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systems and she’s not teaching middle school German....Michael Greene, in Watertown, Mass., teaches ESL to international students and keeps his hand in woodworking....Sue Grubba Rice leads the HR team at Thermo Fisher Scientific....Beth Holmes Bradley teaches math half time and enjoys the pace.... Mark Hurvitt has successfully navigated school politics for 10 years as superintendent in the towns of Blue Hill, Brooksville, Castine, Penobscot, and Surry.... Linda Kerr and her husband are on the faculty of Landmark College in Putney, Vt....Cathie Kimball is still practicing at Inland Hospital in Waterville.... John Kistenmacher now lives in Brunswick....Nick Kofos, an optometrist in Marlboro, Mass., has spent lots of time at Bates with all three kids, Monthe ’11, Zachary ’13, and Leah ’15....Joyce Kornetsky Groemmer, director of marketing for a hospitality group on Cape Cod, has jumped back into her art making....Jon Land, in Savannah, Ga., works in the cybersecurity market at Carbon Black....Mike Lane and Deb enjoyed visiting their JYA daughter in Italy....Janet Leary-Prowse and Spencer ’82 live in Delaware but look forward to retiring in a few years to Saco, Maine....Lucinda Lohman teaches American law at a Japanese law school and looks forward to retiring to her Portland, Maine, condo....Hakan Lonnqvist enjoys life in Sweden....Sue MacDonald works as a jewelry designer with Primavera Jewelry....Phil Marshall and family enjoy life in Denmark, Maine....Mary Mihalakos Martuscello practices law with her husband Henry....Glenn Morrell, in Carrabassett Valley, works as a business architect with United Health Care....Boon and Beth Hefferman Ooi split their time between Hollywood, Fla., and Washington, D.C. He looks forward to retirement in July.... Carol Perrone-Butler works at Mass General Hospital in nursing....Sue Pierce Gorman works in financial and tax accounting at a firm in Sudbury, Mass....Betsy Pohl celebrated 25 years as director of the Lithgow Public Library in Augusta. Daughter Erica ’12 graduated from Harvard Divinity School....Kris Posey-Rogers lives in Southern California and works in the tech industry....Ann Prince now works as a freelance editor and preschool teacher.... Pierre Redmond is a part-time rancher and ski instructor near Lake Tahoe....Dan Scully is president and CEO of Hotel California Tequila....Brad Smith does a lot of international travel in his position at KPMG....John and JoAnne Brambley Stillmun downsized and moved into Philadelphia....Alicia Tierney Guinee enjoys visiting Bates with her Bates ’15 and ’19 sons. She works in an elementary school library.... Geoff Tolzmann enjoys riding
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his bike and Portland when he’s not wrangling 130-plus physicians at Spectrum Medical....Jeff and Lisa Jepson Wahlstrom love living in Bangor and working in leadership consulting and fundraising....Mark Weaver and Heidi Duncanson ’82 live in coastal New Hampshire. He’s the primary probate division judge in Rockingham County....Bob Whytock works at Spectrum Business and plays keyboards professionally in his spare time.
1981 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Katherine Baker Lovell cklovell@verizon.net class president Kathleen Tucker Burke sburke4155@aol.com Lillian Buckley enjoys the challenge of being the interim pastor at the First Baptist Church of Exeter, N.H....After publishing hundreds of poems, essays, stories, and articles, Jane Cynewski Elkin is finally getting serious about her writing and going back to school for an MFA at Bennington....David Donelan and Allison celebrated their 25th anniversary....Miles Edwards is now senior vice president and head of retirement operations at Voya Financial....In Portland, Ore., Karen Just Graham says her work as a PI really suits her. “I get to use my Spanish on some cases, and in general my native curiosity (my kids say I’ve always been an investigator) to help work on criminal defense cases which challenges me and takes me into many crazy worlds.” She stays in touch with Minoo Malek Saghri and Kate Hickson and on occasion Susan MacDougall and Priscilla Kidder....Betsy Kennedy had a great first year as rehab director and OT at a psych nursing facility near Madison, Wis. At Reunion and later she was happy to visit with Marcy Plavin. “I have no doubt the angels have already started a dance group under her amazing leadership and inspiration.”…Valerie Lasserre Coppens, in Paris, manages her trade associations in refrigerated transport and logistics full time. The side benefits are frequent travels across Europe for conferences....Paul Morin, a chiropractor for over 32 years in Auburn, was elected president of the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners.... Ed O’Neil, an emergency room doctor in Boston and faculty member at the Tufts School of Medicine, returned to Bates to speak on “Lessons From a Life in Global Health: How to Change Our World, Here and Abroad.”… Richard Stern and Cynthia celebrated his 35th Reunion at Bates and their 35th anniversary last November with a trip to India.
