Bates Magazine, Fall 2021

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12 $100 million boost for financial aid.

32 Yes, you can study beer in college!

36 Bates students share their favorite Bates places.

“I remember her love of biology, telling me how butterflies evolved.” Page 51

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2 Comments 4 Bates in Brief 24 Amusements 26 Features 58 Notes 91 History Lesson 96 From a Distance

Take a closer look at this coruscating, dazzling display of Batesina. Page 94

OPENING THOUGHT: LEIGH WEISENBURGER VICE PRESIDENT FOR ENROLLMENT AND DEAN OF ADMISSION AND FINANCIAL AID Source: The August 2021 BatesNews story “Pandemic-Driven Admission Changes are ‘Smart and Long Overdue.’”

In reading applications to Bates, we saw students using the pandemic lockdown to slow down and discover new passions or rediscover old passions.

It was refreshing to see a less frenetic pace: students being forced to just be with themselves.

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Ed and Tiauna What a beautiful story, and great to hear candor about how Bates had and has room to grow (“Like Father, Like Daughter,” Spring 2021).

And it’s so inspiring to hear of Ed’s and Tiauna’s stories.

Ed was a JA in Hedge my freshman year, and I remember seeing Tiauna visit one time. I and so many others looked up to him so much.

To have this additional story context is amazing.

Hope, Maine

The piece on Ed Walker and his daughter was moving.

The quality of writing and photography are a credit to Bates College. The entire magazine makes me proud to identify with Bates. Your staff brings an alumnus back to the values we share.

Richard Gurney ’61

Gene Clough, a beloved retired lecturer in geology and physics, did a tandem skydive at SkyDive New England in Lebanon, Maine, on Oct. 11, 2021.

Oh, Ed Walker, I remember you! What a beautiful life and family. Many smiles to you and for seeing part of your journey.

Sarah Hannigen Laughlin ’03

Cheswick, Pa.

Susan Somer Futter P’21

with such a daunting task.

Peter inherited that generous soul.

Peter, I hope heaven is treating you well and that you are there with your mother. The spirit of the Goodriches’ goodwill lives on in many.

persevering,” BatesNews, Sept. 9, 2021, and “Remembering Peter Goodrich,” the Bates Bobcast).

Peter was a great athlete, a smart and tough competitor, and the kind of person who made everyone else around him up their game.

Even more than that, he was a giver, and I think it was typical of Peter that later in his life he actually helped to coach teams he used to compete against in the hammer

Amagansett, N.Y.

‘A Giver’ The loss of Peter is still unfathomable. I had the honor of babysitting Peter and his brother Foster for years, as we lived in the same neighborhood in Williamstown, Mass. He and Foss were like little brothers to me. His parents, Don and the late Sally Goodrich, were the most generous people I had ever known. They brought me on my college tours from Connecticut to Maine as my parents had no experience

Cricket Alioto Fuller ’05

Hope, Maine

As someone who knew Peter Goodrich first as a competitor and later as a friend, this was a good memory (“Love

Peter Goodrich ’89 walks in front of Pettigrew Hall in 1988. This past year, Goodrich, who died 20 years ago on 9/11 aboard hijacked United Flight 175, was honored with the funding, by his wife, Rachel Carr Goodrich ’90, and Bates friends, of the Peter M. Goodrich ’89 Memorial Scholarship Fund.

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There are so many heroes in this story, not least of which was Ed, who knew exactly what he needed to do to give his daughter a great chance in life!

Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y

COURTESY RACHEL CARR GOODRICH ’90

Cricket Alioto Fuller ’05

Gene Goes Skydiving What a gem of a man (“Gene Clough goes skydiving,” BatesNews, Oct. 14, 2021).

I’ll never forget his course, “Anatomy of a Few Small Machines.”

throw. He was a great man and is greatly missed.

Scott Deering

Raleigh, N.C.

The two Bates stories noted here reflect on the life of Peter Goodrich ’89, who was killed on 9/11, and the recent funding of a memorial scholarship fund in his name.

During their time in college, Deering, a 1989 MIT graduate, and Peter Goodrich were the top two weight throwers in NCAA Division III. As Deering notes, competition and friendship were complementary, not contradictory.

“I like him a lot,” Goodrich told a newspaper reporter in March 1989. “I think we’re both pretty good.”

Following Goodrich’s death, Deering wrote a condolence letter to his wife, Rachel Carr Goodrich ’90. He said, “When it was not necessarily convenient or comfortable, Peter offered his friendship to me, and I have never forgotten it. I remember the competitive side of Peter who, while intense and focused, was also fair, honorable, and sportsmanly, win or lose.”

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e dit or’s not e To this day, I credit Gene with my ability to turn an average Weber charcoal grill into a raging blast furnace (which cooks amazing ribeyes, by the way) courtesy of a field trip to Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site and a subsequent working model of a blast furnace behind Hathorn Hall, consisting of fire bricks and a shop vac.

Tim Bettencourt ’00

Stowe, Vt.

Air Bates I enjoyed the piece about Northeast Airlines (“Recalling 1941, When Bates Touted ‘Up-to-the-Minute’ Airline Service,” BatesNews, April 16, 2021).

I, too, went to Bates via Northeast in September 1948 from Nantucket. I was all by myself with probably just one suitcase and a trunk waiting for me in the basement of Milliken House sent ahead by Railway Express.

Thanks for the memories — hope to be on campus next year for my 70th Reunion.

Marilyn Brown ’52

Chatham, Mass.

Transforming and Terrific This is terrific news (“Bates announces $100 million initiative,” BatesNews, Sept.

28, 2021). I was Pell eligible and a first generation college graduate. Bates changed my life. I’m happy to see the door will be open for so many more to make that transformation.

There’s a simple pleasure that I’ve really missed during the pandemic: opening the door of a campus building to find out what’s going on inside.

It came to me as I walked to Coram Library for what would’ve been, in pre-pandemic days, a run-of-the-mill gathering. In this case, it was a dozen or so Bates professors, stationed in both Coram and Ladd Library, demonstrating how they use technology in their classrooms.

Like many places, Bates didn’t allow indoor campus events during the pandemic, only recently relaxing that prohibition. Perhaps that’s why I felt such anticipation (or nerves?) as I flashed my ID card to unlock the Coram door, pushed it open, and headed inside.

When I pass through a campus doorway, it feels like a fresh start, like a curtain rising to start a play. Maybe it’s a version of what psychologists call the “doorway effect,” how going through a doorway can actually make us forget things. Maybe, for me, going through a doorway resets my brain. Or maybe the anticipation dates to being a big fan of Let’s Make a Deal back in the day: “Let’s see what’s behind door No. 3!”

Passing through the doorway into Coram, I found Assistant Professor of Biology Andrew Mountcastle standing next to a recirculating water flow tank, built by Peter Beach, the longtime machinist based in Carnegie Science Hall. Mountcastle was showing colleagues what his students are up to this fall: researching the flow of water through freshwater sponges.

He had added microscopic tracer particles to the tank water, which became bright specks as they passed by a sheet of green laser light, sort of the way you can see dust motes move in the air when the late-afternoon sunlight hits them just right.

Mountcastle pointed to how the specks flowed into, out of, and around a “sponge” in the tank, actually a 3-D printed model of a sponge.

Sponges are filter feeders, explained Mountcastle, that work to pull nutrients from water that flows through their bodies. I asked, “Do sponges have to orient themselves in a certain way in a river to maximize their feeding?” To which he replied, “That’s a great question!”

I must say, it feels pretty, pretty, pretty good when an expert responds to a question with, “That’s a great question!” (So much better than, “You have great Zoom lighting.”)

To be sure, there’s some cynicism about the “great question” reply, since you hear it a lot in media interviews. It’s a way for interviewees to avoid directly answering a question.

But Mountcastle wasn’t avoiding my question with a dodge, duck, dip, dive, or dodge. Fully animated, he explained how he and his students have found sponge specimens in a nearby river that tilt with the flow of the water.

They’ve used their lab sponge model to see if tilting makes the flow of nutrients more efficient. That doesn’t seem to be the case, so something else must be afoot.

As they say, more research is necessary.

When I left Coram, the sun had set. As the door fell into place behind me, I thought about how, someday soon, a gathering of Bates folks might once again feel routine. I hope it always feels as remarkable.

H. Jay Burns, Editor jburns@bates.edu

Ryan Neville-Shepard ’04

Fayetteville, Ark.

For more about the $100 million financial aid initiative, see the story on page 12.

— Editor

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Caleb Ireland ’23, an environmental studies major from Amherst, Mass., helps to dry yarrow in the herb building at the nearby Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village. A Purposeful Work intern last summer, Ireland gathered data on various garden herbs, from harvest to processing, to create a mathematical formula for estimating future herb yields.

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STUDENTS

Out & About

‘Enjoyment Like Reading’ Jane Austen wrote, “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!”

Ellory Kearns ’24 of Steamboat Springs, Colo., reads Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility on the porch of Coram Library for the course “Jane Austen: Then and Now,” taught by Professor of English Lillian Nayder. Other course readings include Austen’s Emma, Mansfield Park, and Pride and Prejudice.

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After a year of takeout dining due to COVID, inside dining is, for now, called “sit-down Commons.”

Since 2005, first-generationto-college enrollment has grown from 6% to 13%.

Whether tucked away and studying alone beside the tall columns of a campus building, or walking with a close friend back to the dorm, Bates students head outside to do their thing on a dazzling September afternoon, on a campus with tremendous natural charm, as seen in these photographs by Phyllis Graber Jensen.

466 boxes with diplomas, programs, and other grad swag were mailed to graduates in June.

Degrees were awarded after Commencement Day in 2021 due to a COVID-specific academic calendar.

Approximately 300 Bates students volunteer in local K–12 schools each year.

‘Not Today, Satan’

• 9 3/4: Train platform from

which students board the Hogwarts Express in Harry Potter At the Den Terrace, Sam Jean-Francois ‘23 of Everett, • “Not today, Satan”: Line Mass., attends a class via from RuPaul’s Drag Race Zoom. that’s become a meme Taught by Dana Professor • The character Appa from of Religious Studies Marcus Avatar: The Last Airbender Bruce ’77, the course intro• The character Mamoru duces students to interdisciChiba from Sailor Moon plinary methods of analysis in Africana, American studies, •*sips tea*: a meme implying that you’re chill while and gender and sexuality there’s drama around you studies.

• Steven and Connie, characLike so many others, ters from Steven Universe, Jean-Francois’ laptop is riding the lion decorated with a selection of witty and pointed images and memes, including: •“Stop Pretending Your Racism Is Patriotism,” an antiracism slogan that emerged circa 2017

A Bug’s Life Passing by Pettengill Hall, Oliver Todreas ’23, a biology major from Auburndale, Mass., photographs an insect perched on the concrete wall. He thinks, but is not certain, that it’s an American grasshopper. “I’m interested in life in general,” he says. “That’s why I’m a biology major.”

Walking It Off This beautiful cross-campus walk will revive them. After a long day of quizzes and classes, sophomores Angelina Moncrieffe (left) of Secaucus, N.J., and Nina Greeley of Scarborough, Maine, head back to Page Hall for a restorative rest before joining a study session at Ladd Library later on.

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CAMPUS

The WRBC radio tower was replaced over the summer.

Faculty, staff, and students began moving into the Bonney Science Center on June 7.

The Hathorn bell tower is reflected in new copper flashing on June 30, 2021.

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Removing an old slate chalkboard in Hathorn Room 305 revealed an even older chalkboard, still bearing mathematical notes.

Elsewhere in Hathorn, old slate chalkboards were replaced with modern units made of porcelain enamel.

(You can’t buy slate chalkboards any more.) Removing the old chalkboards revealed...even older slate chalkboards, complete with math problems from a long-ago class session.

Finally, next door to Hathorn, work continues on a reimagining of Dana Chemistry Hall.

Since its 1965 opening, Dana has focused on chemistry research and teaching. When the gut renovation is finished next fall, Dana will have a new focus on science teaching and welcoming new students to STEM fields; it will also feature flexible classrooms for teaching across all disciplines.

Facility Services project manager Chris Streifel was fascinated to witness Dana go from one state — chock full of scientific stuff — to another state, completely empty.

“It’s really kind of strange,” he said. “Every now and then you see a little vestige of what used to be mixed up with a hint of what’s yet to come.”

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A trio of recent facilities projects captures the neverending cycle of new construction, maintenance, and renovation of campus buildings.

The new construction is the granddaddy of them all: Bonney Science Center, 65,000 gross square feet of teaching, laboratory, and community space officially opened this year.

At the ribbon-cutting event on Aug. 23, Michael Hinchcliffe, lead designer of the project for Payette Construction, said the new building is like having the right tool for the right job.

He recalled how his father, in giving him a set of tools as a housewarming gift, offered advice: “Whenever you try to do something, use the right tool. It will make the work easy and it will allow you to take pride in your work.”

“For me,” Hinchcliffe said, “the Bonney Science Center today is a little bit like those tools. It is a gift from donors to Bates, to solve problems and create things that we can only dream about.”

In terms of maintenance and renovation, take a look at Hathorn Hall (1857) and Dana Chemistry Hall (1965).

At Hathorn, workers replaced the century-old slate roof and installed new copper gutters, downspouts, and a rubber-like membrane on the top of the belfry. Facility Services carpenters pitched in by fabricating some massive new moldings for the Hathorn roof.

In keeping with Hathorn’s listing on the National Register of Historic Sites, the new slate matches the original roof and was quarried to order: “North Country Black” at the Glendyne Quarry in Saint-Marc-du-Lac-Long, Québec, and “Vermont Purple” at the John Maslack Slate Quarry in Poultney, Vt.

COURTESY OF PRECISION BUILDERS

Three for the Show

Once a chemistry lab, this second-floor expanse in Dana Chemistry Hall will become two large, light-filled classrooms.

New slate on the Hathorn Hall roof replaced 6K square feet of 100-year-old slate in 2021.

In June, Admission resumed campus tours for the first time since March 2020.

The winner of the 2021 Bates B Well 5K was Associate Professor of History Joe Hall.

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Framed by the windows of a south-facing glass curtain wall, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Colleen O’Loughlin takes a look around a classroom in Bonney Science Center.

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ACADEMICS

Geology is now the Department of Earth and Climate Sciences.

A 2021 honors thesis in history explored the military origins of biathlons.

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Krista Aronson, seen with a local elementary student during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day workshop in 2018, is the founder and director of the Diverse BookFinder.

BookFinder at Age 4

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For one, the traffic indicates that librarians and teachers — the BookIn mid-August, the award-winning Finder’s major users, in addition to parDiverse BookFinder, a comprehensive ents — are accessing its resources. It’s educational resource for multicultural also “evidence of how these educationchildren’s picture books, saw an unusual al leaders are always seeking ways to spike in web traffic to its Bates College use multicultural picture books to teach website, DiverseBookFinder.org. and guide young children,” she says.

Coinciding with events overseas, the Officially launched four years ago trending Google search term “children’s this September, the Diverse BookFinder books about Afghanistan” was directing has made big strides in its brief exisweb users to a helpful page on the tence. DiverseBookFinder.org averages Diverse BookFinder site.

46,000 page views per month, and in There, the selection of awarenessJune the BookFinder was recognized as expanding books included The Library one of the year’s “Best Digital Tools for Bus, a story of a young girl, set against Teaching and Learning” by the Amerthe backdrop of war, written by an ican Association of School Librarians, Afghan author. the preeminent professional organizaFor Professor of Psychology Krista tion for the school library community.

Aronson, founder and director of the Meanwhile, Aronson and her BookDiverse BookFinder, the Google-driven Finder team offer consulting services traffic was good news on multiple levels. to libraries in all 50 states, including hundreds in Maine and Massachusetts.

The BookFinder is The Diverse BookFinder, also a central figure in featuring an online and circulating collection two significant recent at Bates, includes The federal grants.

Library Bus, a story of a The first is a $427,100 young girl, set against the grant from the Institute backdrop of war, written of Museum and Library by an Afghan author.

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the University of Florida, and California State University, Fresno, to enhance the discoverability of middle-grade and young-adult novels featuring characters who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color.

The second is a $175,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to fund a summer 2022 institute at Bates for elementary school teachers who want to use picture books to develop more equitable teaching strategies.

The institute’s audience, elementary school educators, underscores what experts like Aronson have long known: that lessons about inclusion, race, culture, and identity are more effectively taught to students at a young age — during elementary school — than later on in high school or college.

And a powerful teaching tool to help achieve all that, Aronson says, is the children’s picture book, the “perfect platform for beginning to have essential conversations about race and culture with children.”

Having those conversations is essential, she says. “Fifty years of psychological research has demonstrated that such conversations help children develop positive identities and intercultural competence in support of academic success.”

Digital and Computational Studies became a minor in 2021.

Bates boasts a 10:1 student-to-faculty ratio.

85% of graduates who applied to medical school over the last five years got in.

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“Of course, these films tell a lie.”

A policeman in Sheffield, England, in April 2021.

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Charles Nero, Benjamin E. Mays Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies, explaining the history of interracial buddy films, such as 48 Hrs. and Trading Places, during a Sept. 27 talk celebrating his Kroepsch Award for Excellence in Teaching.

The interracial buddy film genre treats racism as something internal, Nero said, implying that “ending racism is as simple as Black and white men becoming friends.” But that’s not true, of course: Racism is structural and systemic.

Behind Nero, whose talk heavily referenced Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman, is a projected still from Lee’s School Daze. In the foreground is Nero’s husband, Professor of Hispanic Studies Baltasar Fra-Molinero.

THIS JUST IN A sampling of recent faculty-authored articles.

Cultural and Symbolic Capital in the Market for Security

Publication: Policing and Society • Author: Logan Puck (politics) and coauthor • What It Explains: How, in countries where police have public trust, such as the United Kingdom, private security firms actively align with the police and borrow their symbols, whereas in countries where police have a poor reputation, such as Mexico, private firms’ relations with the police are far more ambiguous.

Public Tears: Populism and the Politics of Emotion in AKP’s Turkey

Publication: International Journal of Middle East Studies • Author: Senem Aslan (politics) • What It Explains: How an increase in public weeping by Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan could be seen as a populist act designed to communicate closeness to the people at a time when his power and wealth is setting him apart from the politically and economically marginalized.

Compact Starburst Galaxies with Fast Outflows

Publication: The Astrophysical Journal • Author: Aleksandar Diamond-Stanic and coauthors, including 10 Bates students and young alumni • What It Explains: New insights, using images from the Hubble Space Telescope, about the extreme physical conditions at the center of compact “starburst” galaxies, ones with a high rate of star formation that drive fast galactic winds.

Control of Neuronal Excitability by Cell Surface Receptor Density and Phosphoinositide Metabolism

Publication: Frontiers in Pharmacology • Author: Martin Kruse (biology and neuroscience) and coauthor • What It Explains: A new model that can describe, for the first time, how the metabolism of a rare family of lipids called phosphoinositides regulates the activity of nerve cells.

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Canceled off-campus programs in 2020–21 contributed to the largest campus enrollment ever: 1,876.

Bates added Juneteenth to its official list of holidays in 2021.

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$100 Financial Aid Expansion A challenge grant of $50 million to Bates College through the Schuler Access Initiative, matched dollar for dollar by Bates donors, will fuel a $100 million expansion of financial aid to enroll talented students from America’s lowest-income families.

Bates is one of four top liberal arts colleges and one university selected by the Schuler Education Foundation to launch the new initiative that supports students who are Pell eligible, low income, or undocumented at highly selective liberal arts colleges.

Joining Bates in the first round of selected institutions are Carleton, Kenyon, and Union colleges and Tufts University.

The $100 million effort is structured as an incentive program. Every dollar that Bates raises toward this initiative over the next five years will be matched by the Schuler Education Foundation, up to $50 million. Funds raised from donors will provide permanent, endowed support for expanded financial aid.

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What’s the Schuler Access Initiative?

What It Is

What They’re Saying

A challenge grant of $50 million to Bates College from the Schuler Education Foundation.

“I am thrilled that we will be able to make the life-transforming experience of the liberal arts available to even greater numbers of talented students who might otherwise not have this opportunity.”

How the Challenge Works The $50 million grant will be matched dollar for dollar

by Bates donors, creating a $100 million expansion of financial aid.

What the Initiative Supports The new financial aid funds will enable Bates to increase the number of students who are Pell eligible, undocumented, and low income by 50 percent over the next decade, from approximately 200 students to 300, out of a student body of about 1,800.

— President Clayton Spencer “Too often these students are described in terms of cost — the money needed to enroll them, for example — rather than the incredible lived experiences they bring to campus. That’s such a missed opportunity for a campus that wants to serve amazing, smart, hard-working students.”

— Jason Patenaude ’91, executive director of the Schuler Education Foundation

The Bates College Instagram account, @batescollege, has over 17K followers.

The Bates Vanpool transports staff from Portland to Lewiston for work, saving money and gas.

As of late September, Bates had raised $30 million in matching gifts and pledges from its donors.

“Bates was founded by people who believed in the power of education to develop the full potential of every human being,” said Bates President Clayton Spencer. “This investment from the Schuler Education Foundation, combined with the generosity of Bates donors, provides us with the means to renew this founding vision in a real and tangible way.”

Each year, Bates provides nearly $39 million in need-based financial aid grants to approximately 45 percent of the student body. The average grant is nearly $49,000 per year.

A national effort with broad reach and impact, the Schuler Access Initiative is

Bates’ Fat Cats competitive eating club, founded in 2011, is the second college competitive eating club in the country.

poised, over the next 10 years, to award challenge grants of up to $500 million to as many as 20 U.S. colleges and universities, generating up to $1 billion in new financial aid.

In creating the Schuler Access Initiative partnership, the foundation looked “for institutions that we felt were leaders in educating and supporting students who are Pell eligible or undocumented,” said Jason Patenaude ’91, executive director of the Schuler Education Foundation.

Historically, Bates has one of the strongest overall graduation rates in the country. The six-year graduation rate for the cohort of Bates students that entered in 2014 was 98 percent for students who receive Pell grants compared with 92 percent overall.

New Bates Trustees The Bates of Board of Trustees elected four new members in 2020 and 2021: Lance Matthiesen ’85 of Chevy Chase, Md., is global manager, McKinsey Black Network Programs at McKinsey & Co. Terrence Murray P’23 of Jamaica Plain, Mass., is founder of Eliot Street Capital, a New England-focused commercial real estate investment company.

Michelle Angelone Rosenberg ’94 of Denver, Colo., is global general counsel and company secretary of Janus Henderson Group.

Stacey Rizza P’20, M.D., of Rochester, Minn., is executive medical director for international practice at the Mayo Clinic.

This investment from the Schuler Education Foundation, combined with the generosity of Bates donors, provides

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us with the means to renew this founding

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Manuel Machorro Gomez Pezuela ’24 of Mexico City holds an embroidered runner that his grandmother bought at a hometown market for him to take to his residence at 280 College Street.

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MOVE-IN READY photography by phyllis graber jensen Whether a plant to tend, a book to stay organized, or the beginnings of sweet, sweet music, students came back to campus in August with everything they needed to make their dorm rooms home.

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12 men’s rowing team members earned IRCA scholar-athlete honors in 2021.

Bates went 374 days between varsity contests: March 12, 2020, to March 20, 2021.

Cat Quotes Quotes from the Bates Bobcast, the weekly podcast on Bates athletics

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• Bates Bobcast gobatesbobcats.com/podcasts

Raised in England, first-year forward Rex Lane seems right at home at Bates, scoring four goals in his first two collegiate games to earn NESCAC Player of the Week honors in September

1. “In England, everyone’s kind of reserved.

Then you come to Bates, and everyone’s so outgoing and so friendly.

It’s a bit of a shock to the system.”

2. “That last 100 meters is so painful. You're in a tunnel, just focusing on the next stroke. And then you cross that line and it’s, ‘Whoa, what just happened?’”

3. “I’d pay all the money I have to get back to those days. I’m not talking only about squash: my friends, Commons, classes, professors. But we cannot get time back.”

— First-year men’s soccer player Rex Lane, who grew up in England

— Women’s rowing captain Saylor Strugar ’21 on realizing Bates had won a fourth straight NCAA championship

— Two-time men’s squash national champion Ahmed Abdel Khalek ’16 reflecting on Bates life at his 5th Reunion

4. “I’d never seen that many trees in my life.

And it’s peaceful. Just you, in nature.”

5. “It was a very emotional moment because I had just graduated. When a lot of good things just happen on top of one another, it just doesn’t feel quite realistic.”

6. “Pete was always a giver. He always put his team ahead of his own needs, and he’d always be there to motivate people and try to get the best out of them.”

— Men's track and field captain John Rex ’21 on earning All-America honors in the hammer throw two days after Commencement

— Matthew Schecter ’89 on his late friend and classmate, Peter Goodrich, who died in the September 11 attacks 20 years ago

— First-year women’s golfer Maddy Kwei of Pasadena, Calif., comparing Los Angeles courses with Maine courses

During team photo shoots, every Bobcat poses for a traditional head-and-shoulders portrait, then gets to create a sports portrait, known as “sportrait,” of their choice.

At that point, things can get a little…punchy. Here are a couple of our favorite outtakes from this fall.

‘YER A WIZARD, MARY!’ On a scale of 1 to 10, we’re 9 3/4 obsessed with this Harry Potter look served up by women’s cross country runner Mary Richardson ’22 of Blue Hill, Maine.

“I grew up reading Harry Potter and felt inspired to pay homage for my senior year sportrait,” she explains.

Richardson says her childhood was “really crafty” (as in creative,

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not wizardly). “My mom always made Halloween costumes for me and my sister, so we've always had capes and crazy hats laying around.”

Packing for her return to Bates in August, Richardson spied a Gryffindor scarf peeking out from a bin in her closet.

Paired with her glasses, the look was complete as she arrived at the photo shoot in August.

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The Puns Never Stop

Kurt Simard was appointed as head alpine skiing coach in June.

Al Fereshetian, “Coach Fresh” to generations of Bobcats, announced his retirement last summer after 26 years as head coach of men’s cross country and track and field.

Taking over the program is Curtis Johnson, an assistant coach since 2016.

Fereshetian’s 41-year coaching career, including 26 years at Bates, touched the lives of hundreds of student-athletes and achieved consistent regional and national success.

Of more than 500 Bobcat athletes Fereshetian coached at Bates, 48 earned a total of 101 All-America honors, including nine individual NCAA titles.

Fereshetian described his Bates career as a “blessing and an honor, to have the chance to work with so many outstanding young men who were in many cases great athletes, but in every case great people.”

Coach Fresh is a friend, a dad, a brother, and a mentor. He just does it all.

“Al has given so much to educate, coach, and mentor our students,” said Director of Athletics Jason Fein, noting that Fereshetian has been only the second coach to lead the program in the last seven decades, his predecessor being Walter Slovenski, from 1952 to 1995.

A potent mix of ebullience, intensity, and creativity fueled Fereshetian’s gift

for getting the most out of his athletes.

A young Bobcat might enter the Bates program as a sprinter or distance runner, but ultimately score state championship points as a thrower or jumper.

“Coach Fresh is a friend, a dad, a brother, and a mentor,” said three-time All-American thrower Adedire Fakorede ’18. “He just does it all.”

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Coach Fresh Retires

Tarbell Pool’s capacity is 50, with a maximum of 25 swimmers per lifeguard.

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The softball team’s Lafayette Street Field is 20 years old this year.

HOME COOKIN’ Like other Bobcats, senior soccer players Ciaran Bardong of Manhasset, N.Y., Luke Protti of Amherst, Mass., and Charlie Cronin of South Portland, Maine, wanted to cook up something special for their final Bates sportrait.

“One of us suggested fake mustaches, and we instinctively knew that chefs hats and cooking utensils were essential additions,” says Cronin. “One could say we're Michelin starred.”

With the start of the season, the trio put comedy on the back burner, helping the team to a 5-2 record through late September.

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HBO’s Mare of Easttown included a season-finale mention of Bates.

Dance Magazine picked the Bates Dance Festival as one of “6 festivals to check out this July.”

Communion, Apart

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On late July evening, viewers sat on College Street — helpfully closed for the occasion — to view a film projected on a screen on the porch of Schaeffer Theatre.

Shown as part of the Bates Dance Festival, Communion was created during the height of the pandemic lockdown by Janessa Clark, who asked each of 40 dancers to submit a video of themselves dancing. Each video was then combined with another dancer’s video to create 20 “distanced duets.”

The end result was, as festival director Shoni Currier said, both “a requiem and a celebration.”

Within last summer’s pandemic-modified Bates Dance Festival, artists and dancers “adapted constantly,” said Currier, offering a “testament to what can happen within a creative practice in the most desperate of situations.”

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Vice Versa

Gerald Walsh removes dust from Marsden Hartley’s 1942 painting Christ during the installation of the exhibition Marsden Hartley: Adventurer in the Arts in September.

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Marsden Hartley, the famed modernist artist who was born in Lewiston in 1877, was a lifelong traveler and wanderer who collected mementos everywhere he went — from seashells to bracelets and rings.

Those souvenirs influenced his art, and vice versa, a dynamic that gave nuanced meaning to Marsden Hartley: Adventurer in the Arts, the fall exhibition at the Bates College Museum of Art. For example, a red and black blanket, probably Mexican, that is part of the exhibit seems echoed in the motifs and palettes of paintings like Christ (1942), one of many religious images he finished in his last years.

He collected inexpensive mementos that he treasured, picking up objects and artifacts everywhere he went. He loved seashells (there are paintings of a few in the exhibition) and sought out jewelry, including bracelets with his initials and rings.

“We don’t really put our initials on HARTLEY CATALOG things as much anymore,” said museum The exhibition registrar Corie Audette, pointing out catalogue for some German cufflinks and a cigarette Marsden Hartley: case, each emblazoned with “MH.” Adventurer in the In Hartley’s memoirs he called his Arts is available collecting an alternative to “concrete through the Bates escapades”— a reference to his life College Store, as a sexually repressed gay man — store.bates.edu. and his own preference for abstract escapades.

The Class of 2021 included eight studio art majors.

Jess Anthony ’96, a lecturer in English, published her second novel, Enter the Aardvark, in 2020.

Elena Valle ’25 of Damascus, Md., displays a print with the words“Grow, Evolve, Transform.”

The message is “more than just three words,” she says. “It means to accept and embrace the path you were meant to be on in order to grow as an individual and change the world around you.”

Fine Prints Students milled around the tables, ink-stained hands searching for the perfect print block. Standing shoulder-to-shoulder, they took turns using the ink rollers and waited patiently for a space to lay their tote bag, T-shirt, or mask.

The atmosphere outside the Benjamin E. Mays Center was upbeat and friendly, as students traded compliments and encouragement back and forth.

Peppy pop music poured from the speakers, and a strong breeze threatened to blow paper and shirts everywhere. Still,

everyone stayed happily on task during this year’s Free Press social justice printmaking event.

The event is run by the “Stringfellows,” students who work with the college’s Multifaith Chaplaincy in the spirit of William Stringfellow ’49, the famed lawyer, theologian, and social critic.

Stringfellows help organize opportunities for campus activists to connect with each other and to reflect on their work.

It’s all about “helping to find practices and spaces to root and remind themselves why they do this important work that can transform the world,” says the Rev. Brittney Longsdorf, the college’s multifaith chaplain.

The Sunny Side of Lewiston The Annual Entering Student Orientation Program has traditionally been a way to introduce first-year students to the great outdoors of Maine. These days, AESOP also includes opportunities to learn about Greater Lewiston.

“Observing and Painting L/A,” an AESOP outing run by Mia Brumsted ’24 of Shelburne, Vt., and Saskia Wong ’22 of Los Angeles, trekked to Lewiston’s Sunnyside Park to find some inspiration for water-colors and catch some rays along the Androscoggin.

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From left, first-year students Lukas Jordan of Lewisburg, Pa., Zaya Rothenberg of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Dalila Caceres of Fallbrook, Calif., paint along the Androscoggin during the 2021 AESOP outing “Observing and Painting L/A.” Fall 2021

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Seven students became certified tax preparers in 2021 to help local citizens with their taxes.

Bates loaned two ultra-cold freezers to aid local hospitals in storing COVID vaccines.

Pine Performance Jamari Amrham ’22 of Fontana, Calif., escorts a dancer swathed in quilts through traffic on Pine Street in Lewiston last July.

The scene unfolded during a tech rehearsal for Processions Toward, Being Future Being, a site-specific work in development by choreographer Emily Johnson and her company, Catalyst, performed during the Bates Dance Festival.

Amrham worked with the festival as a Purposeful Work intern.

Johnson, an Indigenous artist of Yup’ik ancestry, presented the work, which evokes the visual, aural and ancestral landscape of Indigenous power, in and around downtown Kennedy Park and along the Andoscoggin riverfront, originally home to Wabanaki peoples.

What’s in a Name: Montello

Spring Has Sprung As bottled water became popular in the 1800s, commercial bottlers like Poland An area just north of campus, Montello Spring sprang up throughout Maine, inis the name of a street, a rise of land cluding two in Montello Heights, which (familiar to generations of Bates jogwere sold nationally: Windsor Spring on gers), an elementary school, a former the west side and Highland Spring on reservoir, and an assisted living center. the east side, on land that became the Thorncrag Nature Sanctuary.

Street Wise An 1887 ad for Windsor Spring water One of Lewiston’s oldest streets, Montello Street connects Main Street on the west claimed it was a “medicinal agent for kidney, liver and bladder troubles, side of town with Sabattus Street to dyspepsia, rheumatic affections, the east. chlorosis, malarial poisoning, and general debility.”

Naming Rights Other Montello-named places in New Heights the U.S. include a neighborhood in Since the 1800s, the area Brockton, Mass.; a canyon and creek around Montello Street has in Nevada; and a city and town in been known as Montello Wisconsin.

Heights. The street rises and Some sources suggest “Montello” is based on the French, “mont et l’eau,” falls about 150 feet. North meaning “hill and water,” which seems of the street, the land is still mostly undeveloped woodfanciful. More likely, the name is borland, including Thorncrag rowed from the hill of the same name rising another 150 feet. in northern Italy.

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Water Works Built in 1951, Montello Heights Reservoir was closed in the 1980s after the city improved its pumping stations. All public water now comes from Lake Auburn.

Happy Trampers In the early 1900s, north of campus was mostly farmland. In 1918, The Bates Student reported that seniors in a zoology course trekked to a Montello Heights farmhouse for a snowshoe party. “The trampers enjoyed an oyster stew, apple pie with whipped cream, coffee, apples, and pop-corn.”

Montello Street is now part of a traditional three-mile jogging loop: out College Street; right on Montello; right on East Avenue, and back to campus.

Water from the Windsor Spring, located in Montello Heights, was sold during the late 1800s in bottles like this, featuring a stereotypical scene of indigenous peoples drinking from a spring.

Nearly 60 Bates students volunteered to tutor Lewiston High School students in 2020–21.

Bigfoot in Maine, a 2021 book, included stories of sightings in nearby Livermore Falls.

Androscoggin River Clean Up volunteers removed over 1,000 pounds of trash in 2021.

Heaven and Earth Veteran Lewiston Sun Journal photojournalist Russ Dillingham captured this image on July 6, 2021, showing fireworks exploding over the Androscoggin River as the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, illuminated with lights, looms in the foreground.

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THE WORLD

A Borrower and Lender Be Biruk Chafamo ’22 of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, has created a web application that brings an ancient lending tradition into the 21st century.

In May, Chafamo and his app won the $10,000 top prize in the college’s annual pitch competition sponsored by Bobcat Ventures, a student-run entrepreneur group supported by the Bates Center for Purposeful Work.

The app is called Equb, and it facilitates small loans to people who are not well-served by traditional banks. What’s distinctive about Equb is the source of the loans — from one’s own circle of friends, family, and community — and how Chafamo employs web technology to efficiently gather the funders and their money.

The idea of a friend group making loans to its members is not new. Known as a “rotating savings and credit association,” or RSCA, the concept is found in many countries, including Ethiopia, where it’s known as ekub.

My approach is to use the social connections that people already have to allow them to form their own lending groups.

“Almost everyone, including my parents, uses ekub to provide liquidity for one another and overcome their poverty,” Chafamo explained to the judges.

“Ethiopian immigrants and also other immigrants here still use ekub as their primary form of finance.”

Self-help lending can be financially advantageous, he says.

“Imagine you’re trying to borrow money from a bank to buy an oven, but the bank looks at your very poor credit score and they slap you with a 20 percent interest rate. Then you remember that a lot of your friends have money sitting in their savings account, collecting less than 0.5 percent interest.”

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The Bates Center for Global Education celebrated International Education Week in November.

A senior composed the three-movement “Sounds of Scotland” for his music honors thesis.

Biruk Chafamo ’22 of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, won the $10,000 top prize in Bobcat Ventures’ pitch competition.

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rate, “why not form a group with your friends and take turns borrowing and lending money to each other?” Besides helping out a friend, the entire group gets way better rates, both loan and investment, than a bank would offer, he said.

Chafamo’s idea sounds something like LendingClub, a U.S. peer-to-peer lending business, “but it’s really not,” he says.

LendingClub and others in the space “provide loans to users sourced from individual investors. My approach is to use the social connections that people already have to allow them to form their own lending groups.”

This year’s competition was wordly, with the top prize and two runner-up awards of $2,500 going to international students.

Prize winners, alumni judges, Bobcat Ventures student leaders, and Purposeful Work staffers celebrate the successful pitch competition on May 1.

One runner-up prize went to Nicole Kumbula ’21 of Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe, who graduated in May with a chemistry major. Her social-business pitch, Ukama Igasva, focuses on food security and community morale in her grandmother’s home village in Zimbabwe.

Her classmate Armaan Mecca, now a physics graduate from Chennai, India, pitched Passionfruit, an app that addresses the problem facing up-andcoming musicians: how to monetize their music through streaming.

Judging the eight pitches this year were Emma Sprague ’10, co-founder of leadership development group Upswing Strategies; Chris Barbin ’93, founder and CEO of Tercera.io, an investment and advisory firm focused on the third wave of cloud computing; and Ben Schippers ’04, cofounder of the web and mobile app developer HappyFunCorp.

The student entrepreneurs rose to the challenge of developing pitches during a pandemic year and effectively presenting them on Zoom, said Barbin.

“I think we could have easily expected a little bit of a watering down because of the virtual environment. But things just got even better.”

“A huge shoutout to everyone,” added Schippers. “We saw a lot of work. A lot of practice. Our job was tough.”

Commencement 2021 senior speakers were, coincidentally, both from Zimbabwe.

Applications for off-campus study courses are due by Jan. 20, 2022.

Bates provides U.S. federal tax filing free of charge to international students.

Perfect 10 Marian Chisela Mubamba-Kaluba (right) of Mpika, Zambia, poses with her daughter Mercy Mariana Kaluba ’25 (center) and son Chomba Kaluba ’11 (left) after Convocation on Aug. 31.

Mariana is the youngest of Marian’s 10 children. “When my sister got

into Bates, my goal was to include Mom on the trip” to Bates to help her move in, said Chomba, who lives in Portland, Ore. “It was an honor for her to be with her last child at such a special occasion.”

“This is what my husband and I have always dreamed for our children,” said Marian. “Although

we didn’t manage to go to college, we always wished for a quality education for our children. Bates has provided our children with amazing opportunities beyond our dreams.”

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A group of early-arriving international students in the Class of 2025 got an informal tour of campus on Aug. 22, including a visit with President Clayton Spencer in Lane Hall.

They were led by Associate Dean for International Student Programs James Reese. (Fun fact: Spencer and Reese, who is in his fourth decade at Bates, were high school classmates in North Carolina, where Reese’s father, a minister in the Presbyterian Church, was working with the Synod of Catawba in Charlotte, and Spencer’s father was president of Davidson College.)

Eleven percent of the Class of 2025 joined Bates from countries outside the U.S.

