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23 Story of the Carnegie horse.

(Hint: It's a stinker!)

24 Benjamin Mays ’20 never forgot Bates.

And vice-versa.

36 Spencer homes in on the Bates mindset.

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Senior debaters Cat Djang and Ben Smith advanced, or “broke,” to the elimination rounds at the World Universities Debating Championship in Berlin in January, the first Bates team to accomplish the feat since 1999. Story: bates.edu/debate-world

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“Instead of gazing at a flat image of nature, imagine being awash in sensations.” Page 28

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FROM A DISTANCE

Letters Bates In Brief Amusements Features Notes History Lesson From a Distance

Bates photographer Mike Bradley captured President Spencer’s inauguration from the office of tennis coach Paul Gastonguay ’89.

Some points of interest:

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One of three video camera operators for the livestream.

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Delegates representing 72 colleges and universities.

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President Spencer’s mother, father, siblings.

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Platform party including former presidents Harward, Cable, Hansen.

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Stage superstructure designed in-house by Michael Reidy, theater department chair and managing director of theater and dance (story, page 8).

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Sign language interpreter Meryl Troop, a regular at major campus events.

Take a closer look at how climbing keeps Chester Chiao ’13 mentally “in check.” Page 8

EMILY KANE, PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY Source: Kane’s new book, The Gender Trap: Parents and the Pitfalls of Raising Boys and Girls (NYU Press, 2012)

Gender is not a straightforward amplification of underlying biological differences between males and females; rather, gender is constructed through social processes and enforced through social mechanisms.

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Redesign By about a 10–1 margin, readers approved of the Bates Magazine makeover. Some said the perfect binding — rather than saddle stitched — makes the magazine hard to keep open. Hint: The binding is more malleable than you might think!

Sample comments: Outstanding job! As an enthusiastic alum (and a long, long-retired IBM manager of graphic design), I “happily pronounce” the new number intelligent, inviting and a joy to both read and behold. An encore may well present a challenge, but the timing for Clayton Spencer’s arrival is exquisite. Heartiest congratulations.

Jonas Klein ’54

Falmouth, Maine We’re on the beach in Florida reading Bates Magazine. It is fantastic.

Bates Parent

By phone

I have mixed feelings about the new format for Bates Magazine. It doesn’t read easily from left to right, given all the marginal notes, boxes and extended captions. It reminds me of The One-Page Magazine feature in The New York Times magazine. The Bates format is better, but not much.

Overall, I think it’s trying too hard to be cute or different, but it’s always good to see if there’s a better way than “the way we’ve always done it.”

Lyn Whiston ’66

Glen Ellyn, Ill.

Redesign comments at bates .edu/magazine/redesign/ reactions. — Editor

Lofty Perspective The aerial campus photo (“From a Distance,” Spring 2012) vividly reminded me of what Bates has meant to me.

In 1994, I arrived with great intentions of becoming a physician. Two pivotal events

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that fall allowed that path to change — for the better.

First, President Donald Harward welcomed us by urging us to “pursue paths of ambiguity.” What I took from this speech was that Bates was ready for us to experience life in new ways we hadn’t even yet imagined.

Second was meeting Stuart Abelson ’97, president of the Bates Aviators. Full of contagious energy and excitement, Stuart urged me and other flying enthusiasts not only to join the club, but also to try an introductory flight at the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport.

I did, becoming enamored with flying that fall even as I discovered my shortcomings in chemistry. I considered leaving Bates to attend an aviation-specific college but stayed to pursue my own paths of ambiguity.

I majored in Spanish, spent a year abroad in Costa Rica (where I met my wife) and wrote a thesis in Spanish literature with the gracious guidance of Professor Baltasar Fra-Molinero.

After earning my private pilot’s license (and floatplane license at Twitchell’s Airport in Turner), I frequently took Batesies on aerial tours of campus and Maine, working at Security and Campus Safety and Twin Cities Air Service to support this new passion.

My post-Bates life found me pursuing my passion.

After several years as a flight instructor and charter pilot in New England, life brought my wife and me to the paradisiac island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, where I flew a nine-passenger propeller plane on short flights between Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

Now a Canadair Regional Jet captain for a Delta Connection carrier, Pinnacle Airlines, I still look back very fondly on those formative days as a pilot, Bates student and citizen of the world.

Thanks for putting together a great magazine.

Thanks to Bates for encouraging students to be themselves and open their eyes to the world.

David Tzeutschler ’98

St. Paul, Minn.

“Hobo Jungles” Explained I read President Clayton Spencer’s inaugural address, “Questions Worth Asking,” with great interest and appreciation.

In her address, President Spencer comments on the importance of the GI Bill in expanding educational opportunities for a diverse pool of human talent. She contrasts that legacy with fears expressed by Robert Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago at the time of the GI Bill’s passage, who said that “colleges and universities will find themselves converted into educational hobo jungles” as a result of the act.

Some might take from this quotation that Hutchins did not share President Spencer’s belief in the importance of openness and opportunity in higher education.

On the contrary. In his 1944 essay in Collier’s, from which the “hobo jungle” language is taken, Hutchins notes that U.S. higher education has been the “preserve of the relatively rich,” and notes hopefully that the GI Bill seeks to incorporate “into our national policy the principle that there must be no relation between the education of a citizen and the income of parents.”

What, then, were the concerns Hutchins had with the GI Bill?

He explained that because “educational institutions, as the big-time football racket shows, cannot resist money,” they would be distracted from a commitment to their mission by the revenues to be gained from the GI Bill.

Colleges, he said, “will not want to keep out unqualified veterans; they will not want to expel those who fail.”

Further, Hutchins worried that the principle of educational opportunity embodied in the GI Bill would be discredited when educators faced students more concerned with vocational assistance than a liberal arts education. And he worried that such students might feel defrauded by

receiving an education ill-suited to helping them find employment.

Today, some universities have indeed taken on aspects of Hutchins’ feared hobo jungle, as students seek educational credentials not out of intellectual curiosity or commitment to academia but because they need jobs.

Today’s applicants to Bates seek the benefits of the college’s commitment to an excellent liberal arts education, but they are also concerned with the price and affordability of the education they are paying for.

Hutchins’ concerns still seem valid, even as institutions like Bates have avoided the demoralization he feared. I suspect he would, in fact, be heartened by the optimism reflected in President Spencer’s approach to today’s important educational questions and by the enthusiastic response she has elicited so far from the Bates community.

James “Rocky” Query

Philadelphia

President Spencer’s inaugural address is at bates.edu/ inauguration. Read about Nate Boone ’52 and the GI Bill on page 52. — Editor

In his letter, Rocky Query explains the misgivings about the GI Bill in 1944 that President Spencer alluded to in her inaugural address.

While the union of excellence and opportunity embodied in GI Bill was old hat for Bates, the return of older servicemen and their families to Bates did shake up the campus scene, as suggested by the cover photo of the May 1947 Bulletin, showing Joseph LaRochelle ’44 and his 1-year-old daughter, Mary Jo — now Mary Jo LaRochelle McBride-Beece ’68.

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Blue Bobcats Our statement that no Blue Devil from Lewiston High School “in recent memory” had played baseball for Bates before Mekae Hyde ’15 and Alex Parker ’15 joined the team last year prompted a couple letters.

“Recent memory” probably is right, but my not-so-recent memory contains the following: Larry Quimby ’52 was the son of Professor Brooks Quimby and Inez Robinson Quimby, both Class of 1918.

He graduated from Lewiston High, and I played with him — he was an excellent pitcher.

His senior thesis was on the history of baseball.

Dave Harkins ’53 was an excellent catcher on our team, and a Lewiston High graduate.

Fred Lebel ’53 was a good player who was at Bates for a year or so, at a time when freshmen couldn’t play varsity sports.

Jim Moody ’53

Cape Elizabeth, Maine The late Norm Parent ’50 was a legendary Lewiston High School football coach and Lewiston High grad who played on the 1946 Glass Bowl football team in addition to baseball.

Marc Levasseur ’84 was a LHS grad who played baseball when the baseball field was where the Village is now.

And Matt Madden ’87 played baseball; his son Chris ’16 is now at Bates.

Jim Taylor

Lewiston, Maine Taylor is head athletics equipment manager. — Editor

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In the Bates Outing Club meeting room, there was some uncertainty about the provenance of their decades-old gear — the Windsor benches, road signs, the kayak suspended from the ceiling.

This was in January, right before the BOC’s big move from Alumni Gym, its home since 1929, into renovated space in Chase Hall.

Take the vintage photo of women in formalwear. It depicts not Southern debutantes, as some BOC members thought, but the queen of a Bates Winter Carnival.

This lapse is understandable. BOC leaders turn over every semester (and the student body every four years), slowly rinsing away historical knowledge.

Plus, as Bates anthropologist Elizabeth Eames points out, our society relies on the written word to preserve history. The BOC’s own publications and meeting minutes notwithstanding, an oral society would tend to pass down the meeting room’s history through various “spoken, visual or kinetic” rituals, says Eames.

Long ago, Bates history was imparted through such “age-grade” rituals, “difficult yet meaningful” initiations where elders shared Bates knowledge with newcomers.

Back then, new students learned history during the hazing rite called “Freshman Rules.” The venerable Harry Rowe delivered a signature lecture on Bates traditions, a practice kept up on a smaller scale by recently retired administrator Bill Hiss ’66.

Actually, it’s not essential for a group to know the history of something it reveres, says Eames’ colleague Loring Danforth.

For example, the origin of the club’s beloved “Ma Bell” award, a mangled remnant of a bicycle that goes to the BOCer who survives a risky experience, has several versions. The correct one is that Laird Allen ’83, biking in Auburn in 1981, rear-ended a telephone truck while wearing a Bell helmet, hence “Ma Bell.”

The BOC reveres the Ma Bell Award the way someone might value hearing Mass in Latin, “without understanding the words,” Danforth said.

Meeting-room items aside, kudos to the BOC for generally being keenly aware of its place in Bates history, thanks to adviser and elder Judy Marden ’66 and BOC alumni who remind the club of its traditions and responsibilities in Maine.

Beyond the BOC, students learn Bates history from professors who use the robust resources of the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library in their coursework. And the athletics programs turn to the Archives to reify Bobcat history.

How Bates’ past will influence our future is a hot topic this cold winter.

First, alumni engagement (volunteerism and fundraising) depends on students becoming alumni who understand Bates history.

Second, President Spencer invoked our history of “standing firmly on principle and encountering the world with energy and confidence” during her inaugural address. This Bates “mindset” readies us to “engage robustly and effectively with the forces that are reshaping our world.”

In that spirit, this issue offers stories about both the past — looking at Benjamin Mays ’20 and about the Gomes Chapel — and current concerns, including our ecopsychology-inspired cover essay about beauty, mindfulness and nature; and our take on Spencer’s inaugural message.

H. Jay Burns, Editor magazine@bates.edu

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Three prospective brides explode with anger, resentment and helplessness over their forced marriages in this scene from a Bates production of the play Big Love.

From left, Allie Freed ’16 of Magnolia, Mass., Brittney Davis ’14 of Chicago and Hanna Allerton ’15 of Brooklyn, N.Y.

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Climbing the Walls Chester Chiao ’13 of Taipei, Taiwan What are you doing in this picture?

I am training for endurance: keeping myself on the wall as long as possible.

Why do you climb?

I ask myself that question when I am 500 feet above ground on a vertical rock face, freezing my butt off. Weirdly enough, I think climbing keeps me sane.

Climbing helps me discover my limits, face my fears and overcome them.

It also teaches me how to be both physically and mentally in check.

How does climbing fit into your Bates life?

My buddies and I always look for adventures on the weekends — trying to get on multi-pitch climbs in North Conway, N.H., or pulling on hard sport climbs in Shagg Crag, about 15 miles east of Bethel, Maine.

Does your style differ from other Bates climbers?

I am smaller than most climbers at Bates (and the rest of the world). I have to come up with different “beta,” ways or sequences to do a certain climb, and be more dynamic to reach faraway holds.

Why climb shirtless?

Climbing without a shirt is a big part of the bouldering culture. They say it makes you climb harder. Maybe that’s true, or maybe they just want to show off their back muscles. I took my shirt off because it was really hot in the gym, and I didn’t have another shirt to change into before dinner. Plus, I’m too scrawny to show off anything.

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About 10 percent of Bates graduates go directly to graduate school.

Bates students coordinate more than 100 organizations and clubs on campus.

Admission deans now read student applications online rather than in hard copy.

Capping It Off

How You Talk

This bespoke investment piece earned top honors at the 2012 Trashion Show. And why not? Model Annie Cravero ’13 of Hanover, N.H., rocks a skirt fashioned from thrifted plastic bags (similar in quality to that four-season Maine fabric, the blue tarp), bags that last fall hauled AESOP trail mix. The leaf-bag bodice is studded with tabs and caps donated by students. As one alumna noted on Facebook, “I would so wear that bottle cap number.” So chica.

“I am taking a vow of silence in protest of a recent hate speech incident,” the sign read.

“Stop hate speech at Bates.”

Wearing that sign and letting it speak for him for 12 hours on Nov. 1 was Phillip Dube ’16 of Norton, Zimbabwe. In one of the more effective acts of protest on a campus that has seen its share, Dube undertook his public vow of silence in response to a racial slur directed at him.

Dube was hurt and shocked when, in his own dorm room, a fellow student used the slur against him during a social gathering. It was an encounter “not consistent with what I thought about Bates,” he told The Bates Student.

And he didn’t just swallow it: Instead, he pressed silence into service as an eloquent comment about the poison of hateful language on campus.

Campus reaction was widespread and sympathetic.

President Spencer praised him for parlaying a negative experience into a focus for reflection. Commons fell silent for a minute in his support. And geology professor Beverly Johnson, who teaches Dube in a course, devoted class time to a consciousness-raising exercise in which students were asked to recount their own experiences of hate speech, at Bates or elsewhere.

“There are 18 students in the class,” Dube told the Student, Student “and everyone had something to say.” — dlh

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Football players grieve for their teammate during an Oct. 11 memorial service in the Gomes Chapel honoring Troy Pappas ’16, who died Oct. 5 of injuries suffered in a fall down a Parker Hall stairwell. Related story in Sports (pg. 14) and Pappas’ obituary (pg. 91).

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The Green Bikes program maintains 20-plus bikes for student use.

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Not Hathorn Hall but Nash House (1849) is the oldest campus building.

December saw an influx of pine grosbeaks — they love berries and crabapples.

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A team from Vermont-based YBVisuals captures video and photographs from their radio-controlled multicopter atop Mount David on Oct. 17, 2012.

Stage Father Michael Reidy marched into Merrill Gym with the rest of the crowd for the installation of President Clayton Spencer on Oct. 26.

But Reidy had a unique perspective on the ceremony: It all played out on a stage that he had designed.

Seeing the big stage in action “was quite a thrill, actually,” says Reidy, senior lecturer and managing director of the college’s theater and dance department.

As inaugural plans evolved last summer and fall, the number of people on stage grew to 100 or so, including the college choir, orchestra and a 19-member platform party.

With all those participants, Reidy — whose work as a top Maine theatrical designer goes back decades — knew that his stage had to provide visual organization for viewers, both in the gym and watching a live Web stream of the event.

So he rotated the footprint of the square stage approximately 45 degrees, such that a corner, bearing the podium, jutted into the audience. (The cherry-wood podium, designed by Reidy and fabricated by Facility Services craftsmen Thomas Winslow and

The People Have Spoken The newly redesigned Bates website, which debuted in November 2011, won top honors in a 2012 competition sponsored by eduStyle, a leading website for higher education Web design professionals. Bates won top honors in both the judged and People’s Choice categories for Best Overall Website, and won the popular award for Best Home Page.

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Danny Sands, also had a prowlike form that accentuated the reach toward the crowd.)

That angle opened up sightlines for the three video camera operators and the gym audience. For more visual differentiation, Reidy situated each onstage group at a different height. And, thinking of video, he composed an aluminum-and-fabric backdrop onto which different colors could be projected.

The components had a built-in twist that graced the angular stage with gentle curves.

Sheathed in translucent fabric, each column contained an opaque internal panel that gave depth and variation to the light bouncing off.

“As you walked through the space, the parts appeared to shift and change against each other,” Reidy says.

Reidy’s team also included trusty student assistants who made sure the technical aspects of two plays and a dance program over at Schaeffer Theatre, a total of 11 performances, ran like clockwork. “Without the students I really couldn’t do anything that I do,” he says, and that was more true than ever last autumn.

“It was fairly intense in our world for a couple of weeks.” — dlh

Former dining Services director christine Schwartz now heads Bates’ new events office.

Off-campus welcome Events with President Spencer are breaking event attendance records.

David Kroepsch’s uncle Robert Kroepsch ’33 established the signature Bates teaching award.

cAlENdAR BASIcS Winter 2013 March 5 Welcome Event w/President Spencer — Chicago March 7 Welcome Event w/President Spencer — Seattle

What’s in a Name?

The Kroepsch Award

At Bates, the name “Kroepsch” means great teaching: The college’s Kroepsch Award honors professors who excel in the classroom, such as the recently announced 2013 winner, Loring Danforth, Dana Professor of Anthropology.

To others, the name Kroepsch conjures memories of “Uncle Bob,” a frugal man who served cocktails to dinner guests in his car before heading into restaurants, and a noted higher-education authority who once gave three commencement speeches in one day — and submitted the feat to Guinness World Records.

“Uncle Bob” is the late Robert Kroepsch ’33, LL.D. ’71, who funded the annual Bates teaching award with his wife, Ruth.

Last fall, Robert’s grandnephew David Kroepsch (shown here) visited campus with his wife, Suzanne, to say hello to 2012 Kroepsch winner Kati Vecsey of the theater department.

Robert Kroepsch’s frugality influenced his career. For many years, he headed a consortium of public and private universities in the West that worked to eliminate the wasteful duplication of programs.

“He was really proud that someone at UC–San Diego wasn’t doing the exact same project as the University of Oregon,” David said. “It was very important to him to know that we could make more progress because of that coordinated educational effort.”

While the Kroepsch name is ubiquitous at Bates, you won’t find it in the pages of Guinness. “Uncle Bob found out there’s no category for commencement speeches,” says David. — hjb

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Pearson Appointed VP Sarah Pearson ’75 returned to her alma mater last August as the new vice president for college advancement.

In the advancement world, Pearson is considered a leader among leaders. In the 2012 book Making the Case for Leadership, Pearson is one of 10 U.S. advancement leaders profiled, and is singled out for bringing creative strategies to fundraising and engagement initiatives.

Pearson comes to Bates after serving as chief development officer of the Broad Institute of Harvard University and MIT, a leading biomedical research institution.

“Bates alumni around the globe have much to be proud of,” she says. “We are clear about our strengths, passionate about the value of Bates’ distinctive brand of liberal arts education and committed to working together to ensure that future generations will benefit from the shared Bates experience.”

Spring 2013 March 20 Welcome Event w/President Spencer — San Fransisco March TBA Welcome Event w/President Spencer — Los Angeles March 22 Honors Theses Due — Agony, ectasy, etc.

March 29 Mount David Summit — Student academic show-and-tell April 21 Short Term Begins — What’s not to like?

May 1 Honors Thesis Reception and Banquet — Cheers!

May 8 Welcome Event w/President Spencer — Portland, Maine May 9 Welcome Event w/President Spencer — Portsmouth, N.H. May 24–26 Commencement Weekend Tassels left!

June 7–9 Reunion Weekend — Step into the Bates stream June 17 Alan Goddard ’53 Golf Outing in Pursuit of the Bob Hatch Cup — Trading the gridiron for the irons June 30 Fund Year Ends — Just don’t regift us that fruitcake

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chemist Glen lawson won a $350,000 NIH grant to study cold–causing picornaviruses.

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Faculty with Forebears New tenure-track professors don’t step into a vacuum when they arrive — they often replace retired professors.

This fall, for example, neuroscientist Jason Castro succeeded John Kelsey, who started his Bates career in 1979 (when Castro was 1 year old) and retired last year. And there are bittersweet legacies, such as Paul Shea succeeding the late David Aschauer, who died of natural causes during a triathlon in 2011.

Here are the new tenure-track additions to the faculty: Who: Paul Shea, economics He succeeds: David Aschauer, passed away 2011 Why he’s an economist: To create better ways to predict consumer expectations. “Economists really don’t agree on how people form expectations,” he says. Shea seeks to model consumer expectations in a way that the theoretical people in his models “are just about as smart as the people who are actually making decisions in the economy.”

Who: Larissa Williams, biology She succeeds: Joe Pelliccia, retired Why she’s a biologist: To study the process of evolution as it happens. “I look at the differences between the genomes of animals and plants that live in clean places and in polluted places to find suggestions of how they survive in the polluted environments.”

Who: Rachel Boggia, dance

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Who: Ali Humayun Akhtar, religious studies and classical and medieval studies He succeeds: Susan Schomberg, did not return Why he’s a religious studies scholar: To interpret the medieval Mediterranean, a fascinating patchwork of Islamic and Christian kingdoms, where theologians and merchants worked in a spectrum of languages. Students of the liberal arts today, he suggests, “have the potential to become a new generation of paradigm-shifting modern polymaths in the way that Averroes, Maimonides and Aquinas shifted the historical trajectory of philosophy and science.”

Who: Raluca Cernahoschi and Jakub Kazecki, German (joint appointment) They succeed: Denis Sweet (retired) Why they’re German scholars: For Cernahoschi, it’s partly to investigate literature produced by ethnic German authors in Romania who came of age after World War II. These writers have had to position and reposition themselves vis-à-vis their country’s shifting political and social landscapes.

For Kazecki, it’s in part to explain the role of humor in wartime.

The author of Laughter in the Trenches, Trenches, Kazecki points out that humor operates in similar ways across various constructs of identity. For example, Erich Maria Remarque is considered a pacifist, but what his soldiers laugh at in All Quiet on the Western Front is “what soldiers in works by more conservative authors laugh at,” Kazecki says. “They subscribe to a similar set of values.”

She succeeds: No one — she’s the second tenuretrack dance faculty member

Who: Jason Castro, psychology

Why she’s a dance professor: Majoring in neurobiology and behavior at Cornell, she studied dance all the while.

There, she discovered the power of technology in dance when her teacher Byron Suber put her in “smart shoes” that enabled her to create her own sound score.

Why he’s a neuroscientist: “I find it fascinating that all of our ineffable experiences — smells, sounds, emotions, memories, cravings — are ultimately the products of activity in a very physical and complex object in our heads.”

He succeeds: John Kelsey (retired)

Service Return A decade ago, when Bates psychologist Michael Sargent helped Saul Miller ‘04 score an internship with prominent Harvard social psychologist Mahzarin Banaji, the scope of Sargent’s gift eluded Miller.

Miller gets it now.

“As a faculty member myself, I realize how hard it must have been for Michael to get me that internship, and what a great opportunity it was,” says Miller, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Kentucky.

Generous service to students, and to the discipline of psychology as a whole, caught the eye of the American Psychological Association. Last fall, the APA awarded the Bates psychology department its Departmental Award for Culture of Service in the Psychological Sciences.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education calls Bates a “Top Producer” of Fulbrights.

Of the 26 endowed professorships, four are in economics.

Women of the Mob England’s Peasants Revolt of 1381 is typically depicted like the mob scene in a Frankenstein movie: men rallying with pointy implements, women unseen.

But research by Sylvia Federico, associate professor of English, helped the BBC tell a different story last year.

During the 1381 revolt (over taxes, natch), women did “almost everything” that men did, Federico told the BBC. “They were not shy to pick up sticks and staves and wield them against perceived oppressors.”

Federico first published her findings back in 2001 in the scholarly article “The Imaginary Society: Women in 1381” in the Journal of British Studies. Last June, the BBC sought out Federico for its story on the anniversary of the day 631 years ago when rebels dragged Lord Chancellor Simon of Sudbury from the Tower of London and beheaded him.

The 2013 honors thesis deadline is March 22 at 3 p.m.

THIS JuST IN Recent Bates-authored articles in academic journals, including some with alumni co-authors who contributed senior thesis research.

The Effect of Mixing Events on the Dynamics of pH1N1 Outbreaks at Small Residential Colleges

Publication: Journal of American College Health • Authors: Karen Palin (biology) and Meredith Greer (mathematics) • What It Explains: Sharing lessons from the 2009 H1N1 outbreak at Bates, the authors find that small residential colleges should be aware of student mingling patterns when offering vaccine clinics during an outbreak. While helpful, such clinics tend to alter student interaction patterns, and students mingling with different students than usual can actually hasten the spread of a virus.

Chinese Fandom and Potential Marketing Strategies for Expanding the Market for American Professional Sports into China

Publication: International Journal of Sports Marketing & Sponsorship • Authors: Su Langdon (psychology) and co-author Sam Kaplan ’09 • What It Explains: Chinese fans of U.S. sports seem to appreciate aesthetics and connection to the sport more than its entertainment value, “telling us that when marketing American pro sports to Chinese, focus less on thrills and action and more on beauty and grace and sense of connection,” Langdon says.

Chronic Hyperoxia and the Development of the Carotid Body

Publication: Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology • Authors: Ryan Bavis (biology), research associate Liz Dmitrieff and Sarah Fallon ’12 • What It Explains: Additional proof that the development of the human respiratory system is more vulnerable to environmental perturbations than once thought.

Curatorial Studies on the Edge: The Ghetto Biennale, a Junkyard, and the Performance of Possibility

Publication: Journal of Curatorial Studies • Author: Myron Beasley (African American studies and American cultural studies) • What It Explains: Insights into the 2009 Ghetto Biennale in Port-auPrince, Haiti, where international artists worked alongside artists of the Grand Rue against the backdrop of international politics and national disaster, with the earthquake occurring just weeks after the Biennale.

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geaRIng up! photographs by phyllis graber jensen Will a week in the wild prepare you for Bates? Right after their AESOP pre-orientation trips returned to campus Aug. 31, and with traces of untamed Maine still upon them, these first-years posed for photographer Phyllis Graber Jensen. They returned with pots, pads and even some leftover pasta sauce — not to mention new skills, freedoms and friends.

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Our Winning Season Sept. 22: Trinity 37, Bates 16 Sept. 29: Bates 31, Tufts 23 Oct. 6: Bates 33, Williams 6 Oct. 13: Wesleyan 24, Bates 22 Oct. 20: Middlebury 38, Bates 23 Oct. 27: Bates 31, Colby 6 Nov. 3: Bates 14, Bowdoin 6 Nov. 10: Bates 47, Hamilton 33 bold = home team

Five Great Moments From last fall’s memorable football campaign — a 5–3 record (best since 1981), an outright CBB title, NESCAC co-coach of the year honors for Mark Harriman — here are five great ones.

ONE: ‘Everyone Touches’ Oct. 6, Week 3 vs. Williams, pre-game As Bates marches onto Garcelon Field, each player and coach touches the jersey of Troy Pappas ’16, a teammate who had died the day before, six days after falling down a Parker Hall stairwell.

The No. 8 jersey is held high by team captain Patrick George ’13 of Gloucester, Mass., who says over and over, “Everyone touches.”

A few days earlier, with the team grieving their gravely ill teammate, Harriman had gathered his players off campus for a special dinner at Gipper’s Sports Grill. There, he told the team that the Williams game would be played.

“That was my message: We’ve signed on to do this, now it’s time to go back to work,” he says.

As for the Bobcats’ mindset vs. Williams, a 33–6 victory one day after Pappas’ death, Harriman says, “I don’t know if a team will ever get that high again.”

TWO: ‘We’re Good’ Oct. 6, Week 3 vs. Williams, first quarter, first and 10 at the Bates 18 Williams drives smartly into Bobcat territory and it all feels familiar, but not in a good way. Sure enough, Eph quarterback Adam Marske lobs a high pass into the end zone to 6-foot-3 Darren Hartwell, a three-time All-NESCAC receiver — but 5-foot-9 cornerback Michael Lee ’16 of Bealeton, Va., outfights Hartwell for an interception. Hartwell is held to one catch for 4 yards.

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Bobcat athletics livestream is at bates.edu/athletics/live.

“That play crystallized where our talent level was,” Harriman says.

“It wasn’t just about playing tough.

It was about being physically pretty close to where we need to be against teams like that.”

THREE: Triple Play Oct. 27, Week 6 vs. Colby, third quarter, first and 10 at the Bates 3 A 52-yard Colby punt pins Bates at its own 3. On first down, quarterback Trevor Smith ’13 of Malvern, Pa., keeps the ball for 8 yards, the first of nine consecutive rushes by Smith and three different Bates backs, to whom Smith deftly pitches or hands off.

At midfield, Smith passes to Shawn Doherty ’14 of Mansfield, Mass. — “the fastest player we’ve ever had,” says Harriman — on a perfectly run hitch in the left flat, and Doherty gallops for the score.

The triple-option offense requires precision rather than brute strength.

It’s Fred Astaire, not Gene Kelly, and in 2012 Smith made the Bates offense boogie.

FOUR: Take a Seat Nov. 3, Week 7 vs. Bowdoin, fourth quarter, fourth and 1 at the Bates 34 On fourth and 1, Bowdoin goes for it and loses a yard, stuffed by Matt Gaither ’13 of Winchester, Mass. On its next possession, Bowdoin tries again on fourth and 1 at the Bobcat 14.

This time John Durkin ’15 of Rye Beach, N.H., and Josh Chronopoulos ’13 of Tyngsboro, Mass., drop Bowdoin for a loss. A good defense gets offenses off the field in key situations, and Bates came up big in 2012.

FIVE: Pick 18 Nov. 10, Week 8 vs. Hamilton, fourth quarter, third and goal from the Bates 1 In a shootout that will end with a 47–33 Bates win, linebacker Gilbert Brown ’15 of Gloucester, Mass., seals the victory by intercepting a pass in the end zone and returning it 101 yards for a touchdown. It’s one of a record three pick sixes in 2012, a year that saw the Bobcats lead the nation in average turnover margin (+2.25 per game).

Brown’s return is 1 yard shy of the 102-yard return by Barney Marcus ’37 vs. Maine in 1936.

Men’s hoops coach Jon Furbush ’05’s brother Charlie pitches for the Mariners.

Slot receiver Mac Jackson ’15 of Hood River, Ore., stiff-arms a Wesleyan defender — emblematic of coach Mark Harriman’s statement that the Bobcats in 2012 were physically on par with any NESCAC team.

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700 campus people signed the athletics Ally Pledge supporting LGBT persons.

John Murphy ’13 competed in front of 20 scouts at a pro soccer combine in January.

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Lyric from the Bates fight song: “Today the garnet Bobcat conquers again.”

Bates players touch the No. 8 jersey of the late Troy Pappas ’16 while entering Garcelon Field for the Williams game, as Pappas’ uncle Gary Blackwell (Bates shirt) and President Spencer (black coat) show their support.

First for Everything While it’s common for individuals in sports like track or cross-country to earn a spot in a national meet, it’s harder to earn a team bid.

But in 2012, both the Bates men’s and women’s teams earned bids in the NCAA Division III Cross-Country Championships, held in Terre Haute, Ind. Never before had both Bates teams earned spots the same year.

Here, the women bring it in before their race on Nov. 17.

The men finished sixth in the nation, up from seventh in 2011. The women, in their first NCAA team appearance since 1997, placed 19th.

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aRtS & CultuRe

In October, singer Dev’s concert rider asked for cough drops, sugar-free Red Bull and beef jerky.

Faculty composer Hiroya Miura premiered a work based on cosmic radiation patterns.

On the first night of a backwoods workshop dedicated to night-sky photography, the weather was clear and a motionless pond mirrored the heavens.

“I spent a few minutes just looking down into the lake,” says Will Strathmann ’13, of Newtown Square, Pa. “I got the same feeling of seeing the sky. I had a little vertigo, and it was very surreal, but stunningly beautiful.”

Strathmann captured that beauty in the panoramic photograph shown below. He was one of 10 students, faculty and staff in the Bates workshop held at West Branch Pond Camps, nearly four hours north of campus and some 10 miles east of Kokadjo, Maine.

Leading the workshop was Babak Tafreshi, a journalist, photographer and champion of the night sky. Born in Iran, Tafreshi was one of the artists in Starstruck, Starstruck the 2012 Bates Museum of Art exhibition that was one of the first to treat astrophotography as an artistic genre.

Images by Tafreshi, who photographed the circular “fisheye” image at right and whose whose clients include National Geographic, frame the night sky with the groundlevel landscape, a genre called landscape astrophotography.

“The trick,” he says, “is being in the right place at the right time.” Hence the workshop location: First West Branch Pond, ringed by mountains and trees, for that framing effect.

Still better is its freedom from the light pollution that obscures the stars in so much of the developed world. With an open sky for three of the workshop’s four nights, the lack of light pollution “let us see the Milky Way very stunningly,” says Tafreshi, as well as usually invisible phenomena such as zodiacal light, a faint heavenly glow around sunrise and sunset caused by space dust reflecting the sun’s rays.

Sacrificing shut-eye for shutter time, the group shot all night and spent the daytime editing their digital images. Tafreshi

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“Surreal, but stunningly beautiful.”

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Shooting Stars

explains that landscape astrophotography can be done with quite ordinary, if judiciously chosen, gear — namely good tripods and fast, wide-angle lenses. “You need to get the use of any photon arriving at your [camera’s] sensor,” he says.

In between shooting, editing and catnaps, the Bates group enjoyed the hospitality of camp proprietors Eric Stirling ’97 and his wife, Mildred Stirling. The business has been in Eric’s family since 1910. “I would go back just for the food,” says Megan Lubetkin ’16 of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, who does time-lapse and star-trail photography.

But all in all, there would be plenty to go back for. “It was just so serene,” says Lubetkin. “The lake was so pristine, there was no one else around, and it was just untouched. It was perfect.” — dlh

Artist-in-residence Dawoud Bey will set up studio in a former Lewiston mill building during Short Term.

A dance by professor Rachel Boggia incorporates video of her father training a horse.

Kirsten Pianka ’13 of Cleveland performs the dance “Rhythm-n-Roots” last fall, choreographed by guest artist Robin Sanders.

She taught her Bates dancers classic hip-hop techniques like popping and tutting, and related hip-hop to traditional West African dances.

A Little Afternoon Music

Phyllis Graber Jensen

An assignment to write music for a college president’s inauguration is an honor, for sure, but can be fraught with more than the usual load of expectations.

William Matthews, the Alice Swanson Esty Professor of Music, has composed music for three inaugurations at Bates and one elsewhere. The music must be something, he says, “that can be performed by undergraduates with limited rehearsal time, will inspire a lay audience, will please the dedicatee, reflects musical styles of our time and reflects our institutional values.”

For President Spencer’s Oct. 26 installation, Matthews composed a setting for “The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm,” a Wallace Stevens poem that Spencer selected. Scoring it for the college’s orchestra and choir, he included a neat twist to emphasize the “world” concept: recitations by three students in their native languages, Urdu, Nepali and Korean. — dlh

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Trumpeter James Jhun ’16 played a fanfare for President Spencer’s arrival at the Inaugural Reception.

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Bates students make up about 5 percent of lewiston’s population.

Bates is the third largest employer in Androscoggin county.

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Close to Home

January saw the 10th anniversary of one of the most heartening shows of humane thinking — a joyous pro-diversity rally at Bates that drew thousands.

The January 2003 event in Merrill Gym grew out of a letter that Lewiston mayor Laurier Raymond sent to Lewiston’s growing Somali community the prior October.

Claiming that their presence was depleting municipal resources, Raymond asked Somali elders to discourage friends and relatives from coming to town, predicting that continued immigration would mean “negative results for all.”

Sparking widespread outrage, the letter was welcomed by one tiny constituency: a Wyoming-based white supremacist group who saw it as an invitation to hold a rally in Lewiston for their cause.

A determined group of local citizens would have none of that, though. “This is not who we are, and we have to make sure people know that,” said the late Dean of the College James Carignan ’61.

So under the banner of the Many and One Coalition, organizers mounted a counter-rally that drew 4,000 to Bates — Somali residents, Bates folks, justice activists and top Maine politicians — with John Jenkins ‘74, a former mayor of Lewiston and Auburn, serving as master of ceremonies. Drawing national attention, the rally inspired related programming that included church vigils around Maine.

The supremacist rally across town, meanwhile, drew about three dozen participants.

The anniversary was noted this winter with a commemorative event organized by Welcoming Maine, an immigrant-advocacy organization founded by Sarah Davis ’10. — dlh

Jenny Bergeron ’14 of Lewiston can rest assured: She already knows she’ll be heading to medical school.

Bergeron, a biochemistry major, is the first Bates student accepted to the Tufts University School of Medicine’s Early Assurance program, guaranteeing her a spot in the med school’s class of 2018 after she graduates from Bates next year.

Bergeron will join Tufts’ Maine Track program, reserved for Bates, Bowdoin, Colby and UMaine graduates. Bates students do “very well” gaining admission through Maine Track, says Karen Daigler of the Bates Career Development Center, ticking off a number of recent grads now at Tufts.

Established in 2008 as a partnership between Tufts and Maine Medical Center, Maine Track includes clinical rotations in rural Maine. The program seeks to train more doctors to serve rural Maine, where, according to state data, only 39 percent of residents have a primary care physician. — hjb

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When Bates needs to remove building furniture temporarily, a Lewiston moving company stores it.

President Spencer ate at a local brew pub, Gritty McDuff’s, on her first visit to Bates.

GIvE AND GO

Lasting Memories Museum L-A offers a compelling set of online oral histories that reflect the craftsmanship and expertise of shoemakers from Lewiston-Auburn’s once-thriving shoe industry. Below is some of what the late Bernard Charest had to say about the art of hand-sewing shoes:

Besides their more visible exploits on the field, Bobcat athletes support numerous nonprofit programs in the Lewiston-Auburn area.

If you want to become fast at anything, you have to eliminate all the wasted movement, and that’s how Marcel Grondin taught me how to become a fairly decent, fast hand-sewer. You start knocking down the movement, you start speeding up the time.

Dick McBride taught me how to read the leather, how to feel it, how every piece of leather is different. It’s a living thing, and he taught me how the leather talks to you, tells you what it wants to do, how it’s going to come out well.

You may have part of the [upper] that’s going to stretch more than the other part, so you may have to cut some off this side, or purposely last it a little crooked, because leather has a memory. You have to learn how to listen to what it’s telling you, and you can make pairs of shoes that last forever.

Free youth clinics Women’s track, basketball, alpine skiing, softball, baseball, men’s lax, tennis Good Shepherd Food-Bank Men’s lax, football, rowing, field hockey Tree Street Youth and Hillview housing youth programs Soccer, baseball, squash

Museum L-A oral histories shoeexhibit.museumla.org

Team IMPACT Softball, squash, tennis, men’s basketball teams “adopt” children facing life-threatening illnesses Trinity Soup Kitchen Tennis, men’s soccer Holiday support for families in need Softball, baseball, men’s lax, squash Athletic equipment donation baseball, men’s lax, men’s soccer, alpine skiing, athletic department Lewiston High School Science Fair Men’s lax, tennis Martin Luther King Jr. Day Read-in Football Lewiston Adult Learning tutoring and 5K fundraiser Nordic skiing Youth swim lessons Swimming Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund Men’s soccer; $7,000-plus raised for dependents of 9/11 Maine Premier Soccer Inner-City Initiative Men’s soccer Youth camp scholarships Golf Dempsey Challenge Field hockey, women’s lax, athletic department

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Rebuilding Together L/A Athletic department Bates Field Day All 31 teams; nearly 300 children participated last year

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What She Saw

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The ubiquity of photography, thanks to the digital revolution, hasn’t diminished our curious fascination with one kind of camera: the pro-style, single-lens reflex camera.

That partly explains the boys’ euphoria in this photo taken by Gintare Balseviciute ‘13 last May during a Short Term trip to Saudi Arabia.

While other students snapped away unnoticed with their pocket cameras, these boys cavorted, wrestled and posed for Balseviciute’s Canon SLR. “When they saw the Canon, it was as if they saw a Lamborghini,” Balseviciute says.

Facebook page African Economist by Desmond Mushi ’13 got 2,000 likes in first month.

viewers from 28 countries tuned in for the livestream of President Spencer’s installation.

The trip to Saudi Arabia was led by Dana Professor of Anthropology Loring Danforth and largely facilitated by Leena Nasser ‘12, a politics major from Dhahran.

One excursion was to a desert farm in the Eastern Province, where the farm’s owner and family feted and entertained Danforth and the 16 Bates students. After camel rides, live music and good food, the Bates group headed into the desert in white Toyota Land Cruisers for sand duning, followed by coffee and dates. As the sun set, Balseviciute took these photographs.

At the gathering, the Bates women got the OK not to wear their abayas, so this photo also shows a rare hijabfree mingling of genders on the Saudi plains. “Not only are the kids seeing Americans, they’re seeing female Americans. And they’re seeing female Americans in Western dress,” Danforth says.

For Nasser, the image conveys other meanings. “Their clothing and the space may reflect the geography, but their spirits in the picture transcend the individual cultural experience,” she says. “I see hope and potential.” — hjb

Bates publishes a guidebook for students returning from off-campus study.

2013 Short Term course revisits an oral history initiative with orphans of Rwandan genocide.

“English, French nor Malagasy can describe my experience studying rare eagles on uninhabited islands.”

— student in Madagascar

BATES SPOKEN HERE Unusual Fun “Many prestigious independent schools in Britain have internships, usually linked to sport,” says Michael Bettles P’13, an administrator at Heathfield Community School, a state secondary school in Taunton, U.K. “I could see the benefits that the interns bring to those institutions, so I thought: Why should they have all the fun?”

Thus inspired, Bettles worked with the Bates Career Development Center to grab some of the fun for Bates and his own institution. The result: performing-arts internships at the Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre, affiliated with Heathfield, that were inaugurated last summer by a current Bates student and a 2012 graduate.

