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business and civic community, and joining the police force would be a natural progression. “I think when public officials are as reflective of the community as possible, that’s a benefit to everyone.” Erin, director of the Trinity Jubilee Center, said all sorts of people call Lewiston home, “and the reality is, folks get along. They are neighbors, their kids play together.”...Tasha Rosener Friedell welcomed a baby, Wyatt, in August 2014. She teaches lifeguarding and coaches diving at Stevenson High School in Pebble Beach, Calif....Jon Stange is finishing a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Temple and completing a clinical internship at the Univ. of Illinois at Chicago.... Dar Vanderbeck loves living in Atlanta with husband Andy Saxon. She has a new, exciting role leading the social innovation and entrepreneurship team at Teach For America. “I get to work with thousands of former teachers who are launching new models, schools, ventures — and beyond — to accelerate the movement for educational equity.”
2009 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class co-presidents Timothy Gay timothy.s.gay@gmail.com Arsalan Suhail arsalansuhail@gmail.com Maggie Lloyd and Ilana Adler-Bell were married in June 2015. They live in Newburgh, N.Y., where Ilana works as an elementary school reading teacher and Maggie is the chef of a new restaurant....Charlotte Bair-Cucchiaro and John Ames were married July 18, 2015. She works as a marketing manager in New York with Google. He’s a vice president of the Wafra Investment Advisory Group.... Grace Burton co-authored an article on trade policy and the federal African Growth and Opportunity Act. Writing in the newsletter Agri-Pulse, Grace and a colleague said it is crucial to ensure technical assistance and trade capacity-building for farmers is included and that the role of agriculture within AGOA be expanded. Grace is a program officer of global agriculture and food at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs....Leah Citrin was ordained as a rabbi after completing five years of rabbinical school at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. She’s now an assistant rabbi at Temple Beth Or in Raleigh, N.C. She’s engaged to Brian Nelson. She officiated at the wedding of Justin Faurer ’10....Jon Desmarais moved to Berlin and heads up sales operations for EF Education, a Swedish-based international education company. “I previously worked with EF in Boston where there remains a strong Bates contingency!”...Margaret Feinberg and Zachary Gorin were married
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June 13, 2015. She’s a senior internal strategy consultant for IBM in New York. He’s an account supervisor for Edelman, a public relations firm....Emma Halas-O’Connor joined the board of Maine Citizens for Clean Elections. She works as coalition and grassroots advocacy coordinator for the Maine-based Environmental Health Strategy Center....Kolby Hume lives in Portsmouth, N.H., and teaches global studies, AP U.S. history, and honors economics courses at Coe-Brown Northwood Academy. She also works with the school’s theater company as a director, movement coach, and choreographer. She’s acted in more than 10 productions at several theater companies and is working toward a M.A. in history....After finishing her year as a Dorot Fellow, Ariane Mandell settled in Tel Aviv where she works as the manager of resource development at Kav LaOved, an NGO that protects disenfranchised workers’ rights. She also taught a course on public speaking at Shalem College in Jerusalem, and thanks the Bates debate team for qualifying her for that....The Press Herald talked with Portland business partners Nick Mazuroski and Mike Mwenedata, founders of Rwanda Bean Co. and philanthropists. By buying coffee beans directly from a farmer’s cooperative in Rwanda’s Karora province, they cut out the middleman and pay the farmers more. Moreover, they’ve pledged to return 50 percent of the company’s profits to the farming community. Mike, the only member of his family to survive the 1994 Rwanda genocide, and Nick met in 2013. Nick, who has a background in food services, says, “What drives me is equitably compensating the farmers.”... Eliza O’Neil is working toward a master’s in education at Harvard while seeing Bates friends up north whenever possible. She enjoyed a giant Bates reunion at Celeste Ladd’s wedding in Maine....Nicole Ritchie and doubles rowing partner Lindsay Meyer represented the U.S. in the Pan Am Games in Toronto last July and won two silver medals. Nicole was captain of the Bates rowing team and was named a First Team All-American three years in a row....Jeremy Rogalski is in his seventh season with the Boston Bruins, now as the team’s hockey operations assistant. “I learned so much about the intricacies of the game from the coaching staff, and I am very passionate about continuing to pursue a career in hockey operations (and hopefully being part of another Stanley Cup winner)!” He and his girlfriend live in Lynnfield....Tim Whiton, a former Bates Nordic skier, won the 2015 Sugarloaf Uphill Climb. He completed the grueling, 2.5-mile course that leads to Sugarloaf’s 4,237-foot summit in 29 minutes, 14 seconds....Laura Will and
Dave Nicholson (Middlebury ’06) were married in August 2015. A nurse practitioner, she works for Commonwealth Care Alliance, a not-for-profit that provides care for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries with complex medical needs in the Boston area.
