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Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., where his wife Aya Murata ’92 works. They have two boys, Aki and Kai. He had dinner with Jason Hanley and Chris Plante and reunited on a golf trip with Jeff Bass and Mike Stuart. Serving on the Boston Bates Business Network steering committee, Mike connects with Batesies from every class.... Melissa Dyckes Edmiston and Clark adopted a son, Clay (3), from Hebei Province, China, last June....David Fox spent a glorious 10 months in Europe, Cuba, and New York while on sabbatical from teaching English and art history at Andover....Suzanne Giles Simon loves life in western Massachusetts. She works at Restore America’s Estuaries, a nonprofit that champions coastal habitat restoration....Jason Hanley is vice president of global sales operations at WEX Inc., a commercial fuel credit card company based in South Portland. He lives in Falmouth with Renee, kids Caitlyn (14) and Teddy (11), and stepkids Scott (15) and Makayla (13)....Alicia Klick lives in Arizona but plans to move back East. She’s moved her work more toward editing and proofreading and similar work for businesses, websites, and authors....Kit Lohmann Ripley, in Chiang Mai, Thailand, works with victims of sexual abuse, domestic violence, forced labor, and human trafficking at the New Life Center Foundation.... Evan Medeiros, former special assistant to the president and senior director for Asian affairs at the White House’s National Security Council, joined Eurasia Group as managing director and practice head for Asia....In Truckee, Calif., Chummy Prestowitz and wife Michele Ott ’94 enjoy the Sierra mountain lifestyle. His real estate valuation software company, InsideValuation, has grown to over 75 employees. Michele is a project manager for the Truckee River Watershed Council, an environment conservation nonprofit....Paola San Martini teaches high school at the American School of Recife in northeastern Brazil and loves life there. Luke is the secondary principal, and Dominic (9) and Jonah (7) are world travelers. She enjoyed dinner in Boston with Liz Dempsey Lee and Mike Charland....Matt Sudduth is the new executive vice president and chief financial officer of Enclara Pharmacia in Philadelphia.... Laurie VerPlanck Casteen is an associate dean of students at the Univ. of Virginia. She and John have two children, 14 and 10.... Danalynne Wheeler and Kevin Menegus were married recently in Mill Valley, Calif....Madeline Yanford Gorini and Richard welcomed a son, Benjamin, last year. Cecelia is 2. Madeline started a new job in the U.S. Army Special Operations Command as the chief of administrative law.
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1994 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class co-presidents Courtney L. Fleisher courtney.fleisher@gmail.com Jonathan M. Lewis jlewjlew@mac.com Natasha Friend published her sixth young-adult novel, Where You’ll Find Me (Macmillan Children’s Books), dealing with a parent’s mental illness from a teenager’s perspective. Judy Blume wrote that she “loved the book. I was hooked from the first page.”...Tim Green, senior counsel at RSF Social Finance in San Francisco, was profiled on the company’s website. Inspired by philosopher-scientist Rudolf Steiner, the nonprofit financial services organization is dedicated to transforming the way the world works with money, focusing on food and agriculture, education and the arts, and ecological stewardship. “Unlike other places where I’ve worked, no one pretends or expects others to have all the answers to a question or a problem,” Tim said....MassLive. com talked with Ryan Kelly, one of nine principals charged with turnaround plans for failing city middle schools in Springfield, Mass. When he became principal at John F. Kennedy Middle School in 2014, suspensions were up and teacher morale was so low he had to fill more than a dozen vacancies. Now all the vacancies have been filled and suspensions are down. Kennedy staff and students, like those in the other eight schools, still have work to do to lift academic performance, Ryan said. “We have to make decisions based on where our students are.”...The Brooklyn Daily Eagle interviewed lawyer Jimmy Lathrop, who has been recognized for his pro bono work. He’s the director of the Foreclosure Intervention Program administered through its Volunteer Lawyers Project. Jimmy said his most memorable case was being a guardian to a 102-year-old woman who was being evicted. She was being cared for by her son, in his early 60s, who was also taking care of his brother, who had Down syndrome. “I went to visit them in their home and the caretaking son was completely overwhelmed. He showed me a wall of charcoal drawings that he had made of Christ. They were breathtaking in their ability. He confided in me that if he didn’t have his brother and mother to take care of that he would have been an illustrator .... I assured him that I would do everything in my power to help him and his family out. When I left the apartment, I couldn’t make it to my car, I had to lean against the tree to take in all of that responsibility.”... Tom Lent joined the Boston law firm of Marathas Barrow & Weatherhead as a partner. ...In Bethel, Vt., the Valley News featured the wood-fired kiln at Two Potters studio, owned by Nathan
Webb and Becca Webb. It’s a huge undertaking to fire their kiln, which can hold about six months’ worth of their artwork. One cycle of filling, firing, and unloading the kiln takes four or five weeks.