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BOOKS

Book suggestions from the college’s annual Good Reads summer reading list:

An Unnecessary Woman

by Rabih Alameddine

Suggested by Tyler Harper, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies: An elegantly-written and poignant novel about the Earth getting along just fine without us.

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

by V.E. Schwab

Parable of the Sower

by Octavia Butler

Suggested by Alison Keegan, Supervisor of Academic Administrative Services: About a girl, a boy, a devil, and the stories that get told, repeated, and remembered — and what humans do to not feel trapped and alone.

Suggested by Peter Lasagna, Head Men’s Lacrosse Coach: One of the most masterfully crafted and compelling (at times terrifying) books of my entire reading life.

Images remain that will remain forever.

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Suggested by Jane Costlow, Griffith Professor Emerita: Amazing narrative about a woman in Beirut who defies all sorts of expectations. I loved the book for her, but also for its evocation of the city, in both war and peace.

The Bear

by Andrew Krivak

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Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Paula Schlax shows off her Anthony Fauci action figure at Commencement.

(Fauci received a Bates honorary degree in 1993.)

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In 1907, newspapers around the country reported a good deed by seven female Bates students.

What did they do?

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Answer: The seven women helped a local farmer pick his apples — 67 barrels in six hours — before a frost.

The farmer’s daughter was one of the students.

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In a year of takeout dining on campus, this squirrel proved to be a very good student. It nabbed this energy bar outside Commons and dashed energetically away with prize in hand — er, mouth.

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BELCH In partnership with a Maine research lab, an innovative Bates biology course gives students up-close experience with cows and dung— all in service to a project to reduce greenhouse gas by m ary pols photo g raphy by ph y lli s g r abe r je nse n

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t Wolfe’s Neck Center in Freeport, on a classic Maine spring day, raw and damp with slippery mud underfoot, Ben MacDonald ’23 saw firsthand how messy scientific research can be.

As he and his other classmates in the Bates biology course “Biological Research Experience: Molecules to Ecosystems” looked on, a farm technician reached a gloved arm into a cow named Tina and took a sample of her feces, speeding along the natural process. Technically this method of collecting a sample is called “a fecal grab.”

While the overarching goal of the research is lofty — to determine whether giving cows a seaweed supplement might decrease the high levels of methane they burp out, thereby cutting back on a significant source of one of the greenhouse gases contributing to climate change — the fecal grab doesn’t tend to be elegant.

Tina is one of the dairy cows in the study, and if you want a fecal sample from her or any of the other 21 bovines in the study, you want one “as fresh as possible,” says Lecturer in Biology Louise Brogan, who devised the innovative Bates course as part of the department’s efforts to expose students to real-life research opportunities earlier in their careers through Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences, or CURE. Because of the pandemic, Bates reworked its 2020–21 academic calendar into “modules” (think highly focused, shorter courses — and more of them) with Brogan teaching BIO 204 multiple times during the 2020–2021 academic year. BIO 204 had to be adaptable so other faculty (five professors total during the year) could rotate in and out, and

Students in the course “Biological Research Experience: Molecules to Ecosystems” enter the organic dairy barn at Wolfe’s Neck Center to begin their sampling work.

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because of physical distancing needs, there were two sections offered in each module.

“My role is to help onboard and support the new faculty coming through,” Brogan says. “I am never completely separated from it.”

When she was brainstorming ideas for the course back in March 2020 with colleague April Hill, the Wagener Family Professor of Equity and Inclusion in STEM, Brogan’s goal was to fulfill the key components of the CURE principles. But as the weeks passed and it seemed the pandemic would complicate the coming academic year, she also had to consider a course that could work within the physical distancing requirements.

CURE dictated that this new course had to give students a sense of “what real science looks and feels like,” Brogan says. It also had to be an authentic inquiry “where even the instructors don’t know what the outcome is going to be.” Students needed to gain the experience of reading scientific literature, using discovery-based approaches to scientific inquiry, analyzing data, interpreting results, communicating in a disciplinary style, and working in teams.

Because Brogan has scientific interest in gut microbiomes, she was eager to center the new course around a microbiome study. “That’s because a microbiome represents all the genetic material from microbes that live in an environment,” Brogan says. “The information we can get from sequencing the microbiome can tell us a lot about how an ecosystem functions.”

The pandemic meant the inquiry had to be relatively close to Lewiston; you could transport students places, but Brogan wanted to avoid long bus rides with students in close proximity.

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The hypothesis (and hope) is that when cows eat seaweed, it could change the microbes in their guts, affecting the ones that generate methane.

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Brogan remembered seeing a press release from a few months earlier about a collaboration at Wolfe’s Neck — its formal name is Wolfe’s Neck’s Center for Agriculture & the Environment — between Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Colby College, the University of Vermont, and the University of New Hampshire investigating whether methane production from cows could be mitigated by feeding them algae-based supplements. That is, seaweed.

The project is known as B3, shorthand for “Bovine BurpBusters” and is funded by the Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund.

Holding sample bags, Lecturer in Biology Louise Brogan gestures to students at one end of the barn.

Cows, whether raised for meat or dairy, are the largest human-caused source of methane emissions, which in turn are the most potent of the greenhouse gases. The hypothesis (and hope) is that when cows eat seaweed, it could change the microbes in their guts, affecting the ones that generate the methane.

The project seemed like a perfect fit for what Brogan wanted. “So there are the microbes,” she says, living in the rumen compartment of a cow stomach. “And there is the ecosystem, and I know we can get ready, easy access to the gut microbiome.

The fecal matter and the ruminal matter are distant from one another, but maybe what we can easily access might serve as a good reporter for what’s going on upstream.”

After retrieving a fecal sample while wearing an arm glove, Wolfe’s Neck Center intern Ursula Murray-​Bozeman gives it to Leah Zukosky ’23 of St. Louis, Mo., for placement into a sterile sample bag.

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After fecal matter is taken from the cow’s rectum, a steel laboratory scoop is used to select a portion for sampling.

Virginia Guanci ’22 of Melrose, Mass., reacts to a lick from one of the dairy cows at Wolfe’s Neck.

That is, the cow patties could be scientifically enlightening. Brogan reached out to Nichole Price, a benthic marine ecologist and senior research scientist at Bigelow Laboratory who heads up this interdisciplinary research project, to ask if there was any potential to collaborate. Brogan’s hope was that the Bates students “could generate some data.”

Bovine BurpBusters now includes Bates as a collaborator. Throughout the year, Bigelow representatives — Price, project coordinator Charlotte Quigley, and Ben Twining, another senior research scientist — have Zoomed into class meetings of BIO 204 to talk about the data and the Bovine BurpBusters program.

And the amount of data coming in from the student work is so copious “that we blew up Excel,” Brogan says. “Because apparently Excel can only accept one million rows of data.” (Science and Data Librarian Peter Schlax has been essential to creating “math magical” help, aka bioinformatic support, and solutions, Brogan says.)

For the students, the journey to data starts with gloves and efficiency at Wolfe’s Neck. Either a sample gets scooped up from the ground or the technician who does the fecal grab hands it off to a student. “Then once they had the sample in their hand it was just, ‘Let’s take three scoops at three different places and get it into the bag,’” says MacDonald, a psychology and chemistry major from Philadelphia on a pre-med track. “And then, you know, it’s onto the next cow.” Half of the cows in B3 are being fed a seaweed supplement; half are not.

What he didn’t expect — this wasn’t on the syllabus — is how messy the day at the farm would be, with many of these specimens ending up underfoot or splattering, as one might expect. “It’s probably better that Louise didn’t tell us some of the details of exactly what the collection process would look like,” MacDonald says with a grin. The students have watched a video in class before the field trip, but it turns out, it can’t quite convey the sights and smells of the real farm experience.

What MacDonald and his classmates got was an unfiltered look at how basic research can be. “It’s not always, you know, really fancy scientific methods and really expensive equipment,” MacDonald

says. “Sometimes you are just collecting cow poop, you know?”

The samples get packed into bags, labeled, put onto ice and are brought back to the lab at Bates.

“In the week thereafter we do a project called ‘Poop to PCR,’” Brogan says. They homogenize their samples and then extract microbial DNA. The device they use to sequence the microbiomes from the cows is so small it fits in the palm of a hand.

“We want to isolate pure, clean, high-quality DNA,” Brogan says, to see if the microbial population is shifting in any way as a result of a seaweed infused diet.

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What MacDonald and his classmates got was an unfiltered look at how basic research can be. “It’s not always, you know, really fancy scientific methods and really expensive equipment,” MacDonald says. “Sometimes you are just collecting cow poop, you know?”

A Maine classic, L.L.Bean Boots, are perfect for a classic Maine spring day.

Leah Puro is used to getting her hands dirty in her work as research coordinator at Wolfe’s Neck Center.

And while some of the other collaborators in B3 are also sampling, the work done by Bates students uses a different sequencing platform, which extends the data set that Bigelow and others are working with. It might even lead to further adaptations in the methodology of future sequencing.

The collaboration is already providing an interesting educational experience, including lessons on how to communicate scientific findings. The Bates students have various hypothetical audiences to present for, including the Maine Climate Council and the state’s Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry. Next year, they may present at

the 2022 Mount David Summit, and a subset of the group will also present results to a transdisciplinary team within the B3 group.

For MacDonald, the presentation was a key component of what he liked about the class. So was the connection to Bigelow scientists and research.

“That’s what made 204 feel different,” he says.

The Zoom sessions with the Bigelow scientists, he adds, “puts into perspective that the research we’re doing is actually going to an institution that is publishing papers and trying to have a significant impact on the environment and the outcome of these cows’ diets.” n

Mayra Gomes Spencer ’22 of Dorchester, Mass., holds up a sample from the cow Celebrate with the date the sample was taken, April 30, 2021.

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When a Lewiston craft brewery wanted a research partner to measure the bitterness of its beers as a potential cost-saving initiative, Bates and Purposeful Work intern Emily Tamkin ’23 were there to help by jay burns p hoto g raphy by phyllis g r abe r je nse n

scientist’s curiosity to his work. But to investigate SEVERAL TIMES LAST SUMMER, 19-year-old his theory, he needed research support, including Emily Tamkin ’23 drove to a Lewiston craft brewaccess to a spectrophotometer to calculate IBU ery, picked up some beer, and hauled it back levels experimentally and the controlled environto Bates. ment of a laboratory. So he reached out to Bates, Maine’s drinking age being 21, she’s not old “our neighbors.” enough to transport alcohol, of course. But Tamkin Science, whether chemistry, biology, or physics, had permission and purpose. The biology major is as integral to beer-making as barley, hops, and from Lafayette, Calif., was using her Purposeful yeast, so the fact that Tamkin isn’t old enough to Work internship to help Baxter Brewing Co. improve drink Baxter beer (she turns 21, Maine’s legal drinkthe efficiency of its beer making. ing age, next August) is irrelevant, says Waldron.

Specifically, she took the lead in a research project “Emily and I just talk about the science.” to measure the bitterness of Baxter ales and lagers.

In Tamkin’s project, the science is found in the Not with a sip and swallow, but more accurately, chemistry of hops. Hops contain alpha acids, which with a high-tech Bates laboratory instrument. when heated become bitter-tasting iso-alpha acids.

A beer’s bitterness, mostly created by adding “When these acids hit your taste buds, your brain more or less hops, is expressed in International receptors understand it as bitter,” Tamkin explains.

Bitterness Units, or IBUs. Every beer has an IBU Over the summer, Tamkin would drive down“target.” An India pale ale has more hops, so it will town to pick up samples from the brewery, have a higher target IBU value. Baxter’s flagship located in stunningly renovated Bates Mill space.

Stowaway IPA, for example, is a 69. Pale ales and The samples are taken at four spots in the brewing lagers are lower: Baxter’s Staycation Land Brilliant process, including before hops are added and the Lager is a smooth 17.5. final canned product.

Smaller craft breweries like Baxter typically She then drove the samples back to use commercial software to measure the Banks lab in Carnegie Science Hall, a beer’s IBU value, which determines What are soon to be moved to the new Bonney the amount of hops needed. (For home IBUs? Science Center. (Lest she get pulled brewers, online calculators can be over for possession of alcohol, Tamkin found all over the internet.) For some had a letter from Waldron indicating time, Baxter Director of Quality A beer’s bitterness, that she was transporting beer for reMerritt Waldron has suspected that mostly created by search purposes.) his calculators have been suggesting adding more or less On a recent Wednesday, she picked “too many hops to get to our target hops, is expressed in International up samples of Stowaway; Hopeful, a values” for each Baxter beer.

Bitterness Units, session IPA; and Gopher It, a hazy A physics graduate of the University or IBUs. Every beer triple IPA. In the lab, she used a specof Southern Maine, Waldron is the auhas an IBU “target.” trophotometer to calculate the true thor of Quality Labs for Small Brewers.

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PURPOSEFUL WORK intern Emily Tamkin and director of Quality Merritt Waldron pose in the Baxter brew room on July 28, 2021. The pair teamed up to investigate the accuracy of conventional methods of measuring the bitterness of beer.

measuring their iso-alpha acids.

All told, Tamkin analyzed 12 of the brewery’s nearly 20 beers over the summer. She planned to present her findings to Baxter during the fall.

For Baxter, the partnership with Bates is about brewing excellent beer while spending less on ingredients like hops. We asked Waldron a question: What if Tamkin does find that Baxter can lower the TAMKIN HOLDS A CAN of Baxter’s Colonial Pemaquid ale, brewed to celebrate Maine’s state parks.

The can, and the ones in the refrigerator, are open so the beer can lose its carbonation. IBU measurements must be taken on non-carbonated samples.

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amount of hops to achieve an accurate IBU target?

Won’t lowering the amount of hops change the taste of the brewery’s beers?

Not necessarily, he says. “Most human palates can only taste a small range of IBU values. Most can’t taste the difference between 10 IBUs. So if Emily’s results say that I can shave off 10 IBUs to achieve a more accurate number, we can lower the amount of hops, save money, and the consumer won’t notice the difference.”

Hops are pricey, up to $20 per pound, so the savings could be significant. Waldron runs the numbers for Stowaway IPA, which uses a popular hop known as Cascade, which runs about $10 per pound.

“Five pounds of Cascade is equal to about 10 IBUs in one ‘turn’ of Stowaway IPA” — about 30 barrels — “and we typically brew 280 turns of Stowaway a year,” Waldron explains. “If I can save five pounds of Cascade per turn, that’s 1,400 pounds of hops per year. At around $10 per pound, that’s an annual savings of $14,000.”

Tracking IBUs is just one part of the Baxter quality program. There’s also a sensory program, anchored by a beer-testing panel of Baxter employees, that rigorously identifies the essential nature of each Baxter beer, through taste, smell, look, feel, and, yes, sound.

IN THE LAB of Assistant Professor of Biology Lori Banks, Tamkin goes about testing IBU values of Baxter beers.

“Working with Baxter, being able to do all this amazing science with them, has opened up a world for me — how science relates to other industries that I never really thought of before.”

“We call the essence of each brand its ‘trueto-target’ profile,” says Waldron. “Testing brews against their profile is the goal of the sensory program.” Any reduction in hops suggested by Tamkin’s research would need to make its way through the beer-testing panel, he says.

For Tamkin, the summer project sweetened an interest in food science. “I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about a career, and grappling with whether that meant pre-med or academia,” she explains.

Turns out, a third path appeared in Tamkin’s search for purposeful work. “Working with Baxter, being able to do all this amazing science with them, has opened up a world for me — how science relates to other industries that I never really thought of before.”

Besides helping Baxter, Tamkin hopes her experimental results will yield solid enough findings for a scholarly paper.

TAMKIN ANALYZED IBU VALUES of 12 of Baxter Brewing Co.’s nearly 20 beers over the summer.

“The experience of being able to design a research project and do it well enough to write a paper about it has been really, really exciting,” she says. “I wouldn’t have had the opportunity without Baxter being so great and without the Banks Lab.” Waldron studied physics at the University of Southern Maine. At the time, “I didn’t really know what I was going to do with my major,” he says.

“Then I ended up getting into brewing. Seeing all the science behind it, I just got super excited about it.

“So, as a scientist myself, being able to inspire a real-world application of the theoretical stuff you learn in college in someone like Emily — that’s part of the reason why I was really excited to have a Purposeful Work intern, not to mention being able to partner with Bates, our neighbors.” n

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“It’s really fun to be the first Bates face they’ve seen who isn’t on a screen.”

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While the iconic, student-led campus tour isn’t going anywhere soon, the new pandemic-inspired mix of virtual and in-person Admission offerings “feels really cool and really smart — and long overdue,” says Leigh Weisenburger, leader of the Bates enrollment program by jay bu r ns

THE ICONIC BATES CAMPUS TOUR, led by students who keep things moving ahead while walking backward, has always been geared toward the needs of prospective students and families.

And when the campus reopened last summer, after being closed to visitors since March 2020 due to the pandemic, those folks returned en masse, sweeping through Bates while on their big college swing through New England.

But along with the regulars came another species of tour-goers who visited in record numbers: high school graduates who were ready to enroll with the Bates Class of 2025 — having gone through the entire recruitment process virtually, from application to acceptance — but had never visited the campus.

Often, their first contact was a student Admission intern, whose job includes giving lots and lots of tours. “It was really fun to be the first Bates face they’ve seen who isn’t on a screen,” said Elly Beckerman ’22 of Washington, D.C. For Noah Pott ’22 of Great Barrington, Mass., being that first contact was “really humbling. The first-years had a fairly good understanding of what Bates offers in terms of opportunities for students. What we tried to offer is the excitement of being here on campus.”

The energy flowed both ways, said fellow intern Omar Sarr ’23 of Dakar, Senegal.

TOUR TIME “I could feel their excitement.

“As tour guides, we can They usually have a lot of quesoffer the excitement of tions that I’m always happy to being here on campus,” answer.” said a Bates Admission Beckerman, rather than the usual spiel of facts and anecintern. In that spirit, dotes geared to a prospective Phyllis Graber Jensen student, offered tips and advice photographed nine “about how to meet people and interns and asked them find community to share their favorite at Bates.”

Bates places with us all.

Her three favorite tips: “Sign up for any listserv that looks interesting because you can always unsubscribe later; to bring a favorite board or card game; and to say ‘yes’ when people ask if you want to hang out during Orientation week.”

The sight-unseen tour-goers were evidence of a larger phenomenon, said Leigh Weisenburger, vice president for enrollment and dean of admission and financial aid. Due to the pandemic, the number of first-years who went through their entire college process from a distance is unequalled in Bates history. “It’s unprecedented,” she said.

But as the pandemic has taught us, what was unprecedented is now the precedent. What was unexpected is now expected.

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Long defined by an in-person approach that emphasized campus visits and interviews and massive amounts of staff travel around the globe, the Bates enrollment operation was pushed into a virtual space starting in March 2020. At first, Weisenburger and her team felt great unease. “It was so disorienting. All we thought was, ‘How are we going to do this?’”

The program is still headquartered in historic Lindholm House on Campus Avenue, but, as typified by one of Weisenburger’s recent mornings, it’s more a la carte, with a deft mix of offerings, in person and virtual, live and on demand.

On Aug. 17, Weisenburger kicked off her workday at Lindholm by talking via Zoom with prospective students in China, 8 a.m. Bates time, 8 p.m.

Beijing time. Then she joined a few Zoom meetings with staff, planning for the new year, before heading downstairs to refresh her coffee.

There, she saw a prospective student and

parents coming up the walk, so she paused to hold the door and greet the visitors, learning they’d driven up that morning from the Boston area for an in-person campus tour.

This new mix of Admission offerings “feels really cool and really smart — and long overdue,” said Weisenburger.

In the pre-pandemic summer and fall 2019, Bates Admission did in-person travel to 39 U.S. states and five continents and participated in 896 in-person visits to schools, college fairs, panels, and community based organizations.

During 2020–21, despite no travel due to the pandemic, “we still were able to virtually visit 44 states and 532 schools while vastly expanding how students can learn about Bates without having to visit in person,” she said.

Those new and bolstered virtual resources include a multimedia tour powered by YouVisit; a series of “Ask the Experts” YouTube videos featur-

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of Great Barrington, Mass., outside Schaeffer Theatre.

Major: Theater, Music Favorite Place: Schaeffer Theatre Noah says: Shaeffer is where magic and the performing arts come to life for me. Creativity flows in Schaeffer. I’m going to be performing my senior thesis in here, and I’m really excited for that.

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ing Bates staff and faculty; and candid, student-focused “Bobcat Chats,” video sessions recorded live and available on demand.

“Don’t get me wrong: There’s a certain energy when you can have any kind of in-person experience,” she said. “But looking through the equity lens, you realize how, in the past, learning about Bates was far easier for families who could get to Bates and how relatively hard it was for families who could not get here for whatever reason.”

The same goes for the campus interview. A generation ago, there was a line in the Viewbook: “Candidates without an interview may be placing themselves at a disadvantage in the evaluation process.” Now, all interviews are strictly informational and have no bearing on a student’s application.

“We know now that interviews can be fraught,” Weisenburger said. “We know so much more about implicit bias now — there’s just so much opportunity for bias to arise in an interview setting,

whether it’s interviewing for a job or interviewing for college.”

Even with the help of alumni interviewers around the world, Weisenburger and her team realized that interviews were an unnecessary hoop that Bates was asking students to jump through.

“We asked ourselves, ‘Who has the privilege to know these interviews exist? Who has access to them?’ It’s just problematic layer on layer on layer. And we had data showing that interviews are more effective as a recruitment tool than as an assessment tool. We were already positioned to make a move to strictly informational interviews.

With the pandemic, it was perfect timing.”

And without the disruption of the pandemic, would making all these changes and innovations swiftly and intentionally have been possible? “I don’t see how,” Weisenburger. “But that’s the point of disruption, right?” n

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of Orinda, Calif., along the Burgoyne Walk on Lake Andrews.

Major: Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies; Theater Favorite Place: Lake Andrews Max says: I like coming to the Puddle, particularly when I’m feeling overwhelmed. It’s a good place to get outside, reflect, and relax.

“It’s a good place to get outside, reflect, and relax.”

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ELYSIA GARZA ’22

of Houston, Texas, framed by decorative plantings on the Ladd Library Terrace.

Major: Psychology Favorite Place: The Ladd Library Terrace Elysia says: Two of my closest friends worked in the library, in the Academic Resource Commons and with the IT Help Desk. We’d settle in to study together on the terrace before they went to work. And I’d often greet them after their shift.

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of Media, Pa., on the Olin Arts Center Terrace.

Major: Environmental Studies Favorite Place: Olin Arts Center Concert Hall Jake says: It’s essentially my second home on campus — the perfect environment for me to learn. It makes me feel like singing, and that’s what I love to do.

I’ve come to love it. In the evenings, I have Deansmen rehearsals for a cappella.

I have choir rehearsals on a lot of afternoons.

I have applied music lessons earlier in the day, and then I come to practice for those lessons. Good vibrations for singing. Make that great vibrations.

“It makes me feel like singing and that’s what I love to do.”

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“The Quad represents Bates communitiy and values.”

AVA PETRIN ’24

of Turner, Maine, with her hand-decorated longboard on the Historic Quad.

Major: Undeclared Favorite Place: The Historic Quad Ava says: The Quad represents Bates community and values. I come out here to hang out with my friends. A little five-minute trip usually turns into 45 minutes or an hour because we see so many people. And you get to interact with professors.

I just gave a tour a few minutes ago and saw my First-Year Seminar professor, so I got to introduce him to prospective students.

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of Brooklyn, N.Y., outside Pettengill Hall.

Major: Religious Studies Favorite Place: Pettengill Hall Maddie says: I am such a night owl. I love to post up late at night to get my work done in the quiet Atrium amongst the trees and fountains and night sky.

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“It’s a space where I really push myself to be better all the time.”

OMAR SARR ’23

of Dakar, Senegal, outside the entrance to Alumni Gymnasium.

Major: Economics Favorite Place: Alumni Gymnasium Omar says: Alumni Gym is my home on campus. It’s where I have my family, which is my basketball team. This is where I give a lot of love to my teammates and to my friends who come and watch the games. It’s also where I receive the most love, from my coaches, my teammates, and from the people who come here all the time.

It’s a space where I really push myself to be better all the time.

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MAGGIE NESPOLE ’23

of Annapolis, Md., on the Maine granite that forms Keigwin Amphitheater.

Major: English, Politics Favorite Place: Florence Keigwin Amphitheater Maggie says: It’s a really peaceful spot. I like to study out here with friends. Sometimes we have club meetings here, and sometimes I just like to sit and read on my own.

MARGARET HORVAT ’23 of Philadelphia, Pa., on the front porch of Milliken House.

Major: Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies Favorite Place: Milliken House Margaret says: I lived in Milliken my first year, and we really enjoyed creating our community, hanging out in the common room. It’s entirely first-years.

We had a lot of fun!

I felt really lucky that my roommate and I got along really well. People hang out in our room. When I’d get back to my room, friends were often there.

That was a really sweet experience — a wonderful space to get to know people.

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THEOPHIL SYSLO

On Aug. 19, 2021, four days before the official ribboncutting ceremony, Bonney Science Center cuts a handsome figure on Campus Avenue, next to Chu and Kalperis halls.

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STORIED BUILDING Undeterred (mostly) by either pandemic or piledriving, Campus Construction Update told the story of the rise of Bonney Science Center, with wit, insight, and stepladder in hand

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s with an old house, there’s always something on a historic college campus that needs fixing or improving. And with every project, there’s lots to talk about.

Since 2006, Campus Construction Update has chatted up Bates folks about all things great and small in the world of Bates facilities projects, gaining a loyal readership that has made CCU the most-read feature of the Bates News website.

The monthly updates kicked off in the mid2000s to chronicle the massive undertaking that gave rise to Commons, Alumni Walk, and 280 College Street. Since then, CCU has explained everything from the painstaking restoration of the stained glass windows at Gomes Chapel to the

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2018 “summer of pampering” (of the building, not CCU) that gave Carnegie Science Hall an HVAC overhaul and a rebuilt hot-water system. Along the way, readers have come to delight in CCU’s witty asides (who knew that CCU loves an occasional Moxie and bourbon float?).

Produced by longtime Bates Communications writer Doug Hubley, CCU took on its biggest project ever in 2019, covering the rise of Bonney Science Center with wit, insight, and trusty stepladder in hand.

Here’s a selection of Bonney CCUs, starting with the razing of a ramshackle garage and ending with a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a radiant new Bates building. — JAY BURNS

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March 8, 2019 Who will weep for a garage?

The first CCU of the Bonney Science Center project explains the initial sitework: The week of March 18 will bring the first bold strokes in a two-and-ahalf-year project that promises great things for Bates: the Bonney Science Center.

That week will bring the placement of Campus Construction Update’s nemesis, a construction-site fence. Then the field office for Consigli Construction Co., the firm that’s managing construction of the project, will show up.

And then will begin the removal of the site’s current contents: trees, brush, parking areas, and three buildings.

Nos. 141 and 145 Nichols St. once housed the Bates Communications Office. The third building is a garage that once belonged to the original 45 Campus Ave., a house formerly home to the political science department and most recently used by student organizations, and torn down in 2014.

Soon tears of nostalgia will abound as 141 and 145 Nichols are demolished — along with the garage, but who will weep for the garage?

Students pause on their way to class to watch the demolition of 145 Nichols St. on March 28. 2019.

April 12, 2019 Little houses we used to work in Two wood-frame buildings on Nichols Street, including the former headquarters of CCU, fall to the excavator’s maw: On March

28 we watched the obliteration of the houses where we used to work: 141 and 145 Nichols St., former quarters of the Bates Communications Office.

The Volvo excavator’s very first bite of 141 landed adjacent to the former CCU Penthouse.

(This served as a reminder that our 1958 Gibson Les Paul Custom Black Beauty guitar was still in the penthouse, along with our checkbook.)

It was hard to look away, because of both our lingering attachment to the houses and the way the big Volvo made destroying a building look like slicing an angel food cake.

But ultimately the houses’ remains joined the ripped-up foliage, broken-up pavement, dug-up earth and boulders, etc., whose removal has kept dump trucks buzzing around the site.

What comes next is preparing the land itself for the actual building of a building. That involves not only contouring the earth but replacing much of it with materials of known quality. That’s because the original soil is mixed with stuff unsuitable to build on.

“If you see those signs by the roadside asking for clean fill,” says Bates project manager Chris Streifel, “this isn’t it.”

May 10, 2019 Fixing a hole On a drizzly May day, CCU chronicles the official groundbreaking for the Bonney Science Center: “Next time, we need to get you guys on the big machines,” a photographer told her subjects, posing near construction equipment parked in the mud on the Bonney Center site.

“I’d like that,” said Sarah Pearson ’75, Bates’ vice president for college advancement.

“You’ll need a few hours of training,” countered a Consigli Construction staff member.

June 7, 2019 Pipes down Firming up the wobbly soil beneath the new building requires pipe piles, and lots of them: What comes next for the foundation hole is the driving of pipe piles into its floor, so that the soil will be able to support the RENE ROY

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A year before groundbreaking, brick mockups were placed at the Bonney Science Center project site to test the effects of different treatments.

Seen on April 23, 2019, the first phase of preparing the science center’s foundation hole was to excavate a uniform 5-foot depth across the building footprint.

(“Yes please!” thought CCU update, eyeing the biggest excavator.)

It was a drizzly May 2 and the groundbreaking for the Bonney Science Center. With polished spades provided for the occasion, the mandatory gravel toss was undertaken by President Clayton Spencer and the buildings’ namesakes, lead donors Alison Grott Bonney ’80 and Michael Bonney ’80.

As so often happens, though, the ceremonial start of construction had been preceded by weeks of work, as evidenced by the science building’s foundation hole, stretching from Nichols to Bardwell streets and excavated to a uniform 5-foot depth.

Starting May 3 was the task of shoring up three sides of the hole with so-called sheet piles, metal panels anchored in the earth and designed to lock together forming a barrier.

These are driven by a hydraulic vibratory hammer, which dangles from a crane, perches atop a pile, and nags it into place.

The two vibro hammer operators and the crane driver can drive a pile in about 10 minutes.

Watching him set the hammer, you suspect the crane man could stack chips on a roulette table with that machine.

Spades were plated and engraved specially for the Bonney groundbreaking on May 2, 2020.

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July 8, 2019 A refusal it can’t offer The pile driving takes extra time: Most of the time, the last thing the boss wants on the work site

fabric wrapper that helps with weight distribution — and sets the stage for actual foundation construction, starting with concrete footers.

In June 2019, a worker welds an additional section onto a pipe pile that will be driven into the ground to stabilize the soil.

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Heard and seen during summer 2019, the pile driver at the Bonney construction site drove 260 piles to stabilize the soil.

building perimeter for foundation construction, which began in July.

That has gone stunningly fast. Atop the pilings and so-called load-transfer platforms of stone and fabric, ground-hugging foundation footings were placed.

Now foundation walls are rising — like the footers, in a process of erecting forms, insetting rebar, and placing concrete.

And where before we watched humans and machines toiling in mucky marine clay, now smooth concrete walls are standing tall, or at least up to ground level.

October 4, 2019 Off with the ramp Construction hits a milestone marked by concrete, as opposed to a concrete marker: We passed another Bonney Center milestone yesterday, as most of the concrete basement floor was placed.

Northeast Concrete Pumping showed up around 7 a.m. After hauling the 8-foot Campus Construction Update stepladder around for a while, we found a good vantage point.

The concrete pumper had a boom long and limber enough to access any point in the Bonney footprint. The outlet was a hose about as big around as your leg. While one worker directed the boom with a remote control, another handled the spewing hose and a swarm of others spread and contoured the stuff.

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building’s foundation. These are steel pipes driven 40 or 50 feet deep, filled with concrete, and capped with steel plates.

They will be sunk the good old-fashioned way, blow upon blow, by a pile-driver — making a clangor unheard at Bates since 1997 and pile-driving for Pettengill Hall’s construction.

While the pipe piles will ultimately contact layers of sand and silt, much of the wobbly soil that needs stiffening is the marine clay that we’ve watched subcontractor Gendron & Gendron remove for weeks.

It fascinates us. It’s damp, heavy, and, paradoxically, both slippery and clingy. When an excavator claws at it, clay rolls up like a wave hitting the beach. It comes in subtly different colors and it retains impressions of footprints and tire treads.

What gives clay its personality is for a geochemist to explain, but we’re eager to drop the term “flocculation” at a dinner party.

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During spring 2019, subcontractor Gendron & Gendron prepares the foundation hole, up to 25 feet deep at its deepest, creating a vertiginous, big-city construction vibe.

is a lot of refusals. (Trust us — we know!)

But for pile-driving pros, “refusal” means that a given pile refuses to go deeper, and it will bear its specified load. In short, a good thing.

At the Bonney Center site, though, refusals aren’t coming fast enough. Most of the pipe piles that will support the foundation are going unexpectedly deep before meeting refusal.

(What Mario Puzo might have called a refusal the pile can’t offer.)

So a second pipe has to be spliced onto the first. Finally, once refusal is met, any pipe protruding above the soil surface is cut off, the pipe is filled with concrete, and once that cures, a steel plate is fastened onto the pipe.

Layered over a group of finished plates is a “stone pillow.” Sounds like a 1960s country-rock group, but it’s actually crushed rock in a

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September 6, 2019 Feeling gravity’s pull Pile driving is over, 260 piles later: The weeks of plangent clanging and sooty diesel puffs at the Bonney Center site ended on Aug. 12 with the driving of pipe pile No. 260. That milestone has freed up the remaining

Workers pour the concrete floor for the basement of Bonney Science Center on Oct. 3, 2019.

January 10, 2020 We know erratic Learn why the new walls pop up at seemingly random intervals: Building the Bonney Center’s first-story walls hasn’t been an erratic process, but one could easily think otherwise.

Where you’d expect the concrete wall to appear in an orderly and contiguous march around the perimeter, sections instead have popped up at seemingly random intervals.

Nevertheless, CCU knows all about erratic, and what looks like a start-and-stop approach has actually been the construction team building walls at top speed — just working around areas that aren’t yet ready for them.

“When they get to the second and third floors, they’ll be able to go all the way around with less hopping, skipping, and jumping,” says Chris

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Winter 2020 was all about wall making. Concrete forms are peeled off newly poured sections of wall, just as concrete forms are being erected to make still more wall.

Streifel. (And less confusion for Campus Construction Update!)

March 13, 2020 The time of March A jungle of silvery slats demarcates the first interior walls: A month of progress has transformed the Bonney basement.

The area bordering Campus Avenue has become a jungle of silvery metal slats that will ultimately support partition walls. They demarcate some 19 rooms that will constitute the vivarium, a signature feature of the new science center.

Wallboard is still a ways off, as the subcontractors doing mechanical, electrical, and plumbing are installing infrastructure that will live inside the walls.

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December 13, 2019 A wall, if you will For the Bonney project, winter is a season of wall-making: Just before Thanksgiving, concreteform panels appeared along the Campus Avenue side of the Bonney Center.

It’s a wall of forms that will form a wall, if you will — the beginning of the science center’s permanent three-story exterior walls.

Wall work, in rotation with the placement of interior structural steel and floor slabs, will dominate construction this winter. “The critical path really goes through those walls right now,” says Chris Streifel — “critical path” meaning operations most important to keeping the project on track.

Wooden props support the panel wall on the inside.

Steelworkers nicknamed “rodbusters” weave a rebar matrix to reinforce the future concrete. Frames called “knockouts” will leave rectangular voids in the flowing concrete to form window openings.

When the setup is ready for concrete, the knockouts and rebar will be sandwiched between outer and inner layers of panels. (One of the rare opportunities to stand a sandwich on its side with no regrets.)

See-through walls: Metal wall studs begin to demarcate rooms in the Bonney basement.

Up one flight, the first floor is now puddle-free, in contrast to our February visit. Poly sheeting across windows holds in the comfort that space heaters pump in through giant fabric ducts.

It’s a place where a person can just kick back and admire the spray-on fireproofing newly applied to all the structural steel.

April 10, 2020 Abundance of caution Oh no! The pandemic keeps CCU away from seeing the delivery of air handlers: If 6 feet is the recommended gap between oneself and other humans, Campus Construction Update has taken COVID-19 precautions and especially physical distancing to

heart, exercising an abundance of caution by staying 34 miles away from campus.

We regretted not seeing the crane lower three giant air handlers into Bonney’s cellar last week. Access for big heavy stuff is through the so-called areaway, a sunken shaft that will ultimately be the building’s air intake. Maneuvering expensive bus-sized objects down, around, and inside must have resembled building a ship in a bottle.

May 8, 2020 Chemical reaction It’s time to think about what gets moved in: Between now and early June, cranes will also be hoisting, along with the last major structural steel on the project, an assortment of mechanical apparatus to the building’s uppermost level, aka the penthouse. Inside the building, the work of building the inside of the building continues. (See what music you can make with just six unique words?)

Chris Streifel’s team is also making final refinements to the list of major equipment that will be moved from the older science buildings to Bonney — everything from a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer to a variety of microscopes to plain old kitchen refrigerators.

And they’re reviewing the chemical inventory. “Now’s the time to thin the stock,” Streifel says. “It’s going to be a laborious and somewhat costly process to move that whole stockroom into Bonney. The fewer chemicals that we have to move, the better.”

June 19, 2020 In Vierendeel we truss Celebrating the conclusion of structural work, and a steely moment: With the placement on high of a girder bearing a potted evergreen and the signatures of campus community and construction team, a June 16 “topping-off” celebration symbolically marked the end of Bonney Center structural work.

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of the building’s south face.

Steel and concrete walls, floors, and load-bearing columns interact to carry the building’s weight down to the foundation and withstand other stresses. But entrances in the middle of the south wall create a break in the stress-bearing capacity.

To compensate, the wall itself is designed as a surprising load-bearing system called a vierendeel truss. Named for its Belgian inventor, the vierendeel concept eschews the diagonal forms typical of most trusses and distributes stresses, instead, through rectangular forms — the Bonney Center windows.

Extra steel beside and above the truss helps bear the load.

July 17, 2020 Studies have shown How brickwork can make a building seem to shrink in size: We were loafing on Bardwell Street on Monday when we spied a flatbed truck bearing the Maine Masonry logo.

A forklift operator was nearly done unloading the truck, which had brought to the Bonney Science Center site the first installment of the selfelevating Hydro Mobile staging that masons will stand on as they cover the science center’s walls in brick — work likely to be underway by next week.

This is exciting in part because of the visual effect that a spreading veneer of brick creates. Bricks bring the building a long way toward its final appearance.

As an interesting corollary, the building will appear to shrink a bit even as the bricks actually, if only slightly, increase its size. This is because bricks, being darker than concrete, are visually more recessive.

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September 25, 2020 Curtain walls At Bonney, two types of glass windows, neither of which CCU would want to wash: In general, the Bonney Center will have two varieties of windows. One is the floor-to-ceiling style repeated in quantity around the walls. The other is what industry folks call a curtain wall, and what we call something that we wouldn’t want to wash, because those things are just plain big.

Bonney will sport a few of these glassy expanses, notably one called “the Beacon” and another at the master staircase, and all will provide dramatic views (which leads one to wonder how “curtain wall” became the name of this configuration, since both curtains and walls block the view).

October 30, 2020 You rung?

Two signature elements, the Beacon and the Monumental Stair, start to take shape: A metal framework is now in place to support the curtain wall of the Beacon, one of the building’s signature features facing Campus Avenue. All told, that curtain wall will be 47 feet tall and 22 wide.

Meanwhile, the structural steel has been erected for the dramatic spiral stairway known

as the Monumental Stair, which with its own glass curtain wall is the second big feature on that north wall. (Or third, if you count those occasions when we have the official 8-foot Campus Construction Update stepladder set up in the roadway.)

