students a framework of values and knowledge that can lead to wisdom that will guide them in life.”

obligation to democracy “Education is the key to the American dream. Ideally, it provides individual opportunity to talented students, whatever their backgrounds, and creates the educated citizenry that is essential to a healthy democracy and civil society. Unless higher education marries excellence and opportunity, it is not doing its job. It’s an old-fashioned idea, but it’s never been more important than it is today.”

passion and tools “I think we need the courage of our convictions about the liberal arts experience. It’s not the right option for everyone, but at its best, it teaches young people to harmonize their passions with rigorous intellectual training and to take a sense of creativity and possibility out into the world to serve purposes larger than themselves.” n

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information, please The president-elect makes tracks to get up to speed on Bates

Sean McGhee ’12 of Chicago, Ill., talks with Spencer in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, site of the annual debate between Morehouse and Bates on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

By the time she was announced as the college’s eighth president, on Dec. 5, Clayton Spencer had already put herself on the clock. “I feel extremely welcomed, and the energy has been amazing,” she said during a media session a few hours after her appointment. But soon it would be “time to hunker down” and learn about Bates by talking to people, on and off campus. With Interim President Nancy Cable handling day-to-day operations this spring, the field has been open for Spencer to do what she has reportedly done brilliantly in her policy-focused career: take command of issues; develop goals; then communicate those goals in a “compelling and charismatically persuasive way,” in the words of Nick Littlefield, who worked with Spencer on Sen. Ted Kennedy’s staff in the 1990s.

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And, so far, she’s begun this process at Bates with a lot of charm, but a sense of urgency as well. “I’m aiming for a respectful entry into the Bates community,” she said back in December, “but one that moves us as quickly as possible toward action.” She’s hit all of the key events since her appointment, attending the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance in January; meeting President Emeritus Don Harward at an early March gathering celebrating appointments to endowed professorships; and making the rounds at the Mount David Summit in late March. Off campus, she’s been visiting with trustees, alumni and parents to solicit their views about the college, key challenges and hopes for its future.

In between, she’s been seeking out dozens of people on campus for hour-long, one-on-one discussions — “interviews,” as she calls them. She’s started with the Bates faculty, whom she refers to as the “franchise players” of any college community. The other day, Spencer stopped by the Pettengill Hall office of Joe Hall, an associate professor of history who serves on the Committee on Faculty Governance. They talked for a few minutes about the honors thesis a student had just submitted, examining why, during the first year of the American Revolution, the enthusiasm of New England’s militias quickly faded. Spencer’s interest was real, Hall recalls, “but

clearly there’s an overall purpose in her conversations” this spring. In that sense, it’s more than just a listening tour. “She’s not just walking the halls and shooting the breeze,” Hall says. “It’s not, ‘Tell me your problems,’ or ‘How can I be Santa Claus?’” In short, “she’s serious about the project of getting to know us,” says Professor of Sociology Emily Kane, who served on the Presidential Search Committee. “That means figuring out what the college does well, what we can do better and how best to support the work of the faculty.” Kane recalls a moment, over dinner, when Kane was answering one of Spencer’s questions. Spencer interrupted her, then quickly apologized.

The brief moment sticks with Kane because it’s clear why Spencer interrupted her. “I’d given her whatever piece of information she needed to complete that part of the puzzle, it went ‘click,’ and she was ready for the next question. She’s a good diplomat but also a good analytical problem-solver. She knows when she has the right information.” Spencer’s hunger for information, Kane continues, “seems really well-calibrated, in terms of both respecting people and learning what she needs so that she can do a better job for Bates.” According to Spencer, the president’s job is to “engage with the community in a respectful way,” helping to shape a set of goals “that

everyone works toward together — a sharedenterprise theory of management.” And what’s obvious, says Jim Hughes, the Sowell Professor of Economics, “is that she’s done her homework. She’s asking the right questions, and well-informed follow-up questions. And she’s also having fun — she is genuinely interested.” At the recent Mount David Summit in a jampacked Perry Atrium, Spencer’s interest is on display as she gamely wades into the natural science and math poster session. She approaches Samuel Gretz ’12, who is sporting a jaunty ensemble of blue madras jacket, blue shirt, blue paisley tie

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Angela Su ’12 of Flushing, N.Y., explains her research poster, “Lead Interactions with Metallothionein-3,” to the Bates presidentelect at the 2012 Mount David Summit.

and blue jeans. Gretz is working with Associate Professor of Chemistry Jennifer Koviach-Côté on an organic compound called “koshikalide,” a compound recently isolated from cyanobacteria that has potential anti-cancer activity. “Koshikalide?” Spencer repeats. “Sounds like the name of a basketball center.” Gretz cracks a smile. He tells Spencer about the nature of lab work, the frustrating cycle of trial and, mostly, failure. “I would never have the patience to be a lab scientist,” Spencer tells him. “You have to accept the fact that you just spent n hours on something, and it didn’t work.”

A historic moment as Interim President Nancy Cable (center) introduces the president-elect to President Emeritus Donald Harward in Perry Atrium during a celebration of new appointments to Bates faculty professorships.

“And over and over and over again,” Gretz adds. “Basically, that’s my thesis.” Spencer smiles. “And you remain an optimistic and forward-looking human?” she asks, and Gretz nods yes. “See,” his mom laughs, “there’s no such thing as failure at Bates!” The catchy comment catches Spencer’s attention — “no such thing as failure” just might be a good motto for the Bates academic enterprise. “Intense, personal and rigorous engagement of faculty and students with each other and with hard problems is clearly the ‘secret sauce’ at Bates,” Spencer says. As Gretz’s mom points out, that tangy sauce sure makes the specter of failure less relevant and the pursuit of opportunity more enticing. Says Spencer, “That’s what life is all about.” —hjb Spring 2012

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YOU Been SERVED? Students join the investigation of barriers to wholesome food in Lewiston-Auburn

As a focus group of Lewiston residents discussed obstacles to laying hands on nutritious food, a young woman had an epiphany: “You can put food in the freezer and it will keep longer?” “It was like a light bulb went on in her head,” says Julia Lee ’10, a sociology major who attended the meeting two years ago. “And I was just, like, ‘Oh, my gosh.’ I couldn’t imagine someone not knowing that.” But if someone can reach adulthood in America without learning that freezers preserve food, there may be more to the problem than one person’s ignorance of kitchen basics. Which was exactly why Lee was present. Spring 2012

For her senior thesis, Lee was observing focus groups convened to explore the reasons that many local households — low-income, single-parent, homeless, refugee, elderly, infirm — don’t have enough healthful food. Lee recorded the barriers the groups discussed and correlated these findings with literature on so-called food deserts: neighborhoods where healthful food cannot be bought. And that new work was an important contribution to Good Food for LewistonAuburn, an initiative that’s improving access to wholesome food in a region encompassing some of Maine’s poorest neighborhoods.

The least-healthy food is the food most available to the people at highest risk for health problems. A broadly collaborative program launched in 2009, GFLA’s research has involved more than 130 students and their professors from Bates and the University of Southern Maine’s LewistonAuburn College. At Bates, students and faculty in sociology, psychology and environmental studies joined the initiative in various ways, with the Harward Center for Community Partnerships helping to harmonize the college’s academic goals with GFLA’s research needs. Bates students gathered, analyzed and helped present the information that got the initiative under way. They surveyed residents and emergency food providers, analyzed news coverage of food insecurity and used GIS technology to plot which food sources are serving which neighborhoods. They even rode city buses to understand how, exactly, the grocery shopping gets done when you don’t own a car. GFLA, which has U.S. Department of Agriculture support, is the brainchild of Kirsten Walter ’00, director of the Nutrition Center of Maine, part of Lewiston-based St. Mary’s Health System. As a student, Walter founded Lots to Gardens, an urban agriculture and youth leadership program that’s now part of the center. 48

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As a teenager, Walter found her interest in environmental sustainability crystallizing around environmental justice. “I realized that you can’t talk just about the environment without talking about people,” she says. More to the point, working on a project in her native California that helps migrant farm workers start their own organic farms, she realized that all manner of environmental and social justice issues come together in the realm of food. Access to good food is simply a human right, Walter says, albeit one enjoyed by far too few. Healthy fruits and vegetables and minimally processed foods constitute an expensive portion of the grocery basket, especially in low-income neighborhoods — if you can find them there at all. In the Lewiston-Auburn area, small independent grocery stores are still neighborhood fixtures, but their offerings of wholesome foods tend to be small and costly. Moreover, GFLA research indicates that in Lewiston, fewer than 5 percent of single-parent households live less than half a kilometer from the two local chain groceries, Shaw’s and Hannaford, where they might access healthy foods at more affordable prices. “But 78 percent live within a half-mile of at least three fast-food restaurants,” Walter says. So the menu that’s most accessible to disadvantaged people is likely to be dominated by fatty, salty, sweetened and chemical-laden fare. In other words, the least-healthy food is the food most available to people who are already more likely to suffer ill health and die young. “That just seems like an absolute injustice,” Walter says. Psychology professor Kathryn Low estimates that individual poverty rates in downtown Lewiston have spiked as high as 46 percent in recent years. Lewiston has the highest child poverty rate in the state, with 41.7 percent of children meeting federal guidelines, says Low, whose public-health students have helped GFLA with the public presentation of its goals and findings. Downtown, the Trinity Jubilee Center is a social-services provider where students both volunteer and undertake community-based learning projects. Families making use of the food pantry have increased from 30 or so in the late

“ It’s so important for the development of a whole person to have academic work that addresses real-life, place-based issues.”

1990s to 200 or 250 now, says development director Erin Reed ’08. Other obstacles, too, are symbiotically entangled with poverty and food insecurity, from language barriers among refugees to cultural factors, such as ignorance about nutrition and food preparation (and preservation, for instance, by freezing), that become entrenched in families over the generations. Untangling the strands of this knot of cause-and-effect has been the goal of much of the student research. For instance, students in sociology professor Emily Kane’s “Research Methods for Sociology” course have: • observed and transcribed GFLA interviews with residents at risk for food insecurity and residents who are well-off; • surveyed Sun Journal articles to assess perceptions of food insecurity; • interviewed officials in government, healthcare and charitable organizations; • and performed systematic field observations at convenience stores and emergency food providers, in GFLA focus groups and on the region’s purple CityLink buses. “The point of the course is to teach them to collect and analyze data using methods that sociologists use,” says Kane. “This is an opportunity to focus on the methods, but along the way, give them some real substance, as well.” This is the important meta-lesson, says Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Holly Ewing. Students broaden their communication skills — and perhaps more important, their perspective — because they must present their findings in ways that resonate with a non-academic readership. “Understanding that they’re trying to do work for two different audiences is really new for them,” Ewing says, “and good for them.” Rebecca Dugan ’12, who held internships with GFLA in summer 2011 and took part in a related environmental studies course, puts it this way: “When you can talk to the people that you’re working with and better appreciate what they go through on a daily basis, it really complements the academic research.”

The real-world experience also piques career interests and introduces students to the rewards and challenges of being a civic-minded and engaged adult. As Walter says, “It’s so important for the development of a whole person to have academic work that addresses real-life, place-based issues.” Armed with reams of information and analysis, Good Food for Lewiston-Auburn is poised for its next big push: involving as many stakeholders as possible in creating a comprehensive action plan. But even as the plan is a-brewing, concrete steps are being taken. For instance, a program introduced last year provides clients at the B Street Health Center, a community clinic in Lewiston, with “veggie prescriptions” worth $1 per family member per day toward fresh produce at downtown farmers markets. Funded by Maine Health Access Foundation and the Connecticut-based Wholesome Wave Foundation, the “prescriptions” come with routine health checkups that enable GFLA to correlate increased produce consumption with improved client health. These results will be aggregated to data from similar programs elsewhere in the country. Indeed, gone are the days when noble intentions were their own reward. “A goal is to be able to have more strategic and responsive activities — and to implement not just what we think might be good ideas,” Walter says with a laugh, “but also be more data-driven and tied to innovative, larger initiatives.” For many students, this potential for making a lasting, measurable change is one of the best things about working with GFLA. “It raises the bar for them,” says sociologist Kane. “They feel motivated by the thought that they’re producing something for someone other than just their professor, and for something other than just a grade.” n

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thanks to phene and chhetri, bollywood bowls bates over by d oug h u bley photo g raphs by phylli s g r abe r je nse n In a dance exercise last fall, students paired off and took turns jumping: One member of each pair would lift off as the other touched down. Taking turns with the jumps proved hardest for an unexpected pair, seniors Shachi Phene (left) and Shlesma Chhetri (below). “We are so used to getting back in synch with each other, we just could not manage it,” explains Phene. “Not even once,” adds Chhetri. Phene and Chhetri have choreographed more than 40 dances together at Bates, and their exploits in South Asian dance, notably the colorful and exuberant genre seen in Bollywood films, have made them campus stars. A few years ago, Bates dancers like Harita Daraneeswaran ’10 got the Bollywood ball bouncing at Bates, and Chhetri and Phene have made the most of what they inherited,

displaying a dedication as energetic and uplifting as the Bollywood spectacles they have created. They have not only studied dance but taught it, extending a Bollywood offering in physical education that dates back to 2006. They perform in productions by the Department of Theater and Dance and numerous student-organized events such as International Club coffeehouses and the wildly popular Asia Night variety show. They even organized a dance club, Bates Masti — taking on a deep commitment that involves everything from choreography to costuming to wrangling overcommitted fellow students. A sociology major, Chhetri is from Kathmandu, Nepal. Phene, a double major in economics and psychology, was born in India and now lives in Lexington, Mass. Phene was formally

trained in classical Indian dance, while Chhetri is largely self-taught. “We’re coming from different places but we are both equally passionate about what we want to show on the stage,” Phene says. Known for bright, colorful costumes and infectious rhythms that fuse traditional Indian with Western styles, “Bollywood dances, songs and movies are associated with having a good time — joy,” says Phene. “It’s something people of all ages can do together.” “Even first-timers end up having so much fun with the dance,” Chhetri says. In that sense, the pair have given back to the Bates ethos of inclusivity that gave Bollywood fertile ground to grow in. “Bates has created an environment where people are very interested in learning about each other,” says Chhetri. n

Remembering Morgan McDuffee ’02 The circle of people keeping the fallen young man's spirit alive is now larger and still unbroken

by h. jay bu r ns pho to g raphs by phylli s g r abe r je nse n On March 3, 2002, the death of Bates lacrosse captain Morgan McDuffee ’02 — a young man, as his coach said, "who simply glowed" — plunged the many people who knew and loved him into the darkest kind of despair. Ten years later, a rainy day that gave way to sunshine, McDuffee’s family, friends and former teammates gathered for a memorial lacrosse game between Bates, coached by Peter Lasagna, and Skidmore College, coached by McDuffee’s friend and former teammate, Jack Sandler ’02. With the passage of time, the circle of people keeping McDuffee’s spirit alive is now larger and still unbroken. That’s what struck Sandler about the memorial game: “the outpouring of support from so

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many for someone who meant so much to me but who many of them had never even met.” Played at Tufts, the non-conference game was also a fundraiser for Morgan’s Fund, administered by the Maine Community Foundation. The fund supports groups promoting anti-violence programming and mediation, including Metro Lacrosse, a Boston nonprofit whose mission is youth development and education through lacrosse competition. Before the game, McDuffee’s former teammates brought out Morgan’s lacrosse jersey, signed by both teams, and presented it to his mother. Lasagna spoke briefly. The moment was heavy with shared emotion, but time had clearly passed, and the group seemed content to come together.

Opposite page: The game program featured this familiar photo of Morgan McDuffee ’02 on the cover. Behind are fundraising containers with “Morgan’s Fund” written on them. Left: For many players, the game was their first understanding of the power of the McDuffee story. Below: Suzi Andrew South ’04, who was engaged to McDuffee at the time of his passing.

Above: Gil Cassagne ’15 of Dallas, Texas, carries the ball during the game.

Left: Bates head coach Peter Lasagna greets young boys and girls from Metro Lacrosse, the Boston nonprofit that focuses on youth development and education through lacrosse competition and receives support from Morgan’s Fund.

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Lasagna said he was certain that McDuffee, had he lived, would have chosen a life that involved working with young people like the Metro Lacrosse youths, many of whom came to the game and were greeted by players and coaches. As a coach not much older than his Skidmore players, Sandler has shared the story of his friend Morgan McDuffee. Not necessarily the story of McDuffee's death — murdered near campus while trying to break up a late-night melee between Bates students and locals — but of his competitive yet generous spirit. He was a “what can I do to help?” type of leader and an equally loyal and big-hearted friend. “Obviously, I spend a lot of time with my players at Skidmore,” Sandler says. “They get to know me and they’ve heard me speak of Morgan before. But in the locker room before the game, when I presented them with the No. 2 stickers for their helmets, this was the first time. They understood what a tragedy this had been and how important Morgan was to not just me but all those who attended the game. “Morgan reached so many people in such a short amount of time.” When the hard-fought game ended (Skidmore won), Sandler and Lasagna embraced. McDuffee’s mother asked a photographer to take a picture of her and her sister, Morgan’s aunt, with the signed jersey, and they smiled as the photo was taken. n

Below: Players, coaches and fans wore No. 2 decals honoring McDuffee’s uniform number at Bates.

Left: After the game McDuffee’s mother, Lisa Freeman (left), and her sister, Laura Birdsall, pose with McDuffee’s Bates lacrosse jersey, signed by both teams.

Below: From left: Head coach PeterLasagna and his former players Aaron Sells ’01, Chris Buckley ’01 and Ben Anderson ’99.

Left: With the fierce game competition concluded, Bates coach Peter Lasagna and his former player, Skidmore coach Jack Sandler ’02, each with his own deep connection to Morgan McDuffee, come together for an embrace.

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1938 class secretary Marion Welsch Spear  mspear1@attglobal.net class president Howard Becker howardb999@aol.com

1939 class secretary Eleanor Smart Parker elchetparker@roadrunner.com

1942 Reunion 2012, June 8–10 class secretary Barbara McGee Chasse bchasse5@gmail.com class president  Rose Worobel  rworobel@cox.net Martha Blaisdell Mabee gets around nicely outdoors with her four-wheeler....Pril Simpson Boyan and Norm ’43 celebrate their 69th anniversary this summer....Armand Daddazio is glad he simplified his lifestyle and moved into senior living....Virginia Day Hayden is busy with her church ecumenical group, aquarobics and Bates Book Club.... Paul Farris travels as much as possible and is still a liberal.... Helen Martin Aucoin welcomed great-grandchildren Rylie and Finn....Barbara McGee Chasse is in nearly daily contact with three children, five grandchildren and six great-grands....Elaine Humphrey Meader makes hats for grandsons and blankets and knit clothes for four greatgrandchildren. Ray ’44 works on jigsaw puzzles and watches UConn basketball....Ruth Ulrich Coffin happily remains at her South Portland home with her children’s help....Rose Worobel, battling illness and a broken vertebra in her neck, has been living in a nursing home. She recalls a wonderful trip, her last, around South America in 2011.

1943 Reunion 2013, June 7–9

1940 class secretary Leonard Clough leonard_clough@yahoo.com

1941 class secretary Barbara Abbott Hall Apt. 614, 1055 West Joppa Rd. Towson MD 21204

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The class extends sympathy and condolences to the family and friends of Christine Stillman Kolstad, who passed away on March 9, 2012.

1946 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Muriel Ulrich Weeks muweeks@comcast.net class president Jane Parsons Norris  janenorris@roadrunner.com Les Anderson and Kathy still snowbird between Oklahoma and Florida....Jane Parsons Norris retired from the board of Mechanics Savings Bank in Auburn after more than 61 years with the bank. Starting as a teller in 1950, she was a loan officer, operations officer and vice president before becoming CEO in 1979 and, in 1982, the first woman bank president in Maine. A Bates trustee emeritus, she retired as president and CEO in 1989.

1947 Reunion 2012, June 8–10 class co-secretaries  Elizabeth Hill Jarvi  bjarvi2@tds.net  Jean Labagh Kiskaddon  jean.kiskaddon@gmail.com class co-presidents Stan Freeman  stanley.l.freeman@gmail.com  Vesta Starrett Smith  vestasmith@charter.net The class extends sympathy and condolences to our class president, Stan Freeman, on the passing of Madeleine Richard Freeman. Her obituary will be in the next issue....Elsie Burns Hurter sees Jerry Walther Keach ’46 and Dick ’44 in Ocean Park, Maine. Although Elsie was only at Bates into her second year, “Liz Morse ’46, Joyce Cleland Goad ’46 and the Keaches have been important in my life.”...Jane Doty McCune volunteers at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula.... Marjorie Harvey Moore reports Alton has his strength back after

chemotherapy for cancer and can drive again....Muriel Henry Tinkham says she’s content in her assisted-living facility in Newport, N.H. Although legally blind, she takes part in activities....Betty Hill Jarvi and Bill enjoy life in the country in Ludlow, Vt., with gardening and family gatherings....Phil Isaacson led a large group on an abbreviated architectural tour of the Bates campus at Reunion. “Not very reverent but probably funny (at least to me).”... Jean Labagh Kiskaddon’s travels included officiating at the wedding of a grandson in Estes Park, Colo....Betty May Hansen and Glen ’48 wintered in Florida again....Mary Meyer Harvey plays duplicate bridge, golf and does water aerobics.... Ken Munroe does things with his four kids and visits his eight grandchildren....Bernadine Opper Ray has made new friends in East Windsor, Conn., and enjoys being near family.... Jinx Prince Washburn serves as church finance officer and secretary/treasurer of her community’s civic association. She exchanges Christmas cards with Roxane Kammerer and got together with Charlotte Akers Matthews....Jane Sedgley McMurray is able to live alone and loves it. She sees a lot of son Bill ’78 in Portland....Vesta Starrett Smith hoped to travel with her daughter to Tunisia.

1948 Reunion 2013, June 7–9 class secretary Roberta Sweetser McKinnell  33 Red Gateane Cohasset MA 02025 class president Vivienne Sikora Gilroy vgilroy@verizon.net In Darien, Conn., Mary Skelton stepped down as president of Nu Chapter, Delta Kappa Gamma International, a professional honorary society of women educators. She sings in the choir of Noroton Presbyterian Church and serves as a parish visitor.

1949 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Elaine Porter Haggstrom  ephag@aol.com class co-presidents Art Bradbury chartbury@comcast.net Nelson “Bud” Horne nelsonhorne86@msn.com Serine Ferrigno Rossi still plays 18 holes of golf and lots of bridge....David Goodwin, afflicted with poor eyesight due to macular degeneration, and Katharine still live in Merrimacport, Mass., where they raised their three children.

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They have nine grandchildren.... Carol “Happy” Jenkinson Johnson chairs the local family support program of Habitat for Humanity, volunteers at Head Start, helps feed the homeless and is active in church work.

1950 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class secretary Lois Keniston Penney hulopenney@sbcglobal.net class president Wes Bonney wbonney@maine.rr.com Wes Bonney enjoyed an educational trip to Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos with daughter Melissa Kane ’81....Avon Cheel Oakes moved to a condo in Cooper City, Fla., happily surrounded by seven grandkids....Phyllis Day Danforth and Phil eat lunch at their favorite restaurant every day unless he’s canoeing.... Bob and Gladys Bovino Dunn ’51 continue their interest in international education and enjoy contacts with former students....Marjorie Dwelley Reid and Bob looked forward to symposia for seniors at the local community college....Barbara Galloupe Gagnon got into genealogy and has fun relating major events to family (more or less) behavior....Irene Gillette Fariss and son Tom help each other with various tasks....Ozzie Hammond volunteers at Maine Medical Center....Thelma Hardy Pasquali and Frank enjoy their retirement cottage community, where he’s president and she’s secretary and editor of the in-house publication....Virginia Hastings Gamble is proud the Bethel (Maine) Historical Society opened a display of the traditional crafts of her mother, Florence Bickford Hastings.... Walker and Sylvia Stuber Heap saw the plaque on the new Bates stadium entrance on which her sister Lois Stuber Spitzer ’55 honored him. He played on the famed 1946 football team.... Glenn Kumekawa is organizing his papers for archiving at the Univ. of Rhode Island Library.... Muriel Mansfield Leach says Henry Hook crosswords and books are her joy....Marcia Penniman Hamilton and George ’51 celebrated the marriages of granddaughter Sarah Buss ’07 to Matt Riviere-Platt ’07, and grandson Keith McQuade....Lois Keniston Penney is in her final year as auxiliary president at Covenant Village in Cromwell, Conn. Hugh finished his term as resident council president.... Bill Perham lives in a retirement community in Chicago, not far from daughter Leslie....Irma Reed Andrews has lost most of her short-term memory but enjoys independent living at The Woods at Canco in Portland, reports her son Douglas....Nickie

Scott Them and her bridge partner are amassing points to become Life Masters....Stanton Smith and Betty live a quiet life in York, Maine, and at their summer cottage on Sebago Lake.... Sadly, Dick Sterne lost his wife, Barbara, after 55 years....Orwell Tousley raises African violets and attends First Baptist Church in South Burlington, Conn.... Rae Walcott Blackmon and Lee ’51 enjoyed his 60th Reunion, especially since they traveled with his Bates roommate, Karl Koss ’51. They visited with Hod and Carol Woodcock Record ’52 in Portland.... Delight Wolfe is often visited by children and grandchildren of sister Eleanor Wolfe Watt ’52. Delight and Elaine Hubbard exchanged visits.

1951 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Dorothy Webb Quimby dwquimby@unity.edu class co-presidents Bill Dill Jean McLeod Dill wmrdill@gmail.com Jim Anderson and Lucille and their family reunited for their 60th anniversary and a granddaughter’s wedding....Elaine Annas Bailey gave up driving and hunting when she needed eye surgery....Jim and Betty Jane Cederholm Balentine ’49 moved to a group of condos and are happy in their smaller space....Will and Lissa Meigs Barbeau keep busy “clarineting” and “bridging,” respectively....Lee and Rae Walcott Blackmon ’50 in Hartford keep in phone contact with Dana Williams in Houston. Glen and Marion Collins stopped in on their way back to Phoenix....Sadly, Barbara Buote Adams lost her daughter-in-law to cancer; a week later Barb had a slight stroke....Bob and Elsa Buschner Carpenter ’52 enjoyed seeing Ralph Perry and Mary Louise and Lynn ’54 and Bev Hayne Willsey ’55. Their granddaughter Sarah Vigne ’12 graduated in May....Medication apparently cured Glen Collins’ Lyme disease but left him tired. The good news: It slowed down his back swing and improved his golf game....Hal and Phyllis Cornforth’s great-grandsons Cole and Riley turned 1....In Randolph, Maine, former town selectman Bob Davis and Beverly Anne are active in the Methodist church.... Bill and Jean McLeod Dill now live in a senior community in Auburndale, Mass., created by Lasell College to emphasize active living....Jan Hayes Sterling enjoyed visits with Dot Webb Quimby and with Norma Reese Jones, David and Edie Pennucci Mead, and Will and Lissa Meigs Barbeau....Bob Hayward

said he’s receiving excellent care as he recovers from a broken shoulder....Ralph Hoyt was hospitalized with septicemia and atrial fibrillation. He and Dottie Fryer Hoyt enjoyed seeing the Reunion pictures....Jean Johnson Bird and Phil traveled to Mongolia, Tibet, China and Cambodia, making that 104 countries they’ve visited....Dana and Peggy Stewart Jones ’49, who celebrated their 60th anniversary, travel, golf and see families in Texas and New Hampshire....Nancy Jones Lowe and Henry’s grandson Eric Auner ’08 works in arms control in Washington....Jim and Lu Mainland Kelly ’52 are moving to a new retirement community in early 2012.... Betty Kinney Faella and Tony are building a summer cottage on a spot used by her family for more than 110 years....John Linehan welcomed his first great-grandchild, Louisa....Judy Litchfield Van Liew says Cape Cod is a good place to retire.... Joan McCurdy Elton and Dick traveled from California to Massachusetts, visiting friends and family....Ray Moore lives in the house he and Carlene Fuller Moore bought in 1957, but it gets lonely. Neighbors visit and help out....Jim O’Connell is holding his own health-wise thanks to Rosalie....Jane Osborne Thurber is writing her autobiography....Edie Pennucci Mead and Dave attended the wedding of their oldest granddaughter in Greece....Ralph Perry and Mary Louise went on a Smithsonian safari in Africa....Joel Price was honored by Institutional Investor magazine as a member of its All-America Research Team Hall of Fame. He was named one of the “Best Analysts of All Time.”... Norma Reese Jones visited Joe Andrew in Harpswell and was joined by Lefty and Ruth Faulkner and Ralph and Mary Louise Perry....Rolvin Risska summers in Harpswell, Maine, winters in Florida and wheels around in his wheelchair....Joan Seear had a wonderful visit in Maine with Roy Fairfield ’43 and Marylyn....Bob Shackett and Jane spend winters in Las Vegas near children and grandchildren. He keeps in touch with Warren Gilman.... Arnold “Ush” Smoller is amazed to be doing all the same things he did 30 to 40 years ago, physically and mentally....Sadly, Elsbeth Thomes Hobbs is in a care home in the final stages of Alzheimer’s, Bob ’50 writes.... Jim Vetrano volunteers with Kiwanis and socializes with other antique car owners. He and Ginger Buhl Vetrano ’54 go dancing once or twice a week.... Dot Webb Quimby continues editing alumni information for Unity College. She went on a cruise with sister Marilyn Webb Mayhew ’55....Dick Westphal

is moving to Michigan for summers and Florida for winters.... Ruth Whittier Greim lives near daughter Sue and family....Rob and Jane Seaman Wilson say their grandson dragged them into the 21st century by giving them an iPhone 4S.

