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30 Could Bates be a workshop for diversity and inclusion?

34 Her own death near, Atsuko Hirai gave herself over to community.

44 Welcome to the Bates skunkworks.

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October was golden for Bates rowing. First, the women won their race at the renowned Head of the Charles. Then, Bates announced construction — bates.edu/rowing-boathouse — of a new boathouse on the Androscoggin. But, there have been some travails. See page 40.

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ANDRIEL DOOLITTLE

LU NDBL AD IN ORBIT

“The idea I proposed to NASA has been popping around in my head for some years.” Page 36

FROM A DISTANCE

2 Letters 4 Bates in Brief 24 Amusements 26 Features 56 Notes 92 History Lesson 96 From a Distance

The Commencement academic procession is poised to start as Lincoln Bendict ’09, flying his multicopter camera, takes this aerial photo.

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Before 1971, the Lewiston Armory hosted Bates Commencements.

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A pitched roof and terrace help Ladd Library (1973) achieve proper scale with its smaller neighbors.

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Coram Library (1902) is a great backdrop for Commencement, maybe because its architects were Herts and Tallant of New York City, famous for classic theater buildings.

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Landscape architect Bill Bergevin prefers black mulch because it sets off spring colors so well.

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The Hathorn bell rings for 3 minutes at 9:20 a.m., signaling that the procession is about to begin. By 10 sharp, everyone’s seated.

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Parker Hall’s white roof reflects heat. While slate is the college’s historic roofing material, flat roofs have reflective surfaces.

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The faculty once marched in order of seniority. Now they march with their friends. (The graduates march alphabetically.)

Take a closer look at the Bates bagpiper who travels far and wide to play. Page 9

OPENING THOUGHT: FRANCESCO DUINA, PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY Source: Adapted from Duina’s new book, Life Transitions in America (Polity Press, 2014)

In America, more than elsewhere, there is a certain hyper-consciousness about life transitions like marriage, college graduation or having a child. Life transitions are advertised as having major consequences for personal growth and identity, and are elevated to a privileged position in public culture.

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The Spring Issue Not normally a fan of periodicals from organizations, I must say the Spring 2014 issue of Bates was extremely well-done. Right from the excellent cover essay (“Yes You Are”) about Seamus Heaney’s visit to Bates — a real attention getter — I found the content inviting and rewarding to delve into, the layout imaginative and attractive, and even the paper stock a welcome break from reading digitally.

“Well done” to the staff for offering us this kind of quality in a print medium.

Hence, the story on Seamus Heaney really struck a chord with me, dating back to my days as a student under the tutelage of Turlish, Deiman, Tagliabue and others.

Joel Thompson ’72

Bethel, Conn.

You’ve done it again! The new issue is in many ways better than ever, starting from a very high base. I’ve just spent an hour reading and enjoying the articles and photography.

Especially liked the article on Nezinscot Farm.

Rob Wilson ’51

Santa Fe, N.M.

Bill Yaner ’69

Jamestown, N.C. Thanks to Carrie Barnard Jones ’93 for writing such a wonderful perspective on a very compelling topic.

In her essay, she quotes a student who told her that “people who are not wealthy do not care about [Beckett].

A truck driver does not watch public television or listen to NPR. They don’t care, they’re too busy humping and eating and drinking.”

In its definition of the word “wealthy,” the Oxford English Dictionary does not even mention money, preferring to use the more qualitative word: prosperous — which is why the OED is the OED! Such an ignorant statement exposes a paucity of internal resources on the part of the speaker.

Moreover, I suspect that the viewpoint is mainly embraced by unfortunate souls who are ignorant of the wealth to be had in a vibrant intellectual community. We remain fortunate that our daughter Jadria Cincotta ’13 graduated from Bates.

Joseph Cincotta P’13

Wilmington, Vt.

The recent issue of Bates Magazine was fantastic from many points of view, including the format and layout.

After my news career ended with the death of local news due to corporate greed (the Internet is not to blame, by the way), I began writing fiction, and I feel liberated to have left the world of news to indulge in my own points of view.

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Practical Advice I have read with interest, and some concern, many recent Bates Magazine articles about the future of liberal arts colleges in general and Bates specifically. College presidents and others drone on about the broad-reaching, cosmic virtues of a well-rounded, allencompassing experience.

I have come to the conclusion that this is starryeyed idealism. I am not in any way downgrading the effect of a great Bates education, just questioning its direction. Even at a liberal arts college, what ultimately matters are the skills you are taught and how you apply them to your work life.

Success or failure in the investment world hinges on what I learned in microeconomics, macroeconomics and world economy, and has very little to do with gay rights, minority hiring or gender equality on campus.

These extraneous issues distract from the needed focus on the task at hand. I can assure you that interviews with prospective employers will always focus on what you know, not how diverse your experience has been.

Herein lies the challenge for Bates and her graduates.

Focus on the practical job at hand — academics — and not the political extremes. Make sure you know your subject matter, both theoretically and practically. Keep your eye on the prize.

James Wakely ’82

Medfield, Mass.

Charlie Clark ’51 Bates has lost Charlie Clark ’51, scholar and author of Bates Through the Years: An Illustrated History. On page 89 of the history, a photo shows Charlie and me in one of our relationships — music.

It’s from Mayoralty 1948; he’s playing the trombone, and I the clarinet. We both played in the band, in basement jazz sessions and other events.

He was also editor of The Bates Student, and I wrote for him. Charlie wanted to put out a parody issue, but there wasn’t enough budget money. So I went downtown and sold ads, and The Bates Prudent got published. (Dean Harry Rowe wasn’t thrilled.)

In a way, Charlie was part of what the Bates Plan could call “Foundations for a Career.” By senior year, a career counselor asked me, “Have you ever considered going into public relations as a result of your work in school publications?” I remember my answer perfectly: “What’s that?”

She guided me to Boston University’s new Graduate School in Public Relations, now College of Communication, and I found a career. Charlie and Marge (Schumacher ’52) remained our friends, and many times in our business careers together Melissa (Meigs ’51) and I found good reason to call Charlie for advice, particularly about language and newspapers.

I want to add a few words about, and quote a few words from, the late Charlie Clark.

He was the college’s unofficial gentleman and scholar in residence. He infused his writing, scholarly and other, with bemused wit, such as this sample, written for our “Bates Moments” feature awhile ago, describing the shenanigans of the 1948 Mayoralty: “The spring of 1948 was too early in the Cold War to upset anyone from the outside, and way too early, by a couple of decades, for anyone involved to imagine himself involved in an actual revolution. That’s why the successful Mayoralty campaign of the late Bob Corish ’50, ‘Comrade Corish, the Smiling Commissar,’ could come off as the good-natured spoof that it was.

“Red-shirted denizens of Smith Hall and Sampsonville, a wooden wall across Bardwell Street labeled “Iron Curtain,” acrobatic Russian dancers, a red flag planted on an island in the Androscoggin, and a campaign song called ‘Hey Tovarich, Vote for Corish’ (to the tune of ‘Volga Boatman’) were only part of the spirited mix. These were aligned against the equally colorful campaign of a Paul Bunyan-like figure portrayed

by Norm Parent ’50, who, among other things, carried then-Congresswoman Margaret Chase Smith across the Quad in his arms.” — Editor

Will Barbeau ’51

Barrington, R.I.

Here’s the photograph of the boisterous 1948 Mayoralty campaign that Will Barbeau references in his letter.

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Bates Runs Through It Often discussed, the Bates connection really hits you when you’re in the moment.

In 2012, a group of alumni and I received a message from Tyler Schleich ’15 asking about the now-defunct Bates Fishing Club.

The club was started during my tenure at Bates.

We were well-funded and genuinely dedicated to flyfishing and ice fishing. We created great friendships that live on today.

After our core group graduated, the club went through several years of varying seriousness; in 2009 the club took its final breath.

So we were eager to help Tyler. I gave him a few tips on spots where he and others could fly-fish near campus, like the Nezinscot River.

Keith Lane ’03 and I guided his group to the Dead River near The Forks in search of brook trout and salmon. In November 2012, Clark Winchell ’09, Keith, Chet Clem ’05, Jesse Robbins ’06 and I led Nick Ford ’15 and Tyler to western New York to fly-fish for steelhead.

The upshot is that Tyler, Nick and Andy Cannon ’15, under our guidance, have brought back the Bates Fishing Cub as a recognized and funded student organization. As alumni, we’re excited to serve as liaisons on and off the water.

The Bates experience doesn’t end at graduation.

The alumni-student connections have become friendships and will likely be career contacts — a few of the many reasons Bates is so wonderful!

As the Bates faculty assembled for this year’s Convocation processional, I asked several this question: “What are you excited to teach?”

Convocation opens the new academic year. And while academic gowns and hoods speak to the oldest rituals of the academy, the faculty’s words suggest newness and adventure. They’re antsy to get going.

Nathan Lundblad is an atomic physicist whose project has been selected for the Cold Atom Laboratory aboard the Space Station. It’s this issue’s cover story.

When I asked him The Question, his eyes got big. He said he was keen to teach relativity and quantum mechanics in his First-Year Seminar. “It’s going to be a blast!”

A few other professors also said they were excited to teach First-Year Seminars, introductory courses for incoming students where the professor is both instructor and academic adviser.

Teaching first-years, in high school or college, is not often considered a plum assignment. They’re willing but not quite able.

So later I headed to Pettengill Hall to seek out Margaret Imber. An associate professor of classical and medieval studies, she’s done some thinking about teaching and the liberal arts.

Far from her office door, I could hear Imber’s voice: “Excellent! You’ve got it!” Meeting one-on-one with a student, Imber was praising the student’s grasp of Latin grammar.

In the next breath, Imber told the student that getting better at Latin requires practice and drills. “I’m sympathetic,” Imber told the student, “but I can’t do the drills for you.”

Whether the topic is Hamlet or volcanic science, all First-Year Seminars focus on writing and critical-thinking skills, the “fundamental elements for lifelong learning,” according to the official literature.

For Imber, that all boils down to one word. “Seduction,” she says. Professors who teach First-Year Seminars are Cupids whose arrows make students fall in love with learning.

As an example, she points to the romance that blossoms when she asks students to answer a simple question about The Iliad: Why was Achilles angry?

Sure, you can find a canned answer online, “but when you sit with the text and work through that question yourself, you go through a progression: What is provoking the anger? What does the anger say about his situation?

What does his anger say about being a soldier? About honor and dishonor?”

When you walk that path, she says, “you’re creating knowledge for yourself.” That’s seductive, and powerful, too, intellectually and emotionally.

“You develop emotionally as you move from those questions to the big ones that 18-year-olds are here to ask: What is the meaning of life? What is justice?”

Thus seduced, a student begins to self-identify as someone “who not only wants to find things out, but who can.” Students feel a sense of “legitimacy in their passion, even obsession, for pursuing answers” — habits of mind that get carried into life and work.