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Wearing its ceremonial evergreen, the final beam is maneuvered by crane toward the Bonney Center during a topping-off ceremony on June 16, 2020.

August 21, 2020 Plus our electric Kabob-It A science building requires a big (r)amp up in electrical power: Don’t forget that in a science facility like Bonney, “utilities” means something different from what it might in the case of a residential or office building. Science demands distinctive building-wide resources, such as compressed air, specially treated water on tap, etc.

And for safety’s sake, a science facility needs a continuous air change.

Even systems similar in kind between building types are built to a much greater scale in the science center. For instance, Bonney will simply contain more electrical equipment to keep powered up than you’d find in a dorm, even with all the eight-track players and lava lamps going full tilt.

In December 2020, one of the final window panels is maneuvered into place at the “Beacon.” The panel is attached to the crane hoist by means of a vacuum lifter.

December 4, 2020 Looking great Brickwork and roofing are nearly complete: While work inside the science center continues full tilt, the other news headlines involve the building envelope, or as the experts say, the outside of it.

Bricklayers have started on the Campus Avenue side of the building — their last for this project. And atop the building, placement has begun of the final layer of roofing, a deep gray copper product.

Bonney is “looking great, especially from Nichols Street,” says Chris Streifel. From that direction, “everything you can see looks finished. It’s wonderful.”

January 15, 2021 Mighty muckling How those heavy windows get into play way up high: The building’s curtain walls are made up of glass sheets weighing hundreds of pounds each. How, you may ask, do mere mortals wrangle such sheets into place high above the cold hard ground? Workers use a so-called vacuum lifter to maneuver each pane into place in the curtain wall’s gridlike metal frame.

Active suction cups (as opposed to the press-on variety — it would take so much saliva to make those stick), mounted on an array of movable hydraulic arms, do the work of gripping and orienting each pane. The vacuum lifter and its operators

February 18, 2021 The staging is set For now, scaffolding obscures those future views: The Beacon curtain wall has been done for weeks and, seen from the street, it’s a beaut. But on the inside looking out, at the moment there’s little evidence of the swell campus views that Bonney inhabitants will eventually enjoy.

Instead, all you can see is scaffolding. Scaffolding, aka staging, dominates the Monumental Stair airspace, too, although during a recent visit that didn’t stop us from making our first full descent of the steps (dude descending a staircase, in a sense, but warmly dressed).

April 30, 2021 Landscaping lingo Loaming (the placing of loam) has an odd pronunciation: By mid-May, the technical outdoor site work — curbs, outdoor lighting, etc. — will be well along. And a bit later in the month, the landscapers will show up with their shrubs, flowers, and the loam to plant them in.

We were interested to learn that landscaping lingo includes the pronunciation of “loaming,” the placing of loam, as “looming.” Does this mean that after a hard day of work under the hot sun, landscapers like to enjoy an ice-cold foomy beer?

May 20, 2021 Best with coffee ice cream The fence around Bonney comes down: For Campus Construction Update, whose

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“People are in that moment of euphoria, to some degree, where they’re just so excited to finally move in after all this thinking and stressing about it,” says Chris Streifel. “Everybody’s just so happy to have that relief.”

Aug. 27, 2021 Bring on the students!

After 30 months, the Bonney Science Center is open for business: With a champagne toast and synchronized chops from ceremonial shears, President Clayton Spencer and lead donors Michael Bonney ’80 and Alison Grott Bonney ’80 snipped a garnet ribbon on Aug. 23 to declare the science center open for business.

“Five years ago, Alison and I had a view that a more scienceliterate society was something [the nation] had to have,” Mike Bonney told the gathering — a view now set in stone as the Bonney Science Center. “And you just have to look at the headlines every day to understand how society would benefit, in the U.S. and globally, with more science-literate members.”

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Something to celebrate: the construction fence around the center comes down in May 2021.

July 1, 2021 Moment of euphoria The new Bates building welcomes Bates people: Bonney Science Center construction has largely dwindled down to the building-trades equivalents of crossing t’s and dotting i’s.

Primary punch-list inspections are virtually finished and the project team has embarked on what’s called “back punch.”

Not the gesture of affection remembered so fondly from grammar school, this, instead, is making sure that corrections generated by the first round of inspections were done right.

But the bigger news is that professors, their summerresearch students, and building staff began moving into the Bonney Science Center on June 7.

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ride up on a lift.

Meanwhile, raising the glass to where the glaziers can muckle onto it is a telescoping-arm lift of a type familiar from the Bonney project. The model used at Bonney is built by Magni, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy.

As he and his research lab settle in at Bonney, Andrew Kennedy, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, makes sure that credit goes where it's due.

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An otherworldly sunrise illuminates Campus Avenue and the Bonney Science Center on Dec. 11, 2020.

physique has been chiseled by years of lugging stepladders across campus so as to peek over construction-site fences, it’s something to celebrate when the fence comes down.

So we’ve been looking forward to a bourbon and Moxie float since we saw, this week, that much of the fence around the Bonney Center site had disappeared.

The building’s exterior, as a matter of fact, is fundamentally done, and the outdoor emphasis has shifted to the site at large, notably the Campus Avenue frontage and the parking area behind the building.

In fact, landscaping has commenced at the back of that lot, including the planting of such saplings as quaking aspen and the showy evergreen known as weeping Alaskan cedar.

And the stormwater diversion basin has been contoured and ringed with a few bushes and trees (but no diving board yet).

Following a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Aug. 23, 2021, tour goers stop by the light-filled lounge on the second level of Bonney Science Center, which offers a commanding view of campus through windows of the Beacon.

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Our spotlight on pioneering and accomplished Bates women from the college’s early history begins with Stella James Sims, whose legacy has new prominence at Bates with the establishment of a professorship in her name

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ike many children, young Estellita loved to collect butterflies. And she had a wonderful place for the pursuit: her grandparents’ Pennsylvania farm, where she spent much of her childhood in the 1940s.

But unlike most children, Estellita had someone who could teach her about the butterflies she collected: her grandmother, the remarkable Bates graduate Stella James Sims, Class of 1897.

A Black woman who traveled from West Virginia to Maine to attend Bates — becoming the college’s first female Black graduate — Stella James Sims was a career science educator who, in the early 1900s, deepened the reputation of a historically Black college in West Virginia as a leading teachers college.

In addition to teaching a range of science courses and serving as dean of women during her 28-year career at Bluefield State College, James Sims was the wife of the Bluefield president, helping her husband bring notable Black leaders to campus, all while raising five children. She was also an officer in the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools.

She is remembered as a science teacher who inspired others to follow her path as a teacher.

“I can remember how her love of biology came out,” recalled her granddaughter, Estellita Gonzales Rainwater-August, for a Bates oral history in 2006. “I can remember her taking the time to take out the books and tell me what the butterflies all were and how they evolved.”

Stella James Sims’ name and legacy have a new prominence at Bates these days. In August, the college recognized the appointment of Paula Schlax as the inaugural Stella James Sims Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

Speaking at a small gathering held in the Schlax lab in Bonney Science Center to celebrate the new

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Before entering Bates, Stella James (seated) poses with the Storer College Class of 1893, including her future husband, Robert Sims, standing behind her.

chair, Dean of the Faculty Malcolm Hill explained that the Sims professorship “honors a faculty member whose contributions to biochemistry, accomplishments as a pedagogue, achievements as a researcher, and effectiveness as a leader have enriched STEM at Bates and the college as a whole.”

Before traveling north to Bates in 1893, Stella James did college preparatory studies at Storer College, a historically Black school, now closed, located in Harpers Ferry, W.Va. Linking the two schools was Bates founder and Freewill Baptist leader Oren Cheney. In 1867, Cheney encouraged Maine philanthropist John Storer to make a $10,000 gift that enabled an erstwhile Harpers Ferry primary school to evolve into a college to train much-needed Black teachers.

At Bates, James took courses in mathematics, botany, ornithology, physics, chemistry, astronomy, and geology. She received second honors in physics, earning a spot to speak at her Commencement, on July 1, 1897.

Considering that only 390 Black students had earned a college degree from a predominantly white U.S. college by 1900, according to W.E.B.

Elevate woman, give her full freedom to use the faculties god has given her, not as a matter of favor, but as an act of simple justice.

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Dubois, James’ achievement, of a Southern Black woman receiving a science degree from a Northern, white-founded college, is distinctive, if not unique.

By graduation, James’ abilities as a public communicator were already established, as evidenced by essays in The Bates Student marked by precision and boldly practical thinking.

In one essay, she wrote of the manifold significance of Harpers Ferry. This geological wonder, she wrote, is a Gibraltar-like formation “lying somewhere between the present and the past.” She refers to John Brown’s historic 1859 uprising there, intended to bring on abolition — “the first blow against slavery, and at Charlestown its first martyr was tried and hung.”

In another Bates Student essay, “Manual Training,” Sims brilliantly anticipated the tension between vocational and college-prep education at the secondary level. “Shall the manual laborers finish a preparatory collegiate course — for the public and fitting schools tend toward this end — and then begin the training of their life work?” she asked.

By “manual training,” Sims did not mean “digging ditches, hodding brick, washing, and the like.”

Instead, she was thinking about skilled, hands-on work, which “is not, [and] neither can be, independent of intellectual training, although we try to draw a line between manual and intellectual labor.”

She argued that scientists like James Watt and Isaac Newton called on their manual and mechanical skills, their practical ways of knowing the world, as much as their intellectual heft to make their discoveries.

She reasoned that infusing manual labor into school curricula strengthened intellectual development by “cultivating exactness, keenness of observation, and bringing us in contact with the practical and concrete, rather than the theoretical and abstract.”

Upon graduating from Bates, James returned to the South. She taught science and physics at Virginia Seminary, now Virginia University of Lynchburg, and at Storer. In 1901, she married a fellow Storer graduate, Robert P. Sims, who had earned his degree at Michigan’s Hillsdale College, which, like Bates, had been founded by Freewill Baptists. They had known each other for years at that point: A photograph of Stella at Storer in 1893 shows Robert Sims standing behind her.

In 1906, she joined the faculty at what was then called Bluefield Colored Institute, where Robert had been appointed president, a school founded to educate children of Black coal miners in the region, and had by then evolved into a teachers college. Yet another marker of the Storer–Bates connection is the fact that Robert Sims’ predecessor at Bluefield was Hamilton Hatter, Bates Class of 1888, who taught at Storer before becoming Bluefield’s first president.

At Bluefield, James Sims taught a range of biology, botany, and zoology courses. In keeping with her Bates writings, she encouraged her students to conduct hands-on fieldwork. Her stated goals included “awakening an interest in the pupil for nature and its workings.”

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At Bates, her name is now tied to the future of scientific study.

Already well known for its teacher-education curriculum, Bluefield was expanding in size in the early 1900s, adding 22 acres and a new classroom building, and in scope, adding offerings in business administration, home economics, and education.

“Prof. and Mrs. Sims...are really building an institution that will occupy a large place in the educational and social well being of the community,” reported the local newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, in August 1925. By 1931, the school was renamed Bluefield State Teachers College.

“Much of the success of the entire program [at Bluefield] was due to the teaching personnel,” wrote Charles Ambeler in A History of Education in West Virginia from Early Colonial Times to 1949.

And “among the most effective teachers,” he wrote, was James Sims.

Various sources indicate that Robert Sims, no doubt aided and abetted by Stella, worked to bring leading figures in Black culture to campus, helping Bluefield to achieve “recognition as a center of African American culture,” according to New Life for Historically Black Colleges and Universities. W.E.B. Dubois twice spoke at Bluefield, including a 1927 visit, where he gave addresses on “Negro Art and Literature” and “Russia.” In 1930, Marian Anderson sang at the downtown Granada Theater.

The record shows that James Sims kept up with changes in the teaching profession. As an officer for the West Virginia chapter of the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools, James Sims contributed an article to the association’s publication, The Bulletin, discussing the role of the parent as the focus of childhood education moved from the home to public schools.

She and Robert Sims retired to their farm in Perkiomenville, Pa., in 1934; he died in 1944. And Bluefield State College? It’s still classified as a historically Black college, though its enrollment is now 86 percent white.

James Reese, the longtime Bates dean, has a deeply held interest in the life of Stella James Sims.

(As has Professor of Physics John Smedley, whose investigations have uncovered many details included in this story.)

Reese once visited Harpers Ferry to learn more about her life. There, he met one of Sims’ former students, then in her 90s, who vividly recalled “Miss Sims.” The woman, learning that her former teacher went to Bates, said, “Oh, well, that must be why her standards were so high.”

She lived to be 88. Her grave is in Harpers Ferry, that spot she described as “lying somewhere between the present and the past.” At Bates, her name is now tied to the future of scientific study.

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MARY MITCHELL

CLASS OF 1869 | 1846–1898 Indefatigable first female graduate of Bates

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f the 140 graduates in the first 10 graduating classes, all but two were men. Inside and outside the college, there was resistance to women being educated.

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CLASS OF 1884 | 1860–1911 A trailblazing Western woman of many firsts

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lla Knowles was a suffragist, trailblazing and highly successful lawyer, and career boat-rocker whose life was a succession of singular accomplishments.

During her legal career in Montana, she was the first American woman to address a state legislature; be nom-

In 1873, four years after Mary Mitchell became the first female graduate, the editors of The Bates Student said women didn’t belong in a college with men because “detriment will be done to that delicacy and sensitiveness of nature which, above all merely intellectual culture, must always constitute the chief charm and glory of womanhood.”

Looking back on those early years, George Colby Chase, a member of the Class of 1868 who became the college’s second president, acknowledged “the ridicule to which the new idea [of coeducation] was subjected.” He also admitted that “some of those in authority had a subtle influence upon [women] to the effect that they began to regard themselves as out of place in college.”

Born in 1846 in Dover-Fox-

inated by a major political party for statewide office; be appointed assistant or deputy state attorney general; argue a case before the state Supreme Court; and represent a U.S. state before a federal agency in Washington, D.C. In 1892, Knowles was nominated by the Populist Party to run for attorney general of Montana, only the second woman in American history to be nominated for that office.

On the campaign trail, she became well-known for her rousing rhetoric in support of women’s rights. She said to one audience: “Degrade woman, cripple her faculties, hamper her intellectual growth, and the result is a degraded, crippled, or enslaved people. [But] elevate woman, give her full freedom to use the faculties God has given her, not as a matter of favor, but as an act of simple justice [and the] result is a people strong and self-reliant, intellectual, and valiant.”

A career boat-rocker whose life was a succession of singular accomplishments

croft, Maine, Mitchell was remembered as independent and resourceful, working in the Lewiston cotton mills to pay her way through college and help her family.

Offered a scholarship by Bates founder Oren Cheney, Mitchell famously turned it down: “I cannot take that, Mr. Cheney. Give it to the brethren. I can take care of myself.”

After graduation, she taught school in Worcester, Mass., and then, in 1876, became a professor of Latin at Vassar College. She later opened a school for girls in Boston before teaching school in New Hampshire.

She was married to Frank Birchall.

At Bates, the residence Mitchell House, at 250 College St., is named for her.

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CLASS OF 1887 | 1864–1959 She moved the New England suffrage movement forward

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ary Chase was a leading figure in the women’s suffrage movement and post–World War I campaigns for international peace.

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Chase put her oratory skills to good use in her activism, speaking at hundreds of local chapters of the Grange, a national agricultural movement that had become an engine of progressive politics, in New England and the states of Iowa, Oregon, and Indiana, She garnered support for an amendment to remove the word “male” from the voting rights section of the New Hampshire Constitution.

Chase later worked at Proctor Academy in Andover, N.H., and, as she wrote in 1921, used “International Correspondence to promote International Good Will.”

In the wake of the ravages of World War I, she had her students write letters to their counterparts in Mexico, Japan, and Germany, among other countries.

“Already I feel more than repaid for the anxious hours and the hard labor I have put into this endeavor to help heal the wounds of war through the blessed ‘ministry of reconciliation,’” she wrote.

ELISABETH ANTHONY DEXTER CLASS OF 1908 | 1887–1972 Helped refugees flee Nazi persecution during World War II

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JOSEPHINE NEAL CLASS OF 1901 | 1880–1955

Physician and medical researcher on the front line of infectious-disease prevention

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osephine Neal was a medical doctor and infectious disease expert who researched encephalitis, meningitis, and, perhaps most notably, polio.

Neal studied physics at Bates and after graduation was listed in The Bates Student among fewer than a dozen faculty members as a “physics assistant.”

She worked as a teacher to pay her way through medical school at Cornell. Several years later she moved to New York City and joined Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons as a clinical professor of neurology.

Neal authored many academic studies and wrote

Nazis for the U.S. The ship was desperately overcrowded, and conditions were deplorable. “A floating concentration camp,” said one observer.

Among the first to greet the ship was Elisabeth Anthony Dexter, who loaded a motor boat with food and medical supplies and headed to the ship, which would eventually arrive in New York City on Sept. 12, 1941.

A great-niece of Susan B. Anthony, Dexter earned a doctorate in history from Clark University and became a well-respected social historian.

In the late 1930s, Dexter and her husband, Robert, were attentive to more contemporary concerns as persecution of Jews by the Nazis in Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia was mounting.

the book The Clinical Study of Encephalitis, as well as chapters on meningitis in two widely used medical textbooks.

Through the New York City health department, she worked on the front lines fighting polio in the 1920s and ’30s, a time when the disease was a pandemic in North America.

On July 5, 1934, Neal and two other doctors made national news when they voluntarily received an experimental polio inoculation, but the vaccine did not induce a sufficient level of protective antibodies and occasionally produced severe allergic reactions. An effective polio vaccine would arrive in the 1950s.

“We cannot yet prevent the disease, nor have we found a cure, but we do know a great deal about treating the victims,” Neal told an interviewer in 1938, the year funds raised at a birthday party for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who had been disabled by the disease, helped establish a polio foundation.

Among Neal’s many honors were a 1926 honorary degree from Bates and, in recognition of her work on encephalitis, the Elizabeth Blackwell Citation from the New York Infirmary for Women and Children.

In 1940, the Dexters helped secure the release of 15,000 Czech prisoners of war in Hungary. They moved to Portugal to run the Unitarian (now Unitarian Universalist) Service Committee, with Elisabeth becoming the committee’s European director — and was even recruited by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services as a spy.

One of the people the Dexters helped immigrate to the U.S. was Hans Subak, whose daughter Susan later wrote a book about the work of the Unitarian Service Committee. The Dexters also tried to bring over Hans Subak’s parents, but they were unsuccessful. “A sense of guilt sat heavily on them for a long time and was never entirely lifted,” Susan Subak wrote.

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CLASS OF 1932 | 1905–1996 University professor, Jungian therapist, and part of the founding of the New College of Florida

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EUTERPE BOUKIS DUKAKIS CLASS OF 1925 | 1903–2003

First Greek-American woman to go away to college

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er life began in Larissa, Greece, in 1903 and ended, nearly a full century later, in America. In between, Euterpe Boukis Dukakis blazed a trail for immigrants, becoming the first Greek-American woman to attend a U.S. college away from home.

A brilliant and diligent student who came to Bates from Haverhill, Mass., where her immigrant family settled, she engaged in extracurricular activities, earned membership in Phi Beta Kappa, and remained loyal to Bates her entire life, establishing in 1994 the endowed Euterpe B. Dukakis Professorship in Classical and Medieval Studies.

Her success led the way for other Bates students from immigrant families; the late Bates trustee emerita Helen Papaioanou ’49 recalls, as a student,

briefly meeting Dukakis and her husband, Panos, Class of 1922: “She said to me, ‘We are proud of you!’ In that moment, there was an acknowledgment of connectedness, of heritage, experience, struggles, dreams, and aspirations.”

In her mid-80s, the woman her classmates nicknamed “Zippy” proved again her intellect and mettle, campaigning for her son, Michael, the 1988 Democratic nominee for president. She flew to events around the country, spoke to senior-citizen groups and sat for media interviews.

She once said about growing old, “Get my body, but don’t take my curiosity,” and, in Greek, she expressed love for her family this way: “I love you. I love you, like my own two eyes.”

arion Crosby Hoppin was a Bates debater, a psychologist, and a forward-looking college administrator who helped found the New College of Florida. “Her great strength as a woman was a great, welcoming tolerance,” Hoppin’s obituary in Bates Magazine quotes a colleague as saying.

Hoppin majored in English at Bates and earned a master’s degree in the subject before pivoting to psychology, earning a doctorate from Columbia. She and her husband, noted film animator Courtland Hector Hoppin, studied under Carl Jung in Switzerland.

She was a Bates trustee for 10 years.

Hoppin worked as a professor and administrator at Hunter College and Carleton College before she and her husband moved to Florida, where they got involved with a group planning the establishment of a liberal arts college.

The community of the nascent New College of Florida was incomplete without Hoppin, “a beacon of light in a long gown and surrounded by a cloud of Pekingese dogs,” reads Hoppin’s obituary in the New College’s alumni magazine.

At the college, she taught Jungian psychoanalysis, existentialism, and mythology, and she founded the C. G. Jung Society in Sarasota. A swimming pool at the News College that she funded is named for her; an endowed chair in the Department of Asian Studies is also named after her.

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MARJORIE ARLINGTON ANDERSON CLASS OF 1933 | 1912–2009

Pioneering Black librarian

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arjorie Arlington Anderson spent her early years in Connecticut and moved to Lewiston at about the age of 10. She lived close to the Bates campus, at 56 Elm St., where her stepfather, George A. Ross, Class of 1904, ran a famous local ice cream parlor.

At Bates, she majored in English, played soccer, and was known as the girl with the “infectious giggle.” After graduation she earned a degree in library science from Simmons College in 1934.

ELIZABETH GREGORY CLASS OF 1938 | 1917–2012

The pediatric “fairy godmother” of Arlington, Mass.

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longtime pediatrician and mainstay of the Armenian community of Greater Boston, Dr. Elizabeth Gregory ’38 once said that before Bates, “I was the daughter of my parents — helped, nourished, directed, encouraged, pushed by them.

At Bates, I became an individual who recognized my own ambitions and abilities and knew where I wanted to go.”

Bates Magazine obituary editor Christine Terp Madsen ’73 began Gregory’s obituary this way: “Betty Gregory, the oldest child of parents who fled the murderous hands of Turks intent on wiping out the Armenians among them, never forgot that heritage, that genocide, that sacrifice.”

Gregory’s father, a teacher in Armenia who became a shoe factory manager in Lewiston, put three of his four children through college and graduate school.

Gregory was accepted into Boston University’s medical school “at a time when it was

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strongly suspected that such studies would shrivel women’s internal organs,” Madsen wrote.

In 1998, one of Gregory’s former patients, Elizabeth Meade ’00, by then a Bates student (whose own parents had been childhood patients of Gregory’s), posed with Gregory for a photograph at Bates.

Said Meade, “Dr. Gregory’s name was brought up so often in my house when I was growing up. When I saw her again at Bates, everything that I had heard about her was confirmed: She was extremely vibrant and witty.”

In 1937 the Columbia Civic Library Association published a slim directory (31 pages) of all the Black librarians with degrees from accredited library schools: Marjorie Arlington was listed as only the fourth Black graduate of Simmons’ library program.

Citing the directory as the first of its kind, the authors offered it with the hope that it would serve a definite need for “library service to all.”

From there, Marjorie Arlington moved to New York.

She married Carl C. Anderson in 1941. She worked at the New York Public Library for 31 years, working as a children’s librarian, filling a definite need.

At Bates, I became an individual who recognized my own ambitions and abilities and knew where I wanted to go.

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n 1970, Ellen “Kay” Craft Dammond ’38, a national YWCA board member, challenged the association to adopt the elimination of racism as its prime goal.

“We are solidly united in determination to close the gap between YWCA ideals and YWCA practices,” said Dammond, chair of the group’s National Conference of Black Women, in a newspaper story reported coast to coast. “We will no longer tolerate false liberalism.”

At Bates, Dammond was as active in sports as possible in the era long before Title IX. She played basketball, tennis, and volleyball, earning her Women’s Athletic Association letter and, as an experienced athlete, serving as a coach and judge for competitions.

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CLASS OF 1938 | 1916–2007 Preserving and continuing a family history of resistance to racism and slavery

Dammond, who came to Bates from the Sugar Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, was also an active debater and vice president of the Christian

Association and the Politics Club.

The third Black woman to graduate from Bates, she was “the first colored girl,” as she once described herself, to live in a Bates dorm. At the time, it was common for colleges that admitted Black students to prohibit Black female students from living on campus.

After Bates, Dammond had a successful career as the personnel counselor at B. Altman, the New York City department store; she was one of the few Black female retail executives, according to The New York Age in 1955.

She was a prominent figure in the “Wednesdays in Mississippi” advocacy group that brought Northern and Southern women together to work on issues significant to the Black community. n

The third Black woman to graduate from Bates, she was "the first colored girl," as she once described herself, to live in a Bates dorm.

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1940 Reunion 2025, June 6–8

1941 CLASS PRESIDENTS Elizabeth Gardner Margaret Rand alpegrand@aol.com

1942 Reunion 2022, June 10–12

1943 Reunion 2023, June 9–11

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CLASS SECRETARY/ TREASURER Jean Labagh Kiskaddon jean.kiskaddon@gmail.com CLASS PRESIDENT Vesta Starrett Smith vestasmith@charter.net Jean Labagh Kiskaddon visited daughter Kate Kiskaddon Wood ’71 in Norway, Maine, in August.

“I flew nonstop from Detroit to Portland, where Kate met me. We had a pleasant, relaxing summer week with much discussion of next year’s Reunion. It will be my 75th.”....Vesta Starrett Smith is still driving locally in Haverhill, N.H. Driving is not a problem, she remarks — “it’s getting in and out of the car that’s the problem!”

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1949 Reunion 2024, June 7–9

Reunion 2025, June 6–8 CLASS SECRETARY Carleton Finch cfinch612@gmail.com

1946 CLASS SECRETARY Helen Pratt Clarkson hpclarkson7@gmail.com CLASS PRESIDENT/ TREASURER Jane Parsons Norris janenorris@roadrunner.com Mary Francis Langille Randall’s daughter, Susan, let us know that Mary, now 95, is living in Sarasota, Fla. She and Henry moved there three years ago. He passed away in 2019. Susan visits Mary each day. Mary’s hearing makes it impossible for her to talk by phone, but she’s generally in good spirits despite losing her husband after 71 years together.

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CLASS SECRETARY Carol Jenkinson Johnson rollincarol@comcast.net CLASS PRESIDENT Bud Horne budhorne@gmail.com CLASS VICE-PRESIDENT Beverly Young Howard

1950 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 CLASS PRESIDENT Wes Bonney wbonney@maine.rr.com Wes Bonney and Elaine received 87 cards celebrating their 75th wedding anniversary on June 29, Wes reports....Writing for The Boston Globe Magazine in June, Samantha Shanley related how her resilient bond with her great-aunt Elaine Hubbard has changed with the older woman’s worsening dementia. Phone calls with “Birdy,” Shanley writes, reveal a spirit undimmed by the

affliction. “When I call Birdy, we meet wherever she is in time, reliving lush memories of the life she lived.”...Sylvia Stuber Heap and Dr. Walker Heap celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary on June 9. They were married the year after graduating from Bates, with Walker, then a medical student at Yale, telling Sylvia that if they didn’t get married he would flunk out (he was neglecting his studies because he spent most weekends visiting her wherever she was working). With that ultimatum, of course, Sylvia said, “Yes!” They were married the following June….Writing from Texas, David Turell was grateful that the pandemic eased a bit for a few months in spring and early summer. “But we still must stay here, no traveling.”

1951 CLASS PRESIDENTS Bill Dill wmrdill@gmail.com Jean McLeod Dill CLASS VICE PRESIDENT Wilfred Barbeau wbarb@cox.net Margrett “Peg” Moulton McFadden lost Bob in March 2019, just short of their 65th wedding anniversary. “Tim and Sarah were here to share our grief,” she says. With the pandemic, she continues, “quarantining was doubly lonely, but we do go on.

I’ve been playing virtual bridge to keep my mind from freezing up.”

Tim works for American Airlines, and Sarah lives in Colorado but spends several months each year at the family cottage on Seneca Lake in New York state....

Norma Reese Jones “fared well through COVID thanks to my three daughters” — Laura Jones, Linda Jones, and Pamela Jones. “I’m still here on Seven Tree Pond in Union, Maine.

Would welcome any news of classmates.”…Rob Wilson is “still chugging!” He adds, “Buy my new book — The Irish Brahmin.

It will make me richer and you might even enjoy it!”

1952 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 CLASS SECRETARY Marilyn Coffin Brown mcbrown13@verizon.net CLASS PRESIDENT John Myers johnmyers52@comcast.net Next year’s 70th Reunion is on the minds of the Class. “If I’m here,” says Peter Ault, “I’ll be there.”...Class officers Marilyn Coffin Brown and John Myers have been discussing the gathering. “We hope some of us are healthy enough to attend,” notes John, who’s also in touch with Mason Taber, now living on

Cape Cod. Marilyn “Mal” Shaylor Mullen sent John the large “1952” banner that she made decades ago and has displayed at many Reunions....Gene Harley is thinking about that gathering, too. Still at the Presbyterian Village continuing-care facility near Atlanta, he lost Connie in January after 67 years of happy marriage. But son Craig is close by in Newnan.

1953 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 CLASS SECRETARY Ron Clayton CLASS PRESIDENTS Ginnie Toner vatoner207@gmail.com Dick Coughlin dcoughlin@maine.rr.com Jean Chapman Neely turned 90 on July 10, an occasion that the Potomac Valley Audubon Society marked with “a great party,” she says. With some 65 people in attendance at a local nature preserve, PVAS declared that date “Founder’s Day” in recognition of Jean’s role as founding president, 39 years ago. “Quite a festive time — and honor.”...On Aug. 5, George Conklin’s daughter, Karen, and her husband “crafted” a big 90th-birthday party on Zoom. “My living room was turned into a studio with a blue backdrop covered with photos they somehow collected of place names, logos, and images from 30 global locations where I’ve studied, taught, visited, and produced videos,” says George.

“One image was from Silliman Univ. in the Philippines, where a colleague was teaching. When I visited, they asked if I knew a funding source to update their Linotype machines,” the hot-metal typesetting system used for newspapers, etc., until the computer revolution. “I could smell the hot lead used in their pre–World War II print shop.

During occupation they hid the heaters in the jungle. I said there was a new ‘laser’ printing, so we rewrote their grant application and several faith organizations in Europe provided the necessary funds.”...Virginia Forbush Goddard is “glad to be alive and in my 90th year of lovely living. ‘Happy Day’ and ‘Happy Thoughts’ are my daily greetings.” She adds, “I’m s-o-o-o happy that I attended Bates and learned a lot from Professor John Willis in Cultural Heritage — to stay positive and add to the common good every chance I got.”

1954 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 CLASS SECRETARY/ TREASURER Jonas Klein joklein@maine.rr.com

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CLASS PRESIDENT Dwight Harvie dwightwharvie@gmail.com Class officers Dwight Harvie and Jonas Klein enthusiastically continue the long lunches where they discuss Bates, upcoming campus events, and planning for the 70th Reunion, June 7–9, 2024.

Put it on your calendar! ...Longtime residents of Scarborough, Maine, Ellen DeSantis Smith and Don Smith ’55 are still in town but now live at the Piper Shores retirement community....

Bill Laird writes with sadness from Franklin, Tenn., of the passing of his beloved Carolann McKesson Laird in June. Their first date was a Bates basketball game and they became engaged in junior year. “She loved Bates,” says Bill, noting that CA learned to ski on Mount David.

A chemistry major, she held a master’s in special education and had a career teaching kids with intellectual disabilities. (Editor’s note: An obituary will appear in the Spring 2022 issue.)...Also, word has been received of other dear friends and classmates who have passed on: Lois Burnham (Hastings) Grimwade, in January; and Pat Heldman Monahan and Win Rice, both in December 2020. (Editor’s note: Obituaries for the three appear in this issue.)...Lois Whidden Simmonds lives on the inner harbor at Gloucester, Mass., within 20 minutes of her three daughters and their families. “With eight grandchildren, things are always lively. The family sailboats live on my dock.” She adds, “I’m still an enthusiastic gardener, but I welcome help now!”

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Seeing and Believing Stepping in for a fellow faith leader who couldn’t attend, 96-year-old Bud Horne ’49 mounted the pulpit last summer at the Chautauqua Institution to deliver a sermon, “Bass Horn in the Back.”

Horne, a retired Presbyterian minister who lives year-round at the famed New York education center and retreat, told a story about once driving from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts, never noticing a tuba in the back seat.

From that story, Horne talked about what we notice and what we don’t.

When it comes to finding God, perhaps we simply need to open our eyes. “It is not a grand search, but receiving simple gifts — like the smile of a friend or a bird caroling in the morning.”

He quoted Elizabeth Barrett Browning: “Earth’s crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God, but only he who sees takes off his shoes.

The rest sit ’round it and pluck blackberries.”

1955 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 CLASS PRESIDENT Beverly Hayne Willsey stonepost@cox.net CLASS VICE-PRESIDENT Merton Ricker mertr33@gmail.com Fred Beck had a once-in-a-lifetime experience last June during a family gathering in Hawaii: an opportunity to swim with and feed dolphins. “Our group was one daughter, two granddaughters, and three great-grandchildren. Two aides orchestrated the events and took pictures. Picture our 4-year-old reaching over a vertically oriented dolphin and dropping a fish into that huge mouth cavern!”...Four years after losing Beverly after 51 years of marriage, Hal Hunter has found a new partner: Ann Garrett. “Life goes on, thankfully.”

1956 CLASS SECRETARY Fred Huber fredna56@comcast.net

CLASS PRESIDENTS Alice Brooke Gollnick agollnick725@gmail.com Gail Molander Goddard acgpension@gmail.com Dick Condon and Colleen “are still vertical, as a good friend used to say.” Daughter Caroline Condon ’85 has lived in Ireland since 2009 and had twins in 2019. Son David lives in Florida and son Robert and family are in Farmington, Maine, just a couple miles from Dick and Colleen....“Looking at the bright side,” notes Diane Felt Swett, “we possibly had more classmates at our Zoom Reunion than would have been able to make the trip to Lewiston.

Our class officers and Rebecca Lazure of the Advancement office did a great job leading us in uncharted waters.” That said, however, “It took 86 years for me to experience a lockdown and I hope never to see one again!”

Diane has traveled to California, New Hampshire, Maine, and the New Jersey shore, and keeps

up with classmates including Nancy Mills Mallett and Jessie Thompson Huberty....Fred Huber “flopped and broke my hip” right after last June’s virtual Reunion. “Slipped on a banana peel (more likely a lemon peel or onion),” he reports. “Surgery fixed it pretty quick, but rehab lingers on. The end isn’t yet in sight owing to my daughters’ lack of interest in having me be home alone. One day at a time.”...Still enjoying life at the Forum at Rancho San Antonio in Cupertino, Calif., Jean Penney Fickett loved catching up with classmates during Reunion.

“Guess most of us have learned the intricacies of Zoom during this past year and a half!” She was sad to lose her sister, but has gained two new great-grandchildren....Elise Stiles and Phillip celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary in June, just a month after their youngest grandchild graduated from high school. Elise continues to lead pottery classes.

1957 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 SECRETARY Peg Leask Olney pegolney@verizon.net EMAIL COORDINATOR EMERITUS Douglas Campbell CLASS PRESIDENTS Judy Kent Patkin jpatkin@gmail.com Dick Pierce rhpierce52@gmail.com We were saddened to learn of the passing of Grant Reynolds, in May, husband of Jo Trogler Reynolds ’58. A kind and supportive man, he did much for his class and the college. (Editor’s note: An obituary appears in this issue.)...Wilma Gero Clapham is happy to be living at the Revera Edinburgh senior retirement residence in Ottawa, Ontario, where she moved after a fall that affected her mobility; she

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now uses a wheelchair. Wilma pays tribute to good friend Doug Campbell, acknowledging his efforts to keep the Class together by emails, lunches, and reunions, including the Bates Reunions they used to attend together. “It is good to hear that he is doing well.”...Paul Steinberg sends regards from Long Island, N.Y. “He is in good spirits. He and Suzanne have a lovely home, with a back deck facing the sun and a large fenced-in yard that’s perfect for their very playful dog, Marley,” says their son, Scott Steinberg ’86. During a visit in May, adds Scott, “we had a wonderful time together, including a walk on the beach at Captree State Park and meals at a couple of Paul’s favorite restaurants — one of which included an impromptu piano performance by Paul, much to the delight of restaurant guests and owners.” Paul would love to hear from classmates, and Scott will gladly pass those along: ssteinbe@maine.rr.com….“We are so happy to be back home,” David Wilkinson wrote in July. He and Ellie left Florida behind for Dennysville, Maine, and a home that shares a driveway with their church and the public library.

“We look forward to going to our summer place on Campobello.”

Daughter Ellen Armenta ’82 and her husband live in Mount Kisco, N.Y., near their son Andrew Howard ’17, who works for Wells Fargo in NYC. His twin, Jonathan, works for the Sierra Club in Los Angeles.

1958 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 CLASS SECRETARY Marilyn Miller Gildea marilyn@gildea.com CLASS PRESIDENT Peter Post postp74@gmail.com We were deeply sorry to hear of two deaths of classmates in July.

Albert DeSantis died on the 16th. An outstanding athlete at Bates, he enjoyed a long career in the cosmetics business that enabled him to indulge his love of travel. Dr. Leonard Boyd Savoy passed away on July 7. A chemistry major at Bates and graduate of Howard Univ. Medical School, he was a respected teacher, researcher, and practitioner in dermatology. (Editor’s note: Obituaries will appear in the Spring 2022 issue.)...Tom and Carole Carbone Vail, Carole reports, are “just going along slow, slow, slow, but doing well and feeling well. We are still in our house and getting along fine with a little bit of help from family. We were very saddened by Albert DeSantis’ newspaper obituary — he was a great guy. Bates seems like so long ago and yet just like yesterday.”...Coe Jenkins Huckabee counted herself lucky to be with

family in New England in June and July. “That included a visit to campus, which looks grand! New science building complete” — the Bonney Science Center — “and Adirondack chairs on the Quad as an outdoor anti-COVID move, I guess.” (Not the most oppressive pandemic protocol.)...Kay Johnson Howells told us that “between trips to California and Montana, gardening, exercising, socializing with good friends, home repairs, etc., summer is about over as I write this. Time seems to be going faster — is it because we are no longer isolated?”

1959 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 CLASS SECRETARIES Jack DeGange jack.degange@comcast.net Mary Ann Houston Hermance donmar23@gmail.com CLASS PRESIDENT Anita Hotchkiss ahotchkiss@goldbergsegalla.com Jerry Davis gmdavis@maine.rr.com “Age is the great equalizer!” Ross Deacon believes — at least where golf is concerned. At Bates, he battled through his first three seasons before finally winning matches as a senior. Sixty-two years later, a different kind of senior, he spent summer 2021 playing regularly in the Southern Maine Seniors Golf Assn. “At Poland Spring in early July, I recorded my best round of the summer, 78, which was the low net winner in my age group,” he recounts. Also playing was four-time PGA Tour winner and 20-year PGA Tour Commissioner Deane Beaman, who “fired a 74 to win low gross honors.

Finishing four strokes back of him in the 80–84 age group made my summer!”...Class Agent Jack DeGange extends thanks and congratulations for 1959’s fundraising achievement this year.

“It’s been our goal in recent years to support the Bates Fund with at least 75 percent participation by active members,” he explains.

“We usually hit that mark, so for 2021, we took it up a notch, and 1959 delivered: We had 82 percent participation.” Among all classes with more than 10 active members, that feat made ’59 one of only four to top 80 percent.

With gifts totaling $48,632, Jack adds, “we also exceeded our dollar target of $45,000. Well done, 1959!”

