takeaway:
bat e s no t e s
1990 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class secretary Joanne Walton joannewalton2003@yahoo.com class president Eric Knight eric_knight@verizon.net Shelburne (Vt.) Museum director Tom Denenberg said its expansion with a $7 million Center for Art and Education will transform the museum into a year-round institution. He told The Burlington Free Press that the museum, with a collection of more than 150,000 objects ranging from fine art to handmade quilts, is an important part of Vermont’s identity. “We want this literally to be the spiritual center of the state.”...Auto industry veteran Dave Hazlett was named general manager of Prime Infiniti in Hanover, Mass....Christine Johnson Conrad was named chief customer service officer at the Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank. CJ is pursuing a master’s in banking and financial services at Boston Univ....Gavin Little-Gill is the global head of Linedata’s asset management product strategy and acts as managing director for North America....Joff Redfern is the head of LinkedIn’s global mobile products team.
1991 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Katie Tibbetts Morello ktmorello@alumni.bates.edu class president John Ducker jducker1@yahoo.com
Brendan Gillis happily reports that in January 2012 he started his own business, Gillis Accounting Services, LLC, in Darien, Conn. “Business has been wonderful. My clients are small businesses who don’t need a full-time accountant, as well as individuals, doing budgeting, organization and planning. I typically work three out of four Saturdays a month, but that’s far better than the alternative.” He and Jill celebrate their 10th anniversary this year.... The Times-Dispatch reported how musician Corey Harris and City Councilman Parker Agelasto ’98 are involved in a project to memorialize the historic Fulton neighborhood in Richmond, Va. Fulton was the object of a misbegotten urban-renewal effort that erased its urban grid and architecture in the 1970s, the newspaper said. Former residents have worked to establish a memorial park. Corey has lived in the Fulton area for three years and wrote the collection Fulton Blues, inspired by a local history, and gave a benefit performance to raise money for the park. “As a songwriter, I’m always drawn to stories,” he said. “I think it’s a tragedy anytime people are pushed out of their neighborhood, and people’s sense of place is demolished for other people to come in and make money.” Parker helped bring Corey onboard through the musician’s relationship with his brother, who has a recording studio in Nelson County. “I graduated from Bates College, as did Corey, and his career in the music industry has been pretty remarkable,” Parker said....Freeport Town Councilor Melanie Fleming Sachs is the new executive director of Freeport Community Services. A clinical social worker, she’s been involved in the organization and its needsbased programs for a long time.
1992 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 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 peterjfriedman@gmail.com Leyla Morrissey Bader leyla.bader@gmail.com Jeff Mutterperl jeffmutterperl@aol.com
MICHAEL J. MALONEY
the Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison....Clara Zone Avalos and her husband and menagerie of pets relocated to Raspberry Falls in Leesburg, Va. Director of federal government contracts and compliance at Thomson Reuters since July 2011, she loves working at the fast-moving, creative global company where she is able to define and expand her role in its dynamic IP&Science division. “The best thing about working at TR is the fact that the company truly values its employees as assets and treats us like the human beings that we are. This past year I was fortunate to be allowed to work from home on a flexible schedule to accommodate extensive treatments for advanced-stage breast cancer. Work was one of the major things that kept me active and positive and helped me to get through the roughest parts of chemo, post-op and radiation. I still have a long way to go, but I know that I am going to beat this — and being able to continue to be ‘normal’ has been one of the greatest medicines and motivators of all.”
Caitrin Lynch ’89
who:
Caitrin Lynch ’89
media outlet: The Boston Globe
headline:
Needham firm finds success with older workers
date:
March 31, 2012
takeaway: Work provides an oasis of meaning for older adults.
For her book Retirement on the Line: Age, Work, and Value in an American Factory, researcher Caitrin Lynch ’89 spent five years studying the workforce at Vita Needle Co. in Needham, Mass., where the median age is 73. Lynch, an associate professor of anthropology at Olin College, tells The Boston Globe that for many Americans getting old is like a vanishing act. “People don’t even look at them, and if they do look at them, they look at them with pity.” But work provides “an oasis of meaning for older adults,” she says, telling Northeast Public Radio that her research illuminates “the economic, social and psychological values” of work in America. “What is it people are seeking? What are their values? How do you understand work in the context of people’s lives?”
The Times Union in Albany interviewed Jim Cable, deputy chief of the New York State Office of Fire Prevention and Control. He has been a 911 dispatcher, fire protection specialist, arson investigator, volunteer
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