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(Penguin), in 2013. Her second is scheduled for 2014. She also writes for The Huffington Post. A divorce attorney, she lives in Brooklyn with her family....Mark Doctoroff and his wife Lydia welcomed twin girls Chloe Sylvia and Zoe Cynthia Doctoroff on April 30, 2013.
1995 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class co-secretaries Scott Marchildon smarchildon@une.edu Philip Pettis ppettis@nhlawfirm.com class co-presidents Jason Verner jcv@nbgroup.com Deborah Nowak Verner debverner@gmail.com David Gillette and Loren Hayes ’96 reunited for the first time since 1995 at the Univ. of North Carolina–Asheville, where David is an assistant professor of environmental sciences. David invited Loren, an assistant professor of biological and environmental sciences at the Univ. of Tennessee at Chattanooga, to give a seminar about his research on a social mammal in Chile. Both conducted research on electrical signaling of marine skates at Bates.
1996 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class co-presidents Ayesha Farag-Davis faragdavis@aol.com James D. Lowe jameslowemaine@yahoo.com When Andrew Cyr founded Manhattan-based Metropolis Ensemble seven years ago, a goal was to attract nontraditional classical audiences and give young classical music composers a chance to be heard. So far, it’s worked out well, says the Maine Sunday Telegram. Last April, a composer Andrew championed won a Juno Award, the Canadian equivalent of a Grammy. Vivian Fung won Classical Composition of the Year for her violin concerto, which Andrew recorded with the Metropolis Ensemble and released on the Naxon label imprint Canadian Classics.... Attorney, conservation advocate and Wisconsin native Magill Weber joined Milwaukee-based Mayes Wilson & Associates, a nonprofit and conservation consulting agency. She’s based in Phoenix and works on behalf of MWA throughout the country.... Chris Weinberg was promoted to chief information officer at FlightSafety International, a professional aviation training company and supplier of flight simulators, based at LaGuardia Airport in New York.
1997 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class co-secretaries Chris Gailey gaileycj@gmail.com Leah Wiedmann Gailey leah.gailey@gmail.com class president Stuart B. Abelson Kimmochi Eguchi “just wanted to say hi to all from Tokyo and confirm that I am alive after leaving Facebook.” He had dinner with Rachael Scholz in Tokyo while she was doing business there....Craft Sportswear North America of Beverly, Mass., hired Katie Gould Swenson as sales and marketing manager for Craft baselayers and Nordic skiing. A Nordic skier at Bates, she later coached for several programs and was manager of the U.S. Nordic team....Jason Hall, who was a top economic adviser to Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, joined the St. Louis Regional Chamber as vice president for business development and corporate counsel....Nicole Woodson Hanover works at the International School of Boston, a bilingual French school in Cambridge, as the student life coordinator at the middle school. She lives with her husband, Conor, and son Eli in Arlington.
1998 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class committee Rob Curtis robcurtis79@gmail.com Douglas Beers douglas.beers@gmail.com Liam Leduc Clarke ldlc639@yahoo.com Renée Leduc Clarke rleducclarke@gmail.com Tyler Munoz tylermunoz@gmail.com Sarah Brauner-Otto writes, “My life after graduation has been a tour of the South (Washington, D.C., North Carolina and Mississippi) with a short (seven-year) stay in Michigan for grad school. I got married, had a daughter, and last summer finally made my way back north to be an assistant professor of sociology at McGill Univ. in Montreal.”...Renee Leduc Clarke writes, “Just want to send a shout out to the amazing classmates who came up to campus for our 15th Reunion in June. We were a small group, but hanging out in Small House was great. A real highlight was sharing our Reunion dinner with the Class of 1943 — amazing stories! Alumni Office has a great photo of all of us. (And this means you all need to join us for No. 20 in 2018.) There are 154 of us, but we are missing quite a few of you. Please join our Bates College Class of 1998 Facebook page. Get great updates from your classmates. If you have trouble finding it, drop an email
Mountain Men What goes up must ski down “It was an unforgettable day,” says Pete Kawada ’98 (right), describing the tour and hike he and Pete Mason ’96 made up 9,934-foot Col du Passon in Chamonix, France, and their subsequent ski descent, over untouched powder, into the valley below. For Mason, Chamonix means business. A mountain guide, he is only the second American to receive international guide certification through the French credentialing body Union Internationale des Associations de Guides de Montagnes. Kawada, meanwhile, was at play on that April day. His day job is as a managing director at The Seaport Group in the U.K., where he’s now a citizen.
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