1960 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 CLASS SECRETARY Louise Hjelm Davidson lchdavidson011@gmail.com CLASS PRESIDENT Pete Skelley dskelley@satx.rr.com

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Christine Bird wrote in July from the house in New Hampshire’s White Mountains where she has spent 32 summers. She planned to resume traveling with a September 2021 visit to Ireland. She’s also looking forward to Costa Rica in January and Scotland in the spring....

Robert and Jane Braman Allen report that because of the COVID surge in Provincetown, Mass., in July, their extended family (which includes numerous Batesies) canceled its reunion for the second consecutive year.

The gathering was planned for Truro, next door to P-town. “A huge disappointment to all,” Jane writes. Bob and Jane divide their time between Venice, Fla., and the Cape, locations that both afford plenty of pleasant time outdoors. “We enjoyed catching up with Laurie Trudel Raccagni and her husband Tore ’55 at their cottage in Eastham,” she adds.

“We have so many things to be grateful for, and being part of the Bates community is one of them.”...Cardiac troubles dating back to the mid-1980s limit John Flemings’ activities — e.g., he lost his “driver’s license due to a shock from my biventricular ICD defibrillator this year.” But throughout the pandemic he persevered with writing My Life Stories, a collection for his grandchildren and generations to come. “I also included interesting research into my ancestors.”...

Living in Mansfield, Mass., Sandra Folcik Levine had to endure most of July without central air conditioning. Repairs to the system were slowed by the unavailability of parts. “My sweltering days are now over!”

COVID has also put Sandy’s plans for travel to England on ice for the time being, but she was “looking forward to seeing my lovable classmates at Big Game Saturday in October.”...Richard Krause loves retirement, which he’s spending partly in St. Petersburg, Fla., and partly in Millinocket, Maine. He was pleased to host son Doug ’99, a sea mammal researcher visiting from San Diego, for a week in July....J. William Mees, in his 10th year of retirement, seems to “spend more time reading and visiting six medical specialists than doing anything else,” he writes. “The medical visits are depressing even though I like the physicians, but maintenance is repetitious, and in spite of the ‘good’ news, the war with the body continues unabated.

Stage 4 polycystic kidney disease, a genetic disorder, has been kept at bay, so for that I have been grateful.” On the brighter side, “I see friends and former colleagues, still collect a little art, help out some people, and read one or two books a week.”...Linda Swanson Bradley is keeping busy, as always. Her Road Scholar travels via Zoom have brought her to Portugal, Greece, Israel,

Antarctica, and the Arctic. With COVID guidelines easing up, sons Dave and Chris were also able to visit for the first time in more than 20 months. “Dave and I sorted and scanned at least 2,000 family photos for me to post-edit in my ‘spare’ time!” Linda also volunteers with residents in assisted-living and health care programs at her retirement community in Harrisonburg, Va.

1961 CLASS SECRETARY Gretchen Shorter Davis norxloon@aol.com CLASS PRESIDENTS Mary Morton Cowan mmcowan@gwi.net Dick Watkins rwatkcapt@aol.com Alan Cate writes: “Sixty-four years of close friendship with my freshman roommate, Brent Bonah, will continue but without new memory magnets because he has just passed on. I’ll continue to remember him as the guy with a friendly smile, who loved dancing, was always ready for a new adventure, and always ready to extend a helping hand.” (Editor’s note: An obituary for Brent will appear in the Spring 2022 issue.)

Alan and Mae were glad to be reunited in July after more than seven pandemic months apart, as she cared for twin granddaughters in New Jersey while Alan remained in Florida. “July was my month of recapturing my real self and getting out to enjoy life again,” says Alan….Dick Hoyt and Jean are still in Lubec, Maine.

He’s no longer coordinating the local farmers market but continues to grow produce including heirloom apples. He wrote to us in July, but with an eye on winter: “The attached greenhouse is a wonderful cold-weather refuge.

It’s a good place for a nap on cold sunny days — those greenhouse naps are my favorite pastime. The greenhouse extends our growing season well into late fall when we make cider with friends and neighbors.“ He adds, “We’ve donated an easement on our beautiful acreage to Maine Coast Heritage Trust and occasionally still have enough energy to snowshoe and hike the back trails out to the beaver ponds with the grandkids.”...Beverly Jacobson Connolly is now a full-time resident of Delray Beach, Fla. “New England will be missed! I will continue lecturing on ancient Egypt, Norse mythology, and music theory, as well as being a docent at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens.”...Sue Kittredge Barnard and Dave “continue to live the quiet condo life in Central Massachusetts.”

Having retired last spring, Sue writes, she’s “just beginning to get the feel of what this can mean — sleeping later, shorter ‘to do’

list, freedom to plan each day!”

Dave, she adds, “has four ‘grown’ children (i.e., some now eligible for Medicare), 11 grandchildren, and 20 great-grands, so there are a lot of opportunities for keeping in touch with family.”...“Our 60th Reunion was a great success,” says Mary Morton Cowan, speaking for many. “Thanks to the committee for helping plan such a fun virtual event.” She adds, “I am also pleased to report that Carl just had successful surgery to replace his aortic valve.”...Joan Scott Candelmo notes that “although all of us frequent travelers have been more homebound than ever” during the pandemic, she and Phil ’60 “are so grateful to be living in one of the safer states” — that being Maine. With their two daughters, and their husbands, all living in Maine — Terri Candelmo Eddy and Steve, both ’85, and Laurie Candelmo McCammon ’86 and Joe — “we have so many reasons to celebrate life! It is the gathering place for all our wonderful extended family,” which includes a granddaughter and two grandsons. Joan adds, “It was fun to be able to see and catch up with all of you during the virtual Reunion.”...Jerry and Gretchen Shorter Davis have resumed some travel, virtual and otherwise, that included a Road Scholar trip to Arkansas in October 2020. They especially enjoyed the Crystal Bridges Museum of Art. Holiday plans include a Mississippi riverboat trip with children and grandchildren….Richard Van Bree and Gisela are in their fifth year in Las Vegas, where he serves on the boards of directors for three local corporations and is involved in developing ultraviolet devices that can kill coronaviruses.

1962 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 CLASS SECRETARY Cindy Kalber Nordstrom cindyknordstrom@gmail.com CLASS VICE-SECRETARY Lyn Nelson lynnelson10@gmail.com CLASS PRESIDENT Ed Wilson wilsonjean2@gmail.com CLASS VICE-PRESIDENT David Boone doboone@peoplepc.com

other relatives, including their oldest grandson, whom they’ve not not seen in person for nearly two years, kept her and Bob happily busy during the summer....

Alfonse Squitieri declares that the “time is right to make sure all Bates folks know who the first ‘Billy Bobcat’ was: Carl Rapp ’62,” supported by roommates Al and Larry Sano. Rapp was carried down Mount David “on the shoulders of his dorm mates, among them Don Welch, Bill Lersch, and Mike MacDonald.”

1963 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 CLASS SECRETARY Natalie Hosford nataliemoir@netflash.net CLASS PRESIDENT Bill Holt wholt@maine.rr.com CLASS HISTORIAN Dottie Stone dottie@stone-stonect.com Following a year-long postponement, eight members of the class — Natalie and David Hosford, Butch and Marti Sampson, Dottie and George Stone, and Judy and Skip Butler — gathered at the Butler’s Vinalhaven home for a mini Reunion....

The Bates community in Naples, Fla., has grown yet again with the addition of Cindy Vining MacDonald and Roy, who moved there from Baltimore after 15 years. “We are enjoying our 58th year of marriage and our next chapter.”...Arlene Wignall Nickerson and Stanley moved to an apartment in The Downs, a newish development at the site of a former racetrack in Scarborough, Maine, shortly before COVID arrived. “We still enjoy making memories with our five grandkids and two out-of-state daughters,” Sarah and Amanda ’94, reports Arlene....Kenneth Woodbury and Jason Galvez have moved to Yuma, Ariz., after Ken ended a position teaching sixth-grade history in the Denver public schools. “Now I am learning how to handle triple-digit summer heat,” Ken writes. He adds that he donated a family heirloom rifle to the Windham [Maine] Historical Society. Ken also finished a history of another ancestor, who was the first chief of police in Colonial America.

1964 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 CLASS SECRETARY John Meyn jemkpmeyn@aol.com

CLASS HISTORIAN Jan Moreshead janmoreshead@myfairpoint.net

CLASS ASSISTANT SECRETARY Rhoda Silverberg rhodaeric@att.net

Sandra Smith Boynton wrote to us during the Tokyo Olympics.

The games drew viewers all around the world, she noted, including her son Jamie and his family living in Tokyo — though vaccinated, they were quarantined in their prefecture during the games. But visits from

CLASS PRESIDENT Gretchen Ziegler gretchenz958@gmail.com CLASS VICE-PRESIDENTS Joan and Dick Andren dixmont258@gmail.com CLASS HISTORIAN Dot Harris dotharriswi@gmail.com

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Marion Day Czaja is enjoying life at Twin Lakes, a retirement community in Burlington, N.C. — all the more so since twin Nancy Day Walker moved there in August. Marion leads a Bible study at Twin Lakes once a week….David Harrison and Norma Johnson were still being careful of COVID-19, he reported in August, “and are enjoying not getting colds and flu. We are now in Sullivan, Maine, and enjoy the tides and wildlife. I’m still working at The Jackson Lab, but only remote work — fortunately my lab group is very good.”...“In despair over how Trump’s protofascism has taken over the Republican Party,” John Holt writes that he accepted a request to become chair of the Washington Township [N.J.] Democratic Committee. “The machinery is in place for the USA to become a one-party state. This is not conservatism; it is a repudiation of our deepest political values.”...Rick Saylor and Pat have made Block Island, R.I., their primary residence, although they continue to keep a home in Connecticut. “We love the beaches, trails, and natural wonders of this unique island,” says Rick. “And we live just over a mile away from my best friend of 60 years, Brian Langdon, and his wife, Marie, whom we see frequently.”…A reminder from Gretchen Ziegler: “It’s time to start thinking about our 60th.”

1965 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 CLASS SECRETARY Evie Horton ehhorton@me.com CLASS PRESIDENT Joyce Mantyla joycemantyla@gmail.com CLASS VICE-PRESIDENTS Newt Clark newtonclark@comcast.net Peter Heyel JPTraveler@gmail.com Sam Aloisi is “thrilled to say that the pandemic has affected no one within the family or circle of friends. All are doing well.”

Moreover, “my grandson Jacob graduated with honors from the Coast Guard Academy” — the first time in 34 years someone born and raised on Nantucket has graduated from the academy — “and started his five-year service on a cutter in Puerto Rico. The sword he carries was once mine in the Navy — how proud am I?”...Emily Blowen Brown and Elton have lived “pretty quiet” lives in Minnesota since the advent of COVID-19. “Simple pleasures have been important,” she writes, such as cooking, gardening, good books, Skyping with grandkids, and music. Elton has resumed playing guitar, and has picked up his tuba to prepare for a Jumpin’ Jehosafats World

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Emily adds, “We’ve been active in the Save the Boundary Waters campaign for years, and this summer we were able to have a part in the Fourth of July parade again.”...Newt and Pat Lord Clark ’67 are ready to travel again once COVID is finally over.

They did spent a week with the family — all 10 of them — “at a rustic cabin in Grand Lake Stream, Maine.”....Joyce Mantyla reports that early in the year, she “happily arrived in NYC after 18 months away” and had to adjust “to a very different city!” While she was struck by the number of closed shops and restaurants, she did appreciate the many sidewalk cafes that were in business. “Good to be back! Hope all classmates are surviving and well!”...Writing in the Sun Journal, Peter Reich shared memories of attending elementary school in Rangeley, Maine. A 30-year member of the faculty and staff at Boston Univ.’s schools of medicine and of public health, and writing last June for a COVID-era audience, Peter gave his reminiscences a strong public health angle....

Susan Smith Copley is “proud of what Bates has become under its present leadership team!” She brings a professional eye to it as a former school principal, leader in state education, and adjunct at New Hampshire colleges and universities. She and Doug continue to explore hiking trails in the Monadnock region, “and appreciate the opportunities to volunteer and serve on local nonprofit boards.”...Sally Smyth was inspired by the webinar Nature’s Best Hope to start replacing invasive plants in her yard in Camden, Maine, with natives known to nourish pollinators and, by extension, backyard birds that feed insects to their young.

Replacing “portions of lawn with more insect and bird-friendly native plant choices requires digging up tons of Maine rocks.”

The pandemic, she says, “has focused us on how our collective backyards can benefit wildlife across the nation.”...Judy “Jay” Wells Wait reports that she and Chip “continue to enjoy our mountain home in Buena Vista, Colo. We have plenty of space for fishing, camping, snowshoeing, skiing, and just walking around, which keeps us at peace in the natural world. The kids are all independent and contributing to society in their own unique ways. What more could parents want?”...Russ Wagenfeld would like to see “a combined Reunion with ’65, ’66, and perhaps ’67.”

1966 CLASS PRESIDENT Alex Wood awwood@mit.edu

We were profoundly saddened to learn of the passing of Karen Hastie Williams, in July. She was a true pioneer in public policy, human rights work, corporate governance, and law: she was the first Black woman to clerk at the U.S. Supreme Court, working with Justice Thurgood Marshall.

(Editor’s note: An obituary appears in this issue.)...Kel House wrote to say that his company, House & Sun Inc. in Harborside, Maine, is still going strong in the sustainable, energy-efficient construction business. In fact, during the summer, the firm won the contract to supply insulated structural panels for the walls and roof of a visitors center to be built at the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. “It will probably be the most highly insulated building in Maine,” says Kel....Lionel “Lyn” Whiston wrote during the summer from temporary quarters in Charlottesville, Va. — a one-bedroom apartment that he and Debbie were sharing with their dogs while their new home was being built. After 28 years in the Chicago area, they moved to Virginia for “less snow, lower taxes, and a one-story house.”

They expected to occupy the new place in October.

1967 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 CLASS PRESIDENTS Keith Harvie kcharvie12@gmail.com Pam Johnson Reynolds preynolds221@gmail.com John Baldwin still practices law “3.5 days per week” and works on his golf game, while contemplating leaving greater Baltimore behind for Florida. He regularly emails with his roommate of four years, Alan Lewis....Marty Braman Duckenfield welcomed her first great-grandchild in April. “The new Chris Duckenfield was able to meet his many aunts, uncles, and cousins in July on Cape Cod.”...“Like everyone,” writes Kathryn Butler Carlson, she and Glenn have gotten back “to a more normal schedule. “We went with friends to a lovely B & B on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Such a treat to actually go somewhere.” And they were looking forward to seeing Ed and Stephanie Young Abbott in September....Tim Hall was one of four representing the Class in the Bates Golf Tournament at New Hampshire’s Wentworth by the Sea Country Club on June 2. Filling out what Tim calls a “majestic four-ball” were Bryan Carlson, Kevin Murphy, and Dick Reynolds. “We did not do as well as in the past, but a good time was had by all.” Anne Carlson, Stephanie Murphy, and Pam Reynolds joined the quartet to celebrate with a few drinks and a wonderful dinner….

Judy Lanouette Nicholson knows well that, in her words, “the Class of ’67 has a talent for putting together a ‘rendezvous’ at a moment’s notice.” In July she was pleased to head from New Hampshire to Newburyport, Mass., to join a “herd of ’Cats” rounded up by Class presidents Keith Harvie and Pam Johnson Reynolds. In addition to Judy, Pam and Dick Reynolds, and Keith and his Judith, in attendance were Ingrid Earn Shea, in from Boulder, Colo.; Joan Hayes Healy, from Wells, Maine; and from elsewhere in Massachusetts, Kevin Murphy and Don Miller. Says Judy, “There was a lot of conversation about our upcoming 55th Reunion!”...Ann Warren Turner and Rick have weathered the pandemic fairly well, she writes. “I am working on perennial gardens, transforming one former veggie garden into a bird and butterfly sanctuary.

Rick is retiring from teaching in the winter, and I am retired from book-writing, although I do my blog. A virtual wave and hug to all of you!”

1968 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 CLASS SECRETARY Rick Melpignano rickmel713@gmail.com CLASS PRESIDENT Nancy Hohmann nhohmann@yahoo.com Dan Dustin has taken his handcarved spoon business online: dandustin.com. He also has a YouTube channel with nearly 500 subscribers at last count — mostly woodworkers, with a few musicians. His video Cassius Clay: An Encounter may be of particular interest to Batesies, as it details Dan’s encounter with the boxer, better known as Muhammad Ali, right after his 1965 knockout of Sonny Liston in Lewiston. Dan and his wife have nine grandchildren, and he is happy to reconnect with Peter Dickson electronically….Nancy Hohmann spoke to the Sun Journal about Belle, the therapy dog she has been bringing to Oxford Hills schools and nursing homes for a decade. Belle had to pass 14 tests to qualify for registration with Therapy Dogs International, said Hohmann, a retired teacher and a published expert on animal communication....The author of two novels, including this year’s Your Father Has Something to Tell You, David Riese offered 10 tips for aspiring writers in a July interview. Topping the list was advice he credited to Nora Roberts: “‘Ass in chair.’ That’s the best advice for aspiring writers. Spend time each week and write.”

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1969 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 CLASS SECRETARY Deborah Bliss Behler debbehler@aol.com CLASS PRESIDENT George Peters geo47peters@gmail.com Amy Belding Brown’s third historical novel, Emily’s House, was published in August (Berkley).

While poet Emily Dickinson (to whom Brown is related) is the story’s center of gravity, it’s told from the viewpoint of her maid, Irish immigrant Margaret Maher, known for saving Dickinson’s poems for posterity….

Richard Brogadir was thrilled to be practicing dentistry in Ansonia, Conn., again after a pandemic year of “reading more books, playing more guitar, and watching more Netflix than ever in my life.” He wrote, “It takes about 10 minutes just to put on all the PPE required to be safe in a dental office, but it is well-worth the effort. I have also been volunteering to administer COVID-19 vaccines.”...James Burch left teaching in 2005 and, he says, “have loved retirement. Among my activities are volunteering at Weir Farm National Historical Park right here in my town,” Wilton, Conn. The site commemorates American Impressionist painter J. Alden Weir and artists in his circle. “I also love to travel,” Jim adds. “I have completed three bucket lists: all 50 state capitol buildings, all 15 Soviet republics, and all the countries of continental Europe. I’m not finished making lists yet.”...Peter Handler “continued all through the pandemic making furniture, including my largest piece ever, a 7-foot-by-7-foot breakfront that I worked on for six months. At the same time, I continue working as the Philadelphia group leader of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby as we push Congress to pass carbon-pricing legislation.” He is also art director and co-founder of Honoring the Future, a group that uses art to communicate and educate about climate change.

Peter adds that “my second grandchild, Emma June, was born two mornings after the Insurrection.”

1970 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 CLASS SECRETARIES Stephanie Leonard Bennett slenben@comcast.net Betsey Brown efant127@yahoo.com CLASS PRESIDENT/ TREASURER Steve Andrick steve.andrick15@gmail.com CLASS VICE-PRESIDENT Barbara Hampel barbaraph@live.com

Jan DeMeo borrows the title of a hit Netflix series to make a point: “‘Never have I ever’ lived out of New England” prior to moving to Petaluma, Calif., in June. “Pandemic epiphany: Petaluma puts me in the same time zone as my sons, daughtersin-law, and grands.”...Four years into retirement, Jim Glinski has enjoyed producing articles and books about the history of his town, Scituate, Mass. His output includes histories of its fire department and fragile water supply system, and he also penned the history of the local North and South Rivers Watershed Assn. as part of its 50th anniversary celebration....

Elizabeth Taylor d’Elsa notes that COVID uncertainties have dimmed hopes that she and Klaus can travel from Germany to Scotland to see their younger daughter and family. “At least we get to see our son, his wife, their daughter and son frequently.

Having those little ones around with all their antics is such a joy.”

Klaus still practices law and Liz volunteers in a local elementary school….Dorothy Thompson Marecaux has been elected to the board of directors of the Saco Salmon Restoration Alliance. A lifetime member of that Maine organization, the South Portland resident has a longstanding interest in helping facilitate the return of Atlantic salmon to the Saco River watershed....

For Bob Ziegelaar, it’s been “another strange year in many ways, but we at least got the boat in the water for some overdue Maine coastal cruising. In July I underwent a medical procedure that I had mentally scheduled much later in the year (but was happy to get out of the way much sooner) and was ably coached throughout the process by Bates roommate and everlasting friend Dave Lounsbury ’72, M.D. Susan and I hope to make up for lost COVID time by returning to Africa after a too-long absence from family, friends, and the irresistible natural environment.”

1971 CLASS SECRETARY Suzanne Woods Kelley suzannekelley@att.net CLASS PRESIDENT Michael Wiers mwiers@mwiers.com

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Jim Athearn ’70 and his wife, Debbie Athearn.

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The first family of Vineyard farming

takeaway: A community’s support helps a family-business transition The Vineyard Gazette profiled Jim Athearn ’70 and his family, owners of Morning Glory Farm, “a community fixture” on Martha’s Vineyard.

The farm “is responsible for a good percentage of the island’s local food resources, and preserving large swaths of land from development — all governed by basic principles of farming and a guiding philosophy of fairness.”

Athearn and his wife, Debbie, are now turning farm operations over to their children. And while those operations adapt and change, the family piece of the puzzle stays the same.

“The community has been telling us every year they want this to be happening,” Debbie said. “The customers wanting us to do it is the positive reinforcement that we get. It’s the driving force.”

CLASS VICE-PRESIDENT Jan Face Glassman jfaceg1@hotmail.com Susan Emmet enjoyed the virtual Reunion. “It was wonderful to connect via Zoom with ’71 classmates and share stories.

I think we all recognized each other! Our lives have taken diverging and sometimes similar directions (many of us became teachers), and learning the whys and wherefores was terrific.”

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She and Michael are still in their small home on a dirt road in West Gardiner, Maine. “I help the library, edit our town newsletter, and serve on the local Democratic committee,” says she, while Michael makes wooden signs and carvings….Frank Foster is still helping with a food pantry in Scituate, Mass. Like many gardeners in New England, he was pleased with all the rain in July….

David Williams received the 2021 Environmental Stewardship Distinguished Service Award from The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers. The award recognized his contributions to the development of guidebooks on the mitigation of water pollution resulting from metal mining. A geology major at Bates and four-decade employee of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Dave was part of a team at the BLM’s Butte, Mt., field office responsible for administering mineral laws. Here’s more: bit.ly/ williams_aime_award.

Up and Away “Seems like retirement is just as busy as my ‘working’ days,” says Peg Kern ’74, whose various volunteer activities in Arizona include serving on the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office search and rescue team.

In this photograph, Kern is second from the top during a S&R mission in Sedona in October 2018 to rescue a hiker from Bell Rock.

In addition to responding to callouts and training, she’s been using her career skills in software development and implementation “to support the various S&R units for the county.”

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1972 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 CLASS SECRETARY Steve Mortimer stevenhmortimer@gmail.com CLASS PRESIDENT Wayne Loosigian wloosigian@gmail.com Class Secretary Steve Mortimer reports: “Our 50th Reunion yearbook, social, and gift committees, composed of 20 volunteers, have been busy preparing for next June. For the yearbook, classmates have been submitting highlights and photos from the past 50 years, as well as memories, bucket lists, and once-in-a-lifetime experiences.

The book is shaping up to be a true gift to all classmates, and will be mailed in April. We hope to have a great turnout in June and are especially excited about having the classes of ’70 and ’71 join us for a unique super 50th Reunion.”...Donn Brous retired as manager of the Main Street Gallery in Clayton, Ga., at the end of July. She’s using her newly freed-up time to help with that “super-great 2022 yearbook,” she says. “All classmates: Please send us your info so we can do a super-representative, super-cool, and interesting book.”...Susan Cooper Sawyer was “saddened to learn of the death of George W. Thurston III” in December 2020. (Editor’s note: An obituary appeared in the Spring 2021 issue.) “I had lost touch many years ago, but have memories of his MGB-GT ‘Jezebel’ and of watching The Six Wives of Henry VIII on PBS during senior year.

I was one of Debbie’s attendants in their wedding.” Sue has done some traveling, with plans to finally take a twice-postponed

Viking River Cruises trip in Europe in October. For a while longer, she’ll continue with contract work in Denver for FEMA, whence she retired in 2013....

Caroline Haworth Wandle reports: “Back in January 2021, when we were all avoiding large groups, wearing masks, and generally living very quiet lives, Steve Mortimer asked me to be on our 50th Reunion yearbook team. Frankly, it took me a few days to decide what to do. But I took him up on his offer and it has been wild ever since!” In weekly Zoom meetings with the team, “I have come to appreciate the great talents of Linda Oliwa Machalaba, Donn Brous, Mike Miskin, Mike Touloumtzis, and of course Steve. Though I didn’t know any of them well at Bates, I now have these wonderful new friends to share memories and work with. We each selected about 50 classmates to encourage to submit an entry, and those contacts have led to more new and renewed friendships! I am so looking forward to the final yearbook and Reunion 2022.”...

Steven Hill retired from the University of Illinois’ Natural History Survey in 2014. “I love retirement,” he writes. “Always a botanist, I spend much of my time gardening and taking care of my hundreds of tropical plants at my house here in Illinois. I also have a cabin on my forest acreage in South Carolina on the Blue Ridge that I visit several times a year. I spent years increasing the plant diversity there, and it’s great to have a getaway. I spend most of my time with my black Lab, Shadow.”...Michael Miskin relates a “funny thing” that happened to him at home in Littleton, Mass. “I got a bee sting and three minutes later went into anaphylactic shock. I had no pulse, was not breathing, and did not respond to an EpiPen shot.

After 18 hours on a respirator, I regained consciousness, and walked out of Massachusetts General Hospital a day later with no side effects whatsoever. I was later told that it was the worst reaction that my doctor had ever seen. Not only is there a fine line between being a hero and a goat, but a fine line between being here or ‘there!’”...After Steve Mortimer talked Mike Touloumtzis into joining the 50th Reunion yearbook team, Mike’s year took on a Back to Bates theme as he renewed old friendships and formed new ones via the weekly Zooms. “Steve doesn’t know (until he reads this) that there was no way I was going to say ‘No’ to joining the team,” says Mike. “He has been, for half a century, my running hero. He flew around the track at Bates while I plodded around the upstairs wooden track in the old field house (11 laps to a mile!).” Since Bates, “our paths have crossed occasionally: We both had Greater Boston

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Track Club connections, and I remember well him cheering me on during a marathon in Foxboro.

That cheer aided me during the last two uphill miles, barely earning me a Boston Marathon qualifier, by 24 seconds. So yes, Steve, I’ll volunteer for anything you suggest. I owe you!”

1973 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 CLASS SECRETARY Kaylee Masury kmasury@yahoo.com CLASS PRESIDENT Tom Carey tcarey@bates.edu Sunday Ciarlo Taylor released her first book in 2020. A literary mystery, The Anglophile’s Notebook tells the story of Claire Easton, who travels to London to research Charlotte Brontë and ends up unpacking her own family’s issues. Sunday and Scott are the parents of Megan Taylor ’05….Writing in July, Dorrie Mitchell was excited about the return of live theater and the Suffield [Connecticut] Players performance, in August and outdoors, of a one-act play she directed. Husband Dana Ring, who, like Dorrie, belongs to the company’s board of directors, was part of the cast. The Players were anticipating their return to a full season of mainstage productions this season….Ira Waldman, who is an attorney in Los Angeles, has spent considerable time researching systemic racism in the real estate industry. He writes, “I produced and directed a program for the Los Angeles County Bar Assn. featuring Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, and a short film moderated by Mr. Rothstein, Segregated by Design. I urge all to watch the film” — bit.ly/segregated_by_design — “and read the book.”

1974 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 CLASS SECRETARY Tina Psalidas Lamson tinal2@mac.com CLASS PRESIDENT Don McDade mcdadecbb@gmail.com SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATORS Karen and Bill Cunningham karenlc67@gmail.com Julia Bartlett Reuter and Jim ’75 “are still working part time (bookkeeper and architect) and are grateful to have Western Maine as our playground for this awful pandemic. Wishing our country and world to heal faster.”...Ron and Jan Neugebauer Brown “spent a relatively quiet

year on the farm in Wilton, N.H.,” Ron writes. “A lot of the time that we would have spent at the theater, at llama shows, or having dinner with friends was replaced by ‘finally got around to it’ house projects — and, for me, marathon sessions of policy development to help the local library function during the pandemic and then reopen.” He adds, “Our two remaining llamas are geriatric and stay home eating, sleeping, and guarding their pasture.”...

Cindi Byrkit spent July on a solo road trip from Auburn, Maine, to Colorado and back. “Had a fabulous time seeing friends and family, as well as sightseeing,” she reports. In September, one of her sisters moved to Maine and joined Cindi’s household….Sally Coole Connolly is still teaching English to asylum seekers in Portland, Maine, but has taken on an additional project: co-writing a book with a Rwandan man born in a refugee camp in Tanzania.

“His life has been filled with discrimination and abuse, but his resilience and drive to acquire an education brought him to a job as a safari-boat captain in Akagera National Park in Rwanda,” she explains. “It’s a story about the power of mentors, his thirst for knowledge, and adventures experienced while living in the wilds of central Africa.”...Driving 50 miles from Beverly, Mass., to Portsmouth, N.H., Paul Erickson “enjoyed catching up with Norm Olsen on his four-season back porch, aka The Mars Cafe, complete with overhead bistro-style outdoor heaters.”

Why “Mars”? Paul explains that “on a clear winter night, the red planet orbits directly overhead.

Then there were those local lobster rolls Norm served up, followed by vintage single-malt beverages. Thank you Norm!”...

Auburn, Maine, last spring honored a former mayor, the late John Jenkins, by creating the Hearts and Hands Leadership and Service Award. Recognizing distinguished community service, the inaugural award went to Deputy Fire Chief Matthew Fifield. Mayor of Auburn from 2007 to 2009, John also served as Lewiston’s mayor from 1994 to 1998 — the only person to hold both titles, and Lewiston’s first Black mayor — and was a state senator from 1996 to 1998….

Rodger Lawton continues to do prosthodontic work a couple days a week for the doctor who bought his practice in Olympia, Wash., in 2017. “I still enjoy practicing, but it is definitely better doing it part time,” he writes. “My wife, Melissa, and I travel and hike in our spare time, although we’ve added a puppy to the household, so no spare time for now.”...Woody Petry has moved from Louisville, Ky., to Blue Hill, Maine. “Please give us a shout if you are out this way,” he says….Carolyn Sauer Hoefer and Walter have moved

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media outlet: E& E News

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Five climate liability lawyers to watch

takeaway: A day of legal reckoning is coming for fossil-fuel companies “In courtrooms across the country, a battle is heating up over whether fossil fuel firms should be held financially responsible for the local impacts of climate change,” reported E& E News, listing “five of the top attorneys to watch in the ongoing climate liability brawls nationwide.”

Dana Petersen Moore ’79 is the first chief equity officer for the city of Baltimore, who, in her previous role as acting city solicitor, helped oversee a city lawsuit against 26 fossil fuel firms over their role in causing climate impacts such as extreme heat and flooding.

“In public, defendants criticize our case as without merit. But in court, they do everything they can to delay proceedings and avoid a public trial on the facts,” Moore said. “Their days of having it both ways are ending. Accountability is coming.”

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to Pinetop, Ariz., in the White Mountains. “We’re enjoying the seasons and the largest ponderosa pine forest in the world.”

1975 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 CLASS SECRETARIES Deborah Bednar Jasak Deborahjasak@gmail.com Faith Minard minardblatt@gmail.com

COURTESY OF BILL SWEAT

CLASS PRESIDENTS Susie Bourgault Akie susieakie@gmail.com Janet Haines jbh580@aol.com

media outlet: The Washington Post

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To court socially minded millennials, some wineries are investing in more than grapes

takeaway: Sustainability increasingly matches what consumers demand In 2005, Bill Sweat ’79 and Donna Morris founded Winderlea Vineyard and Winery in Dundee, Ore., with sustainability and social responsibility in mind, reported The Washington Post.

In 2015, the business became a Certified B Corporation, joining more than 3,000 companies worldwide, and just the fourth winery, to pledge to meet high standards of social and environmental performance.

Their business model is well-suited for the future of the wine industry, as the story reports that the emerging millennial cohort of wine drinkers, a group “which up to now has been more interested in craft beer, spirits and hard seltzer,” is “beginning to spend more on wine.”

Millennials are less interested in the “geeky aspects” of wine such as “grape blends, pH levels or point scores from critics,” but more in a label’s social responsibility.

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George Anders has the travel bug again after many months hunkered down in Farmingdale, N.J. “With Donna newly retired from her hospital administration job, we ventured down the East Coast to Sky Valley, Ga., to see family and visit our nieces and see their new babies for the first time,” he reports. Autumn brought a family trip to Michigan’s Mackinac Island. “While at home,” George adds, “I’m still trying to break 90 with some consistency on the local golf courses.”...“Like everyone else,” says Fred Demers, “I now wear 3D glasses and walk like a crane (thank you, Zoom). In the past months I worked on the Bates capital campaign (many thanks to all of you who chipped in), moved to Ocean City where I find that I am just as able (I think!) to continue my work in Baltimore long distance, and was able to visit Joe ’73 and Sally Danforth Grube and Mario and Nancy Ellis Cornacchio at Joe and Sal’s Duxbury home (where Joe made me work too hard — last time I visit there). And finally, a great visit with Roy Madsen and Chuck Radis when I was in Maine.”...David Fuller and Jacquie moved back to Auburn a few years ago. Since graduation, he has worked as a commercial filmmaker and photographer.

During the pandemic, he assisted Bates with producing virtual experiences for current and former students, including an online first-year Orientation in fall 2020, and some content for the 2021 virtual Reunion. Mostly via Zoom, “I got to interview a couple of dozen students, recent grads, and faculty members, and really enjoyed reconnecting with Bates. It is truly impressive to see how the college has grown, and what a bright, committed group of young people Bates has attracted.”...The 38th annual “Boys Do Bumps” ski weekend took place in North Conway, N.H., in early April, participant Matt Gilligan reports. “Because of the timing of vaccinations, this year’s event was more golfing and hiking than skiing, but a good time was still had by all — even though there was a small fire, and visits from

the local police and fire departments.” Taking part were Jim Dachos, Mike Genetti, Alan Hill, Rick Jack, Bob Littlefield, and Steve McCusker; Joe Burke ’73; Bill Holm and Pete Williams, both ’74; Bob Watt ’76; and Joe Davin and Pete Manning, both ’77....Thomas Grande belonged to one of two legal teams honored with Public Justice’s Trial Lawyer of the Year award. His team successfully argued Kalima v. State of Hawai’i — a historic breach-of-trust class action lawsuit that vindicated the generations of Native Hawaiians who are not recognized as Indigenous people by the government and are denied most of the social, educational, and health benefits provided to other Indigenous peoples living in the U.S. Grande was the first Bates student to intern with U.S. Sen. Edmund Muskie ’36….Steven Mates is “looking forward to a new phase of life at the end of this year.

Retirement, moving to the Caribbean, and lots of world travel coming up! The Big Island was wonderful and will always have a special place in our hearts.”...

Margaret McCann Wilcox and Dave ’74 built a new home on Lake Pocotopaug in Connecticut.

“Not a downsized home, but most of our living will be on one floor,” she says. “I know it’s crazy!

Enjoying life, real estate career, and grandchildren.”...“Life is picking up here in the nation’s capital,” reports Ruth Nickerson Robbins. “My work as a program curator for Smithsonian Associates continues from home as we create online programming.”

(Smithsonian Associates taps the Smithsonian Institution’s vast cultural resources to produce some 1,200 programs annually.)

“Two pandemic grand-babies arrived in 2020, and I finally got to meet them, which was delightful!” Ruth continues.

“Like many of us at this age, I am contemplating what the next stage of life will be. Suggestions are always welcome!”...Lucinda Peaco Brakey and Mike “are enjoying retirement in my hometown of New Gloucester, Maine,” she writes. “Our four sons are scattered around the country — California, New York, Ohio and Texas — but visit us each summer at our lakeside home. We now have eight grandchildren.” She adds, “I have monthly lunches with classmate Sally Danforth Grube.”...Colleen Peterson Seremet is enjoying retirement as she divides her time between Catonsville, Md., and Maine.

“It’s been terrific to connect with classmates and Bates friends via Zoom during the pandemic,” she says. “I look forward to a safe return to travel, and anticipate a wonderful 50th Reunion” — in person....Chuck Radis has published a memoir with Down East Books, Go by Boat: Stories of a Maine Island Doctor. An

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Peaks Island residents Chuck and Sandra Korpela Radis ’77 have two daughters, Katherine and Molly Blackburn ’10….In Carbondale, Ill., Sandra Shea “didn’t plan to spend much of my first year of retirement in a pandemic lockdown, but it is what it is. Lockdown did give me a chance to go through closets, drawers, and other storage areas and winnow out a pile of material to keep the local recycling center busy. A group of ‘Wilson House Girls’ meets by Zoom to keep in touch and help keep each other sane.”

1976 CLASS SECRETARY Jeff Helm bateslax@gmail.com CLASS PRESIDENT Bruce Campbell brucec@maine.rr.com Melinda Chace Bracken and Chuck have moved full time to what Melinda calls their “ski house” in Hidden Valley, Pa., about 60 miles east of Pittsburgh in the Laurel Highlands. “Life was very busy last year before COVID vaccines were available,” she says. “Our four children, their spouses, and two grandchildren all lived with us. At one point nine people were working remotely. Crazy! This summer is much calmer.”...Fresh from his splendid restoration of the signature stained glass in the Peter J. Gomes Chapel, Jim Nutting showed art glassworks in downtown Lewiston as part of LA Arts’ Art in the Windows program.

1977 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 CLASS SECRETARY Steve Hadge schmuddy@yahoo.com CLASS PRESIDENT Keith Taylor drkeithtaylor@msn.com “I love retirement as much as ever,” says David Bugbee.

“These are the happiest days I have known since I was a student. Unencumbered by the need to earn my daily bread, I have delved into my personal library. Currently I am reading books by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn while listening to classical music that I have loved since childhood. These are riches for the mind, the ear, the heart, and the spirit!”...Bruce Ginsberg is the 2021 recipient of the New England Intercollegiate Baseball Assn. Kevin Burr Assistant Coach of the Year Award. Since 2007, the award has honored an active New England assistant coach who exhibits integrity

and dedication to the game of college baseball. “I am now in my 12th year of coaching baseball at Babson College and love working with the kids and competing on the field.” In other good news, his son Bryan got married in May and, Bruce says, “we were able to enjoy the weekend without any COVID restrictions at all after having to postpone the wedding for a year.”...Steve Hadge retired for the second time in June — “second time” referring to his work tutoring English-language learners. “We’ll see if this one sticks!” he says. He adds, “Had a great time reconnecting with two old Bates friends this past summer — Michael Cohen and Bruce Coughlin ’76. I hadn’t seen either of them since graduation. Good times!”...Dervilla McCann has rotated off the college’s Board of Trustees after “10 fulfilling years,” she reports.

“I’m looking forward to hearing from classmates about the different ways we are all adapting to a changing world. My next chapter, as best I can tell, will probably involve more board work, but for now I am having fun.” With her husband, Steve Meister, having retired this year, “we intend to do a lot of traveling in the U.S. and abroad.”...David Terricciano moved from Portland, Maine, to Biddeford Pool this year. “I’m enjoying retirement from the biotech–life sciences industry,” he writes. “Had a great visit to campus in June and was impressed with the Harward Center’s mission and engagement with the Lewiston-Auburn community.” On other fronts, he volunteers with the Fifth Maine Regiment Museum on Peaks Island and has gotten involved with the revitalization of downtown Biddeford.