1952 Reunion 2012, June 8–10 class secretary Florence Dixon Prince fdprince2000@yahoo.com class president John Myers johnmyers52@comcast.net   Dewey Barton and Martha moved to New Smyrna Beach, Fla., where he calls himself “the Jersey Bear with the Southern accent.” Retired from a radiology practice, he likes the freedom but misses the stimulus. He and Martha work out three days a week. He communicates with Tony Orlandella and Tom Gordon....Dick Bellows is busy with his estate planning business. Carol has published four children’s books....Mary Berryment Needham and Jack looked forward to a river cruise....Nate and Harriet Howell Boone are busy volunteers in Manchester Center, Vt. Daughter Daryl ’82 received a 25-year pin from Harvard, where she works at the Widener Library....Maui is the winter home of Norm and Carolyn Brackett....Elsa Buschner Carpenter and Bob ’51 welcomed their first greatgrandson....Carolyn Carlson Leys fashioned five fur jackets for her oldest granddaughter’s wedding....In Auburn, Dominique Casavant keeps up on what’s happening at Bates.... Marilyn Coffin Brown enjoyed a lunch with Bates roommate Fay Johnson Boardman....Norma Crooks Coughlin volunteers at the local food pantry....Jean Decker Brooks enjoys her faith-based, continuing-care retirement community....Flo Dixon Prince volunteers at the town library....Wil Bloom and Ginny Edge Shedd have been getting to know each other’s families, including eight children and 19 grandchildren....Bill Eveleth and Jean get in lots of tennis and golf in Florida. Their Quechee, Vt., condo went on the market.... Gene Harley and Connie hang in there despite the frustrations of negotiating the Internet, learning iPhone apps, etc....Sally Haynes Smith and Conrad are doing well in Woburn, Mass., but spend winters in Florida.... Dealing with health problems, Nancy Kosinski remains upbeat, keeping your class secretary laughing with her sharp wit.... Mary Lewis Graves ’55 remains at Oceanview Retirement Community in Falmouth, Maine, following the loss of Donald in 2010. She has three daughters

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and a son nearby....Jack and Nancy Larcom Manter enjoy living at the Atrium in Rocky Hill, Conn., near family....Susan Martin Ames remains in her apartment in Sarasota, Fla., with help from a home-health aide, and feels the spirit of John ’53 guiding her as she faces challenges....Jack McLaren and Noy enjoy life in Bakersfield, Calif. They planned a canal cruise in Europe with his daughter.... John Myers teaches a church school class....Dotty Pierce Morris and Ron Clayton ’53 walk two miles most days and are busy with their combined families....Ruth Potter is making long-term plans to sell her house in Lincoln Center, Mass. The big decision is where to live.... Health problems slowed Bob and Jane Smith Putnam, but they reported things were looking up....Austin and Zell Wilcox Rich make a yearly trek to Ocean City, Md., renting a condo and taking in college basketball games....Marge Schumacher Clark ended a busy three-year term as president of the Active Retirement Assn. in New Hampshire’s seacoast region. She helped Charlie ’51 recuperate from a triple bypass....Marshall Solomon’s “kids” threw him a gala 80th birthday party.... Sadly, Barbara Spring Fry lost her husband, Harry, in March 2011. He helped her through her own cancer treatment, which she finished before he became ill....In Salem, S.C., Edwin and Eleanor Swain marked his 80th with friends and family....Following graduation from Bates, John Wettlaufer enlisted in the Army, then attended Georgetown Medical School, completing his residency at Walter Reed. He was chief of urology at Madigan Army Medical Center in Washington state until retiring as a colonel in 1977. As a civilian professor at the Univ. of Colorado, he further developed expertise in his field and trained more than 70 residents. Recommissioned as a colonel for the first Gulf War, he oversaw the residency program he founded many years earlier while continuing his practice, teaching, mentoring urology students, speaking and writing....Eleanor Wolfe Watt and Jim’s travels took them to Cape Town, South Africa, Rio de Janeiro and New York....Betty Zinck Momenthy volunteers at the senior center and church and enjoys Caribbean cruises.

1953 Reunion 2013, June 7–9 class secretary Ronald Clayton rondot@comcast.net class president Virginia LaFauci Toner vatoner@aol.com

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“Swede” Anderson and Jean moved to senior housing in West Hartford, Conn., close enough to attend their church....Happy to be back in Maine, Bruce and Nancy Ramsdell Chandler ’55 have reconnected with Maine Democratic politics....After two major surgeries, Jean Chapman Neely is working on her community’s aging-in-place project and birding again....George Conklin is treasurer of the World Assn. for Christian Communication executive committee....Sy Coopersmith moved his psychoanalyst practice to Great Neck, Long Island, where he shares an office with wife Valerie, also a psychoanalyst....Bob Ernst and Janice take advantage of all the music and other amenities in the Rochester, N.Y., area and attend Chautauqua Institute in summer....Chuck Fischer continues painting and had an art show at his local library....Clark Griffith continues as chair of the Cranberry Research Foundation and also works for the Cranberry Education Foundation to build a museum near the Plymouth, Mass., waterfront....Gordie Hall volunteers at a local hospital where he was awarded his 4,500-hours pin. He and Linda saw Bob Russell in Florida.... Maurie Hight and Pat stay involved with their church.... Alice Huntington Vannerson and Bob celebrated her 80th birthday with all three children....Charlie Kasparian and Dorothy enjoy retirement with frequent trips to a second home on Cape Cod.... Joanne Kennedy Murray and Floyd split the year between Colorado and Arizona....Jackie Loveland Thomson knits, reads and takes care of social events. Bill paints; his works are at Portland Head Light and Nubble Light, where he’s also a volunteer....Viv Lundquist Okerlund keeps on the go despite osteoarthritis and scoliosis....Selma Machanoff Raskin continues to design interiors in and around New York....Lois McWilliams Dearolf and Ron celebrated their 56th anniversary and 80th birthdays with a riverboat cruise from Amsterdam to Bucharest.... Emmett Morton and Wanda live in Summerfield, Fla., but get back to Stowe, Vt., every year....Audrey Oberheim Swift married friend and widower Jim Conklin. They are busy with church, gardening and water aerobics....Curt Osborne “borrowed” a friend’s wife for a trip to Iceland. That worked out so well he found a nice widow to join him on a jaunt to Tunisia.... Rich Raia has been caring for his Alzheimer’s-stricken wife.... In Pensacola, Fla., Fred Russell enjoys elementary school mentoring; a men’s group, the Joyful Noise Choir; the Navy Yacht Club of Pensacola; and church activities. He and Barbara Atkinson Russell ’56

celebrated their 55th anniversary....Bill Stevens and Gwen organize a dozen chamber music concerts each year in Beacon, N.Y....Darien Terrile and Ellie celebrated their 50th anniversary with a Mediterranean cruise....Marguerite Thoburn Watkins and Gordon pursue volunteer work and hobbies.... Muriel Van Dyke Wilcox and Al are settled in their new home in Montoursville, Pa....Mary Van Valkenburgh Kashmanian, recovered from heart surgeries, is back to her church mission work and hand bells....Milt Van Vlack completed a biography of Revolutionary War patriot Silas Deane....Dick West sings in a choral group, gardens and walks in a YMCA program.

1954 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Jonas Klein joklein@maine.rr.com class president Marion Shatts Whitaker petmarwhitaker@gmail.com

Ginger Buhl Vetrano ’54, who performs with an over-50 dance group, was described as a “red flame of energy” by a daughter upon her 80th birthday. Ginger Buhl Vetrano performs with an over-50 dance group, the Seasoned Steppers. One daughter wrote on her 80th birthday, “Mom, you’re a red flame of energy.”...Glenn and Lois Johnson Carson are settled in Belleair, Fla. Daughter Beth ’81 teaches computer science and French in Altadena, Calif., and daughter Julie ’85 is a marketing consultant in Monterey, Calif....Reading about ways to stay mentally alert, Jan Collier Millard took up bridge and is addicted to duplicate bridge....Inveterate traveler Barbara Doane took an exciting trip to Stockholm, St. Petersburg and other Baltic scenes....In Florida, Joe Green fights red mulch and green shrubs with colorful flowers....Bob and Pat Tobey Greenberg ’57 summer in South Bristol, Maine, near their daughter....Jerry Handspicker works with the Faith and Order Committee of the Vermont Ecumenical Council on church unity issues....Although it’s been 18 years since Tony Kugeman’s passing, his wife Pat continues her interest in Bates and the class. Son Tom Kugeman III ’89 and his wife Jennifer Eifrig ’90 are nearby....In Tennessee, Bill

and Carolann McKesson Laird proudly sport Bates Alumni decals on their cars and are constantly surprised by the number of folks who know where Bates is. One native Volunteer figured they “weren’t from around here!”...Mario and Jill Durland LoMonaco cheer on Buffalo Bills football and Syracuse Univ. football and basketball....Warren Macek volunteers for AARP, preparing taxes for seniors, and teaches computers and digital photography....In Prospect Harbor, Maine, Ruth Scammon Sargent does volunteer work for Dorcas Library and Schoodic Arts for All....Bob Sharaf visited son Adam ’81 and wife Joan and learned that Adam’s son Ben ’14 was elected co-president of his class....Marion Shatts Whitaker and Pete ’53 now live in a condo. He completed cardiac rehab, and she takes Zumba Gold classes.... Don Weatherbee is busy with Southeast Asia and Indonesian affairs, publishing, lecturing and consulting....Char Wilcox Weiler spent three weeks in “fabulous” Turkey....Lynn Willsey watched two Bates soccer games at Trinity with Gerry Tompkins and “Swede” Anderson ’53. He was joined at the Bates Men’s Basketball Golf Outing by Jim Moody ’53, Dick Coughlin ’53, Bob Russell ’53 and “Lefty” Faulkner ’51. Lynn later visited with Ralph Perry ’51 and Bob Carpenter ’51 in Vermont.

1955 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class secretary Marianne Webber Brenton mab4160@rcn.com class president Beverly Hayne Willsey stonepost@cox.net Fred Beck and Diane enjoyed a trip through the Panama Canal.... Betsy Brackett Wilson and Maynard spend summers hosting children and grandchildren at their cabin on Cobscook Bay.... Alan Dworkin, fully retired, says life in South Carolina is wonderful....“Sprookie” Ham Dalrymple and Lee cruised around the Hawaiian Islands to help celebrate their son and his wife’s 25th anniversary.... Berkshire Eagle writer Ruth Haskins Bass told of the scintillating tour of Wyeth paintings led by Victoria Wyeth ’01 at the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pa. “Family history is never better than when a lively member of the family has the ability to tell the inside stories with both verve and nerve,” Ruth wrote....Bev Hayne Willsey and Lynn ’54 are busy going to grandkids’ activities.... In Middlebury, Vt., Ann Hoxie Brousseau is glad to have Reid Pepin nearby in Burlington and Bev and Lynn Willsey ’54 at times staying at their Vermont

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“ home....In his new career as an author, Mel King published The End of the Line and Other Stories, a book about unusual incidents in the lives of famous people....In Dennisport, Mass., Carole Lindblow Kull is busy at the outreach center, thrift shop and food pantry....Janet Linn Coombs is a volunteer curator and archivist for the Girl Scout Museum in Waltham, Mass., with the Girl Scouts’ 100th anniversary in 2012....Janet Lockwood Johnson works part time for a home health agency and loves to travel....Warner Lord works as a paid educational assistant at the Museums of Old York in Maine. He is also a volunteer educator, offering marine mammal programs on the Isles of Shoals and aboard the historic vessel Capt. Edward H. Adams.... Paul MacAvoy underwent a seven-hour heart defibrillation operation at the famed Cleveland Clinic. No fan of the city of Cleveland, he advises: “Don’t go, unless Dr. Lindsey calls you.”...Sue Ordway Pfaltz loves making the soup for her middle daughter’s restaurant.... Nancy Ramsdell Chandler and Bruce ’53 enjoy living in Huntington Common, a retirement community in Kennebunk. They are active in the Unitarian-Universalist church and Democratic party and volunteer at a soup kitchen in Biddeford....Charlie Ridley composed a piano trio for his composition group’s recent recital....Lauralyn Watson Blanchard and Bradford are “professional spectators” at their nine grandchildren’s athletic activities....Virginia Whidden Durgin is active with six grandchildren and church.

1956 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Frederic Huber himself@fredna.com   class president Alice Brooke Gollnick agollnick@valley.net Gail Molander Goddard acgpension@tds.net Wej Baker Malcolm and Dave now live at Bentley Commons, an independent- and assistedliving facility in Keene, N.H. Son Ben ’88 was in Thailand teaching and writing....Sybil Benton Williamson and Peter take advantage of the cultural events and learning available in Hanover, N.H....Alice Brooke Gollnick is thankful for strong Bates connections during both good and difficult times.... Brenda Buttrick Snyder is “still striving to learn and still wide-eyed at new experiences.”...Retired history professor Dick Condon enjoys church and church times, reading, the piano, gardening and travel.... John and Jill Farr Davis’ 2011

adventure was to Antarctica. He is CEO and the only employee of his financial planning business....Althea Dufton Gibson has lots of challenges because of her husband’s dementia. But she enjoys their summer home, lunch with friends and her rubber stamping hobby....Dinny Felt Swett enjoys friends, volunteering and travel....Arnie and Jean Penney Fickett report a few aches and pains, but are doing fine....Nancy Glennon Baumgardner enjoys her exciting work as registrar and membership chairman of the Gainesville (Ga.) DAR Chapter....Grace Graham Bacon and George are back in Ann Arbor, Mich., where they first moved in 1963. She’s resumed volunteer work....College professor Rick Hilliard says students love his Mark Twain quote: “The world owes you nothing…it was here first!”...Waner and Dee Hirst Holman stay active with church and community work. He’s a master gardener, she sings with two groups....Fred Huber is struck by Cultch’s influence. “I remembered so much going through life, whether visiting the Parthenon or the Louvre, doing crossword puzzles or reading Dan Brown’s books.”...Loe Anne Kimball Pino enjoys travel with kids and grandkids....Jane Libby gardens, builds ceramics and travels when she can....Ken MacKenzie enjoys painting and researching and writing history....Bob McAfee knows what he would like people to say at his funeral: “I want the first person to pass my open casket to say, ‘Look, look, I think he is moving!’”...Longtime teacher Jack Merrill has no desire to leave the classroom, where he gets enormous pleasure out of helping others....Nancy Mills Mallett and Russ continue to golf and spend summers in New Hampshire....Gail Molander Goddard finds volunteering in many capacities rewarding, including being in on the ground floor of the local food pantry.... Retired teacher Dave Olney continues in science education by creating puzzles with a chemistry theme and tutoring. He and Peg Leask Olney ’57 do several puzzles daily....Speaking to the Hebron Historical Society, Frank Perham related his mining experiences in western Maine over 40-plus years. He lives in West Paris with his wife and continues to mine.... Thelma Pierce attends college courses and stays in touch with Bates friends....Elise Reichert Stiles is in a fourth career as a potter....Marcia Rosenfeld Baker and Bill live in an 1820 farmhouse in Brownsville, Vt. Her interests include knitting, bird watching and reading.... Jim Sawyer and Elaine, who live in a log home near Bates,

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travel to see their two children and four grandsons....Frank Smith works at Bridger Bowl in Bozeman, Mont., and sings in the ChordRustler barbershop group and the symphonic choir....Jim Spillman and Fredrika live on a farm in Mulino, Ore., adding and subtracting architecture and gardens....Jessie Thompson Huberty is “gratefully showing the world to my grandsons.”... Gail Waterman Fraser’s 2004 stroke makes speech difficult and limits physical activities, but Howard reports they enjoy many family occasions....Orthopaedic hand surgeon Kirk Watson, the founder and chief of the Connecticut Combined Hand Surgery Fellowship Training Program at Hartford Hospital, still does up to 10 or 11 operations daily in addition to his teaching.

1957 Reunion 2012, June 8–10 class secretary Barbara Prince Upton pepiu@earthlink.net class president Paul Steinberg imasearch@aol.com Ann Akehurst Hodgkinson and John ’55 live in a new house they built in Statesville, N.C., near their daughter and granddaughter....Annoying maladies have kept Anne Berkelman Manhattan-bound, “but there couldn’t be a better place to enjoy life.”... Alice Clough Brower keeps busy with swimming and the Family History Center in Logan, Utah.... Carolyn Cram is busy with Garden Club activities, concerts and tennis....Bob Drechsler shares his life after Bates: A philosophy/ religion major, he was a pastor for 17 years. “Along the way I also became a drunk, but have been sober now for 35-plus years. In 1977, I came out of my closet, accepted I am gay and as a result was no longer welcome to be a pastor in my denomination.” He and James have been together 35 years and were legally married in Massachusetts and again in California. Bob has two children and two grandchildren from his first marriage. Long retired from the business world, he works part time as a substance abuse counselor in Riverside, Calif. “I have many good memories of my four years in Lewiston.”... Bruce Farquhar and Barbie love the Shenandoah Valley with its concerts, plays, art classes, high school sports and a church to recharge batteries. Daughter Jamie ’85 is a teacher in Ohio.... Wilma Gero Clapham enjoys challenging, exciting work as president of the Canadian Federation of Univ. Women– Ottawa....Roger King enjoys traveling and acting in plays, musicals and operas....Judy Larkin Sherman’s 2011 highlight was a trip to Machu Picchu and

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the Galapagos....Janet Neal Allen and her husband joined The First Church (UCC) in Windsor, Conn., dating to 1630, “yet 2012 in its life and activities.”...Ellie Peck Rekemeyer and Peter have two weddings to attend and their 50th anniversary in 2012....Brille Perry Cotsoradis and Steve had their lives redirected by Hurricane Katrina, but are back in New Orleans. Her daughter and grandson live with them. She works part time for Gulf Marine....Dick Pierce and Cynthia are busy with church, charitable and civic activities and seven grandchildren....Pepi Prince Upton enjoys church work and playing bridge again.... Grant and Jo Trogler Reynolds ’58 now live all year in Vermont after selling their Maryland house to Maria Uhle ’88 and her husband. “No Bates connection involved. They were looking at houses in our neighborhood, and we had a sign out,” Grant reports. Jo and Barb Madsen Dehart ’58 went to Antarctica for Jo’s 75th birthday....Judy Root Wilcox volunteers in a kindergarten class, sings in an a cappella group and serves on her church’s outreach committee....Charlie Sanborn had a “super experience” helping teach a course on the Founding Fathers in Colby-Sawyer College’s continuing education program....Tom Teasdale splits the year between Florida and Avon, Conn. He has a granddaughter at Bates.... Margot Turitz Elkin took a jazz cruise in the Caribbean....Retired from Massachusetts Trial Court, Joseph Welch does volunteer work in court and enjoys visiting grandchildren....Bob Williams had a lumbar laminectomy that made his back problem much better. Judie Roberts Williams ’60 canceled her discectomy when her back got better.

1958 Reunion 2013, June 7–9 class secretary Marilyn Miller Gildea marilyn@gildea.com class president John Lovejoy lovejoy@crocker.com Ginny Davis moved into a retirement community in Salt Lake City and enjoys all the residents and activities.

1959 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class co-secretaries Jack DeGange jack.degange@valley.net Mary Ann Houston Hermance donmar23@gmail.com class co-presidents Barbara Van Duzer Babin barbarababin@comcast.net Calvin Wilson ccoolidgewilson@comcast.net

Educational leader King Cheek Jr. reflected on his career in an interview published in The Root, an online source of news and commentary from an African American perspective, in collaboration with The HistoryMakers series. King and his older brother James were each, for a time, president of Shaw Univ. in Raleigh, N.C. James, who died in 2010, also was president of Howard Univ. King, who also led Morgan State Univ. in Baltimore, explained how he was perceived as a “dummy” as a child because of a speech impediment and congenital cataracts. A test at age 7 showed how smart he was. “Black teachers were almost spiritual figures and not just confined to the classroom. They were part of your life. They visited your home, met with your parents.” Benjamin Mays ’20, then president of Morehouse College, told him “that if I didn’t want to go to Morehouse, then I had to go to his school. He was a graduate of Bates College. Bates was a natural choice for me, given the interest I had in debating.” After Bates, he went to the Univ. of Chicago, as Dr. Mays had, for further study. “After I completed my studies in Chicago, I decided that the color of my passion was black and not green. I felt I had an obligation of service to my community.”... Howard Kunreuther, a professor of decision sciences and public policy at the Wharton School and an expert in risk analysis, returned to Bates to speak on “Learning from Catastrophes: Overcoming Myopia Through Private-Public Partnerships.” He discussed what the public and private sectors can do to reduce future damage and pay for losses following extreme events like earthquakes and nuclear plant accidents....Organist Howard “Budge” Walen opened the Noon Music in Lent series at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Camden. He is the long-term interim organist/choir director at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Augusta.

1960 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class secretary Louise Hjelm Davidson l.davidson@sbcglobal.net class president Dean Skelley dean_skelley@alumni.bates.edu Dick Krause married Jan Pacht on June 11, 2011. He loves retirement and volunteers for SCORE, counseling small businesses, and the Root Cellar in Portland, a Christian ministry for the poor....Sarah Rubin Blanshei presented an invited paper in Bologna, Italy, at a conference on “Cultural Crossroads” and stayed in Bologna with husband Jack for a month of research in the Bolognese archives.

1961 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Gretchen Shorter Davis gretchend@alumni.bates.edu class co-presidents Mary Morton Cowan mmcowan@gwi.net Dick Watkins rwatkcapt@aol.com Alan Cate sends “best wishes for many new adventures in life to a wonderful group of classmates. Keep supporting Bates, our wellspring to adventuring out into new and more fulfilling lives.”

1962 Reunion 2012, June 7–10 class secretary Cynthia Kalber Nordstrom cknordstrom@verizon.net class president Al Squitieri asqurol@yahoo.com John Follett, who lost his wife Patricia in 1999, married longtime family friend Winifred McDowell in 2010. John, who has four daughters and nine grandchildren, and Winifred live in his hometown of Springfield, Vt., where he has served on the board of selectmen. Long retired from business, John was also a state legislator and served on Vermont’s Act 250 District Environmental Commission. He continues on the boards of a bank, trust company and senior citizen board. “I still enjoy lifelong interests in hunting, fishing and wildlife observation. I have been fortunate to have traveled to many parts of the world to observe wildlife and to learn of other cultures.” He maintains a lifelong friendship with John Conlee, who lives in Wichita, Kan.... Bob Witt is now the chancellor of the Univ. of Alabama system, having served as president for nine years. Shortly before the Crimson Tide won the 2012 national college football championship, USA Today noted that Bob has successfully challenged the prevailing “footballforemost notion” at Alabama, and he did so “almost as soon as he took the job nearly nine years ago, ousting misbehaving Mike Price before the newly named coach ever worked a game.”

1963 Reunion 2013, June 6–9 class secretary Natalie Shober Moir nataliemoir@netflash.net class president Bill Holt wholt@maine.rr.com Linda Antoun Miller continues as a docent at the Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum and serves

monty woolson ’fc on the steering committees of two humanist groups....Peter Bagley and Elaine celebrated his retirement from his dental practice with a motorcycle trip throughout the southeast U.S.... Liz Buker Creighton and Dick live full time in Minot, Maine, where they enjoy gardening and golf....Tom Cameron’s wife, Janet, bought him an outdoor pizza oven for his 70th birthday, “the ultimate toy to satisfy my need to show off.”...Betty “BJ” Clark enjoys major road trips in retirement. She and Sue King Farr worked for many years at the same agency in Santa Clara County, Calif....Jim Curtis and Betsy made the trip of a lifetime, a three-month road excursion to Alaska....Bill Dunham, now fully retired, and Deb have been traveling, including kayak-camping in the Yucatan....At the National Senior Games in Houston, John Farr took a fifth- and sixth-place in the long jump and 200-meter sprint in his age group. Homesick for New England, he and Elvis visit daughter Becky ’91 and family in Rhode Island.... Thom Freeman and Claire are settled into their retirement, half the year in Massachusetts and half in Florida....Jackie Gallagher Soychak works out at a fitness center and joined USM’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute....Surviving both a serious heart blockage and a burst large intestine, Steve Goddard is back full time at his law practice.... Semi-retired, Peter Graves says the glass manufacturing business he started in 1982 is still going strong....Peter Hollis stays active on the Pleasant Bay Cruising Club steering committee, other social activities with the Chatham/Harwich Newcomers Club and framing Susan’s paintings....Retiring from ophthalmology, Bill Holt says his cold hardy grape project in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, keeps enlarging, and several varieties make a nice wine....Living full time in New Marlborough, Mass., David Hosford is caught up in local historic preservation. Maureen holds leadership positions in the cultural council.... Although she spent only her freshman year at Bates, Virginia Hullinger Huber has “wonderful memories of conversations and good times at Bates.” She and Dave live in Madison, Wis. A watercolor painter, she was a teacher of adults before retiring....Peter Koch and Debbie enjoy skiing at their home in the Sugarbush ski area and boating, fishing, golfing and biking on the Lake Champlain islands in summer.... Sadly, Bill LaVallee lost his wife, Elaine, last year. Still competing in track meets, he continues to coach cross-country at Bret Harte Middle School in San Jose, Calif....Now retired, Carol Long Steele spends more time on pottery, the cello and

Portrait of the Soldier Monty Woolson ’63 honors the heroism of Col. Lewis Millett ’49 Inspired by the wartime heroics of the late Col. Lewis Millett ’49, Monty Woolson ’63 commissioned an oil portrait of the highly decorated Army hero and presented the artwork to Bates last September. The painting is based on a 1985 photo of Millett. It shows him saluting the flag during an annual ceremony in Korea, marking the famous bayonet charge for which he won the Medal of Honor. In that 1951 battle, Millett led two platoons up Hill 180, and in the face of withering enemy fire engaged in “whirlwind” hand-to-hand combat, according to his award citation. His troops used their bayonets, sharpened at Millett’s request by local Korean women, “with such lethal effect that the enemy fled in wild disorder.” Millett, who died in 2009, served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. In addition to the Medal of Honor, he received the Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star, Legion of Merit (two times), Bronze Star (three times), Purple Heart (four times), the French Croix de Guerre and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. “What got to me about Col. Millett was that it was more than one act of courage, which is amazing enough,” Woolson says. “He was a hero over three wars. He was one tough cookie.” Woolson commissioned the portrait through Project Compassion, a Utah-based nonprofit that creates memorial portraits of U.S. military or law enforcement personnel who have died since Sept. 11, 2001. —hjb

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travel. She and Paul ’62 visit granddaughters in Houston and Boulder, Colo....Dick Love and Lois divide the year between Ridgway, Colo., and Malibu Canyon in California. He reports the painting business of son Sean ’92 in San Francisco continues to thrive....Al Marden received the Bates Alumni Community Service Award for his tireless commitment to the town of North Adams, Mass. Al has served in many capacities over many years, including as director of the Chamber of Commerce and the North Adams Redevelopment Authority, on the Berkshire County Development Commission and as a longtime city council member. He also has served as an Alumni-in-Admission volunteer for Bates....Lee Nute and his wife split time between Pittsburgh and the California desert near Palm Springs. Long retired, he loves the free time.... Loie Payne Lindner tends her flower and veggie gardens. Dick creates beautiful wooden bowls on his lathe....Dick and Betty Anne Little Rowlands moved to a condo in Saco, Maine. They winter in Florida....In Weekapaug, R.I., Ed Rucci does occasional charter flights for a local airline. He hosted the second Rucci Golf Tournament, dedicated to the memory of Paul Castolene. Howie Vandersea, Web Harrison, Al Marden, Thom Freeman, John Curtiss and Monty Woolson attended....Bert Sampson, newly retired, and Marti hope to take a two-year boat ride encompassing the eastern U.S., St. Lawrence, Great Lakes, Mississippi River, Bahamas and Atlantic coast....Rosemarie Schaefer Bates hopes to move soon but doesn’t know where....Marion Schanz Ratcliff and Jim looked forward to two grandchildren’s weddings....Paula Schmidt Mansur enjoyed visits with Elaine Woodford Tracy and Ruthie Raymond Kapnis....Al Seelig got together in Ogunquit with Dick and Marge Brown.... Evie Shepherd Malloy and Jim enjoyed an Alaskan cruise with sister Freda ’61 and brother-in-law Paul Maier ’61.... Natalie Shober Moir and Jim met Dottie and George Stone and Bill Holt at Bates’ Muskie Archives to begin working on the class history....Douglas Smith continues appraising real estate in Missoula, Mont., and is president of the Rotary Club.... Shirley Snow Nicolai says her work as president of National Garden Clubs Inc. is challenging but rewarding....George and Dottie Selden Stone had a special trip with grandson Roland, son of Sarah Stone ’90 and Don Munsil....Howie Vandersea was inducted into the Maine Sports Hall of Fame in May. A four-year letter-winner in football and baseball at Bates, he earned

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All-Maine accolades three times at linebacker and center and was named to the Williamson All-America team. He was head football coach at Springfield College, then headed the Bowdoin program for 14 years, winning seven CBB championships. He founded the Maine chapter of the National Football Foundation in 1988 and continues as its president....Arlene Wignall Nickerson and Nick eat healthy, keep fit and spend time with five grandchildren. Daughter Amanda ’94 is the first director of the Jean Alberti Center for the Prevention of Bullying Abuse and School Violence at the Univ. of Buffalo....After a year as president of the College of the Marshall Islands, Ken Woodbury resumed his position as director of community development for Piscataquis County in Maine.... Elaine Woodford Tracy continues most of her volunteer activities. She got together with Paula and Jack Mansur at Moody’s Diner and enjoyed a day with Bernie Schulte Bowdoin ’62. Elaine and Arlene Wignall Nickerson keep in touch.

1964 Reunion 2014, June 5–8 class secretary John Meyn jemkpmeyn@aol.com class president Elizabeth Metz McNab ejmcnab@cox.net Kevin Gallagher bought a house in Cape Coral, Fla., near Red Sox spring training, and expects to move in sometime this year.

1965 Reunion 2015, June 11–14 class secretary Judith Morris Edwards juded@comcast.net class president Joyce Mantyla tiojack@aol.com

1966 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class president Alexander Wood awwood@mit.edu Carl Straub, professor emeritus of religion, dropped us a note about his former student David Fulenwider, who was conferred the “Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette” by the government of Japan. Dave is president of the Japan-American Society of Maine, which since its establishment in 1982 has promoted grassroots exchanges, the introduction of Japanese culture in the state, networking between Japan and the U.S., and economic opportunities. Dave says that his Bates JYA experience “did much to lay the foundation for this, and

it was the late Dean of the Faculty George Healy who assisted me in setting up the program to get academic credit.” It was an eventful 2011: Dave retired after 32 years of teaching U.S. government at Buckfield High School as did his wife, Eiko, from TD Bank. “Our daughter, Margaret, a Tufts grad and civil engineer in Boston, gave us our first grandson. Our son, Mark, a Dartmouth grad, is a stuntman in Hollywood. Eiko and I have been practicing cross-cultural, cross-ethnic and cross-racial awareness since 1972, and it’s been fun! Remember the Beatles: ‘All You Need Is Love.’ And if ‘all politics is local,’ I’m keeping it so by serving on the Buckfield Village Corporation.”

1967 Reunion 2012, June 8–10 class co-secretaries Alexandra Baker Lyman toads@snet.net Ingrid Larsson Shea chezshea4@comcast.net class president Bob Bowden rbbowden@aol.com Linda Bartlett Burrowes spent early months of retirement visiting children and grands in Japan, Colorado and Brooklyn, N.Y. She and Mel ’66 were relieved that youngest child, Dan, and his family in Kyoto were insulated from the effects of the earthquake and tsunami....Bob Bowden and Carrolle love time with Ethan (11) and Hannah (13), their two step-grandchildren, and with Carly (2) and baby Lucy. Bob practices three days a week in the dental office, which he has turned over to Jonathon, leaving more time for golf.... Tim Hall joined Hudson Realty Capital as a vice president in its Fort Myers, Fla., office. He and Jill are visited often by their four granddaughters and friends, including Bryan Carlson and Anne, who have a home nearby, and Tom and Barbara Hill McKittrick....David Howe makes good use of his free time to see family, friends and sights in Florida and Arizona....David Hoyt remarried in 2004 and retired from New Milford (Conn.) High School in 2007, where he taught chemistry for 39 years. He now teaches part time at Immaculate High School. David has traded basketball and hiking for walking the dog and ballroom dancing. He enjoys his three grandsons, CJ, Sean and Seth, and takes them to the beach in Maine every August.... Pat Korol Wilson says life in Long Beach, Calif., is simpler and less stressful than Dallas. She and Scott look forward to returning east in three years to build their retirement home in Ghent, N.Y....Alan Lewis enjoys visits from grandchildren Piper,

Carter, Geoffrey and Teddy.... Harry Marsden has a second career as a volunteer, teaching ESL students and mentoring and training new tutors. His classes are often full of the spouses of international students at the Univ. of Michigan....Rick Powers reports that daughter Zoe Donaldson ’11 now lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. Rick and Darcy are adjusting to being empty-nesters. Darcy, now retired, is pursuing a master’s in women’s and gender studies at CUNY. He continues at Combe Inc., shepherding several new products to completion. Three of Rick’s sons are married: Ted ’01 was wed to Kat Kim, and T.J. to Alexandra Merz. Greg ’99 is the lone holdout....In Binghamton, N.Y., Richard Ryder continues his full-time practice in cardiology. He also golfs and flies his Cessna 182....Cindy Smith Ridder and Ted spent a day with her Bates roommate Charlotte Singer Krause in Phoenix. Cindy also keeps in touch with Judy Lanouette Nicholson and Suzanne Johnson Nixon. Cindy and Ted are both retired from teaching.... Rocky Stone and Leanne took a river cruise in the Netherlands and Belgium, “a great way to experience the region’s history and culture.”

