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of Forestry & Environmental Studies, continuing and loving her work in land conservation.... Kate Carlucci has a new job in primary care research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.... Maggie Dembinski bought a house in Plymouth, Vt., with her boyfriend, a metal sculptor, and officially launched her business, Star Healing, for empowerment, meditation, and spiritual healing....Lauren Demers is a second-year Ph.D. student in developmental psychopathology and clinical science at the Univ. of Minnesota....Emily Egan teaches English at Kennebunk High School. In her summer role as the sailing director at Portland Yacht Club, she recruits members of the Bates Sailing team to join the club coaching staff....Hank Geng traveled to Berlin and Copenhagen with his boyfriend, Eric....Steph Sprague and Peter Haley are engaged and plan to be married in October 2017. They live in Boston with their rescue dog Rex....AnnaMarie Martino now works at Morgan Stanley in Minneapolis. She lives west of the Twin Cities with her girlfriend Kelsey and their dogs Baylie and Bubba.... Holly McLaughlin is attending the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. She’s joined in New Haven by fellow Bobcats (now Bob-dogs) Katie Straw, Elliott West, Eve Boyce, Adrienne Jaeger, Corey Creedon ’12, Nathalie Woolworth ’10, Hannah Beinecke ’16, and Connor Hogan ’10....Danya Morris now works as a structural firefighter after studying and obtaining licensure in Ohio. “This career path was sparked by the WFR I first took at Bates years ago, organized by the Bates Outing Club.”…Fergus Moynihan is working on a medical device with a surgeon at the Children’s Hospital of Colorado. He graduates in May with a master’s in mechanical engineering.... Marketa Ort earned an M.A. in elementary and special education from Columbia Univ. Teachers College....Corinna Parisi, now in Boston, is still involved in theater and had a show in December, “The Christmas Revels 2016 — An Acadian-Cajun Celebration of the Winter Solstice.”
2014 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class co-presidents Hally Bert hallybert@gmail.com Mildred Aroko mildredaroko@gmail.com Allie Balter completed fieldwork in Antarctica for her master’s thesis at UMaine Orono. The work will determine the stability of the East Antarctic ice sheet during past periods of warmer-than-present climate, an analog for future warming.... Polly Merck is working on a master’s in mental health counseling and behavioral medicine
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at Boston Univ....Sarah Murphy began a doctoral program in food science at Cornell....Emma Reichart is getting her physician assistant/MHS degree at Quinnipiac Univ....Brad Reynolds is studying for a master’s in social science at the Univ. of Helsinki. He worked as a trainee at Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty and is an intern at the U.S. Embassy in Armenia this spring....Best of N.J. caught up with Eric Ruta, founder of Magnify Brewing Co. in Fairfield and the youngest brewery owner in New Jersey. Since its opening in 2015, “Magnify exploded onto the NJ beer scene with their constantly rotating draft list of different styles and innovations,” the magazine said. Eric, an environmental studies and philosophy major, worked a low-level marketing job at Baxter Brewing to learn the business. “Personally, I don’t recommend starting a brewery because people have to realize that I put in 80 hours a week.” But “the hard work does pay off. We’re not just making good beer, selling it all out, and making a profit. We’re building a community of people who really love beer and make friends along the way.”…Natalie Shribman, who began studying to be a rabbi in 2015 in Jerusalem, is continuing her studies in Cincinnati and serves as a student rabbi for a congregation in Columbus, Ind. She remains an avid runner and Bates supporter....Bojian Sun traveled to Iceland last year with three other Bates alums. “We took a dope group picture in an underground ice cave displaying a Bates tote bag.”…Chelsea Thompson and Benjamin Russell were married Sept. 3, 2016.... Emily White started at Brown Univ.’s Warren Alpert School of Medicine in the class of 2020.