1978 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 CLASS SECRETARY Chip Beckwith chipwith@yahoo.com CLASS PRESIDENT Dean Berman deanocean@aol.com Mary Henderson Pressman reports that COVID had her and Ron “spending a full year in Maine. It was a terrific place to isolate! Lucky me!” Writing during the summer, she was looking forward to in-person time with Jackie Alpert, Deni Auclair, Susan Hannan, Becki Hilfrank Ramsey, Mel Parsons Paras, and Amy Gordon ’79 at upcoming weddings….Chuck James is “happy to report that Linda and I moved to South Florida, and then decided to retire and do a little grandparenting, with some consulting and volunteering on the side.” He is also involved with the college’s Benjamin Mays Black Alumni Society,

“mentoring current students and advising Bates grads. It has been fantastic to connect with Black Batesies of all years and reflect on their lives.”...Peggy Morehead Wilber “almost retired and then didn’t.” Instead, she’s now an interventionist in a Title 1 elementary school in Colorado Springs. “Too many children have fallen behind, and this will be a great year to help catch them up in reading!”...Still in New Jersey, Dorothy Wilkins Anderson and Jim ’76 will likely wait a few more years to retire. She is the CFO at RotenbergMeril, a CPA firm in Saddle Brook, and Jim is the director of financial aid at Montclair State Univ. “Once we are no longer having fun at our jobs, we’ll be looking to move to the Portland, Maine, area.” Dorothy is also the board treasurer for a local food bank, The Center for Food Action, co-founded by the late singer Harry Chapin.

“This last year was certainly a challenge, making sure everyone who needed our services could be helped, and keeping staff safe and healthy.”

1979 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 CLASS SECRETARY Mary Raftery mgraftery@gmail.com CLASS PRESIDENT Patrick Murphy patrickm@paceengrs.com Nancy Arey Cohen has written a work of women’s contemporary fiction. Published during the summer, Faraway Love depicts lovers pulled apart by longtime life goals. Cohen explains: “Charlie is everything Amy never knew she wanted, but she can’t imagine a life without him. She makes a decision that changes the course of both of their lives.”

The novel is available on Amazon and Kindle. Learn more at www.

NancyAreyCohen.com….Carlie Graves states that “garden design with native plants and rowing are the main focuses in our house, plus mathematics for John.” She advocates for rowing as a retirement sport — “it is fitness and meditation all in one and perfect for these times of plague.” She adds, “And plant some natives! Your climate will be happier for it.”...Just before the pandemic hit, Chuck McKenzie and Kelly returned to the States after five years in London and Tokyo. “I’m now doing finance-related volunteer work for our town and consulting–advisory board work for a couple of asset management firms. We split our time between Cape Cod and northern California, and are enjoying semi-retirement and a slow return to ‘the new normal’ (Delta variant notwithstanding).”...Patrick Murphy enjoyed building a backyard picnic table

this summer from a cedar tree that needed to be taken down.

“Following Peter Shaheen’s example, family and friends enjoyed time well-spent relaxing in the backyard, frequently with a gin and tonic.”...“Every day is Saturday!” declares Neil Penney.

“I retired in February and am following the usual path — grandkids, family, dogs, travel, golf, reading, writing, music, skiing.”...

Bonye Wolf Barone has retired from her law practice and is living near Sedona, Ariz.

1980 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 CLASS SECRETARY Chris Tegeler Beneman cbeneman@gmail.com CLASS PRESIDENT Mary Martuscello mary@martuscellolaw.com Jennifer Cartmell’s five years of work as Androscoggin manager for Big Brothers Big Sisters has given her, she says, “the pleasure of working with Bates College students. Bates ‘Bigs’ volunteer through the Harward Center as mentors at a local elementary school. I am blessed to have the Bates students helping local children and showing them positive pathways to the future!”...

Anne Keenan Shields “finally leapt off the cliff to pursue a decades-long dream of having a private practice: Lighthouse Career Coaching.” Based at home in Rochester, N.Y., “my work is all virtual and my focus is helping liberal arts students and alumni find purposeful work. So, anyone who’s thinking ‘encore career’— we should talk!”

1981 CLASS PRESIDENT Hank Howie hhowie@gmail.com CLASS SECRETARY Cheryl Andrews dr.cheryl.andrews@gmail.com Cheryl Andrews “thoroughly enjoyed our 40th Reunion.

Missed being on campus but our virtual Reunion brought together classmates from around the world. I got so excited by seeing everyone and hearing so many great stories that I volunteered to be Class Secretary. (What was I thinking?) Plan on hearing from me!”...This from Craig Comins: “While it was hard not to gather for Reunion in June, it was great to see a lot of us on the Reunion Zoom calls.” Craig also caught up with classmates at a couple of gatherings, including: Joe Bibbo, Neal Cohen, Steve Curran, Peter Gorgone, Hank Howie, Rob Jobrack, Marty Levenson, Mark Miller, Terry Ronan, and Ames Stevens, as well as Tom Driscoll ’83….

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Tad Baker

media outlet: The Boston Globe

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Three centuries later, a push to exonerate one last witch

takeaway: Digging into history can achieve justice today In 1693, during the hysteria of the witch trials in Salem, Mass., Elizabeth Johnson Jr. was convicted of practicing witchcraft. Over the ensuing centuries, the commonwealth officially pardoned everyone who had been convicted or put to death during the trials — everyone but Johnson.

Johnson’s plight is “known only to the most assiduous of historians,” reported The Boston Globe, including Emerson “Tad” Baker ’80, a history professor at Salem State University.

“We don’t know why, but in all of the efforts to pardon the women convicted of witchcraft, Elizabeth was never included. In the eyes of the law, her conviction still technically stands,” Baker said.

Earlier this year, a bill was introduced in the Massachusetts Legislature that would finally clear her name. The legislation was researched and crafted by a Bay State eighth-grade history class for a civic engagement project.

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Leslayann Correll Schechter spent months “hiking and backpacking like crazy! Would love to have you follow along on Facebook or come on out and hike with me” in Washington state….Peggy Dunn Baker still lives in York, Maine, and works as a physical therapist specializing in geriatric homecare. “I’m enjoying playing in the kitchen and gardens as Tad Baker ’80 and I contemplate retirement plans.”...

Betsy Kennedy has moved to New Hampshire after 20 years in Wisconsin, following a nineyear tenure as rehab director and occupational therapist at a psychiatric nursing facility.

She continues, “My oldest kid, Rylan, 21, is a homeowner and foster parent of three sisters. My youngest, Nicholas, 19, is starting his sophomore year — we call it a second freshman year, due to the strange times of COVID — at the Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison.”...Brian McBride and Lucy Conroy are preparing son Liam for college, with visits to a dozen West Coast schools. “Bates isn’t on his list,” says Brian. “He wants to get as far as possible from his doting parents! Next year will be a big one, with Liam off at college and Lucy and me retiring.”...

Jason Sparkowski has worked in clinical development with Merck Oncology for 15 years and lives in West Hartford, Conn.

He regretted that an in-person Reunion wasn’t possible, “but had a blast reconnecting through the class Social Committee. I also stay in contact with Joe and Diane Fredericks Richerts, Rand Hopkinson, and Bain Gill.

Will miss catching up with the now-retired Coach Fereshetian on campus visits.”...Katie Tucker Burke and Steve “really enjoyed connecting with classmates celebrating our 40th Reunion! We’re looking forward to when we can all be together again on campus,” she writes. The Burkes moved to New Hampshire’s Seacoast a few years ago and enjoy visits from their kids and introducing the beach to their grandkids….Jean Wilson also felt great about Reunion. “I learned so much about the fascinating things that people have been doing over the years.

I’m enjoying my retirement after many years in information technology, and welcomed the newest of four grandchildren in 2021. If anyone is passing through Maine, I’d welcome a visit!”

1982 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 CLASS PRESIDENT Neil Jamieson neil@southernmainelaw.com Wendy Blake Nitsos writes: “Jay and I moved full time to Hilton Head Island in July.” After years of dividing their time between the island and Greensboro, N.C., they found a home in a per-

fect location in 2020 and moved in after an extensive renovation.

Wendy was looking forward to taking a Lowcountry Master Naturalist course through Clemson Univ. “I went to Bates hoping to become a marine biologist, but the chemistry killed me, so I became a math major. Getting to participate in this class feels like a full-circle moment.” She’s also involved with a group that protects loggerhead turtles nesting on the island. “It’s fascinating,” she says, especially the use of DNA testing to track individual turtles’ histories of island visits....

Karen Bolduc is in her 34th year of teaching Earth and space science and environmental science at Lake Region High School in Bridgton, Maine. Moreover, “I am still very active with the Junior Maine Guide Program as a tester and instructor at summer camp.

Personally, I have a new granddaughter and a 2-year-old grandson. My eyesight is slowly decreasing, which makes it difficult to do some normal things. It’s been a wonderful summer and I look forward to another year of teaching ninth grade.”...“After 22 wonderful years in education,” reports Sharon Dowling Hennessey, “I retired from teaching at the end of the school year. I’m not sure what I will do next.”

But she hopes to spend more time with Bates buddies Donna Avery, Mindy Powers McDowell, Betsy Schmottlach Solon, and Julie Zyla. “I will also have free time to visit my daughters Meghan in Boston and Shannon in Brooklyn. Life is good!”...Kee Hinckley and Mollie Pepper were “still pretty hunkered down socially,” he wrote in August. As a software architect, “my work was already remote, so all the pandemic has done is to make meetings easier. I’m contemplating whether to push hard at work for a few more years, or step back and do something more fun and fulfilling. The Pacific Northwest is still awesome — I can just step outside for the ocean sunsets, and we got a little teardrop trailer that we camp in.”...Our condolences go to Lauren Peterson Fellows, who lost her father, Milton V. Peterson, in May….Keith Taylor is back in a Bates classroom, not studying this time but instead teaching “Water in Maine,” a course in the newly renamed Department of Earth and Climate Sciences.

(It was known as Geology when Keith was majoring in it.) He and Laurie Carlson Taylor ’83 still live in Hallowell and, says Keith, occasionally drive down for Fergies at Luiggi’s. He works as a senior environmental geologist at the environmental consulting firm St. Germain, in Westbrook — where “we now have two young Bates geology grads.”...Joyce White Vance, who teaches law at the Univ. of Alabama and is a former U.S. Attorney for that

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state’s Northern District, is one of three contributors to Just Security who were appointed to the online publication’s editorial board in May. Just Security aims to devise principled and pragmatic solutions to problems of national security….Julie Zyla is still working at Cigna Healthcare in Hartford — “38 years and counting.” She’s also involved with the Friends of the Mark Twain House and Museum there.

Her and Michael’s son, Austin, is a senior at Bucknell. Julie adds, “I enjoy getting together with Sharon Dowling Hennessey and Leigh Graham, plus seeing Batesies from other classes at Cigna.”

1983 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 CLASS SECRETARY Leigh Peltier leighp727@gmail.com

From left, Maureen Bannon, Skeates, and director of employee experience Jennifer Begley.

CLASS PRESIDENTS PJ Dearden tribecapj@yahoo.com Bill Zafirson bzaf@maine.rr.com Laura Howard writes that she continues design work with her busy architectural practice in Atlanta. The unprecedented pandemic “stay at home” provided this art major plenty of drawing opportunities for clients’ home renovations. Laura’s two daughters are well-launched, one living in NYC and one in Arizona, serving as a U.S. Marine captain.

During the summer, Laura enjoyed a back-to-travel trip to Mount Desert with Julia Drinker and Erica Blagdon Koenigsberg….Andrew Kling received the Univ. of Maryland College of Agriculture and Natural Resources’ 2021 Off-Campus Professional Track Faculty Excellence Award for 2021 in May. Working for the university’s extension service, Andrew “has proven himself an invaluable asset to the Woodland Stewardship Program,” said the university. His accomplishments include contributions to one of the extension service’s first non-credit online courses, the popular “Woods In Your Backyard.”...Martha Pigott Donelan is “happy to report that I’ve started a new job at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum and I love it!”

Bringing decades of experience in nonprofit marketing, communications, and development to the post, she was appointed director of development in June. “I’m now associating with world-champion surfers and famous surfboard shaper Renny Yater.” (Pop culture reference alert: the famed surfing scene in the film Apocalypse Now: “Bring me my Yater Spoon!”).

She adds, “I do so much enjoy staying in touch with our class on Facebook, and there’s talk of two reunions in 2022 — one in New York and one on the West Coast

Have Cart, Will Travel As part of her work as interfaith chaplain at a New Hampshire hospital, the Rev. Winnie Skeates ’81 makes the rounds with a cart stocked with tea and snacks.

It’s not a labor shortage that puts Skeates behind the cart, but an active expression of chaplaincy.

“The basic idea behind chaplaincy is helping someone find their own resources for dealing with whatever stress or anxiety they are going through,” she told Connections, the employee newsletter for Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health.

Inviting someone to have tea and a snack can help the process along. Maureen Bannon, a registered nurse and care coordinator at a D-HH location, Cheshire Medical Center, had just finished an emotional phone conversation with a patient when Skeates stopped by. “A small, kind gesture can go a very long way,” Bannon said.

Skeates stocks her cart with items from the hospital cafeteria and with donations from individuals and discounted items from companies.

“To see the instant smile and hear a person say, ‘You brought me something when I needed it’ — that feeds my own soul,” she said.

in L.A. or Santa Barbara. Who’s in?”...Massachusetts State Rep. Jeff Roy was appointed House Chairman of the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities, and Energy last winter. The committee’s purview includes the exploration, exploitation, and development of energy sources.

“These are challenging times and sustainability issues, including the climate crisis, energy needs, and pollution, are top priorities,” Roy told WickedLocal. com in February….Christopher Wellborn, a criminal defense attorney based in South Carolina and 11-year member of the National Assn. of Criminal Defense Lawyers board, became NACDL second vice president during the summer.

1984 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 CLASS SECRETARY Heidi Lovett blueoceanheidi@aol.com

CLASS PRESIDENT Linda Cohen linda@lscdesignstudio.com Cheryl Croteau Orr was one of two partners at the Los Angeles law firm Musick, Peeler & Garrett recognized for their accomplishments as leading attorneys within the city’s business community and named to the Los Angeles Business Journal’s annual 2021 Leaders of Influence: Litigators & Trial Lawyers list. (Kristine Kwong was the other honoree.)

Writing in July, Cheryl noted that she was finally back in the office after working remotely for more than a year. “The courts are seriously backlogged,” she noted.

She was expecting a grandchild in October, even though “I remember our college days like they were yesterday. Where has the time gone?”...Julianna Flanders noted with sadness that her mother, Frances Crandell Flanders ’56, passed away in April.

“She passed peacefully at home

with her family there,” Julie writes. (Editor’s note: An obituary appears in this issue.) On the bright side, though, Julianna was pleased to report that her and Robert’s daughter, Isabella Thorpe, is a first-year at the Univ. of Vermont....Alex Johnston has made big changes. “The arrival of COVID at Breakwater School in Portland, Maine, ended a wonderful 30-year run as a first- and second-grade classroom teacher, Spanish teacher, and leader of the Outdoor Adventure Program,” he reports. Leaving Breakwater coincided with preparations for becoming a registered Maine Guide, which Alex completed in June 2020, and since then he has studied and applied for a captain’s license. He and MaryJane celebrated 30 years of marriage in August….Ann Kranjec Fortescue became a councilor at large to the Texas Assn. of Museums in March. Since 2019, she has been president and executive director of the International Museum of

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difference maker

Holding one of his adaptive devices, a battery-powered longboard, Erik Kondo ’87 poses for a portrait in Garner, Iowa, in 2017 while taking part in RAGBRAI, the Register’s Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa.

Able to Help A Nigerian man with impaired mobility was living without a decent wheelchair in an inaccessible rural hilltop house until Erik Kondo ’87 came calling. “He was a prisoner in his own bed,” said Kondo.

Kondo has used a wheelchair since he was in a motorcycle accident as a Bates student. Ever since, he’s used the products of technology to be the pilot of his life, not a passenger. For example, he built a skateboard for his wheelchair.

Recently, Kondo has used communication technology to help people with spinal cord injury in Nigeria. “The situation in many developing countries for people with SCI is particularly grim,” he says. “Many of them lack basic necessities, suitable beds, and even wheelchairs for mobility.”

Kondo has also provided folks with SCI with information from his own experience about living with the condition, directed them to various online resources, and connected them with his own extensive SCI network.

He has used GoFundMe and other fundraising platforms to provide material help, as well. Through Kondo’s efforts, the Nigerian man got a new mattress and wheelchair, and was able to move to an accessible apartment.

Though Kondo is an expert on living with SCI, “the information flow is not just one way” when he talks with others who have SCI. “I’ve learned quite a bit about what it is like to live with SCI in developing countries, and also about the survival skills that people employ when not able to access modern conveniences such as reliable electricity.”

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Art and Science in McAllen, Texas, where she and Jeffrey live….

Karen Palermo Saxena saw Julie Flanders and Sydnee Brown Goddard during a trip back East from Palo Alto. “Look me up if you are in the Bay Area,” she says….Artemis Susan Preeshl announced in August that during the fall, academic publisher Routledge would release her Consent in Shakespeare: What Women Do and Don’t Say and Do in Shakespeare’s Mediterranean Comedies and Origin Stories.

She was also invited to a Nostos Screenwriting Retreat in Tuscany in September, and received a grant from The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for research at the Cini Foundation, in Venice, later in the fall….Lisa Quintal Loeb reports from Wallingford, Conn., that “after six amazing years at Miss Porter’s School and 35 years of teaching, I have decided to step back and teach part time at One Schoolhouse. David continues to devote himself to the Choate community. Our daughter, Hannah, is pursuing a doctorate in English at the Univ. of Virginia. She and James love Charlottesville and are looking to buy a home there. Jonah and his wife, Lau, live in Stamford, Conn.

— just close enough that we’ll have lots of access to our first grandchild in the fall!”

1985 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 CLASS SECRETARY Elissa Bass bass.elissa@yahoo.com CLASS PRESIDENT Lisa Virello virello@comcast.net Elissa Bass “had a fun time surprising Leanne Belmont Valade on June 30 at her retirement party! Yes, we are that age. Kate Sweeney, Debbie Valaitis Kern, Lisa Virello, Kathy Leonard Bertagna ’87 and I gathered at a friend’s home in North Reading, Mass., to give a toast of congratulations.”...“It’s been a big year” for Heather Beebe and Luc Jarry.

“One year ago we left our Calgary home of 20 years and relocated to Saint-Ignace-de-Stanbridge, Quebec, about halfway between Montreal and Burlington, Vermont. We are happy to be back in the Northeast, closer to family and friends. I also retired from a career in management consulting, and our empty nest refilled with our two daughters taking refuge from the pandemic,” Anna Jarry and Laura Jarry ’20. “I’m happy to be giving back through volunteer work for Bates and getting out the vote with Democrats Abroad Canada. Looking forward to connecting with Batesies in the coming year.”

1986 CLASS SECRETARY Erica Seifert Plunkett ericasplunkett@gmail.com CLASS PRESIDENTS Bill Walsh messagebill@gmail.com Catherine Lathrop Strahan catstrahan@gmail.com Maria Packett Cashdollar was “thrilled to have finally had the chance to get together with fellow Bobcats Tracey Misins Geary, Jill Wittmer, and Heidi Galpern. “While Zoom was great, there’s nothing like seeing each other in person!”

1987 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 CLASS SECRETARY Val Kennedy brickates@gmail.com CLASS PRESIDENT Erica Rowell ericarowell@mac.com Richard Barnard sends offspring updates from Atlanta: “My son Harrison Barnard graduated Woodward Academy, cum laude, and is attending Emory Univ. My other son, Foster, is in his junior year in the Univ. of Georgia’s honors program.”...Margaret Brosnahan was promoted to associate professor and received tenure at the Midwestern Univ.

College of Veterinary Medicine, in Glendale, Ariz. “I recently discovered the field of narrative medicine, and am the first veterinarian ever to receive formal training in this area by completing Columbia Univ.’s Certificate in Narrative Medicine program,” she tells us. “This program was a coming home of sorts for me, a way of merging my love of liberal arts and humanities with my life as a scientist, clinician, and educator to form a more intrinsically rewarding professional identity.”...Kathleen Collins is the author of From Rabbit Ears to the Rabbit Hole: A Life with Television, published last March by the Univ. Press of Mississippi.

As a “combination memoir and cultural meditation,” she says, “it should be an especially entertaining read for my Gen X cohort!”...

Trish Parker is still a registered nurse and medical team manager at Northampton [Mass.] Integrative Medicine. “COVID has made for a challenging 18 months in the medical field and my heart goes out to all working on the front lines,” she writes. “The past year brought many challenges, but we managed to keep our clinic open every day with no breaks in service for our patients.” Her daughter, Emily, graduates from the College of the Atlantic in the spring, she adds, “and I have thoroughly enjoyed having one more excuse to head up to Maine

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regularly during her time on Mount Desert Island.”...Sarinda Parsons Wilson was thrilled to be able to attend the graduation of son Elliot Wilson last spring.

“So much joy! Bates did a great job building a rich and varied virtual Baccalaureate topped with a meaningful in-person ceremony on campus,” she says….Laurie Pinchbeck Whitsel and Brad “have a lot to be thankful for,” she says. Daughter Amy attends law school at Catholic Univ. and son Christian is taking the acute gerontology nurse practitioner program at Yale. Brad is an associate professor in political science at The Pennsylvania State Univ. Laurie is still at the American Heart Assn., where as vice president for policy research and translation she adapts science into policy solutions that can improve Americans’ cardiovascular health. She adds, “We took a wonderful, memorable family trip to northern California in July to see the redwood forests and Napa Valley, and hike in Yosemite. It was the most incredible time.”...Eric Schlapak received the 2021 Christa McAuliffe Sabbatical from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. Paying for a year off and materials, the award enables recipients to bring a great teaching idea to fruition. A math teacher at Dover High School since 2010, Eric is developing curricular materials to better integrate math into career education….James B. “Jeb” Shields was among fallen military personnel remembered when a monument to Gold Star Families was dedicated in Lewiston on Memorial Day. A navigator on U.S. Navy aircraft, Jeb died in a plane crash in 1991. His mother, Bethel, was instrumental in the creation of the monument….Sean Slade sends “greetings from Montana, where we came to hide from the plague and never left. We made our move permanent in December. The summers are great; the winters are better. Come visit.

Last year we hosted Chris Walsh ’86, Tripp Hughes ’88, and Rick Schiffmann ’88, and visited with Dave Todd, Dennis Connelly, Mark Hatch, Steve Lewis ’88 and Dave Muelken. After 25 years of mergers and acquisitions advising, I continue to work with a limited number of clients while reviewing real estate development and other business opportunities. Older daughter Amelia is a fixed-income analyst, Natalie is a junior at Colorado College, and Henry is a high school senior.”…

Elizabeth Stebbins Torkelsen was impressed by the new Bonney Science Center during a campus visit in July. Daughter Emily Torkelsen ’22, an Earth studies and climate science major, conducted research on Maine salt marshes during the summer. Elizabeth writes from Wilton, Conn., that she

and Steven will “soon be empty nesters as our youngest, Kristina, is off to Lafayette College this fall.”...Rick Werwaiss and Alison Heaphy celebrated two graduations, as older daughter Abby graduated from the Univ. of Rochester with a degree in environmental science and political science, and younger daughter Willa graduated from the Emma Willard School and is now at Lehigh Univ. Following a 25-year career in nonprofit management focused on agriculture, conservation, and environmental organizations, Rick is now a partner in Lovers Leap Farm in Kinderhook, N.Y., a purveyor of heritage-breed, pasture-raised pork. Rick has connected with Paul Grove ’88 and Jackie Grannis-Phoenix ’88 through short visits, and kayaked with John Cutler and David Boothby in Maine’s Sheepscot Bay. He issues a call-out to Jon Gaudio: “We need an update, dude!”

1988 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Astrid Delfino-Bernard flutistastrid@sbcglobal.net Ruth Garretson Cameron ruth.eg.cameron@gmail.com Mary Capaldi Gonzales marcapcar@me.com Steve Lewis mojofink@gmail.com Julie Sutherland-Platt julielsp@verizon.net Lisa Romeo romeoli66@gmail.com The Ven. Tenzin Dasel (Lisa Valerie Blake) is looking forward to seeing Bates friends in the U.S. again. “After nearly six years in India; many living, studying, meditating online silent retreats; and of course praying, it is time to head west, back to Maine,” she writes. She studied during that time with Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Tsetan, Tibetan Buddhist lama and founder of the Siddhartha School in Ladakh.

“He actually taught at Bates as a guest instructor in 1989. We missed him then, but met in Maine in 2002,” she continues....

Jeff Day and Erin Brady would love to hear from Bates friends living or visiting in and around Philadelphia. He says, “If you need an education consultant, contact Erin at erin. brady@bennettinternational. com. If you want to talk schools/ fundraising, contact me at The Haverford School at jday@ haverford.org.”...Mark Desjardins, a veteran educator and an expert in independent school operations, became president of the Army and Navy Academy in Carlsbad, Calif., in July. He was previously head of school at St. John’s School in Houston….

Amy Dowd Bartholomew still owns a large-animal veterinary practice in northern Vermont

with her husband, Rick. They’ve also started a pick-your-own apple orchard….Dr. Steve Feder works as a medical director and pediatrician on Martha’s Vineyard….A history teacher in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Ralph Ginorio has joined the roster of op-ed columnists for the local Press, offering a conservative take on universal issues involving human freedom….Vanessa Ince lives in Maui with her family. A clinical psychologist, she runs her own private practice. In 2019, she competed in her first Ironman World Championship triathlon in Kona, Hawaii, finishing with a time of 13:02. In 2021, she qualified for her second Kona Ironman, scheduled for October….David McEvoy reports that he and Andrea Stephens “are very proud and excited” that daughter Maria McEvoy ’25 has begun at Bates. “She is living in Milliken House, which is a short distance from Frye House, where I hid out as a freshman.”...“There are two things Bates-related that I am very grateful for,” says Leslie Morison: “that Bates worked really hard to keep my sophomore Sophia in and at school, and that my Bates Ladies were able to reconnect on Zoom calls.

Love you all — Barb Ginley, Jen Curry Costello, Betsy Leavitt Nemirovsky, Megan Peterson Hill, Suzie FitzGerald Aysseh, and Rosemary DeGange.

Lifelong friends are the best.”...

Darius Shahinfar describes himself as “alive and doing fine.

Noelle and the kids are all well and healthy, I’m running for a third term as city treasurer in Albany, N.Y., and am happy to be able to travel again. And I will find you if I’m in your neck of the woods!”...In July, Sara Steinert-Borella was “thrilled to start as the executive director of the Steger Center for International Scholarship.” Located in Ticino, Switzerland, Steger is Virginia Polytechnic Institute’s European center and base for operations and program support. “The center has such a great history here, and at the same time, it has so much potential,” she says….

Writing in July, Anne “Piep” van Heuven was “looking forward to catching up with the effervescent Sara Steinert-Borella” in Lugano, Switzerland, during Piep’s August work sabbatical in Bern.

Piep is in her 13th year enjoying bicycle advocacy as government relations director at Bicycle Colorado.

1989 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 CLASS SECRETARY Sara Hagan Cummings cummings5clan@gmail.com STEERING COMMITTEE Sally Ehrenfried sjehrenfried@gmail.com Deb Schiavi Cote debscote@yahoo.com

“As a man approaches his mid-50s,” writes Christopher Barclay, “his temperament enters a phase of development that evolutionary scientists define as ‘crankypants.’ In an effort to embrace this change, I’m creating an invite-only social club in my adopted home of Chiang Mai, Thailand, one in which phones are not allowed. In this analog space, my goal is to encourage friends to re-discover the art of conversation. The club was inspired by joining Sir David Tang’s China Club in Hong Kong, and a series of walk-and-talks I’ve done in interesting places with some fascinating people.

I will be leading such an event on a section of the ancient Tea Horse Road in a beautiful part of northern Yunnan Province, China, hopefully next April.” For more information about those projects, contact Christopher at dharmashack@gmail.com....

Carolyn Bassett was grateful to participate during the spring in the Disrupting Racism program organized by Sara Hagan Cummings and Beth Tener — “diving into reading, listening, and discussions about privilege and racial oppression,” she says. “It was meaningful to do this work with people who first met as students at a very different time in our lives, and to be reminded of the importance of empathy, curiosity, and humility as a learner.”

Carolyn is still at UMass Amherst overseeing the Undergraduate Student Success program. “To all you parents of college students out there (and I count myself in that group), I send my good wishes for the next chapters ahead.”...

Cathy Burke Rowe has become executive director of New Jersey Advocates for Aging Well, a Trenton nonprofit designed to help people age with independence and dignity. “Looking for Bates interns next summer!” she says….Michael Foley writes: “I have been very happy to hear from alums who are navigating this difficult and complex time with strength and determination.

Stay strong, friends! I continue to divide my time between Paris, France, where I run two studyabroad programs for American college-age dance majors, and the Univ. of South Florida, where I was promoted to full professor in 2018.”...“From where I sit on Beech Hill Road in Northport, Maine, I can watch my kid taking sailing lessons off Islesboro,” writes Ann Frenning Kossuth.

“It’s better than I imagined the way life should be. I also continue my work bringing broadband to the local community, and Jim took a job as Northport town administrator this week (1.8 miles door to door). We look forward to putting in deep roots here, and we are deeply grateful to do so.”...If you’re planning a stay in Wickford Village, R.I., check with Linda Johnson. She recently

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bought and restored a home there for her eventual retirement.

“It’s a stately Victorian, built by a sea captain, that’s walking distance to charming Wickford Harbor and quaint shops and restaurants.” After a renovation that cost “a lot of blood, sweat, tears, and money,” the so-called Emerald Lady was listed in June on Airbnb for short-term rentals....Anne Mollerus writes that she and Wrigley, her 9-year-old Coton de Tulear dog, are still in Minneapolis, but “have a new partner in crime, Ruby. She’s a 2-year-old Lab-boxer mix.” Anne has changed jobs at Cargill: “I’m now responsible for launching a service for people to understand how processes are actually occurring vs. what they think is happening. Very interesting.

Hope all is well with everyone!”...

Deborah Schiavi Cote reports: “The boys are now grown, and Paul and I are enjoying life lakeside in western Maine with our two black Lab mixes. Blessed to be able to continue volunteering with Maine Lab Rescue. Have been fostering puppies and dogs and hand-raising the occasional orphan kittens for the last eight years.”...Grace Tallman Gooding and Andrew were able to visit their fathers in the Northeast for the first time since COVID, writes Grace. Son Evan is graduating from Earlham College in December and Christopher is in his junior year at Bates. “We all survived COVID restrictions and lockdowns and got our vaccines.

Andrew is still at Marshall Univ. and spending lots of time kayaking. We both rejoice that Facebook is available to keep in touch with friends!”...Donna Waterman Douglass competed with her tennis teammates in the USTA League Adult 18 and Over 3.0 Women’s Florida Sectionals in late July and early August.

“Although the results were not in our favor, it was a fun and memorable experience.”

1990 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 CLASS SECRETARY Joanne Walton joannewalton2003@yahoo.com Whitney Blanchard Soule became The Univ. of Pennsylvania’s vice provost and dean of admissions in July. She came to Penn after 13 years in admissions at Bowdoin, where her tenure was distinguished by rising numbers of students of color, first-gen students, and students on financial aid. She broke into the field with a five-year stint in admission at Bates. “My husband, Christopher McLoon, and I enjoy the contrast between coastal Maine and Center City, Philadelphia.”...Tina Brickley Engberg has ended a 30-year tenure as the Bates Alumni in Admission representative for the state of Georgia. “I graduated and

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left Lewiston assuring [former Dean of Admission] Wylie Mitchell that I would gladly meet future Bates students, and I did.

While not every interview led to a future Bobcat, I did meet a good number of interesting young students over the years. It was always a pleasure to have that connection to the school, even from a distance of 1,200 miles.”...Amy Doherty Mohr lives in Munich, where she teaches American literature at Ludwig Maximilian Univ. She and Joe have two daughters, Elizabeth and Emily, who are studying public health and medicine. The Mohrs like to travel, hike in the Alps, and visit the biergartens….Paige Roberts is closing in on her 10th anniversary as director of archives and special collections at Phillips Academy Andover. “I love working with the students,” writes Paige, who lives in Portsmouth, N.H. and likes to hike the White Mountains in her off time. “I’ve had a super time reconnecting in recent years with Bates pals Karen Callahan, Linda Horwitz, Sara Kagle, Laurie McDonnell, Ellen Nam, Susanne Salkind, and Dave Seuss.”...Molly Snow Robinson is “happy to be on staff at the Moses Brown School in Providence, where I am involved in quite a few areas including development, events, and helping out in the Upper School.” She’s “very thrilled to see Jessica Adler Clay whenever she’s in Rhode Island visiting family.”...

Kristin Stockmayer Laverty is a paralegal in Plymouth, Mass., specializing in real estate and estate planning. With son Griffin in his first year at UMass Amherst, she’s now an empty nester….

Coming east from Washington state to visit family in July, Sarah Stone had a “nice long catchup session” with Chris Wood and dinner with Betsy Davies Mercier and Charlie. Sarah and Donald Munsil’s son Roland lives in Seattle, and Malcolm is in his junior year at the Univ. of Washington….Daniel Swartz and family sold their place in the village of Szalonna, Hungary, and “moved closer to Budapest to be closer to work and the grandkids.” He’s still the part-time communications manager for the World Wildlife Federation’s Global River Dolphin River Initiative, and does communications work for the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, a human rights organization.

1991 CLASS SECRETARY Katie Tibbetts Gates kathryntgates@gmail.com CLASS PRESIDENT John Ducker jducker1@yahoo.com Christina Chiu’s 2020 novel Beauty won the Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2020 Award. The

book also received the James Alan McPherson Award….Kyra Freeman’s book of photographs and poems, Second Life: Poems of Re-emerging, was published during the summer. “Independent bookstore and library lover that I am, it is still thrilling to see my book on Amazon.com!” she says….Known as the winningest coach in the history of women’s hoops at Bowdoin College, Maine native Adrienne Shibles is now head coach of Dartmouth’s program. As a Bobcat, she was twice captain of the women’s basketball team and a 1,000-point scorer….

Kristin Wolcott Farese lost her father to COVID-19 in December 2020 and, she says, “spent a good three weeks in Maine this summer with family to memorialize him and mark many endings and beginnings.” Speaking of beginnings, her and Jim’s daughter Mara, second of three children, has started college, and Kristin herself completed training in group psychotherapy and is “enjoying building a private psychotherapy practice in the San Francisco Bay Area.”

1992 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 executive committee Ami Berger ami_berger@hotmail.com Kristin Bierly Magendantz kmagendantz@comcast.net Kristen Downs Bruno Kris10DBruno@gmail.com Roland Davis roldav92@gmail.com Peter Friedman peter.friedman@alum.dartmouth.org Leyla Morrissey Bader leyla.bader@gmail.com Jeff Mutterperl jeffmutterperl@gmail.com Al and Kristen Downs Bruno “are already struggling a bit with Katie leaving the nest” in autumn 2022, Al reports. They have been “traveling New England looking at schools with her and sprinkling in fun stops along the way.” Son Anthony beat Katie out the door and is a rising junior at Tufts. Al says, “It is therapeutic to watch Finding Nemo and Inside Out repeatedly as a reminder that independent offspring are a good thing.” He adds, “Kris and I are looking forward to heading up to Lewiston for the 30th Reunion. It will be wonderful to be back at Bates to see all of the ’92 folks.”...The Rev. Alison Buttrick Patton and Craig ’91 have lived in Westport, Conn., for nine years. She is the pastor of Saugatuck Congregational Church and serves on a town committee tasked with advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion in the community. Craig is a marketing specialist, Scoutmaster, and board member for Friends of Sherwood Island State Park.

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at Dickinson, and Ian is a high school junior....Things are going well for Bob Cole and family.

“Gina and I have two terrific kids, Bridget (11) and Alex (8), and we live in Sudbury, Mass. I was appointed CEO of Private College 529, a prepaid tuition program, three years ago and it continues to grow. We spent several weeks traveling in Maine and elsewhere this summer to visit family and friends after many months of being homebound.”...Doug Coupe was a producer on the coming-of-age feature film This Is the Year, executive-produced

by Selena Gomez, and is involved in other film and television projects in development. Doug and Edie enjoy life on Daniel Island near Charleston, S.C. Daughter Kennedy studies broadcast journalism at the Univ. of South Carolina and son Braden is a high school junior....Karen Finocchio Lubeck writes that “racing sailboats always adds to summer fun, but is even better when competing alongside another Bobcat!

Congratulations to Berit Solstad ’84, who won the Town Class at the 2021 NOOD Regatta in Marblehead, Mass.”...Lisa Genova is one of the memory experts appearing in the public-television documentary Build a Better Memory Through Science, which aired in June. Still Alice author Genova, whose interest in neuroscience was sparked at Bates, in March published her first nonfiction book, the New York Times bestseller Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting….Ozzie Jones directed Antoinette Nwandu’s play Pass Over last summer in a collaboration between two Philadelphia theater companies.

The play, the award-winning director told The Philadelphia Tribune, “explores the essential impact of living in a perpetuating emptiness. Or rather, the journey of a seeking soul.”...Brooke Oliver Fritz became head girls’ lacrosse coach at Harriton High in Rosemont, Pa. She returned to the Central League — as coach at Radnor for nine seasons, she led the Raiders to the 2017 PIAA Class AA championship — after two years as an assistant coach at Haverford College.

1993 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 CLASS SECRETARY Lisa Bousquet lisaannbousquet@gmail.com CLASS PRESIDENTS Mike Charland mfc@wilkinsinvest.com Jason Hanley jason.hanley@wexinc.com Lisa Bousquet has left Maine for Estero, Fla. “I’m enjoying my new location“ — golf, beach time, and cycling are favorite activities — “and spending

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time with family, especially my father.”...Alex Messore Baldwin, president of the PGA’s Korn Ferry Tour, spoke to the Portland Press Herald in June about the inaugural Live and Work in Maine Open, held in Falmouth.

The preparatory value of every stop on that developmental golf tour is carefully assessed, she told the paper. “Giving [rising professionals] the opportunity to play in different markets, possibly connect with different sponsors, and play in different conditions is important.”...Paola San Martini reports that she and her family have moved to Denmark after two years in Malawi, where she taught secondary math at Bishop Mackenzie International School.

1994 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 CLASS PRESIDENTS Courtney Landau Fleisher courtney.fleisher@gmail.com Jonathan Lewis jlewjlew@mac.com August 16 marked Jason Grant’s 15th work anniversary as an editor for the critical edition of the complete works of C. P. E. Bach. “Time flies! I’ve been working from home since March 2020 and will probably do so for the remainder of the project. Life is good here in Concord, Mass., with my wife Gretchen and our daughter Clara.”...Paula Wood, an artist and designer, joined the board of directors of the Pelham [N.Y.] Art Center.

1995 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 CLASS PRESIDENTS Jason Verner jcv@nbgroup.com Deb Verner debverner@gmail.com Lisa Bayless was recognized by a Tucson news organization for her long history of community philanthropy: a real estate agent, she donates a portion of every commission to local nonprofits. Recipients have included the town of Oro Valley’s police department and a food pantry, and last year she eliminated the $2,100 school lunch debt for the public schools. Small-business owners “rely on [their] community and in turn that community relies on you,” Bayless told Tucson Local Media….Brian Eckblom and Karen are happy to announce that their younger son, Hayden Eckblom, is a member of the Bates Class of 2025. He’s a graduate of Tolland High School in Connecticut, an Eagle Scout, a member of the National Honor Society, and a recipient of the DAR’s Good Citizenship Award for Tolland High. “We are excited for Hayden to experience Bates, and for us to be making trips to Lewiston again!” says Brian —

who, early in 2021, was promoted to the position of deputy chief of police in South Windsor, Conn….