1968 Reunion 2013, June 7–9 class secretary Rick Melpignano rickmel713@comcast.net class co-presidents Gerald Lawler Jill Howroyd Lawler lawlerjer@aol.com Continuing friendships that began at Bates, Mike Carr and Sue, Rocky Stone ’67 and Leanne, Michael and Anne Kingwill Morin have met for dinner in Sturbridge, Mass. Mike reports that in 2010 John and Carol Barry Lyons hosted a golf tournament in Hyannis, where the guests were mostly Bates football players. The camaraderie provided a flashback to 1968.... David Doe is enjoying his 33rd year of teaching and ninth year as chairman in the Westfield (Mass.) State Univ. biology department, with no plans to retire. He’s also chair of the Westfield Conservation Commission. Regularly interviewed by Westfield students taking a course on the 1960s, he always talks about Dave Nash. Both trained at Fort Benning, Ga., and served in Vietnam. Dave was wounded in March 1970 and died in May.... Linda Fisher Hathaway Bunza gave two lectures for the Oregon Bach Festival, “Beethoven’s Revolutionary Ninth Symphony” and “An Introduction to Brahms’ Requiem.”...Denis Fortier took a one-year position at Central

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Maine Community College, coordinating outreach to prospective students who are veterans. He and Pauline joined David and Janet Dykstra on a trip to the Southwest....Stu Hardy received the Stanley J. Drazek Teaching Excellence Award at the Univ. of Maryland University College. Stu teaches in an online master of science environmental program, which he helped design while living in Arlington, Va., and working at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington. He became a full professor in 2004. Stu lives in Tiverton, R.I., where he enjoys sailing....Jane Hippe Reilly and Russ ’66 welcomed their sixth grandchild, giving Russ a substitute for his basketball team. He still volunteers as an assistant basketball coach at Middlebury College. They visited Bates for the Dance Reunion and loved seeing all the changes on campus....After 25 years as dairy farmers, Kathy Holden Trainor and Dennis sold their beloved cows and farm and retired to a “farmette” that keeps them in meat, eggs, vegetables and firewood. She works part time as a docent at Drake Well Museum in Titusville, Pa., where she and Dennis now live. Their easygoing lifestyle and the rural setting give them plenty of opportunity to hike, bike and ride horses.... Karen Konecki Goober and Joel ’70, who divide the week between Boston and New London, N.H., took a river cruise through Germany, Austria and Hungary to celebrate her 65th birthday. They welcomed a second grandchild, Henry Spencer Rotchford.... Anne MacMillan Dolan and Jim moved to Portland, Ore., for another adventure and to be closer to children and grandchildren. They enjoy exploring the Northwest, living in a new city and discovering local wine, cuisine and culture....Tim Murray teaches Bible and related subjects at Fairwood Bible Institute in Dublin, N.H. He and Sharon live next door to two of their children, their spouses and 11 grandchildren. Tim asks, “What could be finer?”...Don Searles retired from Lockheed Martin Aeronautics “after 15 years of interesting, productive work. An outstanding program manager and professional logistician is available!”

1969 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Bonnie Groves beegroves@comcast.net class president Richard Brogadir dbrogie1@aol.com Since retiring early from Los Angeles schools, John Linehan has traveled to more than two dozen countries plus Antarctica. “I’ve visited

Maine several times also!”... Tom Lopez, head football coach at Lincoln-Sudbury High School since 1970, received the Ed Schluntz Contribution to Amateur Football Award from a chapter of the National Football Foundation. Tom’s teams have won or tied for 13 Dual County League championships and have been to seven Super Bowls, winning three. He played end at Bates....Sandi Schroeder and Richard Poole were married April 21, 2011. “We look forward to sharing grandchildren and golf together,” he writes....Larry Power plays with two bands, the 12:01 Blues Band and Bucket of Blues, in the Boston area. “Come see us play!”

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Still Life — Still Living were selected from 30 years of large-format photography using antique cameras and lenses. A letter writer in TinyTownTimes said Christopher has produced “stunning, meticulously crafted works of fine art.” Christopher also spoke at a symposium on “Multidisciplinary Approaches to Plants and Religion” at the Univ. of Florida–Gainesville, organized by his brother Robin Wright ’72, a professor of religion there. Christopher discussed the use of cannabis in the history of religions and the impact of its use in the arts, using his own work as a prime example of entheogenic-based visionary art.

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class secretary Suzanne Woods Kelley suzannekelley@att.net

class president Steve Andrick steve.andrick@chartis insurance.com Robert Aimo retired from teaching and counseling at the Community Learning Center in Cambridge, Mass. “Still deciding what’s next, but I’m finally getting enough time for fly fishing and fly tying.”... Bob Morey, who has a 40-year career in commercial real estate finance, joined the Century City, Calif., office of Johnson Capital as a senior vice president.... John Shea co-stars with Lea Thompson in The Trouble With the Truth, a new independent film about a divorced couple who meet up and have a long conversation on the eve of their daughter’s wedding. “I am both a romantic and a cynic about some things,” John said an interview at the Hollywood Film Festival. “The character was the opposite of who I am in real life, so I wanted to play someone who was different from me and had a different world view, make that believable and bring that to life, and that was really fun to do. Although there were some things that I could relate to like being in love and having a divorce.” John is also featured in the Maine-made coming-ofage film Anatomy of the Tide, directed by Joel Strunk and due out in 2012....Gail Sturtevant Oberst is now the adult foster/ family director at Berkshire Family and Individual Resources Inc. in North Adams, Mass....In Ithaca, N.Y., Christopher Wright, a photographer and independent scholar in the history of religions, hosted a book-signing and exhibition for his first solo effort in publishing books of his own photographs. The images in Visions in Silver:

class president Peter Hine phine@snet.net Susan Cragin Widdoes and Steve Cole were married June 26, 2011, with all their children as attendants. Susan works at Bank of America in Belfast, Maine. Steve works at Spurwink Services in Portland....Nature writer Bill Sherwonit’s book, Changing Paths: Travels and Meditations in Alaska’s Arctic Wilderness, was featured in the online discussion forum “America’s Wild Read.” The forum connects writers, teachers and others who wish to discuss humans’ relationships with nature.

1972 Reunion 2012, June 8–10 class co-secretaries Pam McCormack Green green1@maine.rr.com Dave Lounsbury davelounsbury@gmail.com class president Bob Roch robert.roch@alumni.bates.edu Mike Attinson just took early retirement from the civil service after 28 years, recently finished an eight-month medic course and is volunteering for ambulance duty. He also works as a consultant for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, based in New York, in disaster management, a kind of “master of disaster.”...Doug Daly volunteers a fascinating tale from western Michigan, where he has a medical practice specializing in in-vitro fertilization for those generally considered unable to afford this service. His is a story of mixing residency and fellowship training in the 1980s with raising four children — some

of the time singlehandedly, all the while holding true to first principles: fairness and avoidance of the perks of privilege. The children, two sons and two daughters, are now grown, successful and dispersed. Seven years ago, on a visit to family in New England, he and his wife, Cherrie, visited Bates. It was, he says, “not the school from which I had graduated. This made me sad.” He now wonders, “is Bates a better place by forsaking...frugality (and availability to the ‘middle class’) or has Bates sacrificed too much of its soul?”...The Institute for International Sport, founded by Dan Doyle in 1986, celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2011. Steve Hoad talked with The Portland Press Herald about Mainers who raise poultry and the state rules that affect how they process and market their birds. He and daughter Rose produce up to 2,500 chickens and turkeys on their Windsor farm. Steve said he and other poultry producers worry about the farms working outside the law because one bad bird that makes someone sick could bring down everyone else. “Just because the consumer knows their farmer doesn’t mean that farmer knows the science about processing and how to control the pathogens that are involved.”...Leading cancer researcher Howard Scher presented two major findings from a Phase III study of the prostate cancer drug Zytiga. The first is that Zytiga works, improving survival in men with advanced prostate cancer. The second might prove to be a boon to future cancer researchers, providing a better way to measure the effectiveness of any given cancer treatment. Howard is a colead investigator of the study, “Abiraterone and Increased Survival in Metastatic Prostate Cancer,” published in The New England Journal of Medicine. He explained the study’s findings at the 2011 meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago.

1973 Reunion 2013, June 7–9 class secretary Kaylee Masury kmasury@yahoo.com class president Kitty Kiefer beesweet1@gmail.com

1974 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Tina Psalidas Lamson lamsonfamily@comcast.net class president Don McDade dmcdade@llbean.com

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Bill Cunningham closed his general dentistry practice in his hometown of Pittsfield, Maine, after 35 years. He and Karen (Lord) are looking forward to “taking our first cruise in May to Bermuda to celebrate our retirement and our 35th wedding anniversary. We plan to spend our time keeping physically fit and enjoying outdoor activities, traveling and each other more!”...Paul Erickson keeps in touch with Lynn Myhal ’75, Norm Olsen, Mike Larkin ’75 and Ed Myers ’72. Paul is finishing a documentary for Roger McGuinn of The Byrds and working on exhibit content and design for a new aquarium in Saudi Arabia....Bern Heath and wife Deb live in Durango, Colo., “and love it.” They’re on the edge of the Rockies, very close to Mesa Verde and within easy reach of Arches and Canyonlands national parks as well as Lake Powell. Their three children are in college, and since their birthdays are in February “we did a swing through northern Colorado to visit each of them with a stop in Vail to visit with my old roommate, Randy Rizor and wife Nancy.” Bern is CEO of Axis Health System, a community mental-health center transforming itself into a health system that “treats the whole person by bringing together mental health, substance use, primary care and wellness/ healthy lifestyle resources. We opened a new, fully integrated healthcare clinic in Cortez in January — possibly the first of its kind in the country. We are so far out on the cutting edge that traditional funding does not fully support the model of care, so I am challenged to figure out how to reform our state’s funding structure. Pretty big challenge for an old guy — but tremendously exciting!”... Steve and Tina Psalidas Lamson report that eldest son Matthew ’03 is engaged to be married in September, and middle son Tim in May 2013. Last summer, the Lamsons enjoyed a visit and boat ride with Tom and Cindy Holmes Andrews Whyte at their summer place on Bailey Island. This winter, they enjoyed dinner with Portlanders Risa and Don McDade, and recently dined with Bruce and Vicky Aghababian Wicks and Katanya Woods Hamilton and Paul to celebrate Paul’s 60th birthday while they were staying in their new condo in Rockport, Mass. Bruce and Vicky, both retired and traveling as much as possible, were returning from a celebration of 60th birthdays with Nicki Taylor, Barb Welch and Ron Brickett in Maine. Janne Lempke Jensen, happily living in Newport, R.I., and who recently became a grandmother, has also been to visit a

couple of times during Katanya and Paul’s stays in Rockport. The yoga classes (and getaways) she organizes on St. John in the Caribbean sound great!

1975 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class co-secretaries Deborah Bednar Jasak wjasak@comcast.net Faith Minard minardblatt@comcast.net class co-presidents Susan Bourgault Akie susieakie@aol.com Janet Haines janethaines@alumni.bates.edu

Though not a cafe-goer himself, Ross Mandell ’75 thought about what he does best — “drink coffee and eat.” So he opened Bartleby’s Cafe in Mystic, Conn. Rick Cloutier was promoted to business development manager at Hyde Industrial Blade Solutions in Southbridge, Mass.... The Groton Patch caught up with Ross Mandell, owner of Bartleby’s Cafe in Mystic, Conn. Ross, wanting to be his own boss, opened the cafe in 1999 and is there every day, taking only two weeks off since he began. “I never went to cafes but thought about what I do best... drink coffee and eat. I didn’t think it through any further than that. It’s a brutal economy and (visiting cafes) is not high on people’s lists right now, but we create a good product, and I’d like to continue earning a living at it.”

1976 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Jeffrey Helm  jeffrey.helm@verizon.net class president Bruce Campbell brucec@maine.rr.com John Carrafa talked with the Staten Island Advance about directing Urinetown: The Musical for the Wagner College Theater Department. John was the original choreographer for the wildly inventive satire in 2000 when the Off-Broadway critics’ darling turned into a Tony-winning smash. A premed student at Bates, he said he was always interested in biology and chemistry but was also fascinated by dance and theater. “As time went on, and I did various things in dance and theater, I began to see that I could actually

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make a career in the arts,” said John, who started out as a dancer in Twyla Tharp’s company. “At the same time, working in a hospital in Connecticut, I saw that it wasn’t the life I was meant to lead.” During rehearsals for Urinetown at Wagner, he worked on two TV shows, Blue Bloods and The Big C. “It helps that rehearsals are at night.”... Richard Scofield was promoted to assistant curator for watercraft at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., after serving as boatyard manager since 2005.

1977 Reunion 2012, June 8–10 class co-presidents Joel Feingold joelafeingold@me.com Dervilla McCann meistermcn@aol.com class secretary Steve Hadge Steve_Hadge@alumni.bates.edu Our thoughts go to David Foster, whose father, Allan, passed away in March from sudden complications due to lymphoma....Keith Taylor writes: “Still busy in my optometric practice here in Marblehead. Facing new healthcare law mandates and we are gearing up for the electronic healthcare record keeping programs with new hardware and software. As chairman of Marblehead Bank, we’ve had a successful first year at our new branch bank at the Cummings Center in Beverly. Wendy is enjoying her 35th year at Landmark School as a case manager and supervisor.”...Dervilla McCann and Steve Meister’s grown children are both in the process of finding gainful employment, “thank God.” Dervilla attended last spring’s Dance Reunion and performance that paid homage to the late Leonard Plavin, husband of Marcy. “We structured a dance using his photography as the backbone of the performance, and played his favorite jazz. Full house, and not a dry eye in it.” At the reunion, Dervilla renewed acquaintance with Polly Howlett ’76, “a blithe spirit and wonderful person, who had the time of her life at the performance.” Sadly, Polly returned home to Vermont to learn she had inoperable cancer, and she passed away during Thanksgiving week. During her illness, a group of Bates dancers commissioned a dance in her honor, “Peace, My Heart,” and the tribute was performed at Bates in fall 2011 and again in February in New York City. Dervilla is a Bates trustee.... Joel Feingold had arthroscopic surgery (successful) last spring, then attended Commencement last June to see a niece graduate. He wryly notes that just as he and Houda settled into their new

home in Brookline, a sewer and storm-drain project was begun, the last phase of the Boston Harbor cleanup initiated more than 20 years ago. “Our neighborhood is ‘ground zero’ for the final separation of rainwater from the sewer system — it’s a live construction site at our front door. On the other hand, our work is good and friends are better!” Joel runs a boutique specialevents business, and tries to “see as much music as I can.”...Kevin Soucy is North American lead for Accenture’s asset management practice at Accenture, where he’s in his fifth year. “Both boys are out of school and launched into very successful professional careers in social media and asset management. Our biggest news is that wife Linda, UMF ’79, has been cancer-free for four years now after a fight with breast cancer. We count our blessings daily.”... Steve Hadge and Vickie are grandparents of a baby boy, born to their daughter and husband in January. “We enjoy making the short trek to Leominster, Mass., for visits. Vickie continues to be extremely busy working from home as a virtual assistant. Son Wesley is hanging in there in his last year in middle school and is very much the teenager. I continue to love my job as a library media specialist at Robertson Elementary in Manchester. I still play tennis regularly.”

1978 Reunion 2013, June 7–9 class co-secretaries Deni Auclair dauclair56@gmail.com Melanie Parsons Paras melaniep1010@aol.com class president Chip Beckwith chipwith@aol.com Veteran commercial real estate lender Nicholas Helides joined United Bank and works in its Worcester, Mass., region, managing its loan production office.... The Sierra Sun wrote about twotime Olympian Nancy Ingersoll Fiddler, who joined the Truckee (Calif.) High School squad as an assistant coach. Coach Jon Halvorsen said he’s thrilled to gain a world-class Nordic skier and coach. Nancy, who also helps coach the Far West teams at the Auburn Ski Club in California, recently moved from Mammoth to Truckee. Nancy, who took up crosscountry skiing as a sophomore at Bates, competed in the 1988 Calgary Olympics and the 1992 Albertville Olympics, as well as four World Championships. She won 14 national titles. She lives in Truckee while her daughter, Laurel Fiddler, attends Sugar Bowl Academy, which has built its own successful Nordic program....Richard Johnson talked

with the Maine Sunday Telegram about his new book, Field of Our Fathers: An Illustrated History of Fenway Park, which chronicles more than Red Sox history. Fenway has hosted boxing matches, football, concerts, even a reception for elephants. Richard, curator of The Sports Museum at TD Garden in Boston, said his research uncovered “some things you wouldn’t find in the public relations material about the park, including its gambling history. It was the first park to have an electronic scoreboard, and there was a section of the stands where people bet on balls and strikes. I found a newspaper story from 1936 about a raid by Boston police, and how they arrested guys for betting at the game.”...Kathy Strand and Bill McMurray were married Aug. 6, 2011.... Men’s Health editor Peter Moore was quoted in a Boston Globe story about how the latest round of superhero movies inspired some men into muscle-building workouts. “Yet another example of men as the new women and being judged by their bodies,’’ Peter said. “Clearly, given the health risks of carrying a few extra pounds, exercise is important. As long as it’s not a deep psychological pathology of ‘I must be Chris Evans [of Captain America] to be a worthwhile human being.’’’

1979 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Mary Raftery mgraftery@gmail.com class president Janice McLean janmcle@charter.net Brenda Garrand, founder and CEO of the marketing communications firm Garrand, was inducted into the Junior Achievement of Maine Business Hall of Fame....Lee Lynd, well known for his research on the use of microbes to utilize biomass to produce biofuels, gave the annual Univ. of Georgia Lars G. Ljungdahl Lecture. Lee is a professor of engineering and an adjunct professor of biology and earth science at Dartmouth and director of Mascoma Corp., a biomass energy company.

1980 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class secretary Christine Tegeler Beneman cbeneman@maine.rr.com class president Mary Mihalakos Martuscello mary@martuscellolaw.com Cubist Pharmaceuticals CEO Mike Bonney was ranked one of the six best corporate leaders in the country by MarketWatch, a leading financial news source.

The online publication praised Mike, chair of the Bates trustees, for among other things “his open and encouraging management style.”...Jeff Kenney, an astronomy professor at Yale, returned to Bates to discuss interactions within galactic clusters. His research describes how spiral galaxies in the Virgo cluster, the nearest large cluster of galaxies, evolve due to interactions in the harsh cluster environment.

1981 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Katherine Baker Lovell cklovell@verizon.net class president Kathleen Tucker Burke sburke4155@aol.com A Wicked Local story tells how Chris Adams, running coach and faculty member at Tabor Academy in Marion, Mass., brainstormed the idea of a race for children after seeing his son Tomas, then 8, come up sore after a 5k. Chris envisioned a short, fun, grass-course race that would have less impact on kids’ bodies, so he mapped out a route on the school’s athletic fields that excluded pavement. That was a decade ago; the nowyearly event, called the Marion Mile, has grown to seven races and more than 200 kids. Chris, who ran cross-country and track at Bates and has logged more than 50,000 running miles of his own, said, “It’s truly one of the most enjoyable things I do by far.”...Turning her volunteer and part-time work experience into a career, Kathy Baker Lovell of Downingtown, Pa., is development director for Bridge of Hope Lancaster & Chester Counties, raising funds to help single mothers and children. Her oldest is at Virginia Tech, the youngest in high school. Kathy had an enjoyable dinner with Nancy Higgins....Elaine Belanger Swart still works as a per diem respiratory therapist at Saint Francis Hospital in Hartford but mainly as a research coordinator for the pulmonary department. She and Joe celebrated their 25th anniversary. One child is a college junior, the other is graduating from high school....Cynthia Hobbs retired from the World Bank and is now senior education specialist for the Inter-American Development Bank. “I’ll still be based in Jamaica, so our family will stay three more years in a country we’ve come to love.” Her twins are in kindergarten, their older brother in first grade. She also has nine grandchildren, “inherited” when she married. She and Anne Loewenthal Shain talk regularly....Scott Keenen splits time between his new home in San Antonio, Texas, and Milton, Ga. He enjoys work and seeing

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takeaway: John Buckman ’91

who:

John Buckman ’91

media outlet: The Independent

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headline:

The battle to keep the Internet free for all

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takeaway: Anyone who writes on the Internet engages in journalism and should be protected. Internet entrepreneur John Buckman ’91 is board chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based, donor-funded nonprofit that champions the public interest in battles affecting digital rights. Particularly in the music and media industry, EFF’s positions are hard to swallow. But the bottom line, Buckman tells the U.K.’s Independent, is that the laws governing the Internet are relatively new, and it is important to carve out as much protection for free speech and freedom of activity as possible. As such, he says, “a huge amount of our effort goes into building up case law to show that journalism online should have all the same legal protections” as print journalism. Buckman defines journalist broadly, including “bloggers and citizen journalists. Essentially anyone who writes on the Internet engages in journalism, and we think should be protected.”

Reunion 2012, June 8–10 class secretary Jerry Donahoe maineescape@aol.com class president Neil Jamieson njlaw@maine.rr.com

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his kids Lexa, Daniel and Zachary grow into young adults.... Mike Lugli, a veteran of KeyBank in the Cleveland-Akron area, was named head of the Healthcare Finance Group of KeyBank Real Estate Capital.... Nancy Madsen Cummings is president of the Maine Medical Assn., “doing what we can to try to fix the broken healthcare system.”....Bob Muldoon saw Lisa Bobak at a Hartford book signing for his novel Brass Bonanza Plays Again, based on his years with the late Hartford Whalers. Rick Stern hosted a book event for Bob in Andover, and Nancy Higgins (whose nephew is the New York Rangers’ No. 1 draft pick) has also been a supporter, Bob reports....Judy Normandin and Rob look forward to an empty nest when their youngest heads to Penn and their UConn student heads to Europe for his junior year....Joe and Diane Fredericks Richerts keep busy with work, renovating their 1880 Victorian and attending kids’ activities. With daughter Katelyn college-bound, they look forward to an empty nest.... John Walker is busy with work and his daughter’s school and sports events.

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Greg Campbell, an assistant district attorney in Penobscot and Piscataquis counties for more than 20 years, was sworn in as a Maine District Court judge in Bangor by Gov. Paul LePage.... The Worcester Business Journal interviewed Lisa Farrell Wilk, president and CEO of Capaccio Environmental Engineering Inc. in Marlborough, Mass. “Our mission is to help industry and the environment prosper,” she said. “We are committed to our community and the environment as demonstrated by the numerous activities in which we are engaged.” The firm is a founding member of the Corporate Wetlands Restoration Partnership, sponsors the Assabet Valley River cleanup and participates in cleanup events for the Charles River Watershed Assn....Christian Fisher reports, “My adventures in real estate continue. Happy to see my daughter Heather ’14 enjoying Bates.”...Neil Jamieson became the first Cumberland County commissioner representing the new District 1, which includes his hometown of Scarborough, by winning a three-way race. He was an elected member of the county charter commission.

1983 Reunion 2013, June 7–9 class secretary Leigh Peltier leigh11@cox.net class president Sally Nutting Somes ssomes@netzero.com A Chronicle of Philanthropy essay by David Campbell looked at the lessons of 9/11 fundraising, specifically how established and new charities could complement each other and together solve “seemingly insurmountable problems.” David, who chairs the public administration department at the College of Community and Public Affairs at Binghamton Univ., previously was vice president for programs at the Community Service Society of New York City. He wrote that after 9/11 local nonprofits stepped away from their traditional missions and adapted quickly to respond to changed circumstances. And “new leaders and organizations brought a fresh perspective to fill the gaps left by established players.”...Carolyn Campbell-McGovern, deputy executive director of the Ivy League, was named chair of the NCAA Legislative Council for a one-year term. This is her fourth year on the council, the primary legislative body in NCAA Division I governance. Carolyn was an All-American lacrosse player at Bates....Jennifer Hyde joined the Harvard School of Public Health as the coordinator of the infectious disease epidemiology program. A former Peace Corps volunteer in the Congo, she previously worked as an environmental consultant....Providence attorney Charles Normand joined Robinson & Cole as a partner working in the firm’s health law practice....Martha Pigott Donelan is now director of development at the Community Arts Music Assn. in Santa Barbara, Calif....Maine Senate President Kevin Raye and House Minority Leader Emily Cain were named 2011 “Champions of Small Business” by the National Coalition for Capital....The Globe and Mail caught up with Louis Vachon, the head of National Bank of Canada, the country’s sixth-largest bank. “Normally found in the background of the banking sector, somewhere behind the Big Five Torontobased banks, Mr. Vachon’s little Montreal outfit has found itself front and center in the debate over the future of Canada’s largest bourse,” the newspaper said. National Bank is a key player in trying to keep the Toronto Stock Exchange Canadian-owned. Raised in Quebec, Louis said a formative moment was reading Paul Erdman’s The Billion Dollar Sure Thing in his freshman economics class at Bates. “Paul Erdman invented financial novels. It was about the financial system at

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the time, about Swiss banks and trading in currencies and trading in gold and so forth. I thought this was pretty good. And I’ve been on that track since then.”

1984 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Heidi Lovett blueoceanheidi@aol.com class president Linda Cohen linda@lscdesignstudio.com After 25 years of independent school teaching at Choate and Kingswood Oxford, Lisa Quintal Loeb joined New Haven Reads, a nonprofit that promotes literacy for children. She still lives at Choate, where husband David celebrated 25 years. Son Jonah graduated from Haverford and teaches at the Belmont Hill School. Daughter Hannah graduated from Yale this May....Jim Weissman is now chief business officer of Dicerna Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Watertown, Mass.... Steve Whetstone joined Pitney Bowes Management Services in Stamford, Conn., as vice president and legal sector leader.

1985 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class secretary Elissa Bass bass.elissa@yahoo.com class president Lisa Virello virello@comcast.net John Luddy now heads the Washington office of Aerojet, a defense and aerospace subsidiary of Rancho Cordova, Calif.-based GenCorp Inc....Hans Olsen is a managing director and head of Americas investment strategy for Barclays Wealth, based in New York....After 13 years, Colleen Quint stepped down as the executive director of the Senator George J. Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute in Portland. Mitchell praised her “for the vision and energy she has brought to this work. From her very first day, she has been a tireless advocate for Maine students and a champion for our Mitchell Scholars.” Colleen is now a special consultant to Maguire Associates, an educational consulting firm.

1986 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class co-presidents Erica Seifert Plunkett ericasplunkett@gmail.com Anne Robertson anne-tom@juno.com Bill Walsh messagebill@gmail.com Catherine Lathrop Strahan strahanc@comcast.net Mike Lawless was named a principal of Draper Aden Associ-

ates, a consulting engineering firm based in Virginia....The New York Times was among many media outlets reporting on a private meeting between President Obama and U.S. higher education leaders, including Jamie Merisotis. Jamie is president of the Lumina Foundation, which works to increase access to higher education. He moderated Bates’ Leadership Symposium on College Cost, Price and Financial Aid last fall. Jamie told the Times there seemed to be some consensus at the White House meeting that the federal government should develop policies on financial aid, its biggest tool, to spur higher graduation rates....Carolyn Ryan, who was promoted to metro editor of The New York Times last year, was quoted in a New Yorker profile of new Times executive editor Jill Abramson, the first woman to hold the job. She first worked closely with Abramson on the story that forced the resignation of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. “A lot of editors would have done the kind of Al Haig ‘We’re gonna bring down the Governor!’ routine,” Carolyn said. What struck her “was the way Jill stayed with us and asked the right questions, but she did not in any way overwhelm us.”

1987 Reunion 2012, June 8–10 class secretary Peggy Brosnahan mmb263@cornell.edu class president John Fletcher jaxfletch@gmail.com South End Patch caught up with Amy McCutcheon Keller of Kingston, Mass., who “reinvented her creative self” as a mixed-media artist. She founded Bumble Belly Designs and creates art using encaustic waxes, ephemera and her own drawings and paintings. Encaustic painting involves laying wax and pigments onto paintings, drawings or other ephemera. Amy’s textiles are custom printed and/ or hand-printed designs inspired by her children and summers on Cape Cod. “The beauty of encaustic mixed media is that the possibilities are endless,” she said. “This is both exciting and daunting.”...The Detroit Free Press quoted Marine Col. Stephanie Smith in a story about the first African American Marines, recently honored with the Congressional Gold Medal, America’s highest civilian award. Her father, Ernest Smith Jr., was one of those pioneering Marines who trained at segregated Montford Point at Camp Lejeune, N.C., and served in World War II with distinction. Fewer than 300 are still alive, including Stephanie’s father. Stephanie, who oversees the Montford Point Project at

the Pentagon, said the Marines’ “courage, perseverance and selfsacrifice” must be honored.

1988 Reunion 2013, June 7–9 class committee Mary Capaldi Carr mary.capaldi.carr@gmail.com Astrid Delfino Bernard flutistastrid@sbcglobal.net Ruth Garretson Cameron ruth.eg.cameron@gmail.com Julie Sutherland Platt julielsp@verizon.net Adrienne Terry D’Olimpio adonddo@hotmail.com Joan Bering Kennedy, president of Liberty Medical Supply Inc. in Port St. Lucie, Fla., the nation’s largest home delivery provider of diabetic supplies, was featured in TCPalm.com. Liberty expanded beyond diabetes supplies, delivering CPAP ventilation machines that treat sleep apnea, ostomy supplies, catheters and other prescription medications nationwide. “We’re branching out, taking the great service and understanding we have currently to multiple areas of medical supplies,” said Joan, who joined the company in 2010....Steve Feder is medical staff president for Lincoln County Healthcare of Maine and president of the Maine chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He and Amy Winston ’90 welcomed Josee Feder on Dec. 29, 2010.... Los Angeles Business Journal reporter Howard Fine received a Distinguished Journalist Award from the Greater LA Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists....The Seattle Times caught up with noted restaurateur Robin Leventhal, the new chef at Stopsky’s Delicatessen, a Jewish deli with a Pacific Northwest twist. Robin draws inspiration from Sephardic culture and Spanish cuisine to present such dishes as “escabeche salmon, my take on kippered salmon.” Ten percent of all retail pickle sales go to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, reflecting her life’s work: helping to find a cure for lymphoma. “It’s been seven years since my diagnosis. My Hodgkins is in remission, and my non-Hodgkins is something I’ll be fighting for the rest of my life.”...Investment strategist David Orlandella is now a newbusiness development officer for ORIX Venture Finance in its Dallas office.