So what’s the real source of a Bates professor’s excitement at the start of a new year?

“It’s walking alongside students as they fall in love with learning. It is unbelievably exciting.”

H. Jay Burns, Editor magazine@bates.edu Professors answer “The Question” bit.ly/excited-to-teach

Andrew Wilkie ’02

Farmington, Maine

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Jennifer Snyder ’14 of Scarborough, Maine, poses with her maternal grandmother, Jacqueline Thompson Thurlow ’47, during a Commencement gathering for seniors with Bates family histories. Jennifer majored in biology, while her grandmother was a mathematics major who taught high school math in Augusta.

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STUDENTS

Bates seniors don’t always toss caps at graduation; in 20I4, they did.

A quarter of 20I4 graduates plan to pursue a doctorate.

JAY BURNS

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Equinimity

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BEN “ There’s an expec tation that there is always another device coming, that what you have now is not ade quate. The expectation produces unsustain- able and less-ethical consumption habits among consumers.”

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Katie Kirwin ’15, a biochemistry major from Eliot, Maine, placed seventh in her class at the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association National Championships in Harrisburg, Pa., last spring.

She’s pictured here getting close to Otis, an agreeable gray gelding who lives at Venture Farm, the “home stable” of the Bates Equestrian Club.

Kirwin joined Hannah Kiesler ’16, an environmental studies major from Glencoe, Ill., who placed ninth in her class at nationals.

For a student-run club program to place two riders in the top 10 nationally against varsity programs is “an amazing accomplishment,” says their coach, Ginger Klingenstein-Albert, co-owner of Venture Farm.

Competitive riding, Kirwin says, means being attentive and mindful of an animal’s personality and quirks while you both try to perform at a high level.

In that sense, it’s a valuable liberal arts pursuit. “Riding gives you empathy [combined] with perfection and discipline,” she says. “You have both at the same time.”

Ben Pardee ’15 of Houston, an environmental studies major, shares a takeaway from his summer internship at the Lower East Side Ecology Center’s E-Waste Warehouse in Gowanus, Brooklyn. (The warehouse disc display behind Pardee was created by Becky Culp ’15 of Norwalk, Conn., a 2013 intern.)

79 percent of 20I4 graduates plan to stay in touch with their professors.

55 members of the Class of 20I4 were elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

The Class of 20I4’s 448 students were from 29 states and 32 countries.

Show Me Around

Bates offers more than 700 student-led tours to more than 5,000 prospective students each year.

The total number of tour-takers swells to more than 10,000 if you include family members, finalists for key Bates positions and other visiting VIPs who want to check out Bates.

This recruitment work is important business (and business it is, with tuition representing a $71 million revenue stream for Bates).

“We know it’s serious work,” says Gary Kersbergen ’16, who’s pictured below, third from the right, with his fellow summer tour guides. On the other hand, “as students, we can’t take ourselves too seriously.”

That’s because tour guides help to sell Bates by “communicating a realistic picture of student life at Bates,” in Kersbergen’s words. So they need to stay on-brand in the serious sense (e.g., smart, talented and intellectually ambitious) while also embodying less-serious but equally compelling aspects of Bates student life, like wit and a sense of mirth and irreverence.

“And that’s where humor and stories come into play,” Kersbergen says.

He and his fellow tour guides quickly learned that telling stories, along with sharing facts and figures, is the best way to engage their audiences. Like standup comics, they honed and tweaked their material looking for the best audience reaction.

For example, each intern has a spiel about Short Term. Kersbergen tells a solid, well-received story about his first Short Term, a trip to the Bates-led archeological dig in the Shetland Islands.

But the story that gets the laughs is the one about his gig last spring volunteering at a living museum in nearby Turner.

In that story, he talks about playing a 19th-century farmhand — the curious experience of dressing in period costume and facing the humorous challenge of visitors who tried to get him to break character. “People love it,” he said.

“You see them just light up.

“We all realize it’s hard work for these families who are going on college tours,” Kersbergen says. “It’s long days for them. If we can be informative but light-hearted and fun, it really goes a long way.”

The history major is taking a junior semester at the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán in Mexico. His fieldwork will include underwater dives along the coast and in caves in the Yucatán, where Mayan ruins and artifacts have been found.

Just imagine the stories he’ll be able to tell.

July and August is the busiest stretch for tours (hardly surprising) with more than 1,600 prospective students stopping by the Bates campus. October comes next, then…March?

While March isn’t the most gorgeous time in New England, that month and April are big months for tours.

“You’ve got a confluence: juniors getting into the thick of their college search process, and many seniors visiting or revisiting as applicants, or as recently admitted or waitlisted students,” explains David Buckwald, director of admission. “And families will set out on expansive college tours due to generous high school spring breaks, which vary by region of the country.” Here are the 2013 numbers:

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Tourist Season

The 2014 summer tour guides at Bates were, from left, Audrey Burns ’17 of Topsham, Maine; Sam Myers ’16 of Riverton, Wyo.; Olivia Jacobs ’15, of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Gary Kersbergen ’16 of Burnham, Maine; Symmantha Page ’15 of Massillon, Ohio; and Ahmed Sheikh ’16 of Lewiston, Maine.

January

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February

205

March

581

April

490

May

276

June

321

July

670

August

945

September

348

October

742

November

533

December

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CAMPUS

From carpets to new construction, Bates took on 80-plus facilities projects last summer.

Hedge and Roger Bill renovations met gold standards for LEED sustainability.

Designing Buildings for, and of, Bates

ANN BEHA ARCHITECTS

The firm designing Bates’ two new residence halls on Campus Avenue is Boston’s Ann Beha Architects, and one thing that Team Beha has heard from Team Bates right along is that the new buildings must look like they belong — that they are “of Bates.”

That’s the phrase used by Phillip Chen, principal architect, as he and a colleague presented preliminary design renderings last spring.

The building project represents the first phase of the college’s Campus Life Project, announced last year, that will create a dynamic center of college life on the south side of campus.

The renderings we saw last spring suggest an architectural vision that incorporates beloved Bates characteristics into the new residences. So you’ll see hipped roofs, some granite and a lot of brick, perhaps in the long-andshort “Flemish bond” pattern familiar from Chase Hall.

But also expect plenty of glass.

Wrapping around building corners, the glass will admit sunlight by day to save electricity, and radiate interior light at night to brighten this new residential center and anchor the south end of campus.

Perhaps just as important to many Bates people — and college

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neighbors — will be the attention paid to open green space and to connectivity within the project and beyond.

The new buildings, located at 55 and 65 Campus Avenue, across from Muskie Archives and Chase Hall, will be L-shaped. If you picture a rectangular footprint, the two buildings will be the corners, facing each other across an interior green space.

That space will dominate the views from inside while inviting the rest of the campus to cross Campus Avenue and see what all the hubbub is about — a consideration that will gain force as Chase Hall is reimagined and renovated as a campus center in the next phase of the Campus Life Project.

Besides doing duty as a residence, the building at 65 Campus Ave. will also house services that appeal to both campus and community constituents: the College Store and Office Services’ mail and package functions.

Located at the corner of Campus and Central, the building will be oriented toward both streets, its street doors open during business hours.

The entire project will house 243 student beds, but Bates is not adding students. Instead, the Campus Avenue

beds afford “swing space” enabling the college to shift students from overcrowded or outmoded residences that need work, notably Smith Hall (whose pending renovation will entail “de-densification” from the current quad format) and some wooden houses on Frye Street.

To make way for the new buildings — set to open in fall 2016 — several familiar Bates buildings came down over the summer.

Those buildings included the onetime home of the religion and philosophy faculty, who are now in Hedge Hall; the white stucco former Alumni House; the former Intercultural Education building (whose staff has moved to Chase Hall); and the building that housed the Bates Writing Workshop years ago and, more recently, the Bates Career Development Center, which has moved to Canham House on Wood Street.

Below, the new L-shaped residence halls will face each other across an interior green space. The two buildings will be located on Campus Avenue, across from Chase Hall and Muskie Archives, bottom right.

Bates purchases 30 percent of its food from local, natural and organic sources.

The library portrait of Uncle Johnny Stanton was cleaned and restored in 20I4.

MIKE “ We’ve seen it all: graduation with 92 degrees where we’ve had to pass out water, and 30 degrees where we’ve had to pass out blankets. This Sunday?

Good weather. Seventy degrees.”

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A few days before Commencement, lead groundskeeper Mike Adams and his crew set up the graduation stage and grandstands. Actual temp on graduation day? 66 degrees.

Piper Man Rob Simmons is the man behind the bagpipes at Bates Commencements and other college ceremonies, such as President Clayton Spencer’s 2012 inauguration. A firefighter from South Portland, Maine, Simmons was one of 134 bagpipers who traveled to Arizona in 2013 to honor the 19 firefighters who died battling the Yarnell Hill Fire.

MARC GLASS ’88

On winter nights and weekends, offices and classrooms are kept at 52–55 degrees.

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ACADEMICS

Big Bucks for Big Data

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Emeritus psych profs Drake Bradley and Bob Moyer each have two senior awards named for them.

MIKE BRADLEY

Assistant Professor of Biology Larissa Williams says research using big data sets is where her field is going.

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Groundbreaking biomedical research at Bates will get nearly a half-million federal dollars this year from a program sponsored by one of the National Institutes of Health.

The lion’s share of the $459,000 grant will fund projects by two professors, biologist Larissa Williams and neuroscientist Jason Castro. Each will receive more than $92,000 annually for five years.

Using zebrafish as her test subjects, Williams is investigating the protein Nfe2, known to play a role in protecting embryonic fish against “oxidative stress.”

While oxidation is part of life itself, it generates dangerous byproducts that can wreak biological havoc in large quantities (which is why we humans should always eat our antioxidant-rich fruits and veggies).

Williams will test the effects of compounds that cause oxidative stress in the zebrafish, such as the food preservative TBHQ and ethanol, better known as beverage alcohol.

Williams’ lab is one of only three that have published research on the gene responsible for the production of Nfe2 in zebrafish. (The gene is also found in humans and other animals.)

“We’re really going to be breaking scientific ground,” she says.

Both her project and Castro’s will draw on big data sets to do their research. In turn, their student research assistants will get “cutting-edge training” in how to work with and interpret these data sets.

“It’s the way biology is going,” Williams says.

Castro studies the olfactory bulb, the part of the brain that directly receives information about odors from the nose.

He’s seeking to understand the organization of that structure, specifically whether the bulb is divided into circuit modules that can be identified through genomic data mining.

Castro predicts that the tools and techniques used in the project will be valuable for studying circuit structures throughout the brain, including pathologies underlying psychiatric disorders.

Bates is one of 13 partner institutions across Maine that share money from the IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence program, aka INBRE, which is funded by one of the National Institutes of Health.

At Bates alone, INBRE funding could total more than $2.3 million over the next five years.

58 graduates in 20I4 majored in economics, the most of any Bates major.

