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Survivors include children Kristin Koos and Eric Lindquist ’85; and six grandchildren. His wife passed away in 1985, and son Kurt died in 2001. Elizabeth Trotter Paiva July 6, 2015 Betty Trotter Paiva attended Bates briefly. She worked for Travelers Insurance Co. and Shaw’s Supermarkets and retired as a bank teller with the former Savings Bank of Manchester in Connecticut. Survivors include children Debra Wolmer, David Wolmer, Diane Norris, and Donalyn Maneggia; six grandchildren; and cousin Rella Sinnamon Dickie ’48. Nancy Tobey Roy February 29, 2016 Nancy Tobey Roy was valedictorian of her high school class in Hallowell, and was advised to attend Bates, where she wanted to major in French so she could teach it. She thought it would be as easy as high school. She quickly found out she was wrong. “But my love of the language and interest in teaching it never wavered,” she said. She was a member of the French Club, helped with The Mirror, and was a teaching assistant in French. She earned a master’s in French and Spanish at the Univ. of Maine and taught French, first at Kents Hill and then at HallDale High School for 30 years. Survivors include husband Paul Roy; daughter Jennifer Brown; and a granddaughter. Arthur Frederick Wohllebe March 19, 2016 Arthur Wohllebe came to Bates and earned an economics degree after serving in the Korean War with the U.S. Marines. An avid hunter, fisherman, and all-around sportsman, he played baseball at Bates and refereed high school basketball for 25 years. Survivors include son Keith.
1959 Mary Grant Farquhar August 27, 2015 Mary Grant Farquhar attended Bates before leaving for Columbia to complete a nursing degree and a master’s there. She worked as a nurse for the Santa Cruz County Office of Education in California for 22 years. She grew up on the rocky shores of Somesville, Maine, but spent her adult years walking on the Pacific sand and hiking the Northwest. Survivors include husband Tom Snell; children David and John Farquhar and Nina Reese; and three grandchildren. David Walther Hall October 7, 2015 Dave Hall started life after Bates in the most ordinary way possible: learning to
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drive a truck for Dead River Oil Co. From there, his career transformed into stranger and stranger iterations until he was single-handedly putting on banquets, parties, and wedding receptions for up to 160 people in a barn he’d built himself on 28 acres on a salt water cove. But he shut that down in 1989 and turned it into a summer rental. Instead, he wrote a series of Maine guidebooks. He loved to sing, and sang with the Brunswick Chamber Singers and the Brunswick Choral Society. He was active in many social justice causes and spent his entire life involved in outdoor activities. Survivors include wife Nancy Despres Hall; children Alison and Jonathan; and two granddaughters. His father was Carl F. Hall ’36, and his uncle was Clayton H. Hall ’34. Jeannette Bajgrowicz Rose March 13, 2014 Jeannette Rose dedicated her professional life to science, to research in corneal medicine. She dedicated her personal life to wildlife conservation and ensuring housing protection for low-income and homeless individuals. She spent several years abroad in close collaboration with renowned cornea and refractive surgery specialists establishing new protocols for successful treatments of diseases. A native of Sandwich, Mass., she established a science/ technology scholarship at the high school there. Marc Lewis Schwarz September 1, 2015 “It is a sheer pleasure to teach,” said Marc Schwarz in a feature story in a Brandeis newsletter, “and having people respond is my life’s blood. I love it.” He taught at Brandeis’ Osher Lifelong Learning Institute after nearly 40 years at UNH as a history professor, a specialist in early modern Britain. He held advanced degrees from Harvard and UCLA; he was spurred to get that Ph.D. after a rather disastrous experiment as a seventh-grade teacher. He was the author of a number of journal articles, notably a cogent one on James I, and was a thorough and conscientious book reviewer. Survivors include his partner Linda J. Lash; daughters Jennifer Schwarz and Emily McGann; and one grandchild.