“This partnership is exciting because it provides a paid professional internship abroad in the arts, which is unusual,” says Nancy Gibson of the BCDC.

Of Bates’ approximately 24,500 alumni, about 580, or 2.4 percent, live outside the U.S. This snapshot taken right before the Mayan end of the world in December shows their numbers and countries.

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France Switzerland

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Ecuador South Korea

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Italy Turkey

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Cameroon Malaysia

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Austria Bermuda Israel Mauritius Nepal Norway Romania Scotland Zimbabwe

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Bulgaria Czech Republic Jamaica Mexico South Africa Sri Lanka United Arab Emirates

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Albania Bahamas BosniaHerzegovina British Virgin Islands Chile El Salvador French Polynesia Georgia Ghana Guatemala Jordan Kazakhstan Latvia North Korea Northern Ireland Panama Portugal Russia Scotland Senegal Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Ukraine Venezuela West Indies Wales Yugoslavia 21

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BOOKS

su rely yo u suggest

From the College Store’s annual Non-required Reading List, recommendations from Bates faculty and staff:

Doomsday Book

by Connie Willis Suggested by Lee Abrahamsen, associate professor of biology: “I’m a sucker for time travel. If you like the idea of experiential learning, and the idea of trying to convince people from another century that you’re one of them (despite being immune to their diseases!), you’ll love this.”

A Palace in the Old Village

by Tahar Ben Jelloun Suggested by Áslaug Ásgeirsdóttir, associate professor of politics: “An interesting — and somewhat sad — take on the immigrant experience in Europe and the challenges of returning ‘home.’”

Generosity

by Richard Powers Suggested by Rob Farnsworth, senior lecturer in English: “A novel more interesting for its speculative ideas than for its characters, perhaps, but genomically troubling.”

The Cross and the Lynching Tree

by James Cone Suggested by Bill Blaine-Wallace, multifaith chaplain: “Cone argues convincingly that Americans have not embraced, save for the Harlem artists, the obvious: Lynching is America’s execution of God.”

Is Your ’Fredo Weak?

Not if it’s made this way. From the Class of 2012 Senior Cookbook published by Dining Services, available at bates.edu/dining.

ALFREDO SAUCE (Makes 3 1/2 cups) 1 quart plus 3/4 cup milk 1/2 cup margarine 1/2 cup flour 1/4 teaspoon garlic 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan 5/8 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon white pepper 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper

Crafty ’Cat When Gary Dzen ’05, who reports on craft beer for The Boston Globe, invited readers to share 50 words about their favorite brews, this Bates-flavored entry

by Jillian Cappucci ’10 hopped to the top of the list:

FOOD

In a double boiler, heat milk 15 minutes.

Prepare light roux from margarine and flour; thicken the milk with the roux.

Add garlic; simmer for 15 minutes.

Add Parmesan and spices; simmer for 5 more minutes.

POETRY Across the Quad to P’gill, over by Pettigrew, A Bobcat sat and wondered, “What’s my favorite brew?”

In her mind she pictured its deep golden shade.

She smiled wide thinking, “This one is Lewiston-made.”

She craved the bitter hops of a Stowaway, So she sipped her favorite, Baxter’s IPA.

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Carnegie’s Half Horse There simply weren’t enough bones to make an entire horse skeleton. So, on the principle that half a loaf is better than none, Art Ciccone ‘69 and Tom Hutchinson ‘69 created half a skeleton.

Today, their junior-year project remains on display on the fifth floor of Carnegie Science, where local schoolchildren on tour assume the articulated half-skeleton is a dinosaur.

Building the skeleton was a comparative anatomy assignment, and Ciccone and Hutchinson used horse bones that had been kicking around in a box in the lab.

“We were told they came from Thorncrag Bird Sanctuary,” Ciccone says. Campus lore says the bones belonged to a horse — a big horse, suggests bio professor Lee Abrahamsen, like a Percheron or Belgian — that had been euthanized at Thorncrag, which was once a farm. Indeed, what looks like a bullet hole is visible on the front of the skull.

When Ciccone and Hutchinson dug into their assignment, they discovered the set wasn’t complete, hence the 50-percent solution.

And that’s how they found themselves in Carnegie Science, late at night, sawing horse bones. “We used a table saw to cut the pelvic girdle and the vertebrae and some of the other pieces in half,” says Hutchinson.

The worst part, by far, was the smell. “When you saw a dried bone, it stinks,” stinks says Ciccone.

“It smelled up the whole building,” Hutchinson adds.

Once the half-beast was assembled, Ciccone, now a medical illustrator in West Newbury, Mass., and Hutchinson, a dentist in Falmouth, Mass., gave it a distinctly personal touch: They painted one tooth gold to honor their bio professor, Mark Crowley, who had a gold tooth. — ra

CAMPUS TEST

How strong is your knowledge of Bates’ quirky, cool and colorful past?

Before moving to Hedge Hall in 2011, religion and philosophy were headquartered in a wood-frame building at 75 Campus Ave. Over the fall, the building had a much different purpose, yet one that echoes those disciplines’ interest in the eternal fate of the human soul.

What is it used for? a. Local HQ for Mayan end-of-worlders b. Training site for Lewiston firefighters c. Worship space for followers of Frank Sandford, Class of 1886, founder of the apocalyptic Shiloh movement Answer: B — It’s a great training building, says Bruce McKay of the Lewiston Fire Department. “It offers a real environment: 15 rooms, two stairways. We do everything from hose line advancement and laddering to breaching walls for rescue or entry.”

Hit the Road, Jack The yellowjacket nest that took up residence within one of the popular wood benches outside Ladd Library last summer was given the heave-ho right before students returned.

...And Viewers at Home When Luis Pereira ’16 of Curitiba, Brazil, took to Garcelon Field on Sept. 11 for his first home soccer game, he had fans in far places: his family, back in Brazil, who’d gathered to watch the livestream.

From September to December, Bates sports livestreams recorded 29,000 page views.

To watch a Bobcat game, go to bates.edu/athletics/live.

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Mays ’20, the great civil rights leader, never forgot Bates. And it works both ways.

Benjamin Mays’ living legacy by d o ug hubley

In 1986, about a dozen Bates people found themselves deep in rural South Carolina looking at a shack.

They were looking at a shack, but seeing the starting point of a journey whose consequences were nothing short of transformational for a man and for a nation.

The shack was the Greenwood County birthplace of Benjamin E. Mays ’20, the civil rights theorist, educator, preacher, Morehouse College president and mentor to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — in short, schoolmaster to the civil rights movement, to paraphrase recent Mays biographer Randal M. Jelks.

The Bates group comprised students in a Short Term religion course investigating the black church in America. For them, the shack near Epworth, S.C., was one seminal stop in a Southern itinerary that resembled a kind of “Benjamin Mays Tour” because Mays was linked to so many of its destinations.

There in the countryside, the visitors from Bates were closing a circle. They were learning about a man who might have had a much different life, perhaps a less consequential life, without Bates. Bates had shaped Mays, and now his legacy was shaping these students, and back through them, the college itself.

Even 29 years after Mays passed away, that circle remains intact. Many people know of Bates because of the college’s influence on his life. And Mays’ influence is more present than ever on campus, whether expressed in the college mission statement, or in the recollections of Bates people who knew him, or in campus speeches, notably the Oct. 26 inaugural address by Clayton Spencer (see page 38).

Former slaves, Mays’ parents were sharecroppers. Their dwelling has since been moved to the Dr. Benjamin E. Mays Historic Preservation Site, in Greenwood, S.C., but when the Bates group visited, it was “out in the middle of a field,” recalls Associate Dean of Students James Reese, who was part of the group led by an acting college chaplain, Rob Stuart.

The group talked about starting life in that field in the Jim Crow era — Mays’ earliest memory was of a white mob threatening his father — and ultimately heading off to Maine for a college that promised something better. In 1986, the distance from Greenwood to Lewiston “was palpable,” Reese says.

“But in 1917, it was like going across the universe. That really resonated with us.”

In that year, Mays entered Bates as a 23-year-old sophomore after a year at Virginia Union University, where two Bates alumni on the faculty encouraged him

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In 1980, at age 85, Benjamin Elijah Mays ’20 returns to campus for his 60th Reunion.

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Mays and his 1919 debate teammates.

Mays’ drive to succeed academically came from wanting to prove “that superiority or inferiority in academic achievement had nothing to do with color of skin,” he wrote in Born to Rebel.

“Personal and political freedom and formal education were inextricably bound together for Mays.”

to try their alma mater. Starting with a friendly encounter with a Bates student on the train coming north, Mays was pleasantly surprised to discover that racism in Lewiston was more the exception than the rule.

Mays came here not only for a better education than a person of color could reasonably expect down South, but to prove his intellectual equality to whites. “How could I know I was not inferior to the white man, having never had a chance to compete with him?” Mays recalled in Born to Rebel, his 1971 autobiography.

Proof soon abounded. He won a speaking award in his first year at Bates, finished his senior year as captain of a triumphant debate team and was one of 15 in his class to graduate with honors, among other achievements.

“I concede academic superiority to not more than four in my class,” he wrote in Born to Rebel.

“I displayed more initiative as a student leader than the majority of my classmates. Bates College made these things possible.”

At Bates, Mays “found a way to chart a course in which he could find the intellectual resources he needed, gain confidence in his ability and then to leave to do extraordinary things,” says Marcus Bruce ’77, who is the inaugural Benjamin E. Mays Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at Bates.

Or as Mays himself famously summed up his experience in Born to Rebel: “Bates College did not

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‘emancipate’ me: it did the far greater service of making it possible for me to emancipate myself, to accept with dignity my own worth as a free man.”

He later earned advanced degrees at the University of Chicago, but it was at Bates that he laid the groundwork for “a new biblical interpretation that could mobilize black communities to take action against Jim Crow’s enforced apathy,” Jelks writes in the 2012 Mays biography Schoolmaster of the Movement. Mays’ studies in religion steered him toward an intellectual structure for both his profound Baptist faith and his personal mission “to uplift his people,” as Jelks puts it.

In the writings of theologian Walter Rauschenbusch and others, Mays learned about the Social Gospel, a Protestant movement that advocated for a church that would actively address societal ills — of which there was none more exigent to Mays than American racism.

Mays later came to understand the Church as central to both the persistence of racism and its amelioration. Racist whites cited Scripture to defend their prejudice, and blacks used the Church to defend their sanity and solidarity. And in that unity also lay the foundation for a civil rights movement.

Mays saw in certain Baptist tenets — “freedom of conscience, the dignity and worth of every man, each man’s individual right of direct access to God,” in his words — a moral basis for the powerful rebuttal to racism that he would promulgate to generations of students. Especially during his tenure as Morehouse president, from 1940 to 1967, he “laid the intellectual groundwork for social change throughout the South among black churchgoing college students,” Jelks writes.

Both resounding and intellectually sound, Mays’ rhetoric was the ammunition that these students

People who know about Benjamin Mays tend to know about Bates.

Most important, Mays lived and taught values that Bates calls its own. Other Northern institutions refused Mays admission due to race, but Bates has always been open to all races.

“Personal and political freedom and formal education were inextricably bound together” for Mays, Jelks writes; so they are here.

Mays’ passion was social engagement; his scope was global — Gandhi, whom he met, was influential in his thinking. And his style was audacious. These are all Bates hallmarks.

“Exploring the legacy of Mays is a way to discover something about Bates as well,” says Bruce.

“He continues to help us understand who we are as an institution, and the kind of education we provided in the past, and can provide in the future.”

The revised mission statement, Bruce says, presents the liberal arts education “as being about emancipation, freeing yourself from certain kinds of fears, or conventions, or ideas that are limiting. It enables you to see, and think, and live in new ways.” And if most of today’s students will likely never face the difficulties experienced by minorities back in the bad old days, the determination that Mays forged in the struggle remains inspirational.

“He’s an extraordinary example of faith, of fortitude, of persistence and clarity of vision,” Bruce says. “Bates provided an opportunity for him, but at the same time he continues to provide us with a great deal. It’s just a matter of exploring his legacy.” n

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needed to overturn the racist discourse of the Jim Crow South. Mays, says Bruce, “employed and deployed religious rhetoric to address urgent issues of religious, political and social importance.

This is certainly one of the lessons that he passed along to his student, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,” as well as to such political and civil rights leaders as Julian Bond and Andrew Young.

James Reese, who was a child when he first encountered Mays, at a college football game in Knoxville, Tenn., has stayed close to Mays’ legacy.

Reese accompanied former Bates President Elaine Tuttle Hansen to Greenwood in 2011 when she spoke at the dedication of the Mays Historic Preservation Site.

Hansen explained to an attentive audience that Bates, in rewriting its mission statement in 2010, had tipped its mortarboard to Mays by declaring itself “dedicated to the emancipating potential of the liberal arts.”

“That really resonated with the audience,” Reese recalls. “They leaned back, confident that Bates understood what Dr. Mays was about. I was so glad to be there for that moment.” In fact, Reese points out, people who know about Mays tend to know about Bates. The warm relationship between Morehouse and Bates has roots in his story; and Reese even has an anecdote about bringing his parents to visit a friend whose hospitality suddenly blossomed when she learned he worked at Bates.

If Bates is known elsewhere because of its role in Mays’ achievements, those achievements keep Mays alive in the campus consciousness. He is much in evidence when Bates observes Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which always includes a debate with Morehouse.

Bates named its Residential Village campus center for Mays, adding to a list of monuments around the nation that includes an elaborate memorial, incorporating a statue and Mays’ tomb, at Morehouse.

In June 1963, Mays and thenVice President Lyndon Johnson confer while en route to the state funeral of Pope John XIII.

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Beauty and the We are distracted, “eco-anxious,� and paralyzed by the portents of climate change. But maybe all we need is a dose of natural beauty.

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Brain by l au r a sewall photo g r aph s by w i ll ash I have been sitting at my desk focused on a two-dimensional screen for several hours, concentrating on the effects of climate change. I glance up to rest my weary eyes.

It is a hot and windless day in late August 2010. To my surprise, I see giant waves hitting the nearby beach and remember that a hurricane was forecast. It must be passing by offshore. The waves, I realize, are loud and relentless.

With every crash they send white foam airborne, rising above the largest of the sand dunes.

Just before high tide, I kayak into the marsh I know so well. It is flooded beyond recognition. Meanders and

hillocks have disappeared below a mirrored expanse surrounded by upland conifers and filled with the cacophony of terns and gulls seeking shelter from the eccentric storm.

Patches of grass tips appear just above the water’s surface, all of them entirely covered with insects. Huge numbers leap into my kayak as I float by. Spiders, flies, ants and grasshoppers quickly cover my arms and legs, and I realize that they are scrambling to higher ground. The future of coastal insects had never before occurred to me.

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and a graceful whirl of contrasting feathers catches my eye and shifts my mind, and I recall that some 80 percent of migrating shorebird populations are in decline. The least terns are entirely gone from here, the piping plovers nearly so.

Today’s screen-centric technology has captured our attention and, according to some, rendered our brains less able to pick up the detail and depth of the natural world.

paying for inattention

While the loss of migratory birds and a changing climate may be the most global indications of environmental collapse, the problems are stacked up and ubiquitous. We currently face failing economies, health care systems and ecosystems.

Water supplies are dwindling, agricultural lands are contested and lost, and political systems are as fractured as the landscape.

Given the apparently escalating number of environmental disasters and losses, we may understandably bury ourselves in distractions or hide under the covers.

Or we get out of bed, brush our teeth and continue with business as usual. Our collective denial is largely due to the difficulty of dedicating attention to such depressing detail. We commonly speak of “paying” attention. It’s an accurate turn of phrase: Attention is cognitively demanding. Researchers know that there are costs and benefits associated with directing one’s attention, and paying attention to failing systems is painful.

The capacity to direct, intensify and sustain a focus of attention follows a bellshaped curve, with world champion chess players and athletes at the highly capacitated end of the curve — it has been said that Ted Williams could focus on the stitching of a baseball as it hurled past home plate at 90 miles an hour.

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our minds as well. What’s unique, however, is the scale at which today’s screencentric technology has captured our attention and, according to some, rendered our brains less able to pick up the detail and depth of the natural world.

Experimental philosopher Jesse Prinz defines “attention” as a group of related cognitive functions that allow sensory representations to pass into working memory. Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, argues that the Internet “is an interruption system. It seizes our attention only to scramble it.” This scrambling of attention refers to a growing inability to sustain one’s focus for any duration, rendering us “shallow,” as little information gets through to working memory.

In fact, experiments show that when our attention jumps from one link or one Web page to the next, our understanding of what has been viewed, browsed or read is significantly minimized. What seems to be lacking is the consolidation of memory as information moves from short-term storage to long-term memory.

Our Internet fixation may also be an example of paying attention to the wrong things. Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize–winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, has made two claims regarding our behavior under conditions of uncertainty — perhaps not unlike those caused by our tenuous environmental state. Most famously, Kahneman claims a common lack of rational decisionmaking. More recently, he claims that we generally focus on “the wrong things.”

Indeed, our common preoccupation with the Internet — Tweeting, Facebooking and online shopping at all hours — suggests that we suffer twofold: In the context of looming environmental disasters, we focus on the wrong things, and secondly, our ability to sustain a focus of attention has apparently atrophied.

Our minimized and misdirected attention only deepens our denial of true environmental conditions. How can we begin to fathom the fact that, along with shorebirds, 70 to 90 percent of migratory songbirds have disappeared from the northern spring over the last half century? We do not notice the loss.

We do not hear what has become silent.

one word: plasticity

It has often been said that our environmental crisis is a crisis of perception.

We do not readily see the patterns that would reveal our dependence on the natural world, nor are we commonly aware of the systems within which we are deeply embedded. Yet our brains are remarkably adaptive — meaning that neural networks shift continuously as a function of our experience — and by extension, so shifts our perception.

Quite literally, the degree of synaptic strength, or connectedness between neurons, and consequently the way we process sensory information, changes in response to what has captured and held our attention. Over the last three decades, research has demonstrated a surprising degree of “plasticity” in our visual systems in particular.

A second finding claims that sensory system plasticity — the literal restructuring of neural networks in response to experience — depends on the activation of the neural mechanisms responsible for our ability to pay attention.

It is well-known that our capacity to focus and sustain attention is itself readily trained, as exemplified by the long traditions of meditation and mindfulness, and by the practice of visualization. In addition, the 20-year body of research supporting what is called Attention Restoration Theory claims that images of natural scenes serve to restore our cognitive capacity to focus and sustain our attention.

All of this is good news. However, in the large majority of these studies, subjects are exposed to flat photographs of nature, or views through windows. Because the experimental conditions are so significantly bereft of embodied experience, the results, I believe, are greatly understated. How can photographs come close to duplicating the experience of being in nature?

Instead of gazing at a flat image, imagine being awash in sensations.

Imagine the plethora of sensations arising simultaneously from warm sunshine and glimmering surfaces, from pungent soils and salty air, and from the quiet whir of chickadees alighting nearby.

Our senses delight in the sensate world. Doing what they evolved to do,

they naturally feast on sunsets and clouds streaming by, on the nuances of human expression or the curious behavior of birds. With renewed attention, colors regain vibrancy, patterns pop and what was once barely seen now jumps into view. The world beckons and desires surface as if awakening from slumber.

This is not mere conjecture. It is a tale of subjective experience while doing perception exercises outdoors, for several years, as a visual scientist. Over time, I became convinced that the senses, our bodies and even entire lives can be restored by direct sensory engagement with the still-intact natural world.

But even more significant — because of the collective implications — restoring the power and skill of attention by engaging with the natural world offers us the opportunity to adapt our behavior to changing conditions.

In other words, we gain adaptive value by looking and listening with our attention on full-tilt. local knowledge

I am also a self-proclaimed natural historian of local events. I’ve watched beaches and sand dunes disappear while ragged spines of granite emerge from mountains of sand. Full tides now throw plastic flotsam into upland trees and ice-out on the Kennebec River is many days earlier than in 20th-century Maine. These are observations providing the flesh and bones of climate statistics.

They constitute embodied knowledge gained directly through the senses, and in the gut, and they have changed my behavior.

Dare I say that this kind of attentive observation is now happening all over the Eastern Seaboard? For example, residents of coastal Norfolk, Va., apparently pay attention to tide tables the way other suburbanites note rush hour traffic.

As reported by The New York Times, sea level rise has created chronic flooding, and citizens have lobbied the city council to divert storm drains and raise a small stretch of road by 18 inches, at a cost of $1.25 million.

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bodies and of our hearts. I suggest that we focus both on environmental change and on natural beauty. This requires shifting our attention, fully.

Beauty, more so than degradation, is everywhere to be seen, reminding us that the world is fundamentally coherent, that things “go together” and function well.

Psychologist and author James Hillman claimed that “beauty is the way in which the gods touch our senses, reach the heart and attract us into life.”

Beauty, wrote the poet Robinson Jeffers, is why we “fall in love outwards,” our senses provoked and alert.

Frederick Turner, the author of Beauty: The Value of Values, suggests that the perception of beauty has evolutionary value because it offers us the “capacity to organize meaning in very large quantities of ill-defined information...and to perceive harmonies and regularities that add up to a deep unity.”

My formulation is more pragmatic: Beauty not only seizes our attention, but also links sensations of the aesthetic beauty and the brain sort to a reward system buried in the I have argued that we must fully absorb brain. With the repeated firing of parthe facts of environmental change ticular neurons and networks ensured, a through direct observation and serious ready appreciation for beauty is easily consideration — no matter the emotion- conditioned. In other words, with beauty before us, our senses are enlivened, al disturbance.

I am also advancing the case of nat- attentive and synchronized. Neural subural beauty as a source of restoration: of strates are humming and specific synapour capacity to attend, of our sensory tic connections become strengthened,

article makes my point: “No one who has a house here is a skeptic.”

In the words of writer Barry Lopez, attentive observers of the natural world have necessarily become more than “custodian[s] of irrelevant knowledge… but a kind of citizen whose involvement in the political process, in the debates of public life, in the evolution of literature and the arts, has become crucial.”

But sincerely attending to the signs of environmental degradation and change is troubling. Uncertainty arises, often with anxiety riding on its heels. Some suggest that we should avoid “eco-anxiety” at all costs, “lest we succumb to an overwhelming grief — a heartache born of our organism’s instinctive empathy with the living land and its cascading losses,” in the words of environmental philosopher David Abram.

Yet we need not succumb. Again, the power of attention matters most.

Given the voluntary nature of paying attention to this or that, which in turn determines the quality of our experience, behavior and even identity, I suggest a forceful shift in one’s focus — consciously looking up and away from that screen — and to the natural world.

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thus changing the structure and readiness of neural networks — along with perceptual tendencies and the behavior that follows.

In the case of vision, the result is an aesthetic eye that searches the world for pleasing patterns — for what “goes together.” In this way, the aesthetic response to beauty is a self–organizing principle.

Here, then, is a promising path forward. With attention frequently focused on natural events — on the sun setting, tides spilling, flocks flying north and south, leaves drying, rustling, rotting and composting — our perceptual worlds become more deeply nuanced and vivid, more richly textured, patterned and scented. And, saturated by the generous beauty of the natural order, we “fall in love outward,” perceiving “harmonies and regularities that add up to a deep unity.” We begin to see ecologically, with a relational eye, and to comprehend the depth of our dependence on the natural world. And we begin to care. This changes our behavior.

I look up. The wind is dropping now.

A broad beam of golden light has just emerged from beneath low clouds, drenching all manner of hill and tree in a golden glow. The sun is quickly disappearing below the horizon, the Earth spinning in silence, and so very fast.

Birds, too, have become silent. Even the grasses are still. It is as if we are holding our breath, all of us as one. n

We begin to see ecologically, with a relational eye, and to comprehend the depth of our dependence on the natural world. And we begin to care.

This changes our behavior.

Laura Sewall is the director of the Coastal Center at Shortridge and Bates–Morse Mountain Conservation Area, a 600-acre research, education and conservation area on the Maine coast. She earned a doctorate in visual psychology and neuroscience from Brown University, and this essay is adapted from her chapter in Ecopsychology: Science, Totems and the Technological Species (MIT Press, 2012).

‘Between Two Rivers’ The photographs accompanying this essay, taken by Will Ash of the college's Imaging and Computing Center, appear in the photo book Between Two Rivers: A Year at Bates– Morse Mountain Conservation Area.

A limited number of copies of Between Two Rivers are available, free of charge.

For a copy, contact: Bates–Morse Mountain Conservation Area ATTN: Between Two Rivers 161 Wood St., Lewiston ME 04240 kcloutier@bates.edu 1-207-786-6202 bates.edu/harward/bmm

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Last summer, Travis Jones ’13 took a flying leap into the process of independent research.

He arrived in New York City ready to study the High Line, an elevated railway turned public park on Manhattan’s West Side, for his senior thesis in art and visual culture with Whitehouse Professor Erica Rand.

But his second senior thesis, in theater, had yet to come into focus. Jones wanted to deepen his interest in architecture with an exploration of how different theater spaces affect performance.

And this is where Jones’ expertise on the flying trapeze entered the scene. Three years ago, Jones, who is a diver for the Bobcat swim team, “got hooked” on trapeze after taking classes at Manhattan’s Trapeze School New York. A quick study, he was soon invited to become an instructor, an offer he took up last summer.

While watching the aerial feats of his TSNY colleagues, he realized that the circus would be the perfect genre to help him focus his investigation of space and performance.

While most Americans have a “big top” notion of all things circus, Jones explains that today’s circus venues “don’t really have a stereotypical look.”

Taking advantage of New York’s status as a mecca for the weird and wonderful, Jones attended a variety of performances, including Cirque du Soleil at Radio City Music Hall and Spiegelworld in Times Square.

While the acts in each show were similar, Jones discovered that his experience was drastically

affected by his proximity to the performers and his viewing angle. “I’m interested in finding out what aspects of the venue influenced my feelings” about the performance, he says.

Jones’ theater adviser, Charles A. Dana Professor of Theater Martin Andrucki, originally suggested that his advisee look at architecture and performance, but Jones took the idea to new heights.

“That’s exactly the kind of response an adviser likes to see in a student,” says Andrucki, “picking up a hint and running with it in an inventive and creative direction.”

As far as the relationship between his High Line thesis and circus-venue thesis goes, Jones, who is a native of Ithaca, N.Y., suggests that they are both about architectural spaces and “how people interact with those spaces and how the elements of design impact the audience experience.”

Over the summer, Jones also noticed how his research made him spacey, in a different sense of the word.

“I learned as much about how I interact with my immediate space — like how I behaved in my apartment — as I did about how other people engage with the spaces I’m studying.” n

Left: At the apogee of an upswing, Jones is poised to catch the next student flying his way at the South Street Seaport location of the Trapeze School New York.

Right: Jones at the High Line, a former freight rail line that’s now a public park elevated above the streets on Manhattan’s West Side.

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Mace bearer Sawyer Sylvester, professor of sociology, leads the academic procession to Merrill Gymnasium on Oct. 26, 2012.

spencer to bates:

ENGAGE! Citing Benjamin Mays ’20 as both metaphor and guide, Clayton Spencer’s inaugural address frames the challenges facing Bates and suggests why the college is fully equipped to move forward by d o ug h u bley In the year since Clayton Spencer was named Bates’ eighth president, she has offered a strikingly active and consistent interpretation of where Bates stands and how the college can move forward while staying true to its own best self.

Her views have come at three signature addresses: the December 2011 event that introduced her to campus; during Reunion 2012 on the eve of her official start as president; and, most recently, at her Oct. 26 inaugural installation.

At each turn, Spencer has vividly described a specific scenario: As shifting economics and, especially, exploding information technology transform higher education as we know it, Bates can respond by being brighter and bolder about what it has always done so well — namely, standing firmly on principle while engaging robustly with the world.

Fittingly, the inaugural address, titled Questions Worth Asking, was the richest statement of Spencer’s thesis to date, and she used Benjamin E. Mays ’20, the great educator, theologian and civil rights leader, as both a metaphor for the founding Bates

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ethos and a guide for applying that ethos to the coming times. (Take a new look at Mays on page 24.)

Bucking societal norms, Bates was inclusive and progressive in ways that directly benefited students of color like Mays, a leader who in turn amplified and passed those values forward to lift up all of U.S. society.

His story, Spencer stated, makes clear that we have always “encountered individuals in their full humanity. We took as our task educating them with intellectual rigor, ethical responsibility and care for their fellow human beings.”

She added, “These qualities are in the DNA of Bates College, and they define us to this day. They also point the way forward.”

Spencer explored the theme of technologydriven change with the words of another new president. In his September inaugural address, MIT’s Rafael Reif situated higher education on the threshold of a “technological transformation Clayton Spencer shows off the presidential collar following her installation as the college’s eighth president.

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in the next decades, “success will go to the institutions that engage most robustly and effectively with the forces that are reshaping our world.�

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“we stand ready — together — to challenge ourselves and to engage the world.”

[that] has the potential to reshape the education landscape — and to challenge our very existence.”

Unhindered access to unimaginable amounts of information has changed both the work of education — “some of the most powerful changes are occurring at the heart of scholarship and knowledge creation,” as Spencer pointed out — and the context in which it’s done.

So in their intellectual reach, liberal arts colleges like Bates “have become a great deal larger,” she explained. “Yet enlarging the screen on which we must project our institutional identity and compete for faculty and students makes this tiny campus...look ever smaller.”

In fact, liberal arts colleges educate fewer than 4 percent of the college students in America.

And the relevance of the “tough-minded tradition of the small New England college,” as Thomas Hedley Reynolds put it at his own inauguration, in 1967, is increasingly questioned. But schools like Bates should regard such questioning as an invitation not just to demonstrate their relevance, but to strengthen it, Spencer said.

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This scrutiny “challenges us to make a virtue of our scale, delivering our particular model of education at a high standard of excellence,” she said, describing a paradoxical liberal arts model that embraces both “the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, with no practical aim,” and the “teaching of values...that shape a human being who can in turn shape the world.”

Which brought her listeners back to a Bates graduate who had done just that: Mays, who remains the proof and embodiment of values that endure after 158 years, she said.

The Mays story, she said, is a story about mindset. For Bates, that mindset is about “standing firmly on principle and encountering the world with energy and confidence.” In the next decades, she said, “success will go to the institutions that engage most robustly and effectively with the forces that are reshaping our world.”

For Bates, this could mean changes in faculty recruitment, departmental structure, even how academic disciplines are defined — but most important, it means an even greater dedication to

Left, a poignant moment during the installation: Clayton Spencer hoists her academic cap, the same one that her father, Samuel Reid Spencer Jr. — now 93 and seen below with his daughter after the ceremony — wore as president of Mary Baldwin College and Davidson College. From an early age, Clayton recently told The Chronicle of Higher Education, she experienced the liberal arts college as a “distinctive alchemy of people and ideas.”

openness and inclusiveness “well before we had the language for such things,” she said, adding that ours is an intentional community that anticipated, by nearly a century, the GI Bill that introduced a new egalitarianism to other campuses nationwide.

“The genius of American higher education is that it unites excellence and opportunity,” she said.

Bates can claim this union “as a core element of our identity, and we need to continue to build on this deep aspect of who we are.”

Meaning, in practical terms, that Bates must make an “unwavering commitment” not only to the financial aid that supports a diverse student body, but to the existence of a campus culture “that embraces diversity across many dimensions, giving richness and power to the educational experience of all of our students.”

No one can predict the future, but Spencer closed her speech by invoking someone famed for predicting what its gadgets should look like: Steve Jobs. The late Apple co-founder once told a group of graduating students that “your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

“Likewise, at Bates, we don’t have time to waste,” Spencer said. “But we are not in danger of living someone else’s life. We know who we are and what we stand for, and we stand ready — together — to challenge ourselves and to engage the world.” n Spencer’s inaugural address bates.edu/inauguration

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the goal of teaching and learning that engages with the world.

The mindset exemplified by the Mays story is one "grounded in ideas and values, but porous to the world,” she said. “For the liberal arts college it means, among other things, recognizing that the line between theory and practice is breaking down.

It means...that we see the growing concern of students and parents with employment prospects... as a deep aspect of our obligation as a liberal arts college to prepare our students for a life of purposeful work.”

In her discussion of the character of Bates graduates, she took a cue from the late Rev. Peter Gomes ’65, for whom the College Chapel had been ceremonially named the day before Spencer’s installation.

Liberal arts colleges, Gomes once preached, put “the making of a better person ahead of the making of a brighter person, or a better mousetrap.”

In Spencer’s words, the liberal arts college, with its intimate scale, has an advantage when it comes to this task of creating better people. Bates shapes human beings who are not only “equipped to navigate a complex world, but also motivated with empathy toward their fellow human beings,” a goal that comes alive every day through the legions of students exercising both minds and hearts through community-based learning projects in Lewiston.

And, through Mays, Spencer concluded her address by interpreting the notion of community as it has been constructed at Bates, one defined by

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Three young photographers respond to the call

Not every photographer has a vision. Not every photographer has a muse, or listens to one.

Not so with Alexandra Strada ’10, Ryan Heffernan ’05 and Alexander Verhave ’05. As with the best photographers, the urge to communicate through imagery is in their bones.

Responding to what calls to them, these emerging photographers have artfully gone beyond the basic documentary approach, using their talents to explore, filter and share images of their immediate and far-flung environments.

Whether storytelling for a client or creating poetry for themselves, Strada, Heffernan and Verhave show the lyrical power of still photography.

Take a look for yourself.

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A l e xa n d e r V e rhav e ’ 05 Why did you become a photographer?

As a naturally quiet person, I’ve always felt I communicate better via a photograph than with words.

Who has influenced you?

Edward Weston, for his unique way of looking at sometimes-mundane objects and finding interesting shapes and hidden beauty.

How has your photography changed?

I’ve learned to look beyond the surface of my subject and focus on the details that reveal a more compelling story.

What’s an overused piece of camera equipment?

Zoom lenses. Using prime lenses forces you to move and explore the subject in a physical way.

How would you photograph a familiar subject like Hathorn Hall?

As a portrait series highlighting the diverse uses of the building — ending with a photo from the bell tower.

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A lex andr a S t r ada ’10 Why did you become a photographer?

I was given my first camera when I was 13 and immediately was enamored.

Who has been the greatest influence on your work and why?

Mary Ellen Mark. I first met her at a conference for young photographers, and ultimately went on to assist and study with her for a time.

From my first viewing of her work when I was 14, I saw how photography could be a means to enter places I might otherwise not enter, and a way to interact with people I might otherwise not meet. I thought, “I want to do that.” Her photographs affect me the way a profound piece of fiction might: I learn intimately about the lives of others while facing realities about myself.

How has your photography changed since you left Bates?

At Bates, I was very interested in “truth” and had photojournalistic aspirations. Since then, I have come to realize that a photograph is not necessarily an expression of reality but more of a narrative or an impression. Consequently, I have become more playful in my approach to photographing. I see my photographs more as poems than works of nonfiction.

What is your dream assignment?

I am working on a series called “Observations on Recreation,” photographs about the colorful, sometimes nonsensical, ways we entertain ourselves. The project has led me to photograph at a vacation trailer camp and an international Boy Scouts jamboree. My dream assignment would give me the funding and the time to expand the project to places like Yosemite, Las Vegas and Asbury Park.

Why did you become a photographer?

Short Term, freshman year, I ended up in Cuba for an anthropology class but spent all waking hours making photographs. After that I tailored my study abroad experience in Spain and Argentina around photography and was off to the races.

Who has been the greatest influence on your work and why?

There are two: my father, who is a professional photographer and has always been an incredibly supportive and constructive critic; and spending time outdoors, which gave me the inspirational environments that solidified my passion for photography.

How has your photography changed since you left Bates?

The days of walking around Havana or Lewiston shooting film and processing it in the darkroom are long gone.

However, that documentary experience taught me the power of telling visual stories with images that make a lasting impact. Ultimately, that’s a quality that both editorial and commercial clients gravitate to.

What is the most overrated or overused piece of equipment?

A lot of the magic in photography these days comes from Photoshop, but heavy-handed and sloppy retouching techniques are definitely the most overused piece of “equipment” these days.

How would you go about photographing Hathorn Hall?

I’d use a remote-control helicopter camera unit to hover above the front of the building, aiming down at the columns and roof. Shooting at the very end of sunset, the Hathorn’s front would receive raking, saturated light — which emphasizes architectural details — leaving the roof and other surroundings in shadow.

With that wide-angle image as our background plate, in post-production we’d add glowing graphic mathematical equations stretched over the roof and sides of the building.

It might be production overkill, but would tell the story of how this historic building is still relevant to teaching mathematics today.

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Clockwise from top right: “Patagonia Rodeo,” Chile, for the nonprofit Patagonia Sur. Los Leones Glacier, Chile, for Patagonia Sur, later published by Fortune.

“W. 10th St. Clock Shop,” New York City.

“Judgment of Paris,” photomural recalling The Last Supper to reference the famous 1976 French wine tasting won by California wines, created with Diller Scofidio + Renfro, for the exhibition How Wine Became Modern: Design + Wine 1976 to Now, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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Photographs from the series “Observations on Recreation,” taken during Strada’s visits to Iceland over the last two years, including her Gullkistan Residency in Laugarvatn in 2012.

“The photographs are about the colorful, sometimes nonsensical, ways we entertain ourselves,” Strada says.

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RYAN HEFFERNAN “ The days of walking around Havana or Lewiston shooting film and processing it in the darkroom are long gone.”

Clockwise from top: A model goes underwater in ecofriendly denim manufactured without water, for Agence Antidote, Paris.

Samburu warrior in Laikipia, Kenya, for a boutique safari tour company.

Apache elder who is leading efforts to save New Mexico’s Otero Mesa from mining development, for Sierra.

Child with Sesame Street character, Soweto, South Africa, for a Sesame Workshop report on international programs.

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the chapel’s location is less an ecumenical gesture and more a “nod to the openness of the college to the community.�

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The location of the Bates Chapel, now named for Peter J. Gomes ’65, illuminates the college’s historical relationship with Lewiston and how the absence of buildings is just as important as their presence.

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After Harvard Yard was closed to the public during the 2011 Occupy Harvard movement, a graduate student complained that “we don’t want our university to be a gated community.”

Yet the traditional college quadrangle resembles exactly that. Enclosed on four sides, a quad’s buildings face inward and there are gates galore. “And when you create a ceremonial portal like a gate, you’re telling visitors that they are entering another world,” says Philip Isaacson ’47, architectural critic and author.

Bates, however, adopted a different model, placing its first two buildings, Hathorn Hall and Parker Hall, side by side atop a sloping plot of land in 1857.

Bold and simple, the arrangement was considered “very distinguished,” Isaacson says. Still, early Bates leaders “hadn’t made up their mind how they would handle future buildings.”

Which brings us to the intriguing decision, a century ago, about where the college would place its new chapel. Dedicated in 1914, the Chapel is now named in memory of the late Peter J. Gomes ’65, the influential and beloved preacher, minister, professor and author.

The naming was celebrated at a service in the Chapel on Oct. 25, a day before the installation of Clayton Spencer as president. Among the speakers was Carl Benton Straub, professor emeritus of religion and the Clark A. Griffith Professor Emeritus of Environmental Studies, who began his reflection with the sentence that Keats asked be chiseled on his tombstone: “Here lies one whose name was writ in water.”

With the naming of the Chapel, Straub said, Gomes’ name is now written in stone. Specifically, the stone is seam-faced granite, quarried a century ago near Hingham, Mass., and carrying a distinctive and natural tone and texture. “The walls which frame us, the turrets which anchor our conclave...give place for our remembering and for Peter’s name,” Straub said.

With its founding in 1855, the founders of Bates registered their protest against “castes, classes and social tyrannies,” in the words of George Colby Chase, the college’s second president. Befitting this iconoclasm, our own Historic Quad evolved less like the quads at places like Harvard, Bowdoin or Dartmouth. The layout is more open, like a city park, Isaacson suggests.

As Oren Cheney’s chief lieutenant and then as president, Chase was, for many years, under chronic pressure to raise money for the latest college needs.

By around 1910, money from Andrew Carnegie for a new science hall was in hand, so Chase was trying to raise money for a new chapel and new gym.

In January 1911, the pressure on Chase ramped up after the college received a $1,000 challenge gift that required Bates to raise another $3,000 — in three days — or forfeit the original $1,000.

So Chase, as he’d done many times before, took the train to New York City to meet with prospective donors. By his third day, he’d raised just $2,000. Two hours before his train was to leave, he received a message at his hotel inviting him to call on a donor — within 15 minutes. He made the visit, secured $5,000

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to meet and exceed the challenge, and then received another $60,000 a year later from the same donor, later revealed to be Ellen S. James, widow of industrialist and philanthropist Daniel Willis James.

By the time money was in hand for the chapel, the east side of the Quad was filled with Coram Library (1902) and the forthcoming Carnegie Science (1913). So a location on College Street was selected. A likely challenge, Isaacson says, was how to orient the new building in that spot.

“So along comes Chase with a chapel,” muses Isaacson. “If he tries to have it face inward toward the park, its length is going to obscure Parker Hall.

If you have it face Parker, then its back end is going to face the town, which isn’t going to look good, either. So, what’s the guy going to do?”

The solution was to place the Chapel parallel to College Street, with its porch facing Campus Avenue and the city of Lewiston beyond.

That this orientation has worked so well can be explained by Straub, who did research about the Chapel in the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library over the summer, both for his remarks at the service and for an historical essay published in a brochure about the Chapel.

Straub found that in June 1912, months before the laying of the cornerstone that November, the Board of Trustees voted to keep the space in front of their future Chapel open and free from any other structure, “unless it be a monument, shaft, arch or similar construction,” in perpetuity.

