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in a month. Kate, a mother of two who is married to Mark ’03, is a marketing consultant by day, and knows how exposing people to a simple, memorable message can help it stick in their minds, the Inquirer said. “That’s the whole logic behind saturating Glenside,” she said, laughing. “But I don’t think anyone is under the false assumption that buying a sign means they’ve done their part.”… Jesse Laflamme shared with Forbes his “5 Lessons For Building A Sustainable Company.” As a Bates student, he founded Pete & Gerry’s Organic Eggs on his New Hampshire family farm, now the largest free-range egg producer in the country, in an industry dominated by Big Ag. It currently supports a network of more than 125 small family farms. Among his tips for growing a sustainable business: Listen to consumers. “The voices of consumers who are driving the growth of sustainable and humane products are the compass that a company like ours must follow.” Be transparent and honest. “With authenticity, you must be prepared to have your consumers see both the good and the imperfect, and remain honest about it.” Small is big. “When it comes to food, people instinctively know that care and sustainability are more likely to be found on a family scale farm.”…Jennifer Merlis completed her emergency medicine residency at the Univ. of Minnesota in 2013 and is a staff physician in the ED at St. Mary’s Hospital (Essentia Health) in Duluth, Minn....Elizabeth Merrill is now a supervising psychologist at the Department of Veterans Affairs in central Illinois. She and Lawson Rudasill share a home in Champaign with their dog Barney....Sasha Rickard Knight welcomed Zandria Natania Knight on May 21, 2016.
2001 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Noah Petro npetro@gmail.com class co-presidents Jodi Winterton Cobb jodimcobb@gmail.com Kate Hagstrom Lepore khlepore@gmail.com Matt Carriker is the Protestant chaplain at Brandeis Univ. He is also the founding pastor of a new spiritual community, Agape, in Waltham, Mass....Tossy Garrett celebrated 15 years in business as the owner, designer, and jeweler for Tossy Dawn Designs in her native Vermont. “Running a business, raising two children, and tending to a homestead keep me plenty busy!”…Réjean Guerriero, Kelsie, and their two little boys moved to St. Louis when he joined the pediatric neurology faculty at Washington Univ. and St. Louis Children’s Hospital....
Philadelphia-based photojournalist Mark Makela covered the 2016 presidential campaign and produced a picture-essay for The Guardian in which he discussed his experiences shooting the campaign’s various stages and selected some of his favorite images. “For me,” he said, “the real magic (of a campaign) rarely occurs on stage, but lives in the periphery, with quiet moments that can be quirky, offbeat, and even comical.” His images included one of Hillary Clinton at a South Carolina café surrounded by men from a bachelor party who happened to be gathering there for breakfast, and ghoulish Halloween decorations sharing a lawn with a Trump campaign sign in Pennsylvania....Bridie McGreavy received the Christine Oravec Award for her article “Resilience as Discourse,” published in 2016 in Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture. The award is given to the most important article written in the field of environmental communication each year....Attorney Amanda Meader joined the Auburn law firm of Skelton Taintor & Abbott....Julia Phelan Sylla now works for the American Councils for International Education. She’s program manager for a State Department scholarship for U.S. high school students to study critical languages overseas under the National Security Language Initiative for Youth. She lives in Alexandria, Va., with husband Ben, Madeline (5), and Nathaniel (1).
2002 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Stephanie L. Eby steph.eby@gmail.com class co-presidents Jay Surdukowski surdukowski@sulloway.com Drew G. Weymouth weymouthd@gmail.com Naturopath Dr. JooRi Jun joined the Tolt River Family Medicine clinic in Carnation. Wash.... Vanessa Kalter-Long Ford and her husband Ron shared their experiences as parents of a young transgender child, including a first-person essay in The Washington Post. They did so after a federal directive to public schools about accommodations for transgender students sparked backlash in some states. “The national conversation about transgender people — about our daughter, Ellie — isn’t truly about bathrooms,” Vanessa and Ron wrote. “It is about discrimination.” They added: “Our daughter, like thousands of transgender and gender non-conforming children, does not want special treatment. She wants to make friends, to learn, to participate in sports, to go trick-or-treating on Halloween and wear