Some 400 students took part in the 20I4 Mount David Summit.

88 percent of Bates applicants were accepted to medical studies programs in 20I3.

Professors called for jury duty during class time are advised to seek a deferment.

The Fulbright 10 Annually distinguished as a “Top Producer” of Fulbright grants for teaching and conducting research abroad, Bates saw another 10 seniors and recent grads win the highly competitive awards last spring.

Bates’ Fulbrights are heading to the Czech Republic, Brazil (3), Bulgaria, Nepal, Malaysia, Mexico (2) and Scotland.

In addition to the Bates 10, Greg de Wet ’11 won a Fulbright research grant through the University of Massachusetts, where he is doing graduate research in paleoclimatology and lake sediments.

Ice cream soda — is the greater dietary peril the fat or the carbs?

2014 Fulbright profiles bit.ly/fulbright-2014

THIS JUST IN A sampling of recent faculty-authored scholarly articles, including some with student or alumni co-authors who contributed senior-thesis research.

Macronutrients and Obesity: Revisiting the Calories In, Calories Out Framework

JASON “ You’re so much more empowered if you can handle big data sets.”

Neuroscientist Jason Castro talks to students in his Short Term course, where they created a new Bates course, “Computational Approaches in Neuroscience,” that Castro is teaching right now. The course teaches students to apply techniques from engineering and computer science, using real data sets, to address questions of brain function.

Publication: Economics & Human Biology • Authors: Daniel Riera-Crichton and Nathan Tefft (economics) • What It Explains: Carbs, more than fats, might be the greater enemy when it comes to obesity. While more intake of carbohydrates is “associated with short- and long-term increases in population weight…increases in fat consumption, if anything, are associated with a decrease in population weight.”

Vitamin D and Long-Term Memory in Multiple Sclerosis

Publication: Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology • Authors: Nancy Koven (neuroscience), Margaret Cadden ’11, Sangita Murali ’12 and a Central Maine Neurology colleague • What It Explains: For those who have multiple sclerosis, there’s more evidence that vitamin D may help memory. “These results suggest that vitamin D is a worthwhile adjunct treatment for MS.” Combined Global Change Effects on Ecosystem Processes in Nine U.S. Topographically Complex Areas

Publication: Biogeochemistry • Authors: Holly Ewing (environmental studies) and colleagues from Colorado State, U.S. Geological Survey and the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies • What It Explains: While forest and alpine systems can remove greenhouse gases from the air (e.g., through photosynthesis), their ability to step up this mitigation with increased nitrogen deposition or warmer soil, twin results of global change, is limited.

Plus, higher nitrogen deposition may be particularly problematic in systems with limited ability to take up nitrogen.

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THE COLLEGE

The Bates endowment as of June 30, 20I3, was $233.8 million.

Bates is the 33rd-largest private employer in Maine, just behind Central Maine Power.

2014 Bates Giving by the Numbers 16 million Dollars given to Bates from July 1, 2013, to June 30, 2014

6.1 million Gift dollars to the Bates Fund for immediate use

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33 Percent increase in dollars over last year

35 New donors at the $10,000 President’s Associates level 406 and 9,506 Senior Gift donors and dollars, both records 491,349 Gift dollars to Bobcat sports teams through Friends of Bates Athletics 27 Percent growth in FBA gifts over four years 49 Percent of alumni who gave to Bates in giving-year 2014 What It Means “Real dollars to work toward initiatives that will enhance the educational experience for all students and keep Bates at the forefront of America’s liberal arts colleges,” said President Spencer.

$700,000 to Catalyst Fund In a bygone era, you’d call Bruce Stangle ’70 a “walking rolodex.”

And today? How about a “one-man networking database”?

During his campus visit last March, Stangle, a Bates trustee emeritus, sat down with individual students for a series of one-onone consultations. He dished out career advice and shared contacts from his vast connections in the business world — from finance to the entertainment industry.

Co-founder of Analysis Group, the nation’s largest private economic consulting firm, Stangle recruits heavily among Bates graduates and is evangelical about the Bates network.

“The Bates network is incredibly powerful,” he told students during his evening talk. “Give back to it. It’s a lifelong journey.”

He’s evangelical and philanthropic, too. With his wife, Emily Siegel Stangle ’72, he recently gave $700,000 to the college’s Catalyst Fund.

The Catalyst Fund was created in 2013 through gifts from current and past Bates trustees to fund three strategic initiatives: Purposeful Work (which sponsored Stangle’s visit and lecture), the Engaged Liberal Arts and Opportunity & Excellence.

Purposeful Work is built on the premise that preparing students for lives of meaningful work — work that contributes to an individual’s life while also having relevance beyond the individual — lies at the heart of the liberal arts mission.

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WILL KIRK

Joshua McIntosh is well into his first semester as the college’s new vice president of student affairs and dean of students.

A member of President Spencer’s senior staff, he oversees student life, the residential program, offcampus study and campus security, among other areas.

McIntosh comes to Bates from Johns Hopkins, where he was dean of academic services, a deanship including the registrar, student disability services and multicultural affairs. He has previously held management and leadership positions in student life at Harvard and Syracuse universities.

He succeeds Tedd Goundie, who stepped down last spring after 10 years as dean.

Bates Dining diverts 82 percent of its waste from the waste stream.

The corporate name of Bates is “President and Trustees of Bates College.”

Mount David Society gifts annually make up nearly 80 percent of the Bates Fund total.

CALENDAR BASICS

Clayton and Friends What Bates and MOOCs do share, Filreis argued, is a commitment to providing access to higher education.

Were Bates to produce a MOOC, Filreis opined, the college would have to avoid “compromising the great things that happen in the Bates classroom” while embracing the imperative to help people who can’t access a traditional college education because of disability, geography or socioeconomics.

Spencer asked if the “MOOC vs.

Bates” premise is overstated.

True, she said, MOOCs are a “giant, technologically enabled experience of teaching and learning,” where “technology and the human factor are intertwined, all up and down.”

But already, she said, “on our own, highly personalized campus, we are dealing with a yeasty mix of technology and the human factor.”

For one, Bates students are already entwined in technology. They’re “augmented human beings,” she said — augmented by technology.

“They have a device at their fingertips that can help them look up any information instantly,” she said. “They have a device that can link them to social networks.”

Which is ironic, Spencer said, because colleges used to think that they controlled the teaching of knowledge and access to social networks.

“It was what we thought we were all about,” she said.

To get a sense of what Bates is all about now, see the feature on page 44.

Fall 2014 November 22–30 Thanksgiving Recess — Everything’s gravy December 9–13 Semester Final Exams — A test of will, among other things December 10 Founder Oren Cheney’s Birthday — My, how proud he’d be

Winter 2014 January 12 Winter Semester Begins — Slow and steady wins the race January 16 Puddle Jump — Simple but effective January 16 Museum of Art Opening — Back and Forth: The Collaborative Works of Dawn Clements and Marc Leuthold January 19 Martin Luther King Jr. Day — Taking stock of ideals and reality February 14–22 Winter Recess — Starts with Valentine’s Day! March 27 Honors Thesis Deadline — Submit by 3 p.m., so don’t oversleep April 3 Mount David Summit — Like an academic classy party

DAVID SOKOL

Part TED talk, part State of the Union and part night on the town, last spring’s Presidential Events around the country gave alumni and parents a chance to participate in the heady intellectual discussions that are shaping the future of liberal arts colleges like Bates.

Joining President Clayton Spencer at stops along the way were two experts in the realm of digital innovation, education and technology: Thomas Goetz ’90 and Al Filreis P’16.

Goetz, who joined Spencer in Chicago and San Francisco, is the author of two books: The Decision Tree, about how technology can put us at the center of healthcare decision-making, and The Remedy, which tells the interwoven tales of the players in the creation and dissemination of a cure for tuberculosis.

Published in 2014, The Remedy was chosen as the Common Read for the incoming Bates Class of 2018.

Filreis, who appeared with Spencer in Boston, New York City and Portland, Maine, teaches English at the University of Pennsylvania, where he created and teaches an enormously popular MOOC (Massive Open Online Course).

In his 28 years at Penn, Filreis says, he’s taught maybe 3,500 students in the classroom. In two years of teaching “Modern and Contemporary American Poetry” as a MOOC, he’s taught 80,000 students.

At the Boston event, the discussion turned to the enormous reach of MOOCs, their potential to transform education and how all that relates to the intentional intimacy of a residential arts college like Bates.

April 14–18 Semester Final Exams — Power through, almost there April 27 Short Term Begins — Where memories are made May 31 Commencement — An ending. A beginning.

Either way, a big day

Clayton Spencer and Al Filreis P’16 take questions at the Presidential Event in Boston on March 12.

June 12–14 Reunion Weekend — We’re here for you, literally

Please go to bates.edu/calendar for more complete event information.

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This human, Conor Smith ’14 of Yarmouth, Maine, did research on how personality can influence learning, both in you people and us dogs.

Good boy, Conor.

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SHARP THINKERS photography by phyllis graber jensen Student presenters at Mount David Summit pose for portraits.

As they share ideas and research at the annual showcase, students begin to appreciate that they’re really presenting something more important: themselves.

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SPORTS

The coldest home baseball game in 20I4 was 44 degrees on April I7.

Inside Baseball

A school-record 92 Bobcats earned NESCAC All-Academic honors in spring 20I4.

The new batting facility is between Leahey Field and John Bertram Hall.

DOUG HUBLEY

Homecoming saw the dedication of a donor-funded hitting facility that gives the Bobcats some NESCAC bragging rights.

Sitting between Leahey Field and John Bertram Hall, it’s the only covered facility dedicated to baseball in the conference, says head coach Mike Leonard.

Previously, batters used a stowable batting cage in the Gray Athletic Building and a small open-air cage at the edge of Leahey Field.

The project “shows our alumni and parent commitment to Bates athletics and continuing to improve the student experience,” Leonard says.

Alumni and parents who contributed to the project included ballplayers on the famed 1984 team that led NCAA Division III in batting average and runs per game.

In 2014, the Bobcats advanced to the NESCAC Championship for the first time since the tournament began in 2001.

Records Are Made to be Broken (Eventually)

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SARAH CROSBY

Back in 1991, a first-year Colby runner named Jay Hartshorn set two middledistance records, in the 600 and 1,000 meters, at the indoor Maine State Meet.

The records stood for 23 years — long enough for Hartshorn to graduate from college, embark on a coaching career and, in 2005, succeed Carolyn Court as Bates’ head coach of women’s cross country and track and field.

Among Hartshorn’s runners, the two Maine records became known as “Coach Jay’s Records.”

But now, only one of Coach Jay’s records stands.

At the Maine State Meet last winter at the University of Southern Maine, Sarah Fusco ’15 took the figurative baton from Hartshorn with a winning time of 1:35.99 in the 600-meter run, beating her coach’s mark of 1:36.14.

Fusco says it feels good to keep the record in the NESCAC family.