Heather Josselyn-Cranson spent August in Mexico studying the African roots of that nation’s culture as a member of the 2021 Fulbright-Hays Seminar. She calls it an “amazing adventure,” and was grateful for the COVID safety consciousness displayed by both her group and the people they encountered….Phil Pettis is in his 24th year of practicing law in Portsmouth, N.H., while Heather Chichester Pettis ’97 continues her whale research and advocacy for the New England Aquarium. “No vacations to speak of this year,” but with daughters Madeleine and Sydney in high school, there’s been “lots of traveling around New England to follow the girls’ b-ball and softball games!”...Christopher Record became superintendent of schools in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, in July. A Maine native, he went to Cape after 13 years in the Gorham schools, including stints as the high school principal and assistant district superintendent.

Gorham Times cited achievements in that town that include diversity and equity initiatives and a collaboration with the Business Roundtable to increase employment opportunities for grads....Kevin Rodriguez and Sumei Situ have left New York City and purchased a former summer camp in Bedford, N.Y., to restore as a home. Says Kevin, “Applications for weekend visits are currently welcome from anyone who’s handy or has a knack for handling 100-year-old slate, stucco, and stone.” In other news, their Matzo Project snacks are now offered on JetBlue flights.

1996 CLASS PRESIDENTS Ayesha Farag ayesha.farag@gmail.com Jay Lowe jameslowemaine@yahoo.com Barbara Raths has been promoted to senior vice president, director of treasury management and government banking, at Maine’s Camden National Bank, where she has worked since 2019….Jason Ryan joined the board of directors at Sema4, a health-related data analysis company in Stamford, Conn. He most recently served as chief operating and financial officer of Magenta Therapeutics.

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Tri, Tri Again “I think I have discovered my sport,” says Karen Sternfeld ’94.

Returning to competitive sports a decade ago, Sternfeld initially competed in paraswimming.

She then switched to paratriathlon this year. In three sprint-distance triathlons, she’s finished first all three times.

Competing with the Dare2tri team, Sternfeld was crowned national champion in the women’s PTWC (wheelchair users) division at the Paratriathlon National Championship in Long Beach, Calif., in July.

A varsity athlete at Bates, Sternfeld ran cross country and track. As a senior, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and has used a wheelchair full time since 2005.

Dare2tri works to enhance the lives of individuals with physical disabilities and visual impairments by building confidence, community, health, and wellness through swimming, biking, and running.

CLASS SECRETARIES Todd Zinn tmzinn@hotmail.com Pat Cosquer patcosquer@gmail.com CLASS PRESIDENT Stuart Abelson sabelson@oraclinical.com

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Blue Ledge Farm’s Hannah Sessions on life as a farmer and painter

takeaway: If you want to paint, get away from the goats Twenty-one years ago, artists Hannah Sessions ’99 and Greg Bernhardt ’99 founded Blue Ledge Farm in Salisbury, Vt., and began raising goats.

Today, they care for some 200 animals, sell cheese across the Northeast, and also “both still make art,” reported Seven Days, noting Sessions’ recent show of oil paintings.

Farming and creating art can complement one another, she says, but “it’s never easy” to do both. “I originally had my studio in the upstairs of one of our barns. And it was way too distracting. I heard the goats all the time.” Now, she can’t even see the goat barn from her studio, which works better.

“My actual time with a paintbrush in my hand is pretty small,” she says. But she’s always observing and thinking, “How would I paint that?” So when she does sit down to paint, “it’s just almost immediately a flow state.”

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Daniel Apstein joined UCM Digital Health as chief financial officer in July. Based in Troy, N.Y., UCM provides emergency telemedicine and virtual care solutions. Dan previously served as CFO for ProHealth Partners….

Leslie Billingham Diamandis is a school psychologist in Holliston, Mass., and resides in Medway with Charlie and their daughters Bella and Charlotte.

“After 20 years as a public school employee, I can say that the 2020–2021 school year was probably my most challenging!”...

Lydia Langford writes: “I still seem to be living in Berlin, Germany, where I’ve managed to find a lacrosse team to coach for fun — taking me back to my glory days at good old Bates! I loved seeing Heather Chichester Pettis when she visited Berlin to run the marathon a while ago.”...Nicole Ouellette Soule made the roster of the All-Time Wilmington [Mass.] High School Softball Team in a multisport series compiled by Town Crier Sports Editor Jamie Pote. “[In] my almost 30 years of covering WHS sports, I don’t think anyone made a bigger impact on a team than Ouellette,” wrote Pote, citing her skills in both leadership and play. At Bates, Nicole played field hockey as well as softball….

Mary Richter lives in Hudson, N.Y., with her wife of 15 years and works for the American Council of Learned Societies, which funds research in the humanities and social sciences. “In fact,” she says, “we have funded Bates faculty research and Bates is one of our institutional members.” She adds, “I enjoy staying connected to Bates friends via social media, but it will be really nice to see people in person at our 25th!”...

Children’s book author-illustrator Matt Tavares received glowing reviews of his artwork for last spring’s Twenty-One Steps: Guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Written by Jeff Gottesfeld, the book honors nameless fallen soldiers and the sentinels who protect the Tomb, in Arlington National Cemetery. Those guards, Tavares told the Sun Journal, “honor the unknowns” with the perfection of their presentation and their day-in, day-out 21-step marching routine.

1998 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 CLASS COMMITTEE Doug Beers douglas.beers@gmail.com Liam Clarke ldlc639@gmail.com Rob Curtis robcurtis@eatonvance.com Renee Leduc rleducclarke@gmail.com Tyler Munoz tylermunoz@gmail.com With Coco Killingsworth and Jennifer Anglade, Elizabeth Moreau serves as co-interim president of BAM, aka the

Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City, the oldest continually operating performing arts center in the country. Once a new president is in place, Elizabeth will continue in her role as associate vice president and senior producer….Tyler Munoz and Jena Caruso Munoz ’00 still call Singapore home after 10 years. Tyler continues to work in consulting and spent much of 2021 in Bangkok to establish a new joint venture. “The quarantine that came along with that wasn’t all that enjoyable,” he says, but it did give him time to think about good times with good friends in the basement of Rand Hall….Christian Raffensperger has been named the Kenneth E. Wray Endowed Chair in the Humanities at Wittenberg Univ.

Professor of history, department chair, and the director of Wittenberg’s premodern and ancient world studies program, he’s the fourth faculty member to hold that chair.

1999 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 CLASS SECRETARY Jenn Lemkin Bouchard jennifer_bouchard@hotmail.com CLASS PRESIDENT Jamie Ascenzo Trickett jamie.trickett@gmail.com Jennifer Coleman Fosbroke has become the senior administrative director of general internal medicine at Boston Univ.

School of Medicine, following 19 years at Boston Medical Center.

She reports that Charles retired from active-duty military service a few years ago and now works with Salesforce, while son Cole Parker is going into the seventh grade. “I still enjoy getting together with Patty Goodale Collins and Elizabeth Sandman Norian.”...Rebecca Gasior Altman is working on her first book, an intimate history of plastic that was acquired in 2020 by Scribner in the U.S. and Oneworld Publications in the U.K. Her work on plastics appeared in Science in July; in the Summer 2021 issue of Orion Magazine, for which she also guest-edited a series on plastics and pollution; and is forthcoming in The Atlantic….

Lisa Gralnek hosts Future of XYZ, a weekly interview series dedicated to forward-thinking discussions about where we are as a world and where we’re going — with Episode 28, “Future of a Liberal Arts Education,” featuring President Clayton Spencer.

Lisa invites Batesies to “follow FUTUREOFXYZ on Instagram and visit lvg-co.com to nominate guests! Would love more Bobcat power.”...Shannon Hurst Montague has published a children’s picture book, Vivienne’s Dancing Day (Troubador Publishing).

She worked with editor Beth Katsoris-Meehan and illustrator Emily Cornacchio on this story in

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which students provide artistic additions to their classroom. Find the book online at sites including Wordery, Amazon, and Troubador (bit.ly/troubador_vivienne)....

Jenn Lemkin Bouchard signed copies of her debut novel in Mystic, Conn., in July. “For an unknown debut author with a small press, this is getting a fair amount of buzz,” Bouchard told a newspaper in nearby Westerly, R.I. The book, First Course, is a romance depicting a woman who seeks to provide comfort and stability to her family with food following a cluster of catastrophes. Jenn teaches high school social studies in Needham, Mass., when she’s not writing.

Read more: bit.ly/bouchard_bedford_citizen….Robyn Neill Lunsford was appointed senior vice president of operations at Boston-based CareAcademy, a home care and home health workforce empowerment platform, during the summer.

She previously held growth and operations roles at IntelyCare….

Kate Osborne Munno and her sister, Rebecca Osborne, started a cut-flower farm and floral design business at Appleberry Farm in Newtown, Conn. They’re the fourth generation of the family to work this farm in the village of Sandy Hook....In a two-part series for Forbes last spring, Shirl Penney offered a survey of the wealth management landscape.

He focused on registered investment advisors, which operate as fiduciaries — “the gold standard of financial advice.”

RIAs, he wrote, are “legally and morally bound to put their clients’ interests first.” Penney’s own company, Dynasty Financial Partners, provides services for independent wealth management firms….Maeve Ryan started in August as the digital marketing specialist for the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Stockbridge, Mass. She joined Hannah Wilken ’12 on the marketing team — “it’s so great to be connected with a fellow Batesie, who, like me, also happened to be a Spanish major,” says Maeve, “and very cool to find ourselves marketing health and wellness together.”...Aron Shapiro joined the board of directors of EyeGate Pharma, a Waltham, Mass.–based company that develops products for treating inflammatory and immune diseases.

2000 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 CLASS SECRETARY Cynthia Link cynthiafriedalink@gmail.com CLASS PRESIDENTS Jenn Glassman Jacobs jenniferellenjacobs@gmail.com Megan Shelley mhshelley@aol.com

Matt Bazirgan has been named an assistant director of player personnel for the Houston Texans. Previously director of player personnel for the team, he came to the Texans in 2018 after 14 years with the New York Jets.

Matt was a starting quarterback at Bates….Courtney Elf Rowe spent the 2020–2021 school year teaching pre-K fully in person, and teaching flute on Zoom.

Ethan Rowe ’98, she continues, “has been lucky enough to work entirely from home, and our daughters, Julia and Madeleine, juggled a hybrid schedule of remote and in-person school days.

Our summer was busy with swim meets for both girls, and a chance to finally do some traveling and see some family members.”...Jesse Laflamme and his family’s egg business, Pete and Gerry’s Organics, were featured in a New Hampshire Union Leader story tying the robust economic health of the state’s Upper Valley to, as reporter Michael Cousineau put it, the region’s “heavy reliance on institutions named Dartmouth.”

During the spring, CEO Jesse and his father, Gerard Laflamme, sold a majority stake in the organic egg producer, whose net sales in 2020 were $241 million — a thousandfold increase from two decades earlier….Justin Scheck, a Wall Street Journal reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, talked to Middle East Monitor about his book examining the rise of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. Scheck, who has been writing about Saudi Arabia since 2016, co-authored Blood and Oil with Bradley Hope.

2001 CLASS SECRETARY Noah Petro npetro@gmail.com CLASS PRESIDENTS Jodi Winterton Cobb jodimcobb@gmail.com Kate Hagstrom Lepore khlepore@gmail.com Asad Butt has founded Rifelion Media, a production company elevating diverse voices. In September, the firm launched its flagship podcast, King of the World. This seven-part series explores, through historical, cultural, and personal lenses, American Muslim life in the 20 years since 9/11….Jennifer Crawford was named one of the Top Women of Law by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Magazine in autumn 2020. She has become a leader in the field of government relations, the magazine noted, and “was a key player behind the landmark Green Communities Act, which has put Massachusetts on the forefront of promoting renewable energy while addressing climate change.” She told us, “It was an honor to be included alongside a group of accomplished and

impressive women attorneys, and I look forward to continuing to work on law and policy issues that are important to me.”...Gudrun Mirick Mueller writes that last year, soon after COVID-19 lockdowns began, she and Mead discovered they were pregnant for the first time — and with twins. Born in October 2020, Dane and Ava “have completely changed our lives. We were hoping to introduce them to Bates at this year’s Reunion, but they’ll have to wait until they’re 5. Unfortunately the [Bates-branded] onesies Pamela Murchie Mehr sent us won’t fit by then, but we’ll make sure they’re appropriately geared up!”...Noah Petro has been working on a proposal to extend the science mission for NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, now the longest-lived craft ever to orbit the Moon.

He writes that “when Oren Cheney was planning to start the Maine State Seminary he was laughed at for ‘trying to build a railway to the Moon.’ Well, this Bobcat is going to try, too.”...April brought nice things to Craig Morgan Teicher: a Guggenheim Fellowship and the publication of his poem “Peers” in The New Yorker. Here’s a fragment of the poem, which suits these pages as well: “…these were our twenties, when, / post-9/11, we were about to // inherit the world, and we had no idea / what to do with it.

And look // what we did, and we didn’t….” Victoria Wyeth was profiled last spring by a magazine dedicated to the culture and times of the Brandywine Valley and Philadelphia’s Main Line.

The Hunt detailed her dedication to the personal and artistic legacies of grandfather Andrew Wyeth et al., her work as a psychologist, her battle with cancer — and her love of Halloween.

2002 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 CLASS SECRETARY Stephanie Eby steph.eby@gmail.com CLASS PRESIDENTS Jay Surdukowski jsurdukowski@sulloway.com Drew Weymouth weymouthd@gmail.com

2003 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 CLASS PRESIDENTS Kirstin Boehm kirstincboehm@gmail.com MelissaYanagi melissayanagi@gmail.com Katie Burke, chief people officer at Massachusetts software maker HubSpot, commented to The Boston Globe about the post-pandemic repopulating of offices. As her own company plans ahead, she said, the guiding question

is, “What’s the workspace we want to go back to and the workforce we want to create, vs. reacting to the things that have changed overnight because of COVID-19?”...Hannah Gaines Day and family, as we learned somewhat late, welcomed Percy Saunders Day to the household in May 2020....Brent McCoy brought his vaudeville act to what you could call his second alma mater, Maine’s Celebration Barn Theater, in July. What does he call the show, which includes comedy, juggling, and breakdancing? You guessed it: The Real McCoy Show….Co-founder David Rice and colleagues at Park Square Financial Advisors in Pittsfield, Mass., were the subjects of a Berkshire Eagle Q&A in July. While Park Square is a Raymond James affiliate, Rice told the paper that “who we really work for is our clients. That’s everything.”

2004 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 CLASS PRESIDENTS Eduardo Crespo eduardo.crespo.r@gmail.com Tanya Schwartz tanya.schwartz@gmail.com Stephanie Borges Folarin became head of Wye River Upper School in July, coming to the Centreville, Md., college-prep school from the Bishop John T. Walker School for Boys. WRUS serves students with a variety of learning challenges….Hedda Burnett reports that life in Brooklyn is still treating her, Ben Schippers, and their kids well.

Willa Schippers is 2 years old, and Wyatt Schippers is 5 and a kindergartener....Julie Gage was one of five inspirational people honored at the April TogetHER event produced by Legacy Place, a commercial center in Dedham, Mass. Gage, executive director of the Boys & Girls Club of Woburn, was selected on the strength of her organization’s response to the pandemic. “I recall about two weeks into it, I shifted from the overwhelming panic of ‘What are we going to do?’ into ‘How are we going to do what it takes?’”...Ross Isacke, D.O., started as chief medical officer for Franklin Community Health Network in Farmington, Maine, in September. He has worked as a hospitalist and held leadership roles at Maine Medical Center in Portland and Stephens Memorial Hospital in the town of Norway….Melissa Palmer Lacy and Matthew welcomed baby Olivia in April.

She joined big brothers Mason, 7, and 5-year-old Jack. “Such an amazing gift during such a trying time,” Melissa writes….Aaron Putnam, a professor of earth sciences at the Univ. of Maine, received tenure last spring.

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restorative power from me,” Aaron told the campus newspaper. “I couldn’t imagine another place I’d rather be.”

2005 Reunion 2025, June 6–8

COURTESY ALAN HUNT

CLASS PRESIDENTS Kathryn Duvall duvall.kathryn@gmail.com Melissa Geissler melissa.geissler@gmail.com

Live Streaming A documentary film about the successful restoration of a stream in rural northern New Jersey took Alan Hunt ’03 back to his days as an environmental studies major, “right back to doing oral histories as part of Professor [Jane] Costlow’s environmental literature class.”

Director of policy and grants at the Musconetcong Watershed Association, Hunt worked with a film crew to document the story of a partnership among farmers, conservationists, agencies, and researchers that has reduced pollution in West Portal Creek by 97 percent over the last two decades.

Hunt helped with sound, filming from small planes, and even kayaking to transport gear to one filming site. “Some of my camera work wound up in the film, so I got both a camera and producer credit,” he says. “It was fun.”

Also highly satisfying, says Hunt, in a fullcircle sense. He got to tap into his New Jersey roots, his Bates experience, and his postgraduate education, including a Ph.D. in rural development from Newcastle University, where he studied as a Fulbright Scholar in 2010–11.

“It’s been my chance to take what I’ve learned and bring it home to protect what makes this region special.”

The film, West Portal Creek, was developed by three partners in the creek restoration project: the watershed association, Trout Unlimited, and North Jersey Resource Conservation and Development.

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Cricket Alioto Fuller and Benjamin welcomed their second child, Orianna Hope Fuller, in July. Orianna was born at her grandmother’s house in Hope, Maine. Since September 2020, Cricket has been director of R&D projects and strategy for the Center for Inclusive Innovation at the national education nonprofit Digital Promise, in Washington, D.C., where the Fullers have a newly renovated 1907 home on Capitol Hill….Ceci Craft became director of mental performance for the Philadelphia Phillies in March, leading efforts to provide mental performance training for the team. She previously spent six years in a similar role for the Cleveland Indians, and has also been a mental performance coach for the U.S. Army….

Angela Knox-Pyaesone and Aung Knox-Pyaesone welcomed a sheepadoodle puppy, Annie Lou, into their family on April 17.

Annie Lou “loves chasing after bunnies and cuddling with her ‘fur parents.’”...The Rev. Matt Pooley and the Rev. Diana Birney Pooley ’03 moved their four children from Albuquerque, N.M., to California, Md., in December 2020, so that Matt could take a new position as senior pastor of Patuxent Presbyterian Church. Diana works full time at home.

2006 CLASS PRESIDENTS Chelsea Cook chelsea.m.cook@gmail.com Katie Nolan knolan06@gmail.com Johnny Ritzo johnnyritzo@gmail.com Erin Culbreth Hotchkiss and Samuel ’05 welcomed daughter Evie in October 2020, around the same time they moved into a new home in Montclair, N.J., where Erin grew up. Threeyear-old Teddy “is adjusting,” Erin reports. “We’ve surprised ourselves with how much we enjoy homeownership and the suburbs!”...Ari Rosenberg and Nicole Accordino were thrilled to welcome Tzeda Rue Accordino into their lives on July 8. “Tzeda joins Frankie, our 8-year-old chihuahua, and Opal, our 7-year-old cat, in the wildlands of central North Carolina,” Ari reports.

“Hummingbirds, swallowtail butterflies, and bumblebees have all stopped by to say hello.”...Lily Scott Trager discussed her work

as head of Impact Solutions for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management in a Q&A posted in May by GreenBiz, which promotes a just transition to a clean economy.

The chat focused on proprietary technology that, Trager explained, enables Morgan Stanley advisers “to help investors really get at the environmental and social impact of their investment.”

2007 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 CLASS PRESIDENTS Keith Kearney kdkearney@gmail.com Rakhshan Zahid rakhshan.zahid@gmail.com Marsha Larned and Alexander Hughes married on July 12, 2021, in Newport, R.I. — and “an awesome crowd of Bobcats came together for the celebration!” she tells us. The couple live in Hong Kong, where Marsha is the Asia managing director for Institutional Investor, a financial media company. (Editor’s note: A photo appears on page 82.)

2008 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 CLASS PRESIDENTS Liz Murphy elizabeth.jayne.m@gmail.com Alie Egelson alisonrose.schwartz@gmail.com Pat Halloran and Ben Thayer ’09, who grew their Bay State– based Ben & Pat’s Sauce Co. from a mutual love of bacon and banana-pepper pizza, saw their Banana Pepper Sauce boldly blazoned on a Chevy Silverado entered in NASCAR’s Rackley Roofing 200, held near Nashville in June….Kim Nelson Pryor received a doctorate in education from Southern Methodist Univ. in May. She’s now a senior research fellow at Boston College’s Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Humanity, where she researches interdisciplinarity in higher education. She and her wife, Lindsey Pryor ’11, live in Dallas with their 2-year-old, Meg….Robert Patton became chief marketing officer of Green Meadows Farm, a Massachusetts cannabis company owned and operated by the Patton family, in July. Also a co-founder of Green Meadows, he has held senior positions at a variety of marketing firms, most recently Data Axle….

Erin Reed spoke with the Sun Journal about growth in employment for Lewiston’s immigrant population. Reed, who as Trinity Jubilee Center director helps new Mainers find work, feels a personal connection to the situation. “My grandparents came to this country with nothing and my grandpa worked in a factory and my grandma was a housekeeper: I see them when I’m helping people apply for these jobs,” she said.

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2009 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 CLASS PRESIDENTS Tim Gay timothy.s.gay@gmail.com Arsalan Suhail arsalansuhail@gmail.com Erin Bond and Stuart Ryan are back in Maine, having moved from Seattle to Freeport with daughter Leona during summer 2020. “We’ve enjoyed reconnecting with local Bobcats,” says Erin….Sam Evans-Brown was appointed executive director of Clean Energy NH in July. He comes to the nonprofit from New Hampshire Public Radio, where his environmental reporting won a number of accolades, including a national Edward R. Murrow Award….Emily Levine and Jacob Javitch welcomed identical twins, Remy Abdullahi Javitch and Poppy Bayla Javitch, last November. “These awesomely sassy and fun little girls have completely rocked our world (in the best way possible!),” Emily writes….Helen Paillé and Kyle Enman welcomed their son, Anders William Paillé Enman, on the first day of spring…. Molly Ritner is now chief of staff of the U.S. Economic Development Administration, a bureau of the Department of Commerce. Ritner previously served the Biden-Harris campaign as a member of the senior leadership team responsible for battleground-state strategy….Joseph Szerejko was one of three attorneys at the Hartford firm of Murtha Cullina who were named 2021 “New Leaders in the Law” by the Connecticut Law Tribune….The practice of medicine is ideally an art, student speaker Jason Tsichlis told his fellow newly minted doctors during the in-person commencement at Brown Univ.’s Warren Alpert Medical School. “[W]e will find that artistry in this pursuit is about using our talents and ingenuity and combining them with passion to leave the world better and more beautiful than it was before.”...Elizabeth Wilcox Baxter and Owen proudly announce that Lillian joined the world on June 14, “a whopping 9 pounds, 4 ounces, and 21.2 inches!”

2010 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 CLASS PRESIDENTS Brianna Bakow brianna.bakow@gmail.com Tiel Duncan vantielelizabeth.duncan@gmail. com Cameron Ferrante and Rachel Straus Ferrante moved from Brooklyn to Falmouth, Maine, with sons Oscar and Elliott. Cam is an attorney at Preti Flaherty in Portland and Rachel is executive director of Museum L-A in Lewiston….Kaleigh Paré mar-

ried Tim Shaughnessy on Black Mountain in Jackson, N.H., late last February. After postponing their hoped-for big nuptial celebration until 2022, the couple decided to exchange vows while skiing their favorite mountain with parents and siblings in attendance.

takeaway: Julia Sleeper Kimberly Sullivan

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2011 CLASS PRESIDENTS Theodore Sutherland theodoresutherland89@gmail.com Patrick Williams Patw.williams@gmail.com Noting that “10 years seems long enough to go without submitting one of these,” Hannah Arenstam Stowe sent an update: She married George Stowe in January 2019 and they welcomed their son, Teddy, in November 2020.

The Stowes live in Chicago and both Hannah and George are attorneys with the national business-law firm Benesch. “I’m very much looking forward to an in-person Bates Reunion.

Fingers crossed for 2026!”...

Charles Burgis graduated from the Univ. of Virginia, via Zoom, with a doctorate in environmental engineering in May 2020.

He’s now a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Environmental Science and Technology at the Univ. of Maryland….Matthew Cocciardi, previously chief of staff for the Massachusetts Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance, has been appointed associate court administrator for the state’s court system….U.S. Rep. Jared Golden and Isobel Moiles Golden of Lewiston welcomed their first child, Rosemary Calderwood Golden, in May. Izzy served as a Lewiston city councilor from 2016 to 2018 and Jared was elected to his 2nd District seat in 2018….After six years as a criminal prosecutor in Maine, Brendan O’Brien joined McCoy Leavitt Laskey LLC as an associate attorney in the Portland office in November 2020. The firm specializes in catastrophic fire and explosion cases. “As part of my new position,” Brendan explains, “I travel around the U.S. with engineers and other experts to investigate the origin and cause of a fire loss, and litigate any disputes that arise from the incident.”...In its March profile of Tim Ohashi, head video analyst for the Seattle hockey team the Kraken, The Score revealed a smart, upbeat, and forward-looking personality. “It seems like there’s some places where coaching and management and analytics are all on the same team but not really working together, and that’s something we’re trying to avoid here,” Ohashi said….In July, Patrick Williams brought his years of coaching and youth development experience to the role of executive director of Squash Drive, the Squash and

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Tree Street Youth celebrates 10 years of community, safety, and hope

takeaway: There’s nothing wrong with starting small The Lewiston Sun Journal looked back at the humble beginnings of Tree Street Youth, founded in 2011 as a downtown summer activities camp by Julia Sleeper ’08 and Kim Sullivan ’13.

“The building where Tree Street Youth started had been a paint shop,” reported Sun Journal intern Ellie Wolfe ’23. “After that, it was a preschool. Then it was a big, empty building.”

Sleeper, who today is Tree Street’s executive director, recalls how she and Sullivan “painted it up, designed a summer camp, and ended up running our very first summer program in 2011, with eight teenagers from the neighborhood as street leaders.”

Today, Tree Street is a robust nonprofit offering a range of youth-centered programs and partnerships, including Branches, which focuses on academics, high school graduation rates, college acceptance, and career exploration for local first-generation students.

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JOY YAGID

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Education Alliance affiliate in Oakland, Calif. At Bates, Pat was co-captain of the varsity squash team, recipient of an NESCAC sportsmanship award, and senior class president.

2012 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 CLASS PRESIDENTS Mikey Pasek mikeypasek@gmail.com Sangita Murali sangitamurali12@gmail.com

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Empowering middle schoolers worldwide

takeaway: Finding new ways to use debate’s community-building power While on a Fulbright in 2016, Matthew Summers ’15 created an afterschool program that brought together middle-school students from wealthy and poor areas of Stellenbosch, South Africa, to learn debate skills, play games, and make friends.

In 2017, Summers and fellow Quimby Debate Council alum Tessa Holtzman ’17 co-founded a U.S. version of the program, Debate Spaces, an education nonprofit that connects middle school students from various backgrounds in the Greater Boston area.

The program has added a virtual component during the pandemic, which “opened a whole new world, where we could bring in students from over 20 countries,” said Summers, who earned his law degree from Harvard this year.

“We’re not just connecting people from across the city, we’re connecting people from Newton, Mass., to students that are their age in Sri Lanka, or Pakistan or Poland. And that’s really been an incredible experience.”

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Casey Andersen enjoyed visiting with friends and family during the summer. “It’s been especially nice to see some Bates friends for the first time since graduation!” she says, adding, “I’m looking forward to seeing many of you during Reunion Weekend.”...James Dowling-Healey completed the 2021 The Sky’s the Limit Hiking Challenge in May. The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection identified points of interest in 20 state parks for participants to find and photograph. “The challenge is designed to encourage people to hike, something I enjoy and have spent much of my free time doing, especially over the last 18 months,” the West Hartford resident says….Juliana Kirkland O’Brien joined the legal team at California-based Smart Wires Inc. as associate general counsel. Smart Wires develops technologies to enhance electrical grid efficiencies. O’Brien says, “It’s an exciting time to be working in energy and helping a company like Smart Wires make a positive impact on the planet.”...

Sam Schleipman has moved to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and now works for the relief and development organization World Hope International as business development and partnership manager for Asia, supporting conservation and community development programs.

2013 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 CLASS PRESIDENTS Megan Murphy megan.a.murphy3@gmail.com Ryan Sonberg rsonberg9@gmail.com Jessica Heiges and Jack live in Sonoma County, Calif., as she progresses toward a doctorate in waste management at the Univ. of California, Berkeley. In late August, Jessica reported that they hadn’t been directly affected by the state’s catastrophic wildfires — adding, “I am envisioning those magical end-of-summer days in Lewiston.”...Erik Carl Leibovitz wed Dara Silverman in April. Cementing their bond, The New York Times reported, was a long and revealing dinner at a top

French restaurant in Washington, D.C. — already booked solid for the night in question, but rhetoric major Leibovitz “talked his way into a table for two.” He is a vice president at Monumental Sports & Entertainment….Corinna Parisi has begun a master’s program in public health at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington Univ....

Ryan Weston starts his second season in Denison Univ. football in a new position, as offensive coordinator. He previously was an offensive assistant. As a Bobcat, he lettered in football all four years and was named offensive MVP.

2014 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 CLASS PRESIDENTS Milly Aroko mildredaroko@gmail.com Hally Bert hallybert@gmail.com Andrew Lawson Carranco was elected president of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Laredo, one of the largest such organizations in the nation, in March. “Our city is 95 percent Latino,” he says.

“Of our 20,000 members, almost 75 percent are impoverished, 50 percent are first-generation, and we estimate that between 15 percent and 25 percent are children of unregistered migrants.”…

Olivia Kronemeyer received an MBA in sustainable solutions from Presidio Graduate School, in San Francisco. Along the way, she developed a market-launch strategy for a social-impact fashion brand, co-founded a sustainable food club, conducted a systems analysis of food deserts, and created a sustainable children’s clothing company. She’s now leading marketing and communications at an investment firm and community investor network committed to shifting capital from traditional finance into impact investments. Goal: to create a thriving and more equitable world.…After three years as defensive line assistant in the Columbia Univ. football program, Andrew Kukesh was promoted to defensive line coach in April. As a defensive back for the Bobcats, he was a three-time All-NESCAC selection and twotime All-East Region honoree….

Collin McCullough was profiled by a magazine in his hometown, Plattsburgh, N.Y., where he is a sales exec for Northern Insuring Agency. When he was Batesbound, he told Strictly Business, “I was set on not returning to Plattsburgh. Then a funny thing happened during the back half of my 20s — I grew up. I am beyond fortunate to live in the North Country.”

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Title: “SARS-CoV-2-mediated dysregulation of metabolism and autophagy uncovers host-targeting antivirals.”...Talia Mason graduated from an MFA program in experimental choreography at the Univ. of California, Riverside.

Her research project was “Water Lines,” an improvisational performance that “explores ancestral connections to bodies of water and how water informs our physical and cellular development,” she says. “It looks at the collisions of Jewish spiritual and religious practices and at the ghost of Lutheranism and Protestantism in my daily life.” She is now in an M.Ed program at the Univ. of Maryland and hopes to start teaching public-school French in 2022.

2016 CLASS PRESIDENTS Andre Brittis-Tannenbaum andrebt44@gmail.com Sally Ryerson sallyryerson@gmail.com Gordon Batchelder spent quality time with family and friends in Massachusetts during the summer, while working remotely as a user-experience analyst at Facebook and interning as a product designer at Taffi, a Saudi fashion tech startup....Ashley Bryant moved to Philadelphia during the summer. She’s at The Univ. of Pennsylvania in a Master’s of Science in Education program in urban education and working toward certification to teach secondary social studies….

Britta Clark, a doctoral student in philosophy at Harvard, offered thoughts on the contributions her field might make to answer-

ing the tough questions that will arise in society’s shift to decarbonization. Writing in March in the Blog of the American Philosophical Assn., she likened the climate crisis to the pandemic: “[W]hen it comes to both climate and COVID, what we are rightfully entitled to might not be as inalienable and static as we may have previously thought.”...

Wendy Goldman is midway through nine months of training at medical institutions in Maine’s Aroostook County. She’s working at Cary Medical Center and Pines Health Services through the Maine Track MD program, an innovative curriculum that includes clinical training and is offered by the Tufts Univ. School of Medicine in partnership with Maine Medical Center….Mikka Kei Macdonald published an opinion column in The Daily Beast in response to the mass shooting in Atlanta in which eight people were killed, six of them women of Asian descent. “I know personally how anti-Asian dehumanization can shape the trajectory of a group, a community, and a family,” she wrote — her grandparents met en route to one of the World War II internment camps where they and some 120,000 other Japanese Americans were imprisoned during the war. “And when we talk about white supremacy,” she wrote, “I hope that we recognize the full spread of its insidious reach because only unless we recognize it, its violence will happen again and again.”...Nicolas Margitza, NESCAC champion in the hammer throw in his senior year, was one of the local athletes who talked to Maine’s Morning Sentinel about lesser-known Summer Olympics sports. “The shot we throw is the exact same weight as the hammer, 16 pounds,” he said. But where 65 feet is a strong shot put, “a good hammer throw is 200-plus feet. As a freshman coming into Bates, that was a cool attraction.”...Javier Morales Urrutia is working at a technology/engineering consultancy company in southern Sweden called Sigma Connectivity. “As always, please let me know if you’re in Sweden or Denmark so we can get together!” he says….

Ellen Southworth was one of three female members of the fire department in Los Pinos, Colo., interviewed for a newspaper article about how gender affects their status on the job. “We’re three really lucky people who found wonderful crews and departments to work for,” Southworth told The Durango Herald.

“I don’t think that is nationwide.”

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Brennen Malone ’17 in Tomorrow in the Battle at Bates in 2016.

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A queer, Black Hamlet? Ay, there’s the spice rub

takeaway: In a Southern setting, this Hamlet underscores American social problems The New York Times praised Brennen Malone ’17 in his role as Juicy, the Hamlet character in an update of Shakespeare that’s set at a Southern barbecue.

Malone’s character, Juicy, is as “unusual a hero as Hamlet was, but less for what he might become than for what he already is. Asthmatic and ‘thicc,’ he variously calls himself weird, an empath, and ‘a big ole sissy.’”

And if Juicy, as played by Malone, is “thus a misfit in a world of over-armored men, he is also, in Malone’s lovely, unpushy performance, sexy and sympathetic.”

In this Southern, Black setting, “the larger social problem of violence against Black men need hardly be spoken,” reported the Times.

“Juicy just assumes that stories like his family’s must always end in death. ‘Cause this a tragedy,’ he says. ‘We tragic.’”

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2017 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 CLASS PRESIDENTS Jessie Garson jgarson4@gmail.com Matthew Baker mattdbaker13@gmail.com Hoops standout Marcus Delpeche has moved from one British Basketball League team to another, joining the Sheffield Sharks after three seasons with the Bristol Flyers.

2018 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 CLASS PRESIDENTS John Thayer john.robert.thayer@gmail.com Jake Shapiro shapirojacob6@gmail.com

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Miss Rwanda launches project to empower community health workers

takeaway: Opportunity to help comes in unusual ways In March, after Grace Ingabire ’19 won the Miss Rwanda title, she spoke with The New Times about her plans for the year. Partnering with manufacturer Africa Improved Foods, she’ll work to support greater food security among vulnerable people.

“I will work with the initiative to distribute domestic animals to vulnerable people,” she said. “I’m looking forward to the learning process and learning more about my country.”

In September, Ingabire embarked on a animal-distribution project with Africa Improved Foods to empower and support community health workers.

Through the project, pigs — an important and sustainable food resource — were given to three cooperatives of community health workers in Rwamagana District. A distribution plan will ensure the resources reach 1,900 community health workers grouped in 15 cooperatives in the area.

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Kiernan Majerus-Collins, a member of the Lewiston School Committee, expressed to the Sun Journal his support of the school system’s plans to teach students water-safety skills.

Every student in Lewiston public schools should learn to swim, he said. “This issue is critically important and as we’ve seen, a matter of life and death,” he said, referring to the June drowning of a middle-schooler….The Portland Press Herald “Catching Up With” spotlight fell on Maisie Silverman, a tennis standout both at Bates and Brunswick High. She’s back at home in Brunswick, working remotely for a tech firm and keeping an eye on the up-and-coming tennis players at BHS. College-level play, she said, taught her “to control the controllable, which brought out the best in me.”...The Sun Journal mined a newsy Lewiston-Auburn real estate market outlook penned by Noah Stebbins, an associate at the Boulos Co. Among other tidbits, Stebbins revealed that rooftop dining could be coming to New Auburn.

2019 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 Harry Meadows harry.meadows4@gmail.com Cara Starnbach cara@carastarnbach.com An economic research analyst at Pioneer Institute, Andrew Mikula co-authored, with Pioneer research director Gregory Sullivan, a report debunking many assumptions underlying a study often cited by proponents of a proposed “millionaire tax” in Massachusetts. Flawed assumptions in the 2015 data from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy make the Bay State tax code seem more regressive than it really is, the Pioneer colleagues found.

2020 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 Priscila Guillen priscila.guillen65197@gmail.com Maya Seshan mayaseshan55@gmail.com Jonathan Farrell served in AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps as a team leader in the South. While working with the disaster-relief organization All Hands and Hearts in Lake Charles, La., after Hurricane Laura, he says, “I actually stumbled upon another Bates alumnus,” Theo Eagle ’17.

(And Jonathan’s sister Lauren is Class of 2024.)...Justin Levine spoke with the journal of the American Bar Assn. for an article about the so-called troubled-teen industry. He described how Telos Academy, in Utah, helped him set a new course during a difficult time of life. A neuroscience major at Bates, Justin now works at Telos as a neurofitness instructor and researcher….Ryan Lizanecz ran a successful campaign for a district seat on the new commission to revisit the Portland, Maine, city charter. As he told the Press Herald in May, his positions include strengthening the role of neighborhoods in municipal decision-making and instituting public financing for candidates in municipal elections. An effective Lizanecz campaign tactic was the deployment of sidewalk signs that prominently sported an image of eyeglasses….Signe Lynch received a $1,500 Russell Libby Agricultural Scholarship from the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Assn. in April. The grant supported the construction of gardens at New Beginnings, a Lewiston nonprofit that works with homeless and runaway teens. An environmental studies major, Signe now works at New Beginnings as the education specialist for homeless youth.…A softball standout at Bates, Kirsten Pelletier revived her collegiate pitching career at the Univ. of Southern Maine in 2021 thanks to a fifth year of eligibility, working toward a master’s degree and helping the Huskies rack up nearly two dozen wins. It was a way, she told the Sun Journal, “to find the closure from the game that…I was unable to get” when COVID closed athletics down in 2020.

2021 Imani Boggan imaniboggan@gmail.com Julia Maluf jmaluf120@gmail.com Jade Zhang jadezhang9843@gmail.com In May, Alex Brovender and Bates Center for Purposeful Work head Allen Delong spoke with the Press Herald about employment prospects for this year’s

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grads. Provoked by the pandemic, society’s wholesale embrace of technologies like Zoom has had a surprising upside, the two agreed. If “I’m looking for jobs in Boston, I don’t need to go grab a cup of coffee with someone, I can just jump on Zoom,” Brovender said....Graduation brought additional recognition for Kyle Larry and Eva Martinez in July.

Two of the four Cubs Scholars named in 2016, they were honored at a breakfast at Wrigley Field for beneficiaries of the Chicago ball team’s mentoring and scholarship program….

