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1982 Edward Joseph Walsh III January 23, 2013 Developers have struggled for years to find new uses for the grand old mills that line the rivers in cities such as Lewiston and Lowell. Ed Walsh won an award in 2012 for his work at the Lofts at Perkins Place, the Paul Tsongas Award for Historic Preservation. Environmentally friendly restoration and redevelopment resulted in a revived mill building in Lowell full of welcoming up-to-date apartments, all with oversized windows and high ceilings. He also was part of the team that took 10 acres of industrial wasteland in East Cambridge, Mass., and transformed it into a multiuse park. The project won the 2006 Region 1 and National Phoenix Award for Excellence. His degree from Bates was in chemistry; he also held a master’s in engineering from Boston Univ. He challenged himself by riding every year in the Pan Mass Challenge bike-a-thon to raise money for cancer research; he had raised over $100,000, and had survived 15 years. Survivors include wife Mary Wittenhagen Walsh; stepchildren Jason, Terence and Caitlin Waldron; father Edward Walsh; and two grandchildren.
1983 Charlene Keable Blodgett September 17, 2012 After her divorce from James W. Hunt III ’84, Charlene Keable met John Henry Blodgett. He showed her that “there is life outside of New England,” she wrote. He took her around the world, to Bahrain, Singapore, Perth, Sidney, Tahiti. They traced the path of the Vikings, crossed the fjords of Greenland and came down the coast of Canada. They married in 1987. In 1990, they completed their dream house in Waterville Valley, N.H. Her husband died in 2003. Survivors include mother Joyce Keable; brother Steven; and sister Lauren Kalian.
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year from the Univ. of North Carolina. A passionate advocate for children, she worked as a counselor, school administrator and coach. She was a select coach for Nashoba United Team Soccer and president of Littleton (Mass.) Soccer during her 15-year association with them, and an 18-year volunteer for Dance Prism of Concord. She lived her life believing that “where there’s a will, there’s a way,” said her husband, Mark Andrew McKelvey. She listed him as her “favorite” in her list of “favorites,” just above her children, who were just above her pets, who were just above “vacationing in Canada.” She did not leave a list of accomplishments, but she did name her greatest one: the development of her children, Antonia, Peter, Lenora and John. In addition to them and her second husband, survivors include her first husband, Lawrence “Peter” Wood ’84. Her mother was Catherine Evans Needham ’50.
1990 William Zeus Bligh-Glover October 30, 2011 Known as William the Coroner to his many fans on his blog, Zeus Bligh-Glover’s sudden death took them and his students, friends and co-workers by surprise, and their hundreds of notes on his funeral website all spoke to his humor, kindness and copious knowledge of his medical field. An assistant professor at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, from which he received his medical degree, he also was the forensic pathologist of Lorain County, Ohio. He formerly had been the coroner of Cuyahoga County. His reputation among public defenders was for not playing favorites but for seeking the truth, for being objective. His students rated him five stars out of five in a class they did not consider easy. Survivors include his mother, Pamela Bligh-Glover, and grandparents, William and Virginia Bligh.
2001 Marjie Needham ’84 listed her husband as her “favorite” in her list of “favorites,” just above her children, who were just above her pets, who were just above “vacationing in Canada.” Marjorie Ann Needham January 26, 2013 Marjie Needham transferred to Bates for her sophomore
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Rommel Wora Akona Padonou December 11, 2012 He could dunk the ball before he could dribble properly. Being 6 foot 6 inches tall helped, and years of competitive soccer and tae kwon do gave Rommel Padonou the power to soar. But to him, basketball and other sports were secondary. He was scouted by Division I coaches, who could have offered him the world, but that wasn’t what he wanted. “It wasn’t basketball that brought me to Bates,” Padonou explained to this magazine in 2010. “It was academics. Basketball is just by accident.” He studied economics
and French literature, and wanted to return to his native Gabon to build roads and hospitals. But he refused to pay bribes to government officials in order to do business there. He was fluent in eight languages, a member of the College Key and CEO of his own company, Zegnon Group Inc.
faculty Allan Williams Cameron June 10, 2011 After teaching in the Bates government department from 1965 to 1968 and then at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts, Allan Cameron worked in Washington, D.C., for the federal government, including stints as adviser to Sen. Jeremiah Denton Jr., R-Ala., on foreign and defense policy; executive director of the Presidential Commission on Merchant Marine and Defense; and deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for international policy. At the time of his death he was a senior national security adviser for Computer Sciences Corp.
An avid fly fisherman, Professor Roy Farnsworth once explained how fishing underscored a relationship with nature based on respect and wonder. “Fly-fishing lends itself to your being in the outof-doors, looking at awe at nature around you.” Roy Lothrop Farnsworth July 18, 2012 Professor Roy Farnsworth was relatively new to the Bates faculty when the idea of Short Term was introduced, and he seized on it immediately as a creative way to explore his love of adventurous fieldwork. He led his students through the Northeast and into Canada, camping along the way, collecting fossils and doing geologic mapping, visiting mines to evaluate economic resources, studying mineralized rocks and speaking with local experts. He did the cooking, too. He earned degrees from Boston Univ. — a bachelor’s in English and a doctoral degree in geology — before joining the Bates faculty in 1961. He served as department chair for 19 of his 29 years at the college, retiring in 1990. He served with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Germany, and his fields of interest were glacial geomorphology and environmental geology. An avid fly fisherman, he once explained to this magazine how fishing
underscored a relationship with nature based on respect and wonder: “We go fishing not for … the achievement of catching that large one or filling the meat pot. Fly-fishing lends itself to your being in the out-of-doors, looking at awe at nature around you. It’s a quiet pastime. You see many animals. You see many birds. You see many changes of season.” As a teacher, he said that he tried to share part of himself with his students, and, in turn, hoped to receive “a bit of those [students] that you get to know,” thus gaining great satisfaction from following students as they build their lives. A past chairman of the Baxter State Park advisory committee, he also served on the scientific forestry advisory committee and the director’s scientific study committee. He was a trustee of the Maine Wilderness Watershed Trust and past chairman of the Auburn Water District. Survivors include wife Ruth; daughter Allyson Jutras; sons Peter and Paul, who is senior project manager for Facilities Services at Bates; and four grandchildren.
honorary Max M. Kampelman January 25, 2013 Max Kampelman was a Cold War diplomat who advised Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale on foreign policy, then became a key diplomat for Ronald Reagan. He led two negotiations with the Soviet Union on nuclear arms reductions and recognition of human rights, resulting in the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty shortly before the Soviet Union collapsed. In 1986, he received an honorary LL.D. from Bates. President Reagan awarded him the Presidential Citizens Medal, and President Clinton awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His wife, Marjorie Buetow Kampelman, died in 2007. Two of their children, David Kampelman ’80 and Anne Kampelman Wiederkehr, died in 2004 and 2006, respectively. Survivors include children Jeffrey, Julia Stevenson and Sarah; and five grandchildren.