1989 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Donna Waterman Douglass 4498donnad@gmail.com steering committee Sally Ehrenfried sallye@alumni.bates.edu Deb Schiavi Cote debscote@yahoo.com

Dave Cummings ’89 culminated his tribute to war veterans by shooting his millionth free throw at the Basketball Hall of Fame. “It’s never really been about the foul shots,” he said. “It’s about the gratitude.” Christey Bahn and Bruce Forstall were married May 21, 2011.... Randy Bates was elected to the Yarmouth Town Council. A member of the town planning board, he works as a criminal defense attorney at Strike, Goodwin & O’Brien in Portland....Phil Bonasia is still at Sepracor, now called Sunovion, and Pauline is at Genzyme. Austin is 14, Jackie 16.... In a Q-and-A with the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Win Brown talked about his management style as the new president and CEO of the nonprofit Heywood Hospital in Gardner, Mass. “I do rounds every day in the hospital. I’m in patient rooms. That’s the philosophy of our team. You’ve got to be accessible. My goal is to make this the easiest place for a physician to practice medicine.” Previously at Lowell General Hospital, Win went into healthcare after working in philanthropy and fundraising....David Coleman was named director of the Alkek Library’s Wittliff Collections at Texas State Univ.–San Marcos.... Mark Cromett celebrated his 20th anniversary with Starbucks. Twins Audrey and Eleanor are 6....Dave Cummings shot his millionth free throw at the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass., last Veterans Day, culminating his two-year mission to pay tribute to veterans. Widely reported in the media, his Hoops for Heroes free throws raised more than $66,000 for the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund. “It’s never really been about the foul shots,” said Dave, of Epsom, N.H. “It’s about the gratitude for the sacrifices so many of us, myself included, never have to endure.”...In October 2010, U.S. Navy Commander J.J. Cummings was selected for the Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program. After 18 months of training in nuclear engineering and reactor plant operations and safety, he will move with his family in May 2013 to Seattle for his tour as executive officer on the USS Nimitz (CVN-68), a nuclearpowered aircraft carrier based in Everett, Wash. “I am standing by to give VIP aircraft carrier tours to any Batesies who show up pier-side in Everett.” While J.J. is in training, wife Sara Hagan Cummings has started a small business with a neighbor and Spring 2012

takeaway: Pranav Ghai ’93 & Alex Rapp ’93

who:

Pranav Ghai ’93 and Alex Rapp ’93

media outlet: CFO.com

headline:

A Killer App for CFOs?

date:

March 1, 2012

takeaway:

Calcbench is a tool for small but sophisticated investors. Reporter David Rosenbaum of CFO.com highlights the prize-winning open-source financial application created by Pranav Ghai ’93 and Alex Rapp ’93. Known as Calcbench, the app won the $20,000 grand prize in the XBRL Challenge, a contest to build an application using SEC filing data. Calcbench is truly a “handy-dandy calculator,” Rosenbaum writes. Free to use at calcbench.com, the app allows users to enter a company’s ticker symbol to see a firm’s SEC filing information plus a multitude of financial categories, such as inventory and accounts payable, plus changes over time. The fledgling company is headquartered at Dogpatch Labs, a venture-funded incubator for tech startups with labs in Cambridge, Mass., and New York City, as well as Palo Alto, Calif., and Dublin. Ghai, who’s in New York, and Rapp, in Cambridge, each has access to a Dogpatch Lab. They use Skype, too. “We probably couldn’t have done this [startup] as efficiently five or 10 years ago,” Ghai says. 68

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fellow Navy wife, converting your favorite personal T-shirts into handmade fleece-backed quilts, which they’ve dubbed “quankets.” Check out acrosscountryquilts. com....Nora Demleitner, dean of Hofstra Univ.’s Law School, was honored by the Nassau County (N.Y.) court system for her commitment to justice, education and equality. In her keynote, she noted that while women attorneys, judges and prosecutors have become a staple in courtrooms and boardrooms, “we still see women underrepresented at the highest echelons of the legal profession. The legal profession is now more unequal than engineering and nonprofessional jobs for women. Curious isn’t it for a profession charged with protecting fairness and equality?”... John Gay, regional coordinator at the administrative office of the District Court Department for Western Massachusetts, was confirmed as the clerk-magistrate for Springfield District Court.... Andy Gooding, an instructor in Marshall Univ.’s Department of Integrated Science and Technology since 1999, is now director of MU’s Regents Bachelor of Arts program. Grace Tallman Gooding taught at academic camps last summer attended by children Evan (13) and Christopher (10).... Laurel Hemmer continues doing social work as a play therapist with kids in school. Kirk Upton ’88 teaches history. Jefferson is entering elementary school.... Deirdre Mills Goldenbogen and Kevin love living in the Burlington, Vt., area, with Owen (9) and Simon (2). Deirdre does a bit of consulting from home....Anne Mollerus enjoys Minneapolis and volunteers at the Guthrie Theater. Her work is chaotically fun....David Rohde was inducted into the Fryeburg (Maine) Academy Hall of Excellence. A Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter, he was a track star and editor of the school paper at Fryeburg, where he is now a trustee....In Dublin, N.H., Dan Stockwell, Heather and Woody (10) moved into a larger house in the town center. Dan “landed my dream job as a custodian at an elementary school.”...Donna Waterman Douglass enjoyed hosting a Bates senior, through the Career Discovery Internship Program, to expose her to the field of physical therapy.

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reported. The Plymouth native is a cofounder of the Cape Cod Bay Challenge, a 34-mile stand-up paddle. “We started this in 2008 with just myself and seven others, and now we’ve got 70 challengers,” David said. The paddle is a benefit for Christopher’s Haven, a nonprofit that provides housing for families of children being treated at MassGeneral Hospital for Children....Lane Bourn, of Rowley, Mass., IT services coordinator at Boston Neighborhood Network TV, was re-elected to the Triton Regional School Committee....Connie Chaplan loves her work as a full-time freelance editor with Icon Editing and Tandem Editing in Seattle, where she’s lived nearly 20 years. Daughter Sadie started middle school....Tom Denenberg is now director of the Shelburne Museum in Vermont. Portland Press Herald writer Bob Keyes said it was appropriate that Tom’s final exhibition as chief curator at the Portland Museum of Art focused on the design and genius of the Shaker community. Tom “has always favored exhibitions that explore the decorative arts. With degrees in American and New England studies, he is uniquely qualified to speak on the topic.”...Alyson Ewald spoke at Bates about “Ecovillages and Cooperative Living: An Insider’s View.” She’s an organizer, fundraiser, baker and founding member of Red Earth Farms, a 76-acre community land trust in Missouri....Thomas Goetz, executive editor at Wired Magazine, was the curator of InForm: Turning Data into Meaning, at the Adobe Museum of Digital Media. It was the inaugural exhibition of the virtual museum’s curator-in-residence program that invites guest curators to use the museum’s online exhibition space to explore groundbreaking digital work. Thomas presented an analysis of digital data from online lives, giving new meaning to the information through a series of newly commissioned and found images....Kathryn King Byrn, husband John and daughter Kelly (12) moved to Heidelberg, Germany. Kathy said John has lived in Germany before and looked forward to showing his family around....Letitia Grenier and Andrew Smith welcomed a son, Robin Kai Grenier-Smith, on July 30, 2011.

1991

Reunion 2015, June 12–14

Reunion 2016, June 10–12

class secretary Joanne Walton joannewalton2003@yahoo.com

class secretary Katie Tibbetts Morello ktmorello@alumni.bates.edu

class president Eric Knight eric_knight@verizon.net

class president John Ducker jducker1@yahoo.com

David Al-Chokhachy and his wife, Susan, welcomed a daughter, Brit Madison, on Oct. 2, 2011. The former Baywatch actor stays close to the water, The Boston Globe

Bluesman Corey Harris talked about his recent album Father Son & Mother Earth before playing a concert with his backing band, the Rasta Blues Experience, at Frank-

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lin & Marshall College. “The music is definitely a mix of things,” he told LancasterOnline. “A lot of blues, soul and African influence. It’s not purely a reggae thing. It shows how different music styles can all be one. It is all one.”...Josh Macht, group publisher at the Harvard Business Review Group, says The Boston Globe is making a mistake with its split-site Web strategy: keeping the established Boston.com free but building a new paid-only site, BostonGlobe. com, that includes the print paper’s content. A veteran of outlets like Time, Josh wrote on the Nieman Journalism Lab, “So often, we still create a false dichotomy online between paid versus free. The fact is that the two models can — and in fact must — live together in order to widen the audience and then simultaneously discover what makes your brand special online.”...Rachael Rothman, who covers the restaurant, gaming, lodging and leisure industries for Susquehanna Financial Group, was quoted by The Wall Street Transcript about Las Vegas’ rebound from the recession. In terms of Vegas casino operators, “our view on 2012 is pretty bullish,” Rachael said. A recognized expert in the field, she has been selected to The Wall Street Journal’s Best on the Street and Financial Times’ World’s Best Analysts.

1992 Reunion 2012, June 8–10 class committee Ami Berger ami_berger@hotmail.com Kristin Bierly Magendantz kristin.magendantz@trincoll.edu Kristen Downs Bruno alfredbruno@sbcglobal.net Roland Davis rdavis@bates.edu Peter Friedman peter.friedman@alum. dartmouth.org  Leyla Morrissey Bader leyla.bader@gmail.com   Jeff Mutterperl jeffmutterperl@aol.com Alison Buttrick Patton is the new pastor of Saugatuck Congregational Church in Westport, Conn. She and Craig ’91, a fiction writer and full-time parent, have two sons, Tobey (9) and Ian (6)....Lisa Genova, author of the popular novels Still Alice and Left Neglected, was the College Key Distinguished Alumna in Residence at Bates in February. Lisa, who has a doctorate in neuroscience from Harvard, is recognized for creating compelling fiction about characters afflicted with cognitive disorders. “Genova is a master of getting into the heads of her characters, relating from the inside out what it’s like to suffer from a debilitating disease,” wrote USA Today....Fawn Johnson joined National Journal Group as a correspondent in Washington

covering immigration, transportation, education and other issues....Ozzie Jones, a writer and director for stage and film, was the inaugural speaker for the college’s Dr. Benjamin Mays Alumni Lecture Series. He discussed My Block is Crazy, the 2011 documentary film he directed that examines the issue of everyday violence from the perspectives of inner-city Philadelphia youth. The project is based on the work of 20 high school students who used peer interviews to explore the causes and impact of youth violence. “It really is their voice,” said Ozzie, who sees the project as a way to give underprivileged young people the motivation and skills to improve their circumstances....Dr. Ben Lowenstein joined Mid Coast Cardiology in Brunswick....Jonathan Michaeles is the new head football coach at Colby College, where he was an assistant coach for eight years.....Amy Robbins-Wilson is an award-winning author and recording artist working to support new moms. She’s a monthly presenter on Good Day Maine’s “Positive Parenting” segment on Fox 23, in Portland. In 2010, she and her family represented Maine as the Children’s Miracle Network Champion Family, traveling to meet President Obama and to Disney, as well as all over Maine to talk about how CMN saved her son’s life twice before he turned 2....Matt Teja and wife Pamela welcomed twins Graham Lorne and Marlo Aimee on May 13, 2011....Shiloh and Cory Theberge welcomed Miles on Sept. 27, 2011.

1993 Reunion 2013, June 7–9 class secretary Kimberly Donohue Kavanaugh k.kavanaugh@alumni.bates.edu class president Madeline Yanford Gorini madelinegorini@me.com Naama Ashkenazi and David Bloom welcomed Micah Jacob on April 10, 2011. He joined Orley (2). David’s startup business drew the attention of the business media. He was the first of “31 hungry entrepreneurs” featured by BusinessInsider.com as they presented their startups to investors at TechStars’ second New York Demo Day. David is founder and CEO of Ordr.in, an online food ordering distribution service that connects restaurants anywhere with customers anywhere. A writer for TechCrunch.com said Ordr.in has partnered with 72 local food ordering sites across the U.S., which let users order from some 7,000 restaurants.... Prashant Gopal is a reporter for Bloomberg News....Jon Kropp was named to the newly created role of vice president of business operations for the Turner Sports golf portfolio....The Trudeau Institute in Saranac Lake, N.Y.,

reported that research from the laboratory of Elizabeth Leadbetter may lead to a whole new class of vaccines. Her lab discovered new properties of a potential vaccine adjuvant that suggest it could be useful for enhancing protection against a number of different infections. The data was published in the journal Nature Immunology. Liz is an assistant faculty member at the Trudeau Institute, an independent biomedical research organization that seeks to make breakthrough discoveries....The Worcester (Mass.) Telegram & Gazette profiled “baseball junkie” Chip Plante, who for more than 20 years has trekked up and down the East Coast coaching the game he loves. With his latest stop last year, his second stint with the Worcester Tornadoes, he came full circle. He grew up in nearby Webster. Chip said being back as the hitting and third-base coach with the Tornadoes is where he wants to be. “I’ll stay here until they tell me not to come back.” He started his coaching career as an assistant at Bates after a stellar playing career as the Bobcats’ closer. “By continuing to have an open mind and continuing to grow, you can always get better as a coach.” He lives in Scott, Ga., where he owns Whistlin Dixie Baseball, a baseball consulting and player development company....Sarah Woodard is now communications specialist at NRG Systems in Hinesburg, Vt., manufacturer of wind measurement equipment.... Army Capt. Madeline Yanford and Maj. Richard Gorini (West Point ’99) were married May 29, 2011. Madeline and the Batesies in her wedding party, Cheria Clow Rollins, Erica Black and Kimberly Donohue Kavanaugh, all lived in Smith Middle their first year at Bates. “Cheria and Erica were my roommates, and Kimberly was my next door neighbor. Friends for over 20 years!”

1994 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Jonathan Lilja jonathanlilja@gmail.com class president Susan Spano Piacenti susanpiacenti@cox.net

When Maureen Gwinn ’94 did an EPA science outreach project on the National Mall on Earth Day, her first students were Bates sophomores in town for the Power Shift Conference. “It was great — made my day.”

Alissa Boyd Kanwit lives in Findlay, Ohio, with husband John, an assistant professor of English at Ohio Northern Univ., Andrew (11), Graham (9) and William (5). Alissa’s in her 11th year working for Cummins and took a new role in Cummins Emission Solutions, which develops and sells systems to control engine emissions. “One of my favorite aspects of the work is spending time with people from Europe, China, Brazil, India and other parts of the world.”... Katherine Frank is now dean of the Indiana Univ. East School of Humanities and Social Sciences and a professor of English there....In her work for the EPA, Maureen Gwinn volunteers to do science education outreach. “One of the things I do often for the EPA is run a module on chemical reactions called ‘Baggie Science.’ I did it on the National Mall for the EPA Earth Day event, and my first group of students were eight sophomores from Bates in town for the Power Shift Conference! It was great — made my day.”... Anthony Ng works as the green economies strategist for the Center for Working Families, a progressive think tank in New York City....The Univ. at Buffalo’s Graduate School of Education named Amanda Nickerson director of its high-profile Jean M. Alberti Center for the Prevention of Bullying Abuse and School Violence. Amanda said she plans to turn UB into a “go to” place for the latest research and advice on bullying. She is a licensed psychologist and an expert in school crisis prevention and intervention. Her husband, Brian Nishiyama, works in UB’s administrative computing department.... May Robertson and Richard Cross welcomed their first daughter, Lily Hadden Cross, on Aug. 20, 2011....Greg Youngblood is the new head football coach at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa.

1995 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class co-secretaries Scott Marchildon smarchildon@une.edu Philip Pettis ppettis@nhlawfirm.com class co-presidents Jason Verner  jcv@nbgroup.com Deborah Nowak Verner debverner@gmail.com Robert Kaplan and his wife, Alison, have a son, Eli (2).

1996 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class co-presidents Ayesha Farag-Davis faragdavis@aol.com James D. Lowe jameslowemaine@yahoo.com Heather Benway and Matthew Arsenault welcomed Aurelia Spring 2012

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Arsenault on June 9, 2011....Mark Erelli gave a “sublime performance” at a tribute concert to the late folk troubadour Bill Morrissey at the Somerville Theatre, The Boston Globe said. Mark sang a song he composed for Morrissey that “led into a soulful rendition of Morrissey’s Birches.” Mark, the youngest singer-songwriter at the tribute, told the Globe, “Unfortunately, I’m not sure he’s had the degree of influence on my generation that I feel he should. People need to know about this guy.”...Artist Caren Frost Olmstead of Basking Ridge, N.J., hosted a community painting project for children designed to inspire artists of all levels of ability. Caren is a teaching artist for the Arts Council of the Morris Area and also teaches at The Center for Contemporary Art in Bedminster....Shilo Hutchins married Eric Finson on May 4, 2010, at Kikaua Point, Hawaii, and they welcomed son Lucas Charles Finson on July 1, 2011....Kitchen designer Sarah McKnight Steinberg of Cumberland had her own kitchen featured on the Falmouth Kitchen & Tasting Tour, which benefited Preble Street’s Maine Hunger Initiative. “It’s really just a family kitchen. It’s laid out specifically to the way I cook,” she told The Portland Press Herald. Sarah, who is married to Scott Steinberg ’86, also transformed the original dining room into a billiards room with a bar. “This is my husband’s pride and joy.”... Jane Milkey Jensen and Christopher welcomed Luke Walter on May 16, 2011....Eben Miller talked about his new book, Born Along the Color Line: The 1933 Amenia Conference and the Rise of a National Civil Rights Movement (Oxford), with the Maine Sunday Telegram. Eben, a professor of history at Southern Maine Community College, looks at how the African American civil rights advocates between the 1920s and 1950s laid the groundwork for the struggle before Martin Luther King Jr. The 30 or so attendees at the Amenia, N.Y., conference were “a good representation of this really important civil rights generation. In the wake of this conference, the leaders of the NAACP felt it imperative to create a national network of activism.”... Marketing and business strategist Arikan Olguner joined Prophet, a strategic brand and marketing consultancy, as an associate partner in its New York office.

1997 Reunion 2012, June 8–10 class co-secretaries Chris Gailey  gaileycj@gmail.com Leah Wiedmann Gailey leah.gailey@gmail.com class president Larry Ackerman larryack@hotmail.com

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Bon Appétit restaurant and drinks editor Andrew Knowlton ’97 says he “hates critics who don’t eat this or that. By your job definition you have to eat that. Someone out there is eating it.” Heather Alcock Sekiguchi and Shuhei welcomed a son, Kaito Payson Sekiguchi, on Nov. 5, 2011....Sonya Champion opened Sonya Champion Design in Newburyport, Mass., specializing in residential landscape design.... Georgia Churilla and Stephen Popper welcomed Isabel Agnes Popper on July 17, 2011....Erin Gottwald ’98 and Chris Cooper were married Jan. 1, 2011....Erik Gellman, a history professor at Roosevelt Univ. in Chicago, spoke on “The Panthers and Beyond: The Wider Vision of Black Power and Economic Justice in 1960s Chicago” at Saint Xavier Univ.’s Chicago campus....Jill Glazewski finished her residency after a rotation in Zurich, Switzerland, and now works as a psychiatrist for Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland, Ore. She also got engaged....Annalee Gunlicks Good and Colin welcomed Charlotte Bach Good on Oct. 28, 2011....Ashley Hooker and Carter Jons welcomed Lucia Coco Jons on Oct. 4, 2011.... Deb Jones Melkonian and Bill welcomed Matthew James on June 4, 2011. He joins Elizabeth (“Libby,” 2)....Andrew Knowlton, restaurant and drinks editor of Bon Appétit, told “Chicago Food Snob” Joe Campagna that Tokyo is “probably my favorite city in the world for food,” but Copenhagen is “the center of the universe for food now.” The most exciting U.S. city for food: “LA when it comes to ethnic is huge. But, if I had to go to one city right now, I’ve gotta go with San Francisco.” Andrew added, “I hate critics that have pet peeves who don’t eat this or that…by your job definition you have to eat that.”... Alison Lockwood-Nguyen and Van Nguyen welcomed Anna Lockwood Nguyen on June 12, 2011.... Beth Milburn and Andrew MacLeod were married Oct. 22, 2011....Sam Martin and his wife, Kelly Hennessy, welcomed twins William John and Owen Steven Hennessy-Martin on Dec. 2, 2011....Heidi McDonald Leveille and Brandon welcomed twins Wyatt Matthew and Mia Yvonne on Aug. 17, 2011....Lauren Newhart Bourgoing and Colin welcomed Zoe on Jan. 24, 2011.... Brewmaster Jason Perkins talked to The Portland Press Herald about the expansion of

Allagash Brewing Co. in Portland. Speaking of Mattina Rossa, a specialty ale brewed with fresh raspberries, Jason said Allagash is probably losing money on it even at $15 a bottle. “But it is what we as brewers love to do: experimenting and making new beer.”...Danford Peterson is now a managing director in municipal securities trading in Jefferies Group Inc.’s Fixed Income Division, based in New York.... Sarah Standiford of Richmond, Maine, is now regional field manager for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.... The Salem (Mass.) News talked with children’s book illustrator and author Matt Tavares, whose book Over the River and Through the Woods illustrates the poem that is as much a part of Thanksgiving as turkey. Matt also created an illustrated version of ’Twas The Night Before Christmas. He likes to add details to his pictures that create a story of their own. “There’s room to be creative around the words. You add some details to the picture so when kids are looking at the book, it draws them in.”

1998 Reunion 2013, June 7–9 class committee Rob Curtis robcurtis@eatonvance.com Douglas Beers douglas.beers@gmail.com Liam Leduc Clarke ldlc639@yahoo.com Renee Leduc Clarke rleducclarke@gmail.com Tyler Munoz tylermunoz@gmail.com Anne Decker and Steven Toomey welcomed Samuel T. Toomey on Jan. 14, 2012....Megan and Michael Ferrari welcomed Rowan on Dec. 12, 2011.... Alyson Langlois Smith and James ’96 welcomed a second daughter, Eleanor Joan, on May 9, 2011.... Renee Leduc Clarke is president-elect of Women in Aerospace, an international organization of women and men devoted to advancing women in the aerospace field. She’ll serve the president-elect role for 2012, then be president in 2013. Founded in Washington, D.C., there are also chapters in California and Florida, as well as Europe, Canada and Africa. “Big new responsibilities for me in the coming two years!”...Ruth Mills Cariani and Jeff welcomed Henry Alexander on Oct. 22, 2011.

1999 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Jennifer Lemkin Bouchard  jlemkin@alumni.bates.edu class president Jamie Ascenzo Trickett jamie.trickett@gmail.com

Julie Abrams and Mike, settled in their new house outside Hartford, welcomed Maggie in May 2011. Tom is 3....Melanie Armstrong earned a master’s in ethnomusicology this May.... Maria Barile completed a residency in radiology and started a fellowship in pediatric radiology at Children’s Hospital Boston. Emma Barile Cogswell joined the family....Liz Blackwell-Moore works in public health in substance abuse prevention. She lives in Portland with wife Wendy, Cece (6) and Jude (2)....Ian Cleary graduated from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and heads up digital strategy at Relevent, an experiential ad agency in N.Y.C. He and his wife welcomed their first child, Oona Leone Cleary, on Jan. 11, 2012.... Jennifer Coleman Fosbroke runs Boston Medical Center’s Center for Endocrinology, Diabetes, Nutrition and Weight Management. Charlie is a full-time active duty member of the Army National Guard. Cole Parker is 3. Jennifer saw Jessica Kremen-Kotlen Musiak recently....Jeff Crowder is a physician assistant working on the hospitalist service at the VA Medical Center in Augusta.... Abbey DeRocker welcomed Katherine (Kate) E. Kawecki on May 12, 2011. Kate has met Will Baschnagel, son of Josh Baschnagel ’97, and Uma Numbari, daughter of Abigail Phillips....Liza Eckblom Ringuette is at home in Colchester, Conn., with Maryanne (8), Samuel (6) and Charlie, born Sept. 19, 2010....Liz Ellsworth enjoys writing an environmental education column for a local newspaper. Andy Brownlee likes being a project engineer at Goodrich ISR in Westford, Mass....A’Llyn Ettien manages the catalog at Boston Univ.’s Medical Library. She and Nathan Meharg ’97 went to Paris for their 10th anniversary.... Christina Favretto Morris and Sean welcomed Everett John on May 19, 2011. Nicholas is 2.... Addie Fletcher Dublin and Max welcomed a second son, Wylie Shepard Dublin, in May 2011. She works as a psychiatric nurse practitioner at East Boston Neighborhood Health Center.... Karen Fletcher is going to China for the 2012–13 academic year for a project on the public health implications and global contributions of Chinese medicine and qigong. She applied for a Fulbright grant through Bates. “Bates is truly a gift that keeps giving!” ...Abigail Francis and her wife, Ana Maria Romay, welcomed Alessandra Maria Francis-Romay on Sept. 13, 2011....Becki Gasior Altman writes a column for Odewire. com, the online content for Ode Magazine, and serves on the Science and Environmental

andrew bernard ’aa Health Network board. Greg is 4 and Matty 1....Seth Guthartz, Sarah and brother Jonah welcomed Stella Robyn last October....Nate Harvey works in a large-animal practice in the Philadelphia area and teaches part time at Penn Vet School.... Jen Huck works as a veterinary surgeon at a large veterinary referral practice in Manhattan. She enjoys being back in the Northeast....Chooch and Shelley Lengieza Jewell welcomed Reed Laurence Jewell on April 17, 2011....Laura Kanniard works as a sales executive for global consumer products company Rexam and enrolled with the Integrated Institute of Nutrition to become a holistic health coach....Liz Kay got engaged to Jeremy Stachowicz on Valentine’s Day....Jason Kim finished an M.B.A. in May and rebooted himself as a management consultant for Accenture alongside other Batesies. He and Emmelyn are the parents of Vera (4) and Alex (almost 2) ....Jess Kremen-Kotlen Musiak is the director of clinical affairs for startup 480 Biomedical Inc. in Watertown, Mass. She and Bill, in business school, are the parents of Alek (nearly 6) and Jake (almost 2)....Amanda Lackey Cote, Ryan and sister Eliza welcomed Hannah Rebecca Cote on May 20, 2011....Jenn Lemkin Bouchard is busy with Grant (5), Avery (1), teaching at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Ill., and the Bates Alumni Council. Ryan ’01 is finishing an M.B.A. at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management....Betsy Levin Campbell, Tyler and Duncan now live in an 80-year-old house in her hometown of Glencoe, Ill....Susan MacBride Lynch and John welcomed Sarah Kathryn Lynch on June 10, 2011. Sadie joins Colin (3). Susan loves her work as a high school counselor in Westford, Mass....Kelsey MacMillan Banfield published her first cookbook, The Naptime Chef: Fitting Great Food into Family Life (Running Press), and is hooking up with Bates alumni groups on a book tour....Renee Marchant Grzankowski welcomed Charles Warner on Sept. 5, 2011....Amanda Martin Callen and Jeff bought a house in Natick, Mass....Beth Narcessian Elliott says Team Elliott added bull mastiff puppies Max and Ruby to the lineup....Jess Oas Welch started her own business as an independent sales representative and finished an M.B.A.... Kristin Olson Holte enjoys her work as a nurse practitioner for an ENT practice. She and Michael ’97 live in Marshfield, Mass., with Brady (5) and Keigan (3)....Chris Orpilla is pursuing two master’s at the Univ. of Central Florida DeVos Sport Business Management Program. He is also the director of financial planning and analysis

Hanging with the Degus Andrew Bernard ’11 globetrots into the research world Fledgling researcher Andrew Bernard ’11 is moving from branch to branch around the evolutionary tree. At Bates, he studied clams. Right after graduation, working under Loren Hayes ’96, he investigated a highly social Chilean rodent known as the degu. Then he counted birds in the Congo before heading east to peer into the mouths of chimps in Uganda. Going from undergraduate learning to fieldwork is sort of a Napolean Dynamite progression. It’s about skills, like how to take blood from degus, operate a bird mist net and get close enough to a chimp to take its photo. “Bates taught me how to study,” Bernard says, and working in the field “has showed me how to apply what I’ve learned.” For young scientists like Bernard, fieldwork jobs are prized opportunities to gain broad experience before hunkering down in graduate school. So, connections help grads get jobs. Bernard not only shares an alma mater with Hayes, but also the same Bates thesis adviser, Professor of Biology Will Ambrose. And Hayes, an assistant professor of biology at the University of Louisiana– Monroe who also holds appointments in two Chilean universities, was able to hire Bernard thanks to a National Science Foundation program that supports U.S. students who conduct research abroad with international scientists. After Bernard spent fall 2011 deep in the Congo forest doing a bird count — discovering notable range extensions for species like the Weyns’ weaver and the grey ground thrush — he got help from another Bates connection for his next research stint. Now in East Africa, he’s working on the long-running Kibale Chimpanzee Project under noted primate researcher Richard Wrangham. He was the doctoral adviser to Bates primate behavioralist Sonya Kahlenberg, who told Bernard about the opening on Wrangham’s team. Specifically, he’s involved with a first-of-its-kind project looking at chimpanzee tooth eruption (when teeth first are visible). “Knowing the age at which certain teeth erupt can be correlated with age at weaning and social and sexual maturation,” Bernard says. “Knowing which ages these key events happen is valuable from an evolutionary standpoint: We can make solid comparisons between humans and non-human primates.” —hjb

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takeaway: Nick Deysher ’00

who:

Nick Deysher ’00

media outlet: The Miami Herald

headline:

Preschool music teacher a hit

date:

July 18, 2011

takeaway : Good music can be appreciated by everyone, big and small.

Nick Deysher ’00 tells The Miami Herald about his path to becoming a composer and performer of children’s music. He once played in bar bands but struggled to get people interested in his music. Then he found work teaching music to kids and started performing his own songs. “Eleven years, and five albums later, I have found what I was meant to do,” he says. “I like to expose kids to all types of music — I don’t think there should be music just for kids. Good music can be appreciated by everyone, big and small.” Deysher performs under the name In the Nick of Time. He received a 2010 Gold Award for his album People, Places & Things from a nonprofit that rates children’s media products. Nick and his wife, Tracy, recently moved from South Florida back to New England.