“We know how great she was at Colby,” says Fusco, who is from Cheshire, Conn. “The fact that Jay held it makes it more meaningful, because the record was held by someone I admire and appreciate and look up to.”

Hartshorn, in turn, hopes that Fusco’s record stands the test of time.

“It would be cool if 10 years from now we still see her name and can tell people about her. They’ll see her record and say, ‘Wow, that was really fast.

What was this girl like?’”

The softball team hit I2 home runs in 20I4 and two in 20I3.

Women’s lacrosse had two 20I4 All-Americans — the first time since I995 with two picks.

Bates Athletics won a Maine leadership award for community service in 20I4.

Let the Record Be Unbroken Records are made to be broken. Or are they?

Below are the 20 oldest football records at Bates.

1936: Longest Interception Return — 102 yards

Barney Marcus ’37 vs. Maine 1957: Longest Kickoff Return — 98 yards

John Makowsky ’59 vs. WPI 1960: Longest Punt Return — 72 yards

Paul Planchon ’64 vs. Bowdoin 1965: Most Rushing Touchdowns (career) — 30

Tom Carr ’66, 1962–65, tied with Chris Hickey ’88 1966: Longest Run from Scrimmage — 96 yards

Sandy Nesbitt ’70 vs. Middlebury 1966: Most Touchdown Receptions (season) — 10

Bruce Winslow ’68, tied with Tom Lopez ’69 in 1967 1967: Highest Field Goal Percentage — 1.000

(season, fewer than 5 attempts)

Sal Spinoza ’68, 4 for 4 1968: Most Interceptions (season) — 12

Glenn Thornton ’71 1968: Most Touchdown Passes (career) — 50

Jim Murphy ’69, 1965–68 1969: Longest Field Goal — 47 yards:

Andy Moul ’72 vs. AIC,

tied with Don Sarason ’83 vs. Tufts in 1980 1974: Most Yards Per Punt Attempt (career) — 37.9

Sparky Godiksen ’76 1975: Most Yards Per Punt Return (season) — 12.2

Mark Shapiro ’76 1977: Most Passing Yards (season) — 1,636

Hugo Colasante ’78

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1978: Most Touchdown Passes (game) — 5

Chuck Laurie ’79 vs. Union 1979: Highest Average Yards Per Kickoff Return

(season) — 29.5

Tom Szot ’80 (8 for 236 yards) 1981: Most Receptions (career) — 151

Larry DiGiammarino ’82 (1978–81) 1982: Most Field Goals (career) — 18

Don Sarason ’83 (1979–82)

CHICK “I never got run.”

Chick Leahey ’52, age 89, noting that in his half century of organized baseball, including 36 years as a head coach of Bates baseball, he never got ejected from a game by an umpire. At Homecoming, with many of his former players attending, Bates retired Leahey’s No. 11 jersey, which he’s wearing here during a photo shoot at his home on East Avenue.

1985: Most Points After Touchdown (game) — 7

Rob Little ‘87 vs. Colby (7 for 7) 1985: Most Consecutive Passing Completions — 12

Ron Garrison ’85 vs. Tufts 1987: Most Rushing Touchdowns (season) — 17

Chris Hickey ’88 Note: Some of the players listed hold multiple, similar records in their category (rushing, passing, kicking, etc.), and those other records are not listed here.

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ARTS & CULTURE

New LED light bulbs in the Museum of Art should last up to I7 years.

The new Bates Art Society has launched an online arts-sharing community.

Converging on a Solution “When I learned about the exhibit Convergence, I realized that it would be wonderful for Bates,” says Dan Mills, director of the Bates College Museum of Art. On display through Dec. 13, Convergence: Jazz, Films and the Visual Arts includes many of the great African American artists of the 20th century — such as Romare Bearden, Faith Ringgold, William T. Williams and David Driskell — in an exploration of African American culture and the dynamic interactions among the arts.

Numbering more than 40 works, Convergence resulted from a partnership between the University of Maryland’s David C. Driskell Center for Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, and the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City. Bates is the only other institution that will show the exhibition.

“Convergence has a great breadth of work,” says Mills. “It’s not all a certain style or theme, making it a really lively exhibition.

“There are works that are quite representational, essentially portraits of specific jazz musicians. Others may depict bands playing without being specific about who the players are. Finally, there are complete abstractions that capture rhythms, movement and tempos associated with jazz.

“It’s a wonderful selection.”

Mills adds, “In terms of its focus, it provides opportunities for many curricular connections at Bates — obviously music, but also in African American and American cultural studies, history, among others. I love these opportunities, and think that’s what an academic museum at a liberal arts college should provide.” @ Convergence bit.ly/bates-convergence Right, Jazz Stories: Mama Can Sing, Papa Can Blow #4 (2004), an acrylic painting with pieced fabric border by Faith Ringgold.

Ménagerie à Deux The concept of “relationship trouble” found a striking new metaphor last spring when Singha Hon ’14 debuted her oil paintings — portraying women engaged with fantastic animals — at the Senior Thesis Exhibition at the Museum of Art. “What I want most to create are scenes of tenderness and tension that show my own difficulties in forming close relationships,” she explains — hence her explorations of the symbolic power of the female form and of stylized wild animals.

“The juxtaposition of animals with women, like inner wildness next to a rational brain, is strange, attractive and terrifying …. I hope to show the inner, primal and psychological aspects of both creatures.”

Joining Hon in the exhibition were fellow studio art majors Sara El Assaad of Rye, N.Y.; Logan Greenblatt of South Berwick, Maine; Daniel Huston of Ramsey, N.J.; Kelly Kruger of Kasota, Minn.; Alexis Martinetti of Manchester, Mass.; Julie Polizzotto of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Mahala Sacra of Wayland, Mass.; Nicole Soroka of Houston; and Douglas Welsh of Rio de Janeiro.

Left, “Sunday Kind of Love,” an oil painting on canvas by Singha Hon ’14.

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Bates pianist Frank Glazer performed in February to mark his 99th birthday.

The play Enjoy challenged student actors to work with so-called hyper-colloquial dialogue.

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Dance and theater faculty performed new work with Colby counterparts in 20I3–I4.

Thanks before Thesis While much of what’s in a typical honors thesis flies over our heads, some parts are easy to catch. Like the acknowledgements.

Besides graduation itself, completing a thesis is as close to a rite of passage to adulthood as anything a college has to offer. And as Bates seniors pass through this portal they often look back, so in addition to acknowledging their Bates professors, mentors and friends, they also thank Mom and Dad. Here’s one from 2014, by Katie Ailes, whose English thesis looked at “Scottish Nostalgias: Evocations of Home in the 1990s Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy, Jackie Kay, and Kathleen Jamie”: Mom and Dad, your steady, loving support and guidance has boosted me; you always made me believe I could achieve anything. Thank you for reading to me as a kid, supporting my travel to Scotland and always being by my side for the adventures I take on. Mom, thank you for your eagle-eyed proofreading of this thesis. Dad, sorry again for taking over your napping couch with mountains of thesis books over breaks — thank you for graciously allowing me to camp out there.

Bates honors theses scarab.bates.edu/honorstheses

Katie Ailes ’14 reads her work during a student poetry slam last March. A double major in English and dance, Ailes is in a master’s program at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, under a Fulbright research grant.

“ Tech week is not just about getting your dancers under lights and into costume.

It’s a time when everyone involved develops a shared understanding. Batesies are so smart and supportive of one another. You really see that during times like this.”

PHYLLIS GRABER JENSEN

Reacting to a funny moment on the Schaeffer Theatre stage, Assistant Professor of Dance Rachel Boggia explains what goes on during tech week for the Bates Dance Company’s Spring Dance Concert.

For insight into another tech-week experience at Bates, see Doug Hubley’s feature on page 26.

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ALEXANDER HULSE ’15

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Above, the crowd sweeps into Merrill Gymnasium for Clean Sweep.

Clean Sweep Sales Along In a display typically reserved for midnight premieres or Black Friday, a line began forming at daybreak.

Some savvy veterans even brought collapsible chairs, waiting out the line in relative comfort.

It would be hours before the Underhill Arena doors officially opened, but Bates’ annual Clean Sweep was certainly worth the wait.

Hundreds of items contributed by the Bates community — gear from departing students, surplus college property and personal donations from faculty and staff — translated into great deals for the Lewiston-Auburn community and raised some $22,000 for a dozen local nonprofits.

As customers in line discussed their hopes for the event, snippets of conversation concerning refrigerators, sound systems and Tupperware could be overheard.

Gina Thompson of Sabattus was looking forward to the “goodie bags,” $4 plastic bags filled with a variety of small items.

Mike Thibodeau of Lewiston pithily observed that “the first thing they have is a long line.”

Thibodeau had a point. By 7:30 a.m. the line stretched from Underhill to the landmark Bobcat statue near Leahey Field, then nearly doubled its length in the next half-hour.

When the doors finally opened, there were cheers as the crowd poured into Underhill and pored over the shoes, rugs, pillows, furniture, clothes, glassware, printers, a forest of lamps and enough books to outfit a library.

Staffing the event were volunteers from the local nonprofits that shared Clean Sweep proceeds.

Nenman Estes of Sabattus, a volunteer from the Loaves and Fishes program of the Dominican Sisters, said, “It’s great helping local charities, food banks — there’s a lot of need for that right now.”

Clean Sweep customer Keagan Cody, a youngster from Lewiston, had a different reaction. “These swords are awesome!” he said, rightly proud of his swashbuckling find of three foam cutlasses. — Alexander Hulse ’15

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20 of WRBC’s 75 radio shows are hosted by community members.

The Lewiston Farmers’ Market is at the corner of Lincoln and Main streets.

The Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul towers are I68 feet tall.

850 Bates alumni live in Lewiston, Auburn and nearby towns.

The Lewiston City Hall weather vane is I7 feet long.

Lunar Lewiston Chip Ross, whose day job is professor of mathematics, took this photograph of the Lewiston cityscape last October using a long, 10-second exposure.

His shooting location was atop a parking garage across the Androscoggin River in Auburn.

“Behind the iconic smokestack are the lights of the Bates Mill Complex,” he says. “The clouds are lit by the moon, several degrees above the horizon and very bright.” The photograph won a People’s Choice award in the annual Bates Employee Photo Contest.

What’s in a Name?

Pettengill is the name of our social-science building, but

the Lewiston street and elementary school are each spelled “Pettingill.” Meanwhile, the Auburn park is “Pettengill.”

Here’s your P’gill guide:

The Hall:

A native of Pembroke, N.H., Frederick B. “Pat” Pettengill ’31 was called “Mr. Bates” for recruiting many students from the Syracuse, N.Y., area.

When he died, in 1986, a small bequest (including proceeds from the sale of his Chrysler car) created a scholarship endowment. That was just the beginning. In 1999, his widow, Ursula, gave $5 million to name Pettengill Hall.