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The decision acknowledged the simple fact that where buildings aren’t is as significant as where they are; in practice, it ensured that anyone coming up College Street from the city of Lewiston would have an unobstructed view of the Chapel.

For Bates, a welcoming approach to the college was important. Barely a half-century old by then, Bates was still well-aware that it owed its existence to Lewiston’s industrialists — including namesake Benjamin Bates — the leading citizens who had donated the land for Oren Cheney’s new college back in 1855. Blocking the approach from town with buildings would be like “saying to the city, ‘Keep out,’” Isaacson says.

That the Chapel is the college building that welcomes town to gown is less a religious and ecumenical gesture, Straub says, and more a “nod to the openness of the college to the community, an acknowledgment of interdependence and of appropriate appreciation.”

At the Chapel dedication in 1914, architect J. Randolph Coolidge noted the importance of allowing the Chapel to say something graceful to the Lewiston community. “With [the Chapel’s] setting of over-arching trees, its wide porches, its easy approaches, it extends an invitation and a welcome to the college and to the city.”

That invitation still stands today. The Gomes Chapel is as “distinctive and impressive it was when it was built,” Isaacson says, and still does a splendid job of tying the college to its larger community and its original roots.

A century ago, he adds, “Bates College did the right thing.” n

m or e abou t th e c h ape l The recently published brochure Peter J. Gomes Chapel: Common Ground for Uncommon Pursuits offers historical and contemporary perspectives on the Chapel and its role in the cultural and religious life of the college. For a copy, please contact the Bates College Multifaith Chaplaincy at 163 Wood St., Lewiston ME 04240, or email lthomps2@ bates.edu.

long ago, the college decided that no building would occupy space in front of the gomes chapel.

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The beachhead in North Carolina a medal honors men like nathaniel boone ’52 for breaking the marine corps color line

r ep ort ing and pho to g raph y by ph y lli s g r abe r je nse n sto ry by d ou g h u bley

Shown at his Manchester Center, Vt., home in September 2012, Nathaniel Boone ’52 displays the Congressional Gold Medal he received for his service as a Montford Point Marine.

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Left: Wearing dress blues, Marine Cpl. Nate Boone poses for an unnamed buddy in front of a barracks at Montford Point, Camp Lejeune, N.C., in 1947.

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Photo credit: Courtesy the Boone family

“ We were fighting the war before we encountered any enemy.”

Like many Bates alumni of a certain era, Nathaniel Boone believes that his college experience was largely defined by “Cultch” — the series of Cultural Heritage courses that painted 2,000 years of human development in broad sweeping brushstrokes.

But Boone’s appreciation of humanity’s evolution may be sweetened by knowing that he played a role in one of the sweeping historical changes of his own time. He is one of about 400 surviving “Montford Point Marines,” the first African Americans to serve in the U.S. Marine Corps.

Given basic training in the 1940s at the racially segregated Montford Point facility at Camp Lejeune, N.C., thousands of black Marines broke the Corps color barrier in a time and place where desegregation was anything but welcome.

“This was a swampy area, infested with snakes,” says Boone, a retired attorney who now lives in Manchester Center, Vt., with his wife of 55 years, Harriet Howell Boone ’52. “The barracks were made, more or less, of a glorified cardboard.

And there were no black officers at that time.”

“We had difficulty in the town near the base, which was Jacksonville, because the whites didn’t want us there. And the white officers didn’t want us there,” Boone says. “So we were sort of fighting the war before we encountered any enemy.”

Traveling from his home in Englewood, N.J., to North Carolina, Boone had to change buses in Washington, D.C. — and move to the back of the bus. “That’s where the segregation started, in our nation’s capital,” he recalls.

But Boone made a return visit to the nation’s capital last June that may have eased the sting of that insult, as he and the other remaining Montford Point Marines — totaling 420, out of close to 20,000 who trained at the camp from 1942 to 1949 — received the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor bestowed by the government.

“It brought me to tears, because the Marine Corps has changed so much,” he says. The Marines at the two-day event, he adds, “treated us like royalty. And to see the rank that the ladies, black and white, had achieved, and to

see black generals, which I didn’t think would ever happen in the Marine Corps.”

Back in 1946, Boone understood what he was getting into, partly because his mother and aunt, who had grown up in Georgia, gave him ample warning of what he could expect in the Jim Crow South. But, Boone says, “nothing that was said to me deterred me, because the only way I could go to college was the GI Bill.”

While college leaders feared that this landmark legislation would open their hallowed gates to the rabble and thereby debase U.S. higher education, the GI Bill had just the opposite effect: Veterans-turned-students from all walks of life, instead, brought new vitality and ideas to the U.S. academy.

Indeed, Boone says, “I think it’s frankly one of the best things the United States ever did because it developed a middle class and it allowed a lot of individuals to go to college” who otherwise never would have.

Cultch and all, Bates prepared him well for law school, Boone says — he put himself through at Boston University by scrubbing floors in a restaurant — and for a long law career in Hackensack, N.J. Even though Montford Point and his Marine Corps career got Boone the college education he wanted, the medal is a welcome recognition of both the trials those pioneering black Marines went through and their contribution to a country that, at the time, was hardly gracious about it.

“I’m honored to receive this award,” says Boone. “I did some research and I found out some of the people who received this award” — a list that starts with George Washington and

goes on to include other presidents, war heroes and such notables as Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, the Tuskegee Airmen and the Native American “code talkers” who used their own languages to encode military messages during World War II. “I’m in fairly good company,” he laughs. n Video about Nate Boone bates.edu/nate-boone-marine

Boone joined the Marine Corps because “the only way I could go to college was the GI Bill.”

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class co-secretaries Carleton Finch Arline Sinclair Finch zeke137@aol.com

1946 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Muriel Ulrich Weeks muweeks@comcast.net

Who, What, Where, When?

Send your Bates news and photos, story ideas and comments and tips and solutions to magazine@bates.edu.

1928-1932 Two senior members of the Bates alumni community, both presidents of their class, Alfred Webber ’28, age 104, and Elden Dustin ’32, age 101, died in August. Both had memorable centennials, Al returning to Bates for his 80th Reunion in 2008, and Elden enjoying his 100th birthday with family and friends in Concord, N.H., in February 2011.

1934 class president Doris Neilson Whipple 216 Nottingham Rd. Auburn ME 04210

1937 class secretary Jane Ault Lindholm Thornton Hall 220 56 Baribeau Dr. Brunswick ME 04011 Jane Ault Lindholm, squired by her son, Karl, was among the attendees at a memorial service for her friend and former Bates editing partner, Ruth Rowe Wilson ’36, at the Chapel on Sept. 16. Also attending among Ruth’s contemporaries was June Lovelace Griffin ’36.

1940 class secretary Leonard Clough leonard_clough@yahoo.com Harry Shepherd died Aug. 30, 2012, in Scarborough, Maine, and the class expresses condolences to his wife, Beatrice “Bee” Wilson Shepherd ’42, and his family, including son Bob Shepherd ’69 and daughter-in-law Alice Grant Shepherd ’71; sister-inlaw Marcia Wiswall Lindberg ’47; and grand-nephew Zachary Altman ’01. His obituary will be in the next issue.

1941 class president Edward Raftery rafandjane@sbcglobal.net Our longtime class secretary, Barbara Abbott Hall, died Aug. 19, 2012, in Baltimore, and we extend condolences to her husband, Richard, a dear friend of our class, and to her family, including daughter Ann Hall Dorr ’73. Her obituary will be in the next issue.

1942 Reunion 2017, June 9-11 class secretary Barbara McGee Chasse bchasse6@gmail.com class president Rose Worobel rworobel@cox.net

1943 Reunion 2013, June 7–9

1938 class secretary Marion Welsch Spear mspear1@attglobal.net class president Howard Becker howardb999@aol.com

Former Bates professor Roy FairFormer field happily keeps in touch with many former students. “My letters are not so long or detailed as they once were, but I continue to write them in the humanistic spirit.”

1944 Reunion 2014, June 6–8

1939 class secretary Eleanor Smart Parker elchetparker@roadrunner.com

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class president Jane Parsons Norris janenorris@roadrunner.com Sally Adkins Macfarlane Wilbur moved to the Syracuse, N.Y., area to be near her son and his family....Les Anderson’s wife, Kathy, reported with great sadness that Les had died March 17, 2012. She had attended several Reunions with him and because Les loved his time at Bates and keeping up with his class, she would be proud to be an honorary member of the Class of 1946 and stay on our list for class news. Les’ obituary is in this issue....Joyce Cleland Goad keeps busy with three bridge groups and one book group. Her main project now is sorting through slides of their years of living abroad....Suzanne Davidson Newing is trying to finish her genealogy project....

Gracie Hall Stone gets around in her electric wheelchair in her two-room apartment where she has help when she needs it, but apparently is still able to go on a Caribbean cruise with the help of her sister and brother-in-law.

She reads and sews a lot for a fall church fair....Pat Hemenway Poore had serious basal cell surgery last summer, but is healing nicely. In March, she was surprised to receive an honorary plaque from the Air National Guard’s 101st Air Refueling Wing in Bangor, at the base where her grandson was presented a commendation for his service in Iraq and a promotion. His colonel did a bio on his family and was pleased to add her award for her service. Congratulations!...

Rohna Isaacson Shoul and Melvin are anticipating the birth of their great-grandchild in January. We were sorry to hear that she fell last Thanksgiving, injured her head, had surgery and was hospitalized until January 2012, when she woke up. Her memory continues to improve, but not about the accident....

Bert Knight has great memories of our 65th Reunion. He stays active with his photo and computer work. Walking is getting tougher due to arthritis, but he is hanging in there....Mike Lategola and his wife celebrated their 65th

anniversary on June 21, 2012.

They still enjoy listening to jazz and doing crossword puzzles. His hobbyy of late is recording local jazz groups during performances, but he still enjoys playing his guitar at home in Oklahoma. His grief returns at the passing of his dearest friend and classmate, Les Anderson....Jane Parsons Norris has finally resigned from the board of Mechanics Savings Bank, headquartered in Auburn, after 61 years of service. She is now enjoying life and indulging in her neglected hobbies....Don and Jane Gumpright Richter are pretty much confined to their home, except for periodic visits to healthcare professionals. They never left their large home for an alternative living arrangement, but they manage now with a wonderful helper each day. Don was a Bates trustee for 32 years, a partner in his law firm until 1994 and is now of counsel. This year he plans to formally retire — at last. He says he is at best only an average caregiver, but is learning quite slowly....Ruth Stillman Fernandez and Lu are content in their community residential retirement village.

She works in their little store occasionally, pushes the library cart around to those who are bedridden and does other little chores to make her think she is still useful....Mary Mary Tibbetts Kelly feels fortunate to be in good health and still able to live alone lazily with her knitting, reading and puzzles. She walks for a half-hour each morning and does a round-trip one and a half miles once a week to the library. She no longer drives, but her daughter takes her where she has to go....

Muriel Ulrich Weeks moved to a wonderful continuing care residential community where life is stimulating and easy. “I love it,” she says....Marjorie Walther Keach and Dick ’44 moved to a retirement community in Connecticut a few years ago, which was a new beginning of lots of new friendships and a stimulating life. There are five Batesies in this same community….Connie Wood Norte’s son, Harvey Norte, wrote that Connie is on “Comfort Care,” her wish after a severe stroke, and will not be with us for long. He wrote that Connie and his father, Daniel Norte ’45, who passed away in 2011 after battling ALS for more than 10 years, had a happy life together.

1947 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Jean Labagh Kiskaddon jean.kiskaddon@gmail.com class president Vesta Starrett Smith vestasmith@charter.net The class is saddened by the death of our former president, Raymond Hobbs, and sends

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His obituary will be in the next issue....Carolyn Booth Gregory, who lost her husband eight years ago, lives with her two cats in “the lovely little town of the Ringling Brothers” — Baraboo, Wis....Arlene Crosson Henderson is recovering from a stroke that left her with paralysis and loss of speech....Stan Freeman reports he settled into his new home and was pleased that his cottage was sold....Jean Labagh Kiskaddon visited her four great-grandchildren and had the delight and honor of officiating at the baptism of Brody (1) at his grandparents’ church in Norway, Maine....Jane Sedgley McMurray reports generally good health, some difficulty getting around, and says life goes on at its “petty pace.”...Vesta Starrett Smith attended grandson Sam’s graduation and a family reunion....Charlotte Welch Quaintance saw a glorious performance of As You Like It in New York’s Central Park that reminded her of seeing the play at Bates. “I think Marcia Wiswall Lindberg was Touchstone, and she was wonderful.”

1948 Reunion 2013, June 7–9 class secretary Roberta Sweetser McKinnell 33 Red Gateane Cohasset MA 02025 class president Vivienne Sikora Gilroy vgilroy@verizon.net John Radebaugh spoke out against the proposal to develop housing units in the Moosehead Lake area, saying it reminds him of threats to Mount Katahdin until the creation of Baxter State Park. “I have had the opportunity to explore Moosehead Lake from Greenville to Northeast Carry. I still have a lasting impression of the primitive beauty, which should remain beneficial to all who would wish to share it,” he wrote in the Portland Press Herald.

1949 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Elaine Porter Haggstrom ephag@aol.com class co-presidents Art Bradbury chartbury@comcast.net Nelson “Bud” Horne nelsonhorne86@msn.com After 31 years of teaching piano, Rachel Eastman Feeley of Auburn still teaches. “My daughter, Marttie, also teaches piano, and together we own Studio 88 Music School. My mother was also a piano teacher — three generations of piano teachers!”

1950 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class secretary Lois Keniston Penney hulopenney@sbcglobal.net class president Wes Bonney wbonney@maine.rr.com Muriel Mansfield Leach’s grandson is now in biology practice in Concord, N.H., and she has three great-grandsons.

Her granddaughter works for Deloitte. “My other joys are NPR and reading. I’m disgusted with national news coverage (all channels) and all moderators who permit debaters to interrupt each other repeatedly. Promise to answer no emails or tweets, but all typed or cursive letters.”

1951 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Dorothy Webb Quimby dwquimby@unity.edu class co-presidents Bill Dill Jean McLeod Dill wmrdill@gmail.com

1952 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Florence Dixon Prince fdprince2000@yahoo.com class president John Myers johnmyers52@comcast.net Peter Ault and Lois helped celebrate granddaughter Julia’s 3rd birthday....Dick Bellows, Carol and son Stephen now live on Bass Hill in Wilton, Maine, and enjoy views over Mount Blue State Park....Norm Brackett’s new liver “is doing better than the original.”...Web Brockelman and Jennie Lou enjoy retirement and a thriving family.... Elsa Buschner Carpenter and Bob ’51 proudly attended the senior thesis piano recital of granddaughter Sarah Vigne ’12 in Olin Arts Center....

Marilyn Coffin Brown looked forward to a trip to Holland and Belgium....Norma Crooks Coughlin and Dick ’53, in Cape Elizabeth, keep track of what’s happening at Bates....As a member of the Baha’i faith, Jean Decker Brooks hosts weekly interfaith prayers....

Ginny Edge Shedd and Wil Bloom split the year between Prescott, Ariz., and Peabody, Mass....Gene Harley and Connie bike on a rail-trail and sing in the church choir....Charlotte Meyer Martin is a docent at the governor’s mansion in Raleigh, N.C.....John Myers is busy with church, Civil War studies and Bates projects. Mary hikes the beach in her volunteer job to

find stranded turtles and porpoises....Katie Lang Patterson ’55, widow of Stan, says their sons and families have given her tremendous support. She and Ruth Potter talk by phone two or three times a year....

Dotty Pierce Morris and Ron Clayton ’53 are busy with family and friends in Chelmsford, Mass., and at their second home on Cape Cod....Austin and Zell Wilcox Rich volunteer delivering in-house mail and other tasks in their community....Mal Shaylor Mullen teaches and plays bridge and enjoys golf....

Marshall Solomon has continued friendships with Dick Bellows and a few other classmates over the years....Barbara Spring Fry’s family has rallied around her since the loss of her dear Harry in 2011....Golferkayaker Ed Swain and tennis player Eleanor live in Salem, S.C., and enjoy their summer cabin on Mooselookmeguntic Lake in Maine....Eleanor Wolfe Watt and Jim welcomed first great-grandchild Henry.

1953 Reunion 2013, June 7–9 class secretary Ronald Clayton rondot@comcast.net class president Virginia LaFauci Toner vatoner207@gmail.com Paul Anderson is involved in several building projects, including Habitat for Humanity, and also sings barbershop and in the church choir....Dave Bennett continues as president of the Torrington, Conn., Historical Society and as local camp church coordinator for the Gideons International....

Bev Bragdon Borden and Pete are happy in their Sand Point, Fla., life-care retirement community....Jean Chapman Neely is now “emeritus” on a couple of nonprofit boards, which she finds liberating....Ron Clayton and Dotty Pierce Morris ’52 walk two miles or more most days, and he goes golfing and birding....Sy Coopersmith is still in private practice in Great Neck, N.Y., although he has cut back on his hours. He and Valerie visited Turkey....

Gordie Hall reports that Swede Anderson and Bob Russell showed up at his surprise 80th birthday party in Ohio. He and Linda enjoyed seeing Bob and Don Holstrom in Florida....

Maurie Hight and Pat continue to enjoy retirement on the Jersey Shore....Norma Judson received the Westport, Mass., Woman of the Year Award for saving a landmark tree and preserving early town records....

Joanne Kennedy Murray and Floyd welcomed their first great-grandson....Nancy Lowd Hanby says life is good in St.

Joseph, Mich., where her 80th birthday celebration filled the church fellowship hall....Emmett Morton and Wanda enjoy Florida more every winter, but still spend July and August in Vermont....Curt Osborne, medicating for myriad things, planned a trip to Tanzania to reward himself....Cyn Parsons Menck and Herman enjoy living in a senior assisted-living facility in San Diego, near one of their sons....Don Peck and Lorraine, now living in a continuing care community in Geneva, Ill., had a fantastic river cruise in the Netherlands and Belgium....Bob Russell reports that 59 years after graduation he reconnected with his old Bates girlfriend Jane Haworth, who lives in Ormond Beach, Fla....Pat Scheuerman Pfeiffer’s Fish, a docudrama about the 1980s shrimp wars on Galveston Bay, debuted at The Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco....Norma Sturtevant Boutelle says life goes along well in sunny California. Son David is nearby....Marguerite Thoburn Watkins and Gordon moved into a cottage at a retirement community in Lynchburg, Va....Bill and Jackie Loveland Thomson celebrated their 62nd anniversary....Milt Van Vlack says he and Lou Winter Hamilton, now both widowed, have rekindled their Bates romance that stalled out after Senior Week in 1953. Don Peck helped initiate the reunion....Mary Van Volkenburgh Kashmanian and Kash are busy with church mission work, bocce club and her work with homeless families....

Sad news from Tom Woodman: He lost his wife, Eleanor, after a long battle with cancer.

1954 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Jonas Klein joklein@maine.rr.com class president Marion Shatts Whitaker petmarwhitaker@gmail.com Overlooking Casco Bay, the OceanView at Falmouth Retirement Community boasts a covey (or a flock) of Bates alums that include Jonas Klein, John Radebaugh ’48, Lee ’51 and Ruth Parr Faulkner ’52, Doris Hardy Crosby ’52, Betty Lewis Graves ’55 and Nancy Long Struve ’67. Outnumbering Bowdoin and Colby grads, this group of hardy and lively Bobcats enjoys a very active community just minutes from Portland and coastal pleasures....

From Vermont comes word of an exciting summer for Class President Marion Shatts Whitaker.

Three, count ’em, three grandchildren were married in the summer of 2012, with the third bringing Marion and Pete ’53 to

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It’s unlikely that anyone keeps count, but that might well be a class record, if not a new Bates standard!...Ginger Bailey-Olney was extremely pleased to learn of the new dance major at Bates and its first graduates in 2012, and she is “very proud of the Bates Summer Dance Festival...certainly wish it had existed when I was there. Those of us who held the Dance Club together during my years at Bates included Marion Shatts Whitaker and Pete ’53, Shirley Hendricks Revello, Ruth Scammon Sargent, Lois Stuber Spitzer ’55, Mason Taber ’52, Nate Boone ’52, Larch Foxon Miller ’52, Mimi Olson and Dotty Wood Gugelman ’52, to name a few. We all share....credit for keeping dance alive at Bates.

Some of us had to...teach classes ourselves after our teachers left during the year and the P.E. Department wanted to end the dance program. Dr. Patricia Rowe, who was in part responsible for preserving the Dance Club, later became director of the M.A. and D.A. dance program at NYU. I had the opportunity to study with her. In addition, Professors Tagliabue, Wright and Schaefer were great supporters and provided encouragement for dance those earlier years. All have contributed in some way to the successful establishment of the Bates Summer Dance Festival as well as the academic major. It’s certainly great to see that dance at Bates has come a very long way.”...On the other coast, Bill Cummings has enjoyed being able to reconnect with NguyenNgac Nha. He misses the friendship and frequent emails from late Class President Neil Toner.

Bill very much enjoyed returning to New England to visit Herb Johnston in Dover-Foxcroft at Sebec Lake, where they trolled for fish, and for college memories....And Dwight Harvie relocated from Boothbay Harbor to a more sprightly year-round Damariscotta. His daughter Lisa Harvie McIlwain ’83 is in nearby East Boothbay. On occasion, he travels down memory lane with Jonas Klein at some favorite eateries. Dwight recently had a visit from his Paris-based daughter Ayako ’00, then entertained old friends from away before heading abroad to enjoy a commemorative celebration with old friends and colleagues.

1955 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class secretary Marianne Webber Brenton mab4160@rcn.com class president Beverly Hayne Willsey stonepost@cox.net Radio morning-show host Jack Ellery, who was Jack Eisner at Bates, received the New Jersey

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Broadcasters Assn.’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his 60 years in radio. He has spent nearly 50 of them at WCTCAM in New Brunswick, N.J. He began his career there, worked in Philadelphia and Tampa, and is now in his third tour of duty at the station....Ernie Ern, former vice president of student affairs at the Univ. of Virginia, received accolades and participated in the dedication of a new building named for him. He and Petie were joined by top UVa administrators at a ceremony in the Ern Commons building. Ernie joined UVa in 1962 as a geology professor and retired in 2000 as senior vice president....Jim Leamon, professor emeritus of history at the college, has published The Reverend Jacob Bailey, Maine Loyalist (Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 2012), a tale of a missionary preacher for the Church of England in what is now Dresden, Maine, who refused to renounce allegiance to King George III during the Revolutionary War. While Bailey absorbed many of the intellectual currents of the Enlightenment, he also held to the traditional conviction that family, society, religion, and politics, like creation itself, should be orderly and hierarchal. Such beliefs led Bailey to oppose the revolution as unnatural, immoral and doomed to fail.

1956 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Frederic Huber himself@fredna.com class president Alice Brooke Gollnick agollnick@valley.net Gail Molander Goddard acgpension@tds.net

“Get your mammograms, folks,” says Loe Anne Kimball Pino ’56, who, shortly after a regularly scheduled mammogram, became a breast cancer survivor.

The class is saddened by the death of Barry Greenfield on Aug. 20 and extends condolences to his wife, Nancy Goldberg Greenfield ’57, and family. His obituary will be in the next issue....Wej Baker Malcolm volunteers at the Keene, N.H., Chamber of Commerce and belongs to two book clubs....Sybil Benton Williamson’s husband, Peter, is in long-term care after a stroke. Their three children are a great support....Alice Brooke Gollnick enjoys recorder lessons and practicing with a recorder

consort and an early music chamber group....Brenda Buttrick Snyder and Bruce enjoy activities at Cornwall Manor, a continuing-care retirement community near Lancaster, Pa....John Davis is busy with financial planning clients, Jill Farr Davis with volunteering and both with social activities....

Dinny Felt Swett anticipated possible travel this fall to visit two grandsons studying abroad in Europe....Ruth Foster Lowell enjoys gardening, water aerobics, sewing and family get-togethers....Nancy Glennon Baumgardner and Walker have enjoyed many gatherings with children and grandchildren....

Rick Hilliard teaches college undergraduate and graduate courses, feeling no need to learn about retirement skills....Waner Holman’s garden is his avocation and joy. Dee Hirst Holman sings in the community chorus and volunteers at the local hospital and food pantry....Fred Huber lost his wife, Edna, on Oct. 19 after 56 years of marriage. Our condolences to Fred, who also was dealing with the unexpected death of his son-in-law....

Nancy Johnson Wiegel and Ronald have been enjoying the mountains of western North Carolina....Peter Kadetsky continues to work in advertising and broadcasting, now in Nashville, Tenn. Wife Ann is a neonatologist....Loe Anne Kimball Pino had a regularly scheduled mammogram and within two weeks was a breast cancer survivor.

“Get your mammograms, folks. I had no risk factors and no symptoms.”...Jane Libby came out of retirement to edit a history of the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology in Andover, Mass....Frank Luongo is on the mend from serious neck/spinal surgery....Alison Mann Etherton and Bud have thought of moving to a CCRC but they love where they live.... Dr. Bob McAfee, a past president of the American Medical Assn., was honored with the Hanley Leadership Award by the Daniel Hanley Center for Health Leadership in Portland.

The center also announced that physicians participating in a new advanced leadership course, delivered in conjunction with the Heller School at Brandeis, will be known as McAfee Fellows....Jack Merrill and Diane still work in education, he at Fenway High School in Boston where he teaches interpersonal psychology....Nancy Mills Mallett and Russ live in their own house in New Jersey and return to Meredith, N.H., each summer to enjoy Lake Winnepesaukee....

Gail Molander Goddard is busy with volunteer work, garden and book clubs, kayaking, tennis and cross-country skiing....

Dave and Peg Leask Olney ’57 enjoy life in their seaside town despite health issues slowing him down....Cappy

Parker is partially retired and sees about five patients a week.

She and her partner, Manon, celebrated 34 years together....

Jean Penney Fickett lost her husband, Arnold, on April 22, 2012. They were married nearly 55 years. His obituary is in this issue....After an apparent small stroke, Thelma Pierce moved to a continuing-care facility in Simsbury, Conn., keeping her social connections....Elise Reichert Stiles is president of the Triangle Potters Guild in Raleigh, N.C. Granddaughter Christina ’15 is at Bates, following her aunt Lissa ’81 and Elise....Marcia Rosenfeld Baker caught up with Sybil Williamson and Alice Gollnick in New Hampshire....Paige Scovill Negus hosted a Florida timeshare gathering with Dinny Swett, Nancy Baumgardner and Gail Goddard....Chug Smith was scheduled for a kidney transplant but the kidneys miraculously improved, so that’s on hold....Richard Steinberg works full time as a lawyer, currently as a public administrator....Ruth Stockinger Miller and Ros now live in Independence Village of East Lansing, Mich., near son Wayne....Wally and Henri Swain Taft ’57 celebrated their 55th anniversary. He continues to have health issues as a result of liver disease....Gail Waterman Fraser, who suffered a stroke in 2004, enjoys seeing family, reading and day trips, Howard reports.... Orthopaedic hand surgeon Kirk Watson does surgery four days a week and is working to crank up products in the Joint Jack splint company.

1957 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Barbara Prince Upton pepiu@earthlink.net class president Paul Steinberg imasearch@aol.com Pepi Prince Upton writes, “What a wonderful Reunion weekend we had! One of the great highlights was having Judy Kent Patkin receive the Benjamin E. Mays Medal for her lifetime commitment to helping Jews in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. She also presented a seminar on the same subject.

Bob Harlow did a very informative economic seminar on the Euro and current concerns. Our class was well represented!”

That includes the Rev. Garvey MacLean, who preached at the Alumni Memorial Service. Garvey was called in 1969 to be the first Bates chaplain by President Hedley Reynolds. He was ordained in the United Church of Christ in 1961 and served pastorates in Lynnfield, Mass.; Presque Isle and Portland, Maine; and Glencoe, Ill. He and Nancy

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(Libby ’56) are retired and living in Scarborough. Their family of six includes daughter Ruth ’84....

Bill and Edie Wallace Ryall had a great June and July. “Enjoyed all the 55th Reunion activities with classmates, including former roomies Don Flagg and Jim Humphrey and spouses Jean and Ginny. We attended the first Alumni College with Grant and Jo Reynolds ’58 and Dud Moses — another wonderful experience filled with fascinating lectures, discussions and other activities, including preparing part of our last dinner with the chef. Despite the absence of tests and term papers, we had a commencement exercise, complete with photos and a ‘diploma.’

Thanks to all who helped plan and execute both Bates events.

Finally, we had a Princess Cruise to the Crimean coast and Black Sea.”

1958 Reunion 2013, June 7–9 class secretary Marilyn Miller Gildea marilyn@gildea.com class president John Lovejoy lovejoy@crocker.com Lori Beer hopes to keep working as long as his health is good.

He and Lyn see Bill and Coe Huckabee a couple times a year....Robert Blackwell has osteoporosis but is still active at the public library and church....

Rick Daley works part time doing psychological and educational testing for the Berlin, N.H., school system. He and Jody celebrated their 52nd anniversary....Kay Dill Taylor and her younger daughter are both doing well after treatment for breast cancer....Bill Dillon and Cindy celebrated their 51st anniversary....Betty Dunn Pratley is mostly at home because of arthritis. She looked forward to reading Coe Huckabee’s new novel....Paul Gastonguay, who now lives in a condo near his daughter, plays the mandolin with a group....Bill and Coe Jenkins Huckabee celebrated their 75th birthdays with family.

She published her novel All My Mamas, based on the key women in her growing-up years....Mary Hudson Roby is recovering from a second broken wrist....Norman Jason, happily ensconced in a condo near his former home, has a part-time job driving for an auto-repair company....

Dick Jasper publishes poems and articles under the name Perspycacious. He and Manolie own a health store business....

Kay Johnson Howells, who divides the year between Hawaii and Salt Lake City, enjoys tennis, golf, church and socializing....

Alan Kaplan and Nancy are busy enjoying retired life in Maryland. “It is fun to be able

to select the various volunteer activities. Start teaching medical students again this fall. Continue to volunteer seeing patients at our local free clinic and am a member of Montgomery County Commission on Health, an advisory body to the county executive and county council. Nancy was appointed to the county’s Commission on Children and Youth. So between those activities and various activities here at Ingleside, retirement is busier than working full time.”...

Art Karszes works as advisory vice chairman for a Japanese company. He and Gail Baumann Karszes made business trips to San Diego, Hong Kong and Tokyo....Tom King continues to write sonnets....Jim and Betsey Gray Kirsch have enjoyed gettogethers with John and Pat Lysaght Fresina, Beth Jones Gilson ’60, Gail Larocque Schroder and Marti Boardman Swift, plus Jim’s Bates football buddies....Cook and Marjorie Koppen Anderson are thriving in their retirement community....

Mary Lawlor Dionne and Peter enjoyed a cooking in Tuscany trip. She plays bridge with Carol Stevens Woodard....Toni Lovejoy helped oversee the building of a new high school in Wilbraham, Mass., that opened this year....Bill MacKinnon is coping with health problems, including a second stroke, and depends on Marilyn....Ruth Melzard Stewart still works in the real estate market in Georgetown, Mass....

Marilyn Miller Gildea organizes the neighborhood association’s newsletter and events and helps with her infant granddaughter....

Malcolm Philbrook is pleased that grandson Kyle Philbrook ’12 ended his Bates basketball career as co-captain on a winning team. His sister, Kelly ’16, entered Bates this fall....

Peter and Jane Anderson Post say life on Dataw Island, S.C., remains idyllic....Paula Schilling Foreman anticipated trips to Finland for a choral festival and Maui for a wedding....Barbara Stetson Munkres continues with painting and the urban education program at Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge in Sudbury, Mass....Jo Trogler Reynolds and Grant ’57 are immersed in their new town, Tinmouth, Vt. They painted the historic Old Creamery as a 250th birthday present to the town....Jim Wheeler serves on the Broadalbin, N.Y., town council....Owen Wood works at the FDA on Cameroon AIDS viruses. He met Lori Beer at one of his hobbies, HO gauge model railroading.

1959 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class co-secretaries Jack DeGange jack.degange@valley.net

your plans “few can appreciate, and none can observe, the slow process by which a student develops into the scholar. valuable things require fine scales, and the most v valuable things cannot be weighed at all.”

— President George Colby Chase, 1894

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Mary Ann Houston Hermance donmar23@gmail.com

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class co-presidents Barbara Van Duzer Babin barbarababin@comcast.net Calvin Wilson ccoolidgewilson@comcast.net

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Retired pastor reaches goal of bicycling 30,000 miles and keeps on pedaling

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ta k e away : Life is more meaningful if you don’t just bump along.

Of the hills around New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee, “only half of them go down; the other half go up,” Dwight Haynes ’59 says.

Haynes’ wry equanimity keeps the 75-yearold rolling along, and on Palm Sunday 2012 he reached his lifetime goal of biking 30,000 miles.

Haynes, a retired United Methodist pastor who lives in Concord, N.H., tells the New Hampshire Union Leader that after he began setting mileage goals in 1991, he found himself living a more intentional life.

So Haynes doesn’t just bike or give blood or read books. He gives 100 pints and reads 15 books per year. And he wants to bike another 5,000 miles by age 80.

“Life is more meaningful if you don’t just bump along,” he says. “Each day is a God-given day to do something worthwhile...to not only receive but also to give.”

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Lou Brown was appointed Senior Fellow for International Scientific Cooperation at the Climate Institute in Washington.

He and Fred Drayton keep in touch....Pat Campbell Root enjoys retirement on the Cape with extended family....Davio Danielson co-directs a real estate development on Martha’s Vineyard. His father, Arthur W. Danielson ’37, died Jan. 20, 2012; his obituary is in this issue....Gerry Davis and Sandra enjoy their 12 grandchildren....

Ross Deacon and Pauline like The Villages, Fla., lifestyle, and he’s done well in several Super Senior (70-plus) golf events....

Jack DeGange is involved in three new book ideas related to Dartmouth College. Jane Lysaght DeGange works on craft projects that have a market with a shop in Maine....Peter Gartner facilitates courses at Western Mountains Senior College in Bethel. He and MaryEllen Crook Gartner ’60 enjoy skiing at Sunday River, and she continues as a volunteer coach at Maine Handicapped Skiing.

They remain close with Fred and Meg Chandler Bragdon as well as Roger Bates ’60....Bob Gould and Cindy sing in the Fort Myers, Fla., Symphonic Mastersingers. They spend summers on their sailboat in Quincy, Mass....

Tom Hawkins and Penny are involved with grandchildren’s activities....Dwight Haynes and Maryellen “exercise the spiritual discipline of hospitality” as volunteers for the Concord (N.H.) Chamber of Commerce in front of the State House, meeting people from around the world....Bill Hoag, now retired, and Lillian Sharp Hoag ’60 split the year between a townhouse in Bethel, Conn., and a Cape Cod house, where their addition has room for the six grandchildren....

Mary Ann Houston Hermance does a lot of volunteer work, driving for the American Cancer Society, cooking lunches for seniors and serving on the board of the Massachusetts Woman’s Home Missionary Union....

Jack Keigwin continues as treasurer of Jacksonville (Fla.) Univ. and chairs U.S. Trust Co. Son Scott Keigwin ’86 and daughter-in-law Jane Miniutti ’86 have expanded their primary care practice. Most important, their son Matthew ’16 started at Bates....Tom Lee and his wife crossed off a bucket list item with a cruise from Auckland, New Zealand, to Singapore....

Dave Lowry and Margie are very hopeful their youngest daughter will successfully fight

her breast cancer. They lost their oldest daughter to lung cancer in 2010....Lynn Macomber Ives volunteers at a mustang rescue and therapeutic riding facility and is involved in her church....

Making Bates connections, Peggy Montgomery talked with writer Elizabeth Strout ’77 at the New York Society Library; joined John Darrow, Betty Reid Rickey, Barb Farnham Grant and Earl and Sylvia Soehle Schindler at the New Britain (Conn.) Museum of American Art; welcomed Betty, Joan Williams Lepper and MJ Mears MacFarlane to NYC; and ran into Rene Goldmuntz near his New York apartment....Art Mullaney enjoys “a wonderfully boring life — same wife, same employer (myself ), good health, terrific environment.”...Ralph Posner is still trying to sell jewelry....Don Reese volunteers at the Forest Society and is a courtappointed special advocate for abused and neglected children.

Delight Harmon Reese ’61 is a poet and a New Hampshire Master Gardener....Bonnie Richman is “still enjoying an active life in beautiful Eugene, Ore. I credit the Bates Outing Club with getting me started in a lifelong love of hiking and bicycling, both of which are my delight here.”...Ronnie Scudder Harrold says modern chemistry keeps her alive, but her brisk daily walk and grandkids keep her young....Nancy Tyler Harris helps a first-grade teacher a few da a week. Ken ’58 edited a days book of interviews for the local Heritage Society while also being mayor of Slippery Rock, Pa....Eleanor Vanderpool works for Friendly Meals, provider of meals for those in need, and does hospice work....Barbara Van Duzer Babin serves on the Boys and Girls Club board and the Charlestown Mass., Council....Knobby Walsh still coaches football at Blue Hills Vocational in Canton, Mass., where son Michael runs the offense and their team won the Division 4A Super Bowl....Joan Williams Lepper, in Attleboro, Mass., serves as an elections warden and tutors at the Literacy Center....Retired minister Cal Wilson revels in the time to read, write and play a little cello. Benjamin ’07 is a community organizer with Maine People’s Alliance, and Emily ’10 completed a training program with the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland.

1960 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class secretary Louise Hjelm Davidson l.davidson@sbcglobal.net class president Dean Skelley dean_skelley@alumni.bates.edu

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Jim Wylie has returned to the world of emerging businesses.

He is co-founder of BioDirection, a firm developing a handheld, rapid, point-of-care diagnostic test for concussions.

The company expects to launch its first product in mid-2013.

1961 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Gretchen Shorter Davis gretchend@alumni.bates.edu class co-presidents Mary Morton Cowan mmcowan@gwi.net Dick Watkins rwatkcapt@aol.com Sally Benson and Steve Nichols met in Vietnam as volunteer teachers in 1967, and their lives are still tied to the war’s legacy. They support projects related to UXOs (unexploded ordnance) and Agent Orange....

Welles Brandriff, a former Air Force officer and retired teacher, wrote Born to Soar, a historical novel about women who pursued noncombat flying careers during WWII....Priscilla Charlton Miller especially enjoyed the history and math classes at Bates’ Alumni College....Carl and Mary Morton Cowan are busy making presentations about her biography of explorer Donald MacMillan. They were guests of Art ’60 and Sara Kinsel Hayes at the Belfast Rotary Club. At Cape Cod book signings and presentations they connected with Paula Grundberg, Chris Ross King and Priscilla Charlton Miller....Jerry and Gretcher Shorter Davis had a great trip to Cuba with a People to People humanitarian group....Retired librarian Emily Dore Fletcher enjoys her three grandchildren and more time with her farmer husband. She sees Carol Sisson Vose and Penny Allalemdjian Papazian, who live nearby....George Drury is in therapy for supranuclear palsy, a form of Parkinson’s, and says it’s not so bad....Gail Emerson says Hawaii is the best place in the world for astronomy because there’s no light pollution in the middle of the Pacific....

Dick and Meredith Glover traveled around the world this year, visiting friends in many countries they know through ham radio contacts....Roz McCullough Boyle and Jim, new grandparents to Rayna, are involved with the Friends of the Shakers in Alfred, Maine, and the Lions. She had a nice lunch with Adelaide Dorfman Fu, visiting Maine from New Mexico....Skip and Marcia Putnam O’Shea took their two 16-year-old granddaughters on a college road trip, visiting with Roz Boyle and Jim in Maine and Paul and Freda Shepherd Maier in Massachusetts....Visiting their two daughters keeps Ken ’60

and Judy Rogers McAfee busy. They enjoyed celebrating Jerry and Gretchen Davis’ 50th anniversary with other Bates couples....Doug Rowe got a call from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and appeared in a new play about LBJ and in As You Like It....Jack Simmons and Margo divide the year between Longboat Key in Florida and Falmouth, Maine....

Bill Smith and Roberta are busy with volunteer projects and Road Scholar trips....Joel ’62 and Rachel Smith Young are busy with grandchildren, community and church activities, and wandering with their trailer....Joyce Stinson Cote and Galen travel widely due to her responsibilities as president of the International Order of The King’s Daughters and Sons, an interdenominational Christian organization dedicated to service....Dick Van Bree is the VP of the local amateur radio club and the emergency preparedness committee....Channing Wagg remains active on the Boxborough (Mass.) Well-Being Committee, advocating for the homeless....

Dick Watkins and Deb are busy with fishing, golf and their New Mexico property....Judi Williams Gordon’s husband, Bob, now lives in an Alzheimer’s assisted-living facility. She planned to visit Petie Petersen Hansen in North Carolina.

1962 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Cynthia Kalber Nordstrom cknordstrom@verizon.net class president Al Squitieri asqurol@yahoo.com It was a banner year for Trustee Emeritus Ed Wilson. He received the Wade Fetzer Award from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management for his dedication and loyalty in support of the school’s alumni body.

At Kellogg, where Ed led the admission and student affairs teams for 30 years, he’s credited with bolstering the school’s noted culture of teamwork and collaboration. This past spring at Bates, Ed received a Bates’ Best award at the Volunteer Leadership Summit and the Helen A. Papaioanou ’49 Distinguished Alumni Service Award at Reunion. Both awards recognize the quality and quantity of his Bates work, including his enthusiastic efforts to foster alumni engagement in Chicagoland and his attentive work as chair of 1962’s 50th Reunion Planning Committee.