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for the National Consortium for Academics and Sports, a sports-oriented nonprofit....Kate Osborne Munno ran the Marine Corps Marathon in D.C. and raised $6,000 for a charity that provides housing near VA hospitals so families can be near those receiving care....Allison Kupfer and Dan Poteet were married Sept. 10, 2011. She’s a managing associate in the Boston office of the Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group, an executive search firm. He’s an associate in the professional liability practice of Donovan Hatem, a Boston law firm.... Stephen Pozgay is now a branch supervisor with Multnomah County (Ore.) Library. He and Mercy, working toward a career in social work, welcomed their first child, Elinor Magdalene.... Noah Rabinowitz is teaching and raising skiers Willa (4) and Piper (2) in Colorado with wife Suzanne....Josh Rosenblum earned a master’s in physician assistant studies and works at the Springfield (Vt.) Hospital Emergency Department. Lillian is 1....Maeve Ryan is a marketing specialist in a new auxiliary unit of Mount Holyoke College.... Painter Hannah Sessions was a featured artist at Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury, Vt.... Brooklynites and others around NYC enjoying delicious and delicious-looking cookies from Emily’s Homemade — chocolate chip with sea salt, oatmeal cherry chocolate, ancho chile Valrhona — should know that the “Emily” is Emily Sigall. An art major and painter at Bates, she founded Emily’s Homemade as a way to “combine my passion for visual art and baking sweets,” having learned to cook from her mother. “My inspirations include all things New York City, fine art, fashion and great desserts.” Sourced from organic and artisanal purveyors, the fine baked goods have been featured by a number of foodie media outlets, and Emily was invited to be a guest chef at Google’s New York café last year. She also has a licensing agreement with Caldecott-winning author and illustrator Mo Willems (the Pigeon series, Knuffle Bunny) to design, create and sell cookies based on his characters. “Particularly, the cookies are being used to promote the latest Pigeon adventure, The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?”....Rebecca Skolnik is still an adult psychiatric nurse practitioner but switched to inpatient and works on a forensic unit at Riverview Psychiatric Center in Augusta. She had a blast at Disney World with Beth Katsoris Meehan.... Joanna Stavropoulos works at Merrill Lynch as a director within European Equity Sales. She welcomed Carly Nicoletta Shumway on May 22, 2011.... Peter Tilney is an attending

physician in the Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center Emergency Department. He and Kristen welcomed Maxwell Van Rensselaer Tilney on Dec. 27, 2009....Matt Velluto and Amanda welcomed Oliver Fitzgarrald Velluto on Oct. 7, 2011....Travis Woodward enjoys teaching middle school science in Arlington, Mass....Elizabeth Wray Emery and Travis ’97 welcomed Luke Campbell Emery on Sept. 19, 2011. Mae is 2....Ryad Yousuf joined Goldman Sachs in London....Wendy Zimmerman Thorpe and Tom welcomed Owen Ross in March 2011. He joined Eliza (5), Avery (4) and Charlie (2). They occasionally see Chooch and Shelley Jewell as well as Brittney Wilburn ’01 and Chad Garrett. Liz Pancoast Lanoue and Chris stopped by.

2000 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class secretary Cynthia Macht Link cynthiafriedalink@gmail.com class co-presidents Jennifer Glassman Jacobs jenniferellenjacobs@gmail.com Megan Shelley mhshelley@aol.com Katherine Aceti married Peter Baker on July 16, 2011; they’re expecting a child this spring.....Now in Denver, Matthew Bazirgan is West Coast scouting supervisor for the New York Jets of the NFL. He and Jessica Nichols Bazirgan ’01 welcomed a second son, Charlie, in September 2010.... Adam Blau is now vice president of sales at Lingoport in Boulder, Colo., which provides software localization and internationalization consulting services....The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review talked with Rick Brown, executive director of the Three Rivers Rowing Assn., a community-oriented nonprofit that promotes the benefits of rowing. When Rick, who was co-captain of the Bates rowing team, moved to Pittsburgh six years ago to take a coaching job with Three Rivers, he had only a handful of teenagers interested in learning about the sport. Now his youth program boasts more than 80 rowers. “The quality, in addition to the growth, has been really awesome to watch,” he said.... Nick Brunero, general counsel of Ener1 Inc. in New York, added the role of interim president of the energy storage technology company....Elizabeth Butt Zehr and James welcomed Ellie Victoria on May 14, 2011....Michael Costa was recently appointed director of policy, outreach and legislative affairs for the Vermont Department of Taxes....In Needham, Mass., Courtney Elf Rowe teaches private music lessons to students, including daughter Julia (4). Madeleine is 2. Courtney enjoyed getting together with Kirsten Tilney Behling, Valerie

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Weagle, Jen Winslow Thomas and John and Megan Casey McGrath ’99....Marin Magat and Ian Houseal welcomed a daughter, Wesley, on Jan. 11, 2011.... Elizabeth Hawthorne Newton and Frank Newton welcomed Laura Elizabeth Newton, born Feb. 26, 2012....Oggie IvanovaSriram and husband Raj joined the Foreign Service in 2010 and now serve as vice consuls at the U.S. Embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Emil is 3. They enjoy life in South Asia....Allyson Kelley and Tucker Bailey were married Oct. 8, 2011....Michael and Eleanor Lee Kitces welcomed Samantha on Oct. 4, 2011....Rachel Kilian earned a master’s in molecular biotechnology from the Univ. of Sydney in Australia and prepared to move home to Colorado with her husband and daughter Chloe (3)....Bonnie Warren and Jay Levine were married July 10, 2010. She’s an assistant editor at Wiley-Blackwell, an academic publisher near Boston. He’s a high school history teacher in Haverhill....Stephanie Liteplo Trafton and Ben Trafton welcomed Caroline Maggie Trafton, Feb. 20, 2012....Tracy Lyford and Nick Armstrong welcomed Mya Jean Armstrong on Aug. 30, 2011....Ted Martin and Joy welcomed Caroline Rosemary on Dec. 7, 2011....Elizabeth Merrill is a supervising psychologist at the Child and Family Institute at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City and also has a private practice. She got a dog named Barney and is training him to work with her....The local Patch profiled Matt O’Neil, chef and owner of the Blue Ox Restaurant in Lynn, Mass. Besides working 80 hours a week in his restaurant, he hosts an ESPN show, Cooking Coach, featuring “quick, straightforward segments” with high energy, which is “like what I do here,” Matt said. “I’m able to project my personality and be in front of people. That is when I am at my best.”...Kevin and Katy Marshall Purviance, Andrew (3) and dog Duke welcomed Abby to the family in September 2010. Katy is at home with the kids, and Kevin enjoys practicing dentistry. They vacationed in Acadia last summer and made a pit stop at Bates....Frances Schamberg lives in Brooklyn and works for the NYC Board of Education as a counselor in an Adult Literacy Center in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Married in 2010, she welcomed a daughter, Josephine, in February 2011....Gwen Sedney Gahnberg and Robert Gahnberg welcomed Elijah Lynch Gahnberg on Jan. 12, 2012....Lena Sene managed the presidential campaign of Idrissa Seck, a leading candidate in her home country of Senegal.... Elizabeth Sharp Broderick and Patrick Broderick welcomed Daniel Owen Broderick, Jan. 27, 2012....Andrew Watterson is now a senior consultant at

BrownFlynn in Cleveland, a corporate responsibility and sustainability consulting firm....In Portsmouth, N.H., Erika Zollett now works part time as an environmental consultant so she can spend more time with Savannah Naia, born April 9, 2011.

2001 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Noah Petro npetro@gmail.com class co-presidents Jodi Winterton Cobb jodimcobb@gmail.com Kate Hagstrom Lepore khlepore@gmail.com Sarah Wilson ’02 and Mark Annotto were married Oct. 10, 2010. John Payne ’00 officiated....Nancy Brown and Brian Kraemer were married May 7, 2011....The Brooklyn-focused Brownstoner blog interviewed Sam Charney, project executive for the real estate development firm Two Trees. He recently finished work on a residential housing conversion in the Dumbo neighborhood. Sam talked about balancing the various needs of city agencies and neighborhood groups. He said his professional “eureka!” moment came when he “discovered the developer’s role” in the process of architectural design. “I loved that the developer could play a role in all aspects of the design process, as well as the municipal approval process and construction.”...Carrie Musil and Dylan Cruess were married July 16, 2011. She is an account manager at Onlife Health Inc. of Nashville, Tenn. He is chief financial officer of TF Moran Inc. in Bedford, N.H....Jud and Alanna DeNapoli Morris and big brother Connor welcomed Rose Marion on July 23, 2011....Katherine Enfinger and Oliver Orton were married Oct. 29, 2011. She is a certified yoga instructor and developer representative for Enfinger Steele Development. He is a financial adviser with the Thomson Orton Group at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. They live in Huntsville, Ala....Kate Fink and Gareth Cheeseman were married Aug. 27, 2011. She is a student at the Univ. of Edinburgh’s School of Veterinary Medicine. He is events manager for Historic Scotland.... After earning a Ph.D. at Stanford, Kristina Godek accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at the Dartmouth School of Medicine, where she’s conducting research funded by the American Cancer Society....Amanda Newton (Bowdoin ’00) and Adrian Gray were married Aug. 20, 2011....Steve Hallas is a resident physician at Samaritan Family Medicine Resident Clinic in Corvallis, Ore.... Laura Hardester Hollender and Kevin welcomed Madeleine on March 24, 2011. She joined Mackenzie (3)....Erica Hugo and

Tom Lin were married May 28, 2011....Claire Schmitt and Stephen Mague were married April 1, 2011....Jeremy and Meredith McLean Robitaille welcomed a son, Quinn, on March 1, 2011.... Molly Metcalf joined Best Aquaculture Practices, the leading global certification program for aquaculture facilities, as business development manager for North America.... Noah Petro spoke about lunar basins, “the moon’s big bangs,” at AstroFest in Feburary in London in his capacity as a research geoscientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, where he focuses on the geology of the moon and small bodies in the solar system....Eliza Stamps and Ethan Covey were married Sept. 10, 2011. She is a visual artist in Brooklyn, who focuses on drawing and performance art. He is a freelance medical writer, editor and music critic....Victoria Wyeth spoke at the opening reception for her Bates Museum of Art exhibit, Andrew and Jamie Wyeth: Selections from the Private Collection of Victoria Browning Wyeth. The drawings, watercolors and illustrated letters were assembled from her personal collection.

2002 Reunion 2012, June 8–10 class secretary Drew Weymouth drew@weymouthtech.com class president Jay Surdukowski surdukowski@sulloway.com Marine Corps 1st Lt. Tara Businski and her helicopter squadron, based in Okinawa, took part in international training in Guam, South Korea and the Phillipines....Anna Christopher and Tony Perret-Gentil were married Aug. 6, 2011....John Dubzinski took over as head football coach at Arlington (Mass.) High School. He is a guidance counselor at an Everett middle school....Ryan Fitzgerald and Michaela Tiffany welcomed Liam Peter Fitzgerald on May 31, 2011. He joins big sister Anna (2)....Bridget Huber was awarded a Kaiser Permanente Health Policy Journalism Fellowship, as she pursues a dual degree in public health and journalism at Berkeley. She plans to produce an in-depth story on the effects of farmworkers’ exposure to pesticides....Margaret WinterkornMeikle and Matt Meyers were married Oct. 15, 2011. She is a law clerk for a federal judge in Brooklyn. He is a general editor on ESPN The Magazine and ESPN Insider, focusing on baseball.... Alexis Rubin and Evan Woolley were married July 16, 2011. She is a social studies teacher at Explore Charter School, an elementary school in Brooklyn. He works in Brooklyn as a vice president for investments at Revere Capital....Kristin Smith

Pangallo received a Ph.D. in chemical oceanography from the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, was a postdoctoral fellow in the biochemistry department at Rutgers and is now an assistant professor of chemistry at Colgate....The Springfield (Mass.) Republican talked with singer-songwriter Matt Szlachetka, whose L.A.based Northstar Session band toured New England in support of its third album, Late Bloomer, including a stop at the Irish Twins Pub in Lewiston. The band has appeared on the NBC show Parenthood. Music Connection Magazine said Late Bloomer “delights listeners with catchy choruses and complex arrangements brimming with surprising, yet refreshing, rhythmic turns.”...The Alaska Star of Eagle River, near Anchorage, noted the appearance of a “new resident in the children’s area of the Chugiak-Eagle River Library. A sweet-faced, multi-colored dragon floats over the bookshelves, chasing stars.” The banner is a memorial to Jessie Withrow, who was killed on July 4, 2000, by a drunk driver while riding her bicycle near her Anchorage home. Her mother, Wendy, commissioned the artwork, which was created by artist Amy Meissner. “Jessie had a lovely imagination and loved fantasy novels,” Meissner said. “A dragon seemed to suit the magical kind of person she was.”

2003 Reunion 2013, June 7–9 class co-presidents Kirstin McCarthy kirstinmccarthy@yahoo.com Melissa Wilcox Yanagi melissa.yanagi@staples.com Hilary Benson and Asaph Glosser ’02 welcomed Ari Benson Glosser on Oct. 13, 2011. He joins big brother Eli.... The Newburyport (Mass.) Daily News profiled Alexis Curry Fox, state director of the Humane Society of the United States, who discussed working on new laws to protect animals, investigating farming procedures and answering questions on how to help injured animals. “The spectrum of animals that I talk about in a day is amazingly varied. This is my dream job,” she said. Alexis and husband Jesse Fox live in Newbury, halfway between Boston, where she spends much of her time with lawmakers on Beacon Hill, and Newmarket, N.H., where Jesse creates custom bicycles at Independent Fabrications....Perimeter Gallery in Belfast, Maine, presented a show of mixed media work by Aidan Sofia Earle. She’s working on an M.F.A. at Brooklyn College....The Pacifica (Calif.) Tribune quoted Elizabeth Fatum, an educator and technical theater designer at IBP Associates in the San Francisco Bay Area, who works

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in theater “as a vehicle to bring forward ideas and topics that would otherwise not be seen.” She wrote and directed Coping Through Pain, a one-act play about self-injury, which was produced by the Pacifica Spindrift Players....Sarah Kellar and Nicholas Hvozda (U.S. Naval Academy ’04) were married Aug. 7, 2010.... The Portland Press Herald noted Mike Masi’s success as coach of the boys soccer team at York High School, his alma mater. After winning only two games in 2009 before Mike took over, the Wildcats were 10-7-1 in 2010 and 13-2-2 in 2011, narrowly losing in the Western Class B title game. Mike teaches physical science and astronomy at Oyster River High School in Durham, N.H.... Kymberly Menton and Jason Cheever were married Nov. 11, 2011. She is an application analyst at Concord (N.H.) Hospital. He is a communication technician at Comcast....KellyAnn Kelder and Tim O’Neill were married June 11, 2011. Tim, working on his dissertation at the Univ. of Delaware, received an NSF grant enabling him to spend eight months in Madagascar, studying the practically unstudied Betsimisaraka Malagasy dialect.... Abigail Poe is deputy director of the Center for International Policy in Washington, D.C., which advocates a U.S. foreign policy that promotes international cooperation, demilitarization and respect for human rights.... Whitney Roddy and Mark Pojednic were married June 11, 2011. She is vice president at Whitney H. Roddy Inc. He is a financial adviser with Wells Fargo Advisors....Ashley Paddock and David Rice announced their engagement. She works as a news editor at Laurin Publishing Co. in Pittsfield, Mass. He’s a financial adviser at RBC Wealth Management....Melissa Wilcox Yanagi and Tad welcomed Jack David on Aug. 8, 2011.

2004 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class co-presidents Eduardo Crespo ecrespo@alumni.bates.edu Tanya Schwartz   tanya.schwartz@gmail.com Johanna Nolan ’05 and John Anderson were married Sept. 4, 2010....Paul Brunetti was the student commencement speaker at the UMaine Law School graduation....Tim Cooke is Web content editor for the nonprofit Ida Institute near Copenhagen, Denmark, which seeks to foster a better understanding of the human dynamics associated with hearing loss....Christina Doukeris is engaged to Nick Superina....Abigail Raymond ’05 and Brad Frost were married June 11, 2011. Abigail, who has master’s in language and literacy from Harvard and in urban 74

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teaching from Simmons, is the reading liaison at the Boston Collegiate Charter School. Brad is an account executive at the Courion Corp. The two did not meet until 2008, when they were both seated at the “singles” table at a wedding of mutual friends from Bates, according to their New York Times wedding announcement....Lori Jessup and Michael Lombardo were married July 9, 2011....Dominic Lee loves teaching middle and high school math at Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, Md. Playing competitive golf, he won his flight in six tournaments on the Golf Channel Amateur Tour and one tournament for the Virginia State Golf Assn. He was invited to nationals for the GCAT and passed the PGA’s Player Ability Test....Rachael Madden-Connor earned a master’s in community counseling. Her goal is to become a licensed clinical counselor in her native California....Kim Devine (Colby ’06) and John McDevitt were married Aug. 7, 2011....Brent Mann completed an M.S. in bio-organic chemistry and is now director of research and development at GU Energy Labs, a Bay-area sports nutrition company....Sarah Beth Jones and Tim Talbot were married April 30, 2011. She is a vice president at GroupM ESP, an entertainment and sports partnership consultancy in New York. He is the clinical research coordinator of the leukemia-hematology service at Memorial SloanKettering Cancer Center in New York....Jenny Tierney and Paige Contreras-Gould (Bowdoin ’04) were married in June 2011.

2005 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class co-presidents Larry Handerhan larry.handerhan@gmail.com Sarah Neukom sneukom@alumni.bates.edu “Ecuador is a great place,” reported Siri Berman, who is teaching psychology and theory of knowledge at the American School of Quito. She previously earned a master’s in international learning styles and traveled for a year through Central America, South Korea and back to New Zealand, a place she fell in love with during her Bates semester abroad....Billie Hirsch ’07 and Chris Cary were married Sept. 10, 2011....Eli Clifton is a national security reporter for ThinkProgress.org....Ryan Conrad spoke at the first Bates Pride Festival, analyzing from a queer perspective the rights-based discourse used by the national campaigns for gay marriage. He started a Ph.D. at Concordia Univ. in Montreal in its interdisciplinary humanities program.... Robinson Players alumna Molly Coogan returned to Bates to

talk about her work as an actor, writer, musician, director and producer. Her musical Stairway to Stardom (based on the 1984 public access TV show of the same name), which she wrote, directed and performed in, was produced by Ars Nova and included in ANT Fest 2011. She is a contributing writer and cast member of the award-winning webseries Hot Mess; her album Dropping Anchor was released in 2011; and her music video for her song It Could Be appeared in film festivals throughout the U.S....Erin Johnson ’07 and Chris Felton were married Sept. 24, 2011....Peter Friedman, a teacher, coach and social entrepreneur in Boston, took part in a panel at the Univ. of Notre Dame on discerning vocation. Peter is the founder of Triskallian Tours, organizing and leading creative service-learning adventure trips for high school students across Latin America....Kristin Gerard and Calvin Bensch were married Oct. 30, 2010.... Robert Gomez was Maine’s fastest finisher at the 2011 Boston Marathon, placing 35th among men. He works at General Dynamics in Saco while pursuing a master’s in organic chemistry at UMaine....The creative work of photographer Ryan Heffernan has been the focus of visual communications media outlets. Communication Arts devoted one of its Fresh profiles to Ryan and his portfolio, and he was also featured in Digital Photo Pro’s Emerging Pro Competition in 2011. His credits include National Geographic, GQ, Outside, Men’s Journal, Time, Runner’s World Magazine and Backpacker Magazine. Ryan began his serious photography work at Bates, where he was a studio art major and contributed a photo essay to Bates Magazine about his experience with the Somali immigrant community in Lewiston. He told Communication Arts, “I love to wander and explore the world through a lens.”...Erin Culbreth ’06 and Sam Hotchkiss, who were married May 28, 2011, live in Chapel Hill, N.C., where he’s completing an M.B.A. at UNC.... Kate Kemp and John Malcuit announced their engagement. She works as a senior consultant at IBM Global Business Services. He is a senior specialty sales representative at Daiichi Sankyo. They live in Washington....While working full time at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Angela Knox completed a master’s at Northeastern Univ. in project management, specializing in clinical trial design. She accepted a graduate-level adjunct lecturer position at the university. “The future really does belong to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams,” she said....Haley Lieberman, a costume designer for stage and film, lives in New York and works throughout the country since

earning an M.F.A. from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She had her Lincoln Center debut at the Juilliard School and received an Opera America/Robert L.B. Tobin Director-Designer Showcase award....Emily Vargyas and Kevin Madden announced their engagement. She is a research analyst for the education consulting firm Eduventures in its Schools of Education Learning Collaborative. He is an associate in the Boston office of Bingham McCutchen LLP....Alison Pennelli and Matt Lawler were married Oct. 30, 2010.... Fiddler Julia Plumb played at a contradance at Bates with her band Playgroup. Julia, who also sings and plays banjo, also performs solo and with the bands Velocipede and Bitter Mountain Stringband....Jason Rafferty received the Intellectual Contribution/Faculty Tribute Award at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He returned to Harvard Medical School to continue his final year of training as a pediatrician....Daniel Vannoni and two other MIT graduate students won the $200,000 MIT Clean Energy Prize with the Cool Chip Technologies team, a company designing and building new heat sinks for computer processor chips. The competition, sponsored by Massachusetts utility company NSTAR and the U.S. Department of Energy, drew 80 entries from 47 universities. Daniel, who earned an M.B.A. at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, also was named board chairman of the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition....Cynthia Tufaro Verhave and Alex welcomed Isabel on Sept. 12, 2011....Allison Wensley is completing a Ph.D. at Boston Univ., focusing on the synthesis of natural products.

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 Will Boe-Wiegaard officially became a world-ranked player on the Assn. of Tennis Professionals circuit by defeating No. 399 Fabrice Martin in a tournament in France. Will, NCAA Division III singles champ during his senior year at Bates, was a pre-med major in biochemistry but decided to hold off on medical school and try to become a world-ranked pro player. Various ailments sidelined him. “It’s been a very long road for me to learn how to manage stress, pressure and my own perfectionism,” Will told Hersam Acorn Newspapers. “I’m not saying I have it mastered, but I’ve definitely had a breakthrough

recently, and it’s bearing results.” He gives special thanks to Bates coach Paul Gastonguay ’89. “Without the guidance of this man I would most definitely not be where I am now.”...Chelsea Cook and Jonathan DeCarlo were married Oct. 9, 2011. She is a teacher at Ivy Mount School in Rockville, Md. He is an associate attorney with the law office of Jason Cleckner in College Park....Aarjan Dixit is a research analyst at World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C., working on adaptation and vulnerability to climate change.... Keelin Godsey took fifth place in the women’s hammer throw at the Pan-American Games in Mexico. Keelin was an AllAmerican and two-time NCAA champion at Bates....Haley Johnson retired as an Olympic biathlete. Haley, who competed in the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, most recently was a member of the U.S. World Cup Team. She began her career as an alpine skier, then switched to cross country. She attended Bates for two years before putting her schooling on hold to pursue the sport of biathlon. Haley told the Adirondack Enterprise she was moving to Colorado with her fiance and returning to school.... Trevor Margraf, who has taught public high school in New York City, spoke at Bates on school reform.…Meghan Getz ’07 and Michael Metzger were married May 30, 2010....Alexandra Porr and Lev Mazeres (West Point ’05) were married June 13, 2010.... Sarah Buck (Skidmore ’06) and Johnny Ritzo were married Aug. 6, 2011. She teaches science and math at Merriconeag Waldorf High School in New Gloucester. He works for Energy Circle LLC, a software company in Freeport.... Jenna Vendil, a grassroots organizer for Planned Parenthood of New England and an elected member of the Portland School Committee, was recognized as one of “Maine’s emerging leaders” in MaineToday Media’s first Forty under 40 event. She has “made her mark in the Portland area and beyond through her political advocacy, inspiring leadership, and determination,” the Press Herald said. Jenna was living with her single mother and older sister when they were evicted from their home during her senior year of high school in Daly City, Calif. But she earned her diploma and landed a full scholarship to Bates. “I wanted to spend time in a different part of the world, and Bates had a strong service-learning component, great academics and community service.” In 2009, she was elected to Portland’s school board. “I have always been concerned with public education because it was such a difference-maker in my life,” she said....Ashley Wentworth and Zachary Kernan announced

their engagement. She is a family physician at McKay Dee Hospital in Ogden, Utah. He is a doctor of physical therapy at Mountainland Rehabilitation.... Kristen Fries ’07 and Sarah Wilson announced their engagement. Kristen farms at Tracy’s Community Farm in Fitzwilliam, N.H., and works in a preschool in the off-season. Sarah also farms at Tracy’s and works as a tax professional for H&R Block.

2007 Reunion 2012, June 8–10 class co-presidents Keith Kearney kdkearney@gmail.com Rakhshan Zahid rakhshan.zahid@gmail.com Aina Begim, a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at Yale, gave a lecture at Bates on “Finance, Religion and the State in PostSocialist Kazakhstan.”...Katie Boccard and William Pearce were married Oct. 8, 2011.... Molly Lanigan and George Carr were married Jan. 28, 2012.... Will Hereford of Brooklyn, N.Y., a photographer and cinematographer, was nominated for an award from the International Assn. of Culinary Professionals for his video series Saveur’s “Sandwich Stories.”...Lauren Jacobs is a coach at the Maine Winter Sports Center in Aroostook County, responsible for community development projects in Northern Maine.... Hannah Meyer and Len White announced their engagement. She’s working on a master’s in nonprofit management at Northeastern and is a development coordinator at the Vermont Institute of Natural Science in Quechee. He’s a student at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business....Brooke Miller and Nik Amyx were married June 23, 2011....The Andover (Mass.) Townsman caught up with Nels Nelson, who is working in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, on creating an 89-acre landfill. His work is paid by a Fulbright grant. “We hope that the project is finished by May 2012, and then we will begin a city-wide recycling program in order to limit the amount of waste that enters the new landfill,” he said.... Courtney O’Farrell Shirley received a Ph.D. in biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology from the Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine. Courtney’s research focuses on repurposing FDAapproved pharmacologic agents to treat viral-associated cancers. Courtney now works as an Oncology Research Fellow at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins to further develop novel treatments for hematologic malignancies....Sarah Sprague was excited to start at Harvard Graduate School of Education in learning and teaching with an

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emphasis on instructional leadership in science education. She reconnected with David Miller ’08, who is pursuing the same degree, Jessie Ricker, Jen Rasmussen and Ashleigh Coren.... Christopher Theile is pursuing a Ph.D. at Boston College, where his research focuses on the synthesis of modified DNA and RNA nucleosides, mixing organic chemistry and chemical biology. Christopher presented his research at a conference in Rostock, Germany, this spring and hopes to finish his doctoral studies this summer.

2008 Reunion 2013, June 7–9 class co-presidents Elizabeth Murphy elizabeth.jayne.m@gmail.com Alison Schwartz alisonrose.schwartz@gmail.com

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The idea is to empower people to grow their own food. Ellen Sabina ’09 is the volunteer leader of a community effort to create a vegetable garden at a food bank in Port Townsend, Wash. “The idea is to provide some fresh produce and plant starts for food bank clientele and to empower people to grow their own food,” Sabina says. The project includes a hoop-house-style greenhouse for growing tomatoes and a seed germination box for salad greens. Garden organizers surveyed food bank regulars asking if they were interested and willing to help in the food bank garden. The result: a list of 20 people who want to lend a hand. Sabina’s day job, meanwhile, is with the Jefferson County LandWorks Collaborative in Port Townsend, where she coordinates a network of farmers and landowners seeking to keep rural land economically viable.

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Emma Arenstam is a dance instructor at Studio 48 Performing Arts Center in Brunswick and choreographs and leads the Studio 48 award-winning dance competition team Dance Evolution. She also teaches dance at Thornton Academy in Saco.... Ariel Childs and Jesse Seamon were married Aug. 13, 2011. She works as the coordinator of women’s health equity programs at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He is a research technician in neuroanatomy at the Boston Univ. School of Medicine....Drew Drabek is a pigment chemist in the research and development department at E Ink Corp. in Cambridge, Mass....Actor-playwright Sam Leichter returned to Bates for the Robinson Players’ production of his play The Pond, which The Huffington Post called “magnificent” when it was presented at the 2011 Bay Area One Acts Festival in San Francisco. The Post critic was “deeply impressed” by Sam’s 2010 festival play, The Philadelphians, a tense and sometimes violent drama. The Pond, another twocharacter drama, concerns a pregnant nurse waiting at home in rural Maine for her husband to return from a business trip. “The Pond is a magnificent piece of dramatic writing. Based on what I’ve seen so far in The Philadelphians and The Pond, Leichter is far ahead of most young playwrights when it comes to ‘peeling the onion’ to heighten dramatic tension,” the Post critic wrote. Sam, who has performed with some of the top San Francisco Bay Area theaters, is pursuing his M.F.A. in acting at Rutgers....Emily Maistrellis began a two-year master of science program at the Harvard School of Public Health. Working for Jhpiego, an international public health organization affiliated with Johns Hopkins Univ., she traveled to Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2010 to

work on maternal and child health....Sally Pendergast and Pressly McCance were married Aug. 13, 2011. She teaches at Firefly Autism in Denver. He works at Brown Brothers Harriman....Jack Murphy lives in Philadelphia and works as a secondary science teacher and rock climbing instructor at Solebury School in New Hope, Pa. He was a Peace Corps education volunteer in Lesotho, then traveled with Mira David ’09 through the Middle East.... The Lewiston Sun Journal visited Tree Street Youth, a downtown summer camp program for underserved youngsters founded by Julia Sleeper. Julia, who has worked with Lewiston youth since graduation, planned the camp with Kim Sullivan ’13. Four Bates student interns lead activities and games that focus on literacy, recreation and art. Campers also learn good student habits like raising their hands for questions and respecting others. Julia’s budget is about $20,000, raised from donations and grants from Bates, Trinity Episcopal Church and others. Her master’s thesis adviser, Betty Robinson, recalled Julia’s determination. “She said, ‘I found this great place. I just have to find the money. I have to get the people,’” Robinson said. “And here it is. I’m so impressed.”...Katelyn Provencher is completing a doctor of physical therapy program at the Univ. of New England. Molly Wagner, a physician assistant student at Franklin Pierce Univ., was recognized by Cambridge Who’s Who for her dedication, leadership and excellence in healthcare. She has two years of experience studying and treating patients as part of her coursework....Madeline Weber is pursuing graduate work in inorganic chemistry at the Univ. of California, Santa Barbara.

2009 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class co-presidents Timothy Gay timothy.s.gay@gmail.com Arsalan Suhail arsalansuhail@gmail.com The Town Times of Durham, Conn., interviewed Andie Bisceglia about her work as an intern at Broadturn Farm in Scarborough, Maine, where she learned more about organic farming through a program sponsored by the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Assn. Andie said, “My dream is to teach organic farming and gardening in a school. I love how organic farming connects people and creates a sense of community.”...The Lewiston Sun Journal spotlighted the bronzemedal performance by former Bates All-American skier Sylvan Ellefson at the U.S. Cross

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Country Ski Championships at Black Mountain in Rumford. “I love the course. I came in with a lot of confidence from having skied here so many years,” Sylvan said. He won his medal, his first at a national meet, in the 15-kilometer freestyle.... Sam Evans-Brown’s work as a news correspondent for New Hampshire Public Radio has included producing an oral history project of the state’s new Americans from Bhutan....Kolby Hume teaches world cultures and assists with theater productions at Coe-Brown Northwood Academy in Northwood, N.H.... Jessie Sawyer marked her first anniversary of running the community online news site Avon (Conn.) Patch. “Our logo has blades of grass, and while we don’t specialize in horticulture, a patch is small, but growing. The grass is local and so is our news,” she writes....Madeline White and Leslie Wade were married July 23, 2011.

