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practices law in downtown Los Angeles, focusing on appeals and insurance coverage, and still runs marathons and other distances....Leigh Michl lives in Waitsfield, Vt., but spends lots of time in Munich, Budapest, and Dubai with his company, Ultimus, a developer of rapid application development software. He welcomed his fourth child, Maximilian, in May 2013....Earle and Pam Rawson Morse ’85 live at Sugarloaf. She’s working on her doctorate, he’s working at his home furnishings company and the Sugarloaf Chapel....Rick Pinard and Brad Reynolds ’14 got together in Prague, where Rick works for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty as deputy director, market insight and evaluation, and Brad did an internship in the communications department. Rick wrote, “He’s really a bright young man, and it was great fun to have another Bobcat here.”…Jeff Trombly joined Ledyard National Bank’s wealth management firm in Concord, N.H.
1985 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Elissa Bass bass.elissa@yahoo.com class president Lisa Virello virello@comcast.net Graham Anderson crafts the infrastructure that keeps the Gannett Co.’s reporters and workers productive on their client and mobile devices. Shannon Billings is CFO/chief of staff at a D.C.-based nonprofit, the American Council for Young Political Leaders. They’ve had visits from Gregory Johnson, Michael Fanning, and Patricia Lemay Lufborrow....Adam Caper launched a new company, dineoutwith.us, an app that restaurants use to sell customized, “experience dining” packages to people who want to host dinner parties for their friends at Boston-area restaurants....Dana De Nault and family now live in the San Francisco Bay Area after an amazing 2.5-year experience in Brazil....Clarissa Hunter Basch finds rewarding, inspiring work as the director of college counseling at The Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, Conn....Bill Locke had a great time in China visiting his Bates ’18 daughter.... Rich Maloney is now a clinical associate professor and director of the performing arts administration graduate program at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development....Lance Matthiesen had an awesome reunion with Bates roommates Dave Graves ’86 and Alex Johnson as well as Karin Boone ’87....CJ May performed his “Recycling is Magic”
show in Iceland in partnership with Iceland’s most prominent environmental organization. As part of their 25th anniversary, he and Becky had a splendid happenchance visit with Graham Anderson and Shannon Billings....Kim Miller LaCelle traveled to Rwanda with a team of teachers to work with preschool teachers developing science lessons....Eddie Rayden produces award-winning industrial video and TV spots for clients like AAA and CVS. He and Heidi Eysenbach-Rayden ’87 celebrate their 25th anniversary this fall.
rick pedone ’hj kent sinclair ’hf penelope taylor ’jf
1986 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class co-presidents Erica Seifert Plunkett ericasplunkett@gmail.com Anne Robertson anne-tom@juno.com Bill Walsh messagebill@gmail.com Catherine Lathrop Strahan strahanc@comcast.net Writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jamie Merisotis said the next administration should build on the Obama administration’s efforts to make higher education more affordable and accessible, including supporting community colleges. “Nearly half of students who are parents attend community colleges, as do many students who work full time. By making the success of those colleges a concern, the administration also emphasized the success of the students they serve.” A Bates trustee, Jamie is chief executive of the Lumina Foundation.... Kate O’Connor is a new trustee of The Brattleboro (Vt.) Retreat, a psychiatric hospital and addictions treatment center.... Erica Seifert Plunkett received a Bates’ Best award. As a class co-president and social chair for the Class of 1986’s Reunion, she “made sure her class’ 30th was both merry and marvelous,” her citation reads in part. “Erica led the social committee in choosing a theme and costume for the Alumni Parade — we adored the ‘vintage’ look, by the way — and she worked the phone, as well as email, snail-mail, and social media, to rally her classmates.... Erica, through your efforts and unfailing goodwill, you helped show the Class of 1986 that Bates is forever their home — and a joyous one at that.”
Perfect Day to Be Great On what Pennie Taylor ’06 said was a “perfect” September day, a chance crossing of paths brought together, from left, Rick Pedone ’80, Kent Sinclair ’86, and Pennie on the Franconia Ridge Trail in New Hampshire. For this pounce (a name describing a group of bobcats), it was more than a perfect day: It was a great day to be a Bobcat.
1987 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Val Brickates Kennedy brickates@gmail.com class president Peggy Brosnahan mmb263@cornell.edu
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