1995 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class co-secretaries Scott Marchildon smarchildon@mpbn.net Philip Pettis ppettis@nhlawfirm.com class co-presidents Jason Verner jcv@nbgroup.com Deborah Nowak Verner debverner@gmail.com Scott DeMartino joined Blank Rome LLP as a partner in its Washington office’s tax group.... Amanda Hosmer works as a school adjustment counselor in the Lowell (Mass.) Public Schools. She’s been helping develop guidelines for schools to support transgender students. “It’s been amazing to include students in this process — sometimes, we forget to include their input!”...Carolyn Kavanagh Gaither and family were repatriated from Nigeria to Houston for Joey’s job at Shell Oil. She’s working her way back into the nonprofit sector after 15 years in oil and gas. Kerrigan is 11, Clayton 9....Deb Nowak Verner received a Bates’ Best award as a dedicated volunteer for the college. As her 20th Reunion’s social chair, she “almost single-handedly organized the entire weekend — replete with memorable, engaging activities — for the Class of 1995,” her citation reads. “You did a phenomenal job of encouraging your classmates to attend. Most importantly, you encouraged your classmates to contact you directly with any problems or concerns, thereby ensuring that they all had a remarkable weekend at Bates. You have been an Alumni in Admission volunteer for 20 years, a dedicated class fundraising volunteer, and have served on the host committee for Boston-area presidential events. The college wisely honored you with the Distinguished Young Alumni Award in 2008 — and now, Deb, for truly going above and beyond for Bates and the Class of 1995, you are also one of Bates’ best.”
1996 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class co-presidents Ayesha Farag-Davis faragdavis@aol.com James D. Lowe jameslowemaine@yahoo.com Chris Tiné is now a senior vice president and chief product officer at Richardson, a sales training and salesforce effectiveness company headquartered in Philadelphia.
1997 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class co-secretaries Chris Gailey gaileycj@gmail.com Leah Wiedmann Gailey lgailey@bates.edu class president Stuart B. Abelson sabelson@oraclinical.com
Patti Daniels ’97 has had “a ridiculously long tenure at Vermont Public Radio. Who works for one company for 15 years anymore?” Ilse Abusamra enjoyed another busy year as a college counselor at an independent school in New York City. She spent time with Heather Alcock Sekiguchi, Whitney Macdonald, Julie DeSarbo ’98, Nancy Stevenson, Jessica Sutton Caughey ’96 and Jack ’96, Courtney Jones, Heidi McDonald Leveille, Allison Wolosz, and Colby Connell....Christy Ballantyne Doxsee lives in Beverly, Mass., with Josh, Zach (8), and Mia (5). She does some admissions work for Glen Urquhart School.... Brent Bilodeau was elected to the Auburn School Committee. He works in technology support for a software company....Lara Cartwright-Smith enjoys her job as an associate research professor at George Washington Univ.’s Dept. of Health Policy & Management. She and Justin Stephen were married in May 2014.... Chris Cooper and Erin Gottwald ’98 welcomed Winifred Grace Cooper on June 4, 2015. His Manhattan-based film company, Twitch Post, celebrated the completion of its latest project, the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center in Russia....Pat Cosquer and Olivia welcomed Brielle Madeleine in August 2015. Amelie Rose is 3....Patti Daniels has had “a ridiculously long tenure at Vermont Public Radio. Who works for one company for 15 years anymore?” She’s executive producer of a daily news program. She fulfilled a long-held goal of running the Antarctica Marathon. She reports Joy Ardizzone is “as awesome as ever — living in Brooklyn, and curating film archives.”... Heather Davies Bernard, Durel, Jack (5) and Sawyer (2) love living in Austin, Texas. She’s an administrative attorney by day and blogger by night. She spent a wonderful weekend in Napa Valley with Nancy Stevenson, Miranda Butson, and Ellen Lazarus Golden....In Tokyo, Kimmochi Eguchi has been busy on behalf of Bates, arranging social events for NESCAC alumni in Japan, helping with Bates col-