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year gifts, or serving as career advisors for the BCDC, you always go the extra mile to support the college and the Bates community.”…Dan Hoffman retired from government service. “I’m enjoying the glorious private sector and more time with my wife Kim and sons Jerron and Nathan. Still trying to stay in shape with swimming and other activities so I can chase down my kids. And in my spare time, playing Nirvana songs on my guitar.”…Mike Hogan received a Bates’ Best award for being one of the college’s “most active volunteers, coast to coast.” His citation reads, in part, “Through your involvement in the Bay Area Bates Network, you helped coordinate a volunteer leadership seminar to ensure a splendid turnout for the San Francisco Campaign launch event. As a member of the Alumni Council, you were one of an intrepid few to attend all three Campaign launch events in Boston, New York City, and San Francisco. Through your business travels as senior vice president for Charles Schwab in San Francisco, you make yourself available to meet with Bates alumni across the country, keeping them connected to their alma mater. And by making Bates a philanthropic priority, you have provided students with financial aid support so that they can take advantage of a Bates education.”… Clarissa Hunter Basch still lives and works at The Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, Conn., as the director of college counseling. “Each crop of students brings new challenges, so the work is never dull.” She and Alan enjoy summer weekends with (and without!) their kids at their lake home in East Haddam....After 17-plus years with Genentech, Patty Lemay Lufburrow “found a great company with passionate people and inspiring patients — BioMarin Pharmaceutics. Working on solutions for people with rare diseases is my new purposeful work.” She and Bob are still in California and enjoy coming back to see Emily ’19 on campus....Bill Locke will celebrate a momentous moment with daughter Madeline ’18 when she graduates in May.... Lance Matthiesen and Tracey are close to becoming empty nesters. After 20-plus years in the private sector, he remains committed to the social sector and for five years has been part of a great organization, Management Leadership for Tomorrow. He reconnected with Kevin Pomfret, John Luddy, Mark Rees, and AJ Johnson....C.J. May studied water magic in the desert to bring his new environmental magic show, “The Water Wizard,” up to the Vegas level. The residency allowed him to work closely with master magician Jeff McBride....Camille McKayle, provost at the Univ. of the Virgin Islands, reports that last fall’s two Category 5 hurricanes (Irma and Maria) “took my home when they left.
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In comfortable temporary housing, but now the rebuild begins. We resumed classes on Oct. 9, with its own set of challenges (spotty Internet, generator power, curfew, etc.). Looking forward to a smooth spring.”…Meg McNamara, who moved to San Francisco in 1990 for residency training in pediatrics, has stayed on as faculty at UC San Francisco. She teaches and develops curriculum in the medical school and cares for patients at the local county safety net hospital. “Our young patients at the General Hospital are from indigent families, mainly immigrants, and many have been deeply, personally affected by recent political turmoil. It is amazing to reflect on the way the seemingly disparate threads from my college majors of biology and Spanish and my fascination with politics that grew throughout my time at Bates have woven together over the years. I give tremendous credit to my inspiring Bates mentors, Professor Joe Pelliccia and Professor Reggie Harrison, for their encouragement to pursue medicine since it’s a great way to combine all those interests.” She and husband Jeff Clayton have enjoyed occasional visits with Diane Olivera Hagerty, Laura Hollingsworth, and Eric Price.... Susan Menzer celebrated her 27th year with the U.S. Department of Justice; she now serves as an assistant U.S. attorney in Raleigh, N.C. Her husband enjoys the numerous golf courses. Both sons are nearby. She gets back to New England as much as she can for yoga teacher training. She earned her second 500-hour certification from the Kripalu Center....Rediscovering a long-buried passion for the visual arts, Eric Price left a 30-year career in book publishing and is now a candidate for an MFA in painting at the New York Academy of Art. “Thank you to all of my Batesies who have been supportive, including Dan MacDonald, Meg McNamara, and Allison Webster Matlack.”…Jim Ross’ career has been focused on re-engineering U.S. equity trading and markets, but his passion has been advocating for people with disabilities. He chairs the Westport (Conn.) Commission on People with Disabilities “to help ensure that people with disabilities have the opportunity and support to live lives of independence, inclusion, and self-determination. I credit Bates for promoting the importance and power of individual impact through public service.” He enjoys staying in touch with Dan Hoffman and Pete Cassat.... Sean Ryan continues his private practice in ob/gyn in Amsterdam, N.Y., and started a new business, MedSpa Amsterdam. He and Yvonne met up with several Bates grads as they hosted a gathering in NYC....Allison Webster Matlack still runs her educational consulting business, which has brought her back in
touch with classmates in a variety of ways. “Some of my favorite people I reconnected with last year were my roommates Cathy O’Keeffe and Stephanie Wood. I’m glad to have both of them back in my life.”
