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Va., in 2007. He was executive vice president of sales and marketing at New England Mutual Life Insurance for 26 years and a deacon and usher at Trinitarian Congregational Church in Wayland, Mass. He served as president of the boards of the Agency Officers Round Table, the Life Insurance Management Research Assn., and The American College. Besides his wife, survivors include children Jennifer Sargent and David Toran and three grandchildren.
1972 Leslie Jane Miller March 9, 2016 Leslie Miller very well might be the only Bates graduate to leave campus with a degree in religion to go to Berlin and become a cabaret dancer. This could have been the result of two years of modern dance in Pettigrew. She went on to earn a four-year diploma from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and had a quietly profound career in the arts as a painter, photographer, and poet. From 1990 through 2007, she worked as the assistant to the director of Oberlin College’s Allen Memorial Art Museum. Her work has been shown in Boston, Atlanta, Miami, Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv, as well as throughout Ohio, where she grew up and where she lived. She had a number of solo and group shows in Ohio in the past 10 years of her mixed media, photos, and oils. Survivors include daughter Rebecca Epstein-Levi. Karen Hermann Pugh May 23, 2016 Whatever the situation, Karen Hermann Pugh found a way to teach about it. Graduating cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Bates, she earned a master’s in teaching of elementary education at the Univ. of Chicago. In Chicago, she taught children with learning disabilities, then taught in a cooperative school in a disadvantaged neighborhood. Returning to Massachusetts, she taught water conservation to every child in the Wellesley public schools (in a national award-winning program no less), tutored METCO students and students with developmental needs, and volunteered as an AARP Experience Corps reading coach for elementary children in Boston’s South End. She was a docent at the Wellesley College Botanic Gardens and with her husband led bird walks sponsored by the Wellesley Conservation Council. She became certified as a master gardener (and thus obligated to teach others) in a program sponsored by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Survivors include husband James Pugh; daughter and son-in-law Susannah Pugh Sanders ’04 and Clayton Sanders ’04; and son David.
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1974 Peter Bernard Connolly May 21, 2016 Peter Connolly combined a passion for science with an enjoyment of gardening, classical music, theater, and fine art. He recently retired as the director of research and development at one of the divisions of IDEXX in Westbrook. He previously worked at Beth Israel Hospital, Oregon Health Sciences Univ., Ciba Corning, Chiron, Bayer, and Siemens. Survivors include wife Sally Coole Connolly ’74; and sons Dean and Reid. Richard Cushman Woodman December 20, 2015 Rick Woodman attended Bates briefly before transferring to Boston Univ. He taught physical education for over 30 years at Mead School in Stamford, Conn. Survivors include wife Carolyn Paulus and two daughters. His grandfather was Harry A. Woodman 1913, and his grand-uncle was Stanton H. Woodman 1920.
1975 Helen Mahood Ball May 23, 2015 A go-getter on steroids: That’s how one friend described her. Helen Mahood Ball postponed plans for law school so long that she ended up with an MBA instead, and went to work for a Fortune 100 corporation. She rose to the level of vice president at one company and director of sales operations at another. When her mother developed early-onset Alzheimer’s, she founded the first Connecticut chapter of the Alzheimer’s Assn. When a close relative committed suicide, she became a tireless worker for suicide prevention, answering a 24-hour crisis line, speaking to groups about prevention and awareness, and facilitating support groups. She helped build houses for Habitat for Humanity in Dallas, Spokane, and Hungary, and volunteered for Dallas Read for over 10 years. She was active in Alumni-in Admissions. She was divorced from Edward Wilchynski ’74. Survivors include husband Robert Ball; stepson Bryan Ball; and one grandchild.
1976 Douglas Caracappa October 7, 2014 Douglas Caracappa was an avid outdoorsman who worked for the U.S. Geological Survey as a water quality field person, both in Maine and on Long Island. He enjoyed camping and hiking with his sister, Denise Caracappa, and was a member of the Huntington Audubon Society. His sister is among his survivors.