2010 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class co-presidents Brianna Bakow  brianna.bakow@gmail.com  Vantiel Elizabeth Duncan  vantielelizabeth.duncan@ gmail.com

Justin Medeiros ’10 teaches physical education and health at his old high school. “I remember saying when I was in high school that there’s nothing to do here, but I was wrong.” Mallory Ayres is a writer and editor in the Denver area and assistant editor at the outdoor gear website ActiveJunky.com....After a year as a Bates admission counselor, Marshall Hatch returned home to Chicago, planning to volunteer for President Obama’s re-election campaign, do some service work with his father at their church and prepare for the law school admission process.... Daniela Jaeckel was promoted to senior analyst at Chatham Partners in Waltham, Mass., which provides research to financial services firms....The Yarmouth (Mass.) Register caught up with Justin Medeiros, who teaches physical education and health at his old high school, Dennis-Yarmouth. “I feel very lucky to have the job I have,” he said. “Being colleagues with my former teachers gives me a fantastic support group. I remember saying when I was in high school that there’s nothing to do here, but I was wrong. If you’re

looking hard enough and you want to do it, you can find a way to come back.”...Former Bates admission counselor Naima Murphy is now an assistant dean of admission at American Univ. in Washington, D.C.... Hannah Roebuck is at Dartmouth researching metal-contaminated Superfund sites. “The work is in the realm of ecotoxicology and is focused around the fate of metal contaminants in aquatic food webs,” she says. “I am working on a study of copper, zinc, cadmium and lead concentrations in the Callahan Mine site in Brooksville, Maine, as well as evaluating mercury levels in the tributaries of Lake Sunapee, N.H.” Spare time is taken up with classes, both curricular (statistics) and extracurricular (tango)....Over three years as a Bates student, Alexandra Strada photographed residents of an Auburn nursing home. One photo, “Josephine,” won her a 2011 InFocus Photography Award, established to support emerging photographers. Alex, who works as associate photo editor for Time Out New York, has shown her work at the National Museum of Iceland and the Gerald Peters Galleries in New York City and Santa Fe, N.M. “Josephine” (the subject’s family name remains confidential) was also among Alex’s images in Bates’ 2010 Senior Exhibition. “I photographed the objects that residents brought with them to what’s potentially the last room they’ll ever live in. I was so surprised by what I found, and so excited by these little details that see only so many eyes.”

2011 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class co-presidents Theodore Sutherland theodoresutherland89@gmail.com  Patrick Williams dapatch20002000@yahoo.com Afroz Baig is a workforce project coordinator for the Sonoma County (Calif.) Economic Development Board....Artist Clyde Bango, who is from Zimbabwe, had a one-man show of his work at The Museum of African Culture in Portland. His wire sculptures feature portraits, figures and 3D sculptures. His wire tree in the show honors the late Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai....In a letter to the Cape Cod Times, Diane Brackett weighed in on the issue of censorship, picking up on a previous comment that a local performance of a Greek tragedy was “a classic” and not, e.g., The Vagina Monologues. Diane wrote, “As if The Vagina Monologues should be censored instead? I first saw Eve Ensler’s play as a sophomore at Bates College. A student-led production, it was one of the most open, honest and refreshing experiences of my college career. It was what I hoped for in a liberal arts education. It contributed to my growing interest in women’s health and well-being. The point is that censorship is not the answer.”... Ross Brockman, Ben Manter and Tyler Mosher are working hard on their startup, Downeast Cider. “It’s good,” Ross reported during a MaineToday.com video story capturing the first sips of their hard cider fresh from the

keg at a brewpub in Waterville, where Downeast Cider is brewed. “I mean, we knew it was good. But you wonder how it’s going to pour the first time.” Reporter Katy England of The Maine Edge says many ciders on the market are either dry and light, like a sparkling wine, or heavy and sweet, like pub ciders. Downeast Cider is “crisp and tart, like real cider.” In other words, you can quaff it. Downeast Cider can be found in a number of Maine watering holes and it’s coming soon to the Blue Goose and The Cage....In her debut blog post as an intern for PBS’ NOVA, Sarah Charley explained the Heisenberg uncertainty principle using an old joke and a few apt similes that show how an electron can sometimes be like a “sheet crumpled into a ball” and other times like a “quilt spread across a bed.” The joke: Professor Werner Heisenberg is speeding down the highway when a cop pulls him over and asks, “Excuse me, sir, do you know how fast you were going?” Heisenberg responds, “No, but I know exactly where I am!”...Drew Gallagher teaches in Washington, D.C., with Teach For America....Kirsten Laaspere works in the End-User Experience group at Fidelity Investments in Boston....Kaitlyn McEnroe joined the Washington College field hockey team in Chestertown, Md., as an assistant coach....Marta Solomianko was an artist in residence at CELLspace gallery in San Francisco, where she had her first solo exhibition, Sports For the Masses, featuring works on paper and canvas....Ada Tadmor teaches in Denver with Teach For America.

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Please email your high resolution digital Bates group wedding photo to magazine@bates.edu. Please identify all people and their class years, and include the wedding date, location, and any other news. Wedding photos are published in the order received. Johanna Nolan ’05 and John Anderson ’04, Sept. 4, 2010, Peaks Island, Maine. David Barlow ’79, Rebecca Herzig, Aaron Putnam ’04, John and Johanna, Jess Perrie ’05; bottom: Elizabeth Gordon Weeks ’05, Elise Duggan ’05. Angela Cheng and Eric Eckelman ’94, Oct. 2, 2010, Candlewood Lake, Conn. Sabrina Martin ’94, Jeb Wilson ’95, Angela and Eric, Miriam Sohn ’95, Elizabeth Gordon, Jesse Gordon ’95. Rebecca Garrison and Joshua Grubman ’05, Oct. 9, 2010, Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, Mass. Front row: Ritchie Garrison ’73, Carla Johnson Garrison ’73, Rebecca and Josh; back row: Eric Batscha ’05, Whitney Sheen ’05, Dave Charron ’05, Nicole Langelier ’05, Kathryn McKellar, Russell Anderson ’05, Joe Clough ’05. Kristin Whiting ’03 and Peter Mantius (Trinity ’99), Oct. 24, 2009, Hopkinton, N.H. Front: Allison Riesel ’03, Kelley Kugel ’04, Sean Siff ’05, Laura Davenport Rollins ’00, Elizabeth Whiting ’01, Cami Dyson ’04; back: Sarah Levine ’04, Liz Lawler ’03, Dave Meyer ’03, Tom Rollins ’00, Carla Flaherty ’03, Annie Whiting ’06, Kristin and Peter, Ginger Walsh Larsen ’03, Anna Wulffleff Marley ’01, Heath Huston ’01, Jen Googins-Huston ’01, Sarah Huffman Jarvis ’02, Ryan Jarvis ’00. Meghan Getz ’07 and Michael Metzger ’06, May 30, 2010, Washington D.C. Front row: Ryan Creighton ’07, Sam Metzger ’14, Mike and Meghan, Lauren Gold ’07, Meredith Sallee Qua ’07, Sarah Buss ’07, Windy Black Jansen ’07, Courtney 78

O’Farrell Shirley ’07; back row: Alex Chou ’07, Emily Howieson ’08, Jeanethe Falvey ’07, Will Hornick ’07, Tori Finkle ’06, Chelsea Cook ’06, Jon DeCarlo ’06, Nate Hubbell ’06, Cynthia Mauer ’06, Fisher Qua ’06, Dylan Morris ’07, Lou Dennig ’07, Dustin Jansen ’06; middle row: Leon Hurwitz ’65, Taimur Khan ’07, Cali LanzaWeil ’06, Andrea Wolf ’06, Ali Neubauer ’07, Stephanie Beauvais ’07, Melissa Chen ’07, Kathryn Doherty ’07. Madeline Yanford ’93 and Richard Gorini (West Point ’99), May 29, 2011, Southwick, Mass. Zohra Saifee Haziq ’93, Erica Black ’93, Mary Jane Call ’93, Cheria Clow Rollins ’93, Madeline and Richard, Janine Henry McNulty ’93, Tamara Lee Pinard ’93, Michael McNulty ’92, Kimberly Donohue Kavanaugh ’93, Rachel Snow Kindseth ’93, Christine Randall Collins ’93. KellyAnn Kelder and Tim O’Neill ’03, June 11, 2011, Pocono Manor, Pa. Tim Jones ’03, Syrah Merkow McGivern ’03, Drew Himsworth ’03, KellyAnn and Tim, Michelle Gomperts Kirby ’05, Jack Kirby ’05, Andrew Akre ’04. Eleanor Lee ’00 and Michael Kitces ’00, Aug. 14, 2010, Washington, D.C. Trevor Goodyear ’00, Alia Goodyear, Sherard Ware ’99, Eric Klose ’03, Holly Scheuhing Klose ’01, Nancy Akin ’99, Trevor Stevenson ’00, John Furukawa ’00, Dominic Lee ’04, Kathryn Kiss Kruger ’99, Meg Raymond Meffen ’01, Allastair Meffen, Eleanor and Michael. Not pictured: Ben Jackson ’02. I Mollie Chamberlain ’01 and Greg Hurley ’02, Aug. 14, 2010, Ocean View Inn and Resort, Gloucester, Mass. Front row: Adam Stern ’02, Paul Zinn ’01, Jessica Ames Balicki ’01, Heather McCormick ’01, Sarah Kaufman ’01, Carolyn Reamer Blicharz ’01, Mollie and Greg, Dan Spector ’02, Meredith Katter ’04, Kate Humphrey ’02; back row: Dave Hurley ’05, Scott Balicki ’01, Drew Blicharz ’00, Drew Weymouth ’02,

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Jaime Sawler ’02, Ryan Deery ’02. Not pictured: Michael Tully ’01, Katherine Saegh Tully ’01. Nicole Aronski (St. Lawrence ’06) and Jeremiah Vernon ’06, Sept. 18, 2010, New London, N.H. Front row: Alex Wenger ’06, Jonathan Duchette ’06, Ben Leoni ’05, Helen Minsky ’06, Jeremiah, Arrolyn Hayes Vernon ’49, Nicole, Maria Jenness ’07, Julia Simons ’06, Lissa Moses ’06, Kristin McCurdy Motley ’06, Rachel Sorlien ’06; second row: Matthew Lambek ’06, John McNulty ’06, Brooks Motley ’06, Nate Purinton ’06, Nick Martin ’05, Adam Roux ’06, Pete Keays ’06, Molly Marquand ’06, Brian Dupee ’06, Gabrielle Voeller ’06, Tobias Fischer ’06, Whitney Warren ’06, Colin Hollister ’06, Pennie Taylor ’06, Justin Graves ’06. Sarah Buck (Skidmore ’06) and Johnny Ritzo ’06, Aug. 6, 2011, Biddeford Pool, Maine. Front row: Brooke Dennee-Sommers ’07, James Pelletier ’07, Sean Caplice ’06, Sarah and Johnny; middle row: Sarah Drosdik ’07, Sarah Willhoite ’06, Susy Hawes ’08, Katie Cohen ’08, Anna Schechter ’06, Machias Schoen ’06; back row: Megan Friend Hildebrand ’03, Jake Hardy ’08, Pete Goldsborough ’06, Andrew Foukal ’06, Matt Gerety ’06, Sawyer Fahy ’06. I Erica Hugo and Tom Lin ’01, May 28, 2011, Rookery Building, Chicago. Thuy Nguyen, Trung Huyn Nguyen ’02, Mark Annotto ’01, Sarah Wilson ’02, Navneet Gautam, Joselle Deocampo ’01, Erica and Tom, Shaun Tamprateep, Rosa Lin ’00, Carolyn Chew ’01, Marco Mastrapasqua.

Kellar ’03 & Hvozda Sarah Kellar ’03 and Nicholas Hvozda (U.S. Naval Academy ’04), Aug. 7, 2010, New Paltz, N.Y. Asad Butt ’01, Libby McConnell ’04, Rachel Kellar ’06, Tad Curtz ’02, Molly Watson ’04, Sarah and Nicholas, Leah Drew ’03, Leora Seri ’03, Meghan Cochrane ’06, Henry Crosby ’05. Pennelli ’05

& Lawler ’05

Alison Pennelli ’05 and Matthew Lawler ’05, Oct. 30, 2010, Boston. Front: Rebecca Greenberg ’05, Sarahbelle Marsh ’05, Rebecca Perlmutter ’05; middle: Sarah Paruolo ’05, Alison, Will Schmitt ’05; back: Brendan Koeniger ’05, Dan Bradford ’05, Matthew, Michael Kinsman ’05, Tyler Weymouth ’06, Jaclyn Howell ’05. Tierney ’04

& Contreras-

Gould Jenny Tierney ’04 and Paige Contreras-Gould (Bowdoin ’04), June 2011, Martha’s Vineyard. John Scott Johnson ’04, Lindsay Harvey ’04, Sara Kravitz ’04, Tim Talbot ’04, Valerie Wicks ’04, Paige and Jenny, Anne Conway ’04, Tina Browne ’04, Caryn Repaci ’04, Chet Clem ’05, Brigid Beech ’05. Newton & Gray ’0I Amanda Newton (Bowdoin ’00) and Adrian Gray ’01, Aug. 20, 2011, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, Maine. Front row: Jake White ’03, Matthew Redman ’01, Janel Ippolito Redman ’01, Amanda and Adrian, Kirstin Marshall Stallkamp ’01, Megan Friend Hildebrand ’03; back: Kaspar Spurgeon-Heinrici ’01, David Katona ’02, Hawley Strait ’00, Christian Stallkamp ’00, Tyler Kipp ’01, Todd Saunders ’01, Aaron Moskowitz ’04, Jeff Weintraub ’01, Dan LeBlanc ’02, Kyle Hildebrand ’02. White ’09 & Wade ’09 Madeline White ’09 and Leslie Wade ’09, July 23, 2011, Altamont, N.Y. Front row: Erin Bond ’09, Kate Lyczkowski ’09, Neil Marya ’07, Mark Andrews ’09,

Grace Burton ’09, Stuart Ryan ’09; top row: Dylan Mogk ’09, Oleg Alekseev ’07, David Broder ’09, Tom Bowden ’09, David Bohl ’09, Leonard White ’07, Madeline and Leslie, Chris Hemberger ’09, Devin Wigler ’09, Alex Chou ’07, Nick Marlin ’09; middle row: Caroline Thomas ’09, Jessica Adelman ’09, Erin Gilligan ’09, Charlotte Coulter ’09, Hannah Meyer ’07, Emily Grant Kaleczyc ’09, John Kaleczyc ’09; behind top row: Mike Tetler ’11. Porr ’06 & Mazeres Alexandra Porr ’06 and Lev Mazeres (West Point ’05), June 13, 2010, Jewish chapel, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. Front row: Sara Gusky ’07, Katie Celeste ’06; second row: Allegra Poggio ’06, Marina Langdon ’06, Lev and Alexandra, Amber Harris ’06; back: Alex Teague ’06, Jacob Berkowitz ’06, Sam Golden ’06, Jasmine McDavid ’06, Damon McGinn ’07, Jasmine Polite ’07, Carrie Murphey ’06. Schmitt

& Mague ’0I

Claire Schmitt and Stephen Mague ’01, April 1, 2011, West Orange, N.J. Front: Steven Dutton ’00, Dan Driscoll ’02, Steven Beardsley ’97, Stephen and Claire, Brendan Hahesy ’00, Trevor Emory ’00, John Hagberg ’00; second row: Maria Sparks Emory ’02, Katrina Wilcox Hagberg ’00, Jessica Ames Balicki ’01, Scott Balicki ’01, Michael Tully ’01; top row: Christopher Lau ’00, Pamela Murchie Mehr ’01.

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& Kraemer

Nancy Brown ’01 and Brian Kraemer, May 7, 2011, Cliff Dwellers Club, Chicago. Jenn Russo Shukofsky ’01, Monica McNally Callahan ’01, Anna Salt Troise ’01, Kristen Lefebvre Harkinson ’01, Nancy and Brian, Torrii Yamada ’01, Molly Metcalf ’01, Nikki Goloskov Dalrymple ’01, Pete Dalrymple ’00. Hirsch ’07

& Cary ’05

Billie Hirsch ’07 and Chris Cary ’05, Sept. 10, 2011, Peaks Island, Maine. Ana Bisaillon ’12, Carrie Murphey ’06, Brian Greenleaf ’05, Laura Director ’08, Brian Dupee ’06, Chris, Nate Purinton ’06, Billie, Dustin Drury ’06, Carolyn McNamara ’08, Caitlin Henderson ’07, Chris Eldridge ’06, Alex Teague ’06, Pennie Taylor ’06, Lily Conover ’07. Boccard ’07

& Pearce

Katie Boccard ’07 and William Pearce, Oct. 8, 2011, Meredith, N.H. Frank Saccomandi IV ’07, Monica Hayden ’07, Luis Rodriguez ’07, Laura Nichols ’07, Tim Buckley ’07, Mark Strobel ’07, John D’Ascenzo ’07, Julia Eiferman ’07, Katie and William, Maddie Rubin ’07, Matt Ziino ’07, Ramon Alicea ’07, Bryan Laverriere ’07, Jeremy Fisher ’06, Mark Boccard ’06, Valentina Calastri ’09, George Brandley ’07.

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Kim Devine (Colby ’06) and John McDevitt ’04, Aug. 7, 2011, Newport, R.I. Ben Schippers ’04, Hedda Burnett ’04, John and Kim, Andrew Roberts ’04. Miller ’07

& Amyx

Brooke Miller ’07 and Nik Amyx, wedding June 23, 2011, Washington, D.C., celebration July 9, Austin, Texas. Front: Ashleigh Coren ’07, Akiko Doi ’07, Nik and Brooke, Vanni Thach ’06; back: Chris Theile ’07, Catie Gregg ’07, David Thomazy ’07. Spring 2012

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1932 Katherine Ilene LaMontagne June 25, 2011 She grew up in Lewiston, but Katherine Ilene LaMontagne didn’t hesitate to accept a job teaching English in Puerto Rico under the federal Department of Education in 1935. After several years, she returned to Lewiston to teach at Lewiston High School and later moved to Washington to work at the Library of Congress. She later earned a master’s in library science from Boston Univ. and organized libraries at several high schools before retiring in 1976. She returned to Lewiston in the 1990s and remained active in church and literary activities. Survivors include nieces and nephews. Katherine Ilene LaMontagne was one of the oldest Bates alumnae.

1933 Samuel Charles Gilman October 11, 2009 Sam Gilman was president of Charles Gilman & Sons, at one time one of the largest liquor distributors in Massachusetts, where he worked with his late brother, Arthur ’35 (whose obituary is below), at the company founded by their father. A biology major, he was active in the Outing Club and the Phil Hellenic Club while at the college. He was a member of Temple Shalom in Newton, Mass., and of Pine Brook Country Club. Survivors include wife Charlotte; children Barry Gilman and Paula Gilman Bayles; and one grandchild.

Richard Tuthill ’33, who had outstanding knowledge of the geography of the Pacific, designed commercial air routes still in use today. Richard Lovejoy Tuthill March 17, 2011 Many Bates men had their studies interrupted by World War II, but few simply because they could read a map. Richard “Tut” Tuthill understood the geography of the Pacific islands and Japan, and that attracted the attention of the founder of the OSS. His outstanding knowledge of the area was immensely important to the war effort. After the war, he designed commercial air routes still in use today. An English major at Bates, he earned a doctorate from Columbia in geography and enjoyed a long career as a professor of geography at the Univ. of Kentucky

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(1946–53) and Duke (1953–77). At both, he became the first registrar. He specialized in the economic geography of Canada, Africa, the Soviet Union and the Pacific Rim. He was a member of many professional organizations and served as an officer for many of them. He was married twice, first to Sylvia Bickford and then to Sandra McWhorter, both of whom predeceased him. Survivors include daughters Rhoda Rankin and Marcia Butterfield; four grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

1934 Robert Morrill Butler September 23, 2011 He had speed and endurance, enough to earn letters in track and cross country, enough to serve as an officer of the Varsity Club and the Athletic Assn. and as captain of the crosscountry team, enough to compete at the New England Championships, with enough left over to enjoy the Outing Club and La Petite Academie. Robert Butler graduated with a degree in French and went on to teach in Dixfield before marrying Priscilla Smith and moving to New Jersey. There he rose to become the headmaster at Newark Academy, teaching Latin and algebra along the way and supervising its move to nearby Livingston and its transition to coeducation. He also found time to serve as publishing chair of the New Jersey Bates Club (1962–65), as class vice president (1989–2007) and class president (1963–68). He retired as headmaster in 1967 and returned to teaching, from which he retired in 1974. Both of his children, Robert “Skip” Butler ’63 and Elisabeth Butler ’67, are graduates, as is Skip’s wife, Judith Mosman Butler ’63. Other survivors include two grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren.

1935 John Edward Cooper Jr. April 12, 1994 John Cooper lived most of his adult life in Illinois and Pennsylvania and owned his own insurance brokerage. He was active in his church and in Rotary. His aunt and uncle were Bessie Cooper 1904 and Christopher Cooper 1905. Stella Clemants Kishon November 26, 2009 Stella Kishon, an Auburn native and graduate of Jordan High School, threw herself into everything the college had to offer. She was very active with the YWCA and served on its cabinet for two years. She chaired the Tea Dance Committee of Lambda Alpha during her senior year and was active in the Orphic

Society all four years. She was a sociology major, but her interest in science drew her to the Ramsdell Scientific Society during her final two years. Her late husband was Anton Kishon ’37. Arthur S. Gilman December 23, 2010 Arthur Gilman left Bates in 1934. He and his brother, the late Samuel C. Gilman ’33, who died in 2009, owned Charles Gilman & Sons, which was once one of the largest liquor distributorships in Massachusetts. Survivors include wife Marcia Tuck Gilman; children Paul, Carol and Jeffrey Gilman; and three grandchildren. His late first wife was Jeanette Lodgen Gilman.

1936 Ruth Rowe Wilson February 19, 2012 Ruth Rowe Wilson grew up on one college campus, Bates’, then became the wife of the president at another, Skidmore, before returning to Bates as a widow to build both a career in college publishing and friendships across generations of students, alumni, faculty and staff. In 1964, after the death of husband Val Wilson ’38, with five of her six children still at home, she returned to Lewiston, Maine, from Saratoga Springs, N.Y., to work for Bates as the editor of its magazine and college publications, a position she learned as she went and held until 1980. At Skidmore and at Bates she was a role model but disliked the term. “It never occurred to me that I was playing a role,” she said in 1998. “I was just doing what I was doing.” She later served as class notes editor, until 2002. She enjoyed several years in her gardens at her home on College Street and in Ocean Park, Maine, her longtime summer home, before moving to California to be near family in 2007. From Skidmore she received the board’s Denis B. Kemball-Cook Award, honoring a leader who “has given sacrificially of wisdom, time and talent,” and in 1986 she received the Bates Alumni Assn.’s Distinguished Service Award. One of her many acts of friendship and fellowship at Bates was to host the college’s international students, often joined by James Reese, at her Ocean Park seaside home for an annual picnic. When she moved to California in 2007, they signed a guest book for her. “My first month at Bates, you welcomed me to Ocean Park, where I signed your guest book,” said Sorina Crisan ’07 of Arad, Romania, as she presented the book to Ruth. “At the end of my Bates education, it is a privilege for me to be able to say goodbye in the same way.” She was the daughter of legendary

Bates dean Harry Rowe 1912 and Hope Chandler Rowe. Ruth is survived by sister Esther Rowe Tallamy ’38; children David, Alden, James, Carol Grandin, Nancy Schaffer and Kathryn Schmidt; 16 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren. A memorial service will take place in the summer at Bates.

1937 Daisy McPherson Clark October 12, 2010 Daisy Clark was living in Michigan at the time of her death. Her husband, L. Verdelle Clark ’36, passed away in 1996.

1938 Margaret Bennett Mansfield January 21, 2011 “Bennie” Bennett Mansfield taught in Maine schools for several years before following her husband to his hometown of Bar Harbor, where she became president of the YWCA and the literary union and served on the boards of the library and the concert association. After retiring to Florida in 1977, she continued her service to the local library and to her community association. An English major, she was active with the Student, the Buffoon and the Mirror at Bates. Her husband, Kenneth Mansfield, predeceased her. Survivors include daughter Susan Mansfield Pogue; two grandchildren; and three greatgrandchildren. Her daughter wrote, “My mother always felt that she had received a superb education at Bates and was proud to be an alumnus.” Herbert Austin Miller August 10, 2011 Herb Miller spun scrap metal into luxurious textiles. He took the knowledge about running a business he gained working with his father and uncle at their junkyard and bought up spinning mills around the state. He soon became a master at improvising old equipment to new technology and at combining new fibers with waste fibers. At one point, his businesses were producing more than 100,000 pounds of yarn and 100,000 pounds of cloth per week, and his company was producing blankets for clients such as L.L.Bean, Macy’s and Lands’ End. He and his second wife, Jo Pollock, owned the blanket store in the remaining portion of the Worumbo Mill in Lisbon Falls. His cousins were Lester Miller ’34 and Harold Miller ’38. Nephew Stephen Schaffer ’64 and grandniece Sara Isaacson ’07 survive him, as do three stepchildren and three grandchildren. His daughter, Deborah Bornstein, predeceased him.

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1939 Frank Harold Jewett II February 10, 2011 Frank Jewett graduated from Bates with a degree in biology with plans to become a doctor, but illness forced him to withdraw from Boston Univ. School of Medicine. Instead, he taught science and worked in the chemical field for many years. He also enjoyed beef and chicken farming. Three children, Jonathan Jewett ’68, Meredeth Libby and Carol Jewett, predeceased him. Survivors include wife Ruth Arenstrup Jewett ’42; son Frank Jewett III ’66; six grandchildren; and five greatgrandchildren. His father was Frank Jewett 1913. Barbara Mary Leonard June 9, 2011 With her degree in mathematics from the college, Barbara Leonard went on to earn a master’s in education from the Univ. of Maine (1958) and a master’s in mathematics from Bowdoin (1963), all of which augmented her teaching career. She taught first at Brunswick High School and then at the American High School in Paris before returning to Brunswick to chair the mathematics department. She retired in 1972, at which point she joined the Peace Corps and traveled to Kenya to teach mathematics. Afterward, she worked as a travel agent in Brunswick and traveled the world. She is survived by a brother and many nieces and nephews. Lionel Abney Whiston Jr. July 5, 2011 Lee Whiston followed in his father’s footsteps, being ordained in his father’s church in Fitchburg, Mass., in 1942 after completing studies at Andover Newton Theological School. He taught for eight years at Catawba College in North Carolina before joining the faculty at Eden Seminary in Missouri to teach the Old Testament and Hebrew. He retired in 1983, at which time he turned to pastoral counseling. His interests were in social justice, and he and wife Dorothy Weeks Whiston ’41 traveled to Alabama for Martin Luther King’s voter registration drive. He was also involved in Christian-Jewish dialogues and was intrigued by the intersections of religion, science and literature. He was also known for his expertise on film. He earned a doctorate in theology from Harvard in 1951 and in 1965 spent the school year in Jerusalem on sabbatical with his wife and three of his sons, William, Charles and Stephen. They survive him, along with a fourth son, Lionel III (Lee) ’66, who was in college at the time. Other survivors include eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild. His wife is deceased.

1940 Carl Edwin Andrews September 12, 2011 The Bates name “Andrews” — of Lake Andrews and Andrews Road fame — signifies multigenerational service to the college. Carl Andrews was the son of Bertha May Bell Andrews, who established the women’s physical education program, and the nephew of Bates treasurer Delbert Andrews, Class of 1910. A star football player, president of the Jordan Society and secretary of the Varsity Club at Bates, Carl became a respected surgeon in Florida following medical school at Yale and residencies during his Army service. He loved growing things, and was an improver of the world around him. He gave out bags of homegrown citrus — he called the offerings “preventative medicine” — from the 100-plus citrus trees on his Florida home in a residential airpark. His property had a fishing pond, where he taught his grandchildren the finer points of casting, a talent he possessed thanks to his experience as a Maine Guide; he had a special love for Mount Katahdin and the Allagash River. He established a Bates fund in memory of his mother to support lectures emphasizing the moral aspect of education, and he established the William Sawyer Class of 1913 Memorial Biology Lecture Fund. Survivors include wife Jane P. Andrews; children Richard Andrews, Jean Andrews and Ruth Andrews Morris ’72; seven grandchildren including Mark Andrews ’09 and Kristy Andrews ’12; and a greatgrandchild. He was predeceased by son Carl “Bert” Andrews ’74, whose wife was Cindy Holmes Andrews Whyte ’74. Bert’s name is on the exercise room in Merrill Gym. Thomas Puglise August 9, 2011 All Tom Puglise wanted to do was teach. It took him two years of working in Stratford, Conn., to earn enough money and an associate’s degree to transfer to Bates and continue on to a bachelor’s in French, his fourth language (along with Greek, Italian and English), so he could return home to a career of teaching at his own high school. Service in the Air Force interrupted his career for a bit, but little else did, until he retired in 2002. He did take time to earn a master’s from the Univ. of Bridgeport. He became head of the English department and directed both the local summer school and adult education program. His wife, Lucille, passed away in 2009. Survivors include children Thomas Puglise, Ernest Puglise and Kathi Loughlin; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

George Allan Rollins December 31, 1999 Allan Rollins ran track and cross country at Bates. A father of six, he was deeply involved with Boy Scouts, Little League and Babe Ruth Baseball. He also organized sports and outings for senior citizens and trained umpires for youth leagues. He owned his own real estate agency in Redwood City, Calif., for many years. His wife, Vivian Sampson Rollins ’42, died in 1995. Frank Avery Saunders April 28, 2003 A history and government major, Frank Saunders was active in debate and managed the track team while a student. The college regrets that it has no further information on Mr. Saunders. Carol Jean Stifler July 5, 2011 Both grandfathers were ministers. All three uncles were ministers. All her aunts married ministers. Her father was a minister. So Carol Jean Stifler was going to be a doctor, no doubt about it. Until she transferred to Bates and Professor Rayborn Zerby — ah — opened her eyes. In addition to her degree in religion from Bates, she also held a bachelor’s in divinity, the steppingstone to ordination, from Yale. She worked for many years for the Fund for Renewal, a capital funds campaign designed by the American Baptist Church and the Progressive National Baptist Convention Inc. to help Baptist-related minority institutions become self-sufficient. Before that, she had worked with the ABC in other capacities. Her work allowed her to travel extensively throughout the world. Survivors include a number of nieces and nephews.

1941 Dorothy Carey Roeske May 16, 2001 Dodie Roeske was a librarian at Principia College in Illinois. She earned a master’s in library science from Simmons in 1957, started work at Principia in 1959 and became the director of its library in 1987. Her cousin is Janet-Lee Fay Stanley ’54. Her late sister was Ruth Carey Drake ’43.

With a trace of astonishment, librarian Nancy Cole ’41 wrote that she spent an entire week on the beach during vacation but “never got to the library.”

Nancy Hutchinson Cole March 8, 2010 Nancy Cole could never quite give up books. No matter how many times she stopped being a librarian, she always seemed to start again, either at another job, or as a volunteer or in the Peace Corps. In one note home from vacation, she wrote with a trace of astonishment in her voice that she spent an entire week on the black sand beach but “never got to the library.” She worked in libraries in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Florida and California, as well as St. Kitts in the Peace Corps. She was president of the Philadelphia Bates Club in the late 1960s. Her marriage to the late Arthur F. Cole ’42 ended in divorce. Her son Richard predeceased her. She is survived by two sons, David and Peter, and a grandchild. Gilbert Parker Wood November 14, 2010 Gil Wood attended Bates for one year. He was a Linotype operator at the Lewiston Sun Journal, until the machines became obsolete, and then became executive secretary of the Araxine Wilkins Sawyer Memorial Foundation. He is survived by sons John, Alan and Mark; four grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. His late sister was Carolyn Wood ’42.