2010 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class co-presidents Brianna Bakow brianna.bakow@gmail.com Vantiel Elizabeth Duncan vantielelizabeth.duncan@gmail. com Christina Lewis and Will Brunnquell were married Aug. 15, 2015. She’s pursuing a Ph.D. in medical physics at the Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison. He’s an attorney at Faegre Baker Daniels in Minneapolis....Toby Childs joined Mama Hope as a Global Advocate Fellow and now works on expanding St. Timothy’s School in Moshi, Tanzania. Mama Hope, based in San Francisco, trains impact entrepreneurs around the globe and works with partner communities....Sarah Ewing and Laura Lokitis were married Sept. 5, 2015....Kelly Gollogly and Mark Sperber announced their engagement. She works as a background painter and designer at Nickelodeon Animation Studios in Burbank, Calif. He’s a story artist at Sony Pictures Animation Studios....Leo Gottlieb passed the CPA exams....Lisa Hartung obtained her “professional in human resources” certification from HRCI and is now the HR manager at Eller Capital Partners, a real estate investment firm in Chapel Hill, N.C....Andrew Johnson is editor and creative director of a new Chicago lifestyle magazine, North....Gina Petracca and Brendan Julian were married July 11, 2015. She’s finishing her master’s in nutrition science at Boston Univ. and started her internship to become a registered dietitian. He started his master’s at Northeastern in project management....Chomba Kaluba was featured in a Press Herald story about Portland’s first apartment building with a rooftop garden and four-season greenhouse. “The residents support each other and are growing every single day, enjoying life and thriving,” said Chomba, a resident gardener who named his patch of the greenhouse Peace Garden....Ellen Patterson ’11 and Dan LaFontaine announced their engagement. She’s a medical social worker at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge. He’s a doctoral student of physical therapy at Simmons College....After five years at Under Armour in Baltimore, mostly in marketing, Ryan Mannelly headed back to school at the Univ. of Michigan’s Ross School of Business to get an MBA. “I will graduate in 2017 with a focus in marketing to hopefully go
into the CPG world.”...Kristen Moreau bicycled cross-country north to south, following the full length of the Mississippi River.... Glynnis Nadel is the co-founder and executive and artistic director of the Gypsy Lew Theater Company, a new traveling theater company in Lewiston-Auburn. She directed its first play, Beth Henley’s Abundance....Harry Poole, who works in New York City, talked with the Press Herald about running with his family in the Beach to Beacon 10K race in Cape Elizabeth every August. “It’s the pinnacle race that everyone wants to do whether they’re fast or slow or whatever, which is a good problem to have.”...Molly Radis finished grad school at Yale and moved to Bend, Ore., to work at Central Oregon Pediatric Associates as a pediatric nurse practitioner....Laura Smith earned a master’s of public health with a concentration in physical activity and healthy lifestyles. She now works for the Boulder (Colo.) Valley School District as the programs and grants coordinator for the School Food Project....Emma Sprague received the Distinguished Young Alumni Award for her exceptional volunteer service to Bates and distinction in her career. She helped develop the BOLD (Bobcats of the Last Decade) Regional Coordinator Program that helps organize Bates in the City programming to welcome the newest alumni to their host cities. A founding partner of the Franklin Forum in Washington, a firm that provides media training and support for progressive messengers and messaging, she serves as associate director of outreach and engagement while also consulting with the firm KNP Communications. A member of the Alumni Council, she has served as a Bates Fund class agent, helping young alumni develop their own philanthropic relationship with the college, and she joined the Mount David Society in 2012. “Emma, your passion and hard work have built a firm foundation for our efforts to engage young Bates alumni,” her citation reads.
2011 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class co-presidents Theodore Sutherland theodoresutherland89@gmail. com Patrick Williams dapatch20002000@yahoo.com Diane Brackett is in her final year of medical school at the Univ. of Central Florida and expects to find out this March “if I’m on my way to becoming a pathologist! I hope to eventually complete a fellowship in pediatric pathology.”...Ross Brockman, who cofounded Downeast Cider House, told The Boston Globe about his zeal to remain authentic as the company grows. “The