The Street:

A block north of campus, Pettingill Street is named for David Pettingill, Lewiston’s second settler. “The Pettingills were a fighting race,” noted the Lewiston Evening Journal, and David fought and died at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777.

The School:

Built in 1926 and closed in 2008, Pettingill School was named not for the nearby street but for Lee Duren Pettingill, a leading citizen of the early 1900s. (His relation to David Pettingill: unknown.) The two-plus acres will become a park, Pettingill School Park.

Park Deux:

In 1947, Auburn used 20 acres bought years before from William Wallace Pettengill to create a recreation area, Pettengill Park. It cost $20,091, or about $342,000 in today’s dollars.

But There’s More:

The name is said to mean “someone from Portugal.” A retired Social Security analyst, Robert Pettengill, found 41 variant spellings — including Patongille, Pattainggal and Petynghale — among the 5,700 Americans with the surname.

Left, near campus is the street named Pettingill, one of many spellings of a word that means “someone from Portugal.”

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THE WORLD

Professors Craig Decker and Jim Richter are now in Vienna leading a Fall Semester.

In summer 20I4, Phillips student fellows did research in Grenada, Bangladesh and Ethiopia.

Barlow Exhibition On this page and facing page are student photographs and words selected from one of our favorite annual events, the Barlow Off-Campus Study Photography Exhibition, held during Mount David Summit.

Merzouga, Morocco, left

“The most peaceful place I have ever been is the sand dunes of Merzouga. Here, friends are relaxing in the zween (beautiful) desert after a sunset camel ride. The cheesiest and most touristy part of my abroad experience created an opportunity for reflection that I never could have anticipated.”

Hally Bert ’14 of Tacoma, Wash., who is now a project liaison for active transportation in the city’s Office of Environmental Policy and Sustainability

Beijing, China, right “As I cut onto a small sidewalk around the outskirts of the Forbidden City and turned a corner, I saw this man and was instantly put at ease. He was a breath of fresh air (metaphorically speaking, due to the smog). In the city of everlasting noise, smog and confusion, this man, calmly fishing in the moat of the Forbidden City, inadvertently opened a window onto life in Beijing before rapid modernization.”

Ned Donaldson ’15 of Lincoln, Mass., whose major is politics with a concentration in government and conflict

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Bates students must achieve a 2.50 GPA to be approved for study abroad.

I8 viewers in Kathmandu watched the Bates Commencement livestream.

Students in the Class of 20I8 come from 28 countries in addition to the U.S.

Think Summer

SARAH CROSBY

Each summer, a number of Bates rising seniors head out into the world to do grantfunded research for their thesis projects.

Funding comes from many sources, including college endowments and current-use gifts from alumni and foundations. A few examples from this past summer:

Two Watsons, Two Projects, One World Watson Fellows have maybe one thing in common: a charge to explore the world.

Their projects, meanwhile, go far afield in more ways than one.

Take Simone Schriger ‘14 and Brian Kennedy ‘14, the college’s two Watson winners for 2014.

Schriger will travel to India, South Africa and Costa Rica to research the practice of donating human body parts and products — breast milk, hair, blood and kidneys.

A psychology major from Los Angeles, she’s intrigued by the tension between two opposing forces in attitudes toward the human body. Things like blood, milk, hair and kidneys are all fundamentally personal. Yet they’re also subject to commodification, the exact opposite of personal, because of their value to human healthcare.

“How do these parts gain and lose meaning when they are removed from us?” she asks.

An economics major from Port Washington, N.Y., Kennedy will travel to Japan, Australia, Ireland and Canada to examine seaweed’s potential in food and fuel production.

Kennedy drew on his Bates studies and an internship with Maine’s marine algae and aquaculture industries to develop his project.

“What fascinates me in economics is the interface between industry and natural resources,” he says.

Growing up along the North Shore of Long Island, Kennedy says, “it’s hard not to interact with seaweed — definitely my first experience with seaweed was just throwing it at my siblings.”

Name: Michele Pham, Vancouver, Canada

Name: Robin Jones, Hamilton, Ontario

Project Title: Insights into the Quality of Life, Health and Family Structures of Vietnamese Female Factory Workers in the Garment Industry

Project Title: Youth, Nationalism and Masculinity in Post-Conflict Sri Lanka

Location: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Adviser: Emily Kane, Sociology Name: Erick MacLean, Shelburne, Vt. Project Title: Examining Vaccines in Bangladesh: An Exploration of South Asian Culture

Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka Adviser: Steve Kemper, Anthropology Names: Tessa Walther, Santa Monica, Calif.; Ben Merkert, Whiting, Vt. Project Title: Environmental Monitoring and Paleoclimate Research in the Norwegian High Arctic

Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh

Location: Svalbard archipelago, Norway

Adviser: Larissa Williams, Biology

Adviser: Mike Retelle, Geology

Name: Jameson Jones, Edmonds, Wash.

Name: Barbara Crespo, New York City; Edward Poneman, Larchmont, N.Y.

Project Title: Generational Aesthetic and Thematic Differences in Nicaraguan Poetry Location: Managua, Nicaragua Adviser: Robert Strong, English

Project Title: Empowered Refugees and the Spread of Education Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Adviser: Patricia Buck, Education

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BOOKS

bri g h t s i g hts

More selections from the eclectic and reader-friendly Good Reads summer reading list, published by Sarah Potter ’77, manager of the College Store, and featuring titles suggested by Bates people.

Commons Questions Dining Services’ Napkin Board, going strong since the 1990s, has a physical life in Commons and virtual life online. A sampling of recent food questions and answers: Latin: Story of a World Language

by Jürgen Leonhardt Suggested by Martin Andrucki, Dana Professor of Theater: “An improbable beach-read, I know, but really enthralling if you’re interested in the confluence of language, literature and history.”

Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America

by Jon Mooallem Suggested by Jane Costlow, Clark A. Griffiths Professor of Environmental Studies: “A book about extinction but also about the amazing efforts to protect and, in some cases, restore disappearing populations.”

Protein Pros and Cons

Q: I was wondering if it would be possible to always provide a grain like quinoa or farro at the salad bar as a source of protein for vegans?

Thanks!

A: We are not currently serving quinoa or farro on the salad bar all the time, but there are always vegan protein staples, including various beans and tofu.

Sugar, Sugar

Q: Would it be possible to indicate if food served at the vegan bar contains sugar? Thanks!

A: We do not label for sugar, but you are always welcome to check a recipe by speaking to the chef at any station.

He or she will have the recipes available for dishes served that day.

Shell It Out

Q: Do you sell shelled hard-boiled eggs?

A: For guests who pay for a meal, they are available on our breakfast bar and salad bar in Commons, and also on the salad bar at the Den. We have sold pre-packaged eggs, but they were not popular and expired before being sold so we discontinued them.

Peanut Butter, Part I

Q: Thank you so much for providing such a wide variety of healthful foods in Commons! I use the organic peanut butter almost every day and am wondering if the brand you use contains sugar or not. Thank you!

A: We use Once Again brand, which has no added sugar or salt — just organic, dry-roasted peanuts. Enjoy!

Peanut Butter, Once Again

Q: To follow up on that peanut butter question: Which Once Again peanut butter do you use? Is it the oldfashioned crunchy or the organic crunchy?

A: It is the organic crunchy, no salt added.

The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty

by Carolyn Heilbrun Suggested by Bonnie Shulman, professor emerita of mathematics: “When young, Heilbrun vowed to commit suicide before she turned 70.

But in this book, she extols the pleasures of her later years with witty, acerbic ruminations on solitude, marriage, sex, friendship and, of course, death.”

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Bird by Bird

by Anne Lamott Suggested by Mara Tieken, assistant professor of education: “When you feel like you’re the only person on earth struggling to string together a meaningful collection of words, read this book.”

You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant, said Arlo Guthrie, and the same might be true about Forsale.

Created in the 1990s, the Forsale email list lets faculty, staff and students buy, sell, trade and barter anything from appliances to used vehicles. A few recent offerings: • 3 Teeny Beanies from the 1996 presidential election, dubbed Lefty, Righty and Li“bear”ty: $30 • Bat figurine (the mammal, not the baseball kind): $3 • 10-gallon hermit crab terrarium (hermit crab not included): $35 • Six tickets to Jay-Z and Beyonce’s On the Run tour: $95.35 to $274.15 • 2002 Honda Civic LX with 174,383 miles: $1,500

This bat, among other items, did sell, but the Civic, offered by a Bates biologist, did not — it had lots of issues — and was donated to Maine Public Broadcasting’s Vehicle Donation Program sponsored by Car Talk.

VICTORIA STANTON

Bates Forsale

st u f f o f legends

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Mill Message This sign was once posted in the Bates Mill to encourage Lewiston mill workers to keep their work mistake-free.

The Bates Manufacturing Co. made bedspreads, among other textiles, that were famously “loomed to be heirloomed.”

The sign is now exhibited in Museum L-A, located in the former mill space, which celebrates the industries of Lewiston-Auburn and the people who worked in them.

B A T E S H I S T O R Y

QUIZ

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

The student newspapers at Bates and Bowdoin in the 1890s both complained about a specific kind of cheering at their sports contests. This “perfect bedlam of noise,” said The Bates Student in May 1894, featured “frantic shouting and singing,” near-constant chanting, plus the “blowing of horns, waving of canes, hats and flags.”

Beyond annoying, the tumult created a “poorer exhibit of athletic ability because for everyone it requires more...nerve power to withstand such a continual strain.”

What was this type of cheering called?

Answer: The loud and continuous singing, cheering and general noisome tumult was called “yagging.”

Items in the Ladd Library lost-and-found basket at 10:53 a.m. on Sept. 5: A copy of Moby Dick, a thumb drive on a Hebron Academy lanyard, a necklace and earbuds.

SPOTS OF TIME

Lost and Found

A Light Touch Maddy Heart ’18 of Winchester, Mass., wields a flashlight to spell out “AESOP 14” on the final night of her and her fellow first-years’ preorientation trip to Mount Katahdin. Trip co-leader Peter Krieg ’15 of Cambridge, Mass., took the photo using a 25-second exposure that also captures the light show high in the Maine sky.

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Ensuring that all the technical details are spot on — including the lights operated from this light board — helps the actors in Little Egypt do their thing.

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From lines, lights, sounds and scenes, tech week shapes the play by d o u g h u bley

it’s just

background music, what you’d call Muzak. It’s a curtain to block out silence, not a thing to be listened to.

But on a May afternoon, several Bates professors, staff and students are focused on this snippet of bland instrumental pop.

In a darkened Gannett Theater, they’re scrutinizing a denatured rendition of the Beatles’ “All My Loving.” The music is part of the sound design for a theatrical production of a romantic comedy whose action opens in a shopping mall.

The idea is that the music plays and then fades back as actors pass each other. A spark flies: I’ll send all my loving to you.

The play’s director and production team intend for this wordless encounter to set the scene for Lynn Siefert’s bittersweet comedy Little Egypt. You know the story: Love triumphs against all odds in Middle America, early 1970s.

