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philosophy, he earned a Ph.D. in theology at Yale. As an ordained UCC minister, his practical ministry was rooted in 34 years as a professor of theology at Andover Newton Theological School, with four years added as a member of the Faith and Order Committee of the World Council of Churches in Geneva working on church unity. At Andover Newton, he developed the school’s doctoral program in church and ministry and helped found its conflict to community program. He twice received the Templeton Award for outstanding teaching of science and religion. He began his civil rights work while at Yale, continued at Andover Newton, and joined other clergy at the 1963 March on Washington. Following retirement, he and daughter Amy formed a conflict management consultancy, working with churches, businesses, and schools throughout Vermont. He was an outspoken advocate of civil unions in Vermont, bringing his biblical perspective to bear on gay and lesbian rights. His first wife, Diane “Dee” West Handspicker ’54, died in 1996. With her blessing, and her choice, he married Deborah Perkins ’64 in 1997. She survives him, as do children Amy Swisher, Jared, and Nathan Handspicker; five grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and nephew Brian D. Handspicker ’79. Edward King Hempel March 30, 2016 Did you ever go to the movies and take home a tree seed? That was King Hempel’s doing, just one of his plans to preserve the Earth for future generations. He estimated that he and wife Linda distributed 100 million tree seeds as a movie tie-in. He also created garden kits that can be used in schools, and reusable cloth bags to go with cereal boxes. They believed they started one of the first organic soil testing services. All this was a second career for King, whose first career was as a minister. A religion major at Bates, he earned a bachelor’s in divinity at the Univ. of Chicago and served churches in Maine, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Besides his wife, survivors include children Marcia Hempel, Karen Goldsmith, Lyn Russi, Kelly Johnston, Kathy Dotson, David, and Ken Hempel; 11 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Marilyn Skelton Patch August 12, 2014 Marilyn Skelton Patch lived the life many dream of: watching the lobster boats come and go from the deck of her waterfront home in Stonington, Maine. Oh, the boredom! She did admit that the years raising her three children were actually better than the ones she spent choosing which
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tasty morsel she would have for dinner, and she volunteered and did substitute teaching as well during those childhood-raising years. Survivors include children Carol Patch Furlong ’78, Cynthia, and Jon; and seven grandchildren. John Richard Sherman April 30, 2016 Jack Sherman started at Bates but graduated from the Univ. of Conn. with a bachelor’s in industrial mechanical engineering. He worked his way up the ladder at Avco Lycoming before switching over to Allied Signal, retiring in 1994. Survivors include partner Anne Fitzgerald. Shirley MacDonald Struthers February 2, 2016 It wasn’t cold enough in Maine for Shirley MacDonald Struthers, so she moved to Alaska. There, she taught kindergarten and met and married Hugh Struthers. He is among her survivors.
1955 Jerome David Dubrow April 2, 2016 Jerry Dubrow married two weeks after graduation and was blissfully touring the country on his honeymoon, putting thousands of miles on the odometer, when he realized suddenly that he needed to make money. They ground to a halt in Cleveland, where he worked for two years in building supplies, learning the retail trade. Finally, he and wife Sally made it back to Gloucester, Mass., where he went into the retail liquor business, eventually owning two stores. He retired after 30 years. Survivors include partner Rachel Gauthier; children Robert, Jane, Carrie, John, and Briana; and six grandchildren. Edgar Miller Holmes III March 8, 2016 Ed Holmes was still throwing the discus 50 years later, still throwing the hammer. He never stopped running, believing preventive health was the answer to better health. As a sophomore at Bates, he won the New England collegiate discus championship. He served in the U.S. Army in Okinawa for two years, where he gave clinics to aspiring Japanese track athletes, played left end on the football team, and won the All-Army discus championship. He became an orthopedic surgeon, earning his medical degree at BU. He started his orthopedic practice in Rutland, Vt., and served as the physician for the U.S. ski team from 1977 until his retirement in 2006, including the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid. One of the founders of the Vermont Sports Medicine Center and the Sports Medicine fellowship program, he was