1942 Althea Comins Cliff February 14, 2011 Her degree from Bates in French led her to a job teaching French at the high school in Mars Hill, where she met Lloyd Cliff, who decided to see America before marrying her. He wrote letters and postcards from Florida to California to Alaska, where he helped build the Alaska Highway and finally proposed. She followed him to Fairbanks, where they were married. They moved on to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, before returning to civilization in Massachusetts, eventually building a house in West Suffield, where they lived until he died in 2007. She continued to teach and eventually became chair of the foreign language department at Windsor Locks High School in Connecticut before retiring in 1980. Survivors include children Linda Hartz, Nancy Neumueller, Bruce Cliff and Janet Cliff; and five grandchildren. Louis Joseph Hervey June 27, 2011 Lou Hervey took the long view on life and once claimed that he got more from scrubbing pots and pans in Commons than from many classes at Bates, though he did credit lifelong friendships, four state baseball championships and encouragement from Harry Rowe, Norm Ross and

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others for influence on his success. His time at Bates was interrupted by heroic service in the Army, where he won multiple Bronze Stars, landed on Utah Beach just after D-Day, was on the first cargo ship into Toulon Beach after the French fleet was scuttled and was on the first cargo ship into Antwerp after it was liberated. He remained in the Army Reserves until 1963, retiring as a major. His career was as a teacher in Black River, N.Y. He taught English at Black River High School from 1946 to 1951, at which time he became its principal, a position he held until 1958, when he became principal of the new Carthage Junior-Senior High School. He retired in 1978. In 1949, he received an M.Ed. from St. Lawrence Univ. A three-sport athlete at Bates in baseball, football and basketball, he continued to play both baseball and basketball for many years. He also was active in town politics and was mayor of Black River and a trustee of the town. He also was a member of the town of LeRay planning board and president of the Jefferson County Teachers Assn. and was active in the Fort Drum Regional Liaison Organization, which worked to keep the base open during base closure sessions. His wife, the former Irene Sheldon, predeceased him, as did daughter Catherine Job. Survivors include children Elizabeth Harrington ’68, Tamara Hervey, Maureen Sandon, Louis Hervey and Sheldon Hervey; 11 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Jean Keneston Fisher July 20, 2011 College can set the course of a person’s life, and it certainly did for Jean Fisher. At Bates, she met the man she would marry, she met the woman who would become her lifelong friend, and she found the place she wanted to live: Maine. Hildreth “Bud” Fisher ’42 would stay at Bates for three years, but that was plenty of time for them to fall in love. And whether it was luck or divine inspiration, she was paired with Ruth Ulrich Coffin ’42 as roommates, a friendship that would last a lifetime. She had a head start on loving Maine: her late parents, Sheldon and Maude Howard Keneston (1916 and 1915), had blazed the path. Active in student government and choral groups, she earned a degree in sociology and was elected to the Bates Key. She was a social worker for the state of Maine following graduation, working with at-risk children and families. Later, she became very involved with Girl Scouts and eventually became the field director for Girl Scouts of Maine. She received a 65year pin from the organization recently. She retired in 1985.

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Additionally, she was active in Al-Anon and at addiction recovery centers. Bud Fisher passed away in 1998. Survivors include children Susan Hall and Stephen Fisher; seven grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild. Another daughter, Katherine, died in 1951 and son, Thomas ’81, died in 1990. Her former sister-in-law was Virginia Fisher Briggs ’43. Ardith Lakin Cronin June 27, 2011 Ardee Cronin started out in politics as many women of her generation do — active in the League of Women Voters. From there, she became the first woman elected to the Falls Church (Va.) City Council and then the first woman to chair the local regional planning commission. There, she helped create a master plan for the city that has stood as a model for 30 years. She drew friends and “adopted” children to her wherever she traveled and claimed her dog was the perfect dog. Survivors include sons Jefferson Cronin and Gregory Cronin. Lorraine McGee Roberts January 31, 2011 Lorraine Roberts taught in Rhode Island for many years, after moving there in 1950. Survivors include children Bill Roberts and Linda Thomson; four grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. Anne Momna Howard December 16, 2009 Annie Howard came to Bates from Westbrook Junior College and earned a degree in English. She taught in schools in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, and Boxford, Mass. She is survived by two sons, including Jonathan ’75; a daughter; and seven grandchildren. Her husband, Stedman, died in 2001.

1943 Elizabeth Bliss Garzio May 26, 2011 Betty Garzio left Bates and headed for Simmons, where she added a master’s in social work to her resume before moving to the Midwest, eventually settling in Kansas. There, she became a champion for the rights of people with developmental disabilities. She was a founder of the Riley County Assn. for Retarded Citizens and an advocate of quality healthcare. She worked for many years at Kansas State Univ.-Lafene Mental Health Center, from which she retired. Her stepsister, Muriel Bliss Wilbur ’32, predeceased her. Her niece is Deborah Bliss Behler ’69. Other survivors include children Judith Nole and Eric Garzio; six grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.

Gilbert Sayward Center February 1, 2011 Marjorie Cahall Center August 16, 2011 Laconia, N.H., is a big enough city in a small enough state that an active, intelligent couple can shine a bright light over it. Gil and Marjorie Center’s many talents were invaluable to Laconia: He was its unofficial historian, writing a local column for the newspaper for 25 years and serving on city and state historical commissions; she was the booksmith, the one who always knew just what you should read next. He taught history at Laconia High School for 25 years before becoming executive director of the N.H. American Revolution Bicentennial Commission and then director of the N.H. State House Visitors’ Center in Concord. She worked at Gale Public Library for 42 years and especially enjoyed its outreach to children and retirement homes. Gil volunteered at the library, researching its photographs and historical items. Both were active in the Cheney Bates Club and as class officers. They were also active in the American Baptist Church, especially in its world mission. Marjorie was the choir director at the South Baptist Church in Laconia for 35 years. After college, Gil served two years in the U.S. Navy before earning a master’s in education from UNH. During that time, Marjorie worked at the university’s library. In 1958, Gil won a William Robertson Coe Fellowship for the Study of American History at Stanford. Their son Rob is a member of the Class of 1973. Other survivors include daughter Jodi Center and two grandchildren. Webster Palmer Jackson February 5, 2011 Web Jackson was proud to be a graduate of the college, but it was a few weeks at Notre Dame that really changed his life. It was while he was there for Navy training that he met Gina Moomaw, up from DePauw Univ. for a dance. She became, he once said, not only his wife but his “best friend.” A history and government major, he was class treasurer while a student, played football and basketball and was on the staff of the Student. He returned to his hometown of Wakefield, Mass., after graduation, where he took a job with A.C. Lawrence Leather, a job he kept for 43 years. He served as class president as an alumnus and on the Bates Fund Committee. He was a lifetime member of the local Baptist church and a longtime member of the Masonic lodge. He loved watching the changes, alternately subtle and dramatic, from his hilltop retirement home in Ipswich, Mass. Gina passed away in 2008 and son William ’70 in 2009;

William’s widow is Martha Collier Jackson ’71. Other survivors include son Mark Jackson and his wife Karen Wakefield Jackson ’73; granddaughter Emily Jackson Sanborn ’94; three other grandchildren; and four greatgrandchildren. Burton Henry Knust May 30, 2011 Burton Knust left Bates after two years to become a naval aviator, winning the Distinguished Flying Cross and five Air Medals. He then built a successful career in the office furniture business in the Hartford, Conn., area. Survivors include daughters Laura Knust and Tracy Knust and two granddaughters.

1944 Arthur Lawrence Bram July 7, 2011 Lawrence Bram’s time at the college was interrupted by military service during the war, but he completed his degree in 1947. He then went on to NYU to become a dentist and practiced in the New York-New Jersey area. He also taught briefly at Mount Sinai Hospital.

For Caroline Gray Atkinson ’43, her sociology degree did not even hint at her eventual job of caring for infant giraffes — in her home. Caroline Gray Atkinson January 1, 2005 For some graduates, their degrees from Bates lead naturally to a career. But for Caroline Atkinson, her sociology degree did not even hint at her eventual job of caring for infant giraffes — in her home. She started at the Bronx Zoo as a volunteer, but soon was hired to care for her “babies” in a special home nursery. After teaching in Connecticut and Maine, she worked briefly as a New York City social worker in the 1950s before marrying Joseph Atkinson Jr. During World War II, she worked for the U.S. Signal Corps in Virginia. Her husband died in 1978. She is survived by a son, a daughter and two grandchildren. Abraham Samuel Keller April 15, 2004 Samuel Keller traveled the world in search of that precious commodity: oil. He was a geologist by training, having enhanced his Bates education with further studies at the Colorado School of Mines. He put in four years with the U.S. Geological Survey before joining Union Oil Co.,

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which eventually sent him to Australia, where his crew struck gold, so to speak, by establishing enough wells to form the first oil field in the country, one that brought Queen Elizabeth II all the way south to commemorate the event. He was the author of several books and many technical papers. His late brother was Israel Harry Keller ’36. He and wife Irene had two children, Kathy and Tracy. Esther Linder Bray February 27, 2011 She was new to town, and all 25-year-old Essie Bray wanted to do was volunteer at her daughters’ school library. But the principal asked her if she happened to have a teaching certificate — which she did and never used. But that was just fine for the administration in Killeen, Texas, where she taught for the next 19 years until she retired in 1989. She had moved back to Keene, N.H., after graduation, to work at the local radio station as a copywriter and editor of its program guide, before moving to Cleveland three years later. There, she was the assistant to the promotional director, which gave her a chance to meet interesting people, such as Bill Veeck, owner of the Cleveland Indians, and Cornelia Otis Skinner, a writer and actress, as well as her future husband, Dan Bray. They married in 1949. Essie was secretary of the Ohio Bates Club and class secretary in the 1940s. She is survived by daughter Betsy MacPherson and a grandchild. Her husband and daughter Ellen Bray predeceased her.

1945 Leonard Avery Hawkins February 9, 2011 Football and baseball were the games of the day while he was a student. Golf and bowling carried him through his later years, with hockey and softball filling out the middle. He also was a skilled bridge player and kept his yard in top shape. He worked for Aetna for 37 years, joining the company soon after receiving his degree from Bates in 1948 (delayed because of military service during World War II). He is survived by wife Helen Spencer Hawkins; sons Peter Hawkins and David Hawkins; six grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. Son John Hawkins predeceased him. Margery Lincoln Hansen April 11, 2011 The onset of World War II forced Margery Hansen to withdraw from Bates. Many years later, she received a degree from Keene (N.H.) State College and taught elementary school. Her husband, Roger Hansen, predeceased her. She is survived by two sisters.

Daniel Vieira Norte February 20, 2011 When Dan Norte was chosen by his Rotary Club in Cortland, N.Y., to travel to a small town in Brazil to study its culture and needs, he came back with the idea to collect old and new musical instruments for donation, just what the music teacher there needed. The program was a big success. A few years later, he was named Rotarian of the Year by his local club. He devoted his life to service to others, working primarily at YMCAs throughout the Northeast. For many years, he was the executive director of the YMCA in Cortland. Helping a music program was right up his alley: He played in the band and the orchestra at the college, where he received a degree in history and government, delayed until 1947 by the war. He also held a master’s from Boston Univ. His wife is Constance Wood Norte ’46. They were active in the Buffalo Bates Club in the 1960s, and he was class president in the late 1970s. He also served on the board at his church. Along with his wife, survivors include sons Harvey Norte and Clifford Norte; four grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. Daughter Cynthia Bodine died in 2010.

1946 Barbara Cosgrove Robinson November 9, 2010 Despite living in Delaware for more than 30 years, Barbara Robinson never let go of New England. She was proud of her heritage and returned to Maine after the death of her husband, Allan Robinson, in 2002. She had worked as an activities counselor at YWCAs in Massachusetts and Delaware over the years and had spent three years in Germany when her husband’s work with DuPont took him there. She enjoyed traveling throughout Europe during that time. Survivors include children Winston Robinson and Diane Robinson DiNardi ’75 and a grandchild. Mary Stanley Merker August 7, 2011 Mary Stanley Merker started at Bates when she was 16 and finished in three years, with a degree in English and dean’s list credentials to brag about. She taught in Connecticut, New York and Utah, where the local Mormon bishop made sure his children were in her class. She and husband Jarrold (“Jerry”) Merker moved to Lincoln, Neb., in 1969, when he became chief of psychology at the VA there; he passed away in March 2012. In Lincoln, she became interested in quilting and was appointed to the yearbook committee of the Lincoln Quilters Guild. Her survivors include daughter

Sally Jane Merker and several nephews, among them Richard J. Stanley ’79 and Edward M. Stanley ’81. Her father was Richard Stanley 1924, and her uncle was John P. Stanley Jr. 1926.

that conducted research for the U.S. Army and Air Force and the Kingdom of Jordan, among others. His wife survives him, along with children Judy, David and Mark, and four grandchildren.

Frances Wheeler Kelsey May 24, 2011 Frances Wheeler Kelsey enjoyed a busy life on campus as part of singing groups, the Student, The Garnet, the Women’s Athletic Assn., the Quimby Debate Society and the Campus Assn. She graduated with a degree in economics and sociology and worked briefly in the Office of Public Affairs in Washington, D.C., and at the Back Bay Ledger before becoming a teacher in Hanover, N.H., where she remained for 25 years. She earned a master’s degree from Plymouth (N.H.) State College. Survivors include daughter Kathe Houst, son Mark Kelsey and two grandsons.

Josephine Ingram April 21, 2011 Josephine Ingram taught in five different states — and in France, Germany, Turkey, Libya and Morocco, as part of the Department of Defense School System. In addition to her degree in English (Phi Beta Kappa) from the college, she held a master’s from American International College. At Bates, she was secretary of the Philosophy club, president of the Robinson Players and active in student government. Survivors include brother Paul and several nieces and nephews.

1947 Preston Abbott ’47 had been missing in action for three weeks, but the calm letter home gave little hint of the dramatic events. His B-24 had crashed over Yugoslavia on its 25th mission. Preston Sargent Abbott June, 9, 2011 He’d been missing in action for three weeks, but the calm letter home gave little hint of the dramatic events: Gunnery Sgt. Preston Abbott’s B-24 had crashed over Yugoslavia on its 25th mission. He and its crew had been rescued by Yugoslav partisans and smuggled to safety. He received the Purple Heart, the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal for his actions. He had started at Bates with the Class of 1942, but the interruption of war allowed him to meet Barbara Beattie ’48, who became his wife. He also earned a master’s from the Univ. of Hawaii and a Ph.D. from Brown. He was a research psychologist for the Air Force from 1951 to 1955 and then joined the Human Resources Research Organization as program leader for the training methods division. He remained there for most of his career, although he also served as director of the American Univ.’s Center for Research in Social Systems from 1970 to 1975. In 1975, he left both organizations to start Abbott Associates, a consulting firm

1948 Leonard Andrew Charpentier May 28, 2011 Len Charpentier waited until after World War II to come to Bates — after he had flown 29 combat missions, had been shot down, taken prisoner, nursed back to health by a German medical team and liberated by American forces. Discharged as a captain, he came to Bates to resume the studies he had started at Springfield College, then went on to Boston Univ. for a medical degree. While in residency in obstetrics in Galveston, Texas, he met and married Gwendolyn Stratton, the chief dietician at the university hospital. They remained in Galveston until they retired in 1994. He was a diplomate of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. In 1985, he became a full-time teacher, specializing in gynecologic surgery. He was president of numerous organizations and served on many boards, both medical and community. He also received awards recognizing his excellent teaching. His wife survives him, as do children Alicia Haley and Laurence Charpentier and five grandchildren. Emery Willington Flavin January 29, 2011 Emery Flavin was of the right age to enlist in the Army Air Corps before college, and so he came to Bates after the war. A history and government major, he went on to Boston Univ. to earn a master’s and then taught high school in New Hampshire for several years. Eventually, he joined the faculty of Ulster County Community College, where he taught sociology and from where he retired in 1987. He was a consultant on college textbooks. Survivors include sons Eric, Dana and Bevan Flavin and five grandchildren. His wife, Shirley Putonen Flavin, predeceased him.

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Phyllis Simon Albright March 23, 2011 She thought she’d be a teacher — two years in Future Teachers of America — but Phyllis Albright, who earned a degree in mathematics, instead went to work for GE, as she put it, as a “calculator,” formally known as an engineering assistant. At GE, she met Donald Albright, whom she married in 1953. Their life in Schenectady was full of golf and bowling and bridge — and kids. They raised four children. She still found time to serve as secretary of the Hudson-Mohawk Bates Club in the 1980s. In 1989, she and Don started their own firm with two of their children, making a diagnostic tool for large turbines, today considered the leader in its field. He passed away in 2010. Survivors include children Janet Albright Ruckel ’76, James, David and Carl Albright; 11 grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.

1949 Barbara Cottle Aldrich August 30, 2011 Barbara Aldrich was active in Robinson Players and also its business manager, a logical fit for an economics major. A resident of Connecticut, she was a fan of the Univ. of Connecticut’s women’s basketball team. She had been active with the Women’s Fellowship at the First Congregational Church of Wallingford. She was co-secretary of her Bates class at the time of her death. Her husband, Curtis Aldrich, died in 2001. Survivors include son Samuel. Lydia Fox Stoughton July 16, 2011 Lydia Stoughton liked to divide her time among boating, volunteering at the local art museum and working as a teacher’s aide in Duxbury, Mass. She served as president of the Buffalo Bates Club in the 1960s before moving to Duxbury. A biology major at Bates, she was active in the Outing Club and the Orphic Society. She leaves her sons, Scott and Peter Stoughton, and two grandchildren. Her husband, Ralph Stoughton, predeceased her. Phyllis Garland February 12, 2011 Phyllis Garland spent a brief time at Bates before transferring to Bridgewater State College, where she earned a degree in history. She then returned to Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard to work at her family’s store. She was active in the Trinity Methodist Church and Eastern Star. There are no immediate survivors. Ann Sargent Bensen June 11, 2011 Annisquam is a small, waterfront neighborhood isolated from the

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rest of busy Gloucester, Mass., but it had everything that Ann Bensen wanted: a yacht club for sailing, a library where she could research and volunteer, and old churches where she could practice her brass rubbings, which were displayed in Gloucester and in New Jersey. She was also an expert genealogist. She had earned a teaching degree from William Paterson Univ. and taught kindergarten for 25 years in New Jersey, returning to the family’s summer home in Annisquam when she retired. She served on the board of the Annisquam Library and volunteered with the Cape Ann Historical Museum. Her first husband, Richard Lowcher, passed away, as did her second husband, George Bensen III. Survivors include sons Philip, Mark and Matthew Lowcher; four grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. A son, Peter, predeceased her. Ann Small Stinson April 11, 2011 Her roots in Auburn reached back to the Revolutionary War: Ann Stinson’s great-great-greatgrandfather built the 1785 house she lived in as a child, after he returned from battle. She shook off those roots for a while, after graduating from the college, to earn a degree in library science at Columbia, where she supported herself by working at the library in Newark, N.J. She even worked as the children’s librarian at the New York Public Library until 1955, when the roots pulled her back to Maine and she opened the Munjoy Hill branch of the Portland Public Library. Later, she became the director of the Lewiston Public Library and, in 1963, the South Portland Public Library, a library she designed and built. In 1973, she retired and moved to Deer Isle with husband Willard “Sonny” Stinson, an organic farmer, whom she had married four years earlier. (Her first marriage, to Henry Bauer, ended in divorce.) Survivors include Mr. Stinson and her son, John Bauer. Her late parents were Wesley ’20 and Mable Plummer Small ’23. Jane Waters Wright July 6, 2011 It makes sense that Jane Wright was a sociology major at Bates. What she enjoyed doing the most was having her entire family together, enjoying the dynamics and interactions of the group, bound to be substantial with four adult children and 11 grandchildren. She had her quiet activities, too — painting and gardening — but holidays or times at Ocean Park were her favorites. Survivors include husband Frederick Wright; children Karen Reed, Stephen Wright, Tom Wright and Judy Cox; and 11 grandchildren.

1950 Jesse Eustace Castanias July 16, 2011 Jesse Castanias arrived at Bates fresh from piloting 35 successful B-17 missions over Germany in World War II to join the almostunstoppable football team that made it all the way to the Glass Bowl, before losing to the Univ. of Toledo, 21–12. He used his degree in economics to build a 47-year career in the food and beverage industry, primarily in the Midwest. Survivors include sons Greg and Richard Castanias and four grandchildren. His wife Janet Carol Johnson preceded him in death. Robert Beaton Sanderson March 16, 2011 Robert Sanderson was busy working in the family’s business even before he graduated, and so it was logical that he would open a similar business of his own several hours north when the time was right. He founded the Springfield (Vt.) Printing Corp. and was able to turn it over to his sons when the time was right. His degree from Bates was in history, and he studied further at Bucknell. Survivors include wife Barbara Calderwood Sanderson; children Wendy Murphy, Martha Erickson, Mark Sanderson and Bruce Sanderson; and six grandchildren.

1951 Elaine Baraby Littlefield June 20, 2011 Elaine Littlefield left the college to marry classmate Charles Littlefield, who passed away 10 years later. She remained close to her Wilson House roommates — the “Wilson 6,” she called them. Survivors include son Bruce Littlefield and daughters Anne Littlefield and Jeanie Littlefield. A son, Scott, predeceased her. Alan Irving Dunham July 19, 2010 Alan Dunham was a lifetime firefighter in Carver, Mass., and a lifetime member of the American Legion Post there, too. He had a deep streak of stick-toit-tiveness not often found today; he even stayed with the same company, Clark Babbitt Foods, for his entire career, starting after he left the Navy in 1946 and retiring from there as vice president in 1972. He served 21 years on the school committee in Carver and also on the planning board and was its treasurer for 11 years. He was president of the Bristol County Bates Club in the mid-1950s, the Cape Cod Bates Club (1969–72) and president of his class (1961–70). His first wife was the late Joyce Gilman Atwood ’51. Survivors include wife Alice Huxley Dunham; children Susan Shane, Alan Dunham

’75, Philip Dunham and Joyce Mazalewski; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Patricia Dunn Ferguson September 28, 2011 Pat Dunn married classmate William Ferguson shortly after graduation, and the two enjoyed a long marriage, living in New Jersey and in Lausanne, Switzerland, where his work for Alcoa took him. In 1967, they moved to Fox Chapel, Pa., where Pat volunteered in plant therapy and eagerly taught her grandson to play bridge. Her husband passed away in 2006. Survivors include daughter Katherine Charapko and a grandchild. A son also predeceased her.

Donald Peck ’51 spent years perfecting a surgical technique that did away with the need for ostomy bags, a medical procedure now used around the world. Donald Alan Peck March 26, 2011 People around the world can thank Dr. Donald Peck for something they don’t have: a little bag hanging off their abdomen walls. He spent years perfecting a technique that did away with the need for the ostomy bags often required after colorectal surgery, a medical procedure now used around the world. His medical degree was from New York Medical College, and he held internships and fellowships in the Navy and at the Mayo Clinic. He was an assistant professor of surgery at Stanford Univ. and was at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Gatos, Calif., for 12 years. He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He was married twice, to Judith Winkler and to Margaret Peck; both predeceased him. He is survived by children Beth, Michael, Mara, Jonathan and Joshua; 10 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

1952 George Lewis Corey Jr. September 30, 2011 “Here I was scrubbing floors in the cafeteria,” said George Corey once, describing his time at Bates. “A cloud didn’t come down out of the sky or anything. I just knew at that instant that I wanted to be a pastoral minister.” He majored in religion and went on to Andover-Newton Theological School to earn a master’s and was ordained as a Congregational minister in 1955. Raised a Presbyterian, he converted to Congregational-

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ism at Bates because he liked that the church members are the ultimate authority in church matters. He served churches in New Hampshire, South Dakota, Missouri, Ohio and Massachusetts. He took into the ministry with him his tennis skills and his singing voice. Sometimes he made deals with people: I’ll play tennis with you if you’ll go to church. He started youth clubs centered on athletics to bring kids together. He got members of theater groups to sing solos at his churches. His first wife, who died in 1990, was Jean Chapman ’52. Survivors include wife Deborah Friedrich Cory; children Margaret Sheldon, Bruce Cory, Joanna Conley, Elizabeth Curran, Emily Haskell and Matthew Cory; 21 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. A grandson predeceased him. John Harvey McDonald January 12, 2002 An English major at Bates, John McDonald went on to earn a law degree from Fordham in 1955, where he was the assistant editor of the Law Review. He held positions at several firms before becoming vice president and general counsel at Singer Credit Corp. In 1979, he joined Pitney Bowes Credit Corp. as vice president, general counsel and secretary. Richard Insley Trenholm February 25, 2011 Rich Trenholm was bored in high school, wanted to be “where the action was,” so he joined the Navy. He found himself in Hiroshima very soon after the atomic bomb was dropped. What he saw there made him wonder why he bothered to even get up in the morning if this was what was coming. He decided the only thing he could do was try to “teach peace.” He became a charter member of United World Federalists, finished high school and came to Bates, where he founded the World Government Club and was class president. He served on the student council and on the political affairs committee. He added a master’s in history from BU in 1954 to his credentials and then started his teaching career at various schools throughout New England. In 1973, he earned another master’s in secondary school administration from the Univ. of Conn. At Minnechaug High School in Wilbraham, Mass., where he was the principal and chair of the history department, he met and married the former Christine Clark, who survives him. In 1977, he became a history teacher at the Whitingham School in Jacksonville, Vt. and retired in 1990. He had remained active in UWF and the organizations that resulted from it and eventually became involved with Traprock,

a peace center in Massachusetts, where he became part of its Core Group. In an article in this magazine in 1996, he said that his goal had always been to help make the United Nations “a workable, limited, democratic world government.” He was active with Coalition for a Strong United Nations, a grassroots network that reviews the role of the U.N. as it now functions and determines how it could function more effectively. As an alumnus, he served as class president and was active in the Cheney Bates Club. Other survivors include sons David and Mark Trenholm and a grandchild.

implemented by Vatican II. When the magazine folded, he founded Christendom College in 1977, located today in Front Royal, Va. He served as its president and one of its five faculty members. He was chair of the history department until 2002, but resigned the presidency in 1985. At the time of his death, he had published five volumes of A History of Christendom with the final sixth possibly completed by his wife next summer. The series is known for its frank Catholic explanations of critical historical events. He is survived by his wife. His sister was Sarah Carroll Watson ’62, whose obituary appears on pg. 89.

Edna Williamson Zemanian August 1, 2011 Edna Zemanian found a way to teach wherever she went, whether crawling on the floor with a 3-year-old or putting together a special presentation on DNA research. She taught in elementary schools in New York and New Jersey before she joined the staff at SUNY Stony Brook, designing and managing community outreach programs for local teachers and students to take advantage of the school’s resources. Her skill at this job won her recognition as “Woman of the Year in Education” in 1993 from the Village Times Herald, and she received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Education in 1995. She was instrumental in the expansion of the Long Island Science and Engineering Fair for high school students and was one of its first trustees. She also was active in the Setauket Presbyterian Church, especially its soup kitchen and Sunday school. Survivors include husband Armen Zemanian; children Peter, Thomas and Lewis Zemanian and Susan Drennan; and nine grandchildren.

Dominic John Gacetta June 24, 2011 The seventh son of a seventh son, Dom Gacetta was a successful salesman for General Mills and for Scott Paper Co. He came to Bates after serving in the Marine Corps during World War II. He continued his football career at the college (his Stephens High School team in Rumford was state champion) and married the former Betty Ryder while a student. He taught at Lewiston High School before he graduated and continued to teach at Readfield until he joined General Mills in 1956. In 1964, GM sent him to Barre, Vt., where he and his family lived for many years. In 1971, he joined Scott Paper Co., where he was named salesman of the year several times. In 1995, he was one of the principal organizers of a “super reunion” of Stephens High School graduates. In addition to his wife, survivors include children Donna Gacetta, Sandra Ayer, David Gacetta, Cathy Kukla and Mary Beth Gacetta; five grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. Son Peter predeceased him.

1953 Warren Hasty Carroll July 17, 2011 Warren Carroll, the son of Herbert ’23 and Gladys Hasty Carroll ’25, once told the Central Maine Morning Sentinel that his parents had given him full freedom, yet the guidance and education he needed to develop his talents. He started by graduating summa cum laude with a degree in history and a PBK ring and going on to Columbia for a doctorate in history (he wrote his dissertation in their paint shed). He attended law school for two years and worked for the CIA and the California State Senate. During this time, he met and married Anne Westhoff, who converted him to Catholicism, which radically changed the course of his life. He went to work for Triumph, a conservative Catholic magazine founded in reaction to the changes

Judy Schadt Graham December 24, 2010 In one way or another, Judy Graham’s work kept taking her back to the knowledge she gained as a biology major at the college. She worked in a medical office and as a diagnostic technician shortly after graduation and then, after raising her daughter, she worked for the American Red Cross, coordinating special services for individuals. Her husband, Dr. Howard Graham, predeceased her. Survivors include daughter Wendy Matthews and three grandchildren. Stanwood Gordon Ladd May 21, 2011 Stanwood Ladd spent a good portion of his time at Bates traveling between Lewiston and Portland to visit his sweetheart, Gwendolyn Reed. They married the week after graduation. He built a 45-year career in insurance for himself and retired from the Mashigonne Agency as

regional group sales manager. An athlete and outdoorsman, he enjoyed boating, skiing and camping and was a member of several country clubs. At the college, he played football, baseball and golf, and coached all three of these sports as a young man. In addition to his wife, survivors include children Kayla Loeffel and Robert Ladd and four grandchildren. His grand-nephew is David Argereow ’99.

1954 John Doane Barlow June 27, 2011 No matter how many pots there were to stir, John Barlow kept them all simmering. He was passionate about classical music and supported several concert series and radio stations. He worked hard to revitalize Hartford, Conn. He was a tireless speaker on lesbian and gay rights. He served on countless boards for a multitude of purposes. He is invariably described as a Renaissance man by friends. His eager conversation about what he loved drew the listener in with him. He found that when talking with young lesbians and gay men, for instance, that recounting what his life was like when he was their age often grabbed their interest when other approaches failed. He served in naval intelligence for a few years after college and then became an editor for Ginn & Co. He moved from there to Harper & Row and then to Houghton Mifflin, where he was an educational salesman for 20 years. He served as president of the Southern Connecticut Bates Club in the 1970s and was active in other alumni affairs. Jean Darnell Sweeney March 17, 2011 Jean Sweeney was one of a small group of students to graduate with a degree in nursing, a degree that she used throughout her life. She worked as a nurse in New Jersey and in Massachusetts, until the birth of her first child in 1958, and then part time for the Pittsford (N.Y.) Ambulance Service. In the early 1970s, her family moved to Amherst, N.H., where she became involved with the Amherst Congregational Church, especially its handbell program. She worked part time for the Crotched Mountain Foundation from 1984 to her retirement in 1996. She was a past president of the Amherst Women’s Assn. and served on the boards of the Amherst Public Library and the Souhegan Nursing Assn. Her husband, who survives her, is David Sweeney ’52. Other survivors are children Janet Sweeney, Michael Sweeney, Peter Sweeney and Kathleen Sweeney; and two grandchildren.