The four performances of Little Egypt, the vehicle for a Short Term course providing a quasi-professional immersion in theater arts, will commence Thursday. Today is Saturday, the first of two technical rehearsals.

The objective now is to fine-tune the length and loudness of “All My Loving.” This fragment will be one of the sound cues in the production.

Sitting by the stage, director Martin Andrucki, Dana Professor of Theater and leader of the course, asks sound operator Phathu Rambau ’17 of Morebeng, South Africa, to play the music back at different levels.

Rambau sits with a laptop on the risers where the audience will be. Next to him is the light board.

Wires are running every which way. One chooses one’s steps carefully in the dark.

Playing the soon-to-be lovebirds are actors Ciaran Walsh ’15 of Washington, D.C., and Colette Girardin ’16 of East Moriches, N.Y. Along with Singha Hon ’14 of New York City, they repeat their entrances several times to help with the timing of the music.

Stage manager Ben Cuba ’16 of Worcester, Mass., who will call all the tech cues during the performances, follows the process closely, making notes in his script.

Finally the cue is stored in QLab software on the laptop. It has taken five minutes to hone this single element for a scene that will last maybe 20 seconds.

There are 29 more scenes in the play. Still ahead are 25 more sound and 61 lighting cues to adjust and program, as well as 76 hand props to organize.

Pulling these material elements together is the reason for tech rehearsals — “tech” for short.

Thanks to tech, a telephone on stage will actually ring, so that the actors can stop saying “ring, ring.”

Lighting mixes are stored in the computerized light board. Cuba and the stagehands figure out how to get props on stage when they’re needed, off when they’re not and where to put them in the meantime.

Tech is “when all those elements are finally set in stone,” says Michael Reidy, managing director of the theater and dance department, and designer of lighting and sets for Little Egypt. “We take the time now to work all those things out, so when we get to dress rehearsals we can run without stopping.”

During the fall and winter semesters, tech rehearsals for mainstage theater and dance productions happen over the course of a week. Little Egypt, though, is the class project for the Short Term course “Theater Production Workshop,” and because of Short Term’s compressed schedule, two weekend afternoons must suffice for tech.

For a typical play, the director and the production designers meet early on to discuss the production’s look, feel and sound. “Every play is an opportunity to create a world of some kind,” says Reidy.

“Because it’s collaborative, we all bring our individual experiences to the process, and we slowly come up with this consensus of what that world is.”

From hints in Seifert’s script (for instance, a mention of the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), Andrucki’s team determined that

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Behind-the-scenes preparations for Little Egypt include this sequence where stage manager Ben Cuba ’16 is literally director Martin Andrucki’s right-hand man.

Little Egypt was set in the early 1970s. For costume designer Carol Farrell, this pointed to Gunne Sax dresses, a revival of burnt orange and plenty of polyester.

Meanwhile, seeing reflections of the characters’ teetering emotions in visual artist Red Grooms, Reidy channeled Grooms through offkilter stage sets including a city skyline whose buildings lean in like relatives peering into the newborn’s crib.

Once the guiding aesthetic was decided, Andrucki went off to work with the student actors while the tech staff — all students except for Reidy, Farrell and assistant tech director Justin Moriarty — retreated to their own corners to design and build. Weekly production meetings kept everyone in the loop.

As stage manager, Cuba was key to keeping the Little Egypt machine moving toward opening night. A stage manager, Reidy explains, is “a central hub through which all information about the production passes.”

When a play gets to tech, the director gives the stage manager an additional responsibility: He or she is now literally running the show, calling the cues and directing the stage crew. As Reidy tells Cuba at the beginning of that Saturday tech session, “This is your rehearsal. You are the most important person in the room today.”

By the time the show is audience-ready, “the stage manager is really like the conductor that sets everything into motion,” Reidy says. “So there’s a performative aspect to what they’re doing, because they are synched into the rhythm of the performance.”

During this Saturday tech session, though, there is no rhythm. It’s a “cue-to-cue” rehearsal, which jumps over large swaths of dialogue to focus on the tech cues.

There’s a little “hurry up” and a lot of “wait” — wait while a cue is timed out and programmed, Reidy playing the light board like Fats Waller on the 88s; wait while two actors figure out which way to unfold a bedspread; wait while Cuba assures Andrucki that a prop flashlight will have fresh batteries.

This being Bates, good-heartedness and humor prevail. A veteran of four shows as stage manager,

Cuba excels at keeping the mood positive. “You have to go with the flow, not take anything personally, let things calm down and let people sort things out,” says Cuba, an English and music double major who’s aiming for a theater career.

“Ben is unflappable,” says Reidy. “And he fully respects the job of the actors, and works hard to make their work easier.”

Easy or not, the actors’ contribution during tech is likely not what lured them into show biz.

They’re getting the opposite of the limelight — instead, on this Saturday it’s the limelight itself that’s getting the attention. Actors “are the guinea pigs” during tech, says Andrucki.

“The technical cues are created by their appearances and exits and their moves. So everything, especially the lighting, is keyed to keeping them visible and in the space that’s got the right props and furniture.”

The process is not conducive to fine acting, he notes. At first, the acting actually “gets a lot worse.

Every time you throw something new at the actors, it tends to throw them out of focus a little bit.”

Soon enough, though, they’ve got rhythm. “As all the elements come together, and the actors wear their costumes and the lights come in, they start to find another gear,” says Reidy. Starting with tech and taking off during dress rehearsals, the timing gets to “the point where there’s real sizzle.”

“I’ve been an actor, light board operator, sound operator,” says Cuba, “and I just love doing it all.

Being stage manager, you really capitalize on so many different fields of theater. And you see something evolve and mature right before your eyes, and that’s just a gift.”

Five days later, the light board has been returned to its overhead perch and an audience fills the risers, eager for sizzle. A blue-cloth sky glows like dusk behind the Red Grooms skyline. The house lights go out — somewhere Cuba is muttering, “LQ6, SQ2, go” — and the stage lighting comes up and there’s music.

The cue is perfect, meaning hardly noticeable.

Instead, we’re fixed on the future lovers passing, the spark flying. And when it’s all over, more than one satisfied theatergoer heads out of Pettigrew humming, And I’ll send all my loving to you. n

“This is your rehearsal. You are the most important person in the room today.”

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Primed by a distinct history, Bates could be a workshop for achieving a diverse and inclusive community, says chief diversity officer Crystal Williams Left: Crystal Williams leads a Reunion discussion about diversity and inclusion last June.

“The world

is knocking on our door,”

says Crystal Williams.

For Bates students, it’s not about being willing to answer that call. It’s about being able.

Williams joined President Clayton Spencer’s senior staff last November as an associate vice president and chief diversity officer. The author of four collections of poetry, she is also a professor of English.

In her year at Bates, she’s built a team in the Office of Intercultural Education, now headquartered in Chase Hall, and done the groundwork to define what inclusion and diversity — socioeconomic, racial, ethnic, religious, sexual orientation, gender, political, physical ability or other — looks like at Bates, and what comes next.

Bates, of course, has a founding commitment to inclusion, stating as much in the college’s mission statement: “With ardor and devotion — Amore ac Studio — we engage the transformative power of our differences.”

While few, if any, U.S. colleges have successfully achieved the goals of diversity and inclusion, Williams believes that Bates’ history and mission should give the college a distinct advantage.

Bates, she says, is primed to become “a petri dish, a sort of workshop, for the creation of the kind of community that we say — aspirationally, in our mission statement — we believe in and want to be.”

What this all means for Bates students was the topic of our interview last summer.

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How would you characterize Bates’ commitment to diversity?

Few colleges have for so long held the principles of inclusion as central to the institutional mission as has Bates.

People here seem committed to finding a way, or trying at least to find a way, to embody the institutional principles around diversity and inclusion.

The train may not be going full steam ahead, but people are on it and they want to go. It’s hard to articulate just how unusual and compelling this is.

The primary work at Bates is not to convince people that diversity of experience and thought enhances the intellectual and social endeavor, which you do have to argue at many institutions.

The work at Bates is to help people undertake behaviors supportive of the principle.

Why is having an inclusive campus important?

Developing an inclusive campus is imperative in the 21st century. The world is knocking on our door.

To be able to effectively engage across multiple identities in any situation is a source of extreme power and will be even more so in the future.

Navigating complex conversations with people different from oneself requires, for example, deep listening skills and the ability to engage in civil disagreement. Individuals with that skill set will better understand how to harness the power of difference on behalf of whatever endeavor they’ve undertaken, which will make them powerful actors in the world.

You came to Bates from Reed College, where you were dean for institutional diversity and a member of the faculty. So far, what do you see different about the work here?

The cultural currency at Reed is intellectualism. I think the currency here is people — and the friendships and community they make.

If we can get this right, Bates will be a place that honors the full breadth of who each of us is.

For instance, a student who is a first-generation, low-income, gay man from Tucson, Ariz., should be able to come here and find a community that says to him, “All of the identities you bring to the table enliven the kinds of conversations we have, the kind of community we’re trying to build here.

And all of those identities make Bates special.”

He should be able to graduate feeling affirmed and that he’s gotten a great education and a terrific, nurturing community while here and once he becomes an alumnus, too.

Of the schools I know in the country, this is a place where we really have the opportunity to do that magical work.

What does an inclusive campus look like?

I think that an inclusive campus is one that actively and publicly works to create a living, learning and working environment where people feel free to

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express the full range of who they are: politically conservative, transgender, from a low socioeconomic background, from an affluent background, Latino, white, physically disabled, etc.

It is a space where our differences are, as Clayton says, a source “of deep power and effectiveness,” where we all feel that the entire scope of our identity is fully recognized as an important aspect of what we do here: create and share knowledge.

To me, success is not that every kid leaves the college with a 3.7 GPA, or that everybody feels good all of the time — I’m not actually that interested in creating “kumbaya” moments. And I’m not particularly interested in trying to make a community in which everybody says the right thing all of the time, or in which everybody has the “right” answer.

If what we’re trying to do is teach everybody how to be culturally competent, then we will fail.

To me, success is that every student, staff and faculty member at Bates feels respected, appreciated and included in our common endeavor — and that when they aren’t, they feel they have the right and obligation to the community to speak up and help create change.

How do we create that environment at Bates?

By basing the work I oversee on what we know has been effective nationally and also by identifying areas on campus that are doing this work well within our own culture.

We then harness that knowledge and creative thinking on behalf of areas that need strengthening.

Bates has to become a petri dish, a sort of workshop, for the creation of the kind of community that we say — aspirationally, in our mission statement — we believe in and want to be.

What area would you like to develop at Bates?

Oh, many! But two areas come immediately to mind.

First, we will begin to more actively and collectively support students who are first in their families to attend a four-year college. That population makes up approximately 12 percent of our students, and they have particular needs.