2015
teaching, learning, and conducting research on the topics of classroom community and how I am going to use what I have learned in my own classrooms in the Bronx, N.Y.”…Cam Kaubris helped launch tech startup OpsGenie’s sales team in Boston pre-series A funding. OpsGenie received funding for $10 million for a go-to-market strategy....Myriam Kelly works at Westover School in Middlebury, Conn., in the Global Programs Dept. and coaches the varsity squash team. An outstanding squash player at Bates, she was a member of the NY squash team that won the national A Division Howe Cup tournament last year....Caroline Kern is enrolled in the Yale School of Nursing to be a nurse-midwifery/women’s health nurse practitioner.... Eileen Lam is excited to work for Hightower, a New York tech startup that is changing the commercial real estate industry. “It is significant and meaningful being a woman of color in two industries that have been historically dominated by white men.”…Danielle Muñoz works as a program coordinator at American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Washington.... Graham Oxman teaches in the Boston area....Nate Pajka is an assistant case manager in the Clinical Trials Office for Partners HealthCare in Boston.... Emily Regan expects to earn her MPH in healthcare management at BU’s School of Public Health by 2019. She continues working in epidemiologic research.... Adnan Shami Shah is pursuing a Ph.D. in chemistry and chemical biology at Cornell.... Hillary Throckmorton works as a recruiter at Insight Global in Boston for accounting, finance, and engineering.
2016
Reunion 2020, June 12–14
Reunion 2021, June 11–13
class co-presidents James Brissenden james@brissenden.org Benjamin Smiley bensmiley32@gmail.com
class co-presidents Sally Ryerson sallyryerson@gmail.com Andre Brittis-Tannenbaum andrebt44@gmail.com
“It is significant and meaningful being a woman of color in two industries that have historically been dominated by white men,” says Eileen Lam ’15 of her work for Hightower. Barbara Crespo is a Fulbright English teaching assistant in Sololá, Guatemala, working in the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala Altiplano. “This experience has enhanced my passion for
John Albanese traveled around South America with his girlfriend, Claudia Krasnow ’18, who was studying in Buenos Aires....Max Alley and Sarah Koe both are at LinkedIn in San Francisco, working on the same team in college recruiting.... Gordon Batchelder works at Facebook as a public content reviewer....Emma Bilodeau is a social worker for the Maine Dept. of Health and Human Services in Lewiston....Ashley Bryant has begun a Fulbright English teaching assistantship in Belém, Brazil....Detmer Kremer works at Atlanta Habitat for Humanity through Quaker Voluntary Service while also researching and writing for the indigenous rights nonprofit Cultural Survival....
Sasha Lennon got Lyme disease last summer, lost her Peace Corps medical clearance, and now works as a FoodCorps member in western Maine....Karen Lockhart was named an assistant coach on the Amherst College men’s soccer coaching staff, a rare opportunity for a woman. According to the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, 96–98 percent of all collegiate men are coached by men. A two-sport standout in soccer and softball at Bates, Karen was excited to join the staff of the defending Division III national champions last fall. She told the Daily Hampshire Gazette, “Coach (Justin) Serpone reached out to me and was very gracious about being open to having a woman on board.” Serpone said his wife coaches women’s lacrosse at UMass, “and I think sometimes my voice is great for them to hear because it’s a guy and they have a staff of all women. For our guys, it’s refreshing to hear from a female coach because they hear from guys all the time. Variety is a good thing.”…Melissa Paione was named assistant swimming coach at Middlebury College. An outstanding swimmer at Bates, she broke four school records as a senior....Luis Pereira got his credential of readiness certificate from Harvard Business School....Bianca Sanchez is teaching English for a second year under the JET Program in Hiroshima, Japan. “I first came here to rediscover my Japanese heritage; my great-grandfather was born on Izu Oshima, an island close to Tokyo.”…Kelsey Schober, embarked on her Watson Fellowship, is living in Hobart, Tasmania, and working with the Salamanca Arts Centre to organize Tasmania’s first dance festival....Emily Stone is a teacher at Beginnings School in Weston, Mass.