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Allan Taylor Kennedy August 30, 2011 Allan Kennedy was an Army veteran when he came to Bates, having enlisted right out of high school. He was active in the Psychology Club and Future Teachers of America — good choices, since he majored in psychology and became a teacher — and moved to California not long after graduation with his first wife, the former Elizabeth Foyer. There, he taught at Huntington Beach High School, Marina High School and Golden West College. He also earned a master’s in psychology at USC. He and his wife amicably divorced, and he later married again. His second wife, Marylou, survives him, as does his blended family of six children, 12 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Cornelius Andrew Toner May 22, 2011 As if enduring four years of college, four years of medical school in Albany, N.Y., a year of internship and another of residency, both in Portland, and then three more at Tufts in neurological training weren’t enough to test his strength — not to mention dealing with Boston traffic during those last three years — Neil Toner returned to Maine in 1963 to become the only neurologist in the entire state, traveling its length and width to attend to patients. He lasted five years, until a job in Albany called him back. Shortly afterward, he moved to Springfield, Mass., to join a group of neurologists and neurosurgeons there, where he worked until retirement in 1998. He retired seven days after his 65th birthday, married a woman he’d known for 30 years and built a house in Scarborough. His first marriage, to Ginnie LaFauci ’53, ended in divorce. Survivors include wife Shirley Toner; children Nelson Toner, Valerie Toner ’83, Wesley Toner ’86 and Amanda Toner; four grandchildren; and four stepgrandchildren.

1955 Richard Samuel Barton April 9, 2011 If you watch very, very closely, you just might catch a glimpse of Buzz Barton in the movie The Brinks Job, where he plays a police officer. In real life, however, he was an attorney, taking his degree in biology with him into the Marine Corps first and then to Boston Univ., where he received his law degree. He established his law office in Malden, Mass., and was past president of the Middlesex Bar Assn. He was active in the Melrose Community Players and a board member of the Melrose YMCA. Survivors include wife Joan Dowling Barton; children Amy Amesbury, Alison Rudolph,

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Michael Barton, Andrew McNeilly and Liam McNeilly; and seven grandchildren. Aideen Blanchard Coyne May 4, 2011 Deenie Blanchard Coyne worked briefly before the birth of her son in 1956 and then again after her children were grown. Her degree from Bates was in psychology. Her children, Kenneth Baker and Cynthia Locke, survive her. Carol Hollister Conklin May 17, 2010 When life presented an opportunity, Carol Conklin shrugged and said, “OK.” She moved to the front to save a school principal’s job when her daughter was young and busing was an issue. After 23 years of marriage to the Rev. George Conklin ’53, they separated, and she decided to move cross-country, back to New England, where she bought — sight unseen — a new house and took on a teaching job. When she discovered at the age of 47 that she could actually sing, she immediately joined a choir and was soon its president. She earned her teaching certificate in 1975. Before that, she was the Christian education director at United Church of Christ in Hillsdale, Calif. In Connecticut, she taught in Washington, Kent and Falls Village, retiring in 2006. Daughter Karen Conklin survives her.

1956 Phoebe Ann Johnson Fernald February 12, 2011 Phoebe Fernald devoted most of her career to cancer patients. It is bitterly ironic that the disease claimed her life. After graduating from Bates with a five-year nursing degree, she married Bruce Burnett ’54, with whom she had four children. She also became active in AAUW, serving as president of the Rhode Island division. She earned her MSN at Boston Univ. and became a nurse specialist at Rhode Island Hospital in the oncology department. She later served as president of the N.E. Regional Oncology Nurses and president of the Oncology Nursing Society of Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts. She was a leader in the formation of the R.I. Pain Initiative. She won two awards from the American Cancer Society for her work, including Oncology Nurse of the Year. She was certified as an advanced oncology clinical nurse specialist. Early in her marriage to her second husband, Everett Fernald, she enjoyed sailing the New England coast from their house on Narragansett Bay. Later, they replaced the sailboat with a 44-foot powerboat that they took to Fort Lauderdale in the winter. He survives her, as

do children Katherine Burnett Angelini, Thomas Burnett, Susan Burnett Pullyblank, Benjamin Burnett and Amy Fernald Parent; and 15 grandchildren.

1957 Betty Lou Baulch August 10, 2011 Betts Baulch came down from Houlton for the five-year nursing program at Bates so she could return home and train several generations of young people to care for others. When her youngest child reached kindergarten age, she started teaching practical nursing students at what was then Northern Maine Vocational Technical Institute, now Northern Maine Community College, and soon became chair of the nursing department. She championed its transition from a diploma-awarding program to an associate’s degree program in nursing and received the Director’s Award (forerunner of the President’s Award) for her efforts. She earned a master’s of education from the Univ. of Maine in 1980 and served on the Maine State Board of Nursing for more than a decade, including three years as president, and on the National Council of State Boards of Nursing for eight years. In 2008, she was named one of four inaugural inductees to the NMCC Health Care Professionals Wall of Distinction. She was president of the Aroostook County Bates Club from 1977 through 1979. Survivors include daughter Corris Marie Smith ’80; sons Walter and Michael Clark; and seven grandchildren. Her grandmother was Luella Green Ebbett 1904, and her cousin was Charles Baulch ’41. Eric Matthew Lederer February 24, 2011 Eric Lederer was a successful actuary, but he wanted something different. He had taught high school briefly right after graduation and decided to try it again. He became a successful college professor, teaching mathematics at Red Rocks Community College in Colorado for many years and publishing several college-level textbooks. He retired in 1992. He had long been interested in English history and in the space program and became a docent at the Space Odyssey exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Wife Mary Arturo Lederer survives him, as do children Rachel, Seth, Naomi and Adam Lederer; and two grandchildren. Jeffrey Dana Mailey July 29, 2011 Jeffrey Mailey left Bates after two years for a career in insurance sales with Equitable Life. He lived in the Philadelphia area with his wife, Nancy, who

predeceased him. Survivors include children Pamela Shivone, Jeff Mailey, Jill Mailey and Todd Mailey; and six grandchildren. Jane Wichert Muller July 16, 2010 Jane Muller was married to the late George Muller ’60. A resident of Denver, she is survived by daughters Kimberly Muller and Pamela Young.

1958 Her many friends on the online auction site eBay knew Jean Doane ’58 as “mainelady,” and indeed she was. Jean Leighton Doane June 26, 2011 Her many friends on the online auction site eBay knew her as “mainelady,” and indeed she was. Jean Doane lived most of her life in and around Yarmouth and Cumberland, except for the precious weeks on Chesuncook Lake up north. In between raising two sons, she built a career in banking, first at Maine National Bank and later at Key Bank. When she retired in 1988, she was vice president of private banking. It was then that her love of eBay took over and she started to prowl yard and book sales, looking for anything she thought she could sell at a profit. She was well past the 4,000-items-sold mark several years ago. Valedictorian of her high school class and Phi Beta Kappa in economics at Bates, she married classmate Dick Doane six days after graduation and went to work for Union Mutual (later UNUM) in the actuarial department. She also worked part time in her children’s schools as they grew up. Her husband survives her, as do sons Richard and Jeffrey, along with three grandchildren.

1960 Bradford Churchill September 11, 2011 Don’t worry, Brad Churchill told parents of late bloomers in the Taunton Daily Gazette in 1980. “Sit back and wait.” He knew from his own experience that late bloomers eventually bloom. It took him a four-year diversion through the Coast Guard before he was ready for college, but his career as a chemist took off right from there. He eventually put his name on three patents, including one for the very first generation of “wash and wear” shirts. He worked for General

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Aniline & Film, Lucidol and Ethyl Corp., retiring from the last as regional sales manager. When his work took his family to rural New York in 1966, he got his three sons interested in 4-H and turned them into prize-winning cowhands. He led one of the biggest 4-H clubs in western New York, and at the Erie County Fair, for five years, three out of the four top beef animals came from his club. In retirement, he enjoyed directing the Cornish Fair in New Hampshire. His wife, the former Martha Myers ’56, died in 1999. Her brother is John Myers ’52. Other survivors are sons David, Duane and Deane Churchill and four grandchildren. Sally Hendricksen Bates August 4, 2011 Sally Bates, a history major, married William Bates ’60 a few months after graduation. They divorced after having three children, one of whom, Randall, graduated from the college in 1989. She lived in Hawaii, California and Newport, R.I., before returning to Cape Cod in 1988, where she had summered as a child. There, she volunteered at the Thornton Burgess Museum for many years. In addition to Randall, survivors include children Kristi and Todd and six grandchildren.

1961 James Walter Carignan August 14, 2011 Jim Carignan was musing about Ed Muskie ’36 when he said that Bates “has historically had a commitment to...taking the poor kid from [Rumford, Maine] and giving that kid a chance, on the basis of intellectual promise and ability, to go up the ladder to a different place and play a different role.” And, Carignan added, that’s what happened to him. The son of a millworker and a store clerk, neither of whom graduated from high school, he was discouraged from applying to Bates by his high school guidance counselor. But he’d seen the campus on a debating trip with his debate coach, Ruth Patterson Estes ’29, whom he affectionately described as a “battleaxe.” He had some doubts about his future when he received a D on his first exam, but he went on to earn honors in history, become class president, serve on the Outing Club and History Club boards and play soccer. At the urging of two history professors (Jackman and Muller) and with the encouragement of his father, he went on to get a Ph.D. in colonial American history from the Univ. of Rochester. He was happily teaching history at Kenyon College in Ohio when he received a letter from the new president at Bates, T. Hedley Reynolds, asking him to apply

to become dean of men. He wrote back declining to apply and furthermore chastised the college for still having a “gender bifurcated deanship” in 1970. That made President Reynolds even more interested in him, and although he started as dean of men, he was dean of the college within six months. He was also an associate professor of history, teaching classes that brought elements of diversity to the classroom. He was instrumental to the creation of the Muskie Archives as a repository and research library of the former senator and secretary of state and as a venue for political programming. He served on dozens of local and state boards, most in education and community development. He was a member of the state board of education. In 1985, a sniper lodged a bullet near his heart, almost killing him, which resulted in two heart transplants within a few years. He responded by increasing his involvement with the community, becoming a Lewiston city councilor and a member of the L/A Excels steering committee. He retired from Bates in 2003. “It was a great, great ride,” he said to the Lewiston Sun Journal at the time. Survivors include wife Sally Larson Carignan ’62; children Steven, Mark and Paul Carignan and Sarah Carignan Belanger ’95; and nine grandchildren. Claire Jaggard Krisewicz December 27, 2010 Claire Krisewicz, a history major, taught in several towns in New Jersey before marrying Joseph Krisewicz in 1967. Three years later, they moved to Salisbury, Md., where she eventually earned an M.Ed. from Salisbury Univ. Her career was in teaching children with special needs. Her husband survives her, along with children Brant Krisewicz and Kathi Adams and two grandchildren.

1962 Sarah Carroll Watson August 17, 2011 That Sally Carroll Watson would follow her parents and her brother to Bates was nearly inevitable. That her life would go in a completely different direction was unforeseen. Her parents were Herbert Carroll ’23 and Gladys Hasty Carroll ’25, and her brother was Warren Hasty Carroll ’53, whose obituary appears on pg. 87. An English major, she was the editor of The Garnet, worked on the Student and the Mirror and appeared poised to follow in her famous mother’s footsteps. She even got a job at Little, Brown after graduation. But then she realized her spiritual path lay with the Mormon Church, and her professional path lay in special education.

She earned a teaching certificate from Brigham Young Univ. in 1973 and a M.Ed. from Salem State in 1976. She was in the forefront of the “mainstream” movement and built programs in several Massachusetts towns. She returned to Utah to work on a doctorate at BYU and was named Utah Teacher of the Year in 1985 during that time. She finished her teaching career at the Frisbee School in Kittery and at Dover (N.H.) High School. In retirement, she turned her attention to Dunnybrook, the historical foundation started by her mother at the 350-year-old family farm. Survivors include children Caroline Jones and James Watson and six grandchildren.

1963 Paul Castolene ’63 taught biology, coached football and found that coaching allowed the students to see him as a “regular person.” Paul Joseph Castolene July 5, 2011 Paul Castolene was a standout athlete throughout high school in Bristol, Conn., and at Bates, in both basketball and football. He was named to All-Maine, All-New England and All-East teams in football. He taught biology in his hometown and coached football and found that coaching added a dimension to his teaching: It allowed the students to see him as a “regular person,” he said. He went on to earn a master’s in biology from Wesleyan in 1975 and later became principal at an elementary school in Bristol and finally a vice-principal at the high school. He retired in 2000. He coached midget football and served on its board and was vice president of the Connecticut Pop Warner League. He also was very active in civic affairs, especially in the Chrysanthemum Festival and the Miss Bristol Pageant. He served on the board of the Miss Connecticut scholarship program and was a commissioner for the Bristol Bicentennial Celebration. Survivors include daughters Tami Miclette and Traci Castolene; a grandson; and companion Diana Rode. Robert Lorenzo Couturier June 5, 2011 When he was 13, Robert Couturier was offered a four-year future scholarship to Assumption College. He turned it down, because he had already decided to attend Bates. A Lewiston native, he quickly became involved

in local politics and was elected an alderman in 1964 and mayor in 1965, the youngest mayor the city has ever had. Two years later, he became a state senator. He also managed to squeeze law school into his schedule and received his law degree in 1970 from the Univ. of Maine. In 1967, he became the police commissioner for Lewiston, a position he held for over a decade. He was serving his third term as a probate judge for Androscoggin County at the time of his death. His deep roots in Lewiston were French-Canadian, and he broadcast a French radio program for more than 15 years. He was active in several French-Canadian groups in Lewiston, and in 1983 his flag design was adopted by Franco-Americans in New England. He served as chair of the governor’s committee on Canadian relations in 1973. In 1988, he was elected secretary-general of L’Association Canado-Américaine, for which he also served as general counsel; he served on the board of Le Conseil de la Vie française en Amérique of Quebec City. The Province of Quebec awarded him its Ordre des Francophones d’Amérique in 1989 and in 2000, the government of France named him Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His first wife, the former Rose Belanger, died in 1995. Survivors include wife Monique St. Hilaire Couturier; stepsons Gerald and Denis Touchette; one grandchild; cousin Paul St. Hilaire ’58; and niece Rachel Langlais Maier ’89. Roland Norman Simard March 16, 2011 Roland Simard fought in Vietnam for three years after college and then set about building a successful career in commercial real estate in Connecticut. He managed and developed various properties in New York and Connecticut and in 1972 was the director of the Better Business Bureau of Southwestern Connecticut. He also had business interests in Miami. Survivors include sisters Loraine Livingston and Janine Reny; and brother Roger Simard. Barbara Reid Schmus January 30, 2011 For her 25th Reunion, Bobbi Schmus wrote that Bates had given her the confidence to attack a problem and “attempt to find a solution and not be defeated by temporary failure.” She drew on that confidence when she stepped into the role of company president of Connex International, after its founder passed away in 1990. She had more or less stumbled into the nascent teleconferencing field nine years earlier, after working as a portrait photographer during the 1960s and then raising her sons. She remained as president of Connex until 2001,

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when she retired. She turned her attention to watercolor painting and went on to win several awards. Survivors include husband Harry Schmus; sons Jeffrey and Jeremy Heyel; stepson Bob Schmus; and five grandchildren. She was divorced from Peter Heyel ’65.

1964 Nancy Dillman Larson David June 18, 2011 The high school musicals she produced made more money than the football team, said Nancy David, and were the prototype for the entire state of Connecticut, well in advance of Disney. They involved as many as 400 students and, she joked, helped establish the costume rental business in the Hartford area as other schools followed suit. She also edited the newsletter for the schools in Wallingford and won 11 first-place awards for it from the Conn. Education Assn. She taught in Wallingford for 34 years and completed a master’s in education at Southern Connecticut State College during that time. She was active in local, state and national educational organizations. Her first husband was Kenneth Larson ’63; he passed away in 1992. At her 30th Reunion, she bumped into classmate John David, and again the Bates magic worked: They married in 1997. She retired shortly after, and they moved to Amherst, N.H., where she became active in a number of local causes, including walks against hunger and homelessness. Her husband and stepchildren John David and Katherine Burden are among her survivors.

1965 Edward Brian Deevey October 6, 2010 Brian Deevey, the child of a world-famous biologist who helped figure out carbon dating, chose to look at the world in a very different way: He became an anthropologist. To prepare himself, he studied history at Bates and was president of the History Club and vice president of the Art Association. He entered the Peace Corps after graduation, which taught him to get by on nothing and introduced him to life in Southeast Asia. He spent two years in Thailand in public health and returned home in time to be drafted and sent to Vietnam. He earned his master’s from Central Connecticut College and a doctorate from the Univ. of Missouri. His research took him back to Thailand, where he studied life in a small village on the Malay Peninsula. A Fulbright grant helped fund his doctorate. Among his survivors is his sister, Ruth Lehmann.

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1967 Carol Johnson Cooper June 26, 2011 Music shaped Carol Cooper’s life in many ways. Active in the Chapel Choir and the Choral Society, she also was a member of the Merimanders all four years at Bates. And it was in the Chapel Choir that she met the man who would become her husband, R. Bruce Cooper ’65. She continued to sing throughout her life and even worked in a music store. The first in her family to attend college, she graduated magna cum laude with a degree in English and a Phi Beta Kappa key and was a Travelli Scholar. After winning a trip to the Caribbean, she and Bruce traveled to all seven continents. Her husband survives her. Other survivors include her mother, Evelyn Johnson; daughters Cathryn Moyski and Cynthia Cooper; and four grandchildren.

1970 Daniel Alley Johnson III February 12, 2011 Daniel Johnson tried out a few careers before finding the one that fed his soul: teaching history. First he worked in hospital administration in the Boston area and then he did business consulting, using his spare time to earn a master’s in education at Boston Univ. He was a lifetime member of the Pilgrim Society and a collector of presidential autographs, so his enthusiasm for history was easy to transfer to the classroom. He taught at Bedichek Middle School in Austin, Texas. A religion major at Bates, he was also a Dana Scholar. Survivors include his mother, Elizabeth Johnson; wife Ginger Edwards; daughter Elizabeth Johnson; and former wife Barbara S. Johnson.

Give Bob Kinney ’70 a job to do, and he got it done. He never fumbled the football, never lost a yard while playing. Just get the job done. Earl Robert Kinney Jr. March 19, 2011 Give Bob Kinney a job to do, and he got it done. He never fumbled the football, never lost a yard while playing. Nothing flashy; just get the job done. He started college with the Class of 1967, but felt compelled to leave Bates to join the Marines in 1964 to serve in Vietnam and got the job done there, too. He returned to finish his degree in sociology. He made Bates history of a sort by

opening The Cage near campus shortly after graduation. He sold it to another alum a few years later and took off to start a career in warehouse management. He retired from Nashua Corp. in 1999, which gave him a chance to try teaching at the local high school in Merrimack, N.H., as well as coach lacrosse. He and wife Sally Greenlaw Kinney ’69 were active in World Wide Marriage Encounter and the Lung Assn. of N.H. and attended Riverside Christian Church; she survives him. Among other survivors are parents Earl Robert Kinney Sr. ’39 and Mary Reid Kinney; children Samantha Kinney Leone ’93, Mari Reid Kinney and E. Robert Kinney III; and four grandchildren. His aunt is Elizabeth Kinney Jones ’44. Richard Winslow Suffern January 30, 2011 Win Suffern transferred to Bates for his junior and senior years and was a history major. He quickly made his mark with the Robinson Players and went on to perform and coach theater for many years. He also taught English, history and Latin in New Hampshire and Vermont. He received master’s degrees from UNH in 1971 and 1975. Survivors include wife Leona Martin; children James Suffern and Erika Suffern; and stepchildren Micki Centrone, Timothy Powers, John Powers and Penny Shultz. Julie Ann Waltz September 22, 2010 Julie Waltz prepared for a career teaching history by majoring in it at Bates, spending her junior year at Oxford. She then went on to earn a master’s at UNH. She taught at schools in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. She also became an award-winning photographer and director of adult and community education in Duxbury, Mass. She received a certificate in computer science and became a computer trainer after her marriage to Gary Robinson dissolved. Survivors include sisters Pamela Hodsdon and Marie Theriault.

1972 John Clifford Johnson Jr. February 22, 2011 After graduation, John Johnson returned to the Hartford area to earn a master’s in special education and to work as the codirector of the Mansfield Day Treatment Center. His degree from Bates was in psychology. Later he became director of online services at McGraw-Hill Publishing Cos. in Farmington and Columbus, Ohio. Survivors include parents Jean and John Johnson Sr.; and sister Beth Briggs.

1973 Douglas Albert Moody June 4, 2011 An internship at the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf on Mackworth Island convinced Doug Moody that he wanted a career working with the deaf community. He earned a master’s at Gallaudet Univ. and then worked as director of evaluation and assessment at the American School for the Deaf in West Hartford. He eventually returned to the school on Mackworth Island, now renamed the Maine Educational Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, and was its guidance counselor when he became ill. Survivors include his son, David Moody. Thomas Jonathan Shaw June 4, 2010 Tom Shaw was an anesthesiologist in Denver. A chemistry major at Bates, he attended Kansas City College of Osteopathic Medicine and did his internship and residency at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. Among his survivors is his son, Thomas Shaw.

1976 David Kevin Horne July 30, 2003 David Horne was a principal economist working for Freddie Mac at the time of his death. A dean’s list student, he graduated from Bates with a degree in economics and went on to the Univ. of Pennsylvania to become a teaching fellow, earning a doctorate and becoming a professor there. He also taught at Lehigh and Temple universities. His first wife was Mary Beth Pope Salama ’77, whose sister is Susan J. Pope ’79. Survivors include wife Leigh Ann Coates and children Caitlin and Lucas Horne. Donald Edward Orifice June 12, 2011 Don Orifice taught at the Lincoln Technical Institute in Somerville, Mass. Previously, he was the executive director of the North Shore Computer Society. Survivors include wife Linda Hill Orifice; daughter Jennifer MacRobbie; and a grandchild.

1979 Linda Hope Harris Lewis July 19, 2011 Linda Lewis was struggling to recover from an eating disorder when she died of an infection. She had been working as a freelance writer for a number of years, following a successful career as an industrial engineer in academic systems at companies such as Wang, ADP and IBM. She earned her master’s in the

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field at Lehigh Univ. A dean’s list student at Bates, her degree was in theater and speech. Her son, Timothy, is a member of the Class of 2010. He is among her survivors, along with husband Mark Lewis; daughter Deirdre Lewis; and mother Irma Harris.

1988 Richard Allen Bjork July 14, 2011 Richard Bjork used the rules of chemistry he learned at Bates to work magic in the kitchen and turned himself into a successful pastry chef despite being tethered to a breathing apparatus. In 1993, he became one of the first people with cystic fibrosis to receive a double lung transplant, which enabled him to ditch the breathing apparatus, move to Pittsburgh and get a job at a restaurant. There, he fell in love with one of the waitresses. They married and adopted two daughters. He and a few others bought the restaurant, and he enjoyed a normal life until his health deteriorated in 2010. In the end, his kidneys failed, a side effect of the anti-rejection drugs he was forced to take. His wife, Zuleikha, and daughters Summer and Marissa survive him. Other survivors include parents Janice and Karl Bjork; and brothers Bill, Andrew and David Bjork. Jeffrey Scott Caron March 6, 2011 “Grades are important,” Jeff Caron once said, “but it’s important to have a life, too.” He managed a 3.1 average, worked as an athletic trainer, served as a junior adviser and resident coordinator, played drums in a rock band (“Dorm Damage”) and spent a term studying the Costa Rican rain forest. This was a somewhat slower pace than his high school years in Thomaston, where he served as a junior firefighter and EMT, leaving class whenever his emergency beeper sounded. A biology major, he went on to graduate from medical school at the Univ. of Vermont and then complete an internship in emergency medicine in Orlando. His residency in family medicine was at the Univ. of Tennessee. At the time of his death, he was the director of urgent care at a facility he owned near Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Survivors include parents Sandra and Louis Caron; sisters Michelle Grant and Heather VanBuskirk; brother Chris Caron; and close friend Brian Humphries.

up tailgate parties for Patriots games. He played rugby at Bates, where he was an English major. He worked as a reporter for The Cape Codder, Worth and Boston Magazine before becoming a consultant for John Hancock. Survivors include wife Jill Coppelman Seaman; daughter Morgan Lillie Seaman; parents Kenneth and Judith Seaman; and brother Christopher Seaman.

1996 Andrew Mark Shriver June 14, 2011 Andy Shriver’s love of travel took him to Ireland, France and Australia. He worked as an event coordinator for the World Congress Center in Georgia and then the Atlanta Track Club before taking a job with the San Francisco Symphony. He returned to Atlanta to work as an aide to state Rep. Pat Gardner. Survivors include parents Mark Shriver and Patricia McKay; brothers Brian and Pepper Shriver; and sister Tamerie Shriver.

former faculty Sydney Jackman wore the traditional black academic gown of an English don to class every day, refused to learn to drive and called himself Toby, after his childhood Teddy bear. Sydney Wayne Jackman February 27, 2011 Sydney Jackman was an American professor who lived in Canada and acted British. He wore the traditional black academic gown of an English don to class every day, refused to learn to drive and called himself Toby, after his childhood Teddy bear. He received a Ph.D. from Harvard and arrived at Bates in 1953. He left in 1963 for the new Univ. of Victoria in British Columbia, where he had been raised after his parents died. He retired in 1990. Over the course of his career, he wrote 16 books — longhand, because he refused to learn to type. Only one secretary could read his scribbles. He also refused to fly, unless absolutely necessary. To visit Scandinavia, for instance,

he traveled from Victoria, B.C., on a cargo ship to Genoa, Italy, and then by rail. He was 80 at the time. He also refused to stay at hotels built before the end of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Near the end of his life, when he was confined to bed, his friends worked out a schedule to be sure he always had someone to talk to. “He could talk the hind leg off a donkey,” said John Money, a longtime friend.

honorary David Salzer Broder March 9, 2011 Doctor of Humane Letters, 1992 David Broder’s newspaper column was read by millions in The Washington Post and 300 other newspapers for more than 40 years. Called the “dean” of the Washington press corps, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his commentary in 1973. In his acceptance speech, he admitted that newspapers didn’t print “All the News That’s Fit to Print,” but instead delivered “the best we could do under the circumstances, and we will be back tomorrow with a corrected and updated version.” He was a regular on Meet the Press and authored or coauthored eight books. Survivors include wife Ann Collar Broder; sons George, Joshua, Matthew and Michael Broder; and seven grandchildren.

Reflections in Lake Andrews.

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‘With Some Trepidation’ Heard a lot about “joining the conversation”? Harry Rowe was ahead of that game when he launched the magazine of Bates 91 years ago In the magazine’s first issue, managing editor Harry Rowe 1912 presented the college magazine “with some trepidation.” He felt that way because, as he wrote, “there is no way of knowing what alumni want” in a magazine until readers see and react to the first one. So in that first issue, Rowe extended an unpretentious invitation to join the discussion of all things Bates. With “suggestion and constructive criticism” in the Bates fashion, Rowe knew that the magazine would evolve over time (though he may not have anticipated a yellow cover). As shown by 91 years of covers, the mag’s look and feel has certainly changed. Yet the reader’s main interest — what’s going on at Bates — hasn’t. Which is why, in that first issue, you learned about a guest lecturer who vigorously denounced the Bolshevik Revolution, about a new freshman initiation program in lieu of a ban on “indiscriminate hazing,” and why the football team had a tough go of it in 1919:

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Give a toast to The Garnet

Photography on the cover!

Fun with color — but yellow?

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Commencement in the Chapel

Hazing could once be played for laughs

War veterans and families return to Bates

A ’50s vibe with the Outing Club

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State Series champs!

Lavinia moves into Schaeffer

Bates goes national on College Bowl

Frank Coffin ’40 and alums worldwide

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Great heights with Paul Bunyan

Women’s liberation meets Emma Clark Rand 1881

Sustainability, ’70s style

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There must have been some magic

Alumni and AIDS

Saying goodbye to Peter Gomes ’65

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a r ch iv es In 1938, while on a “splurge” with Wilson House friends at Jimmy’s Diner in Auburn,

Muriel Swicker ’42 penned this ode on a napkin about the delights of a 30-cent hotdog, and placed it in her freshman-year scrapbook.

Meredith “Pete” Burrill ’25 won the Garcelon Cup for hurdles in 1922.

Then Burrill took another leap forward, becoming a world authority on geographic place names.

Ode to a Hotdog

Oh Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Oh, luscious cytoplasm We sink our teeth in thy cells walls Even on thee spread Shovelfuls of goooo Oh crispy greasy cloak Draped upon thy sides. Yum — My God!

A sketch of a cat skull by Cecelia Christensen, Class of 1919,

is displayed in the lobby of Carnegie Science Hall. Past and present, “students grapple with the spatial component of knowledge,” says Don Dearborn, chair of the biology department. “Transforming something you see, or know to exist, into another form, whether a drawing or a computer image, is a powerful tool for learning.”

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In the 1930s, riding was among the many offerings of the Women’s Athletic Association. The Bates women’s athletics motto —

“a sport for every girl and every girl in a sport” — reflected the national reaction to the era’s professionalized and exclusive sports culture.

o u t ta k e I photographed Pettengill Hall at dusk in December. By intentionally moving the camera, the lights of Perry Atrium became an impressionistic landscape — something you might see outside the window of a plane at night. — Phyllis Graber Jensen

Bates Magazine Spring 2012 Editor H. Jay Burns Designer Mervil Paylor Design Director of Photography Phyllis Graber Jensen Class Notes Editor Jon Halvorsen Contributing Editors Roland Adams Marc Glass ’88 Doug Hubley Andy Walter Illustrators ©2012 theispot Michael Austin Stuart Briers James Steinberg

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6 Amateur pilot Sue Reedich P’13 sent a few photos of her campus flyover last fall. Here’s what caught our eye.

The library terrace links large, modernist Ladd (1973) with smaller, historic Coram (1902).

Roger Williams’ expansion-restoration includes a pavilionstyle addition.

A lively crossroads, thanks to recent construction (Commons, Alumni Walk) and renovation (Hedge, the Bill, Garcelon).

Known as the Merrill Grove, a stand that’s endured a century of facilities expansion. Big grove!

The site of future residences — with ample green space preserved.

Parker and other historic buildings once had flat roofs. But President Phillips wanted gables, so on they came.

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INTRODUCING

BATES IN BRIEF

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STUDENTS

campus

academics

Maybe your Bates sweatshirt is older than they are, but students are as fascinating as ever.

Parts of campus are as new as tomorrow, some timeless as ever — and some both.

It’s the Bates constant and its dynamo — and what makes the Bates world go ’round.

sports

Arts & culture

lewiston

The truth behind the college song: “The Bobcat dotes on fighting, and his courage is supreme.”

The myriad and creative ways to show and tell.

Learn why Bates could not possibly be anywhere but in Lewiston.

the college Here’s to making the business of Bates part of your business, too.

the world The more Bates is in the world, the more the world is in Bates.