1982 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Jerry Donahoe maineescape@aol.com class president Neil Jamieson njlaw@maine.rr.com
1983 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Leigh Peltier leighp727@gmail.com class co-presidents James D. Tobin jamestobin@att.net Terence M. Welch twelch@mfs.com David Arenstam, a teacher at Thornton Academy in Saco, published his debut novel, Homecoming: A Soldier’s Story of Loyalty, Courage, and Redemption. It’s based on interviews and news stories about Russell Warriner, a Vietnam veteran and Old Orchard Beach resident.... Donna Bailey is honored and humbled to have been elected state representative for Maine House District 14 in Saco.... Nancy Blackburn Sparks and Larry enjoy visiting their two oldest sons at Bates, Daniel ’18 and David ’20....Laurie Carlson Taylor and Keith ’82 report son Gilbert ’15 graduated from Bates....Julie Handren Bell is a librarian at Mercersburg Academy, a private high school in south central Pennsylvania. Husband David teaches and coaches and their two daughters are students there....Ina Hanford Cottingham has become an empty nester, been divorced, and converted to Catholicism. She, Jessica Ryan, and Jayne DePanfilis have traveled to Aruba for a week each year....Architect Laura Howard has won three Shutze Awards for architecture in Atlanta since 2011....PJ Johnson and Dawn Dearden were married Sept. 27, 2014.... Dr. Michael Kirk now works in a small family medicine office in Kennett Square, Pa. He and Elaine relocated closer to family in southeast Pennsylvania.... Andy Kling and his co-authors published the second edition of their guide, The Woods in Your Backyard: Learning to Create and Enhance Natural Areas Around Your Home....George Liacopulos, in Egg Harbor Township, N.J., is a priest at Holy Trinity Church and president of the Orthodox Christian Mission Center....Colleen O’Connell Jimenez has reconnected with many Bates buddies including Mark Murray-Brown ’82, Ellen Wilkinson ’82, Martha Kellerhals-Djerf, Alex Strunc ’81, Karen George, and Martha Donelan....Matthew Paige, a senior scientist at Owens
Corning Fiberglass, returned to Bates to give a geology talk on “A Foray into Industrial Minerals and Their Applications.”… Leigh Peltier married longtime partner Christopher on Sept. 15, 2016. They travel often and in Chicago always see her Bates roommate Clare Federspiel Hounsell. Leigh has also seen Kathryn Whitenack, Terry Welch, Stephanie Poster, Mary Couillard Sneller, Shari Sagan McQuirk, Denise Mooney, and Nancy Foley Battaglino....Frank Petras is now the executive director of Atria Maplewood Place, an assisted-living community in Malden, Mass....Martha Pigott Donelan is the executive director of the Casa del Herrero, a museum in Santa Barbara, Calif....Kai Rose, in Clinton, Mass., is a physician assistant of dermatology and also works for Beachbody as a coach fighting obesity....Laurie Sevigny is in her 31st year of teaching. She enjoyed a reunion with Jim Tobin and PJ Johnson Dearden, and shares great times with Susan Doliner ’81....Megan Shea teaches English at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Conn....Lisa Veilleux Piker is fixed-income managing director at Cigna in Bloomfield, Conn. “I often see Nancy Blackburn Sparks, Donna Preli Sonberg (’82), Kathy Doocy Overbye (’81), and Julie Zyla (’82) as they all work at Cigna too!”… David Wolf enjoyed an inspired transition with his family to the Washington, D.C., area. He’s the rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, a multicultural, bilingual parish. He has run into David Cloutier, Janet Morford, and Jerry Donahoe ’82....Ken Worthy teaches courses in environmental values, psychology, culture, and ethics at several campuses around San Francisco including UC Berkeley. He has a blog on Psychology Today called “The Green Mind.”
1984 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Heidi Lovett blueoceanheidi@aol.com class president Linda Cohen linda@lscdesignstudio.com Carrie Berman continues to work as a special educational consultant in the Hartford area for children in state custody. She also advocates for people with disabilities....Susanna Burger Muzzin is the children, youth, and family minister at Hope Lutheran Church in Farmington Hills, Mich. She’s working on a M.Div. at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minn., and toward ordination in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.... Cheryl Croteau Orr lost her husband, Steve, in July 2014. She