So here’s an analogy I like: Say you bring two children to a parade. One is 3 years old, and the other 6, and in front of them is a wooden barrier that the younger child can’t see over. What do you do? Do you leave her on the ground so she can’t see? No. You lift her up.

That’s what equity is. It’s saying, “I’m going to lift ’Lil Bit up so she can see. I won’t always need to lift ’Lil Bit up. But today, I do.” As a community, we need to develop systems that help a host of students, first-generation students primary among them.

Second, we will develop campus-wide programs that engage the entire student body — those who have identities we traditionally think of when we hear the word “diversity,” and those we don’t. n

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A professor of English at Bates in addition to her senior staff appointment, Crystal Williams is the author of four collections of poems. Her works have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Tin House, The Northwest Review, Ms., The Indiana Review, Court Green and Callaloo, among others. This poem, “The Embrace,” was first published in The American Poetry Review, September/ October 2010.

The Embrace I have never been & likely will never go to the spot on the earth where my mother’s ashes are buried.

People do not understand.

Their eyes harden.

But I take comfort in the facts: the grass there lengthens, rusted leaves fall & rot, industry’s soldiers march across the letters of her name, & today, when the small girl in the book shop in her white toile princess dress twirls & twirls, her throat warbling with glee, jumps into the laughing eyes of her mother, their arms & bodies clasped, their heat radiant & necessary as if they had never been torn apart, my mother’s papery arm is again entwined with mine as we plod from the hospital ward’s shower stall down a dim hall, thin cotton gown tight across her behind, when she, in one of her last miracles— as if a lithe Fred Astaire & against all evidence— kicks both feet in the air heel-to-heel & squeals, “I am clean! I am clean!

Oooooh-weeeee! I am clean!”

Thus her eyes & bliss. Thus her arms & bliss. There she is. My mother.

In that embrace. There.

Copyright 2014 Crystal Williams.

All rights reserved.

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As death approaches, the inescapable individualism of a scholar’s life comes up against the reality of Bates community by h. jay burns

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the front matter of Atsuko Hirai’s final book, she acknowledged the people who helped her along the way. She also acknowledged her own approaching death.

Hirai, born in Japan in 1936, died July 14 at her home in Lewiston.

She lived long enough to see that book published, the monograph Government by Mourning: Death and Political Integration in Japan, 1603–1912.

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The book explores the myriad Japanese laws and ordinances that once controlled nearly every aspect of life, including the observance of death.

Hirai, in the first paragraph of her acknowledgements, writes:

times on every page felt like an exercise in neurosis but later, as I developed breast cancer and had to interrupt work for a long time, it became an act of submission to the inescapable human condition and a more personal journey.

I have written this book as a requiem to my mother, whom I abandoned by choosing to live and work in the United States. At first, writing words that meant “death” several

The acknowledgments conclude with a postscript in which she describes the help she got near the end of the book’s production and near the end of her life.

That help included scholarly support from her history colleague John Cole. She writes: The book opened with the revelation of my breast cancer. It closes with an announcement of another life-limiting disease that prevented me from completing it expeditiously. In fact, it would have remained unfinished forever without the most inspired, 11th-hour assistance of

John Cole and Atsuko Hirai, colleagues in the Bates history department since 1986, photographed by Phyllis Graber Jensen as they sit together at Hirai’s home on July 10, 2014, four days before her passing.

John Cole and Atsuko Hirai, colleagues in the Bates history department since 1986, photographed

by Phyllis Graber Jensen as they sat together in Hirai’s home on July 10, 2014, four days before her passing.

In their 28 years in the same department, Cole as an expert on ancient Greece and the French Revolution, and Hirai on Japanese history, Cole wants much less the two shared the stage as scholars just once. light shined on his help.

That was in 1999, He does note that in 2012 when each presented he was surprised to see Hirai, despite her cancer, at a panel discussion in full academic regalia at celebrating the opening the inauguration of Presi- of Pettengill Hall. Hirai discussed the project that dent Spencer. Maybe, he thought, he could help in would become Government by Mourning. “I some way.

Professor John Cole. He combed the copyedited pages of my manuscript with astonishing speed and inexhaustible wit to meet the deadline of my life.

loved the idea then and still do,” Cole says, “not least for its attentiveness to the enlistment of human emotions to serve political interests.”

Cole, too, looked at death that day, in a way. He spoke about the 16th-century writer Michel de Montaigne and his fatherhood of six daughters, five of whom died in infancy or early childhood. “In several notorious passages of

his Essays, he seems to minimize or even to discount these multiple losses, especially the phrase ‘I have lost two or three....’ ” Cole argued that Montaigne’s failure to grieve publicly hardly meant that he did not grieve. “I said that the emotional impact of his daughters’ deaths had been profound, and that his retirement to his tower library to compose the great work was provoked by the first such loss.”

In Cole’s words, a certain amount of “inescapable individualism” defines being a scholar, and Hirai had a lot of it, her colleagues have noted, using the words “contrarian” and “strident” to describe her.

But there is a counterforce: Bates community.

Cole, who retired from the Bates faculty in 2012, has seen the idea of Bates community become manifest many, many times in his 45 years on the faculty. And he saw it once more in the “attention and affection shown by others to our colleague in the course of her long illness.”

In the postscript to her acknowledgements, Hirai acknowledged her caregivers. Most were Bates people, and she used just their first names — many of which will be familiar to readers. To them she rededicated her final book.

Thanks Aslaug, Bill, Bruce, Carol, Caroline, Dave, Dennis, Don, Elizabeth, Emily, Gene, Hong, Jean, Jim, Joanne, Joe, Judy, Karen, Kati, Margaret, Lisa, Maggie, Marty, Mary, Michael, Perrin, Phyllis, Sharon, Sheila, Sylvia.... n Fall 2014

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When he was young, says Bates physicist Nathan Lundblad, he expected to apply his interest in science to something in an astronomical line.

Instead, he went micro rather than macro. “I got lured to atomic physics by the fact that I could do experiments in a small lab with a few people, rather than waiting for the data to arrive from the sky.”

Starting in 2016, though, Lundblad will be awaiting data from the sky after all — data from a research project he has designed for implementation on NASA’s forthcoming Cold Atom Laboratory on the International Space Station.

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“I always knew that Nathan had stored away some groundbreaking ideas.”

is one of just seven chosen by NASA to be conducted with the CAL, a refrigerator-sized apparatus designed to create the coldest known environment in the universe: one ten-billionth of a degree above absolute zero. The seven projects will share a total of about $12.7 million over a four- to fiveyear period.

An assistant professor of physics at Bates, Lundblad is also the only principal investigator chosen

by NASA who represents an undergraduate liberal arts college.

Lundblad’s quantum-physics research project will further his exploration of ultracold gas clouds called Bose-Einstein condensates.

When Lundblad arrived at Bates in 2009, he and his students established the first laboratory at Bates for conducting BEC research. Occupying a large bench, the BEC apparatus consists of a mass of wires, tubing and hardware whose heart is a vacuum chamber and a set of lasers. (Amherst College is the only other U.S. undergraduate liberal arts college so equipped.)

During the summer of 2010, Marc Tollin ’12 was part of a small student team in the Lundblad lab that helped to piece together an early version of the equipment.

The experience was especially immersive, including tasks like designing and building a powerful electromagnet and making a giant brick oven used to bake impurities out of components.

“I think we gift-wrapped over 100 bricks in aluminum foil” to protect the components from brick debris, says Tollin, a physics major who is now a data scientist at the Boston startup Consumer United.

Tollin went on to do a yearlong thesis with Lundblad. “I always knew that Nathan had stored away some groundbreaking ideas,” he says. “To boot, it wasn’t until after writing my senior thesis that I realized what he is doing at a

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small liberal arts college is not only difficult but very rare.”

“The mood in the lab was like being at a startup during the early years,” he adds. “I felt like we were building the groundwork for innovation in the field, and Nathan’s enthusiasm was contagious.”

In that generously collaborative vein, Lundblad will work with Bates students, as well as with a postdoctoral researcher, to design experiments for the Cold Atom Laboratory. That work is expected to continue through 2019.

When he first learned of the CAL opportunity, Lundblad saw his way to pursue research that was, so to speak, previously out of reach. “The idea I proposed to NASA has been popping around in my head for some years,” he says, “but it’s virtually impossible to do in the presence of gravity.”

Named for Satyendra Bose and Albert Einstein, the physicists who first postulated their existence in the 1920s, Bose-Einstein condensates are ultracold clouds of gas whose atoms cease to obey the familiar laws of classical physics and instead display the counterintuitive and seemingly weird behaviors of quantum mechanics.

In the case of BECs, the gas atoms lose their individual characteristics and behave more like a unified wave.

Here on the planet, gravity curtails how cold an environment

can be maintained in the vacuum chambers used to create BECs. But because gravity’s pull aboard the space station is so faint, the CAL will be able to reach temperatures lower than can be established in an earthly lab.

In collaboration with Courtney Lannert, a theoretical physicist at Smith and the University of Massachuetts Amherst, and David Aveline, an experimental physicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Lundblad has proposed a set of experiments to observe properties of certain types of BECs that can’t be created in Earth’s gravitational field.

“I’m interested in studying how the rules of quantum mechanics apply to a BEC based on its shape, and certain shapes are really tough to make in gravity.

I’m looking to make a BEC in the form of a shell or bubble, and then study how quantum mechanics applies to a system that is two-dimensional, but without a border, like the surface of the Earth.”

News of the award sent Lundblad “absolutely over the moon with delight!” he says. “I’ll have a chance to do science that I couldn’t do otherwise. I’m excited for my students, that they’ll have opportunities to do research at this level. And it raises the profile of science at liberal arts colleges like Bates to be able to participate in work like this.” n

An artist’s concept of the apparatus — a magneto-optical trap and atom chip — that will be used by NASA’s Cold Atom Laboratory aboard the International Space Station.

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In his Carnegie Science Hall lab, Nathan Lundblad talks with physics major Ben Lovitz ’15 of Portland, Ore. “I’m excited for my students, that they’ll have opportunities to do research at this level,” he says of his NASA-selected project.

In His Own Words Lundblad explains what Bose-Einstein condensates are and why they’re cool to study: A Bose-Einstein condensate describes a collection of atoms in gaseous form that have been cooled to the point that they are no longer identifiable as individual atoms. They become indistinct, like a fuzzed-out cloud.

These clouds are as different from normal matter as a laser is from a normal light bulb. The atoms slow down to the point where their inherent wave nature becomes dominant, where their behavior follows the quirky rules of quantum mechanics.

We don’t think of matter behaving like a wave. It’s counterintuitive and doesn’t make a lot of sense in our daily experience. We like to picture gas atoms zooming around like little billiard balls.

This is why studying Bose-Einstein condensates is a good test of the difference between classical mechanics and quantum mechanics.

We’re pushing the limits of what we understand about the world in terms of classical mechanics, and really trying to explore what the world means in terms of quantum mechanics.