1963 Reunion 2013, June 6–9 class secretary Natalie Shober Moir nataliemoir@netflash.net

class president Bill Holt wholt@maine.rr.com As noted in the Spring issue, a great friend of Maine and New England football, Howie Vandersea earned election to the Maine Sports Hall of Fame in 2012. Later in the spring, he added another honor: membership in the Bates Scholar-Athlete Society.

1964 Reunion 2014, June 5–8 class secretary John Meyn jemkpmeyn@aol.com class president Elizabeth Metz McNab ejmcnab@cox.net

Age researcher Dave Harrison ’64 points out that today’s elderly are far more likely to live independently than in 1960. “So it could be worse. In fact, it was worse.”

Dick and Joan Spruill Andren keep busy tending 80 acres of woods, fields and gardens in Dixmont, Maine, and volunteering....Ros Avery Fishbaugh is learning to paint with watercolors and draw with charcoal. She and Jim are active in the movement against hydrofracking....

Ted Beal retired from AXA/ Equitable Retirements Group but helps part time with training and national speaking. He’s also involved with Bates athletics....

Becky Beckwith Walsh loves the Seattle area and has made many connections and friends, some with assistance from daughter Lauren ’89 but mostly through her Unitarian church....

Avid golfers Don Blumenthal and Elaine live the good life in Boca Raton, Fla., where he’s on their country club board. He’s in touch with Steve Barron, who has a second home in Fort Myers....Norm Bowie is done teaching but still does a bit of research and writing....Sadly, Linda Browning Griffin lost her husband, Bill, on March 22, 2011....

Dave Campbell is active with the Sierra Club and also does some work with a church-based community organizing group....

Longtime Bates men’s basketball scorer and financial aid administrator Leigh Campbell was named to the Bates Scholar-Athlete Society in May. Leigh began keeping the scorebook for the Bates men’s basketball team as a student and has done so most years since, though, admittedly,

military service in Vietnam and other duties took him away from Alumni Gym for a while.

As his citation noted, Leigh’s contributions as a Bates financial aid administrator since 1973 have transcended the numbers game. In Leigh, Bates families have had “an expert mentor and financial adviser to thousands of students — no officer was ever better at listening to a student’s or family’s financial problems and finding a way to solve them fairly, thoughtfully and in confidence. It is accurate to say that in every class since 1973, students graduated who would not have been there but for Leigh’s professional judgment and personal encouragement.”...

Marion Day Czaja and Victor have been gardening and birding to their hearts’ content....Nancy Day Walker, who divides the year between Chapel Hill, N.C., and Vero Beach, Fla., cherishes time with granddaughter June....

Pat Donovan, enjoying retirement and spending summers on the Cape, added grandchild No. 16....Dick Dow, retired from the Voice of America, and his wife now live in Honolulu....

Wes Fiore still paints a lot, “but I think the glory days are over.”

Son Luca is 3. “Great to have had him this late in life.”...Diane Gallo DeFrancisci continues to enjoy life in Florida and NYC. She took great trips to India and South Africa. Her son, a Marine colonel, returned safely from Afghanistan....Paul Goodwin is co-president of the local Coventry, Conn., chapter of Dollars for Scholars, and Lyn Brown Goodwin ’65 is treasurer. An accredited national philatelic judge, Paul develops and exhibits postal history at shows and won an international gold medal....

Linda Gramatky Smith does yoga with Ken ’55 and speaks to various groups about her late father, artist Hardie Gramatky....

Gran and Dot March Harris are active in political and human rights issues in Wisconsin. She wrote a book on the Bayfield flood of ’42. He works with the regional land conservancy....

Dave Harrison’s research at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor focuses on mechanisms of aging and interventions to increase healthy lifespans. “Did you know that 70- to 80-yearolds now are far more likely to live independently, and even keep jobs than in 1960? So it could be worse. In fact, it was worse.”...Joe McLaughlin and Jill, both retired, live in Marblehead, Mass., and Naples, Fla....

Elizabeth Metz McNab is now a regular fire district warden after 20-plus years as board president.

She and Dave ’62 celebrated his 50th Reunion....John Meyn took an oyster gardening class at the Damariscotta River Assn., which should produce harvestable oysters in 2014....Nancy Nichols

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Dixon and Dick drive around the U.S. to visit their four sons and nine grandchildren....Jon Olsen’s one-man Tropical Maine business continues to grow at a steady pace....Anne Packard delivers meals to many senior citizens and has gotten to know Janet Nell, a physical education instructor at Bates from 1960 to 1966....Esther Rosenthal Mechler and Michael now live happily in Brunswick, only 15 miles from where they were “summa” people. They anticipated visits with Linda Gramatky Smith and Ken ’55, Ros Avery Fishbaugh and Jim, John Meyn, and Dick and Joan Andren....Greg Shea says it’s harder to get started with regular physical activity, “but the afterglow is more than worth it.”...Eric and Rhoda Morrill Silverberg split the year between Austin, Texas, and Vinalhaven, Maine.

She works for Wilson Language Training as a literacy specialist.

He schemes about plans for their four-season home on Vinalhaven....Mark Silverstein is still in the KFC and Dunkin’ Donuts business....Alan and Sandy Prohl Williams enjoy their “little piece of paradise,” Kiawah Island, S.C. He does some consulting. She volunteers at a rural elementary school....Jennifer Wingate Gilchrist says of Abby, the tabby she got at a shelter: “There is no end to the good results of loving a cat.”...Ken Yates passed 25 years of coping, or not, with chronic fatigue syndrome, which severely limits his lifestyle. Sons Darren, who has had CFS for 20 years, and Cory, father of Ken and Robin’s grandson, live nearby....

Gretchen Ziegler celebrated the 35th anniversary of her business, Field ’n Forest Recreation Area in Harrisville, N.H., which she plans to sell to “a great family who will let me come play here whenever I want.” She hosted Wilson House freshmen friends Lynn Parker Schiavi, Sandy Prohl Williams and Linda Rolfe Raiss.

1965 Reunion 2015, June 11–14 class secretary Judith Morris Edwards juded@comcast.net class president Joyce Mantyla tiojack@aol.com The class expresses sympathy and condolences to Class President Joyce Mantyla, whose husband, Jack Weissman, died Sept. 5....Irwin Flashman received a Bates’ Best award at the annual Volunteer Leadership Summit in May for his contributions to Bates. As a class agent and recruiter of new Bates Fund volunteers, Irwin is a big reason the Class of 1965 does so well in the Bates Fund. Irwin is an environmental lawyer who practiced for many years in Puerto Rico and now lives in Reston, Va.

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1966 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class president Alexander Wood awwood@mit.edu

1967 Reunion 2017 June 9–11 class co-secretaries Alexandra Baker Lyman toads@snet.net Ingrid Larsson Shea chezshea4@comcast.net class president Bob Bowden rbbowden@aol.com Bill Tucker, a psychology professor at Rutgers Univ.-Camden, returned to Bates to speak on “Rationalizing Oppression: Misusing Science for Political Purposes.” He is well known for his critiques of how the social sciences have sometimes been used to support oppressive policies.

1968 Reunion 2013, June 7–9 class secretary Rick Melpignano rickmel713@comcast.net class co-presidents Gerald Lawler Jill Howroyd Lawler lawlerjer@aol.com

Dan Dustin ’68 didn’t know he could make a living making spoons.

Didn’t care, either. “I cared about what I did, and I still do.”

Diane Akers Libbey and David ’70 enjoyed a photographic safari to Botswana, where they saw the endangered painted dogs, watched lions take down and kill a cape buffalo, experienced the Okavango Delta’s wide horizons and saw a large variety of birds they had never seen before. They now have two granddaughters and one grandson, Preston. They are finishing a barn before winter to house their two Model A cars.

Retirement gives Diane time to see family and friends, but she is also a trustee at her local library and volunteers at a middle school library...Dan Dustin is happily married with eight children and five grandchildren. He retired recently from the New Hampshire Technical Institute, where he wrote a book and was voted “best art teacher” in the Concord area in a local newspaper poll. He also gave the graduation address at The Derryfield School. The Currier Museum of Art in Manchester has purchased several of his

wooden spoons for its permanent collection. In addition, Ernest Hebert’s novel Spoonwood is dedicated to Dan, whose working life is now focused on spoonmaking and teaching the flute to his students. The Concord Monitor profiled Dan, who displayed his spoons for the 38th time at the Annual League of New Hampshire Craftsmen’s Fair. “My work is good. I’ll do it till I drop,” he said....Jane Hippe Reilly celebrated her 65th birthday by jumping out of a plane at 12,000 feet, a truly terrifying and thrilling experience. Cross that off her bucket list. She and her husband had a wonderful Maine vacation (Goose Rocks) with all six grandsons and their three daughters.

They also had a nice lunch with Marcy Plavin, professor emeritus of dance. Jane still works, saying two retired people in the house might be one too many.... Rick Melpignano continues to take piano lessons and has resumed his music theory studies. He performed in his 11th piano recital last June in Boston. With the addition of several new power tools, he still designs and builds furniture and woodworking projects.... Mike Morin was inducted into the Bristol (Conn.) Sports Hall of Fame. He was a standout football player and wrestler and played baseball at Bristol Eastern High and was named to the UPI All-New England small college football team as co-captain at Bates. A teacher in the Bristol school system, he’s also coached football and baseball and cofounded the Bristol Track Club....

Tim Murray continues to teach Bible and related subjects and is still pastoring. He is grateful for his four children, all of them in education, and is blessed with 11 grandchildren who live near him.

He enjoys reading and writing and is still a man of faith who thanks God for good health and other blessings. For Tim, no cell phone, iPod, iPad, Notebook or Kindle. He remains a registered Republican....Linda Russell Findlay retired July 1 from the Wonder Awhile Nursery School in Winthrop, Maine, after 30 years as director and teacher. She says that time was a wonderful journey of exploration in the lives of children 3–5. The Kennebec Journal noted Linda was praised for her creative approach to preschool and her way of making learning fun. “She has an innate ability to know what little preschoolers need,” said Priscilla Small, who cofounded the school.

Two of Linda’s daughters have provided Doug ’65 and her with two more grandchildren, bringing the total to six, thereby giving Linda her “kid fix.”

Travel plans include visiting the grandchildren and taking time for themselves....Henry Seigel and Michael celebrated their 30th anniversary together on Oct. 5, 2012, with a blessing

at a synagogue and a party. As soon as the Defense of Marriage Act is overturned, they plan to have a legal ceremony....After a 35-year academic medical career, Louis and Andrea Weinstein relocated to their dream location in Charleston, S.C. They have restored a circa 1850 home there that was on the fall home tours in October. Louis does volunteer medical work for the Barrier Islands Free Medical Clinic and plays lots of tennis. As a super senior, he was on a team that won the state championship last year.

1969 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Bonnie Groves beegroves@comcast.net class president Richard Brogadir dbrogie1@aol.com Carol Drewiany Johnson retired from a wonderful job as a high school counselor in Alaska.

“Alaska is almost as far as you can get from Maine, so most of our high school graduates choose colleges much closer. This year I was lucky to have two of my seniors choose Bates for college. What a treat for me to share impressions with them, and to remember my college days too. I look forward to retirement as a time to try out new adventures.”...Bonnie Groves still enjoys her work as office manager for Montachusett Opportunity Council Inc. in Fitchburg, Mass., the regional community action agency serving the area’s low-income population.

After 9/11, she joined Elder Services, working with the Meals on Wheels and Elder Home Repair programs. Elder Services later merged with the ProHealth division, creating a new Nutrition and Wellness Services division.

In addition to facilities and office management responsibilities, she is very involved in the grants submitted by her division, which are a major source of income. On the personal front, she became a great-aunt when a niece welcomed a son, one of only a few males on Bonnie’s side of the family.

1970 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class co-secretaries Stephanie Leonard Bennett slenben@comcast.net Betsey Brown efant127@yahoo.com class president Steve Andrick steve.andrick@chartis insurance.com Glenn Ackroyd and Libby enjoy teaching at Fellowship Christian School in Madison, Maine....

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horizon....Jim Athearn and Debbie are in their 37th year of farming at Morning Glory Farm on Martha’s Vineyard, though their two sons are taking on many of the day-to-day decisions....Mark Bergeron of the MetroWest Daily News in Framingham, Mass., won a first-place award for writing on religious issues and third place in arts reporting from the New England Newspaper and Press Assn....Bonnie Briggs Galway does some substitute teaching and is busy with five grandchildren....Betsey Brown loves working as house manager at the Fulton Theater in Lancaster, Pa. She’s a volunteer for the Long’s Park Art and Craft Festival where Peter Handler ’69 was a new exhibitor this year....Eric Bye is the editor of Muzzle Blasts, the magazine of the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Assn., and works as a freelance translator....

Phyllis Byerly Whitin and David are professors of elementary education at Wayne State Univ. in Detroit....In Fairbanks, Alaska, Ted Callaghan is now a certified health coach with his own business, Alaska Health and Wellness Center....Mary Davis and Stuart enjoy their home in a bucolic Portland setting. She’s ramping down her caseload....

Donna Dustin Strachan enjoys a rewarding profession as the librarian at Narraguagus High School in Harrington, Maine. She and Andy celebrated their 40th anniversary....Joyce Elliott is a professor of women’s studies and sociology at SUNY Empire State College. She and her partner Cindy Swadba, who were married seven years ago, live in the Saratoga Springs, N.Y., area....

Hank Ellis and Judy take Fridays off to play with their grandsons....

Sue Evans Trask keeps busy singing in the Androscoggin Chorale, directing a children’s choir at church and volunteering for Hospice....Camille Goulet is now chief technology officer and a member of the executive team at Hirease Inc. in Southern Pines, N.C., a human resources solutions provider. He works between New York and Pinehurst, N.C....

Barbara Hampel, in Old Town, Maine, has arranged some outside help with her mom care so she and Greg can get away together....Linnea Haworth Hallee and Alan enjoy retirement and are busy volunteering and working on home projects....

Wendy Howland Foley works as a librarian at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Fla., and achieved the rank of assistant professor. She and Jim bike regularly....David and Linda Wheeler Kirstein ’69 enjoy volunteering and helping with first grandchild Gabriella Rose Kessler, daughter of Kathryn Kirstein Kessler ’00 and Adam Kessler ’00....Stephanie Leonard Bennett enjoys her garden and using her landscape training to freely advise friends.

She credits Mary Davis with initiating get-togethers with her and other Batesies, including Mark Bergeron, Alice Pump Bouley, Steve Andrick, Barbara Hampel and Ellen Yeaton Perry....Mike Oristano is working with another investor to obtain a patent on a car pet carrier, which attaches to the roof of the family car. Tentatively named the “woof-roof,” the idea preceded the stories about the Romney dog, he adds. Paige Ulrey Oristano ’71 hosts a radio talk show, largely concerned with women’s issues....The recession hit Ken Prail in Parsippany, N.J., and he and his family are in transitional mode....Now retired, Dotty Thompson Marecaux formed an LLC and does some consulting in the field of special education. She and Roger ’67 travel widely....Andy Tolman, manager of source protection for the Maine Drinking Water Program, works with many groups to help protect drinking water sources. The Salmon Falls Watershed Collaborative, an interstate effort to protect drinking water supplies for more than 47,000 residents in Maine and New Hampshire, received a 2012 U.S. Water Prize award from The Clean Water America Alliance.

Andy accepted the award on behalf of the group. Susie Spalding Tolman ’68 officially retired and went back to work four days a week....Ellen Yeaton Perry and Charlie spend summers in New Hampshire and winters in The Villages, Fla., where Janet Freudenberg Smith and Roy visited them.

1971 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Suzanne Woods Kelley suzannekelley@att.net class president Peter Hine phine@snet.net

1972 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class co-secretaries Pam McCormack Green green1@maine.rr.com Dave Lounsbury davelounsbury@gmail.com class president Bob Roch robert.roch@alumni.bates.edu

Libraries, like campfires, are where people gather to share stories, says librarian Jay Scherma ’72. “I don’t see that social need going away.”

Now an empty-nester, Ruth Andrews Morris pursues genealogy research and helps care for her mother. Jim looks forward to retirement....Sue Bates Ahnrud retired as a school physical therapist and opened her own custom quilting business....Rachel Belanger does occasional contract work with schools in midcoast Maine, travels and serves as editor for the Maine Assn. of School Psychology newsletter....In Idaho Falls, Idaho, Melinda Bowler DeVoe loves working as a nurse with the public health department. She and Glenn raft and backpack with their two sons....Pam Burghart Hogarth is now a dean of students at Guilford (Conn.) High School.

She and John ’73 celebrated their 35th anniversary....In north Georgia, the gallery Donn Brous manages is doing well despite the economy....Judy Fraser, HR director for The Republican in Springfield, Mass., practices for retirement by traveling, caring for elderly parents and gardening....Caroline Haworth Wandle looks forward to retiring as a school psychologist after 37 years, including 22 in higher education. She and Bill, core faculty at the specialist and doctoral program at Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, anticipate travel, spending time with the grandchildren and enjoying a less hectic life....

Paula Hendrick lives near Worcester, Mass., with her partner, Carol Harley. Besides caring for her parents, she’s busy with environmental activism and Sufi community activities....Kathy Hurley Sevigny is in her 30th year of teaching accounting at Bridgewater (Mass.) State Univ.

Linda Very Bardwell and Toby Lorenzen also work at Bridgewater, and two other members of her department are Batesies....

Marg Kendall Buschmann works as an RN/certified diabetes educator three days a week at Redington-Fairview General Hospital in Skowhegan. Fritz ’71 does septic system design and is self-employed....Chuck Kenyon is associate vice president and dean of students at Buffalo (N.Y.) State College. Charley ’15 is at Bates, where he took the final class taught by retiring professor John Cole, who taught Chuck. “I was glad Charley could have the benefit of his inspiring wisdom as well.”...Marilyn Lantery Anderson hopes to continue teaching for at least a little while. She and Roger are active in their Lutheran church....

Wayne Loosigian still whistles when he goes into work as director of annual giving for Phillips Exeter Academy. He and Laurie purchased an apple orchard and are developing Apple Annie Orchard into a family business managed by daughter Emma....

Margie Maczokas Clark is

retired from teaching but always busy....Pam McCormack Green works at the Maine Bankers Assn., now in her 33rd year, and Bill works at a Portland TV station. Their nest is empty but life remains busy....Mike Miskin and Liz live in Littleton, Mass., and are still proud owners of Tapestry Press. “We have been able to do a fair amount of travel and spend an annual month down in Hilton Head golfing, walking and reading.” They have five grandchildren, and all four children live nearby....Ed Myers enjoys being a project manager with Wells Fargo at Wells Capital Investments in Boston. With son Christopher now at Adelphi Univ., Kathy Mills Myers is expanding her private psychotherapy and pastoral counseling practice....

Steve Mortimer, who became director of class giving at Bates last year, says, “Being around the students and all that Bates has to offer is wonderful.” He and Dave Lounsbury hiked Mount Katahdin....Andrew Moul works for the Rare Books Library (John Hay) at Brown Univ. He’s taking care of his wife, who has breast cancer....Linda Oliwa Machalaba does rewarding work teaching speakers of other languages in elementary school....Greg Pac, now retired from the Connecticut’s Justice Department, officiates four sports and substitute teaches.

Chris Love Pac works at an accounting firm....Claudia Reed Hatch works as an outpatient Child & Family Services clinician and supervisor at Rutland, Vt., Mental Health Services.

She and Reid enjoy their three grandsons....Bob Roch is in his 36th year at Travelers (Insurance) and continues to be active in his condominium community.

His partner, Steve, retired....

Steve Rosenblatt’s company, Spectrum Seminars, celebrated 25 years as the leading consulting, training and monitoring company in affordable housing in the U.S....Jay Scherma, director of Thomas Memorial Library in Cape Elizabeth for 17 years, received the Maine Outstanding Librarian award for 2012 from the Maine Library Assn.

“I think libraries are kind of like campfires: They are a place people gather to share stories. I don’t see that social need going away,” he told the Portland Press Herald. Jay, who was a minister for six years before he decided to switch careers 30 years ago, has been an advocate for the use of technology in libraries and helped ensure that Maine’s inter-library loan program effectively serves patrons. “There’s a lot of life left in libraries. Like many institutions of the 20th century, they’re evolving.”...

Homa Shirazi, who has been working in the field of psychology almost 40 years, is a school

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the welcome events are coming! pass it on.

ToM leonard ’78

held around the country and open to all alumni, parents and friends, welcome events for president clayton spencer promise to set a fast pace for bates.

psychologist in Massachusetts....

Jane Silvia runs a small public community library in Bolinas, Calif. Her husband, John Korty, is a filmmaker....Don Smith is a math teacher and administrator at Albuquerque (N.M.) Academy where he’s in his 37th year....

Mike Touloumtzis and Paula Foresman ’71 live in Mansfield, Mass. He enjoys his new job at Ab Initio. She owns QuiltEssential....Retired after nearly 31 years of federal service, Doug Weik loves being able to set his own schedule....John Zakian has become a recognized expert in long-term community recovery plan development for communities devastated by disasters.

He’s worked in Alabama with 10 communities hit by tornadoes, and Athens, Pa., after flooding from Tropical Storm Lee. “It is heart-wrenching work but fulfilling and definitely putting to use my government major from Bates.”...Wendy-Lee Zeliff Bartley and Richard run a successful tax business on Cape Cod and volunteer at their church.

1973 Reunion 2013, June 7–9 class secretary Kaylee Masury kmasury@yahoo.com class president Kitty Kiefer beesweet1@gmail.com

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Mel Donalson checks in from the West Coast. He’s an English professor at California State University–Los Angeles, but “this academic year I’m stepping out of the classroom to take the campus position as the director of the Students Learning in Communities Program. The program assists freshmen by establishing academic cohorts, linked classes and community service activities; in addition, paired classes are organized for upperclassmen to provide study and research across the disciplines.” Mel’s novel, Communion (WingSpan Publishing, 2011), is now out, and he has three scholarly essays in three recent anthologies. The essay “African American Traditions and the American Novel” appears in The Companion to the American Novel, while “Denzel Washington: A Revisionist Black Masculinity” appears in Pretty People: Movie Stars of the 1990s. Finally, “Inside Men: Black Masculinity in the Films of Spike Lee and John Singleton” is in the forthcoming Millennial Masculinity: Men in Contemporary American Cinema. Check out Mel’s blog at MelDonalson.com.

“It’s amazing how the years have raced away, but I’m doing well. I keep in touch with John Jenkins ’74 and Jill Sturtevant Bruce ’77, who live in the Auburn area, and from time to time Ira Waldman and I surprise one another with an email message.”

1974 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Tina Psalidas Lamson tinal2@mac.com class president Don McDade dmcdade@llbean.com Patricia McKay Verbeeck retired after 30 years in the banking industry as a trust department portfolio manager.

With an M.B.A and J.D., she now independently advises wealthy families as a consultant. She summers in Lakeville, Maine with her sons (12 and 14) and husband Peter....Steven Mohlie is now medical director of Patient First in Short Pump, Va., where he has been on the physician team since 2001....Through her company, Eastern Food Safety of Braintree, Mass., food safety expert Cindy Alemian Rice-Andrea teaches an online comprehensive certification course that prepares industry professionals for the food safety certification exam.

1975 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class co-secretaries Deborah Bednar Jasak wjasak@comcast.net Faith Minard minardblatt@comcast.net class co-presidents Susan Bourgault Akie susieakie@aol.com Janet Haines janethaines@alumni.bates.edu

1976 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Jeffrey Helm jeffrey.helm@verizon.net class president Bruce Campbell brucec@maine.rr.com Mark Reddish joined the board of Seattle-based TapImmune Inc., a vaccine technologies company specializing in the development of innovative genebased immunotherapeutics and vaccines. He is vice president of development there....Jim Tonkowich, an ordained Protestant minister who was received into the Catholic church in 2011, writes and speaks on spirituality, worldview and religion in the public square.

1977 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class co-presidents Joel Feingold joelafeingold@me.com Dervilla McCann meistermcn@aol.com

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class secretary Steve Hadge Steve_Hadge@alumni.bates.edu Amy Batchelor Bacheller and Glenn ’76 are thriving in Santa Barbara, Calif. Her holistic health practice, Scent From Heaven, is going strong....Dwight Bell retired from actuarial work, got a master’s in computer science and now works for Google in Cambridge, Mass., as a software engineer....Nils Bonde-Henriksen works for TEL Epion, a maker of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and runs the Harvard Travellers Club in Boston. “I golf with Steve McCormick, and try to see as many of my Bates friends as I can. Trips continue to be backpacking-related: Utah and Sierras again last year, Wind River Range, Wyo., this year.”...

Peter Brann is a partner at Brann & Isaacson in Lewiston, although most of his cases are out-of-state intellectual property matters for national retailers....

Jeff Brown works as a pediatric hospitalist in Vail, Colo., where he and his family love to ski. He sees Charlie L’Esperance, who lives in the Vail Valley....Nancy Carlisle finds married life agrees with her. On the work front, she’s approaching 25 years at Historic New England in Boston....Eric Chasalow and his wife have a folk group, the Barbara Cassidy Band, “with a bunch of amazing musicians.”

Their first album launched this fall with a concert at Brandeis to benefit hunger relief programs.

The drummer is Dave Mattacks (Fairport Convention, Elton John, Paul McCartney). “On the classical music front, I have a CD coming out by year end that will include a new horn concerto with horn virtuoso Bruno Schneider along with lots of electronic and chamber music.

It’s been a very busy and gratifying year.”...After a number of deaths culminating with the loss of their 2-year-old grandson, Laura deFrancesco McLaughlin and her husband re-examined their priorities, and she joined him in retirement. Travel has been their theme this year, including meeting their new granddaughter and seeing the other grandchildren....Landi DiGregoris Turner writes, “It’s been a crazy year. On the job front, I was promoted, earned tenure and was given the Lindback excellence in teaching award. I’m co-chair of the psychology department at Eastern Univ. Wild huh? This is also the first (and only!) year I’ll have two boys in college at the same time. Lots of changes and shifts for us lately! The one constant is our annual summer weeks in Ocean Park, Maine.

Planning to see Marcy Plavin and Dervilla McCann.” The student newspaper called Landi

“one of the great psychology professors” at Eastern....

Enjoying his second career at Save The Bay in Providence, R.I., Stan Dimock was named Citizen of the Year by the East Bay Chamber of Commerce....

Don Earle and Debbie spend most of the winter in Hampton, N.H., to be close to family, and summer and early fall in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. They also care for his mother, Genevieve Wallace Earle ’48.

Thanks to Nils Bonde-Henriksen’s parties, they’ve seen Molly Campbell, Steve McCormick, Barbara Griffin Arsnow, Sara Landers Malconian, Chris Holmes ’80, Linda Mansfield Carroll ’78 and Steve Hadge.

They also keep in touch with Leigh Campbell ’64....Joel Feingold writes, “Reunion was a blast. Reconnecting with old friends and being blown away by how gorgeous Bates’ campus has become. Bonus from the first Reunion Bike Ride is that freshman year roommate Bill Deighan and I are riding Champion the Cure, a century bike ride to raise funds for cancer research. Dove the Cenotes in Tulum — pitch black!

Folks who come to visit Boston should get in touch.”...David Foster gets a kick out of growing BVR, his business publishing company in Portland, Ore....

Bruce Ginsberg and Kris hit the empty nester stage. He loves coaching baseball at Babson College, and they spend more time down the Cape....Lynn Glover Baronas works as director of attorney development and diversity at Day Pitney LLP in Hartford. She and her husband see Jane Baronas and Matt at all Baronas family events, and she, Jane and Pam Walch Constantine get together at the Cape....Jane Goguen Baronas works at the Tissue Typing Lab at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

She started there right out of school, along with Mark Reddish ’76, Jay Bangs and John Bonasera ’78, who have all moved on....Linda Greason Yates is in her 17th year as Milford (Mass.) Regional Medical Center’s VP of human resources....Barb Griffin Arsnow and Eddie welcomed 25 young fellas for a sleepover when son Mike ’14 and the Bates “Orange Whip” Ultimate Frisbee team had a tournament in Dartmouth, Mass....Linda Griffiths Johnston sets type daily in her small business, The Monmouth Press, and performs medieval and Renaissance music with the Calderwood Consort....

Steve Hadge gives a big thank you to all who participated in the Bates Fund. “Our class did a great job. Reunion was great!

Thanks to the folks on the reunion planning committee, particularly Dervilla McCann

and Joel Feingold, our co-presidents. A special thank you to Victoria Browning Wyeth ’01 for her insightful lecture and for hanging with our class so much. Dervilla’s take on the Reunion was right on in my opinion: ‘It’s not about revisiting the past; it’s about thoughtful discussions of the present, and the future, with people you might not have known well during college, but sure are an interesting bunch.’ Personally, grandfatherhood is great! Family is all well and healthy. Life is good! Had the chance to visit with Bob Lincoln and family as they traveled around looking at colleges with their daughter in July.”...John and Susan Young Haile report all’s well at Brooks School in North Andover, Mass., where they live and work....

John Patrick Jones writes, “I owe much of my academic success and appreciation of a liberal arts education to the year that I spent at Bates.”...Wendy Korjeff Bellows does research and safety officer duties at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine. She and Alan ’78 are building the cross-country jump course at the only nationally recognized horse trials in Maine....Sandy Korpela Radis is busy taking care of aging parents and watching her children launch careers. She gets together with Gina Chase, Jeanne Cleary and Lindy Larson Howe ’75.... Bob Larson is now president of FRAM Filtration, the largest global supplier of filtration products for the automotive and commercial transportation industries, headquartered in Lake Forest, Ill....Leslie Mortimer has worked at the Patten Free Library in Bath for five years, her record for job longevity, and lives with Joe, her beau of nearly four years — also a record, she reports. She reconnected with Sherry Knudsen and Lee Bumsted through the Portland Bates Book Club....Marcia Nyman Flinkstrom and Eric have been raising eight children in South Berwick, Maine, with two at home now. Their youngest daughter has Down syndrome and “has taught us many lessons about patience, tolerance and acceptance.”

Marcia works in family support for a N.H. agency that serves people with developmental disabilities....Lisa Pelletier Ferguson works full time doing IT tasks at a company near Ithaca, N.Y., while having fun learning to be a good farmer.

Gary ’75 is executive director of the Downtown Ithaca Alliance.

They reconnected with Donna Fiorentino ’78, whose daughter Rose is a student at Ithaca College....Lisa Peterson Chew lives in Rhode Island with husband Rich and works with

toddlers with autism. She gets together with Molly Campbell and Barb Griffin Arsnow....

Marybeth Pope Salama still works in hospice care....Ken Sabath’s daughter Zena ’14 is at Bates....Paul Sklarew works as an allergist on Cape Cod and the islands and runs the Evening Pediatric Clinic of Cape Cod. He and his girlfriend, Celeste, live in Centerville....Peter Smith is settling into gorgeous Santa Barbara, Calif., for a new job at a semiconductor startup....Dave Terricciano is vice president of global operations and services for the Waters Corp. headquartered in Milford, Mass., which delivers sustainable scientific innovation....Janmarie Toker Strong continues to practice law and finds it rewarding....George Van Hare and his wife, Michele Estabrook ’76, live in St. Louis and both work in the Department of Pediatrics at Washington Univ.’s School of Medicine.

Son Christopher ’16 started at Bates....Pam Walch Constantine works at the Stephen Phillips Memorial Scholarship Fund in Salem, Mass. She’s involved with an organization that develops low-income and affordable housing in Essex County.

1978 Reunion 2013, June 7–9 class co-secretaries Deni Auclair dauclair56@gmail.com Melanie Parsons Paras melaniep1010@aol.com class president Chip Beckwith chipwith@aol.com Kip Beach, a corporate account executive at FedEx, was named a Watertown (Mass.) Library trustee....Tom Leonard received a Bates’ Best award at the annual Volunteer Leadership Summit in May for his contributions to Bates: as a Reunion volunteer, Bates Fund class agent, Admission volunteer and consultant in the development of a track and cross-county alumni organization. In recent years, Tom has traveled thousands of miles to support and photograph the Bates cross-country and track and field teams, and his images appear throughout the Bates website and in other media outlets. Tom and Martha McGann Leonard are the parents of Bates children Alison ’10 and Tom ’14.

1979 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Mary Raftery mgraftery@gmail.com class president Janice McLean janmcle@charter.net

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Rob Cramer received a Bates’ Best award at the annual Volunteer Leadership Summit in May for his contributions to Bates, particularly his work on behalf of the Bates Career Development Center as a mentor and adviser and his contributions to the BCDC Finance Bootcamp immersion program for students.

Rob’s wife, Molly, also received a Bates’ Best award for her work on the Parents Fund. Two of their four children, Robert ’13 and Caroline ’14, are at Bates.

Rob is managing director in investment banking at RBC Capital Markets in Boston....The Bangor Daily News hired veteran Maine editor Robert Long to serve as a political analyst based in Augusta. He previously served as managing editor of The Times Record of Brunswick, where his departure did not go unnoticed by readers. In a heartfelt item tucked into the daily’s June 20 edition, nine current and former staffers said that “during difficult financial times for nearly all media organizations, Robert held strong to his guiding belief that The Times Record should promote local news and photographs above all else.” His daughter Erica ’12 graduated from Bates....Longtime Associated Press staffer Wilson Ring is now supervisory correspondent in the Montpelier, Vt., AP bureau.

1980 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class secretary Christine Tegeler Beneman cbeneman@gmail.com class president Mary Mihalakos Martuscello mary@martuscellolaw.com

Vermonter Anne Cassidy Callahan ’80 misses the ocean.

“House swap anyone?

Our dated colonial in the sticks for your state-of-the-art cabin on Peaks?”

Anne Cassidy Callahan and Chris ’78 live in West Windsor, Vt. “I am a special educator in our local elementary school, and Chris is a lawyer in Springfield. Our twin daughters, Charlotte and Lilly, graduated in 2011 (Providence College and St. Lawrence), and son Patrick is a senior at BC...two tuition payments to go! We love Vermont, but miss the ocean and the great state of Maine. House swap anyone? Our dated colonial in the sticks for your state-ofthe-art cabin on Peaks?”...Maura

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Dahlen Garvey is director of market research for J. R. Campbell & Assoc. in Lexington, Mass., specializing in market studies for the industrial gas industry and writing market update reports for CryoGas International, the industry journal. “Just ask me about helium and how it is used not only in party balloons, but in a lot of other applications like MRIs and breathing mixtures.

My husband and I had to get used to the empty nest last year when my older daughter, Alana, entered grad school and the younger one, Kirsten, started college. I love living in Duxbury by the water, sailing and designing jewelry for fun. I started designing jewelry about five years ago and sell to a local shop in town as well as have my own website.”...

Meg Downey Hardy continues to run her Hike-a-Pup business and write essays and children’s stories for publication. She now has three college graduates making their way through their 20s in wildly different ways, one in Pennsylvania, one in Maine and one back from two years in Spain who is job hunting from home.

Life is never dull. Meg and Sam ’81 travel whenever they can and spent a month in Australia and New Zealand....Tony Drapelick writes, “I dodged a health scare bullet with the help of a good surgeon and finally realized that work isn’t the be-all and end-all (it took me a long time to get the memo). I happened upon a kindred spirit, Barbara Carver, who had recently landed in Vermont after 15 years in Albuquerque, and we were married July 18, 2011 — a true midlife miracle; fabulous things still happen after age 50! I have left my role as an administrator at SIT Graduate Institute in southern Vermont after 19 years and we’re looking forward to the next adventure.”...

Deb Finney Prive and her husband enjoy every weekend and time off at their home away from home on Lake Ossipee, escaping the Mass. rat race. If they ever get to retire, that’s where they’ll be found....Chris Gammons enjoys life as a professor of geological engineering at Montana Tech in Butte. Colleen works as a geologist for the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, on the same campus. Robin (16), Maggie (14) and Tom (12) “don’t seem to show any interest in rocks, but that might change. I still keep in touch with several classmates, including Glenn Stern, Jim Bronson, Dave Covill and Barb Rudnick.”...Catherine Kimball continues to enjoy her thriving family practice in Waterville and Augusta and finds time to camp and travel some, including Italy last year. Kelsie, a senior at UNH, is a lovely young lady and beginning to think about what she wants to do with the next chapter in her life....Nick Kofos played in the 10th annual CFC golf

tournament in Maine with Dave Trull and John Whiting ’78. “In previous years we have had Jeff Wahlstrom and Jim Hopkinson play along with Bill Bogle ’79.

Dave Reinhart, a past winner of our CFC ‘Lifetime Achievement Award,’ also couldn’t play this year. Guess they were all out playing shuffleboard instead.”...

Mary Mihalakos Martuscello practices law with her husband Henry in midtown Manhattan. Oldest daughter is engaged, son graduated law school and thankfully is among the employed, middle daughter is in the Boston Conservatory musical theater program and the youngest daughter (12) loves volleyball, swimming and YouTube....Bob Morris “retired” from his job at the Air Force Research Lab and is now the vice president for space weather at AER in Lexington, Mass. He loves it.

He is still with the Broken Men, who played a 30th reunion booze cruise in Portland. Sam Rhodes Morris ’81 teaches eighth-grade English and world history at Watertown Middle School. Sean is in graduate school to become a middle-school English teacher, just like mom. Sam and Bob took a road trip to complete their visits to all 50 states....Profiles in Diversity Journal interviewed Boon Ooi, vice president of global compensation, benefits and HRIS at Ryder System Inc. in Miami. Of his Asian heritage, he said, “My parents instilled in me the importance of always working with integrity and honesty and treating everyone with mutual respect. This has always served as my guiding principle for how I approach my work and people. Also, the support of my wife (Elizabeth Hefferman Ooi), who is not Asian, contributes immensely to helping me connect my heritage to the broader society in this country.”...Doug Sensenig, wife Jennifer Bell and daughter Kate returned to Maine after a year of travel around the world. They decided the trip would be a good replacement for Kate’s eighth-grade year and might be the last time she would be so amenable to travel with her parents. They visited 26 countries with significant stays in England, France, Italy, Slovenia, Greece, Turkey, India, Nepal, Cambodia, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. Along the way they met up with Lisa Stifler O’Hanlon and British friends from Doug’s JYA in Wales....Jeff and Lisa Jepson Wahlstrom have lived in Bangor for 18 years and still love it. “Our oldest son attends Columbia College in Chicago, and our youngest is a high school senior. Both of our consulting businesses have expanded and we travel throughout the state as part of our work.”

Lisa enjoyed being a presenter at the Bates Volunteer Summit....

Kim Wettlaufer was named

to the Bates Scholar-Athlete Society. An All-America runner at Bates, Kim is executive director of the Trinity Jubilee Center in downtown Lewiston, serving one of the neediest neighborhoods in Maine. The center’s programs include meals, a food pantry, a diaper distribution service and a drop-in center open seven days a week. It has also become a resource for the Somali and Somali Bantu immigrant families.

Involved with the TJC for years, Kim began as a volunteer before joining the board. Asked to serve as an interim executive director, he “plunged into the interim position with all of his characteristic energy and commitment,” noted a fellow board member. The board, of course, enthusiastically removed Kim’s interim status.

1981 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Katherine Baker Lovell cklovell@verizon.net class president Kathleen Tucker Burke sburke4155@aol.com Game development veteran Hank Howie is the new chief operating officer of Boston game development studio Disruptor Beam.

He’s the former head of Blue Fang Games (creator of the top selling Zoo Tycoon game) and, more recently, the co-founder of Beach Cooler Games, which produced the mobile game Universal Movie Tycoon. Disruptor Beam is working on an online game tied to the hit HBO series Game of Thrones....Logan Page is “grayer, slower, older. Little choice but to try and live vicariously through my kids.” Daughter Symme ’15 “loves being a Bobcat. And how could you not? The past year has been an affirmation that I will always bleed Garnet.”...

Veteran financial professional Terry Ronan is now executive vice president and chief financial officer of Atlantic Power Corp. in Boston.

1982 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Jerry Donahoe maineescape@aol.com class president Neil Jamieson njlaw@maine.rr.com

Rich Regan ’82 vows to continue seeing the Rolling Stones in concert no matter how old they or he gets.

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Will Ault specializes in state tax and VAT consulting services at Crowe Horwath in NYC...

Hal Baker lives in Littleton, Mass., and does contract work....

Valerie Barnhart is making a career change....Tom Campbell continues as a math teacher and administrator at Waynflete School in Portland. Lori Norman Campbell is a social worker at Southern Maine Agency on Aging, specializing in working with caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia....Bill Carey received a Bates’ Best award at the annual Volunteer Leadership Summit in May for his contributions to Bates. Bill, a Bates trustee, is co-chair of the Bates Fund Executive Committee....After 21 years as a full-time mom to three sons, Moira Cullen, in Menlo Park, Calif., applied to law schools and hopes to practice law in the area of social justice....

Wally Dillingham is a managing director of endowments and foundations and spends his time working with not-for-profits at Wilmington Trust. He stays in touch with Chris Fisher, Jeff Andrews and Frank Aimaro....

Jerry Donahoe asks, “Anyone like running gates (ski racing) with other crazy middle-agers?

Consider joining the Eastern Inter-Club Ski League in the NH White Mountains.”...Heidi Duncanson is in her ninth year as marketing director for the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire....Anne Gallop Pace teaches fourth-graders in Winchester, Mass., who keep her entertained and on her toes.

Sister-in-law Sarah Eusden Gallop ’83 also lives in Winchester, Sue Pierce Gorman ’80 and Dave Kaplan ’85 are neighbors in Sudbury, and Steve Brackett ’85 is nearby....Steve Gillespie continues as medical director of a geriatric psychiatry unit at Addison Gilbert Hospital in Gloucester, Mass., and director of the geriatric service initiatives for Northeast Hospitals....