inducted into the Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum Hall of Fame in 2015 for his skill in treating ski-related injuries. Survivors include sons Todd and Brooks; and five grandchildren. Paul Webster MacAvoy February 25, 2016 “Voodoo economics.” People of a certain age can’t forget that term, which Paul MacAvoy insisted he didn’t invent as an adviser to George H.W. Bush as a way for Bush to challenge Ronald Reagan’s supply-side economics ideas. But he reluctantly took the credit for it. An adviser to two other presidents and a towering figure in business education, he was considered one of the nation’s foremost experts on government regulation of private industry. From 1980 to 1991, as dean of the Univ. of Rochester’s Simon School of Management, he helped put the business school on the map. He also spent 10 years at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, was co-chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers in the Ford administration, and was dean of Yale’s School of Management. He became the Williams Brothers Professor Emeritus of Management Studies at Yale in 2004. He graduated from Bates magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in economics and earned his Ph.D. at Yale. Bates awarded him an honorary doctor of laws degree in 1976 for a “brilliant career in the study of forces that mark the commonweal, and for his compelling example that the intellectual life must help render effective the councils of state.” In 1997, he was elected to the Bates Board of Overseers. He and Katherine Manning were married in a ceremony officiated by Dean Harry Rowe Class of 1912. In addition to his wife, survivors include children Libby and Matthew. Arthur Harold Paton March 16, 2016 Arthur Paton worked for many years in sales providing gift products, and eventually owned his own business, first a stationery store and then The Exclusive Shop, which provided high-end gift products. Survivors include wife Nancy Allegier Paton; children Lori Cox, Susan Gilbert, David, and Steven; and five grandchildren. Daniel Rubinstein November 23, 2008 Daniel Rubinstein wanted to be remembered as a warrior for animals because he was devoted to the humane treatment of all creatures. He showed that not only by caring for furry beings but by working with those struggling with legal problems or emotional issues. He held a permanent certificate in guidance from NYU and co-founded
the VERA Institute for Justice in Manhattan in 1969. This followed a stint in the Army, a few years teaching in New York public schools and then working as a guidance counselor there, and finally operating a camp for troubled children. The institute allowed him to go into private practice. He was a psychotherapist for 30 years and taught at NYU, Hunter College, and Fordham.
1956 Hans Henry Bauer Sr. March 14, 2016 Hans Bauer and his wife, Ruth Warfield Bauer ’57, made a dynamic pair at the First Congregational Church in Cheshire, Conn. He directed the choir, and she was the organist. They believed that anyone who wanted to be part of the music program was welcome; and they believed that the music should enhance the service, complement the sermon and the prayers, and they believed this years before it became the standard way of thinking. They were following these principles within years of graduation, after Hans had served in the U.S. Army, had earned another bachelor’s from Rhode Island School of Design, had worked as an industrial designer for an envelope company. He and Ruth also spent time living in his great-grandfather’s 1844 farmhouse in Vista, N.Y., all this in the first 10 years after Bates. An accomplished artist, he then started a 26-year career teaching art and photography at Bristol (Conn.) Eastern High School. His wife died in 2014. Survivors include children Hans Jr., Paul, and Betsy Bauer; and four grandchildren. Martin Lewis Chaplowe September 26, 2015 Lew Chaplowe loved Stratford, Conn., practicing law there for over 35 years. He grew up there and returned after finishing law school at Columbia to start his own firm and to become involved in all aspects of town life. He chaired local Rotary and Red Cross organizations and the chamber of commerce. He championed the idea of the town getting its own emergency service. He was president of the library association and active with the Explorer level of Boy Scouts. Survivors include wife Billie Graham Chaplowe; children Pamela, Scott, and Jonathan; five grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. His sister, Phyllis Chaplowe Greenfield ’47, died in 1978; her husband is James R. Greenfield ’47. Jacqueline Boucher Letendre October 17, 2015 Nowadays, we accept the presence of social workers at hospitals. But someone had to be