and viral videos, Gilmore’s mad exertions before the camera seem less strange than strangely fascinating. In one video after another, the New York City-based artist, usually dressed in very feminine regalia, like a cocktail dress and high heels, takes on some mildly preposterous physical challenge,” Time said, adding that “there’s real physical risk involved” in her performances. “There’s no stunt double, no CGI, and no net, just a resolute woman keeping on.” See Summer 2009 Bates Magazine.... Gavin King, an assistant professor at the Univ. of Missouri, returned to Bates last spring to give a physics lecture on “A Precision Force Microscope for Biophysics.” He earned a Ph.D. from Harvard in 2004.... Rob Mirabile, vice president for research at Maguire Associates in Concord, Mass., returned to Bates in March to take part in a panel discussion on careers in psychology.
Kelsey MacMillan Banfield ’99
98 l reunion 2013, June 7–9 l Class Committee: Robert R. Curtis, 960 MacArthur Dr., Ballston Spa NY 12020, robcurtis@eatonvance .com; Douglas R. Beers, 14 Prescott Ct., Basking Ridge NJ 07920, douglas.beers@gmail.com; Liam Leduc Clarke and Renee Leduc Clarke, 639 Lamont St. NW, Washington DC 20010, ldlc639@yahoo .com and rleducclarke@yahoo.com; Tyler W. Munoz, Unit 3, 24 Upton St., Boston MA 02118, Tyler. Munoz@avenuea-razorfish.com K–2 students at the Paul Smith Elementary School in Franklin, N.H., were all ears when they concluded their study of the Olympic Games by hearing from 2006 Olympic skier Justin Freeman, according to The Citizen. “I like competing and seeing what I can do. Giving it my all on any given day — it’s a good feeling,” he told the children. Twice an All-American skier for Bates, Justin now teaches mathematics and physics at New Hampton School and also coaches cycling. He told the children he has raced in places from Alaska to Australia. He explained that the ringing of cowbells is a longstanding tradition in crosscountry skiing. “The bells get so loud you can’t hear anything. They give you energy to get up the hills.”... Anne Tommaso, a high school English teacher in Yarmouth, Maine, who is pursuing a master’s degree through the Bread Loaf School of English, received a 2010 Barlow Alumni Travel Grant from Bates to study for six weeks at Bread Loaf’s campus at Oxford Univ.’s Lincoln College. She will also use the grant to travel within the country. Anne writes, “This visit to England means so much to me as a reader and writer. It will give me an opportunity to further my learning and fuel my enthusiasm, which is so central to my teaching. As I keep an active class Web site, I will dedicate part of it to document my journey in an online journal, open to students, that will be an extension of my classroom to evidence my own learning and foster an intellectual conversation beyond its walls.” The travel grants, made possible by David Barlow ’79, offer teachers the opportunity to advance their educational and professional goals.
99 l reunion 2014, June 6–8 l Class Secretary: Jennifer Lemkin Bouchard, 369 W. Windsor Dr., Bloomingdale IL 60108, jlemkin@ alumni.bates.edu Class President: Jamie Ascenzo Trickett, 35 Fairview Ave., Reading MA 01867, jamie.trickett@gmail.com The New York Times described how Arin Arbus, an acclaimed off-Broadway director, does theater work with prison inmates at the all-male, medium-security Woodbourne Correctional Facility, 100 miles north of New York City, in a program called Rehabilitation Through the Arts. A theater colleague, Jeffrey Horowitz, describes her style: “Some directors awe people. Arin does something else: She draws people out. People want to share with her.” See the feature story on Arin on page 16.