Caught in a layoff, Jon Guild has been busy with volunteer work, self-fulfilling projects, job searching and consulting. “But no tattoos.”...JD Hale and Cindy are doing well in Winchester, Mass. Rosie ’14 loves Bates....

Kee Hinckley lives in Somerville, Mass., and works as lead architect at Zinc.tv, building a directory of all the TV and movies available....Scott Hoyt loves his job as a senior director for Moody’s Analytics. He’s quoted in the press on consumer economics issues....Neil Jamieson says his “hobby” as a Cumberland County commissioner will keep him busy in his spare time from his law practice....After 17 years in Maine, Tim Kane and Beth George ’85 moved with their kids back to New York City where he’s associate head of school at The Masters School in

Dobbs Ferry. Beth established a Spelt Right facility in New Jersey. Emma ’14 loves Bates....

Rabbit Mackenzie writes from Kabul, Afghanistan: “I left the active practice of law in 2008 to work exclusively in international development. Since then I have worked 2.5 years in Iraq, both Erbil and Bassarah, supporting local governance, spent nine months with the DEA in Afghanistan teaching counter-narcotics and am now with the UN in Kabul, back to subnational governance support work. I split my home time between Burlington, Vt., where my sons live, and Hollywood, Fla. If anyone is in Afghanistan, look me up!”...Jon Marcus is a freelance writer whose work appears in The Washington Post, USA Today, Boston Globe Sunday magazine and other publications....Karl Mills continues to build a new investment advisory firm in San Francisco. He has fun serving as a Bates trustee with classmates Steve Fuller and Bill Carey....

Marguerite Murphy lives in the Boston area with her husband and three daughters....Kathleen O’Neil Kane loves teaching fourth-graders in Fairfield, Conn., and is finishing a second master’s in teaching. She and Bob celebrated their 25th anniversary....Andrew Palmer and wife Annie live in Bendigo, Australia, her native country, where he works as a senior financial planner....Sue Purkis, who works for a software company in North Carolina, planned a cruise though the Scandinavian capitals and St. Petersburg with her mom (83) and her cousin (95)....Rich Regan works at the Topsham, Maine, law firm of Moncure & Barnicle. He sees Bates roomies Jon Marcus, Chris Scully and David Arenstam ’83, and vows to continue seeing the Stones in concert no matter how old they or he get....Yvonne Roessel has her own business as a freelance interim/project manager in Amsterdam, with assignments in the Netherlands or another EU country....Betsy Schmottlach Solon started her dream job as director of a small public library in New Hampshire. She and Tom celebrated their 25th anniversary....Terry Sherman says he’s the most highly educated high school custodian, maybe in history, as he works the second shift in Hamilton, Mass.

With a degree in German from Bates and a master of divinity, he enjoys listening to sermons in German on his iPod and is the Sunday school superintendent at New Colony Baptist Church in Billerica, Mass....Jon Skillings is managing editor at CNET News, now part of the CBS empire....

Bob Sprague is now the medical director of compensation & pension and occupational health at the VA Boston Healthcare System. Steph ’13 is at Bates....

Beckie Swanson Conrad enjoys her new position as vice president of institutional advancement at Maine College of Art in Portland....Dan Weinick, in Colchester, Conn., loves his work as a 28-year veteran in human resources....Melissa Weisstuch leads marketing communications for Somnia, an anesthesia management company in Westchester County, N.Y....Joyce White Vance is the U.S. attorney for North Alabama.

1983 Reunion 2013, June 7–9 class secretary Leigh Peltier leighp727@live.com class president Sally Nutting Somes ssomes@netzero.com Jane Biggs Sanger worked for 21 years in the environmental field but is content being a wife and mother of two daughters, gardening and cooking. Her daughters are both at the Univ. of Delaware where husband Chris works in computer support....Jane Calderwood bit the bullet and bought a place in Virginia after 24 years on Capitol Hill. She sees Jim Tobin when he’s in town. The 2011 government shutdown gave her a chance to show off her press/ social media skills, and she discovered she’s pretty good at tweeting, although she was loath to admit it....Mary Couillard Schneller works as an organizational effectiveness specialist at Boston Medical Center, supporting more than 500 managers and directors. She and Jack live in Westford with Sarah (10). Mary keeps in touch with the Supper Club girls: Nancy Foley Battaglino, Shari Sagan McGuirk, Stephanie Poster, Sarah Collins Eriksen, Denise Mooney, Carolyn Campbell-McGovern, PJ Johnson, Pam Fessenden Stearns....Andrea Gelfuso is married with two kids and has a new job as an assistant Colorado attorney general in the office’s natural resources section. She’s the attorney for the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission and teaches environmental law to undergrads at the Univ. of Denver. “I wrote a funny blog about living in Italy and continue to blog about travel.”...

Susan Hay Clevenger lives in Fort Myers and works for the Florida Department of Health as an environmental specialist. Two kids are in college and two graduated, from the Univ. of South Florida and West Virginia Univ. She misses New England but visits several times a year....

Karen Holler, who still holds the Bates record in the indoor high jump and is now on a neuropsychologist on the faculty at Brown’s Alpert Medical

School, was named to the Bates Scholar-Athlete Society in May. In 2002, Karen founded Neuropsychology Associates, whose mission is to help children, adolescents, young adults and their families identify and overcome a wide array of processing, learning, behavioral, social and emotional issues....

Laura Howard DePree writes, “I have enjoyed a wonderful career in architecture mainly designing high-end homes throughout the Southeast, with a few churches and schools along the way. I have followed in the footsteps of my architect grandfather here in Atlanta and have even been involved in efforts to preserve some of his architecture. Living in a house of my own classical design, we are in the heart of Midtown, just off Peachtree Street.” Daughter Frances is at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, where Laura and Piet attend events, and daughter Janine is a high school senior. Laura is running again, mainly training for half-marathons, and does some oil painting, her major at Bates.

She had a great visit in Cape Cod with Bates roommate Judy Seraikas McDaniel and Pat Chandler Finn....PJ Johnson, managing director and global head for anti-money laundering and sanctions compliance at Citi in New York, was profiled by The Glass Hammer, a blog and online community for women executives. Beginning her career as a bank teller in high school and college, she went on to create an anti-money laundering strategy as a bank compliance officer. She later spent seven years at the Treasury Department working on financial crimes and seven more at the Federal Reserve as the senior AML coordinator in special investigations. In these positions, she helped to draft global AML standards. She joined Citi in 2004. “Ten or fifteen years ago, banks were concerned with drug dealers trying to launder actual bags of cash,” she says. “Today AML compliance programs have expanded to include economic sanctions, corruption, terrorism, fraud and tax. It has increased the portfolio and the responsibilities of the AML officer and added much more to our plates.”

PJ says she hasn’t faced any specific challenges as a woman or as a gay person in her career.

“The LGBT label is often the first thing people know about me, but it’s not the most important thing. I’m not ashamed but proud, of course!

But I want to be known as PJ, rather than gay PJ.”...Cindy Jones Katz and Howard became empty nesters in 2010 and “got a pay raise” when daughter Sarah graduated from Michigan State. Emily is a junior

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at Kalamazoo College, and they hope to visit her when she studies abroad in Thailand.

Cindy is a software engineer for a small company that manages corporate and individual online training. She currently volunteers as homeowners association president and membership chair at temple.

Howard left Chrysler after 26 years to take over the sales organization for Utilimaster, an Indiana-based company that manufactures commercial truck bodies....“It’s a small Batesie world,” says Sue LaLumia. “I’ve been hanging out with Rachael Scholz Sause ’97, who lives just three doors down, on my teeny tiny street of just 11 homes. And playing pool with Irene Pfefferman ’94.” Sue marked her 29th anniversary as art director for The Chronicle of Philanthropy and celebrated her seventh year as owner of Vintage Rescue Squad, an antiques business....After 15 years as a probate and estate planning attorney, Jennifer Locke Berkenstock is a probate judge in Marlborough, Conn. She, Rick and their three children live in a rural town in eastern Connecticut and enjoy walking the Airline Trail and biking.

She’s in touch with Jane Calderwood and visited her in Virginia....David Matson, an artist living in Harpswell, Maine, is happily married to Jessica Gorson and they have a son, Leif (1). His daughter Rachel is starting Mount Holyoke College....John Morefield writes that with two high school daughters and Catherine’s final year in nursing school, this academic year is busy. Catherine is completing her bachelor’s in science and nursing and hopes to continue in palliative of nursing care. Annie, a senior, is looking at colleges, and Susan is thrilled to be able to drive....

Cobleskill, N.Y., is where Dennis Moren works and plays with his 8-year-old son. When they have time they head to Penobscot, Maine, where they have a house.

Dennis wonders if it’s just him or do our minds age much more slowly than our bodies?...Laura Murray finished her 20th year as a high school teacher in Tucson, Ariz., after taking a break from teaching Spanish and taking over in-school suspensions.

“Kids nowadays have some pretty drastic situations, and act out. I got to be the ‘drill sergeant’ to make them work in their ‘cell.’” In her leisure time she rides her palomino in Saguaro National Park and camps with her three dogs....Sally Nutting Somes’ daughters are at Greely High School in Cumberland; Sarah is a freshman, Hannah a senior. They’ve started the college search. Both girls went to Camp Wawenock, where Pat Smith is still a director, for the

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summer. Sally tutored for the summer. Barry keeps chugging along in the unfriendly economy....Leigh Peltier, still in Rhode Island, has had the same job for 24 years and survived an acquisition. She’s trying to be both fit and hip since becoming a step-grandmother. She spent 10 days in Wengen, Switzerland, with her ski group from Cannon Mountain. She’s in touch with a good number of Batesies and reports the campus looked great on a visit last spring....Frank Petras has had the same job for 14 years, the same house for 20 and the same wife for 22. He believes the marriage is his greatest accomplishment. His first child is studying nursing at St. Anselm’s. Frank is still in touch with roommate Tom Main....Martha Pigott Donelan is the director of development for the Community Arts Music Assn., the oldest arts organization in Santa Barbara, Calif., presenting the classical music world’s finest orchestras and soloists. “I’m also enjoying coaching my daughter Emily’s softball team and cheering on my son’s baseball team. We have NESN so we can even watch the Red Sox right here in Santa Barbara!”...Kai Rose loves her new life adventure: owning a horse for the first time. She rescued a gelding from the slaughterhouse “who could jump into any discipline as soon as I figure out what I want to do with him. It is a wonderful experience, and I am learning so much about myself and the horse nation through natural horsemanship techniques and my wonderful trainer.” She also works with Beachbody, a health and fitness company, helping people with nutrition, life organization and goal-focused transformation in all areas of their lives. She still practices dermatology three days a week....Louis Vachon, president and CEO of the National Bank of Canada, returned to Bates to offer a Canadian perspective on the world financial crisis....

Pauline Vashon Wilder has a small private practice as a holistic nurse using Reiki and Thai bodywork modalities. She and husband Ollie live in midcoast Maine, have a son at UVM and two younger ones.

They hike and ski in their free time. Pauline keeps in touch with Julia Drinker Seigfried....A half-century after publication of Rachel Carson’s classic Silent Spring, Barbara Vickery recalled the book’s impact on her. Now director of conservation programs for the Maine chapter of The Nature Conservancy, where she has worked for 28 years, Barbara was a young girl when she listened to her mother and aunts discussing Carson’s bestselling book on the environmental

impact of indiscriminate use of pesticides. All four women had grown up on a farm and had been exposed to DDT. There was “a horrible sense of misgiving and regret” that the family might have unwittingly engaged in farming practices that had been damaging, even to themselves.

“That made a profound effect on me. It was a very personal sense of awakening,” Barbara told The Portland Press Herald. Carson “knew how to translate other people’s work for lay people, translate it into what people should do and what people should care about. One of the ways she influenced me was that she opened my eyes to other ways of being.” Besides everything else, continuing sales of Carson’s books comprise an endowment of “royalties each year in the tens of thousands of dollars,” said Barbara, who serves as the chief planner for conservation and oversees use of the endowment funding for coastal and marine purposes....

Forrest Ward took his older son on the New England college tour, including Bates, and enjoyed seeing the changes at the college, but his son was disillusioned with his father’s stories of being a kid from Florida trying to survive Maine winters and chose Colby instead.

Forrest, married 22 years, is active in local politics and has been flying since getting his license during Short Term senior year. He even purchased a plane and was successful in an around-the-world trip in his plane....Mark Young is now president of ShiftCentral, a Canadian market intelligence agency, working in its U.S. office in Cambridge, Mass.

1984 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Heidi Lovett blueoceanheidi@aol.com class president Linda Cohen linda@lscdesignstudio.com Boston Globe columnist Brian McGrory won two major journalism awards: the Sigma Delta Chi Award for general column writing in a daily newspaper and a Scripps Howard Award for outstanding commentary for a similar sample of his 2011 columns. In his columns, the Globe said, he chronicled and weighed in on a range of subjects with his distinctive voice and versatile style, poignant and perceptive, funny and tough....David Richards gave a talk at the Maine State Museum on Milton Bradley, the Vienna-born Mainer who is credited with launching the board game industry in North America in 1860. David is interim director of the UMaine Margaret Chase Smith Library in Skowhegan.

1985 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class secretary Elissa Bass bass.elissa@yahoo.com class president Lisa Virello virello@comcast.net

1986 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class co-presidents Erica Seifert Plunkett ericasplunkett@gmail.com Anne Robertson anne-tom@juno.com Bill Walsh messagebill@gmail.com Catherine Lathrop Strahan strahanc@comcast.net Kelli Armstrong was promoted to vice president for planning and assessment at Boston College....Nadeem Bezar, a partner at Kolsby, Gordon, Robin, Shore and Bezar, was named a 2012 “Minority Business Leader” by the Philadelphia Business Journal. He is president-elect of North American South Asian Bar Assn....Diane Murphy Foster was promoted to deputy city manager of Park City, Utah. She has worked at City Hall since 2008, first managing environmental affairs....Based in Boston, Kent Sinclair was named managing director of Stroz Friedberg LLC, a global consulting and technology firm specializing in digital risk management and investigations.

1987 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Peggy Brosnahan mmb263@cornell.edu class president John Fletcher jaxfletch@gmail.com Kari Heistad continues to grow her company, Culture Coach International in Newton, Mass., helping clients to leverage diverse teams to improve the bottom line. She loves the diversity of her work.

1988 Reunion 2013, June 7–9 class committee Mary Capaldi Carr mary.capaldi.carr@gmail.com Astrid Delfino Bernard flutistastrid@sbcglobal.net Ruth Garretson Cameron ruth.eg.cameron@gmail.com Julie Sutherland Platt julielsp@verizon.net Adrienne Terry D’Olimpio adonddo@hotmail.com Buffy Aakaash’s short play The Last Night at Manuela’s was a winner at the annual new plays festival of Fusion

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1989 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Donna Waterman Douglass 4498donnad@gmail.com steering committee Sally Ehrenfried sallye@alumni.bates.edu Deb Schiavi Cote debscote@yahoo.com

Nine years into running his 1983 Mercedes station wagon on waste vegetable oil, Dan Stockwell ’89 wonders when the EPA will certify vegetable oil as a fuel.

Cheryl Cameron Leary works part time for a law firm in Braintree, Mass. David’s consulting firm is doing well....

Jo Ann Clark returned to Maine to give a poetry reading and share reflections about her Maine roots at the York Art Assn. Jo Ann, whose poems have appeared in The New Republic and Prairie Schooner, appeared with three other poets who have grouped together to form Maine Branches....Hugues Cremona has a new job within the same large IT group, responsible for business intelligence in Paris....

Brian Cullen enjoys practice at his own law firm in Nashua, N.H., and chances to argue great cases, including one at the First Circuit with former Supreme Court Justice David Souter presiding. A nephew at Bates, Brendan Riebe ’13, gave him an excuse to check out the college’s impressive facilities....

Nora Demleitner is now dean of the Washington and Lee Univ.

Law School in central Virginia.

It reminds her very much of Bates, just in a slightly warmer climate....Paul Dill, head coach of varsity volleyball at MIT, and wife Dawn, MIT swim coach, welcomed Theo Dill to Team Dill on July 12, 2012…. Lisa Drottar Hannigan is a radiation therapist at Loyola Univ.

Medical Center in suburban Chicago. She looked forward to a New York visit with Susan Klein Matos and Jennifer Bassett Sheehan....Kathy Duffy Birkeland lives in Manchester, Mass., with Kjetil and their three sons....Martha Graves Marriott and Wendy Sue Graham cycled from London to Paris in 2011 to raise over $20,000 for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund....

After serving as a Navy JAG and commanding officer of Region Legal Service Office Southwest, Andy Henderson was appointed a military judge in San Diego....

John Hetling, a professor of bioengineering at the Univ. of Illinois-Chicago, spoke at a Bates biology seminar on “MultiElectrode Electroretionography: Toward Early Diagnosis of Glaucoma.”...Eleanor Hogan returned to Japan for her annual summer jaunt....Linda Johnson handles public relations for the Washington, D.C., office of the third largest telecom company in the U.S., Century Link. She and Dan got engaged....Keith Lamirande is the executive officer for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism in Washington....Russ Libby was inducted into the North Florida PGA Hall of Fame....Greg Meahl lives in Hamilton, Mass., with Maggie and their three kids. He says it was good to see Scott Dickey ’88, Eric Braitmayer ’88 and Pete Lyons lately....In Minneapolis, Anne Mollerus was promoted and now leads a team responsible for implementing new business processes and software solutions to Cargill’s businesses....Peter Muise and Tony Grima live in Boston. Batesies they’ve seen include Scott Garvin, Lori Dolan Gilbert ’90, David Seuss ’90 and Adrian Collazo ’90....Chris Perkins was named vice president, relationship manager for the Northeast region of Bridge Bank, based in its Boston office....Michele Sault Grimm and Barrett ’87 celebrated their 20th anniversary. She works as an applications tester for Vermont Energy Investment Corp. in Burlington. Barrett still has his day job at Paul, Frank & Collins....Matt Schecter is focused on building his medical communications company. He stays in touch with Craig Geikie and Steve Kingston ’88 on his trips up to Maine....Joanne Seavey-Hultquist, in San Jose, Calif., works for Kaiser Permanente as the South Bay senior community benefit specialist....

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Theatre Co. in Albuquerque and had its premiere there.

Buffy, who was known as Peter Collins at Bates, said he entered the playwriting contest after reading in Bates Magazine that the theater was co-founded

by Dennis Gromelski. Buffy, who lives in Seattle and has a master’s in playwriting from Columbia, is also a poet....Joan Bering Kennedy is now vice president for consumer health engagement at health insurer Cigna Corp....Eric Braitmayer was promoted to COO of Imtra, manufacturer and importer of marine products, based in New Bedford, Mass....The Boston Bates Alumnae Book Club assembled a collection of the more than 90 books they have read since 2001 and gave them to the college for the circulating book collection in the Fireplace Lounge of New Commons. Lisa Romeo, representing the club, presented the gift.

Steve Kingston ’88

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Steve Kingston ’88

media outlet: The Boston Globe

headline:

Maine seafood shack owner claws to the top

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ta keaway : A Maine lobster roll beats New York City’s best.

Boston Globe columnist Brian McGrory ’84 chronicles the underdog winner of a New York City lobster roll contest: Steve Kingston ’88, proprietor of The Clam Shack in Kennebunk, Maine.

Kingston is “a one-man force of nature — boiling, shucking, frying, cleaning,” writes McGrory, who was recently named editor of the Globe. “You name it, he does it, though the truth is, Jeni, his wife, does even more.”

Kingston doesn’t hesitate when asked what made his lobster roll so much better — “the freshness of the lobsters, the salty ocean water in which they’re cooked, the locally made bread, the mere dab of mayonnaise and the drizzle of warm butter.”

Kingston has taken to calling himself “The King of the Lobster Roll,” McGrory writes, prompting “an entire town [to] rolls its eyes — while waiting at his window.”

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Wickie Smith Rowland’s firm, Drawing Room Ink, keeps her busy doing everything from designing gardens to painting a painting of a 12-foot Atlantic cod for a museum.....

Susan Stich works at UCLA Outpatient Rehabilitation and lives in Venice, Calif., with her two daughters. Sadly, her husband, Jose Royo, died in May 2010....In New Hampshire, Dan Stockwell harvests wild mushrooms and sells them to restaurants and farmers’ markets. Nine years into running his 1983 Mercedes station wagon on waste vegetable oil, people are starting to think he might not be crazy. If only the EPA would make vegetable oil a certified fuel — it is still technically illegal under federal law....

Donna Waterman Douglass and Troy celebrated their 14th anniversary. She’s looking to sell her Outpatient Physical Therapy practice to pursue traveling part time so they can become snowbirds between Maine and Florida....Cathy Wygant is now the executive director of the Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce and bought a house with her fiancé, Todd Fossett.

1990 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class secretary Joanne Walton joannewalton2003@yahoo.com class president Eric Knight eric_knight@verizon.net Whitney Blanchard Soule works as director of admissions at Bowdoin. Win runs his own business in the Freeport area.

Daughter Ellie is at Gettysburg College, and Lucy is at Groton School in Massachusetts....

Kathryn King Byrn, John and daughter Kelly (13) love life in St. Leon-Rot, Germany, where they bike around town and hike in the mountains overlooking Heidelberg. They were preparing for another year of travel before heading back to the states....

Susanne Salkind, managing director for The Human Rights Campaign, and Ali Vander Zanden ’06, political director for EqualityMaine, took part in a panel discussion at Bates entitled “Bobcats on the Front Lines: The World of Professional LGBT Activism.”

Bataan Death March Memorial Marathon at White Sands, N.M., commemorating the U.S. servicemen and Filipino soldiers who were forced to march to captivity in 1942. “I competed in the military ‘heavy’ division, wearing my utility field uniform, boots and a pack weighing 42 pounds. I’m not sure how I did overall among the almost 7,000 marchers, but I had a decent better-than-average time for my age group and in my category. This was by far the most challenging thing I think I have ever done.”...John Ducker received a Bates’ Best award at the annual Volunteer Leadership Summit in May for his contributions to Bates, including service as a Bates Fund class agent and decade captain. John is head of global business operations for the Rockport Co. He’s also published 15 poems in various journals and a book of golf poems, The Kiss That Caused My Slice, in 2009....Becky Farr Farwick is happily working as a YA librarian in Newport, R.I. “My daughter (4) and son (2) are growing beautiful and healthy. Chris has been home from Afghanistan for over a year now with no redeployment in the foreseeable future.”...Peter Oratowski is an Army sergeant with the 67th Forward Surgical Team (ABN), deployed to western Afghanistan but heading back to Germany before the holidays and then home to his wife in Mexico....David Strupp Jr. joined Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc. as a managing director, healthcare investment banking, based in New York....Katie Tibbetts Morello has had lots of changes.

She and her son moved across the country to Oregon last year, and she’s engaged to someone she originally met overseas in middle school. She loves the weather and began a new job with Head Start....Elizabeth Tomlinson and Peter Sillin were married June 16, 2012. Betsy was most recently the director of international students and off-campus programs at the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Conn. Peter is the chairman of the history department and coach of the boys’ cross-country team at North Yarmouth Academy.

1992 Reunion 2017, June 9–11

class president John Ducker jducker1@yahoo.com

class committee Ami Berger ami_berger@hotmail.com Kristin Bierly Magendantz kristin.magendantz@trincoll.edu Kristen Downs Bruno alfredbruno@sbcglobal.net Roland Davis rdavis@bates.edu Peter Friedman peterjfriedman@gmail.com Leyla Morrissey Bader leyla.bader@gmail.com Jeff Mutterperl jeffmutterperl@aol.com

Jon Custis finished his first official marathon, the 23rd

Maria Bamford talked about her career as a standup comic,

1991 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Katie Tibbetts Morello ktmorello@alumni.bates.edu

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voiceover actress and quirky character in Target commercials in an interview with the Univ. of Minnesota’s UM News. Her lengthy credits include multiple appearances on the late-night talk show circuit, her own web series and comedy albums. A Minnesotan-turned-Californian, she quipped, “I am so mad at (my mother) for raising me in an upper-middle-class household with plenty of (violin) lessons and a great education.” She attended Bates, then the Univ. of Edinburgh before finishing college at Minnesota, where she received a degree in creative writing. Her struggles with mental health appeared for a time while she was at the U of M, she says, and she has high marks for an outpatient treatment program she went through while there.

“One of my passions is mental health,” she said. “I’m very interested in that subject for personal reasons, [and] I have continued to benefit from professionals and medications.”...Ted Bernhard received a Bates’ Best award at the annual Volunteer Leadership Summit in May for his contributions to Bates. Ted has been an adviser in the Bates Career Development Center for 14 years and currently sits on the Bates Fund Executive Committee as co-chair of the Mount David Society....In Charleston, S.C., a local TV station caught up with Doug Coupe, co-producer of the forthcoming movie Warrior Road, a coming-of-age story being shot in Charleston and the Lowcountry. “We want the film to showcase some of the great talent in our area,” Doug said.

“We have high expectations and lofty goals, and hope to have it screened at some of the top-tier film festivals.”...Roland Davis is now assistant head of school at the Middlesex School, an independent boarding school in Concord, Mass. He left Bates after a decade as director of the Office of Intercultural Education and associate dean of students....

Cole and Leyla Morrissey Bader welcomed Tucker Callan Sinclair Bader on June 7, 2012.

1993 Reunion 2013, June 7–9 class secretary Kimberly Donohue Kavanaugh k.kavanaugh@alumni.bates.edu class president Madeline Yanford Gorini madelinegorini@me.com Bill Farrington and Mary Sporcic Farrington ’96 welcomed Anne Catherine Farrington on March 11, 2012....Shahana Koslofsky Mallery lives in Portland, Ore., with Dave and daughters Rhea (7) and Alessa (4). After having her own private practice for seven years, she’s now on the faculty at Pacific Univ.’s School of Professional

Psychology. She visits with Telle Zeiler in Seattle periodically....

Katie Moran Madden was named to the Bates ScholarAthlete Society in May. An AllNew England and All-American swimmer as a student, Katie then worked in Bates Admission until 2005. Active in Bates affairs, she and Reese have two daughters, Mia (7) and Campbell (5), and live in Norwich, Vt. Katie is active with Camp Dudley and Camp Dudley at Kiniya, and the boys’ and girls’ YMCA-affiliated camps on Lake Champlain in New York and Vermont. She also volunteers for the Marion Cross School and the Montshire Museum of Science, both in Norwich, Vt., and works as an applications reader for Dartmouth College....Kevin Moore helps manage the IT department at J.Crew in New York City. “One of the great perks is the dress code is not much different than my days on the Bates campus (with a few less winter boots).”

His boys are 3 and 5....Chris Parrish was elected assistant division director of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Lidar Division.

He is the lead physical scientist in the Remote Sensing Division of NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey....Zohra Saifee Haziq lives in Bonney Lake, Wash., with husband Mustafa, Naveed (13) and Lena (6).

1994 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Jonathan Lilja jonathanlilja@gmail.com class president Susan Spano Piacenti susanpiacenti@cox.net Ben Cline and Elizabeth welcomed twin daughters Catherine Ann and Sarah Margaret on Feb. 16, 2012....Carrie Curtis Young teaches English in Baltimore. She and her husband welcomed their first child. They hang out with Mei Lun Chau and Kate Ganley Wickham and Barnaby....Jason Grant and Gretchen, who were married in February 2011, welcomed Clara Margaret Helen in November 2011. He works in Cambridge, Mass., as an editor for Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Complete Works....Emily Jackson Sanborn and James ’96 live in Orono with their two daughters.

She does a bit of consulting and sings in a group that focuses on peace, tolerance and social justice. He competes in triathlons and is a whitewater kayaker....

Jon-Jon Lilja works at GW & Wade, a financial planning firm, and volunteers on the town ambulance crew in Rockport, Mass....Kim Marsella and her husband, Blue Neils, welcomed Cooper Donovan Neils on Nov. 11, 2011. She is now associate

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director of academic advising at Skidmore College....Allyn Pazienza and Brian McCook welcomed Conor Spartacus McCook on Dec. 12, 2010....In Portsmouth, R.I., Susan Spano Piacenti enjoys teaching yoga and coordinating the YMCA Southcoast’s free exercise program for adult cancer survivors....Karen Sternfeld has been living in Bogota, Colombia, since July 2011. “As I now roll through life in a wheelchair, I have begun to work with a local foundation which is trying to raise awareness and advocate for folks with disabilities here in Colombia.”...Jamie Wallerstein moved her law office to Salem, Mass., and expanded her practice....Amy Ward Bryan lives in Williamstown, Mass., and runs The Cottage boutique there. She and John ’96 have two kids who are each best friends with Garrett Politis’ kids. Amy has traveled to Disney World many times with Kelly Killeen ’93.

1995 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class co-secretaries Scott Marchildon smarchildon@une.edu Philip Pettis ppettis@nhlawfirm.com class co-presidents Jason Verner jcv@nbgroup.com Deborah Nowak Verner debverner@gmail.com Randy Bumps, a former political director for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, served as director of GOP vice-presidential operations this year. He was assigned that post before Paul Ryan was chosen....

Robert Kaplan and his wife welcomed Sadie Olivia Kaplan in February 2012....The Washington Post and other reviewers agree: Charlie Schroeder’s book Man of War: My Adventures in the World of Historical Reenactment offers funny and entertaining insights into the lives of war reenactors. During a year spent with various reenactment groups, Charlie played a German soldier fighting the Soviets at Stalingrad (in Colorado); lived in a Roman fort and battled Celts (in Arkansas); and experienced the Vietnam War (in Virginia).

There were stints in the French and Indian War, and the Civil War. And he was a Viking, too.

The Post wrote: “Schroeder... got into reenacting because he longed for history. He grew up in an 18th-century log cabin in Mennonite country, where history abounded, but he didn’t notice it. In L.A., though, where history lasts about 12 seconds, he started to miss the past. After touring a living history program in Southern California, he had an idea: ‘What if I could reenact

Vlad and Us If you’ve lived in Smith, you’re ready for Tajikistan It didn’t take long for Keith Mellnick ’95 and Grif Peterson ’09, attending a horse festival in Murghab, Tajikistan, to ID each other not only as Bates grads but as former denizens of adjacent rooms in Smith Hall.

They marked their meetup some 6,300 miles from Bates with this photograph, showing them flanking the city’s Lenin statue that’s left over from Soviet days.

(Grif’s cap sits atop Lenin’s head.)

Peterson, who blogs for The Huffington Post, is an academic affairs officer for the Univ. of Central Asia, an ambitious new university set to open campuses in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in the coming years.

Mellnick is a freelance photographer and writer who posts at his blog, Expatmonkey.com.

Afterwards, Mellnick headed west to report from Khorog, the site of recent armed clashes between government forces and local groups still at odds since the country’s civil war in the 1990s.

By the time he arrived, the city was quiet, yet buildings splattered with bullet holes revealed what had gone down, as did the presence of soldiers in the streets.

Soon, Mellnick was stopped, his bag searched and prodded with the muzzle of an AK-47. The soldiers demanded to know what he had photographed.

So Mellnick turned himself into Boring Travel Guy, showing each photo on the camera’s LCD display and narrating in excruciating detail: “Here’s my hotel in Murghab. This is the cat that fell asleep on my lap. This is the yurt in which I slept in the Pshart Valley....”

The trick worked, wearing out the soldiers, Mellnick reports. “After examining my passport, they told me to find another road and not to pass that way again.”

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my way through history? To learn not only about the hobby but maybe, just maybe, about the past too?’”

1996 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class co-presidents Ayesha Farag-Davis faragdavis@aol.com James D. Lowe jameslowemaine@yahoo.com

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Beth Whitten Anderson ’96 read about the Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon 10 years ago and thought, “I’d like to do that someday.”

In 2012, she finished 52nd of 391 women.

who:

Brinley Furey ’95

media outlet: Mass High Tech

headline:

2012 Women to Watch

date:

April 20, 2012

takeaway: A good scientist must be able to ask the critical questions.

Brinley Furey ’95, senior director of oncology and neurobiology at Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Cambridge, Mass., was named one of the “2012 Women to Watch” by Mass High Tech.

She has been “instrumental” in crafting the strategy for cancer research for the firm, working her way up from a laboratory scientist when she began in 1999 — without a master’s or Ph.D. “Instead, she has relied on tremendous focus, dedication, teamwork, leadership skills and just plain hard work.”

Furey, whose inspiration to work in the medical field came partly from her older sister, who had leukemia, tells Mass High Tech that “being a good scientist is a lot more than education.” While it’s important to pursue an advanced degree, you have to have “what it takes to ask the critical questions.”

Amy Geller is now the artistic director of the Boston Jewish Film Festival. She was its associate director from 1997 to 1999 and has produced feature, documentary and short films....

Kristen Puryear and Sean Donohue welcomed Morgan Rose Donohue on Feb. 3, 2012....

In Halifax, Nova Scotia, Katie Vaux Aven and Andrew Aven Gillis welcomed Lora BrightStar Aven Gillis on Dec. 24, 2011. She joins Molly (4). “I am enjoying a year of paid maternity leave, which our government (Canada) provides to all new parents. My two great friends from Bates, Margaret Schroeder ’95 and Ellen McDevitt Saksen, had their babies about the same time, and it’s lovely to share this journey with them.”...

Beth Whitten Anderson not only survived the 32nd Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon in San Francisco, regarded as one of the most difficult triathlons in the world, but she finished sixth in the women’s 35–39 age division and 52nd among all women finishers. “The swim was great, but the bike ride was a very demanding course with a lot of ups and downs, which is what you’d expect in San Francisco,” she told the Bangor Daily News.

The former Bates swimmer and veteran triathlete, who lives in Northport, Maine, “first read about the Alcatraz triathlon 10 years ago, and I thought then that if I ever got the time I’d like to do that someday.”

1997 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class co-secretaries Chris Gailey gaileycj@gmail.com Leah Wiedmann Gailey leah.gailey@gmail.com

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class president Larry Ackerman larryack@hotmail.com Heather Alcock Sekiguchi, Shuhei, and son Kaito (1) now live in Sydney, Australia....Jennifer Allaire Shagensky and Corey opened a veterinary practice, Progressive Animal Wellness — PAW....Christy Christy Ballantyne Doxsee and Josh welcomed Amelia (Mia) Elizabeth on Jan. 13, 2011....Allyson Boyle Tornatore and Albert welcomed Alexa Marie on April 3, 2012....Heather Chichester Pettis and Phil ’95 celebrated their 11th anniversary.

She ran the Reach the Beach relay race with teammate Ellen Sampson Moore ’95 two years ago and Rob Moore ’94 last year....Colby Connell Balazs enjoys working in the equestrian industry as VP of marketing at SmartPak Equine, an etailer and cataloger based in Plymouth, Mass. She’s a competitor in eventing, an equestrian triathlon. She and Ken live in Scituate, down the street from Courtney Vreeland Jones....Patrick Cosquer is proud to coach the Bates men’s and women’s squash teams....Heather Davies Bernard says life in Austin is great, and if you don’t believe her, ask Kyle Flaherty. She’s an assistant general counsel at the Texas Department of Agriculture, administering federal child nutrition programs....Sharleen Davis does legal work for Fidelity on a contract basis....Sean Donohue works in clinical research for Genentech in bio-oncology. He and his wife welcomed Eabha (Irish for Ava) Lillian Donohue on March 3, 2011....Kimmochi Eguchi started a Ph.D. program at the Univ. of Leeds....Chris and Leah Wiedmann Gailey live in Freeport. She’s the director of the Bates Fund and oversees Mount David Society giving, and he manages online merchandising at L.L. Bean....Jason and Amy Starer Gifford ’95 now live in Richmond, Vt., with their two children....

Rebecca Grossberg has lived in France for 15 years and worked with European public funding for eight....Billy Billy Hayes was promoted to a global role at Nissan (NML) as divisional general manager of global sales operations....Aaron Hewitt and Neha now live in Portland, Ore. He took an inhouse counsel position with Intel, and she relocated to the USDA’s Portland office. They welcomed their second daughter, Priya. They see Aaron’s former roommates Greg Scott and Doug Miltenberger regularly....William Innis enjoys his ENT practice in Needham, Mass., and the Faulkner Hospital....After three years in Darfur as head of field office for the UN Refugee Agency, David Karp moved to Geneva, Switzerland, to do protection work....Ellen Lazarus Golden works part time at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in social

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work....Beth Mason Botelho does public health research in Watertown, Mass., and personal training part time in Natick....

Katy McCann and Adrian work, live and homeschool their three children in Freeport....Kelly McDonald and Lynn Maziarz welcomed Sophie on July 13, 2011.

Kelly practices law while Lynn holds down the home front. They live near Lisa Cummings Kramer and family and have some great playdates....Vera Mihalcik Denyko works in Springfield (Mass.)

Public Schools as an instructional leadership specialist in mathematics. She married Stephanie Denyko on June 20, 2010, and gave birth to their daughter, Vera Katherine Denyko, on Sept. 18, 2011....Aileen Novick and Marc Carbonneau welcomed Serena Marie on Nov. 5, 2011....Luke O’Brien and Kerry live in northern Vermont. He works with the NorthWoods Stewardship Center and coordinates the conservation service program....Kate Perry enjoys working as a nurse practitioner in a community health center in New Haven, Conn....

Bethany Pond Erickson, in San Jose, Calif., is busy with Elliott (2)....Sarah Prizio-Skigen and Chris now live in Golden, Colo.

She works with an environmental consulting firm as a project manager and lab director....Alice Reagan, assistant professor of professional practice in theater at Barnard College and a freelance theater director based in New York City, returned to Bates to talk about her work. She most frequently directs classics and new experimental plays....Mary Richter is the development director at a boys school on New York’s Upper East Side and lives on the Upper West Side with her partner Dina....Yona Segal Abrams and Joshua welcomed Noah Eli Abrams on May 5, 2012....Breck Smith Lindley and her husband, who works in Mystic, Conn., love being back in New England....

Becky Steer Hauser works for Intuitive Surgical as the Alaska clinical sales representative for the da Vinci robot. She and Scott welcomed a daughter, Quetzal, on March 17, 2011....The New York Times Book Review praised the children’s book There Goes Ted Williams: The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived, written and illustrated

by Matt Tavares. The Times called it an “exhilarating account of his life and accomplishments.

Tavares’ full-bleed spreads alternate with sepia-toned spot drawings, all beautifully arranged in this old-fashioned but evergreen tribute.”...Jennifer Topping Wolf and Jeremy live in Sofia, Bulgaria, where she teaches second grade at an international school....In Vermont, Jamie Thaxton continues to conserve land throughout the Connecticut River Valley region of the Upper Valley. Melissa Young Thaxton teaches high school English

and works as a para-educator in special education....Sadly, David Warn lost his wife, Kimberly, to cancer on May 5, 2011.

1998 Reunion 2013, June 7–9 class committee Rob Curtis robcurtis79@gmail.com Douglas Beers douglas.beers@gmail.com Liam Leduc Clarke ldlc639@yahoo.com Renée Leduc Clarke rleducclarke@gmail.com Tyler Munoz tylermunoz@gmail.com Katie Barnas Torpey and Nate welcomed Brooke Jaime Torpey on Oct. 28, 2011....Sohail Coelho quit his marketing and business career and traveled around the world for a year and a half.

“Along the way I discovered photography and art as the creative expression I had been looking for. I returned to NYC in summer 2011 and created my first collection and launched starryrabbit, an online gallery and store of photography printed on aluminum and art. My second collection celebrating the countries of Vietnam, Laos and Japan launched on Sept. 1.”...Rob Curtis and family are excited to have moved to the lovely community of Greenland, N.H. “My wife and our three kids (5, 4 and 2) are having a blast!”...Erin Gottwald is a New York City-based artist who performs, choreographs, curates and teaches dance....

Renée Leduc Clarke is leading DAI’s Washington-based team on a project to use earth observations from space to help forecast and adapt to the effects of climate change. DAI, an employee-owned global development firm, is collaborating with the U.S. Agency for International Development and NASA on the effort. Renée is an expert and advocate for international environmental, science and technology programs. She is chief of party for the SERVIR Program, which uses NASA’s vast earth observation satellite resources to strengthen the capacity of governments and others to integrate earth observations and geospatial technologies into decision making for sustainable development. She is also the president-elect for 2012 of Women in Aerospace.

1999 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Jennifer Lemkin Bouchard jlemkin@alumni.bates.edu class president Jamie Ascenzo Trickett jamie.trickett@gmail.com Will DePaolo, assistant professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Keck School

at the Univ. of Southern California, was interviewed by the NBC News Today Show about the hantavirus outbreak at Yosemite National Park. The report also mentioned a bubonic plague incident in Colorado and the national West Nile virus outbreak.

While the effect was to wrap the three bugs into one nasty ball o’ fear, Will tells Bates Magazine that while “cases of bubonic plague pop up like this every few years, it’s not as if it is growing or becoming more prevalent.”

West Nile, on the other hand, is a bigger public health threat, he says, “though the fact that 80 percent of people infected show no symptoms means that it is not a super-growing concern.”...

Children’s book author Beth Narcessian Elliott published her second book, Hilarious Hannah Waddles Her Way through a Day, inspired by her own daughter’s experiences as a toddler. Beth lives in North Attleboro, Mass., with husband Shawn and daughters Sophia and Hannah....Sachi Feris and Pedro Sancholuz Ruda welcomed Amalia Feris Sancholuz on May 5, 2012....Shawn O’Leary was named co-head of Nuveen Asset Management’s municipal research team. He and Louanne Carabini ’01 welcomed Desmond Robert O’Leary on Dec. 9, 2011....Garth Timoll and Phyllis welcomed Elise Annabelle Mae Timoll on Dec. 20, 2011.

