takeaway:
PHYLLIS GRABER JENSEN
Gabe Clark ’02
media outlet: Bangor Daily News
headline:
Experts are bullish on Maine’s ability to sell high-end beef
date:
May 3, 2013
takeaway:
Where’s the beef profit? Ask Maine’s growers of grass-fed beef The Bangor Daily News features Gabe Clark ’02 in a story about Maine farmers’ ability to make money selling grass-fed or other specialty beef. The demand for specialty beef is growing due to higher grain prices (which push up the price of conventional beef ), drought in beef-growing states and more consumer demand for healthier food. Clark owns Cold Spring Ranch in New Portland and is president of the Maine Grass Farmers Network. He says that while Maine farmers can’t do what Big Agriculture does (make money through small profit margins and huge volume), they can compete in the specialtybeef field. “This is one of the best ways for Maine farmers to generate the kind of profit margin necessary to stay in business.”
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eration of the pronephric kidney in Xenopus laevis tadpoles, and her dissertation has been selected by Tufts as the school’s entry for the national CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award in the field of biological and life sciences. Shoni also published an article in the journal Developmental Dynamics in which she introduces a new injury model for inducing mechanical damage in the pronephric kidney. Her research provides the first evidence of kidney regeneration of any amphibian studied to date.... Elizabeth Cebula and Tomasz Chrzan were married Sept. 2, 2012. She earned a master’s in nursing from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and is pursuing a career as a nurse practitioner. He has a private dental practice in East Longmeadow, Mass.... Noah Davis lives in Brooklyn and works as a freelance writer for Grantland, The Wall Street Journal, Details and Playboy. He recently teamed up with old buddy Dave Hurley to create a captivating piece on the future of sport psychology. When he’s not writing (or tweeting) — which is never — he spends time losing rec league soccer games or doing pushups in his living room. In the past two years, he ran his first marathon, did his first triathlon and is now gearing up to train for his first Ironman....Melissa Geissler and Zack Scott (Harvard ’05) were married May 19, 2012.... Emma Giorgi and Brendan Brier were married Aug. 17, 2013....Lindsey Hamilton moved to Colorado with her family and teaches biological psychology at the Univ. of Colorado Denver. She is trying to be as good a professor as John Kelsey, but that is a lofty goal!...Larry Handerhan has settled back in Washington, D.C., after earning a master’s in public affairs in 2012. He works as a Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and stays busy by espousing the merits of sustainable urban development and attending weddings (looking at you, Ben Hagberg)....In September, actor Andrew Haserlat was on the set of HBO’s adaptation of Olive Kitteridge. “I play the caterer at Olive’s son’s wedding. We’re filming these scenes in Essex, Mass., and my scenes help to accentuate the domineering persona that is Olive Kitteridge (Frances McDormand). It’s been a pleasure working on a close-tohome project, as I was raised in Ipswich, and on a project based on such a touching novel by Elizabeth Strout ’77. (I have to be vague with plot lines — though am excited to share this moment with the Bates community!)”... Dave Hurley lives in Cambridge, Mass., with his wonderful girlfriend, Amy, and their ferociously small dog, Harvey, whom he frequently takes on walks while pondering the latest sport psy-
chology dilemma. He — Dave, not Harvey — is a doctoral candidate at Boston Univ. and a faculty fellow at Stonehill College. In his spare time, he plays softball with Chet Clem and Josh Kleinman, counts down the days until the release of Anchorman 2 and, occasionally, drinks a Bud Light Lime-a-rita or two....Ian Livengood and Katie Carroll were married June 29, 2013, in Hopewell, N.J. “Plenty of Bates alums in attendance,” he writes. “Also, I’ve got a book coming out in February 2014 titled Sit & Solve Sports Crosswords....Juliette Wallack and Dave Metz were married May 11, 2013. She helps develop marketing for new products in the media licensing and distribution group at Bloomberg news service in New York. He has a new job as director of product development at AccentHealth, a patient education media company. They live in Brooklyn and couldn’t imagine it any other way. He had been playing in a local soccer league with Jon Horowitz, Noah Davis and Nate Purinton ’06, who also live in Brooklyn — and who are all better at soccer than he is. Dave is (as always) loving life, though he frequently cites his later years in college as some of his favorites....Caitlin Miller and husband Jesse Sheldon welcomed William Gregory Sheldon on March 26, 2013.... Elizabeth Pemmerl and Drew Cantor were married last June. They enjoy life in northwest DC with their Jack Russell terrier Teddy. Elizabeth manages the federal government division of NIC Inc., an eGovernment company, and Drew is a congressional lobbyist....Andy Peters has “kept in good touch with Taku Furukawara, who studied at Bates during the 2001–02 school year via Tokyo Univ. Taku opened his own organic vegetable farm, Aromaful Vegetables, in Japan last April. The purpose of the farm is to educate consumers on the aromatic wonders of organic vegetables that are grown in the magic organic soil that Taku has cultivated over the past couple of years. As usual, Taku is in great spirits. I am very excited to visit his farm some day and get my hands dirty working alongside an old friend.”...Sally Pratt-Heaney Wu and Matt Wu ’04 celebrated their third wedding anniversary and bought their first house in Weston, Conn. She has been working as a neonatal intensivecare unit nurse at Stamford Hospital for the past six years. Matt recently joined one of the top private wealth management groups in the country, LLBH, based in Westport, Conn....Lewiston City Councilor Craig Saddlemire received Bates’ Alumni Community Service Award. “Whether sitting on the Downtown Neighborhood Task Force or managing the work of Spoke Folks, the community bike shop he helped found, Craig dedicates hundreds of hours a