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earned a master’s in higher education administration....Isabelle Curran is studying medicine at Albany (N.Y.) Medical College.... Kate DeAngelis works as a sales development representative at GitHub in San Francisco.... Ryan Espiritu lives in New York and works as an equity research analyst with Credit Suisse. He won the International Monetary Fund-wide Management Award; he was selected by IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde for the best original work on inequality issues....Kate Fetrow loves being a second-year law student at Stanford. She started working at Women’s Link Worldwide in Madrid, and still works for it remotely as a consultant. She’s also on the board of a number of student groups on issues of reproductive justice, human rights, and refugee rights....Linnea Fulton works as a clinical research coordinator at Massachusetts General Hospital. She’s starting a master’s in physician assistant studies and plans to run the Boston Marathon in support of the Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Program at the MassGeneral Hospital for Children....Henry Geng works at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He was promoted to individual giving officer, taking on fundraising duties within the areas of cancer, surgery, ob/gyn, and newborn medicine....Will Gibney reports he’s on track to help open Portland’s first natural wine bar, Drifters Wife, in 2016....Alyson Goldstein is getting a doctorate in clinical psychology and school psychology with a fellowship from the Neubauer Family Foundation on implementing behavior support in local public schools....Nora Hanagan and Owen Minott ’14 were named two of the “30 most eligible men and women in education and nonprofits” by Hinge, a popular dating app that introduces users to friends of friends. The list was reported by Business Insider. Nora is a program coordinator at EF College Study Tours in Cambridge, Mass., and received a 2013 Fulbright English teaching assistantship for work in Turkey. Owen was awarded a 2014 Fulbright English teaching assistantship for Brazil....John Laude lives in San Francisco where he’s a consultant with Accenture.... Kevin Lentini lives in Boston and works as an English and history teacher at North Reading High School....Bev Levene lives in Juneau, Alaska, where she’s a park ranger for the Tongass National Forest....Elise Levesque lives in New York City and works as an assistant account executive for Alembic Unlimited....Alex Henrie is a history teacher at St. Mark’s Episcopal School in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla....Adrienne Jaeger works as a clinical research coordinator at Massachusetts General Hospital. She’s also applying to nurse practitioner programs.... Mary Lewis is a graduate student
and teaching assistant at North Carolina State Univ....Conor Maginn was accepted to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Initial Flight Training (flight school). “In a few years I will serve as a NOAA aviator supporting diverse research missions across the country.”...AnnaMarie Martino lives in Burnsville, Minn., and works as a behavioral therapist with Minnesota Autism Center. “I work with fifth graders with autism spectrum disorder. It’s a blast! My girlfriend and I have two dogs. I play softball weekly during the summer, on four different teams.”...Holly McLaughlin lives in Brooklyn and works for the Rainforest Alliance as a coordinator in external affairs. Preparing to scuba dive Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, she reports that when she’s not taking “scuba certification classes in the basement pools of New York skyscrapers, I spend my time dancing, cooking, and exploring New York.”...Rachel Morrison is working toward a master’s in marine geosciences at the Univ. of Kiel in Germany....Lucas Milliken is a history teacher at Carrabassett Valley Academy....Pamela Ross does marketing coordination and project management at Columbia Threadneedle Investments, a mutual funds company in Boston....Blake Shafer is a glacier guide on Fox Glacier in Westland, New Zealand. “My office is the mountains and I commute on a helicopter! Getting to use my Mandarin to lead Chinese tour groups.”...Katharine Straw started graduate school at Yale School of Nursing after working at Dana-Farber for two years....Catherine Tuttle has been teaching high school English as a Peace Corps volunteer in southern Albania....Caroline Ulwick was promoted to digital account executive at Edelman, though her parents still tell people that she “works in computers.” She’s also taking classes in and performing improv comedy around New York City....Elenor van Gemeren works with horses and competes in three-day eventing throughout the U.S. She’s earning a master’s in education through the Univ. of Hartford while also getting a primary Montessori certification. “I hope to one day open a Montessori farm school.”...Elisabeth White started a master’s in library and information science at St. Catherine Univ. in St. Paul, Minn. “It’s quite a shift from my undergrad experience in biochem, but I couldn’t be happier. My ultimate career goal is to become a reference librarian for a medical or academic research library.”