2000 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class secretary Cynthia Macht Link cynthiafriedalink@gmail.com class co-presidents Jennifer Glassman Jacobs jenniferellenjacobs@gmail.com Megan Shelley mhshelley@aol.com Michael Danahy, a lecturer in chemistry at Bowdoin, received the 2012 Sydney B. Karofsky Prize for Junior Faculty. One of Bowdoin’s most prestigious honors, it is awarded on the basis of student evaluations. He told the student newspaper that “chemistry neatly explains all goings on in the universe on a scale that’s comprehensible...how can you not be excited about it?!”...Liz Fey-Adames, Ivan and Zoey (2) moved to Evanston, Ill. “We are excited for new adventures in the Midwest!”...

Kristen George has worked as a nurse with the multi-trauma critical care unit at R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore for the last five years.

“I joined the Air Force Reserves last year as an aeromedical evacuation nurse and have been on active duty for training this year, just finishing flight nurse school. I’m based at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. We fly wounded soldiers, their dependents and other U.S. personnel

to their home bases once they’re stabilized for flight.”...Stephanie Parker Sherman and Greg welcomed Grant Randolph and Finley Robert Sherman on June 21, 2012. She’s enjoying time off from teaching “to spend time cuddling my two new bundles of joy.”...Austin Philbin is now senior consultant, RIA Services, at Dynasty Financial Partners in New York....Katrina Wilcox Hagberg and John welcomed their second child, Eric Raymond Hagberg, on April 21, 2012.

2001 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Noah Petro npetro@gmail.com class co-presidents Jodi Winterton Cobb jodimcobb@gmail.com Kate Hagstrom Lepore khlepore@gmail.com The Patriot Ledger caught up with Robert Rosenthal and Brooke Carey, who moved to Hingham, Mass., with their daughter Georgia, as they enjoyed the town’s farmers’ market. Brooke grew up on a farm in Rumford, Maine, and always planned to have fresh, locally raised, organic food for her children. “I’m very much into fresh vegetables and local sourcing, and I wanted to teach that to my daughter and future son,” said Brooke, who was pregnant with their second child....Janel Ippolito Redman and Matt welcomed Hazel Irene Redman on July 5, 2012....Brooke Lawsing and Edward Miller announced their engagement.

She works as a tutor, actress and writer in Richmond and Virginia Beach, Va. He is a law student at the Univ. of Richmond....Skip Wilson and Candice welcomed their second child, Lydia Rose Wilson, on Dec. 2, 2011.

2002 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Drew Weymouth weymouthd@gmail.com class president Jay Surdukowski surdukowski@sulloway.com

Buddies of JetBlue executive Al Haber ’02 learned that his relationship with Katherine was serious when Al started listing her, not them, for free-flight privileges.

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Katherine Grady and Albert Haber were married April 28, 2012. She is a senior consultant on strategic projects for the Frankel Group, a management consultancy in Manhattan that specializes in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.

He is a revenue manager for JetBlue Airways. A New York Times story said after they began dating steadily, he went so far as to list her as his significant other for free-flight privileges. “In the past, my best friends were the ones listed for this benefit,” Al said. “They were all shocked when I asked them to relinquish their buddy passes for a girl.”

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Silver and Gold Dull at first, Canadian rowers ultimately shine at the Olympics At the Summer Olympics in London, Andrew Byrnes ’05 (standing, second from right) and his Canadian rowing teammates added a silver medal to the gold they won at the 2008 Games.

The big effort came after the Canadian men’s eight had finished a very poor fourth of four boats in their preliminary heat. The team’s mood was “dark, a hard place to come back from,” Byrnes told The Globe and Mail.

In the final, the Canadians changed tactics, sitting back then launching their bid, overtaking Great Britain in the final quarter of the Aug. 1 race and finishing second to Germany.

“We knew the Germans were going to be a tough nut to crack,” Byrnes says.

“Our race plan was focusing on the crews we know we’re faster than. Outracing the Brits and Aussies put us up there with the Germans.”

In an email, Byrnes writes, “We were more controlled and counted on having a strong pace through the whole race. It was an exciting moment when we could smell the finish and started clawing back.” — hjb

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Melissa Ostuni and Ian Gemmell were married in August 2012. She is a safety trial manager at Boston Scientific Corp. He is an attorney with Campbell, Campbell, Edwards and Conroy, PC., in Boston....The Royal Gazette of Bermuda caught up with street performer Brent McCoy doing the job he loves in front of Boston’s Faneuil Hall: an hour packed with jokes, juggling and assorted antics. “Street performing is not about making the money,” said Brent, who is familiar to Bates Reunion-goers for his routines on Alumni Walk.

“It’s about making the show.

The laughter and the energy are what make this joyous.” He and wife Maya, a teacher and fellow performer log 25,000 miles a performer, year driving around the U.S. and Canada to appear at street festivals as well as more traditional venues. Courses at the Celebration Barn, an international school for physical theater in Maine, got him started in comedy. Six years ago, he began his career as a street performer in earnest. “It takes a thousand shows to feel you can handle anything that might happen. I’m just starting to feel that way now.” The Gazette noted that Brent’s effervescent personality and adroit physical comedy prompted easy laughter, steady applause and a lot of tips.

“If you gave me a choice between doing two of these shows and a regular paycheck, I wouldn’t think twice. It’s all about the joy.”...Raj Saha, a postdoctoral fellow in mathematics at Bowdoin, returned to Bates to speak on “Periodic Fluctuations In Deep Water Formation Due to Sea Ice.”...Melissa Wilcox Yanagi and Tad welcomed Jack Yanagi on Aug. 8, 2011. She works at Staples in the merchandising organization. The Yanagis, who live in Boston’s South End, are excited about the 10th Reunion.

Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class co-presidents Eduardo Crespo ecrespo@alumni.bates.edu Tanya Schwartz tanya.schwartz@gmail.com Tahsin Alam finished the 2012 Ironman Lake Placid (N.Y.) Triathlon Championships in an official time of 16 hours and 27 minutes, making him the first Bangladeshi to conquer what has been called the world’s most difficult one-day endurance sport. It culminated his two-year preparation to cover a 3.8-km swim, 180.2-km bike and a full 42.1 km-marathon in a nonstop race against the clock. In a field of more than 3,100 athletes, he finished 2,193rd. His ultimate goal is to represent Bangladesh in the triathlon in the Commonwealth Games 2014 in Scotland....Carrie Curtis is living in Australia after earning a master’s in music education from the Univ. of Northern Colorado in December 2011....Christina Doukeris and Nick Superina (Duke ’03) were married July 21, 2012. They live in Arlington, Va....Chris and Holly Page Gwozdz ’05 welcomed Henry on April 13, 3012....Graham Macbeth, Alexandra Strada ’10 and Chris Tegeler Beneman ’80 took part in an art show of Bates, Colby and Bowdoin alumni presented by the Thos. Moser Freeport Showroom. Tom Moser was a professor at Bates 40 years ago before he left academia to build handcrafted furniture....Ali Pincus-Jacobs and Jason welcomed Tyler on April 8, 2012.

2005 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class co-presidents Larry Handerhan larry.handerhan@gmail.com Sarah Neukom sneukom@alumni.bates.edu Michael Brown Dowling and Suzy Brown Dowling welcomed Landon Brown Dowling on March 20, 2012....Gary Dzen, who writes about craft beer in the Boston Globe when he’s not covering the Celtics for Boston. com, presided over a contest in which readers sent him 50 words about their favorite Maine beers. The winners won free tickets to the Portland Brew Festival. Gary wrote in a blog column: “The first winner, Jillian H., appealed to my status as a Bates College graduate (both Baxter Brewing and Bates are located in Lewiston). I also liked the poem and references to campus.” The poem about Baxter’s Stowaway IPA begins: “Across the Quad to Pgill, over

by Pettigrew, A Bobcat sat and wondered, ‘what’s my favorite brew?’”...Kristen Johnson Ken-

ly and James welcomed their first daughter, Emma Alexandra Kenly, on April 26, 2012....Emily Vargyas and Kevin Madden were married April 28, 2012....

Jason Rafferty completed a doctorate in medicine with a master’s in public health focusing on maternal and child health from Harvard. He also has a master’s in education focusing on child development and cognitive psychology. He is now at Brown Univ. in a residency training program combining pediatrics, adult psychiatry and child/adolescent psychiatry....

Lewiston City Councilor and filmmaker Craig Saddlemire was recognized as one of the new wave of community leaders in Lewiston-Auburn by the Sun Journal....Emma Zisser and Jason Bloch were married June 2, 2012. She works as a client relationship manager at American Express in Manhattan. He is a pricing manager at H&R Block.

2006 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class co-presidents Chelsea Cook chelsea.m.cook@gmail.com Katharine M. Nolan knolan@alumni.bates.edu John Ritzo jritzo@energycircle.com Matt Chudomel earned a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from UMass–Amherst....Mitch CoteCrosskill lives in Somerville, Mass., which means he sees plenty of Bates sweatshirts and bumper stickers. Sometimes he’ll say hi to those who are sporting one or the other, and they’ll say hi back because Bates folks tend to be pretty genial.

He’s the editorial director for C-4 Analytics, an online marketing agency in Saugus staffed with, you guessed it, three other Batesies....Jessica Edgerly Walsh is lead solar community organizer with SunCommon, a new company that wants to make it possible for Vermonters to go solar with no upfront costs....Tori Finkle lives in D.C. and puts her economics degree to good use as a reporter for American Banker, a daily financial services newspaper.

She’s now covering Capitol Hill, after reporting on credit cards and retail banking. Tori graduated from Columbia Univ.’s journalism school in 2010. When not chasing politicians down hallways, she can be found riding her bicycle about town and doing yoga.... Sixteen-time All-American Keelin Godsey, the most decorated studentathlete in Bates history, was the centerpiece of Sports Illustrated’s special report on “The Transgender Athlete.” Keelin came out as transgender before the beginning of his senior year with the Bates women’s track

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takeaway: With social media, topics are the foundation on which to build real relationships.

After the social media startup Wander pulled in $1.2 million in early funding and was named one of Business Insider’s 25 Hottest NYC Startups to Watch, co-founder Jeremy Fisher ’06 was quoted by TechCrunch, Betabeat and other outlets that follow high-tech’s ups and downs.

In a crowded field of social media startups, Wander is a bit like Timehop, Pinterest or Tumblr, Fisher says. It will be an online social space where people can create a “Wanderlog” to share their passion for “the places they’ve been, the places they want to go and the places they are connected to,” he tells JWT Intelligence.

The social component of a startup like Wander creates its value, Fisher says. Whether a site focuses on travel or news or restaurant recommendations, adding a social layer onto the discussion topic creates the foundation “on which to build real relationships.”

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Please email your high resolution digital Bates group wedding photo to magazine@bates.edu.

Please identify all people and their class years, and include the wedding date, location and any other news. Wedding photos are published in the order received.

Lenox & Twiest ’00 Jessica Lenox and Matt Twiest ’00, July 10, 2010, in Green Lake, Wis. Top: Brendan Hahesy ’00, John Hagberg ’00, David Ennis ’99, John McGrath ’00, Will Segar ’00, Steve Beardsley ’97, Steve Dutton ’00, Chris Patuto ’00, Dan Driscoll, ’02, Scott Balicki ’01, Emily Winsett Dutton ’01, Adam Kessler ’00, Ian McMillan ’00, Dave Johnston ’02, Rob Larkin ’00, Molly Keehn ’00, Nunia Mafi-Silver ’99, John Cullinan ’99; front: Megan Casey McGrath ’99, Chris Lau ’00, Matt and Jessica, Katrina Wilcox Hagberg ’00, Kate Kirstein Kessler ’00, Heather McCormick ’01, Maria Sparks Emory ’02.

Somley ’05 & Daly ’05 Brittny Somley ’05 and Matthew Daly ’05, July 30, 2011, New Harbor, Maine.

Back to front: Rachel Kellar ’06, Dan Neems ’05, Jason Zopf ’05, Nic Hansen ’05, Joel Anderson ’05, Tom Ober ’05, Robbie Gomez ’05, Greg Harris ’05, Jeff Ramsayer ’05, Nathaniel Daly ’95, Dave Metz ’05, Karina Reynolds ’05, Jeff Kowaleski ’05, Kim Rodgers ’05, Ari de Wilde ’05, Sara Solomon ’05, Julie Hilliard Posternack ’05, Meghan Thornton ’05, Deirdre Grant ’05, Ben Hagberg ’05, Jessica Ciak Zopf ’05, Matthew and Brittny, Deb Opar ’05, Allison Wensley ’05, Sarah Lewis ’05, Dave Brown ’05.

Rice ’05 & Duvall ’05 Kathryn Rice ’05 and Sam Duvall ’05, Oct. 22, 2011, Portland, Maine. Front: Sarah Parker ’08, Emily Parker ’05, Sam, Lindsay Yost ’05, Tara De Vito ’05, Alex Macdonald ’03, Kathryn, Melissa Geissler ’05, Katie Carroll ’05, Becca Perlmutter ’05; back: Matt Marshall ’05, Sarah Levine Meyer ’04, Dave Meyer ’03, Craig Legault ’05, Mike Greenway ’06, Jeff Grom ’03, Brett Carty ’04, Dan Bradford ’05, Ben Lamanna ’02, Greg Little ’07, Tom Hutcheon ’05, Ian Livengood ’05, Ted Ely ’05, Rob Weller ’05.

Greene ’04 & Grabowski Beth Greene ’04 and Ryan Grabowski, Aug. 20, 2011, Jonathan Edwards Winery, North Stonington, Conn.

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Palmer Lacy ’04, Kelley Kugel ’04, Christina Doukeris ’04, Meredith Nutting ’04; back: Tory Peterson ’04, Adam Heller ’04, Scott Lombardi ’04, Jon Kelley ’04, Ian Buttermore ’04, Sara Trace ’04, Julie Gage ’04, Sarah Gray Richards ’04, Will Richards ’06.

Sanborn & Gray ’03 Meredith Sanborn (Kenyon ’01) and Malcolm Gray ’03, Feb. 19, 2011, Reformed Church, Bronxville, N.Y. Albert Haber ’02, Jake White ’03, Meredith and Malcolm, Mike Downing ’05, Jackie Fullerton ’04, Justin Easter ’03.

Canestrari & Lamanna ’02 Lauren Canestrari and Ben Lamanna ’02, Nov. 5, 2011, Squantum Club, East Providence, R.I. Billy Hart ’02, Jon Bognacki ’04, Shannon Patinkin Bognacki ’03, Kate Dockery ’02, Josh Feuer ’02, Ben Donaldson ’02, Scott O’Neil ’02, Lauren Bonenberger O’Neil ’04, Jake Riley ’02, Matt Dominici ’02, Shane Delaney ’02, Chris Callagy ’02, Ben and Lauren, David Meyer ’03, Sarah Levine Meyer ’04, Kevin Porter ’02, Vanita Jain Porter ’02, Alex Wilson ’02, Ethan Kerr ’02, Paul Gastonguay ’89, Kate McLaughlin Danforth ’01, Chris Danforth ’01.

Plummer & Guardenier ’99 Andrea Plummer (UVa ’00) and Marine Corps Capt.

Ben Guardenier ’99, Sept.

24, 2011, USS Midway, San Diego Harbor. Josh Baschnagel ’97, Colin Troha ’99, Sarah Mongan ’99, Elizabeth Frissora ’99, Jim Felton ’99, Robert Curtis ’98, Abbey DeRocker ’99, Andrea and Ben, Laura Regan Gomes ’99, Jack Gomes ’99, Hope Guardenier ’94, Bryce Fifield ’93.

Raymond ’05 & Frost ’04 Abi Raymond ’05 and Brad Frost ’04, June 11, 2011, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, N.Y. Back: Owen Miehe ’04, Justin St. Jean ’04, Andrew Caraganis ’04, Pat Connors ’04, Chris Gwozdz ’04, Jon Moody ’04, Mike Moynahan ’04, Chris White, Tom Hayden ’04, Chris Eckhoff ’04, Nat Carr ’04, John O’Neill ’04; third row: Shawn Kingman ’04, Holly Page Gwozdz ’05, Jen Troutman ’04, Kate Sadler ’05, Justine Cohen-Bolduc ’04, Mary Beth Dooley ’04,

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Tim Ayers ’04; second row: Dave Kitendaugh ’05, Alix Liiv ’05, Rosie Davis ’05, Justin Platten ’04, Joanna Dove ’05; front: Leah Skowron Kingman ’05, Caitlin Miller Sheldon ’05, Abi and Brad, Sarah Zeitlin ’05, Sarah Amsbary ’05. Not pictured: Chip McLetchie ’04, Jeff Bolduc ’04, Jess Celentano ’05.

Núñez Gough ’07 & Handal Audrey Núñez Gough ’07 and Jorge Luis Castillo Handal, March 24, 2012, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Marsha Larned ’07, Jacob Bluestone ’07, Michal Pothuis ’07, Jorge and Audrey, Ann Lovely ’07, Irene Restrepo ’07, Katie Ickis ’07 Regan & Jensen ’04 Naja Regan (Trinity College Dublin ’06) and Nikolai Jensen ’04, June 16, 2012, Powerscourt Estate, Ireland.

Jan Smidek ’04, Thomas Norris ’04, Teah Muller ’07, Nikolai and Naja, David Eppenstein ’05, Ryan Williamson ’03.

Cook ’06 & DeCarlo ’06 Chelsea Cook ’06 and Jonathan DeCarlo ’06, Oct. 9, 2011, Gettysburg, Pa. Front: Lou Dennig ’07, Caliandra Lanza-Weil ’06, Chelsea and Jon, Michael Metzger ’06, Cameron Maxwell ’09; second row: Dustin Jansen ’06, Windy Black Jansen ’07, Stephanie Beauvais ’07, Edith Lorenson Judd ’53, Ryan Creighton ’07, Katie Celeste ’06, Tori Finkle ’06, Meghan Getz Metzger ’07, Adrienne Maxwell ’06, Alex Chou ’07.

Moore ’04 & Lambek ’04 Karen Moore ’04 and Dominic Lambek ’04, Sept.

25, 2010, Candlelight Farms Inn, New Milford, Conn.

Front: Ryan Shaffer ’01, Aaron Baker ’05, Matt Rosler ’05, Lizzie Anson ’04, Charlie Hely ’07, Anna Felton ’04, Kelley Kugel ’04, Dom and Karen, Will Gluck ’04, Sara Kravitz ’04, Lara Engert ’04, Dana DiGiando ’04, Andrew Jennings ’06; back: Cait Reiter Shaffer ’04, Meg Taylor ’05, Margherita Pilato ’04, Hanna Sterzel Means ’04, Chip Means ’04, Adrian Cohen ’07, Ben Peck ’05, Bill Spirer ’04, Alex Wenger ’06, Matt Lambek ’06, Sarah Barnes ’04, Katie Trautz ’04, Andrew Stone ’04.

carine warsawski ’jg rachel warner ’jh and field team in 2005, changing his name from Kelly to Keelin and his self-identification from female to male. Keelin’s experiences before 2005 and since then, from athletic feats to personal trials, are recounted in SI....Jeff Kotzen and Elyssa welcomed Skylar Jane on Feb. 9, 2012....Cali Lanza-Weil graduated from George Washington Law School last spring. She received the Community Legal Clinics Volunteer Service Award and was mentioned in the commencement address. Cali looks forward to becoming a public defender after she passes the Virginia bar....Lindsay Hueber and Chris Palsho were married June 12, 2012. He started a new job at Ameriprise as a financial adviser....Christopher Petrella is a contributing writer to the progressive NationofChange, a doctoral candidate in African American studies at Berkeley and teaches at San Quentin State Prison.

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Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class co-presidents Keith Kearney kdkearney@gmail.com Rakhshan Zahid rakhshan.zahid@gmail.com

Full Frame A meetup atop Masada “You don’t have to look hard to spot a Batesie halfway around the world,” says Carine Warsawski ’07. “We naturally gravitate.”

In this photo, the gravitational locus is Masada, the ancient desert fortress overlooking the Dead Sea, where Warsawski and Rachel Warner ’08 happened upon each other.

In more ways than one, it was a “picture perfect moment,” Warsawski says, She was traveling with Authentic Israel, an Israel travel program provider for which she serves as director of marketing. The picture frame was for taking photos of trip participants against various backdrops, so potential clients “can look at them and say, ‘Yeah! I can picture myself’” in Israel.

Warner, a fundraiser for Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, was traveling in country. “It was just one of those ‘wherever you go, you’ll always find a Batesie’ moments,” Warsawski says. — hjb

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Sarah Sprague, who earned an Ed.M., teaches science and coaches lacrosse and squash at Indian Mountain School in Lakeville, Conn.

2008 Reunion 2013, June 7–9 class co-presidents Elizabeth Murphy elizabeth.jayne.m@gmail.com Alison Schwartz alisonrose.schwartz@gmail.com Dan Berman is pursuing a degree in history of international studies at the London School of Economics and hopes to stay in England for a Ph.D. He comments on politics regularly at Dale and Friends political website....Brian Machunski received a Bates’ Best award at the annual Volunteer Leadership Summit in May for his contributions to Bates, including being part of the Bates Career Development Center’s GAME Day program that helps student athletes leverage their athletic experience in the job search.

Brian is with Triumvirate Environmental Consulting and pursuing an M.B.A. at Boston Univ. part time....The Oklahoman profiled Kaitlyn McElroy, a Nordic skier and cross country runner at Bates who has transformed herself into “one of the best [kayakers] in the country” while at Oklahoma City Univ., where she’s pursuing a second bachelor’s in behavioral studies.

In 2011, Kaitlyn won a bronze

medal at the Pan Am Games with partner Maggie Hogan a 500-meter sprint race. In the profile, Kaitlyn talked about how, as a child, she didn’t read until fourth grade. “They (teachers) had not predicted a particularly bright future for me in academia or in the workforce.” But her reading problems were mostly due to poor eyesight. “I know I am very lucky,” she says. “My parents had the opportunity and means to put me in an alternative private school. People learn in different ways. I know that it makes it difficult for education, but it’s something we need to be aware of.”...The British online magazine Drift Surfing updated the story of Jon Steuber, Henry Myer and Wiley Todd and their Valpo Surf Project, an afterschool educational program for children in Valparaíso, Chile (Summer 2010 Bates Magazine) that melds surf outings with academic instruction and awareness-raising. “The idea we are trying to spread is that the ocean is a great resource and can be a positive influence in anyone’s life, whether your dad’s a politician or a janitor,” Wiley said. Henry recalls the pride he felt when the VSP’s first student finished the program. “Jocelyn was 16 when she joined and didn’t know how to swim,” Jon said. “Two years later, she is not only really in love with surfing, she is graduating and going on to university.”...Rachel O’Hara earned a master’s in international relations at the International Business School in London and works as the transition to adulthood coordinator at Center for Living and Working Inc....

Nate Walton was a member of the national leadership team for Young Americans for Romney, the official young professional coalition for Romney’s presidential campaign. Nate runs a consulting firm, Sachem Strategies, while attending graduate school at Brown Univ....Sarah Wolff and Jeremy Wien were married March 10, 2012. She is pursuing master’s degrees in early childhood special and general education at the Bank Street College of Education in Manhattan. He is a vice president of JPMorgan Chase. The New York Times wrote about Jeremy’s thwarted marriage proposal plans. It was supposed to be during a private tour of the White House Rose Garden, but as their tour began, he got bad news. President Obama was in the Oval Office, so the Rose Garden was off limits.

Looking for “the next most romantic spot” during the tour, he proposed to Sarah in a foyer with the presidential seal on the wall. “I honestly had no idea that any of this was happening,” she said. Neither did an Irish couple on the same tour, the Times added.

2009 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class co-presidents Timothy Gay timothy.s.gay@gmail.com Arsalan Suhail arsalansuhail@gmail.com After two years of teaching second- and fourth-grade students in Jackson, Miss., for Teach for America, Rebecca Cotugno is teaching kindergarteners at Alma del Mar Charter School in New Bedford, Mass....John and Emily Grant Kaleczyc live in Helena, Mont.... Julia Merriman and David Traggorth were married August 18, 2012. She is a teaching assistant at the Kennedy Day School, which teaches students with special needs in Boston. He is the director of development at Mitchell Properties....Helen Paillé was named one of OutFront Minnesota’s “25 Under 25” for her commitment to LGBT advocacy, including her successful campaign to amend the William Mitchell College of Law nondiscrimination policy to protect “gender identity and expression.” Quoted in a William Mitchell news story, she said that when she got to college and met other queer students and allies, she felt safe coming out as bisexual to family and friends.

“My experience taught me firsthand that an open, welcoming and inclusive environment gives people of all identities the freedom to be their authentic selves.”...Margot Sakoian received a Bates’ Best award at the annual Volunteer Leadership Summit in May for her contributions to Bates. A member of the Bates Fund Executive Committee since 2010 and our lead class agent, Margot is studying at the Univ. of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. She previously was with Wilkinson O’Grady as a securities analyst....Becky Becky Wason St. Cyr and Devon welcomed Abraham Robert St. Cyr on April 8, 2012. They live in the San Diego area, where Devon is a Marine Corps helicopter pilot and Becky enjoys being a stay-at-home mom.

2010 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class co-presidents Brianna Bakow brianna.bakow@gmail.com Vantiel Elizabeth Duncan vantielelizabeth.duncan@ gmail.com

You can find Rob Friedlander ’10 in the first dozen words of Red Ink, an inside look at the politics of crafting the federal budget.

You can find Rob Friedlander’s name in the first dozen words of Red Ink, an inside look at the intense politics of crafting the federal budget. Written by Wall Street Journal reporter David Wessel, the book begins this way: “In the cold predawn darkness of Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, Robert Friedlander walked into a Starbucks three blocks from the White House.” Rob was there to give copies of President Obama’s budget — required by law to be delivered by early February — to half a dozen waiting reporters; later that day, Obama would present the budget at an event in Virginia. At the time, Rob was working as a press assistant in the White House budget office. After leaving the White House over the summer, Rob started as communications director for Ann McLane Kuster, a Democratic candidate for Congress from New Hampshire....Chomba Kaluba, who earned an associate’s degree at Southern Maine Community College before going on to Bates, was the keynote speaker at SMCC’s graduation last May. He is the founder of the Kachlite Foundation, which promotes literacy and microfinancing to fight poverty in his home country of Zambia....Julia Lee and Nick Aquadro were married July 28, 2012....Writing in the Bangor Daily News, Peter MacArthur said Mainers “need to come together as a community and collaborate to find solutions to poverty.”

Peter, an AmeriCorps VISTA at Pine Tree Legal Assistance’s Bangor office, has worked on its veteran and service memberspecific website, Stateside Legal, created as a clearinghouse of information on various legal needs....Michaela Schneier and Matt Boller ’08 were married in September 2012. She teaches second- and third-grade at Cold Spring School in New Haven, Conn. He teaches biology and coaches crew at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford....

Emma Sprague received a Bates’ Best award during the annual Volunteer Leadership Summit in May for contributions to Bates.

An outreach and events manager in Washington, D.C., with the watchdog group Media Matters, Emma teamed with fellow class officers Larry Handerhan ’05 and Tanya Schwartz ’04 to create the Bobcats Of the Last Decade Regional Coordinator Program. The initiative offers a road map for young alumni looking to take on Bates leadership roles in their respective cities.

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Charles Burgis is working on a master’s at UVa in civil and environmental engineering....The Bangor Daily News spoke with Alisa Hamilton, who returned to Dakar, Senegal, where she had studied as a college junior and spent a month as a senior.

She writes and helps produce films for Tostan, an NGO that works to empower communities to make positive social change through human rights education. The Senegalese are very open to strangers, she said. “I get to really be myself here. Being a foreigner, I can be curious and ask silly questions....They think it’s hilarious when I try to dance. They laugh at me, and I laugh at me, too!”... Downeast Cider House, founded by Ben Manter, Tyler Mosher and Ross Brockman, plans to move operations from Waterville, Maine, to Leominster, Mass., but the big push over the summer was creating a canned version of their tasty craft cider, Original Blend. Even though their cider is selling very well in dozens of pubs in Maine and Massachusetts, that’s not where the profit is. The bigger money “comes with canning our cider and selling it in stores in cans. We don’t make any money from the draft accounts,” because competition is fierce and profit margins low, Ross tells WBUR’s Public Radio Kitchen. The canning route, rather than bottling, came in part from the example of Baxter Brewing, a startup based in one of Lewiston’s repurposed mills and committed to cans over bottles. “There’s nothing inferior about cans whatsoever,” Ross tells the Bangor Daily News.

“They don’t let any UV light in, so it keeps longer. They don’t have that tinny taste anymore, because it’s lined. And you can bring it camping or to the beach or wherever. It’s just better on every level.” By now, Downeast’s Original Blend very well might be available in cans.

be putting Bates values of social justice into practice,” he writes.

The fellowship “puts you at the front lines of Jewish policy,” he told The Jewish Exponent. When the fellowship ends, he plans to start a doctorate in social or political psychology....Now at the Univ. of Maine School of Law, James Dowling-Healy, with Kate Bewley, did a 23-state, 12-day road trip around the U.S. in August....Margaret Harrison received a Bates’ Best award at the annual Volunteer Leadership Summit in May for her contributions to Bates, particularly for her work with Admission and the Bates Fund last year, including serving as vice chair for participation for our recordsetting (woo-hoo!) Senior Gift.…

Elizabeth Sonshine rows competitively at the Craftsbury Outdoors Center in Craftsbury Common, Vt. She’s part of the Green Racing Project, a group of rowers and skiers who train year-round, part of an effort to bridge the gap between collegiate rowing and national and international competition.

faculty Summer saw the introductions of three new directors of flagship Bates programs. Darby Ray now directs the Harward Center for Community Partnerships. A professor of religion and leader of community engagement at Millsaps College in Mississippi, she wasn’t considering a career change when she heard about the national search for a new HCCP director to succeed David Scobey. But a personal connection to the center’s namesake, President Emeritus Donald Harward, inspired her to investigate. She first met Harward last fall when

he came to Millsaps to discuss civic involvement in higher education. It was Harward’s dedication to community engagement that prompted Bates to name the Harward Center for him and his wife, the late Ann Harward, in 2002. Since crossing paths last year, Ray and Harward, whom she describes as a “charming, brilliant and thoughtful man,” have become colleagues and friends....Pat Webber is the new director of the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library.

As a kid, he used to scatter his baseball cards on the floor and sort them by the players’ last names. Then he’d scatter and sort them again, by team, then scatter and sort yet another way.

“I should’ve realized when I was 8 that I was going to be an archivist,” he says. Bates archivist since 2006, Webber was the Muskie Archives’ acting director this past academic year following the departure of Kat Stefko for a post at Duke University....

David McDonough is the new director of the Bates Career Development Center, succeeding Karen McRoberts. “I like the global-mindedness of Bates students, their communications skills and the breadth of their academic and career interests,” McDonough says. The Bates job appeals to him because “we’ll be reporting through the academic side, to the dean of the faculty — which is fairly uncommon. This is a big plus because faculty have such regular interaction with students, and students have such a high regard for them. The reporting relationship will help us get more directly involved with faculty and be in a better position to benefit students.”...Congratulations to professors earning tenure in 2012: Myron Beasley, associate professor of African American studies and American

cultural studies; Dale Chapman, associate professor of music; Sue Houchins, associate professor of African American studies; and Nancy Koven, associate professor of psychology....Farther afield, our friends at Morehouse College awarded former Bates President Elaine Tuttle Hansen, now executive director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree in May. Morehouse President Robert Franklin, who received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Bates in 2009, praised Hansen for her “inspirational leadership [that] ushered the college through turbulent economic times, promoting diversity, winning friends and securing resources to ensure a strong future.” In her remarks, Hansen used a famous simile conjured by Benjamin Mays ’20, a legendary Morehouse president, who said that the imperative to learn is “like a voice calling from a high hill. The voice calls out, ‘come up here, come up here.’” Hansen told the graduates that “going forward there is no safe path, only higher and higher altitudes that will need to be scaled on a planet that looks more mountainous every day.

If any college graduates today can lead change, speak clearly about major social problems and opportunities, and set shared and inspirational goals for the future, I imagine it is you.”...Bates staff retirees who died in the past year and were honored in the Alumni Memorial program at Reunion were Leonard Belleau, Arthur Chouinard, Marcelle Comeau, Marie Comeau, Thomas Hunter, Leon Levasseur, Ralph Perkins, Jeannine Smart and Mae Young.

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At Bates, Jeffrey Beaton is an admission counselor....Mikey Pasek is completing a one-year fellowship with the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism in Washington, D.C., where he is an Eisendrath Legislative Assistant. Working for the center’s social justice arm and representing the movement’s 1.5 million members, Mikey is the organization’s point person on a broad swath of issue portfolios including Israel, civil rights, hate crimes, gun control, and crime and criminal justice. “Glad to

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Carter 1911. Her late uncle was Frank Chamberlain ’22, and her late aunt was Elva Osier Chamberlain ’26.

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1930 Grace Hatch Perkins July 7, 2012 After eight years in a one-room schoolhouse at Head of Tide near Belfast, Grace Hatch Perkins conquered high school as valedictorian before graduating from Bates with honors in English. She immediately went back to teach English and Latin at her high school, Crosby High, until she married Norman Perkins in 1936. Following the birth of her children, she taught at other schools and studied at UMaine– Orono and Colby. Later, she was an instructor in English at Husson College from 1964 until retirement in 1973. She served as president of the Waterville and Bangor branches of the American Assn. of University Women, as well as the state division. She was a member of the Society of Mayflower Descendants, the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Bangor Garden Club. She was active in All Souls Congregational Church in Bangor for 68 years. She is survived by a daughter, Caroline Gilmore Perkins; a son, John Perkins; five grandchildren, including John Lobley ’86; and six great-grandchildren.

1932 Robert Hopson Axtell April 9, 2012 Robert Axtell grew up in the Panama Canal Zone, where his father worked building the canal, and he returned to the States to attend Bates, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in mathematics. During World War II, he returned to the Canal Zone to help protect it from German submarine attacks.

Later, he lived for many years in Guatemala, setting up radio transmitters and towers. There, he met his wife, Carmen Elena Rodriguez, and they moved to Cutler, Maine, in the 1960s, where he worked for the U.S. Navy at its communications station and then in Brunswick

at its air station. Finally, he and his family moved to Venezuela, splitting their time between there and Cutler. In Venezuela in 1988, through what he called “an incredible series of coincidences,” he was instrumental in exporting 37 tons of cashews from a country that had never exported them before, more or less inventing a new industry for a poor country. Survivors include his wife; sons Frank and Daniel; daughters Ruth and Xiomara; and three grandchildren.

Two sons, Samuel and Carlos, predeceased him. Nancy Jepson Leslie ’49 is his cousin; her husband was Malcolm Leslie ’50.

1934 Ruth Carter Zervas August 12, 2011 Ruth Carter Zervas’ ancestors were part of the original missionary group to Hawaii, and she was able to visit their first missionary home, now part of the Mission Houses Museum. She was a member of the Children of Hawaiian Missionaries Society, one of a number of historical societies that interested her, along with DAR and the Arnold Expedition Society (preserving the memory of Benedict Arnold’s march to Quebec). A member of the Bates Key, she taught at Long Lang School in Connecticut before returning to Maine after her husband, Carter Zervas, passed away. She then worked for the Maine Department of Human Services, helping foster children find homes.

Building on skills she learned at the Modern School of Applied Art in Boston, she enjoyed designing and making clothing, as well as painting. For more than 25 years, she served as class secretary for Bates, singing the praises of erasable paper in each letter, as well as lamenting the rules of capitalization. Survivors include daughter Cynthia Brown and two grandchildren. Her cousin is Belinda Osier Aicher ’80. Son Carter Zervas predeceased her.

Her parents were the late Albert 1913 and Pauline Chamberlain

Irene Linehan Sutton May 7, 2010 Irene Linehan was at Bates just long enough to meet Gil Sutton ’33: They married and enjoyed life together until he passed away in 1979. Born and raised in Lewiston, she moved to Delaware, her husband’s home state, where she raised her family. Survivors include son Carlton; three grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Her husband and son Laurence predeceased her.

1935 Margaret Perkins Skillings March 5, 2012 It was the last night of the 4A Players’ production of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, and lead player Peg Perkins wasn’t going to let anything stop her, certainly nothing as silly as an appendix about to burst. The stage manager had ice waiting for her anytime she stepped off-stage between scenes. She rushed to the hospital as soon as the play finished, for her second successful curtain call of the evening. (Shortly before her death, she learned that the Robinson Players were to present the same play, and mused about sending champagne to them.) She was also part of the first female debate team that the college fielded; it happened to be in its eighth debate against Oxford, where Bates opposed the point that all national armament production should be kept national. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in English and, five years later, was married in the Chapel to Neal Skillings, a Bowdoin man. She taught English in South Portland and in West Boylston, Mass., and continued her drama career with the Holden (Mass.) Players Club.

She and her husband were active with the Worcester (Mass.)

Dance Assembly, and she was a past president of the Outdoor Sports Club of Worcester. He passed away in 1998. Survivors include her children John and Judith Skillings Frawley; three grandchildren; and three greatgrandchildren.

1936 Selma Shapiro Blatt November 13, 2011 Selma Shapiro Blatt’s parents were among the first Jewish families to settle in the Lewiston area, European immigrants intent on educating their five children. Her older sister, Leah Shapiro Weinsier, graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1925. She herself was class valedictorian at Edward Little High School.

Another sister, the late Helen Shapiro Bean, started with the Class of 1933 but went on to graduate PBK from NYU. All three sisters became teachers; Selma taught at the junior high school in Lewiston for several years before marrying Arthur Blatt, who passed away in 2005.

Although she was Jewish, she was required to attend Chapel daily, even on Jewish holidays, and recalled her grades being docked because she stayed home on those days. She and her husband raised four children, and after they were grown, she went back to teaching in Lewiston and Auburn schools. She was active in Beth Abraham Synagogue and later in Temple Shalom Synagogue, was a past president of Hadassah and later joined Beth Israel Congregation in Bath. Survivors include her children, Joan Fields, Stephen, Charles and Gordon Shapiro; 11 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Additional family members who were alumni, all now deceased, include cousin Isadore Shapiro ’31, brother-in-law William Bean ’32, cousin Harold Shapiro ’33, cousin Marcella Shapiro Glazier ’33 and sister-in-law Phyllis Miller Shapiro ’44.

Rita Brown Hickey July 8, 2012 Rita Brown attended Bates for one year and married Daniel Hickey ’34, who was at the college for two years. She worked for the Maine Department of Health and Human Services for 27 years. Her husband died in 2004. Survivors include sons Daniel, John, Thomas and Timothy; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Another grandchild predeceased her.

1937 Arthur William Danielson January 20, 2012 Art Danielson was a teacher and school superintendent who retired to a successful career in real estate, boating and fishing.

He first taught in Mexico, Maine, before becoming the principal at Pittsburg (N.H.) High School.

In 1947, he was appointed superintendent in Epping, N.H., and in 1963 in Sharon, Mass. He also held a master’s in education from UNH. At Bates, he captained the cross-country team and was active in the Jordan Ramsdell Society. He received an award for his service to the American dependents school in Iran. As an alumnus, he served as class president in the 1950s. His first marriage, to Hope Flanders Bailiff ’39, ended in divorce. His second wife, Harriet Larsen, predeceased him. Survivors include his third wife, Ora Danielson; son David “Davio” Danielson ’59; and a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

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1938 Irene Lee Quill January 28, 2011 Fifty-eight years after she graduated, Irene Lee Quill attended a small reunion of sorts: Her grandson, Ward Quill ’88, invited a number of his classmates to his wedding. She was a psychiatric social worker, having earned her M.S.W. from Carnegie Mellon Univ. in 1941. She also studied at Yale, but worked primarily in Pennsylvania, and was the assistant director at Norristown State Hospital. When she came to Bates, she had already completed two years of study at Brooklyn College, says her grandson, but was required to register as a “provisional” first-year student. However, she advanced so quickly that she graduated in two years.

She and her husband, Edward Yee Quill, became members of Southampton Friends Meeting, an interfaith and interracial community in Connecticut, after retirement, and built their home there. She was also active in the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the Gray Panthers, and considered working for peace one of her main occupations. Survivors include her children, Melodie Rothwell, Eliot, Carolyn and Edward Quill; 10 grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.

John Joseph Smith January 26, 2012 Jack Smith won debating awards in high school and college, then had a long and successful career in publishing as an editor at Encyclopedia Americana and Grolier. That career forced him, a New Hampshire farm boy, and his wife, Ann Woodward Smith, to live in an apartment in New York City, but they managed to keep their love for nature in full bloom with seven window boxes, an apple tree and a water lily tub on their third-floor terrace.

He also developed a side career as a professional photographer, publishing in many magazines and books. He returned to the family farm after he retired and finally, just months before his death, his book, Wildflowers of New England, was published. An Army veteran of World War II, he was a member of the Sierra Club, National Wildlife Federation, Audubon Society and a Smithsonian Institution National Associate. His wife died in 1996.

1939 Albert Basil Jerard March 6, 2012 Jerry Jerard left Bates after one year to attend the Univ. of Vermont. He was an underwriter for New York Life Insurance Co. Survivors include his wife, Lucille Clara Bristol; children Albert III, Robert, Stephen, 82

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Gilman McDonald June 28, 2011 A Phi Beta Kappa graduate in mathematics, Gilman McDonald joined the Navy after earning a master’s in sociology from Harvard and went on to become a commander. He spent part of World War II sequestered in a room in Ohio trying to build “the bomb” — that is, reproduce parts of the Nazi’s top-secret Enigma machine, the famed message encryption device. He received the NSA’s meritorious civilian service award in 1976. He owned a sumptuous collection of Middle Eastern rugs and hangings that were coveted for showings by galleries in the Washington, D.C., area, where he lived. His wife, Jane Merow McDonald, died in 1991. His son, Douglas, is among his survivors, along with three grandchildren.