Erin Lyons told CNBC that during a year of academic and occupational dislocations caused by the pandemic, persistence and confidence made all the difference in her job search. “It can definitely feel discouraging at times,” she told a writer for the “College Voices” series.…[So] much of it for me just ended up being an attitude thing.” She is an education technology fellow at Curriculum Associates in North Billerica, Mass….Ilze Smidt was part of a Univ. of Maine at Farmington team that discovered a gene in fish that may be relevant to understanding such human diseases as schizophrenia and diabetes. The Bates neuroscience major worked as a summer research fellow with biologist Timothy Breton.

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Note: Traditionally, and for space reasons, Bates Magazine publishes only wedding photos that include Bates friends. Recognizing that some couples are unable to have Bates friends at their ceremonies during COVID-19, we're happy to include those couples-only photos.

Larned ’07 & Hughes Marsha Larned ’07 and Alexander David Hughes, July 12, 2021, Newport, R.I. From left, Jacob Bluestone ’07, John Atchley ’06, JJ Larned ’09, Katherine Kemp Malcuit ’05, Alexander David Hughes, Marsha Larned ’07, Alexis Grossman ’07, Laura French Rigby ’07, Katherine Farmer ’07, Sara Culver ’07, Kate Liston Smith ’07, and Nate Eichelberger ’07.

Aguirre-Leal & Elorriaga-Gonzalez ’73 Carmen Aguirre-Leal and Julio ElorriagaGonzalez ’73, August 24, 2019, Parroquia Santa Maria de Los Angeles, Reñaca, Chile.

Atkins & Crowell ’03 Callie Atkins and Jacob Crowell ’03, September 21, 2019, Harwich, Mass.

Back row, left to right: Bryan Dutille ’03, Kane Jankoski ’03, Ian Gemmell ’03, Charlie Simpson ’03, Callie Atkins, Jacob Crowell ’03, Mark Pojednic ’03, Graham Keithley ’03, Guillermo Moronta ’06, Anne Moronta ’06. Front row, left to right: Cate Murray Stevenson ’03, Ian Stevenson ’03, Joseph Cleary ’03.

Nichols ’15 & Tolosky ’15 Jessica Nichols ’15 and Patrick Tolosky ’15, June 20, 2021, Weld, Me. Back row, left to right: Kevin Williams ’15, Sean McKenna ’15, Fuller Henriques ’15, Josh Zimmer ’15, Peter Krieg ’15, Chris Eddy ’15, Ned Donaldson ’15. Middle row, left to right: Victoria Dahlhoff ’15, Keenan Henriques ’15, Alex Weissman ’15, Katie Kirwin ’15, Maria Kim ’15, Patrick Tolosky ’15, Jessica Nichols ’15, Jocelyn Hoye ’15, Lydia Mitchell ’15, Cody Tracey ’15. Front row, left to right: Seba Martinez-Miranda ’15, Becky Culp ’15, Kara McGowan ’15, Rachel Lippin-Foster ’15, Emily Roseman ’15, Eliza Kaplan ’15, Nina Sevilla ’16, Katie Polio ’15.

Bourgoine & Leoni ’05 Lindsay Bourgoine and Ben Leoni ’05, September 6, 2020, in Boothbay Harbor, Me.

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V-12 Robert D. Bruce May 23, 2021 Joe Bruce graduated from Harvard following World War II and went on to earn an L.L.B. from the Univ. of Virginia Law School.

He spent most of his career at N.E. Telephone Co., from which he retired in 1982 as associate general counsel. Survivors include children Robert D. Jr., W. Angus, Alexander, and James Bruce; nine grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Edward S. Sherwood April 5, 2021 Ed Sherwood was a Colby College student assigned to the Bates V-12 program. He earned his medical degree at the Univ. of Vermont and continued in the U.S. Navy through the Korean Conflict. In retirement, he learned to play the bagpipes.

Survivors include children Gail Seavey, John Sherwood, Ann Spaeth, Mark Sherwood, Jean Lynch, and Leigh Sherwood; 14 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

Davis Peabody Thurber February 14, 2021 Davis Thurber served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy following V-12 training at Bates. He returned to work at jobs handed down to him by in-laws and grandparents, but soon struck out on his own, carrying on what had become a family tradition spanning more than a century — banking. At age 39, he became the president of Second National Bank. In 1969, he became president and chief operating officer of the Bank of New Hampshire, a product of the merger of Second National Bank with Mechanics National Bank of Concord and Manchester National Bank. This new bank would quickly grow into the largest commercial bank in the state. He retired in 1995, completing 45 years in the banking industry. Survivors include wife Patricia Martin Thurber; children Shellburne Thurber, Steven Thurber, and Matthew Thurber; stepchildren Kathy Davis and Michelle Earnest; 13 grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren.

Robert Wellman March 21, 2021 Bob Wellman reluctantly retired at 88, having built his own company, Coastal Structures, based on his history of managing modular home building processes. He held a degree in mechanical engineering from Tufts Univ. Survivors include wife Estelle Wellman; sons Peter, Thomas, and Richard Wellman; nine grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.

1939 Marita Dick Stratton January 1, 2021 Marita Dick Stratton earned a degree in biology from Bates and went on to earn a master’s in public health from M.I.T. in 1941.

Dickie then joined the United States Indian Public Health Service and spent two years traveling across the West providing public health education. She served on the board of the Lee Visiting Nurses Association for over 50 years, in various leadership roles on the P.T.A., the American Cancer Society, the Lee school building committee, and the auxiliary to the Berkshire Medical Society.

She was a Cub Scout den mother for 10 years and taught drums and piano to local children. (As a teenager in Worcester, Mass., she played drums in the Worcester Girl Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps, and played in a band — The Dix Sisters — with her three sisters.) She was an Alumni club officer and served on her 55th and 60th Reunion committees.

Survivors include sons Charles III ’67, Robert, Richard, and David Stratton; 13 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren. Her husband was Charles William Stratton Jr. ’40, and her son was James Walter Stratton ’69.

1940 Charles Osgood Parker February 10, 2021 Charles Parker entered Bates at 16 and graduated with a degree in chemistry before the U.S. entered World War II, which eventually interrupted his studies at Columbia. He was recruited by the National Defense Research Committee outside Pittsburgh, where he

worked on advanced munitions associated with Monsanto. Toward the end of the war, he was transferred to Dayton, Ohio, to develop rocket engines to assist aircraft takeoff. He completed his Ph.D. in chemistry at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1950 and went to work for the government contractor Rohm & Haas developing rocket fuels.

When the space program was cut back following the moon landing, he changed his concentration to agricultural chemicals and polymers. He retired in 1980. He was a class agent and served on his 65th Reunion gift committee and his 60th Reunion social committee. Survivors include wife Loraine Whiteford Parker; children Dr. Kenneth Parker, Randall J. Parker, and Diane Burbank ’76, whose husband is Paul Burbank ’77; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. His sister was Helen Parker Saunders ’33, and his father was Horatio P. Parker, Class of 1897.

1942 Dorothy Foster Kern December 21, 2020 At 100 years of age, Dot Foster Kern could sing “The Bates Smoker” perfectly. She lived in Auburn her entire life, in the same home she grew up in. She remembered walking the three miles from home to campus and occasionally splurging a nickel for the new bus line. Her degree was in English, and she wrote for The Student and for Portland newspapers until a professor admonished her about her grades.

She also was a goalie for the field hockey team and a founding member of the modern dance club. After graduating with a degree in English, she worked for the Lewiston Sun (now the Sun Journal). She later worked at her high school, Edward Little in Auburn, and was asked to become its librarian. Courses at Colby qualified her, and she served as librarian for 20 years. Survivors include daughters Allison Rosenblatt, Nancy Haley, and Barbara Kern; eight grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.

1943 Helen Ulrich Coorssen June 1, 2021 Helen Ulrich left Bates to marry George E. Coorssen ’41. She was an active volunteer for decades; she facilitated displaying local artists’ works at Exeter (N.H.) Hospital and coordinated the hospital’s fundraising fashion shows. Helen invested her time with St. Andrews-by-the-Sea in Rye, and she was active with the Rye Beach Little Boar’s Head Garden Club. She also held various other board positions and was a decades-long member of Abenaqui Country Club. She served on her 50th Reunion gift committee. Survivors include sons George E. Coorssen Jr., Mark J. Coorssen, and Gary C. Coorssen ’78; five grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren.

Her sisters are Muriel Ulrich Weeks ’46 and Grace Ulrich Harris ’51; her brother is W. Arthur Ulrich ’55. She was predeceased by her husband. Her late sister was Ruth Ulrich Coffin ’42.

Edith Dahlgren Cruise April 8, 2021 Edie Dahlgren Cruise had a degree in history from Bates and a master’s in library science from the Univ. of Rhode Island. She was a librarian in the Warwick school department for 36 years.

A member of Phi Kappa Phi, she was active in both the R.I. and the New England School Library Assns. She was a member of the College Key and served on her 50th Reunion gift committee.

Survivors include stepdaughters Judith Plotner and Suzanne Fallucco; and several nieces and nephews.

Albert (“Sam”) Nader February 9, 2021 Sam Nader never forgot his years at Bates, although he did not stay to graduate. He went on to Hartwick College. He served two terms as mayor of Oneonta, N.Y., and owned the local Yankees minor league team. Survivors include children John S. Nader, Alice O’Conner, and Suzanne Longo; seven grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

1945 Constance Blaisdell Nickerson October 28, 2019 Constance Blaisdell Nickerson came from a large Bates family.

Her father was Leo Blaisdell, Class of 1912. Her sister was Martha Blaisdell Mabee ’42. Her husband was David Drake Nickerson ’42. Her daughter and son-in-law were Bonney Nickerson Ford and Jonathan P. Ford, both Class of 1967. She served on her 50th Reunion committee.

1946 Frances Howarth Jones Ives April 17, 2021 Frances Howarth Jones Ives — known as Casey (because her last name then was Jones — get it?) was for many years a Registered Nurse in Oneonta, N.Y. Survivors include daughter Patty Lyon; sons Perry and David Jones; stepchildren Julie, Susan, Charles, Ralph, Dick, James, Betty and Tim; and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Herbert Twombly Knight December 13, 2020 Remember how polluted the Androscoggin River used to be?

You have Bert Knight to thank that it was cleaned up. He used to take samples of water for testing and, over the years, was delighted to see it cleaned up to become safe for use. He was a chemist and held a bachelor’s from Bates, a master’s from Harvard, and a doctorate from Harvard in that field. He started out at the Los Alamos Scientific Lab, became manager of engineering development at Wadco Corp., and finally moved to Exxon, where he was

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a senior section supervisor. He was a member of his 40th, 45th, 50th, and 55th Reunion social committees and his 50th and 55th Reunion gift committees. He also served on his 65th Reunion committee. Survivors include wife Doris. His father was Howard B. Knight, Class of 1921; his uncle was Elton E. Knight, Class of 1918; and his aunt was Rosalia Knight Ott, Class of 1921.

Mary Mantarian Seigle February 2, 2020 Among her survivors is daughter Roxanne J. Seigle ’75. Other survivors include sons William and Jonathan; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

1947 R. Arlyne Friend February 5, 2020 Arlyne Friend lived near New York City and worked at the Museum of Modern Art as a recording secretary. She had previously volunteered there and worked as an editorial assistant. She also volunteered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She transferred to Bates from Baldwin-Wallace College and received a degree in psychology.

William Denton Ginn June 12, 2021 Bill Ginn’s time at Bates was interrupted by service in the U.S. Army in North Africa and Italy during World War II. He was class president twice during his four years and a varsity debater.

With a degree in history, he went on to Yale Law School, where he served as editor of the law journal. Bill joined the then-small law firm of Thompson Hine, where he had a 60-year career as a skilled corporate lawyer and passionate litigator, representing thousands of clients. During his lifetime, he served on more than 100 nonprofit boards and committees in support of their missions, visions, and values. Among his many achievements were his initiatives with the Geauga Park District to acquire, fund, and create The West Woods, now a 902-acre park. He fronted the $4 million to purchase the land out from the arms of a developer. The entrance to the park is dedicated as the William Ginn Parkway.

He was a member of the College Key, an Alumni Club officer, a class agent, and served on his 40th Reunion gift committee.

Survivors include children Anna, Bill, Randy, and David Ginn ’82; and 10 grandchildren.

Mary Meyer Harvey December 11, 2020 Mary Meyer Harvey majored in French at Bates, but her heart was in the theater. After graduation, she enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in N.Y.C., from which she graduated in 1950. She became a traveling director of community theater across the country. She settled in York, Penn., and began a career in education, teaching French and dramatic arts at York Country Day School. She made it a habit to travel to New York

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She also traveled to Europe, where she studied history and art. Survivors include children Sandra Hevner, Margery Griffith, and Steven Schiding; and three grandchildren.

1949 Gayle Morgan Baldwin March 30, 2021 Gayle Morgan Baldwin was known for her jellies and pies, especially blueberry, and especially when made with berries she had picked on Cape Cod. She and her late husband Howard visited all 48 contiguous states in their VW camper. Survivors include children Charles Baldwin and Jayne Lumley; and four grandchildren.

Lois Foster Johnson March 30, 2021 Lo Foster Johnson, a history major, also held a master’s in education from Southern Conn. State Univ. She taught world history at Lyman Hall High School (Wallingford, Conn.) for over 30 years.

She was a member of A.A.U.W., the Mayflower Society, and the Daughters of the American Revolution. She also volunteered at the Masonic Home and Wallingford Public Library.

She served on her 40th Reunion committee. Survivors include daughters Gretchen Mrozinski, Jocelyn Bruton, and Pamela Cabrera; five grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Eleanor Kraupner Kveton December 16, 2020 Elly Kraupner Kveton centered her life on her faith. She was a devoted member of two churches, First Presbyterian of Oyster Bay (N.Y.) and Christ Church of Longboat Key (Fla.). She was a deacon at each church, initiating the first board of deacons in Longboat Key. At First Presbyterian, she helped implement and lead the Stephen ministry. Survivors include daughters Susan Mitchell and Ellen Kveton; son Richard Kveton; three grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

Donald Everett Wilson January 21, 2021 Don Wilson came to Bates after serving in the U.S. Air Force during World War II. After 15 years in administration and sales, he turned to his real passion: teaching. He earned his master’s in teaching at Worcester State while working full time, a nice addition to his degree in psychology from Bates. He taught in Bellingham, Mass., with a focus on special education. At age 60, Don became a pioneer in the use of personal computers and technology in the classroom. Survivors include children Christine Thompson, Dana Wilson, Judith Wilson, David Wilson, Daniel Wilson, Carol Boudrieau, and Melissa Rondinone; 21 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

1950 Gerald Fraser Anderson January 13, 2021 Jerry Anderson was a Nazi hunter. That was part of his duties with the U.S. Foreign Service, to hunt for Nazi spies who had defected to South America, specifically Buenos Aires, after World War II. This followed a successful career as a dive-bomber gunner for the Marine Corps during the war, in which he saw battle in the Marshall Islands Operations, the Gilbert Islands Operations, the Iwo Jima Campaign, and the Okinawa Campaign. Among other medals, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. In 1954, he moved to Madrid, Spain, where he took a position at the American Embassy. He also attended the Univ. of Madrid and received a doctoral degree. He and his family moved to Eugene, Ore., where he taught Spanish at the Univ. of Ore. When his toddler daughter was startled by a ray of sunshine, he and wife Janet Clark Anderson ’51 decided to move to a sunnier location. Florida and Stetson Univ. in DeLand, Fla., welcomed them, and he taught there until retirement in 1987. He was chair of the department of foreign languages and head of the Junior Year Abroad in Spain program.

Survivors include daughters Carol Anderson-McLean and Sally Copps; two grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. His wife died in 2006.

James Mark DeCoste January 11, 2021 James Mark DeCoste was raised in the house his grandparents, immigrants from Ireland, bought with their winnings from the Irish Sweepstakes. He worked for S.D. Warren. Survivors include wife Claire Begin; children Martha Kelly, Margaret Wolff, Elizabeth Bennett, Ruthie Schmidt, and William DeCoste; 11 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Carol Locke Dolloff Hudson March 16, 2021 Carol Locke Dolloff Hudson was a five-year nursing student at Bates, and she nursed for several years at hospitals in the Brunswick area. In 1974, she received a master’s from Goddard College with a concentration in death and dying. She helped create a hospice in Brunswick and worked as a hospice nurse. She also lectured on death and dying. For much of her adult life she was a dedicated political activist and organizer for Democratic causes, such as the Antipoverty League, Head Start, the civil rights movement, the women’s rights movement, the antiwar movement, and the Occupy Wall Street movement. In retirement, she was a member of the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Quakers and was devoted to causes focused on improving people’s lives. Survivors include children Mark Dolloff, Jonathan Dolloff, Susan Dolloff-Cremers, and Priya Jabar-Dolloff; nine grandchildren, one of whom is Gwendolyn Erin Cremers ’11; and four

great-grandchildren. Her sister is Anne Locke Alach ’44.

Geraldine Moulton Lavelle December 31, 2020 Geri Moulton Lavelle used her fluency in French (her major at Bates) to tutor her grandchildren.

She worked for many years as keeper of the general ledger for Sudbury, Mass. But her interest in youth led her to become a special education tutor and administrative assistant for 17 years, taking related graduate courses at Framingham State College. She also conducted a private tutoring business from her home. She retired to Maine in 1992, where she wrote a collection of personal essays for her family. She served on her 50th Reunion committee.

Survivors include children Mark Brady and Cynthia Mingle; and three grandchildren. Her father was Maynard W. Moulton, Class of 1922. Her cousin is Ruth Moulton Ragan ’47, and her great-niece is Laura Moulton Hubble ’09.

Louis Taxiarchis April 24, 2021 A chemistry major, Louis Taxiarchis trained as an infantryman in the U.S. Army. The Army soon became aware of his chemistry background and put him to work in the base hospital laboratory where he worked until his honorable discharge in 1951. He then attended Rutgers, where he earned a master’s in marine biology. He attended Tufts University Medical School from 1955–59 and returned to Maine for his residency in pathology at Maine Medical Center. He worked in the pathology dept. at Mercy Hospital in Portland and Goodall Hospital in Sanford, but he soon returned to Maine Med, where he worked until retirement in 1994. Survivors include children Elizabeth, Nick, and John; and three grandchildren.

1951 Melissa Meigs Barbeau May 13, 2021 Lissa Meigs Barbeau was the vice president of Barbeau Associates, a public relations firm based in Providence, from 1963–95. She served in leadership roles in the Public Relations Society of America, the Women’s Ad Club of R.I., the Rhode Island Bates Club, the State Ballet of R.I., and ARTS Rhode Island. She was president of the Barrington Women’s Club at her death. She received the Helen A. Papaioanou ’49 Distinguished Alumni Service Award in 1991. She was an alumni class officer (co-vice president), a member of the College Key, a class agent, and served on her 65th Reunion committee and her 55th Reunion social committee.

She was a member of the Alumni Council (1997–99). Survivors include husband Will Barbeau ’51; children Rev. Susannah Currie, Laura Choiniere, and Andrew Barbeau; five grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

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Donald Macintosh Russell February 2, 2021 Don Russell was never far from a football field. He played offensive and defensive tackle at the College, taught social studies and coached football in Hollis and at Thornton Academy in Saco (where he was also headmaster), and in Turners Falls, Mass., where he also coached basketball and baseball and was the athletic director. He then “graduated” to college: in 1960, he joined the coaching staff at Wesleyan Univ. as the freshman football, basketball, and baseball coach. He took over as the head football coach four years later, and four years after that he became Wesleyan’s athletic director and chairman of the physical education department. He was named New England Small College Coach of the Year while the team tied for the Lambert Cup in 1969. He led Wesleyan to Little Three football championships in 1966, 1969, and 1970. He served in leadership positions with the NCAA, ECAC, and was a founding member of NESCAC. In 2016, he was inducted into the Wesleyan Athletics Hall of Fame. He was very active in Middletown, Conn.: He was a member of the board of education, the common council, police commission, fire commission, chairman of the Middlesex United Way annual campaign, board of corporators of Middlesex Hospital, Palmer Field renovation committee, park and rec commission, the Republican Town Committee, and the Middletown Rotary Club.

He was a member of the College Key, a class agent, and served on his 55th Reunion gift committee.

Survivors include wife Joyce Hughes Russell; children Beth Russell Campo ’73, Cathy Pleines, Andy Russell, and Debbie Smith; step-children Jayne Creelman and Ralph Eric Ellis; 14 grandchildren, one of whom is Kimberly Russell Thompson ’09; and eight great-grandchildren.

His first wife is Helen Odegaard Russell ’49, and his son-in-law is Norm Campo ’73. His brother was George C. Russell Jr. ’40.

1952 Ann Thompson Darling January 15, 2021 Ann Thompson Darling was a nursing student at Bates.

She continued her studies at the Univ. of Conn., receiving a master’s in nursing, and at Rensselaer-Hartford, receiving a master’s in healthcare management. She worked for many years as a public health nurse in Hartford (Conn.), retiring as assistant health director.

In accord with her conviction that one is placed here to help others, she volunteered for many groups, among them Volunteers for Israel, American Red Cross Disaster Nursing, Civitan Club of Hartford, North Central Regional Mental Health Board, South Park Inn, Bushnell Center, and the City of Hartford Human Relations Commission. Survivors include children William, Mark, and Susan Darling.

Benjamin Franklin Dudley Date of death unknown Frank (Dud) Dudley worked for a variety of companies over his career: Proctor & Gamble, U.S. Rubber, and Graco, to name a few. At Graco, he was the sales manager after serving as a district manager. His work took him and his family to Massachusetts, Connecticut, Georgia, and Chicago, then back to Atlanta, where he and wife Judy Allen Dudley ’53 (whose obituary is also in this issue) settled in for 50 years.

Survivors include sons Jeff, Steve, and Andy; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

gift committee. Survivors include sons Michael and Jonathan; and five grandchildren.

John Leo Merrick January 29, 2021 Jack Merrick didn’t climb telephone poles, but he did work for N.E. Telephone for 30 years, managing its comptroller department. He poured his soul into the youth baseball and football leagues in Hanover, Mass. He was active in establishing the Hanover Youth Athletic Assn. and served as president of the Hanover High School Athletic Boosters. Survivors include wife Mary Jo Green Merrick ’53; children Bob Merrick, Jan Gaynor, and Meg Lyons; six grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

Audrey Oberheim Swift Conklin March 19, 2021 Audrey Oberheim Swift Conklin graduated with a degree in biology, which she turned into a Registered Nurse degree at Adirondack Community College.

She worked as a pediatric nurse in Glens Falls, N.Y., retiring in 1996. In retirement, she delivered Meals on Wheels and traveled with a church group to help at a Malawi orphanage. She served on her 50th Reunion social committee. Survivors include children Michael, David, Daniel, Derek, Cynthia, and Peter Swift, and Diana D’Agata; and six grandchildren. Her late sister was Marjorie Oberheim Degnan ’63.

Florence Dixon Prince December 31, 2020 An English major, Flo Dixon Prince indulged her love of books by working at a bookstore. She also volunteered at the Bourne (Mass.) Public Library, where she especially enjoyed reading to children. She was an active volunteer for the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Falmouth and other U.U. churches, where she served at various times as Sunday school teacher, director of religious education, and church secretary. She was a member of the College Key, a class officer and class agent, and served on her 45th and 65th Reunion committees. Survivors include sons Doug and Rob Prince; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Her late husband was Richard M. Prince ’52. Her niece is Diane Prince Shages ’69, whose husband is John Shages ’70.

Their daughter is Leslie Shages ’04. Flo’s great-nephew is Samuel Emmett Murphy ’07.

1953 Lois Miller Becker November 2, 2019 Lois Miller Becker found paradise in a warm place and a good job. The warm place was Los Angeles, and the good job was as a real estate agent.

A government major, she also held a certificate in business administration from Radcliffe (women weren’t allowed to earn MBAs). She worked for several years for General Electric in the advertising department and then in the personnel department. By 1967, she had become the branch manager of a real estate office in Los Angeles. She was a member of the College Key and served on her 50th Reunion social committee and her 40th Reunion

Hazen Carl Boyd Jr. December 22, 2020 After a semester at Bates, Hazen Boyd enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served nearly four years, visiting 22 countries. Later, he received a bachelor’s and a master’s in botany from UMass Amherst and taught for many years. Survivors include wife Marcella A. Boyd; children Amy Byron, Alice Dysert, and Robert Boyd; nine grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Judith Allen Dudley February 12, 2021 Faced with an empty nest, Judy Allen Dudley wanted to do something to help people. So she started the Dunwoody Newcomer Service, to welcome people to their new Atlanta-area neighborhood. She and husband Frank ’52 (whose obituary is also in this issue) lived in Dunwoody for 50 years, so she definitely knew the neighborhood, and her degree in sociology came in handy. Together, they volunteered with a horse rescue group that works to recuperate those that have been abused. They loved traveling to Kentucky numerous times to stay in a Shaker village outside Lexington. She was an Alumni club officer and served on her 55th Reunion social committee.

Judy’s father was a member of the Class of 1916. Survivors include sons Jeff, Steve, and Andy; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Fredrika Kilbourn Joy December 6, 2020 Fredrika Kilbourn Joy completed her degree at the Univ. of Conn.

Survivors include four children and two grandchildren. Her mother was Fredrika Hodgdon Kilbourn, Class of 1912.

Anne Jane Kalwell March 7, 2021 Anne Kalwell grew up in Lewiston and was bilingual — not in French, as you might expect, but in Lithuanian. Her parents were immigrants, and she learned Lithuanian at an early age. Her degree from Bates was in sociology, and she earned an M.S.W. from Boston Univ. in 1964. She spent her career working for the

Maine Department of Human Services in child welfare as a social worker and supervisor. She was employed in the Portland office for twelve years, and then in the Lewiston and Augusta offices until her retirement. She was active in the Maine State Employees Assn., serving on the board of directors for five years.

She was also a charter member of the Maine Assn. of Retirees.

She served on her 40th and 45th Reunion committees. Survivors include brother Frank Kalwell; and cousins in Lithuania and Latvia.

Nancy Hamlin Tomlin December 30, 2020 After starting at Bates, Nancy Hamlin Tomlin received a degree in English from Bucknell, and later a secretarial degree from Katherine Gibbs. She ran a travel agency for many years. Survivors include children Susan Kinney and Stephen Tomlin; and five grandchildren.

1954 Luther Perry Durgin December 13, 2020 After graduating with a degree in philosophy, Lue Durgin earned a bachelor of divinity from Yale.

He later earned a doctorate from Andover Newton Theological School. He pastored at churches in Vermont, N.H., Illinois, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. He and his second wife, the Rev. Dr. Diane E. Durgin, often served as interim pastors together, where they emphasized the unity of their ministry. He traveled to Mississippi and Florida to help rebuild houses damaged by hurricanes. In Texas, they fed and sheltered thousands of victims of Hurricane Ike. In the Berkshires, he helped prepare and serve meals at a local shelter. In addition to his wife, survivors include children Lindy Aja, Susan Hutchinson, Anne Reiter, Russell Durgin, and Peter Durgin; stepchildren Donald Roche, Leslie Hogue, and Karen Smith; 11 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. His first wife, who survives him, was Virginia Whidden Durgin ’55. His sister-in-law is Lois Whidden Simmonds ’54, whose daughter is Margaret Simmonds Duff ’86.

Jerome Andrew Eckrich Jr. December 22, 2020 Dr. Jerry Eckrich Jr. left Bates for the Univ. of Minn. He went on to graduate from Marquette Medical School in Milwaukee, and he practiced urology for 55 years.

Survivors include wife Helen Wilson Eckrich; children Jerry, Vicky, Paul, Steve, Jon, Suzanne, and Elizabeth; 30 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

Lois Burnham Grimwade January 14, 2021 When her husband passed away, Lois Burnham (Hastings) Grimwade knew how to care for herself and her family: she went back to nursing. She worked for 19 years for Harrington Memorial Hospital Visiting Nurse Assn.

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community with Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts, and the Methodist church.

She served on her 55th Reunion gift committee. Survivors include children Patricia Kritzman, and Thomas and Steven Hastings; stepchildren Jane Tirrell, John Grimwade, and Julia Leonard; 14 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Her cousins are Susan R. Malloy ’77, Ruth Raymond Kapnis ’63, and Patricia Raymond Pickard ’68.

Patricia Heldman Monahan December 14, 2020 An English major at Bates, Patricia Heldman Monahan taught that subject and directed the drama club for 10 years at Cheshire Academy in Conn. before switching to administrative work there. For a quarter of a century, she either taught or administered at the school, giving up the drama responsibilities when she made the switch. She was director of admissions for four years, retiring in 1997. In retirement, she was a literacy volunteer and a religious education mentor at her church.

Survivors include children John, Daniel, Jean ’81, Kevin, Mike, and Pat Monahan, and Mary Crivell; 15 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her infant son, Joseph. Her sister is Carol Heldman Flynn ’59, whose husband is Jack Flynn ’60. Her late father was Lloyd A. Heldman ’30; her late uncle was Carl Heldman ’35.

Winston Stanyan Rice December 24, 2020 Win Rice worked as New England sales account manager for Owens Corning Fiberglass for 26 years before starting his own successful company, Acoustical and Insulation Supply. He was an intrepid sailor, participating in weekly regattas out of Scituate, and always looked forward to the annual Figawi race from Hyannis to Nantucket. He also played tennis and golfed. He served on his 50th Reunion gift committee.

Survivors include children Linda, Winston Jr., Lucie, and Jonathan ’89; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

1955 Alan Taber Dworkin December 10, 2020 The phrase, “Have gun, will travel” probably brings to mind the CBS series Paladin. But Alan Dworkin knew that the phrase and name belonged to a Rhode Island native who coined both, and he represented the man in court and won a 1974 trademark infringement case against CBS. A psychology major, he graduated from B.U. School of Law, where he later served as an adjunct professor. Eventually, he became a partner at Aisenberg, Decof & Dworkin. He was a founding member of The Edward P. Gallogly American Inn of Court, which deals with family law. His survivors include children Jennifer Goldberg, Mitchell Dworkin, Melissa Giorgio, Meredith Nault, and Michael Conley; and six grandchildren. The late Fern Dworkin Cohn ’48 was his sister,

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and Zanvil A. Cohn ’48 was his brother-in-law.

Nancy Clara Keller March 11, 2021 Nancy Keller was a history major who went to Rutgers for an M.L.S. and stayed in the neighborhood by becoming a librarian in Irvington, N.J., where she worked for nearly 40 years. No word on survivors was available.

Adrienne Adams Wright December 6, 2020 Adrienne Adams Wright lived in Nashua, N.H., but she spent every summer since age 14 at her beloved beach house in North Kingstown, R.I., and rarely missed a day of swimming laps.

She was busy raising six children and loved being a stay-at-home mom. Survivors include husband David Wright ’54; children Jordan, David, Alison, Heather, and Gary Wright, and Adrienne Colsi; nine grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.

1956 Robert Vincent Dunn May 1, 2021 Bob Dunn loved tennis. He loved it so much that he helped establish the first women’s professional tennis tournament — the Virginia Slims Open — which led to the W.T.A. Bob’s path through Bates started at Columbia, but he curtailed his studies to enlist in the U.S. Army; he spent three years in Korea and Japan. Following this, he came to Bates, where he played baseball, basketball, and football, and graduated with honors in political science. He won a full scholarship to Columbia Law School and spent three years in private practice. He then joined Sperry and Hutchinson as general counsel. After 17 years, he moved to General Nutrition Corporation, which he helped go public. He retired to Falmouth.

He was a member of the College Key, a class agent, and served on his 55th Reunion gift committee.

Survivors include children Carol Thornton, Alice Dunn, William Dunn ’86, Kevin Dunn, Christopher Dunn, and Brian Dunn; and five grandchildren.

Frances Crandell Flanders April 18, 2021 A geology major, Frances Crandell Flanders moved to Chilmark, Mass., following graduation and taught history and English.

Motherhood intervened, and she happily obliged. She was treasurer of the Women’s Club of Chilmark, town auditor, chair of the board of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, and a member of the Martha’s Vineyard Land & Water Commission. In 1970, she was the Outstanding Woman for the Methodist Church, a national honor. She served on her 45th Reunion social committee. Survivors include Christine Flanders-Fielder ’80 and Julianna Flanders ’84.

Cristol Schwarz Fleming January 15, 2021 Cris Schwarz Fleming left Bates for love and for Bennington. She

married the love, Jonathan W. Fleming, and graduated from Bennington with a degree in literature. She taught nursery school and then summer nature programs, eventually becoming director of environmental education at an Audubon center.

In addition to her husband, survivors include children David, Peter, and Molly Fleming Eldridge ’83; seven grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Dana T. Eldridge ’80 is her son-in-law.

Jack Kenneth Merrill January 23, 2021 Jack Merrill liked Bates enough to send two of his daughters here, but he himself left before graduation. He was a class agent and class president, and served on his 50th Reunion gift committee and 60th Reunion social committee.

Survivors include wife Diane Merrill; and daughters Elizabeth ’00 and Jennifer ’02.

1957 William Gaylord Crawshaw March 14, 2021 Bill Crawshaw started at Bates but finished at UMaine. His wife was a children’s librarian, which inspired him to attend S.U.N.Y.– Albany to get a master’s in library science. He worked as a librarian for 24 years. Survivors include wife Helen Bogle Crawshaw; daughters Catherine and Abigail; and two grandchildren.

Grant Cedric Reynolds May 17, 2021 For all 42 years of his professional life, Grant Reynolds considered himself a temporary resident of Washington, D.C. He couldn’t wait to get back home to Vermont. A magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa history major, he went on to Columbia Law School and then moved to the capital.

He was civilian counsel in the office of the Secretary of the Air Force’s General Counsel’s Office from 1960 to 1991. During that time he worked in international law, was the Air Force fiscal counsel, advised on installations and construction matters, and was the first environmental lawyer in the Department of Defense. He retired as assistant general counsel for installations and environmental law in 1991.

In retirement, he continued to do environmental consulting for the Air Force and for SAIC Corp.

He also taught environmental politics at Bates and environmental law at George Mason Univ. He edited and wrote articles for The Tinmouth Channel, a quarterly journal of the Tinmouth (Vt.) Historical and Genealogical Society. A trustee of the Vermont Historical Society, he also wrote for Vermont History, Journal of the Vermont Historical Society, and On the Towpath, a magazine published by the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Association. He wrote “A Short History of Tinmouth, Vermont,” primarily for children at the Tinmouth School, and also published six historical novels about a family living on the English-Scots Border in the

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Judith Root Wilcox May 1, 2021 Marriage took Judy Root Wilcox away from Bates after two years, but she eventually finished her degree at U.S.M., and taught first and second grade in the Lyman school district. She remained connected to her Bates friends, often sharing New Year’s celebrations with them. She served on her 55th Reunion committee.

Survivors include children Linda Wilcox Crawford ’81, Stephen Wilcox, and Scott Granger Wilcox; and four grandchildren. Her sisters are Sandra Root Gemmel ’65 and the late Nancy Root Davis ’55.

1958 Muriel Wolloff Brooks January 12, 2021 A math major, Muriel Wolloff Brooks was an early entry into the computing world, beginning as a programmer at Mitre Corp. and working her way up to head the software division, a position she held until her retirement in 1997. After retirement, she spent many years teaching high school math at Immaculate Heart of Mary School in Still River, Mass.

Survivors include sons Matthew and Peter; five grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

Irene Frye Cottrell June 6, 2021 Renie Frye Cottrell won first place from the New York State Associated Press for a series of eight articles she wrote on her visits inside the Clinton Correctional Facility, known as Dannemora. She was the first female to ever enter the solitary confinement unit. The articles appeared in 1972, following the uprisings at Attica. She also won third place in 1971 for articles on the future of the Adirondacks.

Her career in journalism started at Bates, where she was editor of The Student and where she served as assistant to the editor of the Burlington (Vt.) Free Press during summer months. After a move to Plattsburgh, N.Y., and the birth of her first child, she became a freelance feature and news writer as well as photographer for the Press-Republican. In conjunction with her work at the newspaper, Irene was retained by the N.Y. Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) under a federal planning grant for the sole purpose of preparing an operational grant application for three N.Y. counties and carrying it through to approval and the organizational phase. In addition, she worked on BOCES projects involving special education and

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its educators. Renie was very active in the Algonquin Chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club, serving as the club’s secretary for many years. She served as an executive board member for the Northern Adirondack chapter of the National Audubon Society, as well as a member of the Clinton County Historical Assn. She was an alumni class officer and served on her 50th Reunion gift committee. Survivors include husband Herbert G. Cottrell; children Lynne Guibord Landis and Richard B. Guibord; stepchildren Herbert, Lynda, Paul, and Christopher Cottrell; eight grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.

Her parents were Richard A. Frye and Edna Douglass Frye, both Class of 1927.

Clyde Winfield MacDonald Jr. December 12, 2020 Clyde MacDonald Jr. came to Bates after serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He built on his history degree from Bates by earning a master’s and a doctorate from UMaine. For many years, he was a senior aide and close personal advisor to Sen. Edmund S. Muskie ’36. In 1980, he transitioned to the newly appointed U.S. Sen. George J. Mitchell’s staff where he served as the senior field representative in the Bangor office and was a valued senior aide throughout Sen. Mitchell’s career. During retirement, Clyde became the volunteer director of the Maine Cranberry Growers Assn. Survivors include nieces and nephews.

Sandra Evelyn Johnson April 13, 2021 A flip of a coin brought Sandy Johnson to Bates. Her parents could afford to send only one twin to college, Sandy or her sister Pam. So they flipped a coin.

Sandy won the toss. Pam went to nursing school, and Sandy went to Bates. She grew up in Caribou, Maine, picking potatoes in the cold dawn. At Bates, Sandy majored in English, and she went on to get a master’s in teaching from Harvard-Radcliffe. She taught in several schools in New England and eventually came to Waterville High School Media Center, where she taught creative writing, became deeply involved in a model library program, and met her life partner, Judy Monroe. After that three-year project, she became involved in designing the curriculum for a program to help Vietnam veterans obtain high school diplomas, and possibly college degrees, at UMaine–Farmington. She was on the faculty there for 30 years, responsible for teaching teachers how to teach and supervising student teachers. Survivors include stepchildren Wendy Powell Springborn, Sabrina Powell Beach, Gregory Wilcox Powell, and Susan Pullen; and three stepgrandchildren.

Elizabeth Canfield Mattor April 16, 2021 Beth Canfield Mattor found the love of her life in the chemistry lab. Beth and John A. Mattor ’57, both chemistry majors, were married in the Bates Chapel by Prof. Raymond Zerby after her graduation. She was an avid outdoors adventurer and maintained the treacherous Sphinx trail on Mt. Jefferson in the White Mountains. She climbed all the 1,000+ ft. peaks in the Whites, as well as Mt. St. Helens (pre-eruption) and Grand Teton.

She taught math at Bonny Eagle High School for many years and dug and maintained a 2,000 sq. ft. flower garden. In addition to her husband, survivors include sons Brian, Nathan, Paul, and Ethan; and five grandchildren.

Joyce Conant Lovejoy October 30, 2020 Following years in tech and in teaching, Joyce Conant Lovejoy pursued her lifelong dream of becoming a minister. She graduated cum laude from Andover Newton Theological School in 1996 when she was 58. She served as pastor and teacher at Deering (N.H.) Community Church for seven years. In retirement, she chaired committees for the N.H. Conference of the United Church of Christ and, with her husband, also a minister, served as supply pastors. Her degree from Bates was in physics, and she graduated cum laude and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She also held a master’s degree in education from U.N.H. Survivors include husband Pete Lovejoy; children Elizabeth Lovejoy Ladd ’83, Steven Lovejoy, and Sarah Grund; nine grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Her son-in-law is Everett Carl Ladd III ’83.