1977 Nicholas Dell’Erario August 13, 2015 Nick Dell’Erario lit up the scoreboards whatever sport he played — football, hockey, and especially baseball, where he reached All-America status his senior year, placing second in the country in batting average. After graduation, he discovered a love for tennis and went on to teach it professionally. For the past 14 years, he was a director at the Arizona Research Center in Phoenix, which conducts clinical medical trials. He had done similar work on Cape Cod. Survivors include wife Melissa Robinson Dell’Erario; children Nicole and Tommy Dell’Erario; and nephew Joseph Dell’Erario ’13. Harry Moore Landis IV November 1, 2015 “Bud” Landis finished his bachelor’s degree in physics while serving in the U.S. Navy. He was much loved around the globe for his volunteer work to improve quality of life in remote locations. In Sierra Leone, he helped set up medical facilities and local markets using solar panels to provide electricity in areas without access to it. He kept an ultralight plane in Guatemala which he used for aerial photography and Mayan ruin investigations. He also owned a company there that provided solar panel electric systems to more than 2,000 rural customers with no access to the power grid. Survivors include sister Carol Landis Kelly ’72. Paul Joseph Loiero June 18, 2015 Paul Loiero earned an MBA from American International College in addition to his biology degree from Bates and worked as a supervisor for Midac Corp. He was a member of the Mount Tom Amateur Repeater Assn. and the official observer coordinator of the Western Massachusetts Chapter of the American Radio Relay League. His wife, Cynthia Krenzul Loiero, passed away in November 2015. Survivors include stepchildren Richard and Ronald Conroy; and two grandchildren. David Everett Mathes November 11, 2015 David Mathes poured everything into alpine skiing and made All-East his junior year. He also was a force on the soccer field. But he found his passion when he joined the French Foreign Legion: the French language. He fell in love with the language and culture, earning a master’s degree in French literature and language at Middlebury. He later received a second master’s in teaching from the School of International Training. He went
on to teach French, Spanish, and ESL in Paris, Cyprus, Mexico, Illinois, and Massachusetts. Most recently, he was at Merrimack Valley High School and Bishop Brady High School in Concord. Survivors include wife Francisca Acosta-Mathes; and brother and sister-in-law Steven Mathes ’74 and Christine Doyle ’73. Thomas Russell Quinn June 26, 2015 Tom Quinn went on to Temple Univ. School of Law to become a lawyer, pursued a career first in the district attorney’s office and then as a criminal defense attorney in Philadelphia. He enjoyed the museums and parks the city had to offer, as well as fishing with his children, Amity and Kieran. Other survivors include former wife Lark Hall and cousins Kendrick H. Child ’65, Meredith Child Greenlaw ’95, and Jonathan K. Child ’91. His mother was Ruth Russell Quinn ’52.
1978 Barbara Joanne Kittredge February 4, 2016 When she felt like it, BJ Kittredge could just take off in her hot air balloon from her backyard. She’d become a balloon pilot under the tutelage of balloon pioneer Bob Sparks and flown in many events, all while working at AT&T and piling up some 20 patents for the company. But after 25 years, she and husband Paul Faustine ’77 fulfilled a longtime goal of getting back to Maine when they moved to Brunswick in 2002 and opened a toy store, Red Dragon Toys, where she specialized in teddy bears and dolls. She later took on more mundane tasks at Bath Iron Works, where she was a principal engineer on the Zumwalt-class DDG-1000 and was thrilled to witness its initial sea trials after 10 years of work. She was a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and its choir. Besides her husband, survivors include daughter Caroline Kittredge Faustine.
1980 Timothy Duer Hillman April 1, 2016 While at Bates, Tim Hillman discovered his passion for acting and teaching, and his career was focused on both. His involvement with the Robinson Players was so dedicated that he was given the Dale Hatch award upon graduation. He taught theater at several schools across the country, but remained most proud of his work in Los Angeles, where he taught several Emmy-winning actors. He and his family then moved to Tennessee, where he taught at a prep school and wrote a