Donald Rawlings Purinton February 6, 2012 Don Purinton caught the flying bug during World War II while serving with Gen. Patton as a radioman. He was inspired by Charles Lindbergh, got a private license and flew all over Nevada, thrilling his young sons. He worked as a vocational counselor for the Veterans Administration and for Social Security. He sang with the Brunswick Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America and was active in the Merriconeag Grange in Harpswell before moving west. He was divorced from his first wife, Jean Davis Purinton ’40, at the time of her death in 1994. Her mother was Margaret Dickson Davis 1913. Among survivors are his wife Vera Cheel Purinton; sons Russell and Donald Jr.; five grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. Son Richard predeceased him. His father was Carl Purinton 1909.

1940 Elizabeth MacGregor Crooker Bates October 21, 2011 If there was ever dirt under Lib MacGregor Crooker Bates’ fingernails, you knew she came by it honestly: She was an inveterate hiker and gardener.

Her father was the first manager of the hut system for the Appalachian Trail, so she grew up hiking its trails, starting seriously at 10 and continuing until at least her 92nd year, when she won L.L.Bean’s 2011 Outdoor Hero Award. An English major at Bates, she married classmate Charlie Crooker and went on to Yale Divinity School with him. Rather than becoming a preacher as he did, however, she

became a tax preparer, serving a different master. He passed away in 1994. Four years later, she married Frank Bates, who passed away in 2011. Her skill at organizing was known to her classmates as their president; her community benefited from her skills as business manager of the Sandwich Players, president of the Sandwich Women’s Club, president of the Ladies Aid and a member of the Friends of the Library, the Sandwich Historical Society and the Land Trust Committee. She helped found the Over the Hill Hikers, a group of retired hikers, and served 16 years as its “den mother.” Why, asked The Boston Globe in 1989, did she like to climb? “It’s just… whee!” she answered. Survivors include children Carol Farnsworth, Constance, Catherine and Charles Crooker; three stepchildren; and 11 grandchildren.

Marie Dodge Joy ’40 long remembered the dash from campus to convent for afternoon conversation with the nuns for French class — except on mild days when she tended to loiter.

Evelyn Dodge Joy November 29, 2011 A French major, Marie Dodge Joy long remembered the dash from campus to convent for afternoon conversation with the nuns for French class — except on mild days when she tended to loiter. She also remembered how kind geology professor Doc Fisher must have been, since science was not her forte.

As class secretary, she enjoyed surrounding herself with notes and letters from classmates. She taught at Cape Elizabeth High School, Portland High School, Bourne High School and Greely Institute, and was a librarian in Portland. She and husband Elwyn “Al” Joy built a home in Falmouth, where they lived for 53 years until his death in 1999.

She is survived by several nieces and nephews.

Ira Kissag Nahikian April 13, 2012 Nick Nahikian distinguished himself on his second day at Bates by fracturing his wrist while leaping over the high-jump bar during a required “physical efficiency” test. No note taking, no typing, no writing for the first few weeks of class — “such an auspicious beginning!” he wrote. He did go on to enjoy intramural sports, however, and later became a handball player. He served in the Army Air Forces as a radiotelegraph instructor during World War

II and then converted his Bates history degree into an accounting degree at Bentley College, which led to a 34-year career at General Electric in treasury operations, primarily in Schenectady, N.Y. He sang with the Octavo Singers of Schenectady and was a communicant and lector at the Church of St. Clare in Colonie. His wife, Mary O’Clair Nahikian, is among his survivors.

1941 George Elliott Coorssen May 10, 2012 An economics major, George Coorssen spent a year at MIT before hopping the bus north.

Good thing he did, because that’s where his college sweetheart, Helen Ulrich ’42, happened to be. They married shortly before he joined the wartime Navy, a choice that made good sense, since his family owned a marine intercommunications systems business. He served in the South Pacific and then entered Harvard to earn a degree in business administration. A career with Henschel Corp., the family company, awaited him, and he worked his way up to president.

He retired in 1983, only to start up another company a few years later. Their love of the sea meant that he and Helen never lived nor vacationed far from it. Survivors along with his wife include sons Gary ’78, Mark and George; five grandchildren; and three greatgrandchildren. His sisters-inlaw are Ruth Ulrich Coffin ’42, Muriel Ulrich Weeks ’46, Grace Ulrich Harris ’51 and Margaret Bartlett Ulrich ’55; his brotherin-law is W. Arthur Ulrich ’55; his late brothers-in-law were Frank Coffin ’40 and Prescott Harris ’52. Son Craig and daughter Karen predeceased him.

Raymond Emerson Ressler November 15, 2010 Raymond Ressler was at Bates for one year. He was a machinist for Sikorsky Aircraft and the Remington Arms Co. He and his late wife, Jeannette Anderson Ressler, were avid square dancers and hikers. Survivors include several nieces and nephews.

Alan Reed Sawyer January 31, 2002 Alan Sawyer turned his geology degree into a renowned career in ancient Peruvian art. He continued his education at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Univ. and Harvard, where he received a master’s in art history in 1949. Bates honored him with a doctorate in fine arts in 1969. He held curatorships in Texas and Chicago. He taught at those places and at Columbia, the Smithsonian and the Univ. of British Columbia.

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found in the Nazca Desert known as the Nazca Lines. In 1966, he published Ancient Peruvian Ceramics through the Metropolitan Museum in New York; in 1968, he curated an exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Mastercraftmen of Ancient Peru, an apparent abrupt departure in material for the modern museum, but one that was well received.

His wife, Erika Heininger Sawyer, passed away in July 2012. His survivors include children Dana, Diane, Brian ’76, Lynn Thompson and Carol; 11 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. His father was John B. Sawyer 1909, and his aunt was Louise F. Sawyer 1913. His brother was Clark J. Sawyer ’38, whose son is Clark J. Sawyer ’74.

1942 George Seymour Chaletzky May 1, 2011 George Chaletzky, an economics major, was a real estate financier and president of Norge Realty in the Boston area. At Bates, he was active in varsity sports, campus publications and the photography club. In Massachusetts, he was a former member of the Governor’s Advisory Commission on Real Estate, and was honored by Temple Reyim in 2001 as one of its early presidents. Survivors include sons Stephen and Kenneth. His wife, Gloria Zallen Chaletzky, predeceased him.

Myra Hoyt Buonocore March 5, 2012 Myra Hoyt Buonocore was a social worker who worked well past the “normal” retirement age because she so enjoyed her work. She spent most of her career in the Rochester, N.Y., school system after earning a master’s of social work from Boston Univ. in 1948 and working at Concord (Mass.) Family Welfare. She surrounded herself with people not only at work but also on the dance floor, becoming a gold-level ballroom dancer.

A sociology major, her activities at Bates ranged from debating to the Greek, photography and politics clubs. Survivors include children Janet and Michael; four grandchildren; and brother Ralph Hoyt ’51, who is married to Dorothy Fryer Hoyt ’51.

1943 Richard Henry Becker December 30, 2011 Dick Becker followed older brother Howard Becker ’38 to Bates, a fortunate decision since it was at the college where he met his future wife, Ruth “Boots” Kennedy Becker ’45.

They married in 1944 when he entered the Army Air Forces during World War II. After the war, he used his degree in economics to build a 25-year career

as a sales manager for Jones and Laughlin, a steel company in Pittsburgh, and then finished his career with five years at Cold Metal Products in Ohio. Retirement in Kennebunkport gave him a chance to fish and play golf, as well as become very active with South Congregational Church. Besides his wife and brother, survivors include sons Douglas and Stephen, and 10 grandchildren. His niece is Carol Becker Olson ’65; her husband is David R. Olson ’65, and their son is Peter S. Olson ’92. Kathryn Thomas Becker ’37 was the late sister-in-law of the deceased.

Two sons, Stuart and Richard, also predeceased him.

Myles Standish Delano October 2, 2011 Myles Delano had his own way of measuring his effectiveness as a teacher: One student named his dog after him, and another named his son after him. He thought he would teach at a small liberal arts college, but instead worked with graduate students at large universities, everywhere from Seattle to Michigan to New Zealand. His field was economics, cum laude from Bates, with a master’s from Boston Univ. and a doctorate from Brown. His other favorite field was ice fields — he was an avid mountain climber, reaching the glacial peaks above the clouds. After retirement, he returned to his native Maine, where he haunted the Bates squash courts. Survivors include his wife, Virginia K. Delano; and daughters June and Elizabeth.

Henrick Rhodes Johnson Sr. January 19, 2012 Del Johnson once bragged about the killing he was making on the golf course: He’d won $11 over 40 years. He had better luck elsewhere. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates out of high school, was named to the Little All America football team at Bates, survived three years in the Pacific with the Army during the war and married his high school sweetheart afterward. He joined his father’s insurance agency and served on the Chelmsford (Mass.) School Committee for nine years. This sparked his interest in politics and led him to join other campaigns. His insurance business grew to multiple offices, and his son, Henrick Jr. ’70, joined him in it. He was one of the first members of the Chelmsford High School Hall of Fame. His wife passed away in 2009. Survivors include children Richard and Henrick; five grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and five great-great-grandchildren.

Jean Lombard Dyer May 16, 2012 Fired from her first job, Jean Lombard Dyer picked herself up just to fall flat again when she

tried teaching. A quick secretarial course snagged her a job with Wayne Davis, Class of 1912, as secretary and copywriter in Boston, handling publications for independent schools and colleges, including Bates. She loved it.

“Nothing could have lured me away,” she wrote, “except meeting my husband!” A life with Henry Dyer on her beloved Chebeague Island “was irresistible,” she said, and it fit perfectly. She became a successful teacher, both at the town school and the Methodist church. She also played organ at the church, was a lay leader and served on committees. She was active in several groups focused on what her son called “saving the world”: Casco Bay Island Development Assn. (which she served as president), InterIsland League and the Casco Bay Estuary Project, which in 2005 gave her its lifetime achievement award. She also edited the newsletter for CBIDA, and traveled island-to-island to keep abreast of developments along the coast. And for nearly 60 years, she was class secretary for the Class of 1943. Her late father was Clarence Lombard, Class of 1911. Her cousins, all deceased, were Parker Mann ’32, Betty Mann Jacobs ’32 and Bernard Mann ’36. Among her survivors is her son, Willard.

Peg Soper took advantage of everything that Bates had to offer: sports, theater, student government, newspaper — all drew her attention, all benefited from it. She remained active as an alumna, as a member of the College Key and as part of the committees planning reunions.

She married her high school sweetheart, Paul Witham, after serving in the WAVES during World War II, and worked in the family clothing store in Newport, Maine, for several years.

She then switched to teaching, more in keeping with her degree in English, at Maine Central Institute. She earned a master’s in education in guidance from UMaine–Orono and was named the dean of women at MCI in 1974. She served Peoples United Methodist Church in Newport as treasurer and was a member of Eastern Star, the Sebasticook Garden Club and the Friends of Newport Library. Her husband passed away in 1996. Her late sister was Eileen Soper ’34.

Survivors include children Anne Jenkins, Pamela Dahl and Susan Witham Goddard ’73, whose husband is Terry Goddard ’72; and seven grandchildren.

Mary McGrail Rote April 4, 2012 A degree in biology helped get Mary McGrail in the door at General Electric in Bridgeport, Conn., after graduation, where she worked on experimental amplifiers. That’s where she met Jim Rote, whom she married in 1944. They settled in Roseland, N.J. Once their children were old enough, she worked as an accounting clerk at a manufacturer and credited her education for enabling her to adapt to the field. Her husband passed away in 1998; her son, Thomas, passed away in 2002. Survivors include daughter Linda Rote-Rendowski; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Esther Foster Backelin March 2, 2012 Terry Foster’s degree in geology got her a job as a hydrologist studying the Columbia River Gorge between Oregon and Washington, which left her weekends free to teach skiing on Mount Hood. There she met Harry Leonard Backelin, a native of Sweden, whom she married in 1950. He worked for various airlines, and his peripatetic lifestyle suited her fine. They traveled and lived in many places, from the exotic to the mundane, but always circled back to her childhood home in Bay Head, N.J., and their beloved Portland, Ore. She was an ensign in the WAVES during World War II and worked for the U.S. Weather Bureau after the war. Later, she worked for the Social Security Administration.

She studied library science at C.W. Post College and computer science at NYU. Despite the crowds, she liked Long Island for birding because it was right on the Atlantic flyway and has marvelous birding areas. Her husband predeceased her. She is survived by children Doug and Patricia and other family members.

Patricia Peterson Rawson February 10, 2012 A government and history major, Patricia Peterson married classmate Freeman Rawson and built a life with him in Knoxville, Tenn., where he was a prominent cardiologist.

She was a painter, especially of landscapes and flowers, and a life member of Presbyterian Women, with a longtime membership in Sequoyah Hills Presbyterian Church. She served on the board of Senior Citizens Home Aid Service. Her husband and son, Freeman III, predeceased her. Survivors include children William, Andrew and Jane McCurdy; seven grandchildren; and sister Jane Rawson Tompkins ’44.

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war. She was a social worker at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Hospital while Bob earned his medical degree at Tufts.

After a few years in Marblehead, Mass., they moved to Charlotte, Mich., where she helped found the community’s first cooperative nursery school. When they moved to Lansing, she started work as a therapist. Despite remaining in the Midwest, she was always a New Englander, she said. At a family reunion one year, she found herself considering a horrible thought as she surveyed her brood of children and grandchildren: What if her relative hadn’t talked her parents into sending her to Bates and she had never met Bob? Her husband survives her, as do children Robert, Steven, Gregg, Vicki Janzen and Bruce; and five grandchildren.

Cyril Vincent Finnegan Jr. January 30, 2012 In 1958, in a big, heavy 1949 Chrysler limousine with a big, heavy canvas Army surplus tent, Cy Finnegan, his wife, Ruth Sullivan Finnegan ’44, and six of their eventual nine children pointed their compass toward the wilds of western Canada and set off to follow the scent of a new job at the Univ. of British Columbia.

There, Cy set up shop in developmental biology and indulged his special interest in salamanders.

His research was in epigenetics, the theory that genes have memory, a theory he had nurtured through his work at Bates and then at Notre Dame, where he earned a doctorate in 1952. In the 1970s at UBC, he moved from teaching and research into academic administration. By then, he had created a tradition: cooking a Sunday meal for whoever showed up, and the number of hungry guests occasionally reached 30, gathering for a hearty fare of roast beef, mashed potatoes and Charlie’s Angels. By the time of his retirement, he had served as dean of science and as associate vice president of academics. He and Ruth divorced in 1973. He is survived by children Maureen, Patrick, Cathaleen, Kevin, Eileen, Gormlaith, Michaeleen, Mairead and Conal; 10 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

William Emerson Gilmour February 8, 2012 Bill owed his life to a caterpillar — a silk caterpillar, that is — or perhaps to several caterpillars, those whose silk went into making the parachute that saved his life when his plane was shot out from under him on his 23rd and final mission during World War II. He landed on a rooftop in Berlin and spent 13 months as a POW. Only then could he return to Maine, not to Bates, where he had completed two years, but to Bowdoin, where he earned a degree in math, but where he nevertheless caught the eye of Ruth Hancock ’49,

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whom he married following her graduation. Survivors include children Jill Johnstone, Betsy Ramsey and Nancy Quinn; and nine grandchildren.

Robert Fall Goodspeed February 14, 2010 Bob Goodspeed started at Bates but completed his degree at Harvard, interrupted by service in the Army Air Forces during World War II. His brother, Harold Goodspeed Jr. ’40, who was married to Barbara Abbott Hall ’41, was killed during the war. Survivors include wife Joanne M. Goodspeed; children Steven, Peter, Scott and Jonathan; stepchildren Martha Indelicato, Kate Mortenson, Jennifer Chinburg and Matt Quinlan; and 24 grandchildren, one of whom is Kathleen Goodspeed ’01.

His first wife, Joanne W. Goodspeed, and two grandchildren predeceased him.

Alice Hinton Blakely January 6, 2010 After one year at Bates, Alice Hinton Blakely transferred to Butler, much as her brother, the late Herbert Hinton Jr. ’43, had done. She became a registered nurse and worked in Burma and India, not unusual for the child of missionaries (her father was Herbert Hinton Sr. 1917) born in Mandalay.

Clifford Everett Larrabee June 5, 2012 Cliff Larrabee coached swimming with one goal in mind: for each swimmer to do his or her best. When his Connecticut College team was 11-0, he said, “While it’s good to have a perfect record, it’s more important that the kids enjoy themselves and learn something.” He also coached track at the college, and in 2002 he was inducted into its athletic Hall of Fame. This was after he retired from a career as a research chemist at Pfizer.

But he’d been coaching all along, after serving in the Army as a medical technician and then getting trained at chemical warfare.

After the war, he and his wife, Carolyn Towle Larrabee ’44, moved to Rochester, N.Y., where he completed a Ph.D. in organic chemistry, and she worked on the Manhattan Project attached to Strong Memorial Hospital. While with Pfizer in Groton, Conn., he coached the New London YMCA swim team and the Greater New London swim team before taking on Connecticut College.

His daughter, Martha Larrabee LaRiviere ’74, is a swim coach at the Sanford-Springvale YMCA in Maine, and he was coaching children there a week before his death. His wife predeceased him.

Other survivors include children Clifford Jr. and Joan; eight grandchildren, one of whom is Valerie Anne LaRiviere ’07; and six greatgrandchildren. His son-in-law is Wayne LaRiviere ’74. His late father was Ernest Larrabee

1909; his late sisters were Erna Larrabee Buker ’39 and Florence Larrabee Keene ’34.

Carolynn Parkhurst Cameron April 26, 2012 Carolynn Parkhurst married a Bates graduate, the late Jack Cameron ’44, and they sent all three of their daughters to Bates.

After Jack’s Navy service during World War II, they settled in her hometown of Presque Isle to manage Parkhurst Farms. She was an active member of Presque Isle Congregational Church and a longtime volunteer at Aroostook Medical Center. Her husband passed away in 2002. Survivors include daughters Julia M. Cameron ’72, Rosemary Cameron Hooson ’74 and Candace Cameron Alden ’69; five grandchildren; one step-grandchild; two great-grandchildren; and sister Marilynn Parkhurst Bonenfant ’43. Her son-in-law is James D. Alden ’68. Her aunt and uncle were the late Evelyn Parkhurst Folsom ’25 and J. Paul Folsom ’26.

Ervin Lewis Perkins May 23, 2012 Erv Perkins, a research chemist, devoted his working life to helping people see things more clearly through a camera at Eastman Kodak. Then, in retirement, he taught Braille transcription at the Division of Blind Services in Daytona Beach, Fla. He and his wife, the former Jean Jacobs ’47, even wrote a Braille-to-English dictionary. He worked for Kodak for 33 years, retiring in 1977 as director of training to move to Florida, but still spent four months each year on Taylor Pond in Auburn, near where he was born. Phi Beta Kappa at Bates, he also held a master’s in education from the Univ. of Rochester. In addition to his wife, survivors include a son, Douglas. His niece is Janice Upham ’62. His wife’s late uncle and aunt were Clifton and Betty Mann Jacobs, both ’32; their sons are Clifton W. Jacobs Jr. ’59 and Thomas M. Jacobs ’63.

1945 Elizabeth Benoit Joyce December 28, 2011 Jack Joyce, one of the greatest athletes ever to catch a football at Garcelon Field, caught something even better at Bates: Betty Benoit. Oh, yes, she had to wait while he went off with his V-12 unit, but it was worth it, because he came back to star in three sports, play in the Glass Bowl, join her as co-class presidents, help her plan Reunions. They escaped to Cape Cod whenever they could, to the ballroom whenever they could, to the beach whenever they could.

Survivors include children Paul ’76, Deborah Smith and Carol Kelley and six grandchildren.

Jack passed away in 2003.

Norman Virgile Houle November 28, 2011 Norman Houle attended Bates briefly before joining the Army during World War II. He finished his education at Bentley Univ. and worked at ChampouxBouvier Insurance in Lewiston.

He had retired to Florida.

Survivors include wife Lillian Provencher Houle; daughters Linda Quinn and Jacqueline Stern; two granddaughters; and four great-grandchildren.

Harold Judah Hurwitz May 30, 2012 Harold Hurwitz lived most of his life in Berlin, but spent many summers in Wellfleet, Mass., indulging his interest in oystering. Along with his cum laude degree in sociology from Bates, he held a master’s in the field from Columbia and a doctorate in it from the Free Univ. of Berlin. A lecturer and researcher there, he wrote a series of books about Berlin and the “German question of a materially and spiritually flawed reunification.”

His goal was to help the Social Democrats in Berlin win the fight against communism. He is survived by his daughter, Kathleen Hurwitz, and close friends Jennie and Robert Wallace and their children, Alexandra and John Stone Wallace. His wife, Grete Klase, predeceased him.

Barbara Phillips Aalto February 11, 2012 A friend at her retirement community summed up Barbara Phillips Aalto this way: She was a “forever teacher.” Even as she was recovering from quadruplebypass surgery, she was planning to return to the faculty of Stonehill College for another semester. This was after a 35year career there, six as chair of the psychology department.

She held a master’s from Boston Univ. and a doctorate from the Univ. of Minnesota. Her late husband, Ensio, whom she met while pursuing her doctorate, was also a psychologist; they also shared interests in travel and dancing. To continue her lifelong love of learning, she was one of the first residents of the living and learning community at Lasell College in Massachusetts. Survivors include children Laura Aalto ’76, Eric and Anne; and two grandchildren.

Sylvia Reese Tesman January 4, 2012 Sylvia Reese Tesman attended Bates briefly before transferring to Hunter College. Her marriage to Bertram Tesman ended in divorce. Survivors include children Patricia and John Tesman and Matt Ciesicki.

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She took college courses, weekly piano lessons, joined several boards and so on, all while having her rather frail mother (the late Harlene Kane Stillman, Class of 1916) living with them, and raising steer for market. She had been a high school teacher — history and social studies, which makes sense when you consider that she was a direct descendant of Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island, and of several Mayflower passengers. She was also a longtime member and leader of the Sandy Spring Friends (Quaker) Meeting in Maryland, where she became clerk of the meeting, the most important leadership position. Her degree from Bates was in government; she also held a master’s in international relations from Yale. Her husband, a prominent scientist for the federal government, passed away in 1996. Survivors include children Charles Kolstad ’69, Martha Wilhelm and Peter; four grandchildren, including Kathleen Kolstad ’04; one great-grandchild; and sister Ruth Stillman Fernandez ’46. Her sister Rae Stillman Weber ’51 predeceased her, as did her father, Raymond Stillman, Class of 1916.

The Stillman House on campus is named in honor of her mother.

Olive Wise FitzGerald June 15, 2012 Olive Wise FitzGerald, who grew up on a farm in South Paris, left Bates to become an occupational therapist, one of the first in the country, and found herself in Pearl Harbor two years after the attack, tending to wounded soldiers.

After the war, she returned to Maine, married a doctor, moved back to California, earned a bachelor’s in English from California State and raised four sons, Brian, Douglas, Steven and Kent, all of whom survive her. Her late relatives were her mother Alta Walker Wise, Class of 1904, brother Albert Wise ’42 and sister-in-law Stephanie Noucas Wise ’44.

1946 Constance Amelia Lane June 14, 2012 Constance Lane was a research chemist at Rohm & Haas (the inventors of Plexiglas) in Philadelphia. In her 40 years with the company, she developed a number of coatings and owned 15 patents. A group leader in chemical research, she was an expert in organic and polymer chemistry. She was an active member of First Presbyterian Church in Germantown, Pa. Survivors include her cousin, Kelly Reed ’03.

Leslie John Anderson March 17, 2012 Les Anderson grew a goatee to play Leon Trotsky in a theater

production one time, and found that everyone liked it so much that he kept it for the rest of his life. That was his approach to life: Find out what worked, and go with it. He was a lifelong amateur golfer, a later-in-life amateur painter and a 32nd degree Mason. He was assigned to the V-12 unit upon arrival at Bates and served in the Pacific during the war, returning to finish his degree in history and government. He went on to earn a master’s in education from Fitchburg (Mass.) State College and a doctorate from the Univ. of Oklahoma in 1970. He taught high school in Massachusetts before joining the faculty at New Jersey State College and later Rose State College in Midwest City, Okla. After retirement, he worked with high school and college drama classes, in addition to acting in productions himself. Survivors include wife Kathleen Lions Anderson; children Lynn Marie Anderson and Elaine McEnteer; and two grandchildren. Daughter Maureen Harvey passed away in 2011.

Donald Irvin Marr March 10, 2012 Donald Marr and his twin brother, Harold, pulled off a magnificent Mayoralty stunt in 1942 that won them the mock election. Using the slogan “Two heads are better than one” and with the full cooperation of the Lewiston Fire Department, they faked a fire in a third-floor room in Parker Hall, using lots of dry ice and water buckets.

They bravely climbed the ladder to rescue imperiled Mayoralty documents, to the applause of the crowd summoned by the screaming fire trucks. Donald joined the Army Air Forces, returning later to graduate with a degree in economics.

He went on to earn an M.B.A. from Cornell and a master’s from Syracuse. Most of his work was as a librarian, primarily at IBM and Main Endwell School District in New York. He was active in the Main Street Baptist Church in Binghamton, N.Y. His wife, Elizabeth, predeceased him. Survivors include sons Peter and John and brother Harold Marr ’44.

1947 Richard Lee Baldwin June 21, 2012 When Kenneth Conner ’25 took his young nephew Dick Baldwin to visit a ham radio station, he had no idea he was setting Dick on his life’s path. But from then on, telecommunications became Dick’s focus. He got his first radio license at 15 and enlisted in the Naval Communications Reserve at 18. Called to active duty in 1941, he served as communications officer aboard several destroyers.

He remained in the reserves after the war, eventually achieving the rank of commander. His degree from Bates was in physics, as was his master’s from Boston Univ. Most of his career was with the American Radio Relay League, the national association of amateur radio enthusiasts, from which he retired as general manager in 1984. He was then appointed president of the International Amateur Radio Union.

During his work, he and his wife, Phyllis Smith Baldwin ’48, visited all continents except Antarctica.

She is among his survivors, along with children Judy and Glenn and brother-in-law George Billias ’48.

He was president of his class for 20 years and has many relatives who attended Bates, all now deceased, including his parents, Grover ’15 and Grace Conner Baldwin ’13; his sister, Joyce Baldwin Billias ’48; his uncle, Kenneth Conner ’25; and his cousin, Natalie Conner Young ’52.

Robert Shackleton Blake July 27, 2011 Bob Blake was a V-12 student at Bates who went on to become Navy aviator and test pilot for McDonnell Douglas. He fought in both World War II and the Korean War, and was an exchange duty pilot with the British Royal Navy. He was a graduate of Bowdoin College.

His mother was Hazel Leard Blake, Class of 1911, and his brother was William Blake ’53. Survivors include children Laura Hilgendorf and Robert; 11 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Children Peter Blake and Kimberly Foley predeceased him, as did his wife Dorothea Cross Blake.

Elizabeth Hill Jarvi July 1, 2012 Betty Jarvi was the personification of the deep roots of New England. After she graduated from Bates with a degree in sociology, she threw off the shackles of her mid-Atlantic upbringing and declared herself a Vermonter. She settled for good in Tyson, where her mother had owned land since 1917. There, she became involved in every aspect of town life, from the school board to the zoning board, from the strawberry festival (which she founded) to the historical society. She became a social worker at the children’s division at the Vermont Department of Social Services until marriage and motherhood called her away. She returned to this work in 1972, when she became the first social worker at the new Mount Ascutney Hospital in Windsor, where she built the social work department over the next 14 years. She served on the Plymouth School Board and was a trustee of public funds, town service office, health officer and a board member of the local senior center — and she was sec-

retary of the Class of 1947. Survivors include her husband, Voitto William Jarvi; children Kristen and Lauren; four grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Her nephew is Scott Phillips ’71.

Madeline Richard Freeman March 14, 2012 “I learned early on that if you don’t do as you are supposed to, then you fail everyone,” said Madeline Richard Freeman in a 1996 newspaper interview, a lesson learned growing up on a farm. Despite being a high school valedictorian, her parents didn’t expect her to go to college — no one in the family ever had — but two teachers, Bates graduates both, coaxed things along.

At Bates, she majored in government and history and was a dean’s list student. She also met Stanley Freeman ’47, whom she would marry in the Chapel in 1948. She became a “professor’s wife,” as required by the customs of the time, when they moved to Orono, where he joined the faculty at the Univ. of Maine.

She joined the League of Women Voters of Orono, serving as president, and then president of the statewide group. When her children reached adulthood and the town of Orono conveniently underwent a change in its form of government, she ran for one of the new at-large town council positions. Within two years, she was chair of the town council.

In 1977, she became president of the Maine Municipal Assn. and served on boards and commissions that oversaw judicial ethics and responsibility, and was the first non-lawyer to chair such a committee. Bates awarded her an honorary degree in 1978, and she served as a Bates trustee. She earned an M.S. in adult education from the Univ. of Southern Maine in 1981 and worked as the executive director of the Eastern Area Agency on Aging in Bangor for 11 years. She served on the White House Conference on Aging, appointed to prepare a blueprint of elderly services for the 21st century. Besides her husband, survivors include children Martha and Richard; and six grandchildren.

Sally White Byrkit January 25, 2012 Sally White Byrkit was a competitive swimmer until adulthood. Her children, however, chose frozen water and became figure skaters. She just pulled up the sewing machine and made their costumes. In fact, she designed and made them for all the members of the figure skating clubs two of her daughters joined, and in 1981, she was inducted into the City of Madison (Wis.) Ice Skating Hall of Fame — all without touching the ice. She’d ended up in Madison because of a blind date — a blind date that turned out right, leading to a wedding the following

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July. That wedding pulled her away from the farm in Auburn she’d grown up on, eventually to Wisconsin, where her husband, Edmund Byrkit, had been hired to help design and build the interstate system. Once her children were grown, she used her knowledge of fabrics and sewing by working at Northwest Fabrics. She spent part of every year in Maine except during her final illness. Her husband passed away in 1996. Survivors include children Cynthia Byrkit ’74, George, Nancy Hohenstein and Carol Haumesser; and four grandchildren. Her sister is Jane White Stoddard ’43, whose husband is Samuel Stoddard Jr. ’43.

Their son is William F. Stoddard ’75. Tobin Frye White ’94 is her cousin. Other family members also attended the college and predeceased her, including mother Marion Wellman White ’17; brothers John W. White ’39 and Wallace H. White ’42; sister Claire G. White ’42; and sisterin-law Evelyn Jones White ’38.

1948 Anna Smith Ackerman May 10, 2012 Anna Smith Ackerman was a psychology major with a great interest in English literature, especially its masters of wit, such as S.J. Perelman. She was a member of the Wareham (Mass.)

School Committee, where she advocated strongly for children with disabilities. Her marriage to classmate John H. Ackerman ended in divorce; he passed away in 1998. Survivors include children Mary Jane and John.

Jane Louise Cathcart April 22, 2012 “Peachy.” That was Jane Cathcart’s response to most requests at her work as a librarian, according to those who worked with her. She left Bates with an English degree and taught in Connecticut before garnering a library science degree from Simmons in 1955. She worked in libraries in Vermont, Ohio and Germany before settling in the Syracuse area in 1967. As the adult services librarian of the Onondaga Library System, she oversaw its merger with the Syracuse Public Library, eventually becoming head of the extension services of the merged Onondaga County Public Library. In 1984, she received the literacy award of the International Reading Assn. for her work in improving literacy. Through that work, she placed computers in prisons and youth detention centers, to supplement volunteer tutors.

She worked closely with the N.Y. State Library for the Blind and Visually Handicapped, and with Literacy Volunteers. She retired in 1988. Survivors include a cousin, Robert Baker.

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Jacob Davidson May 6, 2012 Jack Davidson was the first American citizen in his family, born in Auburn after his Russian parents had opened their American dream grocery store, a store that still stands in Auburn.

He earned a degree in math from Bates and master’s from Boston Univ., becoming a math teacher and then a mechanical engineer. His first wife, Bernice Beckerman Davidson, whom he married in 1950, passed away in 1988. His second wife, Jeanne Rubin Davidson, a childhood friend with whom he reconnected in 1990, survives him, as do children Anne and Jack, and one grandchild.

1949 Barbara Cooper Decker March 13, 2012 “Coop” to her classmates, Barbara Cooper Decker was a close follower of the arts, especially music, and volunteered at the Kentucky Center for the Arts. Her degree from Bates was in English, and she held a master’s in teaching from Spalding College. She had taught special education in Kentucky. Her late husband was classmate Dan Theodore Decker, who died in 1982. Survivors include children Donald, Dana and Amy Hulsey; and three granddaughters.

Laura deMarco Belsky June 13, 2012 Laura deMarco Belsky eschewed the usual path into academia, that complete arc through education or research right out of college.

No, she waited 20 years to pursue a master’s of science from Mount Holyoke College, then went on to become a professor of biology at Holyoke Community College, retiring in 1991. A lifelong conservationist, she was a water commissioner for the South Hadley, Mass., Fire District for many years. Survivors include husband Theodore Belsky ’50; sons Michael, Charles ’78 and Richard; and six grandchildren. Her niece is Valerie Wilson DuPuy ’64; Mr. Belsky’s late brother was Robert C. Belsky ’42.

Mary Fisher Currie February 4, 2010 Mimi Fisher Currie worked at UMass–Dartmouth for more than 23 years, first as head administrative clerk and later as affirmative action director. She also served as president of the university’s library associates, a program that supports the library’s mission through fundraising and cultural events. She was active in the Congregational Church in South Dartmouth, Mass., where she had lived for 45 years. Her husband, Andrew Currie, passed away in 1988. Survivors include children Andrew, Scott, Alan and Elizabeth McDowell.

Donald Ralph Feeley January 30, 2011 Donald Feeley had an unusual medical career. A graduate of Albany (N.Y.) Medical College, he practiced medicine in Olcott, N.Y., from 1955 to 1963, but then closed his practice to re-enlist in the U.S. Navy, assigned to the submarine service. He was the medical officer on the USS Lafayette until 1968, when he and his wife, high school sweetheart Lucille Battles Feeley, moved to Palo Alto, Calif., where he practiced occupational medicine until 1975. They then moved to St. Louis, where he became medical director at Western Electric for two years. One last move took them to Lewiston, Idaho, where he became medical director at Potlatch Corp., retiring in 1991.

They had purchased a ranch as soon as they arrived in Idaho and raised llamas; at one point, they had a herd of 92. His wife passed away in 2007. Among his survivors is a brother, Thomas.

Harris Lee Goldman June 13, 2012 Harris Goldman distinguished himself in the Army Air Forces by winning the Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross three times before coming to Bates. An economics major, he was active in Hillel, chairing the state Hillel board during his senior year. He sold insurance and real estate at agencies he founded and owned and at agencies owned by others in the Swampscott, Mass., area, most recently at the Lynnford Schmishkiss Agency. He was a past president of Temple Emanu-El in Marblehead and past chairman of the general campaign of the Jewish Federation of the North Shore.

Survivors include wife Carolyn Trockman Goldman; children Joan Finn and Charles; and five grandchildren.

Jeanne Klein Shellenberger April 1, 2012 No matter how far Jeanne Klein Shellenberger roamed, there was always another campfire to be banked before bedtime.

She started out assisting her husband’s work with the YMCA as he directed two camps on Lake George in New York. When they moved to Framingham, Mass., she ultimately became the director of a nursery school and kindergarten there. Later, she became the director of a camp in Becket, Mass., while her husband was the director of YMCA camps in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. In September 2011, the Becket-Chimney Corners Alumni Assn., from the camp she ran, gave her a distinguished service award. Besides her degree in English from Bates, she held a master’s in counseling from Framingham State. She was active with the Dennis (Mass.)

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Club of Brewster. Her husband, Donald Shellenberger, died in 2001. Survivors include children David Shellenberger and Susan G.S. Bowers.

Edgar Ernest Noel May 10, 2012 Ned Noel came to Bates after service in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. An economics major, he played basketball and football. After earning a master’s in education at Fitchburg State College, he returned to his hometown of South Hadley, Mass., and taught in its elementary schools and junior high until moving into administrative positions. He was very active in Boy Scouting throughout his adult life, and was the South Hadley Lions Club citizen of the year in 1994, the same honor his father won in 1958. He was also president of the South Hadley Historical Society. His wife, Jane Beckwith, died in 2011. Survivors include children Norman and Kathryn.

Neal Smith May 19, 2012 Neal Smith enlisted in the U.S. Navy out of South Portland High School and spent five years on a minesweeper doing convoy escorts during World War II. He graduated cum laude from Bates in geology and did graduate work at Washington Univ. in St. Louis before working for Chevron, then Standard Oil, as a geologist and geophysicist in the West. He also threw in work as a volunteer firefighter. Survivors include wife Elise Smith; children Kim Harty and Jason; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

1950 Robert Franklin Hamlen January 21, 2012 Bob Hamlen served in the U.S. Army before college, then came to Lewiston, where he met and married Gwendolyn Staveley ’49 shortly after her graduation. Bob graduated with a degree in English and went on to a 35-year career with Aetna in the Midwest, retiring in 1990, then turning his interests to travel and sampling fine foods. He also served on the board of the Friends of the Palatine (Ill.) Library Charitable Organization. His wife passed away in 2007. Survivors include children Roberta Cinnamon, Marcille, Geraldine, Mark and Kurt Hamlen; and six grandchildren. His late father, Frank ’21, and two uncles, Joseph ’19 and Charles ’20, were alumni.

William James Lynn December 22, 2011 William James Lynn attended Bates briefly and was on the football team. He retired as president of the Waterbury (Conn.) Tag Co., having worked there for over 40 years. Survi-

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vors include children Margaret Batsford, Helen Bodnar, Barbara Carson, Janet Johnson, William Jr., Thomas, Michael and John; 20 grandchildren; and five greatgrandchildren.

Harriet Stowell Blake October 29, 2011 Harriet Stowell Blake, a dean’s list student who graduated with honors with a degree in classics, earned a master’s in library science from Simmons in 1956. She worked in the library at Boston Univ. and in Yale’s rare book room before marrying Kenneth Blake Jr. and returning to Weld, Maine, to live on Webb Lake.

Noise from the lake forced them to retreat inland, and a divorce forced her to retreat even farther inland to Farmington Falls, where she took up goat farming in a historic farmhouse. Her classics training never left her: She taught Latin at Colby once or twice, and in 1986 wrote, “I am still an unashamed Epicurean (as opposed to a hedonist). Things are now a bit better materially, and I plan to continue to live a relatively secluded life, enjoying a slow pace, a sense of leisure, and a lot of outdoor activity in good weather, of course.”

Albert Joseph Trocchi November 12, 2011 Al Trocchi dedicated his life to the children and people of Sheffield, Mass., and they let him know they appreciated it. He was twice named Kiwanian of the year, and was named Master Kiwanian. After his death, his life was remembered with a weekend festival over Memorial Day. His students claim he was “the best math teacher anyone could ever have.” The Sheffield Kiwanis Club has established a scholarship in his name. He held a master’s in education from North Adams (Mass.)

State in addition to his degree in math from Bates, taught math in Sheffield and was principal there, twice assuming the role of acting superintendent of schools. In 1974, he moved to the state department of education in Pittsfield to take on a role as an education specialist, from which he retired in 1995. His wife, Edie, predeceased him.

Survivors include son Mark and one grandchild.

1951 Asa Norman Green March 26, 2012 Asa Green found that the road from Mars Hill, Maine, to Livingston, Ala., was a fast one.

He was there within four years, studying for his master of arts degree at Livingston Univ., and he stayed around long enough to become president of the university, now called the Univ. of Southern Alabama, from 1973 to 1993. He also became president

of the board of the USA Foundation. Maxey Roberts, managing director of the foundation, noted his “incandescent personality” will be missed. He was interested in the role sports played in academic life, and served on the President’s Commission of the NCAA. Under his tenure, the university increased its enrollment, added a school of nursing and expanded its support of graduate assistantships. He was awarded an honorary degree by Jacksonville State Univ. in 1975.

His wife, Betty, predeceased him. Survivors include son Steven and two grandchildren.

Maurice James O’Connell July 1, 2012 After graduation, Jim packed up his troubles in his old kit bag and enlisted in the Army — only to find classmate Ralph Perry in the lower bunk at Fort Dix. He went on to head a top-secret unit charged with testing the “atomic cannon,” which had to hit its target accurately from eight miles away, with the same power as the Hiroshima bomb. All Jim had to do was figure its aim and trajectory! He left the Army in 1953 for a long career with the Mercantile Stores Inc., first in New York, then Mobile and finally in Kansas City. At Bates, he was an eager if “porous” backup third baseman (the description comes from the write-up he himself quotes from the Student), and his love of baseball stayed with him throughout his life: During the summers while in school, he ushered at Fenway Park and at Braves Field, and he later went to a fantasy Red Sox baseball camp. His first wife, Cynthia Spitz ’53, died in 1982.

Nine years later, he married Rosalie Doctor, who survives him.

Other survivors include children Mark and Dan O’Connell, Elizabeth O’Connell-Ganges, Linda Scardino, Diane Young, Sue Beatty and Bruce Doctor; 16 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. His late father, Maurice W. O’Connell, was a member of the Class of 1916; and his late sister was Barbara O’Connell Nickerson ’46.

Arthur Joseph Knoll November 10, 2011 Arthur Knoll was born and raised in Connecticut, educated in Maine, New York and Germany, enamored of German history, smitten with fencing and at long last a devoted runner. He held a degree in history from Bates, a master’s from NYU and Ph.D. from Yale. He was granted a Fulbright fellowship and was given a von Humboldt research fellowship from the Univ. of Heidelberg three times. He wrote and edited books on German colonialism; on why Middle Easterners do not like Americans; on European imperialism in Africa.