2014 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class co-presidents Hally Bert hallybert@gmail.com Mildred Aroko mildredaroko@gmail.com
In a talk to local eighth-graders, medical school student and Lewiston native Jenny Bergeron ’14 grabbed their attention when she said she’d held lungs and brains in her hands. Katie Ailes has made a film version of the piece “Polos” that she created in a Bates dance composition course. At Bates, she transformed an oft-told story about her childhood dance teacher into a poem and dance. And now she’s used film to give the story even more life. An English and dance major, she moved to Glasgow after graduation, supported by a Fulbright research award, to begin a doctorate in English at the Univ. of Strathclyde.... Jenny Bergeron made quite an impression as the star speaker at a program to help Lewiston eighth-graders transition to high school, the Sun Journal reported. “Wearing her white coat,” she “really grabbed the attention of 324 eighth-graders when she talked about holding lungs and brains in her Tufts Univ. School of Medicine class.” The Lewiston native, who plans to become a cardiologist and return to Maine, was the first Bates student accepted into Tufts’ Maine Track Program....In Riverside, Conn., Greenwich Time interviewed Ashley Braunthal before the Fulbright recipient headed to the Arctic Sea to study climate science. She planned to take core samples from the ocean floor off Greenland, then begin a research residency at the Univ. of Bergen in Norway. “I’m really looking forward to working with real scientists, doing research, and writing projects,” she said.... Mohdis Delijani is now a scientist-associate at IDEXX Laboratories in Portland where she grows cells and infects them to produce antigens/antibodies that eventually go into diagnostic test kits. She was also selected as the youngest member of the YMCA board....Claire Kershko is now an investment analyst at Business Intelligence Advisors in Boston.... Bethel Kifle is the college’s Civic Leadership Post-Baccalaureate Fellow this academic year. She works with the Harward Center, Student Affairs, and community partners to support Bates’ civic mission....Natalie Shribman began her studies to become a Reform rabbi at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. As a resident and student of Israel, she has observed the elements and holy days of the Jewish calendar unfold in her neighborhood. She has led weekday morning and Shabbat
morning services, chanted Torah, and become highly proficient in Hebrew. She continues to pursue running.
2015 Reunion 2020 June 12–14 class co-presidents James Brissenden james@brissenden.org Benjamin Smiley bensmiley32@gmail.com The Boston Globe interviewed Sean Enos a week after he departed Lewiston with a geology degree and as a nine-time All-American in track and field. Besides looking for an entry-level job as a geologist, he plans “to focus on hammer and I want to see where I can go with it.”... The Lynn Journal talked with Josh Freedland about his new business, Brain and Body Performance in Marblehead, Mass., that seeks to improve athletic ability through neuroplasticity training. Josh, who graduated with a degree in psychology, said the severe concussion he sustained in his junior season with the Bates football team sparked his interest in the brain and its relation to athletics. “I wrote my senior thesis on concussion attitudes in collegiate football players.” The study earned him the honor of being the only undergraduate to present his thesis at the Assn. for Applied Sports Psychology Regional Conference....Reporting from Frankfurt, Germany, where she’s teaching English at a Gesamtschule, Danielle Munoz says she enjoys giving presentations about the U.S. to German high school students, all part of her Fulbright Teaching Assistantship. Gabe Nudel works as director of communications for a startup that created Gi FlyBike, an instantly foldable, electric, smart bike built for urban commuting. It was created by three friends in Argentina. Gabe, who studied abroad in Cordoba, Argentina, wrote the page for the Kickstarter campaign that raised over $430,000 for the company last fall....Patrick Tolosky received a $10,000 grant from Davis Projects for Peace for his Q’eros Health Initiative project. He will work with the Q’eros people in the Andes of Peru to build a center for preventative healthcare. His project will also be supported by materials contributed by Baystate Health in Massachusetts, and the efforts of Willka Yachay, a not-for-profit founded by Hanna Rae Porst ’11 as a result of a previous DPP grant.
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