takeaway:
bat e s no t e s
Ashley Murray Muspratt ’02 pretty dresses on her birthday. And, yes, she wants to use the bathroom that matches her gender identity when she needs to pee. Not because that’s special treatment, but because that’s the same treatment everyone else receives. Our daughter wants to be included, just like everyone else.”…Jen Stankiewicz received the Western Governors Univ. Excellence in Student Mentoring Award for 2016. She reports she also randomly married, and is accepting (cash) gifts to fund her next graduate degree.
2003 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class co-presidents Kirstin Boehm-McCarthy kirstincboehm@gmail.com Melissa Wilcox Yanagi melissa.yanagi@staples.com
Patrick Boyaggi ’03’s company, RateGravity, was awarded a $50,000 Gold Prize at the MassChallenge Boston Awards. The Hollywood Reporter named Whit Albohm, vice president of studio production for Fox Sports 1, to its annual list of “Hollywood’s Up-and-Comers 35 and Under.” When it became clear professional athletics wasn’t a feasible career goal, the Reporter said, Whit settled on sports programming and got a job as a runner at NBC Sports. In 2004, he caught the attention of Jamie Horowitz, who hired him as a production assistant. “He took me under his wing,” Whit said of the prominent sports exec, whom he later followed to ESPN and Fox Sports. He has helped revamp Fox’s daily multisport studio shows by focusing on opinion-driven content. Asked about his quirkiest work habit, he said: “I am an overaggressive note taker. It doesn’t matter what I’m doing — I’m taking notes during it. I can take notes about my notes.”…Diana Birney Pooley and Matt ’05, along with big brother Nathan and big sister Nayla, welcomed twins Emma Margaret and Caleb James on March 7, 2016. They live in Albuquerque....Patrick Boyaggi’s company, RateGravity, was awarded a $50,000 Gold Prize at the MassChallenge Boston Awards, a not-for-profit “accelerator” and competition for early-stage entrepreneurs. Patrick, CEO of the Boston technology company, and his co-founders say RateGravity “redefines how consumers finance their homes by eliminating the salesperson and providing a solution to compare, choose, and close with vetted local lenders, saving tens of thou-
sands of dollars in interest.” In an article he wrote, Patrick said two Bates students, Julia Rosen ’18 and Ethan Blitstein ’18, both math majors who were summer interns at RateGravity, also get credit for the award. “Julia and Ethan put their math acumen to work by helping us to develop an innovative predictive analytics tool that will transform the way buyers find the most suitable lender for home financing.”… Brandon Breen is busy working on his debut children’s novel, The Story of Gander....Sam Goldman received the Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for Young Leadership from the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund of the Bay Area. Co-chair of the federation’s LGBT Alliance, he was recognized for his work to make sure the Jewish community is inclusive and thriving. He works as the California program director at the Conservation Lands Foundation....Matteo Pangallo is in the last of his three years as a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard. His book, Playwriting Playgoers in Shakespeare’s Theater, will be published by the Univ. of Pennsylvania Press in August....David Rice is now a vice president of investments in a new partnership, Park Square Financial Advisors of Pittsfield, Mass., affiliated with Raymond James....Nathan Rogers started residency training as a psychiatrist at the Univ. of California Riverside. He enjoys the mountains in California with his pug Mack and documenting their adventures on Mack’s popular Instagram profile....Melissa Wilcox Yanagi, a member of the Boston Bates Business Network for a decade and chair of the network’s steering committee for the past four years, received a Bates’ Best award. Led by Melissa, the committee has drawn upon the business acumen and expertise of Bates graduates to assemble a powerful and informative series of events that advances the interests of the region’s alumni business community. “Melissa, with your degree in economics from Bates, your MBA from Stanford, and the insight you have acquired through your steadily advancing roles in the world of business — most recently as director of 3D visualization for Wayfair Supply in Boston — you are ideally suited to guide the Boston Bates Business Network,” her citation says.
2004 Reunion 2019, June 7–9
media outlet:
BBC World News Horizons
headline: Poo to fuel
date:
August 2016
takeaway: Human-waste biofuel could meet Africa’s need for power A video story by the BBC World News show Horizons focuses on a Rwanda-based company founded by Ashley Murray Muspratt ’02 that turns solid human waste into biofuel for industrial kilns and boilers in the cement and textile industry. The sanitized and odorless fuel has 20 percent more energy and 10 percent less moisture than other biomass fuels. “Africa needs power,” says Horizons host Adam Shaw, and access to power is seen as a key factor in the continent’s economic development. “Our mission is to radically reduce the cost of waste treatment for developing cities by producing valuable fuel from human waste,” Muspratt tells reporter Fiona Mbabazi. “In the U.S., we treat waste as a disposal problem rather than a resource. We have a huge market opportunity across the African continent and beyond.”
class co-presidents Eduardo Crespo eduardo.crespo.r@gmail.com Tanya Schwartz tanya.schwartz@gmail.com Matt Baline, Lorraine, and big sister Lily welcomed Maggie Ruth in March 2016. They now live in Midland, Texas....Amanda Spring 2017
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