He was the first recipient of the David E. Underdown Chair in

Modern European History at the Univ. of the South (Sewanee) in 1993, where he had taught since 1977. Previously, he had taught at Southern Conn. State College, Middlebury College and the Univ. of Heidelberg. He also served in the Army during the Korean War. He coached fencing at Sewanee for most of his time there, and served 20 years on the Sewanee community council. He retired in 2007. His wife, Ursula Baust Knoll, survives him, as do children Martin and Roland Knoll and Karin Money; and several grandchildren.

Robert Edwin LaPointe October 7, 2011 Bob LaPointe’s yearbook writeup notes that he was a table tennis champion. He also played basketball, baseball and tennis.

He continued to play tennis into his 60s, and was ranked No. 1 in New England in his 50s, in 1978 and 1979. He coached Little League in Beverly, Mass., and is a member of the Little League Hall of Fame there. He worked for General Electric and Polaroid. His wife, Alice Dawson LaPointe, died in 2003. Survivors include children Gary and Michael; four grandchildren, including Matthew LaPointe ’03; and one great-grandchild. His nephew is Richard LaPointe ’60.

William Stephen LaRochelle May 7, 2012 Bill LaRochelle finished his undergraduate degree at Boston Univ. after a short time at Bates.

His late brother was Joseph LaRochelle ’44, and his niece is Mary Jo LaRochelle McBrideBeece ’68. Survivors include children Susan O’Sullivan, Steve and Lisa LaRochelle; six grandchildren; and five greatgrandchildren.

Raymond Snow Moore May 2, 2012 Five days after graduation, Ray Moore was inducted into the Army, and it took him six whole months to wrangle a three-day pass to get back to Lewiston to marry Carlene Fuller ’51 in the Chapel in a ceremony packed to the rafters with alumni and current students, both as participants and attendees — and then it was back to Uncle Sam without so much as a quarterhoneymoon. (“Don’t worry,” he wrote in 2001, “we’ve been on one ever since.”) He went on to work for Getty Petroleum for 35 years, in its real estate and marketing divisions. He and Carlene traveled extensively, including many trailer caravans up and down the East Coast, and Ray coached youth sports.

Carlene passed away in 2006.

Her late father, Carleton Fuller, was in the Class of 1915. Among Ray’s survivors are children Catherine Lisak, Christine Coflan and William; and five grandchildren.

Ellen Tapley Berrie May 13, 2012 Ellen Tapley Berrie combined her love of books with her love of children to build a career as an elementary school librarian in Harpswell, continuing as a volunteer reading tutor after retirement. A geology major at Bates, she earned a degree in library science in 1977 from UMaine–Orono. Survivors include daughters Brenda Buggia and Karen Pierce, and two grandchildren.

1952 Howard Alton Burke November 6, 2011 Howard Burke graduated from New Haven College after a short time at Bates. He was a senior buyer at Bristol Babcock Inc. Survivors include wife Elizabeth Nordstrom Burke; children Patti Lambert, Robert Burke, Elaine Tomaseski and Dawn Lang; and eight grandchildren.

Eugenia Emery Taylor January 3, 2012 Eugenia Emery Taylor attended Bates from 1948 to 1949, then attended the Univ. of Connecticut. She taught early childhood education in Tolland, Conn., and retired as a supervisor at Travelers Insurance. She was predeceased by husband Alan Taylor. Survivors include sons Scott, Glenn, Craig and Bruce; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Her late father was Phillip Emery ’24, and her sister is Sally Emery Edmondo ’55.

Alan Hayward Glass June 20, 2011 Al Glass, an economics major at Bates, was a manager at Control Data in Bloomington, Minn. He had previously worked at Farwell Metal Fabrication and Alcoa, both in Minnesota. His wife, Beverly, died in 2008. Survivors include children David, Pamela Robinett and Connie Reiten; and seven grandchildren.

Beverly Hauer Gruninger Bailey November 10, 2011 Even if you knew her as “Bubbles” when she was 18, you also probably knew there was a no-nonsense nurse in Beverly Bailey. She worked at Hartford Hospital, McCook Hospital and finally at UConn Health Center until she retired, earning another nickname — “Kitty” — showing again that people were drawn to her kind nature. It’s not surprising that her family notes that among her survivors is her beloved cat, Callie. Other survivors are children Patricia Gruninger Clement ’77 and James Jr.; and four grandchildren. Her first husband, James F. Gruninger, died in 1991, and her second husband, R. Dick Bailey, died in 2010.

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Eleanor Lovejoy Woodman March 23, 2012 Eleanor Lovejoy married Tom Woodman ’53 nearly as soon as he graduated from Bates, then moved to Philadelphia with him while he worked on his degree in dentistry. Following that and a stint in the Navy, they settled in Lake Placid, N.Y., where Tom established a successful practice and Eleanor began a life of motherhood, civic responsibility and church leadership. She was vice president of the Placid Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, secretary of the board of the Skating Club of Lake Placid and treasurer of the American Assn. of University Women. She volunteered at the Adirondack Health Uihlein Living Center and the Ecumenical Food Pantry.

Besides her husband, her survivors include many with Bates connections: children Christopher, Cheryl Penney, Daniel ’80 and Thomas; six grandchildren, including Hannah Woodman ’12; daughter-in-law Susan Ellis Woodman ’80; and cousins Melissa C. Doukmak ’84, Phyllis Day Danforth ’50, and Leonard and Carolyn Day Chase ’53. Her husband’s late father was C. Everett Woodman ’25.

Elizabeth Townsend Henderson June 25, 2012 Betty Townsend Henderson was the third generation of her family to attend Bates. Her grandparents, Arthur and Ina Cobb Townsend, were both members of the Class of 1888; her father, Clarence Townsend, was a member of the Class of 1914. Her degree from Bates was in economics, and she also held a master’s in business administration from NYU. After her children were almost grown, she worked part time for a toy importer, joking that it offered “a solution to the dilemma of disowning offspring through the college years or producing part of the price.” Surviving are her husband, Norman Henderson; children Alan, Karen Garrett, Eleanor Kelly, Andrew and Norman; eight grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. She also had three uncles, now all deceased, who attended Bates: Erland Townsend 1916, Myron Townsend 1918 and Newell Townsend ’28.

1953 Barbara Furbish Geyger January 3, 2012 Her own words tell the story best: “After graduating from Bates, I spent several years as a telephone service representative. This, however, was not for me. After a two-month vacation in Europe, I decided to look for a new career.” That soul-refreshing vacation reminded Barbara Furbish Geyger that she was an English major, and that she liked

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books and libraries. That led her to Simmons College, where she got a degree in library science, which led to a job as a children’s librarian in Washington, D.C., work and a city she would enjoy for the next 32 years. She retired in 1991 as chief of the children’s division of the District of Columbia Public Library. There, she had met and married Alexander Geyger. Their love of the written word was so evident that in 2008, Grace Episcopal Church in Silver Spring, Md., where they lived, renamed its library the Alexander and Barbara Geyger Library. He died two weeks after his wife. Among her survivors is a brother, George Furbish.

Frederic Karl Littlefield February 27, 2012 Frederic Littlefield, “Fritz” to some classmates, was at Bates for a short time before leaving for the U.S. Navy. He then began a career as a fisherman and charter boat captain in Newburyport, Mass. His wife, Marilyn Bamford Littlefield, passed away in 1995.

Survivors include children Sarah Quill, Lisa Colom and Frederick Jr.; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Ann Parnell Davis February 18, 2012 Ann Parnell Davis was a nursing student who spent more time off campus than on, because of her degree requirements. But she made up for it as an alumna, serving on several Reunion committees. And she put her nursing degree to good use. After marrying George Davis and moving to Potsdam, N.Y., where he taught at Clarkson College, she was recruited by the local hospital to set up a recovery room. She then took a mommy break, working only when a flu epidemic became so severe that the college had to set up an infirmary in the gymnasium. Later, she became involved with establishing Planned Parenthood in the area and soon was in charge of heading up services for four counties. She also helped found a hospice for the area, and served as program chair for the local heart association. In 1989, the Potsdam Hospital board presented her its service award, noting that she “represents the highest standard of volunteer service in health care.” Besides her husband, survivors include children Richard, Karen Riggs ’79 and Gregg.

1954 Clyde Hill Eastman August 23, 2011 Clyde Eastman did everything a smart young man from a small town in Maine (Fryeburg, in his case) is supposed to do: make the dean’s list, get a master’s from Columbia, then get a doctorate in education from SUNY, all within 10 years of graduating

from high school. He married well, had children, then got a job with a good school system. The perfect life for many — but not for Clyde. That first marriage ended in divorce. With his second wife, Zita Eastman, he spent more than a decade attempting to live a self-sufficient life on a 100-year-old farm in rural New York, with their own chickens and goats and vegetables, all the while teaching English at the local school. When he retired in 1987, they threw it all away, hopped in their VW camper and headed west. Two years later, they landed in Sonoma County. Clyde was the kind of man who feels more comfortable outside than inside. He loved to run, ski, bike and backpack.

He was a campground host in Alaska, ran 50 miles on his 50th birthday and hiked the entire Appalachian Trail at age 63.

Shortly before his death, Clyde self-published Hopalong Cassidy: Creation of a Western Hero, a 25year writing project that focused on the life of Clarence Mulford, author of the original Hopalong Cassidy novels and a Fryeburg acquaintance of Clyde’s father, Harry Eastman. Clyde is survived by his wife, Zita Eastman; four children from his first marriage, Philip, Peter, Carolyn and Glenn; stepchildren Alison and Christopher; seven grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

His cousin is Donald Hill ’81.

Richard Arthur Hayes Jr. July 28, 2011 “The pool room taught me some things I didn’t learn in the classroom — or in Chapel,” wrote Dick Hayes in a note to the college in 2001. He was writing to lament that when he visited campus, the pool room was locked up, and didn’t display tournament champs earlier than 1971. He recounted memories of teaching a talented freshman (Richard Hilliard ’57) all he knew about pool when he was a senior, and how the freshman went on to win the tournament.

He earned a master’s in finance at the Univ. of Michigan and doctorate in college administration at Wayne State Univ. He worked first for Dun & Bradstreet as a credit analyst, then for Ford Motor Co. as a financial analyst and a senior labor relations analyst before joining the Detroit Institute of Technology, where he was the director and then dean of the office of cooperative education and placement. He was a member of the Economic Club of Detroit, the Cooperative Education Assn. and the American Assn. for Engineering Education.

Virginia Kimball Davenport November 6, 2011 Ginny Kimball Davenport was a lifelong resident of Reading, Mass., and took an interest in its residents. She was active in the

Reading College Club, primarily a social club for college-educated women, but she emphasized the scholarships it gave to high school graduates. She also was active with her church, First Congregational in Reading. After her husband, William Davenport ’54, passed away in 1989, she worked as a sales secretary for Crown Lift Trucks, retiring in 2002. Survivors include children Teresa Hagerty, Peter, Paul and John Davenport, and Marcia Kennedy; nine grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Her late mother was Inez Farris Kimball ’26; her late aunt was Mamie Farris Hulsman ’27.

Gordon Linley Peaco November 20, 2011 Gordon Peaco was an economics major, which led him to a long and rewarding career as an English teacher at high schools in the Maine towns of Casco, Oxford, Dixfield and East Machias, as well as Littleton, N.H. He was also a principal at schools in Searsport, Maine. He coordinated regional and state drama festivals throughout his teaching career, and he and his wife, June Johnson Peaco ’54, were instrumental in establishing a community theater in Searsport in the 1970s. She passed away in 1995. He continued to be involved in community theater after he retired in 1988, by joining the Lake Region Community Theater in Bridgton in 1996. In 1997, he was invited to become a member of the board of the Deertrees Theatre and Cultural Center of Harrison, Maine, and served as president in 2004. He credited Lavinia Schaeffer for introducing him “to all aspects of backstage work as well as acting, writing and directing. She even introduced me to June,” he wrote. Survivors include children Penelope, Steven, Thomas, Daniel and Deborah; and five grandchildren.

Donald Miller Bridgeforth February 11, 2012 Donald Bridgeforth left Bates to finish his degree in economics at Boston Univ. He went on to earn a law degree at Valparaiso in 1962. An opera fan, he was a real estate attorney and worked for Allstate Insurance Co. as associate counsel for many years. He was divorced at the time of his death, and is survived by many cousins and friends.

Ellen Conron Brunelle March 18, 2012 Ellen Conron’s major in speech took her directly into the arms of her leading man, albeit via a secretarial route. She was directing a play at a radio station where Jim Brunelle was an announcer. The play was The Boyfriend, and soon enough he was — the boyfriend, that is, in real life, if not in the cast. He went on to a career as a political

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reporter, and she went on to earn a master’s in special education from the Univ. of Southern Maine, and then help establish the first special-education programs in her area. She was a teacher and supervisor in Cape Elizabeth for 21 years before leaving to help found a program of a school for children with learning disabilities. Her husband survives her, as do children William and Lynn, and two grandchildren.

Joan Haymarch O’Hara February 28, 2012 Joan Haymarch O’Hara could fly.

She had instrument, mechanical and commercial pilots’ license ratings. And she could swim, a certified scuba diver who went on dives all over the world. She grew up in the Green Mountains of Vermont and lived her adult life in the desert of Arizona, studied political science at Bates and taught elementary school as a career. She earned a master’s in education at Arizona State Univ. in 1968 to assist that career, after circumstances forced her to move west from Boston with her children after divorcing her first husband. Survivors include her second husband, Robert O’Hara; sons Michael and Donald Hogan; eight grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and twin sister Lois MacLeod. A third son, Mark Hogan, died in 1986.

Janet Merry Cooke January 20, 2012 Janet Merry Cooke attended Bates for two years. She also attended Katherine Gibbs in Boston. Her first husband was Robert G. Hildreth Jr. ’53. Survivors include her second husband, Robert H. Cooke; children Betsy Groh, Robert Hildreth, Nancy Hockenberry and Susan Lavoie; and 10 grandchildren. Christopher J. Poulin ’86 is her cousin.

1956 Marion Cadman Tarleton December 13, 2011 Becky Cadman Tarleton worked in law enforcement for many years in the Rockingham County (N.H.) Sheriff’s Department as a secretary and deputy sheriff. She raised quarter horses and golden retrievers, and was the voice of the Deerfield Fair for many years. Her husband, Robert Tarleton, predeceased her. Survivors include daughter Karen Egerton, stepsons Michael and Gregory; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Lawrence Gove Evans November 20, 2011 Lawrence Evans was above all a scholar, graduating summa cum laude with election to Phi Beta Kappa his junior year, receiving a degree in English and philosophy. His doctorate from Harvard came in 1961; his dissertation

was titled “Some Letters of Walter Pater.” The 19th century British essayist continued to interest him throughout his life; in 1970 he published a book of Pater’s letters, and in 1988, he presented a group of them to Bates as a gift. He taught at Harvard until 1962, then joined the faculty at Northwestern, teaching courses in late Victorian literature. In 1969, he became the director of undergraduate studies in English. He spent a year in the mid-1970s researching the relationship between Victorian church history and literature. He retired in 2001. He is survived by his brother, Roswell Evans Jr.

Remember Neil Armstrong’s first space flight? Arnold Fickett ’56 invented the fuel cell that powered that flight.

Arnold Perry Fickett April 22, 2012 Remember Neil Armstrong’s first space flight, Gemini 8 with David Scott in 1966, cut short by a malfunctioning roll thruster?

Arnold Fickett invented the fuel cell that powered that flight. He was working for General Electric at the time, having received his master’s in electrochemistry from Northeastern the year before. He’d joined GE right out of college, although he did take time enough to marry Jean Penney ’56. In 1974, he grabbed a chance to join the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, Calif., where he continued his research on fuel cells, hydrogen and hydroelectric power, and was named vice president for energy utilization.

His wife survives him, as do children Thomas, Robert and Shirley; eight grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. His brother-in-law is Hugh Penney ’50, whose wife is Lois Keniston Penney ’50. Their sons are Hugh Penney ’74 and Bruce Penney ’76; Bruce’s wife is Jan Malatesta Penney ’77, and their daughter is Melissa Penney ’03.

1957 Penelope Anne Thompson February 12, 2012 Penny Thompson worked at the United Nations for many years before joining DuPont in its international customer relations department. She lived in many places along the East Coast, and in England, Cleveland and Columbia, Mo., before retiring to Cincinnati in 2003. Among her survivors are brothers Peter, Jeffrey and David, and sister Susan Thompson.

Victor Baron Chernoff August 2, 2011 Victor Chernoff was so wellknown in contract bridge circles that his answer, when asked if he had been berating an inept partner (and Chernoff had been, repeatedly and loudly calling him “an idiot”), was to say, “Well, he is an idiot.” That reply became known as the Chernoff Defense.

But he was good, so good that he ranks 480th on the American Contract Bridge League’s all-time list of Masterpoints. The league has 165,000 members as of September 2012. A math major at Bates, he earned a master’s from Harvard in 1958. He worked as an actuary at John Hancock, Lipton Co. and the Internal Revenue Service, before becoming selfemployed. He was living in Los Angeles at the time of his death.

Among his survivors is his wife, Barbara Sokolowska-Chernoff.

Norma George Monbouquette November 26, 2011 Norma George Monbouquette attended Bates for three years before transferring to Boston Univ., where she graduated with a degree in French. Her husband, John Monbouquette, passed away in 2002. Survivors include children Linda Cangiano, Paula, Richard, John and Harold; and eight grandchildren.

David Edwin Goddard February 6, 2012 The sign in front of his store often read “Genuine Tourist Trap,” which just about assured that the tourists would drive right by, leaving the place to the locals, which was fine for David Goddard, who poured his life into Wilton, N.H., giving anything he could to the town. He and wife Elaine Jeffries Goddard ’58 had moved their business, the House by the Side of the Road, one town over from Milford, N.H., in 1978. An economics major at Bates, he and Elaine married the day before he graduated.

He was self-employed his entire life, working as a dairy farmer with extensive routes until he could purchase the House, then a small gift shop, in 1971. He and Elaine turned it into an extensive gift and flower shop, one of the most successful garden centers in New Hampshire. She is among his survivors, as are children William, Abby Macfarland, Jimmy and Claire Heck; 11 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

W. David Talcott February 13, 2012 Dave Talcott traced his roots back to the Worshipful John Talcott, one of the fore-founders of Hartford, and joined other Talcott descendants in the fall of 2011 in the first-ever Talcott reunion commemorating 375 years since settling Hartford. He served eight years in the U.S. Army and Army Reserves. His career started with Timex, and included periods with UPS, the Connecticut Petro-

leum Council and the American Petroleum Institute, from which he retired as the associate region director. His wife, Lydia Davies Talcott ’57, passed away in 2006.

Survivors include children Anne, John and Ellen Polak; and four grandchildren.

1959 Ellen Rosenfeld Jodaitis November 1, 2011 Imagine what your small organization would be like if the president mentioned it in his State of the Union Message. “I am reeling, I must confess.” That’s what Ellen Jodaitis told The New York Times in 1985 after Ronald Reagan pointed out Clara Hale, the founder of Hale House Center in New York, the child-centered, family-focused nonprofit where Jodaitis was director of program development, “an American hero.” Mother Hale, as she was called, went to Washington because she hoped “it would help the children who need help,” she told the newspaper.

A government major at Bates, Ellen Rosenfeld married Peter Jodaitis ’58 and went on to earn a Ph.D. from the Univ. of Connecticut. She also worked as an economic planner. Her marriage ended in divorce. She is survived by children Nancy and George; and three grandchildren.

Richard Earl Shearer May 21, 2012 Dick Shearer’s studies at Bates were interrupted by the Korean War, and he was unable to return to graduate. He was a recipient of the Bronze Star. Survivors include his wife, Evelyn Brett Shearer, and a number of nieces and nephews.

1960 Russell Helmar Ahlquist January 2012 Russell Ahlquist entered Bates with the Class of 1960 and left the college before graduation.

Survivors include his wife, Sally Wood Ahlquist.

Marjorie Keene Stevenson December 25, 2011 Marge Keene Stevenson found a way to stay in school most of her life. If she wasn’t a student, she was a teacher. If she wasn’t a teacher, she was a school librarian. And if she wasn’t a school librarian, she was the secretary to the superintendent. That, plus being a mother to three and grandmother to six, kept her pretty well informed of the field trip schedule. She also was a member of First Parish Congregational in Wakefield, Mass., and a lifelong summer resident of Blue Fish Cove in Marshfield, Mass. Survivors include her husband, Lloyd Stevenson; sons Robert, Todd and Craig; and six grandchildren.

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John Winfred Steadman November 23, 2011 John Steadman left Bates after two years. He earned a law degree from the Univ. of Florida and practiced law in that state.

1964 Kenneth Frazier Hamilton September 8, 2009 Kenneth Hamilton headed west with his biology degree, added a master’s from Cal State to it and began teaching at Placentia High School. He was an instructor at Cypress Junior College for a number of years and finished his career at Clark High School. His marriage to the former Milly Brock ended in divorce in 1979. Survivors include children Matthew and Laura.

Charles Robert Harte III March 19, 2012 Charles Harte came to Bates to play basketball and baseball, but missed Pennsylvania too much. He left after one year to transfer to Penn State, and remained in that area for the rest of his life. Survivors include his wife, Cheri Harte; children Krista Sassaman and Cara Beth Fitzgerald; and four grandchildren.

Jonathan Colby Peabody May 24, 2012 Anyone who has taken time out to lean back in an office chair in Boston to study the odd pattern of dots in the ceiling tiles probably has Jonathan Peabody to thank. His company has been providing office furniture to Massachusetts businesses for a century, and his twin sons are the fourth generation of Peabodys to run the business.

But Jonathan was more than a businessman. He opened the doors of the company’s library to industrial design students from a local college. He was active in Rotary, and in the Congregational Church in Topsfield, Mass., and a past president of Flycasters. In fact, he made sure the pond on his property fed his favorite hobby — trout fishing. He met his wife, Norma George Peabody, while studying at Babson for his M.B.A. through a very early computer dating program. Besides her, survivors include sons Stephen, Christopher and Daniel; and five grandchildren. Jennifer Philley Zolot ’96 is his niece, and Glen Andrew Philley ’98 is his nephew.

1966 Roland Turney October 12, 2011 Roland Turney, who attended Bates for two years, was in recent years proprietor of Bear Creek Lodge in Victor, Mont. He was an avid private pilot.

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1968 David John Driscoll April 21, 2012 No one could keep up with Dave Driscoll. Except, maybe, his wife, Jo-Ann French Driscoll ’68. The disaster that blew away New Orleans compelled him into action: He drove to Biloxi, Miss., for what was supposed to be a three-week cleanup mission that turned into a three-month effort.

That work was with Hands On Disaster Response, now known as All Hands Volunteer, and he and Jo-Ann spent the next seven years with them traveling to disaster areas in Indonesia, the Philippines, Peru, Bangladesh, Haiti and Japan as well as in Missouri and New York — digging, building, hauling and generally doing whatever was needed. Dave learned to bring photos of his “odd”-looking New England home to tropical areas, especially ones of the yard covered with alien snow, to help ease tensions with local people. A cum laude French major at Bates, Dave married Jo-Ann three weeks after graduation and then entered the Army for four years. After earning a master’s in education from UMass–Amherst, both he and Jo-Ann worked for GTE Sylvania Training Operations, with postings in Algeria and Iran; they were evacuated from Iran during the revolution in 1979. He also worked as trainer for Teradyne, Cullinet, Lotus and Powersoft, as well as independently, with travels throughout Asia and the U.S. His wife survives him. His sister is Susan Driscoll Nolan ’71. His brother-in-law is Michael F. Nolan ’69. His aunt is Elizabeth Driscoll Bodwell ’53. His late father was John T. Driscoll ’49.

Lauraine Thomas Pluto October 1, 2011 Lauraine Thomas Pluto went about things in her own way.

Married at 17, she had two children and a husband, Charles Gameros ’68, by the time she was 19 and a freshman at Bates.

They both whipped through in three years, moved to Arizona and were divorced by 1971. She returned to Brunswick, Maine, where she had gone to high school, and became involved in the local music theater and ice skating club. She was a figure judge for the U.S. Figure Skating Assn. for many years, and was a member of the Mayflower Society. She also married Joseph Pluto, a Navy officer. Besides him, survivors include children Laurie Pluto, Jim Gameros and Bill Gameros; and six grandchildren.

1970 Louise Gardner December 13, 2011 Louise Gardner held two bachelor’s degrees, one from Bates in sociology and one from NYU in nursing. That was her

chosen field, and she started as a registered nurse at Waldo County Hospital in 1983 for two years, when she started to manage the intensive-care unit. She remained in this position until illness forced her to resign. She then turned her attention to maintaining the family’s homestead and shipbuilding history in Stockton Springs. Her marriage to John Foster ended in divorce, but he remained close in her illness, and survives her. Her late mother was Ruth Haley Gardner ’42.

1971 Peter Folsom Hutchins June 14, 2012 Peter Hutchins gave lie to the adage “Those who can’t, teach.” His educational philosophy merged academic excellence with sports and arts. He was a founding member of the Educational Theatre Collaborative, a program at Plymouth (N.H.) State Univ. that brought arts into area schools.

During his 18 years at Plymouth Elementary School as teacher and principal, it was recognized as a U.S. Blue Ribbon School of Excellence and a U.S. Distinguished Title I School. In addition to his Bates degree in psychology, he held a master’s from UMaine–Orono and had pursued doctoral work at Vanderbilt Univ.

He also taught at schools in Old Town, Maine, and Claremont, Newport and Cornish, N.H. Survivors include his wife, Salina L. Millora; children Peter Jr., Katheryn, Sean and Scott Kull; and five grandchildren.

George N. Schumer May 29, 2012 In 1985, a friend asked George Schumer, a nonpracticing Jew, for help with a project transcribing tapes of Holocaust survivors. The friend thought that George, a court reporter, might have some ideas about dealing with the 300 cassette tapes piled up in the office of the Holocaust Media Project in San Francisco. George agreed, and wrote a short article for a trade journal seeking trained volunteers. Within a month, he had 175 responses from all over the country. When he showed the stack of letters to the project’s director, she burst into tears of relief. Today, the program is known as the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project and has more than 2,000 interviews on file.

George’s main interest became the music of John Denver, and he formed a nonprofit organization dedicated to his music, Singing Skies Foundation, which sponsored concerts of Denver’s music and awarded grants to musicians.

Survivors include son Jacob, former wife Jeanne Sutter and mother Doris Schumer.

Joo Eng Tan January 8, 2012 When Joo Eng Tan was traveling from his home in Malaysia to

Bates to continue his education, he visited with a relative along the way. He vowed to her that he would marry a Malaysian woman. It was not to be. Like so many others, he would fall victim to the Bates charm, curse, whammy — call it what you will — and married classmate Sally Ann Kayser. They had even managed to take their junior year abroad together at the Univ. of Nottingham, he a psychology major, she a history major.

He went on to earn an M.B.A. from NYU and worked briefly for Price Waterhouse before joining Celanese Corp. in 1975, a subsidiary of Hoechst AG, one of the largest chemical companies in the world. He stayed with the company for the rest of his career, retiring as vice president for business support, based in Dallas, in 2002. He then worked for two years as the comptroller for Fisher College. Besides his wife, survivors include children Alexander and Elizabeth Tan; three grandchildren; as well as a large extended family.

1974 Herbert John Canaway April 6, 2012 Herb Canaway was president of the Campus Assn. as a junior and a member of the student governing body. He was active in the Outing Club, and still somehow made the dean’s list. He went on to earn a master’s in education from Harvard, and used those skills with Destination ImagiNation Inc., a creative problemsolving organization for children and adults that tries to create critical thinking, develop teamwork, leadership skills, research skills and attention to detail. He supported himself as a freelance data analyst. Survivors include brothers Kenneth and Robert.

1976 Michele Louise Dionne July 4, 2012 It is all too tempting to wrap Michele Dionne’s life in robes of predestination when one compares her high school efforts to save land in her hometown of Chelmsford, Mass., from commercial development with her adult career as a director of an estuary research center. But she was more than that. She was a talented biological educator and mentor, an editor, researcher and scientist. She established and for 21 years led the research program at the Wells (Maine) National Estuarine Research Reserve, one of only 28 such reserves around the nation dedicated to advancing understanding and improving the management of estuaries and coasts.

Except for a brief appointment in the biology department at Bates itself, where she did some early research on Morse Moun-

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tain, it was the only job she ever held. She received an award for outstanding service to the National Estuarine Research Reserve System in 2008. Under her direction, the research program grew to include post-doctoral and staff research associates, interns, contractors and numerous graduate students. She earned a master’s from UNC in 1982 and a Ph.D. from Dartmouth in 1991, then returned to Maine, where she met Michael Wright at a meeting about conservation issues. They married in 1993.

He survives her, as do daughters Ciarra and Moira Dionne.

Tango. Contra. Morris.

Whatever dance group the city of Burlington, Vt., had to offer, Polly Howlett ’76 was there.

Polly O’Neill Howlett November 21, 2011 Polly Howlett loved to dance.

Tango. Contra. Morris. Whatever dance group the city of Burlington, Vt., had to offer, she was there. It was no accident that she lived in Burlington: It gave her easy access to the mountains for skiing and hiking, and to the lake for sailing, all interests of hers. It also offered employment at St. Michael’s College, where she received her master’s in teaching English as a second language/first language (TESL/ TEFL). She spoke German flawlessly, learning it after arriving on German shores in 1981 in a small sailboat, having navigated the trans-Atlantic crossing solo, speaking kein Deutsch. She had taught TESL/TEFL at St. Michael’s since 1993, after teaching it in Germany and Egypt.

Her degree from Bates was in psychology. During her final illness, modern dance alumni from Bates, including John Carrafa ’76 and Geri FitzGerald ’75, commissioned a dance in her honor.

Friends, including many of her students, posted a Facebook page full of tributes praising her teaching, sailing, cooking and dancing talents, as well as her warm friendship. She is survived by parents Frank and Elizabeth Howlett; sister Amy Howlett; and countless others.

1978 Lyman Myron Munson January 18, 2012 Many online condolence books contain heartfelt entries. Few are as full of lively, amusing anecdotes as Lyman Munson’s.

One talks about how he always considered the cup “threequarters full, not half-full.”

Many mentioned his impassioned cry of “Fire it up!” at

work, especially amusing when you consider he was the vice president at Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. in Novato, Calif.

One entry was from the barista at the local coffee bar, recalling how he always had exact change, and another marveled how he took the time to journey across country to Portland, Maine, to emcee at his 30th anniversary with Liberty Mutual, where Lyman Munson used to work, calling it one of the highlights of his career. Nearly all remarked on his love for his family, his crazy greyhounds, his work. His cum laude degree from Bates was in mathematics, and he held a master’s from St. Mary’s College and a law degree from Golden Gate Univ. He practiced pro bono family law through the Bar Assn. of San Francisco, and served on the board of Central City Hospitality House and Oakes Children’s Center, both in San Francisco. He was also past president of the Orinda Assn.

Survivors include wife Patricia Low and father Myron Munson.

1980 Roy Gates Perham III January 28, 2011 Roy Perham was an industrial psychologist who developed and ran assessment centers to help large public utilities and pharmaceutical companies select and develop managers and supervisors. He held a Ph.D. in industrial and organizational psychology from Stevens Institute of Technology and received postgraduate training at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, N.C. He was an adjunct assistant professor of psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, teaching graduate courses in statistics and research methods. He majored in economics and psychology at Bates and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

1988 Gudbjorn Amundsson Karlsson February 29, 2012 Whether practicing medicine in Maine or studying grey seals in Iceland, Bjossi Amundsson Karlsson was, everyone said, “the real deal.” He excelled in tennis and downhill skiing and in medical research. He published papers on neurological and cardiovascular topics in several journals, and earned an M.Sc. in aquaculture from the Univ. of Bergen in Norway as well as a D.O. from the Univ. of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine. He was an attending physician and assistant director in the emergency department at the Inland Hospital at Waterville. He kept in close touch with his extended family in Iceland, especially his two grandfathers, Gudbjorn Godjons-

son and Asmundur Bjarneason, both of whom survive him. Other survivors include wife Julia Woods Karlsson; daughters Nika Kroyer Karlsson and Anja Kroyer Karlsson; and parents Karl and Bergthora Asmundsson.

Ellen Marie Lorenzen February 23, 2012 Ellen Lorenzen left Bates after two years and graduated from the Univ. of Michigan in 1989 with a degree in kinesiology.

She is survived by sisters Carol Lorenzen and Julie Reznick.

2001 Apostolia Hantzara June 17, 2006 Lina Hantzara was a member of Sanghai Asia and the International Club, earning a degree magna cum laude in political science and art. As a Community Research Fellow in 2001, she investigated models of successful community arts centers in college communities similar to Lewiston and Auburn. The college learned of her passing in February 2012.

2015 Evan Padraig Dube May 19, 2012 When someone so young passes away, we look to our most profound thinkers for the reason why. First-year student Evan Dube was perhaps a bit prescient when he posted this quote on his Twitter feed in fall 2011: “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” It’s from Winnie-thePooh. While studying abroad on a Short Term field archeology course last May, Evan collapsed after swimming in the waters off the Shetland Islands. He was planning to be a classics major, and had already impressed the Bates theater community with his performance as the cowboy Verne in Bus Stop. He also rose to the challenge by being the first of his classmates to recite the Bates mission statement by heart, but wasn’t around to receive the attendant reward — he’d gone off to do coursework.

Survivors include his parents, John and Eileen Dube; twin brother Conor; and grandparents John and Mildred Dube.

wanted to know the big questions: ‘What do you want to do in life? What do you want out of life?’ That is an exceptional thing in a first-year student in his first semester.” He intended to major in biochemistry and become a surgeon. A resident of Eliot, Maine, and a high school quarterback, he was learning the skills of a receiver for the Bobcats, who dedicated its season to him (see pg. 16). Survivors include parents John and Mary Pappas; maternal grandparents Gareth and Beverly Blackwell and parental grandparents Thomas and Sally Pappas; sister Rayna Pappas; and aunts and uncles.

faculty Garold W. Thumm May 18, 2012 Professor Emeritus of Political Science Garold Thumm was a self-proclaimed mediocre gourmet cook, fair bridge player and a terrible golfer, but he always loved trying. He was involved in efforts to restore the American chestnut tree, destroyed by blight in the 20th century, and was honored by the Maine chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation in 2010 by receiving the first seeds from a potentially blight-resistant strain. He then donated the seeds back to the Maine chapter, which hopes to plant them on Bates College land in his honor. Tenured at the Univ. of Pennsylvania, he left there in 1961 because he wanted more contact with students. His students know how he embraced this philosophy: He made a point of calling on every student in class, “which many feel is a brutal way to conduct a class, but I did it anyway,” he said. As U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance ’82 told this magazine in 2009, “He wouldn’t let you take the easy way out.

He taught us to analyze an issue before taking a side, not take a side and then try to fit the argument to it.” Thumm received his bachelor’s degree from Morris Harvey College and doctorate from the Univ. of Pennsylvania.

He is survived by many nieces and nephews, including Suzanne Woods Kelley ’71.

2016 Troy Johnathan James Pappas October 5, 2012 In just a few weeks, Troy Pappas had impressed people with his interest in life’s big questions, recalled Holly Gurney, the dean who spoke at Troy’s memorial service, six days after the firstyear student died of injuries from a fall down a stairwell in Parker Hall. “He didn’t bother with the superficial stuff,” she said. “He

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Leisure Suite

Once the rare Bates place where boy could meet girl (and vice-versa), Chase Lounge sheds its function-room identity in favor of casual chilling by d o ug h ubley p h ot og ra p h s c ou rtesy o f edmun d s. mus k ie a rc h i v es a n d s p ec i al c ollec tio n library

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but a campus announcement in October from student activities director Keith Tannenbaum proclaimed a historic shift.

After nearly a century as a venue for everything from dances to debates and poetry readings to protests, Chase Hall Lounge has been reinvented as a casual lounge for students.

Equipped with portable podium and grand piano, the lounge for most of its life was less a lounge than Bates’ go-to venue for all kinds of campus events: contradances, faculty meetings, flu shot clinics, lectures, readings, blood drives, symposia, formal dinners, dance performances — even student protests, such as the one in 1979 after The Bates Student riled up the campus by inventing an award to gain entrée to former President Richard Nixon.

This year’s transformation, part of an overall freshening of Chase Hall, happened because students wanted an “inviting drop-in or ‘hangout’ space,” said Tannenbaum — “a casual and comfortable spot.”

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The timing is nice, as Chase Hall was conceived a century ago and dedicated in December 1919.

Named for Bates President George Colby Chase, who had died that May, the hall was largely a response to the fact that Bates’ all-male competitor schools had fraternities. Though President Chase had no desire to reverse the college’s “cherished” no-fraternity policy, the early 1900s was a time when the college’s male-female balance was tipping toward women. President Chase was forceful in his belief that Bates needed a well-appointed “home for our young men,” both for social reasons and, as noted in various President’s Reports, to counter the lure of demon rum downtown.

But the men’s club angle didn’t last long, nor did the lounge’s identity as simply a lounge.

Coed movie nights, wildly popular in Hathorn, came right over to Chase Lounge in 1919. Three years later, when the college lifted its ban on dancing, the lounge was where Bates men and women went cheek to cheek for the first time in public.

That began a long tradition of Saturday night dances in Chase Lounge, which continued into the late 1960s when the college’s first documented rock group, the Hanseatic League, was the house band. That was when tough rules governing gender relations were slowly starting to ease, making Chase the “only place to find people of the opposite sex,” as Jill Howroyd Lawler ’68 told Bates for a Hanseatic League retrospective in 2003.

Today, thanks to donor support, the lounge is fitted with comfy new leather chairs and sofas, an electric fireplace, a pool table and 60-inch TVs, part of a larger Chase Hall makeover intended to reinforce the building’s identity as a student center.

The Den has been spruced up and designated the campus pub. The lobby is now bright, spacious and welcoming, with Don Lent’s “Canterbury Tales” mural a well-lit focal point. A new lift has improved physical access to the building.

And the old “Big Room” in Memorial Commons is now a function room that can accommodate nearly 700 — a fitting venue to resurrect those legendary Saturday night dances, should anyone so desire. n

The clubby, masculine look of Chase Lounge here and at left reflects the building’s initial purpose as a “home for our young men,” in President Chase’s words.

After Bates lifted its ban on dancing in 1922, Chase Lounge was where students went cheek to cheek.

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a r c h ives show and tell from the muskie archives and special collections library Purloined from Princeton?

The American Whig-Cliosophic Society is Princeton’s debating society. It’s anyone’s guess how the banner ended up with the Quimby Debate Society, which gave it to the Archives.

Pipe Up

In the early 20th century, Class Day activities included the seniors taking a puff from a “peace pipe” like this one from the Archives. (The historical photo shows the 1946 ritual).

The pipe-smoking was preceded by the Pipe Oration, which in 1911 offered the hope that the pipe smoke would carry away “all things that tend to separate us and disunite us” — leaving behind friendship among classmates and loyalty to Bates.

LIFE on the Trail

When LIFE magazine took to the Appalachian Trail years ago, photographer Eliot Elisofon, assisted by Joe Reshower de Casseres, further documented the experience by adding their names and few doodles to this tree conk. One of Elisofon’s photos in the Oct. 13, 1941, issue of LIFE features Bates Outing Club members descending Saddleback Mountain. The conk was given to Bates by the late BOCer Gilbert Center ’43.

Banding Together

Worth the Weight

This cornet belonged to Levi W. Ballard, organizer of various Lewiston-Auburn musical groups, including the Maine State Seminary Band in 1861.

Bates’ 6–0 win over Bowdoin in 1898 was worthy of this illustrated commemorative paperweight.

Only a Mother Could Love

True fact: Bates just unveiled a new Bobcat logo.

It looks nothing like this.

Promise.

See the new Bobcat bates.edu/new-bobcat

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PhotoGraPhs By Phyllis GraBer Jensen and Mike Bradley

ou t ta k e Redheads (my mother was one) are beautiful. A zooming lens coupled with a slow shutter speed makes motion out of the stillness of these maple leaves on the Historic Quad.

— Phyllis Graber Jensen

Bates Magazine Winter 20I3 Editor H. Jay Burns Designer Mervil Paylor Design Director of Photography Phyllis Graber Jensen Photographer Mike Bradley Class Notes Editor Jon Halvorsen Contributing Editors Roland Adams Marc Glass ’88 Doug Hubley Andy Walter

President of Bates College A. Clayton Spencer Associate Vice President for Communications Meg Kimmel Bates Magazine Advisory Board Marjorie Patterson Cochran ’90 Geraldine FitzGerald ’75 David Foster ’77 Joe Gromelski ’74 Judson Hale Jr. ’82 Jonathan Hall ’83 Christine Johnson ’90 Jon Marcus ’82 Peter Moore ’78

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Letters Bates In Brief Amusements Features Notes History Lesson From a Distance

Bates photographer Mike Bradley captured President Spencer’s inauguration from the office of tennis coach Paul Gastonguay ’89.

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Sign language interpreter Meryl Troop, a regular at major campus events.

Take a closer look at how climbing keeps Chester Chiao ’13 mentally “in check.” Page 8

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24 Benjamin Mays ’20 never forgot Bates.

And vice-versa.

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DEBATERS

Senior debaters Cat Djang and Ben Smith advanced, or “broke,” to the elimination rounds at the World Universities Debating Championship in Berlin in January, the first Bates team to accomplish the feat since 1999. Story: bates.edu/debate-world

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