1986 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class co-presidents Erica Seifert Plunkett ericasplunkett@gmail.com Anne Robertson mnannetom@gmail.com Bill Walsh messagebill@gmail.com Catherine Lathrop Strahan catstrahan@gmail.com In Italy, Sean Carlos passed the Italian real estate broker certification exam covering tax, legal, and technical areas.... Jon Green’s son Joshua will be a freshman this fall at Pacific Lutheran Univ. from which his brother Matthew graduates this spring. Jon has worked with the Washington State Department of Early Learning for over 10 years. Wife Sue teaches music. “Did I mention it rains a lot during the winter here in Olympia? I must say I preferred the snow during winters in Lewiston!”…Alice Miller, who has 30 years of real estate expertise, was promoted to vice president and managing broker of Coldwell Banker’s sales office in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass….Joanna Stevens and her partner, Aimee Eckman, enjoyed a long weekend visit with Sharon Williams and her family in Arlington, Va. “We loved exploring the DC area via city bikes and were positively spoiled by Sharon’s wonderful cooking! We also have a new dog in our life named Ozma, whom we inherited from our daughter Emma, now a sophomore at UMass-Amherst. Like mother like daughter ... I ‘gifted’ my dog to my parents soon after college when I realized I couldn’t take adequate care of him!”
1987 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Val Brickates Kennedy brickates@gmail.com class president Erica Rowell erica@ericarowell.com
“In the midst of the exquisite pain on the rowing machine,” Arnold Robinson ’87 thinks back to his Bates rowing teammates. “Who’s up for a Founders’ Row at the new Bates boathouse?”
John Abbott lives in Jericho, Vt., with wife Katy, Cally (8), and Hazen (6). He directs the outdoor programs and is a senior lecturer in the Univ. of Vermont’s Rubenstein School for the Environment and Natural Resources. Last fall he was part of a Maine-based expedition that retraced Benedict Arnold’s 1775 attempt to take Quebec City from the British. “My friend Hodding Carter, father of Annabelle Carter (’18), and I built a replica bateau that we rowed, paddled, poled, and portaged across 350 miles in six weeks.” In June, he and his family traveled to Peru’s Cordillera Blanca range for a month of trekking and mountain biking....Joyce Bareikis El Kouarti works in Washington, D.C., as a public affairs specialist for the U.S. Forest Service....Rich Barnard’s youngest son Harrison (14) achieved Eagle Scout, making him the proud dad of two Eagle Scouts. Both boys are also following in dad’s footsteps in competitive swimming....Virginia Berman quit her job of 20 years with organic coffee fair-trader Equal Exchange to co-found a design firm, Invent Boston. “Our first product, the Two Minute Turtle, is aimed at getting children 4-11 to brush their teeth more thoroughly by helping them visualize where and how long to brush. We’re making them in our basement and selling them through our webstore.”…Jacqui Drain Cronin continues to teach Spanish and coach (strength and conditioning) at the Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, Mass. She enjoyed a 2016-17 sabbatical and traveled to Mexico for Day of the Dead celebrations and research. She’s organizing a teachers’ literature seminar for June in Cuernavaca. When not working, she enjoys time at the beach with her family in Cape Cod and teaching Pilates and Barre classes....After 20 years in France, David Farrington moved back to the USA with his wife and daughter. He works for the same company, a French shipbuilder, and is now based in Annapolis, Md....Nate Grove finished his master’s in education at UNH. His daughter is a freshman at Colgate with the son of Jeff Zacks and the daughter of Dave Tobin.... Kari Heistad started a second company in the field of diversity, a tech company called The Diversity Dashboard, which helps companies measure their diversity work. She also enjoys being part of the WIN Lab Boston business accelerator program.... Mark Kausel reconnected with Jennifer Gibbons ’89. He loves working at RevCycle+.... Regina Marchi is the co-author of a new book, Young People and the Future of News: Social Media and the Rise of Connective Journalism (Cambridge Univ. Press). Based on 10 years of ethnographic research, it discusses how youth under 21 learn about news and develop a sense of political consciousness and civic