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and correspondent Jim Axelrod of CBS News won a prestigious George Polk Award for television reporting for their series “Compounding Pharmacy Fraud.”
2007 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class co-presidents Keith Kearney kdkearney@gmail.com Rakhshan Zahid rakhshan.zahid@gmail.com Ava Bessel Schaefer is now an associate attorney at Pisanelli Bice, a Las Vegas-based firm.... Allison Caine gave a talk at the Jesup Memorial Library in Bar Harbor about her doctoral research in Peru. She has spent almost two years living in a remote community of alpaca herders doing research and fieldwork for her doctorate in anthropology from the Univ. of Michigan....Patrick Conway paid tribute to his Deering High School English teacher Gaetano Santa Lucia in a Portland Press Herald article. Lucia, who died Jan. 28 at 77, “approached literature from the angle of what it means to lead a good life, what it means to deal with the world,” said Patrick, who teaches English composition and American literature to prison inmates in Massachusetts....John D’Ascenzo earned an MBA from the Univ. of Washington Foster School of Business in 2015. He lives in Seattle where he works for ARRYVE Consulting.
2008 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class co-presidents Elizabeth Murphy elizabeth.jayne.m@gmail.com Alison Schwartz alisonrose.schwartz@gmail.com Christina Sumpio and Demian von Poelnitz were married April 9, 2016. She’s an associate counsel in the New York office of the Carlyle Group investment firm. He’s an associate specializing in corporate law at the New York law firm White & Case.
2009 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class co-presidents Timothy Gay timothy.s.gay@gmail.com Arsalan Suhail arsalansuhail@gmail.com The Boston Globe caught up with Valerie Beckwith for a story on the life lessons she learned playing basketball at Woburn High and Bates. “Athletics had a huge impact on my life as far as teamwork and perspective and having a hard-working, competitive attitude,” she said. Valerie works as a sales
account manager for ForeScout Technologies. She’s engaged to Ben Thayer, a former men’s basketball captain at Bates....A Chicago neighborhood paper talked with Jonathan Dowdy, who helped his cousin, Michael Dowdy, train and win a spot on the Seton Hall men’s basketball team. For three summers Michael endured rigorous workouts with Jonathan, who played basketball at Bates. Jonathan is a licensed personal banker at Chase Investment Services in Chicago....Sam Evans-Brown hosts New Hampshire Public Radio’s new series Outside/ In, which takes a broader look at the natural world while challenging the audience to think and engage with the world around them....Sean O’Brien joined the Buffalo, N.Y., law firm of Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman as an associate attorney.... Molly Ritner was hired as campaign manager for Sue Minter, a Democratic candidate for governor of Vermont....Virginia Schippers and James Coltheart were married May 15, 2016. She works in Canberra, Australia, as the economic growth manager for the Asia-Pacific region of the Palladium Group. He’s a major in the Australian army.
2010 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class co-presidents Brianna Bakow brianna.bakow@gmail.com Vantiel Elizabeth Duncan vantielelizabeth.duncan@gmail. com Tom Beaton is the new head football coach at the Williston Northampton School in Easthampton, Mass....Vantiel Elizabeth Duncan joined the American Red Cross of Maine as a major gifts officer....Elise Lang and her husband, Sergio Chwoschtschinsky, who were married Sept. 12, 2015, live in Maryland....Bradley McGraw received the Distinguished Young Alumni Award. His award citation reads, in part: “Since graduating magna cum laude with a degree in economics, Bradley has never failed to make time for Bates or to encourage other New York City-based young alumni to volunteer for the college. His own lengthy record of service includes ongoing work as a BCDC Career Adviser.”...Elliot Moskow welcomed Livia Marie Moskow on March 5, 2016.
2011 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class co-presidents Theodore Sutherland theodoresutherland89@gmail.com Patrick Williams dapatch20002000@yahoo.com
First-year pathology resident Diane Brackett ’11 says playing hockey is a refreshing stress-reliever partly because it’s “completely outside of my life as a medical student.” Diane Brackett is enjoying her first year of residency in pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.... Gwen Caffrey earned her M.D. from Cooper Medical School and began her internal medicine residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. She and husband Iain Ridgway welcomed a daughter, Meredith, in November 2015.... Tyler Dewdney was promoted to vice president of agency at Appcast, a pay-per-applicant job ad exchange headquartered in Lebanon, N.H....Briana Gross and her younger sister Cat are fixtures in the Merrimack Valley Conference lacrosse community. They are now opposing head coaches — Briana as the new Methuen girls lacrosse coach, and Cat in her second year at Andover....Cambria Hempton Brockman’s business, Cambria Grace Photography, was awarded Best of Boston for wedding photography....Liz Johnston volunteered as a physician assistant with Amazon Promise, a U.S.-based nonprofit founded to provide desperately needed medical care to remote populations in Peru’s Upper Amazon basin....Nicolette Robbins and Lorenzo Zangari were married June 18, 2016. She started a clinical psychology Ph.D. at the Univ. of Kansas.
2012 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class co-presidents Mikey Pasek mikeypasek@gmail.com Sangita Murali sangitamurali12@gmail.com Josalynne Cottery and DeJuan Love were married May 28, 2016....Lauren Dobish started a wedding photography business in Boston and is excited to be photographing five Bates weddings in 2016....A photo James Dowling-Healey took of a painted turtle (Chrysemys picta) was printed in a Canadian science textbook, Saskatchewan Science 9, published by Pearson....Leah Elsmore earned a master’s of public health from the Univ. of Colorado....Tasnia Huque, a venture investment associate at Cue Ball Capital in Boston, spoke with FemTechLeaders.
com about her career. She’s excited about venture capital and the technology sector because “it is ever-changing and you are always engaged!”...Carver Low works at a media company specializing in the urban millennial male demographic. He creates content for its web properties and oversees integrated marketing efforts for content and digital ad sales....Former Bobcat standout midfielder Kelly McManus is now assistant coach of the Bowdoin field hockey team.... Kyle Philbrook joined the sales team of Mortgage Network Inc. in Boston....Sam Schleipman is a Fulbright English teaching assistant in Malaysia....Ned Scott started a social network built around a cryptocurrency that has seen exorbitant growth since its launch. His company, Steemit. has been featured in The Guardian and Yahoo Finance....Saya Srisamart is a third-year student in the doctor of dental surgery program at Thammasat Univ. in Bangkok.... Julia Winder started an MBA at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business....Hannah Zweifler started an MBA at Cornell’s Johnson School of Management. She received a Park Fellowship, a full-tuition scholarship and leadership development program awarded to individuals with demonstrated excellence in leadership, academics, and service. She’s joined, both at Johnson and in the Park Fellowship, by Graham Pearson ’10.
2013 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class co-presidents Ryan Sonberg rsonberg9@gmail.com Megan Murphy megan.a.murphy@gmail.com Ashley Brunk teaches English to kids and adults at ECC Foreign Language Institute in Tsu, Japan....Nadine Beaupierre is in her third year of teaching with KIPP WAYS Academy in Atlanta....Kelly Coyne is pursuing a master’s in English at Georgetown....Lindsay Cullen completed her first marathon in May in Providence and qualified to run the Boston Marathon as an individual in 2017....Catherine “Cat” Djang received the David G. Russell ’66 Alumni-in-Admission Award. Cat earned a J.D. with honors from Columbia, where she was awarded the Allan Morrow Sexuality and Gender Law Prize for achievement in the furtherance of LGBT rights and was the inaugural law school recipient of the Campbell Award for university leadership and volunteerism....Kate Fetrow finished her second year at Stanford Law School where she participated in the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic and worked on two briefs before
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