James Viehe Wheeler February 15, 2021 Jim (“Wheels”) Wheeler enjoyed a 34-year career with the Y.M.C.A., starting off as physical education director in Rochester, N.Y., and ending as executive director in Hermitage, Pa., and Amsterdam, N.Y. He scarcely retired: he took a position as a track and field coach at Williams College, which involved a two-hour drive each way, coaching the shot put, javelin, discus, and hammer athletes. (Jim had thrown hammer at Bates and held the College’s record for decades.) He also volunteered at Amsterdam High School, contributing significantly to the throwing events.

He was president of the Great Sacandaga Lake Association, a member of the Sacandaga Boat Club, and a councilman in the town of Broadalbin. He was also a founding member of the Adirondack Baptist Church.

Survivors include children Mary Elizabeth Regis, Charles Wheeler, Barbara Wheeler, Rick Morey, Mark Morey, and Deanna Palczak; 12 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

1959 Beverly Paul Bailly December 31, 2020 Beverly Paul Bailly left Bates for Columbia Univ., where she graduated with a degree in nursing. She worked for 15 years in Europe, primarily France, and then returned to the U.S.,

where she focused on home health nursing. Survivors include children Lee and John Bailly; and five grandchildren.

Wyatt Randall Bates ’23; and two great-grandchildren. His first wife was the late Sally Hendricksen Bates ’60.

Janet Spiers Forsman May 22, 2021 Jan Spiers Forsman taught at Lewiston High School for several years after earning a master’s in teaching from Harvard. Once her children were established, her marriage foundered, and she secured a post as an English professor at Clinton Community College in Plattsburgh, N.Y. For 24 years, she taught students to improve their writing. She also advised the yearbook. She was active in the League of Women Voters in Plattsburgh, serving as its president, and in the Adirondack Mountain Club. She was a member of the College Key, an alumni class officer, a class agent, and served on her 40th and 50th Reunion committees. Survivors include children Laurie ’85, Eric, and Dana Forsman; and two grandchildren.

Peter Otto Kliem January 26, 2021 As a young boy living in Germany during World War II, Peter Kliem survived the bombing of Berlin and the surrounding countryside by hiding in an abandoned farmhouse with his mother, brother, sister, and hundreds of chickens.

They lived off those chickens for a year and a half. For the rest of his life, he couldn’t eat chicken.

He ended up at Bates because an aunt and uncle had immigrated to Lewiston before the war, and he was admitted to Bates on a hunch by Milt Lindholm, dean of admission, who advised him to take a mathematics course in addition to the chemistry course his uncle wanted. He earned that degree in chemistry but declined to go into his uncle’s dyeing business. Instead, he went to work for Polaroid as an analytic chemist.

He rose through the ranks at Polaroid, filing patents for different photographic techniques, including liquid crystal displays, and eventually becoming senior vice president of electrical imaging in 1990. He left Polaroid to form his own company in a different field: working with drugs to re-engineer them in a process known as peptide morphing to better target disease. He was a member of the College Key, a former BCDC Career Advisor, a member of the Carnegie Committee, and served on his 35th, 40th, and 45th Reunion committees. Survivors include former wife Erika Hanloser Kliem ’62; and children John, Eric, and Peter Kliem ’02.

Willard Gordon Martin Jr. April 5, 2021 Bud Martin’s debate team at Bates won the national title in 1959. He graduated cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with honors in economics, and went on to receive a scholarship to Harvard Law School. He established a law firm in Laconia, N.H., where he served as an attorney, director, and president. In 1972, Bud was sworn in as a special justice at the Laconia District Court in the family division where he served for 35 years, making it his mission to make a difference in the lives of children and families in need. He probably holds the record for most Mickey Mouse watches purchased, because he was always taking his watch off and giving it to a child who admired it. Forced to retire at age 70, he immediately applied and became a court-appointed special advocate so that he could continue his advocacy for children.

He was a member of the College Key, a class agent, and served on his 35th Reunion gift committee.

Survivors include wife Margaret A. Demos; daughters Galya, Melissa ’88, and Helen Martin; and three grandchildren. His first wife was Mary Ann Burdett ’59.

1960 William Roger Bates June 10, 2021 A history major, Roger Bates served 27 years in the U.S. Navy. He was stationed aboard several ships as a surface warfare officer. While on active duty, he earned a master’s degree from George Washington Univ. After retirement from the Navy, Roger served as a volunteer track and field coordinator for D.C. Special Olympics and as the academic coordinator for the City Colleges of Chicago extension at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Survivors include wife Mary Anne Gardner; children Kristi Shannon, and Todd and Randall J. Bates ’89; six grandchildren, including

Marshall MacDonald True February 28, 2021 Marshall True couldn’t believe he was paid to read books and talk about them: he was a history professor at the Univ. of Vermont. “I would happily do it for free,” he often said. He taught at Vermont for 35 years, retiring in 2000. In addition to his history degree from Bates, he held a master’s and doctorate from the Univ. of Virginia. In 1981, he published, with Mark A. Stoler, a book entitled Exploring American History: A Skills Approach. He edited the journal Vermont History, and in 1986, with William A. Doyle, he published Vermont and the New Nation. He was a specialist in the cultural and social history of the 19th century. Survivors include wife Charon Goderwis True; children Julia, Katherine, Adam, and Steven True; and nine grandchildren. His first wife is Judith Hollenbach Yarnall ’62; his brother is Michael D. True ’63, whose daughter is Angela A. True ’91.

Judith Schramm Westrate December 14, 2020 After several years at Bates, Judy Schramm Westrate graduated from Ursinus College. She was active in the American Baptist Church as director of special services. Survivors include husband Dr. J. Lee Westrate;

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children Robert and Gregory Waterston, and Richard Westrate; three grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

1961 William Henry Megarge Earle July 7, 2020 Bill Earle liked to be busy: he managed both a farm and fulltime employment at various jobs throughout the years. Survivors include children Camille and Clint Earle; and eight grandchildren.

Priscilla Hjelm Sylvia June 5, 2021 Pris Hjelm Sylvia, a psych major, started to visit Martha’s Vineyard while a student at Bates, and moved there full time in 1965. She taught at Oak Bluffs School, a position she held for 35 years until her retirement in 2000. In 1970, she earned a master’s degree in education from Bridgewater State College, and she continued professional development throughout her career. She taught generations of Oak Bluffs families, and she is uniformly and fondly remembered as a tough teacher and the best they ever had. She was a relentless advocate for Oak Bluffs and the Vineyard. She became involved in the planning board in Oak Bluffs in 1978 and was an integral part of developing a vision for the community. In 1980 she joined the Friends of Oak Bluffs, and served as treasurer of that group for many years. That group is responsible for the benches, bricks, and lanterns around town, and has contributed to the beauty and preservation of the town. She served as a Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank commissioner from 1986 until 2019; the commission helps preserve thousands of acres of treasured Vineyard land. She was a member of the College Key and served on her 45th Reunion committee, her 35th Reunion gift committee, and her 30th Reunion social committee. Survivors include son Carl Hjelm; sisters Louise Hjelm Davidson ’60 and Karen E. Hjelm ’65; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Barbara Tuttle Young April 19, 2018 Barbara Tuttle Young served on the board of directors of Columbia Road Health Services, Washington, D.C. She was a class agent and served on her 45th Reunion gift committee. Survivors include children Stephanie Young, Howard S. Young ’91, and Billy.

Her sister-in-law is Stephanie Young Abbott ’67, whose husband is Edward Abbott ’67. Her first husband was Bill Young ’64.

1962 Norton Scott Bradley March 8, 2021 Scott Bradley, an economics major, was the office services manager for National Grange Mutual Insurance Co. in Keene, N.H., with a department budget close to $1 million and 24M printing “impressions.” After moving to

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Mesa, Ariz., he was active in the American Legion Post No. 27 and served as commander of the Sons of the American Legion.

Survivors include sons David and Christopher; stepchildren Terry Tan and Mark Smith; 12 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.

His first wife is Linda Swanson Bradley ’60.

Jane Magner Kamm May 20, 2021 Jane Magner Kamm celebrated her retirement by taking a 120-mile trip on horseback from Jackson Hole, Wyo., through the top of the Rockies. Her career was in library sciences, which she entered after securing an M.L.S. from the Univ. of Rhode Island. She worked at Deans Mill Elementary School in Stonington, Conn. In retirement, she spent the warm months at her home in Addison and traveled to warmer places during the colder.

Survivors include husband Jon Kamm; sons Jay and James; five grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

Robert Allan Scofield March 11, 2021 A history major, Rob Scofield earned an M.B.A. from Rutgers in 1963 and later earned his C.F.P. from the College of Financial Planning. He served in the U.S. Navy in Vietnam, and remained active in the U.S. Navy Reserves.

He retired in 2008 after working as a financial consultant for Wells Fargo Advisors for 25 years, following his early years at Oppenheimer Funds and Computech Systems. He volunteered for the Naval Academy and the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.

He was a trustee of the Colorado Symphony and a member of First Church of Christ Scientist in Aurora, Colo., where he served as chairman of the board, and on the building committee. He was a member of the College Key, a class agent, and served on his 50th and 55th Reunion gift committees. Survivors include wife Jane Stubbs Scofield and cousin Richard Charles Morton ’70. The late David J. Rushforth ’62 was also his cousin.

1963 Raphael Eziafa Onyemelukwe January 26, 2021 Rafe Onyemelukwe was a biology major who went on to graduate from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in 1967. He worked at various hospitals in Chicago before returning to Nigeria in 1977, where he rose to the position of chief consultant traumatologist at Orthopedic Hospital in Enugu, Anambra State. He founded the James Udoji Memorial Medical Center in Nnewi, where he was the foremost trauma specialist in the region. In 1993, he returned to the U.S., working in the Chicago area before moving to Abilene, Texas, where he retired.

Survivors include wife Ifeyinwa Onyemelukwe; children Samuel, Precious, Daniel, Emmanuel, Ikem, Chidozie, and Uchenna

Onyemelukwe, Njideka Ezeoke, and Amuche Clermont. He is also survived by his first wife Ijeoma Onyemelukwe and five grandchildren. His brothers were James Onyemelukwe ’66 and Josiah Onyemelukwe ’61, and his brother-in-law was Dr. Nlogha Okeke ’51, whose son is Nnanyelu Okeke ’82.

award. He also served as the first chairman of the board for the Winnacunnet High School Alumni Association and was active in the Bates Alumni-in-Admission program. Survivors include children Katharine A. Gates, Aimee D. Davis, Christopher Lamie, and Sue Lamie; six grandchildren; and two great grandchildren.

Mary Ellen Syrjala June 1, 2021 Mary Ellen D’Wolf Syrjala, a sociology major, was an insurance agent. She worked for Liberty Continental, Wausau Insurance, and Dowling & O’Neil Insurance in Hyannis, Mass. She served on her 40th Reunion gift committee and her 35th Reunion social committee. Survivors include husband Frederic J. Syrjala and many nieces and nephews.

Robert Edmund Kohler February 7, 2021 Most people batten down the hatches when a hurricane draws near. Bob Kohler flew through them. Just part of his job with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

That, and measuring the Earth’s magnetic field while stationed in Antarctica. A physics major, he did graduate work at the Univ. of Texas. Survivors include wife Nancy M. Kohler ’65.

1964 David Winfield Parmelee April 20, 2021 Trustee Emeritus David Winfield Parmelee built a long and successful career in banking in Conn. A history major, he served as a lieutenant ( junior grade) in the U.S. Navy before earning an M.B.A. from Boston Univ. He then started his career at Conn.

Bank and Trust Co. He also worked at Bank of New England, Fleet Bank, and the Trust Company of Connecticut. He has held leadership positions in the credit, investment, operations, and administrative areas of commercial banking. He served as a director of the One Thousand Corp. and the Greater Hartford Easter Seal Rehabilitation Center and was a trustee of several foundations.

He chaired Bates’ Annual Alumni Fund and was a member of the finance committee of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and of the Hartford Chamber of Commerce Citizens’ Committee for Effective Government. He was a member of the College Key; served on his 25th, 30th, 40th, 45th, and 50th Reunion gift committees (cochair for his 25th and 40th); was a class agent; served as a trustee from 1997 to 2012; and was a regional co-chair with his wife for the third capital campaign.

Survivors include wife Arlene Johanson Parmelee; daughters Sarah Parmelee ’94, Laura Simpson, and Hannah Boyaggi ’04; and six grandchildren.

1965 Edward Ronald Davis December 27, 2020 Ted Davis coached football, wrestling, and track for 31 years at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn. He also taught biology and environmental studies — no surprise because he was a biology major. He also held a master’s from Middlebury. He was a board member, instructor, and active EMT with Salisbury Ambulance Service in Conn. for 26 years. In retirement, Ed continued to coach at Phillips Exeter. The Hampton (N.H.) Lions Club awarded him its highest honor, the Melvin Jones Fellow

William Alvin MacNevin June 28, 2021 Bill MacNevin, an economics major, was the director of international relations for Dunkin’ Donuts and traveled to over 60 countries as part of his 30-year career there. In retirement, he was a self-proclaimed “petroleum transfer engineer” — he pumped gas at a local gas station. A captain of the baseball team at Bates, he anguished and celebrated with the Red Sox. He also played basketball and football at the College. He was a member of the College Key. Survivors include wife Joanne Campbell MacNevin ’65; sons Stephen ’90 and Christopher MacNevin; and three grandchildren.

1966 James C. Onyemelukwe February 11, 2020 James Onyemelukwe, a biology and chemistry double major, was part of a group of brothers who came to Bates from Nigeria. His brothers were Raphael Onyemelukwe ’63 (whose obituary also appears in this issue) and Josiah Onyemelukwe ’61, and his brother-in-law was Dr. Nlogha Okeke ’51, whose son is Nnanyelu Okeke ’82.

Karen Hastie Williams July 7, 2021 When Karen Hastie Williams was a child, a schoolteacher dismissed her interest in a legal career, suggesting that working as a store clerk would suit her better.

“It was the first time that I really got struck by the fact that there was among many in the white population a low expectation of what Blacks have the intellectual capability to achieve and had the drive to go after,” Williams said later. In a trailblazing law career, Williams “overcame and helped dismantle the barriers of race and gender in her profession,” said The Washington Post. A government major at Bates, she earned a master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a law degree from the Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law. She then became the first Black woman to clerk on the

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Supreme Court, for Justice Thurgood Marshall. Through the late 1970s she worked on Capitol Hill, as chief counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget and as administrator for the Office of Federal Procurement Policy in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. In 1981, she joined the prominent Washington, D.C., law firm Crowell & Moring, soon becoming the first woman and the first person of color to make partner, then repeating “the same achievement on a series of corporate and nonprofit boards,” said The New York Times. “Mrs. Williams...set herself up as one of the city’s leading mentors for women and people of color in legal and government circles, propelling dozens of promising young lawyers into successful careers.” Her many board memberships included the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, where she raised funds and garnered corporate support for voting rights litigation and other racial justice initiatives as chair of the development committee. In Bates affairs, she was a member of the College Key, an Alumni-in-Admission volunteer, and a Bates trustee, 1976–81. In 2004, she established the Karen Hastie Williams Scholarship Fund at Bates. Survivors include her husband, the Rev. Dr. Wesley Samuel Williams Jr.; children Amanda, Wesley, and Bailey Williams; a brother; and cousins.

1968 Harry Merrill Bailey January 12, 2018 Harry Bailey left Bates and completed his degree at the Univ. of UMass Amherst. He worked for many years at Osram Sylvania in N.H. Survivors include sister Wendy Bailey Munro; and a number of nieces and nephews.

1969 Linda Theurer Howe April 1, 2021 Linda Theurer Howe worked at clerical jobs before marrying. She was a relentless volunteer, especially at her daughter’s schools, with particular interest in Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School (MLWGS) in Richmond, Va. Her impact there was such that every year a senior is recognized for volunteerism by receiving the Linda Howe Community Service Award. She served as president of the P.T.A. at each of her daughter’s schools. Linda also served on the board of directors for the Virginia Association for the Gifted, in which she was granted life membership in 2008. She wrote grants for MLWGS and for Benedictine High School (Richmond, Va.). Survivors include husband Charles Richard Howe; and daughter Jennifer Lynn Howe.

1971 Dieudonne Kwetcha Ngnoumen June 15, 2020 Donnie Ngnoumen came to Bates an accomplished athlete, having

captained the Cameroonian national basketball team. At Bates, it was his soccer skills that distinguished him. He established a goal scoring record that stood for decades and received an award recognizing him as the senior who made the greatest contribution to Bates College soccer. He took his degree in economics and went on to earn a master’s in the same from Ohio Univ. and an M.B.A. from the Univ. of Florida. His career was with Texaco, and he was known for improving underperforming operations in North America, Africa, and the Caribbean. He was the first African to be managing director of Texaco Nigeria PLC and later became its CEO. For his contributions at home and abroad, he was awarded the Cameroon National Medal of Honor. After retiring, he began a second career as an advisor to African multinational corporations such as Conoil and Globacom.

He was an Alumni-in-Admission volunteer, interviewing potential applicants across central Africa.

Survivors include wife Ifeyinwa Okeke Ngnoumen ’73; seven children; and five grandchildren.

1972 Judith Mary Hancox March 12, 2021 Judy Hancox was a teacher. Her Bates degree was in sociology, and her master’s from Northeastern was in reading. She taught reading in Norwood, Mass., and second grade in Norton, Mass. Her cousin is Mary Ham Wood ’36.

Valerie Martin Heath June 10, 2021 A sociology major, Val Martin Heath earned an M.S.W. from Boston Univ. in 1978. She dedicated her career as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker to serving clients of all ages, a practice that started while still a student at Bates. She was a Big Sister, a tutor in the Neighborhood Youth Corps, and did volunteer work at Pineland Hospital and the Jewish Community Ctr. In the 1990s she worked in a transitional housing program for teens at the thenBath Children’s Home. Before retiring, Valerie provided companion care for several clients and always described herself as a “recovering social worker.” She was an alumni class officer and served on her 30th Reunion social committee. Survivors include husband Michael C. Heath ’72 and son Benjamin.

Ferdinand Joseph Russo Jr. January 8, 2021 Fred Russo was a standout athlete, especially in baseball and football. He was a biology major and went on to teach science and coach football and tennis in Bristol, Conn. In his spare time, he earned a master’s in biology from Central Conn. State College. In 1976, he switched over to Berlin (Conn.) High School, where he worked for 37 years, retiring as head of the science department in 2013. He was selected Teacher of the Year for the 2001–02 school year. He was a member

of the College Key. Survivors include wife Donna Andrews Russo ’71; sons Thomas, Mark, and Christopher Russo; and two grandchildren.

1973 Richard Arnold Brayall December 25, 2020 Rick Brayall once played a game against chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov. In Iceland. On a glacier. He lost. The game was part of his assignment at Ericsson of Sweden, where he went to work after years at AT&T in public relations. At AT&T, he was able to watch two space shuttle launches from a safe distance of three miles. He held a bachelor’s in history from Bates, along with a master’s in communication from Simmons. Survivors include wife Danita Cercone Brayall; sons Aaron, Trevor, and Spencer; and three grandchildren.

1974 Diana Kuchmy Fisher November 17, 2020 Her daughter, Julia Laird Fisher ’16, survives Diana, as does husband Jerry Fisher. Further information was not available.

1975 Patricia Williams Faulkner December 30, 2020 Pat Williams Faulkner had a double major in psychology and art.

The art experience proved useful to her path in life: she designed and painted wooden toys with her husband, which they sold at craft and Renaissance fairs.

She also became a Bahá’í, and her faith was important enough that she made a pilgrimage to holy places in the Middle East.

Survivors include husband Dean Faulkner; and sons Matthew and Joshua.

Ernest Clarence Hadley April 8, 2021 Ernie Hadley crammed several careers into his life and loved them all. He received a law degree from Antioch School of Law and spent 30 years as a civil rights lawyer. He wrote more than a dozen books in the field of employment discrimination law, was founding director of the Federal Employment Law Training Group, author of numerous publications (including the bible of federal sector employment law, A Guide to Federal Sector Equal Employment Law and Practice), and was among the most talented and entertaining presenters at conferences: he offered more than a thousand seminars, trainings, speeches, and other presentations on employment discrimination law and workplace rights and responsibility. Prior to his career in law, he was a writer for a number of newspapers, including the Lewiston Daily Sun, Lewiston Evening Journal, Maine Sunday Telegram, Freeport Post, and Bristol (Conn.)

Press. He also held an M.F.A. in fiction writing from Vermont

College of Fine Arts. In 2018, with his wife Annie Mullins ’79, he started Nevermore Press in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. She is among his survivors, as are children Jasmine, Luke, and Mairead.

John Ray Hester January 1, 2021 John Hester earned an M.B.A. from N.Y. Univ. in 1977. He worked as a financial analyst in New York until 1988, when he relocated to Boston and ultimately to Portsmouth, N.H., where he managed stock portfolios. He was a career advisor with the Bates Career Development Center and served on his 10th and 15th Reunion committees. His brothers Timothy, Andrew, and Michael have established the John R. Hester ’75 Scholarship Fund at Bates in his memory. Other survivors include a number of nieces and nephews.

1976 Pamela Moulton Wilson June 2, 2019 A religion major, Pam Moulton Wilson worked as a teacher and a mental health assistant. Her father was Richard Warye, who taught speech and theater at Bates 1961–68.

1977 Mary Candace Hutchinson Chant April 2, 2021 Candy Hutchinson Chant was a music major, and always found a way to keep music in her life.

After graduation, she worked in New York City for a music publisher. When she and husband Patrick Chant ’77 moved to Colorado, she worked for an architect, for Colorado Mountain College as a secretary, and as a financial aid director at the Healing Arts Institute. She found music in the Colorado Recorder Orchestra and the Leadville Arts Coalition.

Survivors include husband Patrick; and daughters Caroline McCabe and Emily Chant.

Stephen Gilchrist Twelves May 3, 2021 Stephen Twelves did something unusual for a physics major: he went into corporate planning. He held an M.B.A. from Boston Univ. and worked for Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. Directly after college, he was a counselor and administrator at Pine Street Inn, a homeless shelter, in Boston.

Survivors include sister Betsy Twelves-Dickson ’80 and brother Mark H. Twelves ’77.

1979 Steven James Schmelz January 24, 2021 Steve Schmelz was captain of the College’s basketball team, and he kept active in the sport his whole life. For over 30 years, he was coach of a team associated with his Jeep dealership in the Jersey Shore Basketball League, which drew in players talented enough to make it to the N.B.A.

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He also coached nearly all of his children’s sports teams. He was a member of the College Key, a former member of the Parents Welcome Committee, and served on his 35th, 30th, and 20th Reunion gift committees. Survivors include wife Heidi Brockelman Schmelz ’79; children Kristina, Tyler ’06, Tony, and Anabel ’14; and six grandchildren.

1980 Jonathan Michael Land June 28, 2020 Jon Land worked for Carbon Black Technology, an advanced projection company that manufactured high-end displays. He previously was a programmer at Interactive Data Corp. He served on his 30th Reunion committee.

Survivors include wife Michele; children Catherine, Alex, Zachary, Lucas, Taylor, Kendall, Devon, and Carson; and six grandchildren. His late uncle was Mark B. Godfried ’57, whose son is Andrew Godfried ’00.

John George Menkart August 31, 2020 John Menkart started at Bates with the Class of 1980 but completed his degree at Clarkson University. Survivors include wife Dr. Pamela Wright; and children Nicole, Matthew, and Danielle. His mother is Eleanor Feinsot Menkart ’54.

Sarah Thorn O’Shea February 22, 2021 Sarah Thorn O’Shea left Bates after three years and graduated from UMass Amherst. She worked for various theater companies and became the program director of the UMass Arts Council. Survivors include husband Tim O’Shea; and children Conor and Maggie O’Shea.

1981 Catherine Barry Smith April 3, 2021 Cathy Barry Smith graduated from Wheelock College after starting at Bates. She was a teacher in Houston and in New York City. Survivors include husband Scott Alan Smith and daughter Laura Smith Long.

1982 Gerard Paul Donahoe Jr. March 14, 2021 Jerry Donahoe turned everything into a celebration of Bates or the Univ. of Penn., his grad school. Whether it was a hike up a mountain or a round of nightcaps, he was passionate about bringing people together and forming new bonds and friendships. He was a church greeter and helped organize potluck dinners in congregants’ houses, bringing together different people to eat and discuss a variety of topics. He traveled the world, visiting all the continents, including Antarctica. His degree from Bates was in political science, and his master’s from UPenn was in urban planning,

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both perfect entries to his job as a housing program policy specialist at the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development. He received the Distinguished Young Alumni Award in 1989. He was a member of the Alumni Council 2009–14, and was a member of the College Key. He served as class secretary, class agent, and chair of his 30th Reunion committee. He was active in Bates PRIDE, the steering committee of the D.C. Networking group, and the New York City Bates Club. Survivors include his partner Daniel P. McGlynn; three sisters; and many nieces and nephews.

1983 Debra Perrone June 13, 2021 Debbie Perrone completed her degree at the Univ. of Hartford after leaving Bates. She also attended the Univ. of Central Conn. She began work as a lab technician at Quest Diagnostics and left as a senior national testing operations manager after three decades. Survivors include mother Roberta Ann Perrone; brother Vito John Perrone; and sister Ann Marie Perrone.

1986 Dean Anthony Gouveia April 29, 2021 A chemistry/biology double major, Dean Gouveia also held a J.D. from New England School of Law. His career was as an environmental chemist and project leader, primarily with ICF Consulting of Cambridge, Mass.

Survivors include wife Melanie Clawson Gouveia ’86; and sons Ethan and Michael.

1988 Fred Louis Hacker November 28, 2020 Fred Hacker loved his Porsche.

He was a regular at weekend “Rambles,” where 150 or so Porsche drivers would tour an area of New England, enjoying the scenery, food, and companionship. But he had a serious side: he was a researcher in radiology, looking for better treatments for cancer patients. He turned his degree in physics (Phi Beta Kappa) into a master’s and doctorate from Dartmouth. He worked at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Radiation Therapy. He continued his work as a medical physicist at Brigham and Women’s and later as an assistant professor of radiation oncology at Harvard. His professional life included supervising and monitoring patient stereotactic radiation treatment, teaching, and clinical research. Survivors include wife Laura Schreiber Hacker ’88; and children Fiona, Duncan, and Ian.

1990 George Ahia December 6, 2020 George Ahia was part of his class’s steering committee for six years. No further information was available.

1991 Christopher Mark Beard March 2, 2020 Christopher Beard was a poet who published in a number of literary journals. No word of survivors was available.

Amy Respet Jennings May 14, 2021 Survivors include her parents, Patrick Respet and Barbara Van Scyoc Respet.

Andrew Houghton Keller May 3, 2021 Andy Keller was an accomplished athlete. He won the Vermont State tennis championship during high school and the Eastern United States giant slalom at age 13. He played soccer at Bates, where he majored in English. He held two master’s degrees from the Univ. of Calif., Berkeley: one in rural and urban planning and the other in architecture. After working with architecture firms in Burlington and Montpelier, Vt., he opened his own practice. He taught at Vermont Tech, Green Mountain College, and Prescott College, using an interdisciplinary method to teach architecture that used design to make life better for humans. Survivors include wife Sarah Erb; and daughters Maeve and Rowan Keller.

1994 Joseph Bahij Chaho March 2, 2021 Joe Chaho and his family left Lebanon and settled in West Hartford, Conn. He was vice president and secretary of the Maximilian E. & Marion O. Hoffman Foundation, Inc., in West Hartford. The Foundation helped fund the Hoffman Heart Institute at St. Francis Hospital and supported the Hospital for Special Care, among other organizations.

Survivors include brother Michael and sister Marion.

1995 Cindy Lessard Tuttle February 16, 2021 Cindy Lessard Tuttle was always learning. After high school, she earned an advanced secretarial degree from Katherine Gibbs in Boston, graduating in 1987. While working as a legal secretary, she attended classes at U.S.M. to earn a paralegal degree. While working for a local law firm, she decided to become a lawyer, so she enrolled at Bates. Here, she discovered a passion for psychology. She changed her major, graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, three-year dean’s list. While working at the Spurwink School, she earned a

master’s degree from U.N.E. This allowed her to open a private practice. Survivors include husband Stephen Lurvey; and daughters Sierra Brooke Tuttle and Sage Monique Tuttle.

Faculty James Glenn Boyles Aug. 8, 2020 Jim Boyles grew up in Lemoyne, Pa., and earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from The Pennsylvania State University in 1959 and a doctorate in physical chemistry from Rutgers University in 1966. Appointed an assistant professor of chemistry at Bates in 1966, he was promoted to associate professor in 1973 and full professor in 1980. When he retired as professor emeritus in June 1999, then-President Don Harward described Jim as “a counselor to those exploring careers in the sciences, a patient and encouraging teacher, and an active scholar and community citizen” who for 33 years helped “hundreds of students explore the detailed physical and living structures of the world we experience.” He served as department chair for 12 years and taught courses in inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, and thermodynamics and kinetics, as well as a Short Term course, “Environment, Chemistry, and Society,” that anticipated the growing interest in environmental studies.

Deeply devoted to undergraduate teaching, he was one of the first Bates faculty members to see that computing, more than just a “high-speed calculator,” as he once said, could play a role in undergraduate STEM teaching.

On the strength of a 1969 college grant, he investigated using Bates’ time-sharing connection with a mainframe computer at Dartmouth to write programs to help students grasp foundational concepts in chemistry, seeing the value in the “two-way exchange” that such programs could create.

In 1968, as founding chair of the college’s medical studies program, he became the architect and driving force of the Bates initiative to support students applying to graduate medical programs. With an expert knowledge of Robert’s Rules of Order, he deftly served as moderator of the Pownal, Maine, town meeting for years. He was an avid sailor, reader, musician, model builder, gardener, craftsman, and flight simulator pilot. He supported conservation causes in Maine and later in Seattle, Wash. His survivors include his wife, Donna Boyles; daughters Kristen Boyles and Amanda Boyles McCloskey; two grandchildren; a sister; and their families.

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Some of the pathogens that Sawyer cultured and mounted during his wartime service were doozies, including meningitis, diphtheria, anthrax, and gonorrhea.

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Found in Carnegie Science Hall, a Bates biology professor’s historic teaching slides, created during World War I, feature a veritable What’s What of deadly pathogens — including one that infected a high-ranking Army officer by jay burns THE HAND-LETTERED LABEL on the World War I–era microscope slide is blunt: “Gonococci.

Highest ranking officer in Marseille. W.H.S.” Translation: The slide contains the gonorrhea-causing Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria, presumably taken from a U.S. Army bigwig stationed in Marseille, France. “W.H.S.” stands for “William H. Sawyer,” a 1913 Bates graduate and later a longtime professor of biology, who prepared the slide while stationed at an Army lab in the French port city during the war.

The gonococci slide was among a trove of Sawyer’s historic teaching slides discovered in a Carnegie Science Hall storage room in April 2020. The slides feature a veritable What’s What of deadly pathogens that cause diseases like meningitis, diphtheria, and anthrax. (The samples are “fixed,” meaning dead and inert.)

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At 40x magnification, this image shows the bacteria Bacillus anthracis, which causes anthrax. Don’t worry; it was fixed (made inert) on a microscope slide by William Sawyer while he worked in an Army lab in Marseille, France, during World War I.

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pathology as the U.S. prepared to enter the Great War. After training, Sawyer, by then a sergeant in the U.S. Army, was sent to France, crossing the Atlantic on the SS Belgic, “loaded with explosives and about 5,000 troops,” according to a brief story about Sawyer’s wartime experiences in The Bates Student.

After arriving in Winchester, England, Sawyer was sent to Marseille, where the Army had established one of its 11 Base Sections to funnel war supplies from incoming ships to the front lines, including everything from tins of corned beef and instant coffee to trench mortars and machine guns.

At Base Section No. 6 in Marseille, Sawyer and colleagues set up a laboratory, one of some 300 labs that the Army aggressively deployed throughout Europe to identify and fight the infectious diseases that always accompany armed forces.

There were many of them, and some doozies.

At Commencement 1949, Professor of Biology William Sawyer, Class of 1913, inspects the college’s new mace as President Charles Phillips looks on.

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The pathogens that Sawyer cultured and mounted include Bacillus anthracis, which causes anthrax. It is now thought that soldiers in World War I contracted anthrax from infected horse hair in their military-issued shaving kits.

He also cultured Balantidium coli (intestinal disease) Corynebacterium diphtheriae (diphtheria), Mycobacterium tuberculosis (tuberculosis), Neisseria meningitidis (meningitis), and Staphylococcus albus and Staphylococcus aureus, which cause wound infections.

He also identified parasitic diseases like dysentery, caused by Entamoeba histolytica, and blood eosinophilia, caused by tapeworms.

Disease, particularly influenza, caused nearly as many U.S. Army deaths as combat during World War I. The one-two punch of the flu and pneumonia as a secondary bacterial infection killed some 45,000 soldiers by the end of 1918. That’s only about 8,500 fewer than those who died in combat.

Sawyer’s slides include some with pneumonia-causing streptococci, but mostly he found gonorrhea: eight of the slides in his collection, out of some two dozen, feature gonococci, suggesting that the disease (as well as other sexually transmitted diseases) was widespread at Base Section No. 6, as it was throughout armies on both sides of the war.

During World War I, only the influenza pandemic accounted for more loss of wartime duty than STDs, which cost the U.S. Army some seven million person-days and led to 10,000 men being discharged.

Of all the gonococci slides in Sawyer’s collection, only the one with “highest ranking officer” written on the label has such a detail about who the “host” was. Was Sawyer showing a bit of snark, perhaps, toward the officer corps?

(And who exactly was the “highest-ranking officer” with the clap? We did find a colonel in Army records who stepped down from command of the Marseille Base Section in March 1919, when the station was still active.)

The cleanup of the Carnegie storage space that resulted in the discovery of Sawyer’s slides was partly inspired by pandemic downtime but also by the pending move of equipment to Bonney Science Center this past summer.

While many of the slides were created by Sawyer, the labels on others indicate that they came from professional labs. Beth Malachowsky, a chemistry research assistant who was among the first to examine the slides, says that Sawyer’s specimens are in remarkably good shape. While the stained bacteria on some of the professionally prepared slides have faded over time, the bacteria fixed on Sawyer’s slides are still visible more than a century later.

“Some of that is luck,” she says. “Some is technique. Either way, he did a good job.”

Malachowsky works in the lab of Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Andrew

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Kennedy, a cutting-edge memoly explain our world, explains ry researcher who was also part Kennedy. of the crew that found the Saw“I don’t tell my students, yer slides in Carnegie.

‘We’re going to learn something A student of the history of today that’s no longer true.’ We science, Kennedy has thought don’t teach phrenology,” the about “what it means to find idea that skull shape reflects these slides, many prepared durpersonality. And in Sawyer’s ing the 1918 influenza pandemic, case, he may have quite literduring today’s pandemic.” ally “filtered out the slides that What feels similar to 1918, he weren’t important for his stuFace masks were as controversays, is the politics of the pandents.” sial during the 1918 pandemic demic. “We’re in a similar place.

He’s witnessed a similar as they have been during the In 1918, the mask also became a shift with his neuroscience COVID-19 pandemic. In 1918, Seattle citizens were not political symbol, and there were students. “Fifteen years ago, it permitted to ride a streetcar riots about it — which always was thought that only about 2 without wearing a mask. seems to happen with disease: percent of the genome was usePeople tend to get frustrated and ful and the rest was ‘junk DNA.’ turn on one another politically.”

But we know now that, in fact, What’s very different from 1918, he says, is pretty much all DNA is recruited for some process that scientists a century ago knew very little about besides encoding for proteins.” viruses. “Today, we saw accurate illustrations of “My students don’t even know the ‘junk DNA’ the coronavirus even before it was detected in the idea — which seems amazing to me, because evU.S.,” Kennedy says. eryone over the age of 25 knows it well.”

In fact, during the 1918 pandemic, there was At the most basic level, Sawyer’s slides sym“considerable debate in the scientific community” bolize the power of scientific observation and its about the cause of influenza, he says. Many scienrole in the scientific method. Anna Marie Bowtists thought that a bacterium, Pfeiffer’s bacillus, sher, a Bates research associate who has recently caused influenza because it was often found in the headed to medical school, did much of the work lungs of people sick with the flu. to digitize and preserve Sawyer’s slide collection.

There are no samples of Pfeiffer’s bacillus in She describes the thrill of seeing Sawyer’s handiSawyer’s collection, even though he undoubtedly work under a microscope. cultured the bacteria, Kennedy believes. He spec“They’re interesting by themselves, but you ulates that the scientist disposed of them after it don’t really know anything until you put a slide was determined years later that the bacterium was under the microscope,” says Bowsher — just like it only a secondary invader after the influenza virus. was a century ago, in Sawyer’s day. “I think that’s Scientists and other scholars are constantly really cool.” n filtering out what’s no longer thought to accurate-

In Dana Chemistry Hall in July, Beth Malachowsky, research assistant in the lab of Andrew Kennedy, displays the microscope slide containing the bacteria Gonococci.

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Buckle Up

After winning the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin title 55 years ago, the football team received commemorative belt buckles.

This one belonged to Kevin Murphy ’67 (he scratched his initials on the back).

Another team member, Jeff Sturgis ’69, notes that members of the undefeated 1946 Bates squad, which included Sturgis’ dad, also received buckles.

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Gotta Match?

A century ago, in June 1921, Bates became the first college to debate abroad when, from left, Professor Craig Baird and his debaters Robert Watts, Class of 1922; Charles Starbird, Class of 1921; and Edward Morris, Class of 1921, sailed to England to debate at Oxford University. As the team set sail for Liverpool, President Warren Harding and Vice President Calvin Coolidge both sent congratulatory telegrams.

Featuring Hathorn Hall, this “match safe” would’ve hung on a homeowner’s wall to hold household matches. (Its hanger is broken off.)

On the back is printed the name A.L. and E.F. Goss Co., a bygone purveyor of stoves and furnaces in Lewiston, suggesting that the match safe was perhaps a giveaway.

Put a Pin in It

This vintage Bates brooch, likely from the early 1900s, was made by the Charles M. Robbins Co. of Attleboro, Mass., well-known for its college memorabilia.

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o u t ta k e Look what I saw through the looking glass. First, an explanation of what you’re seeing: exhaust stacks on the roof of Carnegie Science Hall reflected in the windows of the “Beacon” at the new Bonney Science Center, right across Campus Avenue. Upon looking up, my eyes opened wide at the scene’s distorted color, pattern, and shape. Bonney will doubtlessly provide new opportunities for everyone who works in and walks by this striking treasure. As one of its new faculty occupants commented: “Eye candy!”

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FROM A DISTANCE

History and change are dynamic elements of the landscape in this photo looking toward Lewiston from Auburn.

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Sabattus Pond is part of a study, joined by Bates professor Holly Ewing, using new technology to predict algal blooms.

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Garcelon Field peeks out between roofs and trees.

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St. Mary’s was L-A’s first hospital, founded in 1888.

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The Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul hosted the Maine Sacred Music Conference in August.

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The Tree Streets neighborhood has arboreal street names like Pine and Birch.

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The Colisée is where Muhammad Ali knocked out Sonny Liston in 1965.

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A former Catholic church, the Agora Event Center is Maine’s second-tallest building (220 feet).

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Mixed-use development of the Continental Mill reflects ongoing efforts to maximize the use of space along the Androscoggin River.

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The Little Canada neighborhood is where French Canadian immigrants started settling in the 19th century.

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After a pandemic hiatus, the Bates tradition of “sportraits,” creative portraits imagined by Bobcat athletes to complement staid roster headshots, came whizzing back this fall. See page 16 for the source of the sorcerous swag sported by cross country runner Mary Richardson ’22.