1960 Diane Crowell July 16, 2015 Not even a tornado stopped Diane Crowell. When one devastated a section of West Springfield, Mass., she sprang into action, forming a group to meet the needs of those affected. This was just one of the many committees and charities that
drew her attention; she was one of the founders and the first director of the Open Pantry in West Springfield, a town meeting member, town council member, and part of the town’s charter commission. She also was a member of her Bates 25th Reunion Committee. Her degree from Bates was in Spanish; she received a teaching certificate from American International College and taught for a number of years before becoming director of Open Pantry. Survivors include children Cindy Nolan, Kent, Douglas, and Timothy Theobald; and eight grandchildren. Sally Sessions Culton March 4, 2016 Sally Sessions Culton once drove from Plant City, Fla., to northern Alaska — a 10,000-mile trip — in a Toyota Prius, just one of the 17 relocations she enjoyed as the wife of a U.S. Air Force officer. In all, she visited 50 states and 32 countries between his career and their travels. Ironically, she hated flying, but loved cruising and road trips. Survivors include husband Robert E. Culton; daughters Erica Bozeman and Tracey Fortier; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Joy Anderson Downs March 7, 2016 Joy Anderson Downs loved to travel — Paris was her favorite — but sitting by the lake in Lincolnville was just as fine. She lived in North Haven, Conn., where she earned a master’s in guidance from the Univ. of Bridgeport so she could first teach and then work as a guidance counselor at area junior high schools in the 1960s. Then she was able to be a homemaker. Once her children were grown, she became a retail associate at Talbots, and host of sumptuous tailgate parties at the Yale Bowl. She and husband John Downs loved to travel and especially enjoyed exploring Maine. She was a member of several Bates Reunion committees. Besides her husband, survivors include children Kristen Downs Bruno ’92 and Andrew Downs; and three grandchildren. Elizabeth Jones Gilson May 26, 2016 Beth Jones Gilson made more than her share of long-distance moves in her lifetime, between her husband’s career in the U.S. Marine Corps and then his insurance business. W. Edwin Gilson Jr. ’58 passed away in 2002. She left Bates after two years to marry him but returned to Maine for summers at Sebec Lake, carrying on family traditions. Survivors include children James and David Gilson, and Debra Wright; and 10 grandchildren.
William Clovis Hayes December 30, 2015 Bill Hayes was a three-sport athlete in high school, but concentrated on football at Bates where he was voted to the self-proclaimed impartial All-Maine team multiple times. He was elected to the Uxbridge (Mass.) High School Athletic Hall of Fame, a school where he returned to teach and coach. He earned two master’s degrees from Northeastern. He left academia for a 43-year career in the computer software industry as a sales and management specialist, retiring in 2015. He was a member of several Bates Reunion committees. Survivors include wife Mary Victoria Hayes; children William F. Hayes ’97, Joseph Hayes, and Victoria Graves; and four grandchildren.
1962 David Jenks Rushforth September 29, 2015 Dave Rushforth chose Bates over Harvard (the scholarship offer was better), and went on to found the soccer club and watch it become a varsity sport, play varsity baseball and run track, sing bass with the Deansmen, hold office in student government and housing, and serve as a biology assistant. He earned a medical degree at the Univ. of Pennsylvania and went to Vietnam with the U.S. Navy, spending countless hours in his spare time treating civilians with tuberculosis, mumps, pneumonia, injuries, and other illnesses. He also put his talent to work painting them, paintings that hung in his home and office his entire life. His field was radiology; he built the department at Jordan Hospital in Plymouth, Mass., from simple x-rays all the way to state-of-the-art MRIs, and became chief of hospital staff. He was, everyone agreed, the nicest guy around. It was universally known that he left the keys to his truck in the ignition so anyone could borrow it. He said he never knew what he would end up driving home; whoever borrowed his truck would just leave their car and keys in his spot and off he’d go. His daughter once said that the only nasty thing she ever heard him say was that something “wasn’t terrific.” He served as a town meeting member and selectman in Plymouth, and on the board of Jordan Health Systems. He also coached youth soccer and basketball. His first wife was Coralie Shaw ’62. Survivors include wife Janice Huth Rushforth; children David and Amanda; three grandchildren; and cousins Robert Morton ’71, Richard Morton ’69, and Robert Scofield ’62.