Recipes for Success Kelsey MacMillan Banfield ’99 has always loved to make food. From the Christmas cookies she baked with her parents growing up to the elaborate meals she cooked early on in her marriage, she found the process deeply satisfying. Then, three years ago, daughter Daphne was born, and free time got scarce for the stay-athome mom. “I’d either put something gross on the table, or I’d try to start cooking from scratch at 5 o’clock, and I would be exhausted,” she says. The advice she got — use frozen food or do takeout — felt wrong to her. “It told me that cooking wasn’t fun. But I loved making good food.” Soon she realized that she could break down most cooking tasks to 30-minute chunks while her daughter was napping, and then assemble everything just before mealtime. The food was more sophisticated than the 15-minute meals touted on magazine covers yet didn’t require long stretches of uninterrupted time. That epiphany led Banfield to create The Naptime Chef blog in early 2009, a site that now garners more than 25,000 hits each month.
00 l reunion 2015, June 12–14 l Class Secretary: Cynthia Macht Link, 17 W. 73rd St., Apt. 2F, New York NY 10023, cynthiamacht@ hotmail.com Class Co-Presidents: Jennifer Glassman Jacobs, 107 W. 68th St., Apt. 1D, New York, NY 10023, jenniferglassman@gmail.com; Megan H. Shelley, 329 Branch Dr., Silver Spring MD 20901, mhshelley@aol.com After traveling to Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Malawi in 2009–10, Claire Donohue has moved to Haiti. After the earthquake, she supported the Save the Children response in Miami and then in Haiti. “It has been a crazy start to 2010.”... Jason Goldman gave a talk at Bates on “Concealed Exposures: Jay DeFeo and The Rose in Public and Private.” A Ph.D. candidate in art history at the Univ. of Southern California, Jason is at work on his dissertation, “Open Secrets: Publicity, Privacy, and Histories of American Art, 1958–69.” He examines a range of suppressed, underground, or otherwise non-public artworks that were long invisible to art history and now, as “open secrets,” remain at the margins of the discipline.... Elizabeth Merrill is a
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The blog started with just a few recipes and photos but has since expanded to embrace the Web’s social media: webisodes on Vimeo, Twitter posts (where she’s amassed more than 1,600 followers), and a Facebook fan page. Her clever recipes often give familiar favorites a new twist — artichoke rosemary pizza, baked zucchini and tomatoes, and butter chocolate almond cookies — while her conversational tone leaves readers and viewers undaunted. For Banfield, starting a blog was a no-brainer. “If I wanted to test the waters and see if food writing was really my passion, this was a way to do it from home,” she says. “All the tools are out there, and they’re free.” With just a few hours a week to devote to the blog, she’s had to be strategic about sending out links on Twitter, promoting her blog to readers and the media, and drawing a fine line between public and private information. “[A blog] allows you to set out your history, and it allows people to be a part of your life,” she says. “But I also have to maintain some privacy, so I have to be cautious.” For now, it appears she’s found the perfect balance: Recently named a Top 50 Mom Food Blogger by Babble, she’s a daily columnist for its food blog, The Family Kitchen. She also writes a weekly column for New York Family Magazine and the Mahopac News. As successful as she’s been, Banfield — who recently moved with her family from Manhattan to Connecticut — hopes that embracing new media will lead her toward an old-media goal. “I really want to write a cookbook,” she says. “That’s my dream.”
supervising psychologist at St. Luke’s–Roosevelt Hospital Center and is also part of the center’s Faculty Practice, “where I see private-practice patients and love doing therapy in English and Spanish. In my free time I frequently like to sign up for New York Road Runners races in Central Park and travel abroad. I also love having my best friend Cynthia Link in the same hood!”... In a co-written article in The Huffington Post, authors Lena Sene and J. Skyler Fernandes addressed Africa’s “missing middle,” a term that can describe the scarcity of small and medium enterprises in African countries as well as the lack of capital targeted at these SMEs. “No matter what the term...refers to,” they wrote, “a thriving SME base leads to substantial economic and social growth, and explains why this issue is so important to Africa and the developing world.” The authors addressed their call to action to U.S. banks: “Wall Street banks that already have a presence in emerging markets could and should both reshape their missions and improve their images by adopting a more social-oriented and yet profitable approach to investing.” Lena, a former White House Fellow who earned an M.B.A. from Harvard in 2009, is completing the mid-career master’s in public administration
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