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Pulling Together After a heartbreaking loss at the NCAA Championship regatta, the Bates women had only minutes to right their ship by h. jay bur ns photo g raphy by sa r ah c r osby 40

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Day 1: May 30, 8:30 a.m., a win for the second varsity

Day 2: May 31, 12:02 p.m., stunning defeat

A telling moment

at last spring’s NCAA Rowing Championships took place not on the water but on dry land.

The plot: After five straight years as runners-up at the NCAA regatta, the Bates women were favored to win it all at the 2014 edition in Indianapolis.

They’d already won the NESCAC regatta, beating the same teams they would see at the NCAAs. On the first day of the regatta, May 30, the action followed the script, as Bates’ two varsity boats each advanced to their respective finals.

But in the grand finals on May 31, reality intruded. While the second varsity won its final race in triumphant fashion, by 10 seconds, the first varsity boat struggled to a fourth-place finish.

The overall team result — third place — didn’t feel all that good. Truth is, it felt horrible.

Photographer Sarah Crosby shot the event for Bates. A former collegiate rower herself, she knew that a key post-race moment would unfold as the rowers from each boat came together.

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She explains: “The first varsity boat had launched out as the second varsity was still on the water, so they hadn’t seen each other since early in the day.”

The first-varsity rowers returned to shore understandably distraught after their fourth-place finish.

Awaiting them was the second varsity, who’d won their grand final earlier.

At that point, it could’ve become a tale of two boats.

Head coach Peter Steenstra knew the mood because he knew what his rowers had endured as they trained for the NCAAs. “For three weeks, the two crews battled each other on a daily basis,” he says.

To be sure, practice competition can be just as fiery as what goes on in a real contest, whether it’s pro football players battling for a roster spot or Bates rowers training for NCAAs. “This intense training naturally created a bit of a divide between the two crews,” says Steenstra.

So as the two crews came together after their races, he knew the divide could become a chasm.

“One crew was on top of the world while the other was left feeling as though they hadn't done their job.

“Nothing, of course, could have been further from the truth.”

When it comes to hard feelings, the truth has a hard time winning out, and Steenstra had only a few minutes alone with his team to right the ship before they scattered for the summer.

For eight seniors who’d already graduated, his words would be the final ones they would hear as Bates varsity rowers.

Steenstra asked them to focus not on what divided them but on what they shared, which was “the competition they saw on a daily basis during practice — the most intense competition they had seen all year.”

“It was a loss for everyone but also a win for everyone.”

Crosby, watching and photographing the scene, heard Steenstra tell the rowers that “they were teammates first. He said it was a loss for everyone but also a win for everyone.

“He told them to come together and be a team.”

What followed was “an unbelievable, emotionally overwhelming coming-together moment.”

As Crosby photographed the scene, she saw “no separate feelings. Just one emotion: Everything that happened, happened to everyone.”

Meanwhile, Crosby the rower heard a clear message about Bates rowing. “It’s not about the first

varsity and second varsity,” she says. “It’s about any woman, any boat, any time. Everyone matters.

Everyone’s crucial. You have a common goal.”

Says Steenstra, “The team, this program, is much bigger than any single race, even the national championship.”

A team rises to that high plane by sharing both grief and triumph.

“These 21 women shared the best season and the most disappointing loss in Bates rowing history — simultaneously. That is something they will share for the rest of their lives.” n

Day 2: May 31, 2:29 p.m., pulling the seniors together

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ENGAGING THE FORCES When President Clayton Spencer describes the Engaged Liberal Arts, one of three strategic priorities guiding the college, she talks about “engaging the forces” facing higher education.

Here’s your guide to what it is and how it works

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fter Clayton Spencer used “skunkworks” to describe an innovative Bates program, we revved up the search engines to find out what the word means.

A skunkworks, we learned, is an ad-hoc team that sets out to solve a problem or invent something.

It dates to World War II, when a Lockheed aircraft engineer coined the term to describe an R&D team that had free rein, away from corporate control, to invent a new fighter plane.

Spencer used the word as she reported on “Course (Re)Design.” Launched last Short Term, the new program gives professors the time and support they need to rework one of their existing courses or create a whole new one.

Course (Re)Design is all about improving the Bates product — and improvement, one could say, is the battle cry of a college initiative called Engaged Liberal Arts, which is all about Bates stepping up the pace of its liberal arts enterprise.

Five professors signed up for the inaugural voyage of Course (Re)Design last Short Term. For support, each professor was allowed to recruit a team of students, and it’s this student-focused element that makes the program highly distinctive — really, how many U.S. colleges give students a starring role in shaping their own curriculum?

For all of Short Term, the redesign teammates worked side-by-side, less like teachers and students and more like colleagues. The experience, Spencer reported recently, was “fabulous, for both sides.”

The faculty got to work closely with students, the kind of intensive experience both parties relish. And students experienced “the intellectual work and many hours that go into creating the courses they take,” Spencer said.

Because each redesign project counted as a Short Term course, students received academic credit and the faculty got teaching credit.

Of course, the best product to come out of this Bates skunkworks was the five new/improved courses now available to Bates students. “New oxygen for the curriculum,” Spencer says.

To give you a sense of how Course Re(Design) typifies the innovative, yet strategic, spirit of the Engaged Liberal Arts, check out the following pages.

On the next page, you’ll see an overview of all three strategic priorities guiding Bates.

And starting on page 48, we offer a case study of the Engaged Liberal Arts in action.

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bates strategic priorities: A little background

The college’s three strategic priorities are:

Engaged liberal arts Purposeful work Opportunity & excellence

Right, innovative programs afoot during Short Term included four “practitionertaught” courses, an example of Purposeful Work (see facing page) in action. Here, Hyo Sun Hong ’16 of Montclair, Calif., explains to President Spencer and Professor of Russian Dennis Browne how her practitioner-taught class in graphic design, taught by Brandy Gibbs-Riley ’96, developed a logo for the annual Harvest Dinner.

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The various new programs to support each initiative have received initial funding from the $11.5 million Catalyst Fund, given in 2013 by current and past Bates trustees.

Here’s what the priorities are about — and what they looked like during Short Term.

what it’s about:

The Engaged Liberal Arts means delivering a rigorous and highly personalized education that centers on deep and sustained interactions among students, faculty and community. It also means engaging the forces — intellectual trends, demographic changes and technology — that are transforming higher education and the world into which our students graduate. It means making a virtue of our scale; creating a diverse and motivated community of students, faculty and staff; and embracing innovative and evidence-based approaches to teaching and learning.

Purposeful Work is a collegewide initiative built on the premise that preparing students for lives of meaningful work lies at the heart of the liberal arts mission. The Purposeful Work initiative helps students identify and cultivate their passions and strengths, and acquire the knowledge, experiences and relationships necessary to pursue their aspirations with imagination and integrity. Over their four years here, Bates will help students discern their interests and how those connect with their studies and with life beyond Bates. We will also provide internships and other work experiences that allow students to pressure-test their interests in a variety of settings.

A commitment to Opportunity & Excellence grows directly out of Bates’ history and mission and responds to contemporary geographic, demographic and economic realities. It means recruiting talented and motivated students from a broad range of backgrounds, providing them with the financial aid that will enable them to enroll, and supporting them for academic and personal success once here.

It also means creating a campus community and climate that capitalize on diversity and inclusion as necessary and powerful dimensions of preparing our students to live and work in an increasingly interconnected world.

What engaged liberal arts looked like during Short Term:

What Purposeful Work looked like during Short Term:

What opportunity & excellence looked like during Short Term:

Led by Professor of Geology Dyk Eusden ’80, students in the course “Geology of the Maine Coast by Sea Kayak” explore Whaleboat Island on April 29, 2014.

Besides geology, students got a few life lessons. Kayaking to Little Cranberry Island, the Bates group needed a place to camp for the night.

A townsperson gave them permission to use her land.

In exchange the Bates group picked up her yard, did some brush clearing and stocked her woodboxes.

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Visiting lecturer Jeremy Fisher ’06 talks to students about the art of the pitch as Ben Schippers ’04, co-founder of the software development startup Happy Fun, listens.

The course, taught by Schippers and Happy Fun co-founder Will Schenk, focused on digital innovation and was one of four new Short Term courses taught by non-faculty experts.

Fisher co-founded the socialmedia startup Wander, recently purchased by Yahoo! Inc.

Hannah Miller ’14 of Saint Louis Park, Minn., works behind the scenes in Schaeffer Theatre.

“Bates to me means breadth and opportunity. It is a place where I can do everything I want to do and try things I never thought possible before. I can study theater, gender, politics, Spanish, chemistry and French without feeling like I have to give something up. I can hike Mount Katahdin and dress up in my favorite purple ’80s dress. I can work in the scene shop and make money doing what I love most. I can study hard and feel the benefits at the same time.”

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Engaged Liberal arts: a case study The Engaged Liberal Arts, one of three strategic priorities at Bates, is about delivering a rigorous and highly personalized education that centers on deep and sustained interactions among students, faculty and community.

TAKE A SAD COURSE AND MAKE IT BETTER It is hard to teach statistics. It’s hard to learn it, too. “It’s like taking castor oil,” as President Spencer says.

Statistics is a staple of the social sciences, but learning the skill doesn’t come easily. And despite tweaks to the Bates statistics course over the years, Douglass knew that many otherwise capable students had a very hard time with the course.

A complete overhaul was in order. And to undertake a successful overhaul, she knew she had to fully “understand the student experience.”

So she took advantage of the Course (Re)Design program. Not only did it promise to give her time to work on the course, but she would be able to involve students in the process.

Last spring, Team Douglass set out to fix the Bates statistics course, Psychology 218. The team comprised

The new-and-improved statistics course has more exams. While the workload will grow, “we feel students need cumulative test experience before they take the final,” said Nina Tupper ’14.

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And what does this look like at Bates today? Like this: Amy Douglass and her psychology students using the innovative Course (Re)Design program during Short Term to rework, and make much better, the notorious and bedeviling Bates statistics course.

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Douglass says that two things struck her: her students’ creative approaches to solving problems, and their abiding interest in making the course better for the next generation of students.

Margaret Foster ’15 of York, Maine, Afifa Avril ’15 of Decatur, Ga., Kelsey Berry ’15 of Hollis, N.H., Eleanor Hough ’16 of Summit, N.J., Patrece Joseph ’14 of Mattapan, Mass., and Nina Tupper ’14 of Kennebunk, Maine.

Meeting four days a week with Douglass in class, the students — all veterans of the existing statistics course — spent time outside class on various projects, from evaluating the effectiveness of quizzes to looking at how papers should be assigned.

They also surveyed 50 Bates students who had taken statistics.

The results told them that students were unanimous that the textbook was horrible. On a positive note, every student said the weekly review sessions offered by Brian Pfohl, the department’s assistant in instruction, were “very helpful.”

By the winter semester, students who take statistics — required for the 70 or so majors who graduate in psychology or neuroscience each year — will experience a revised course that has student fingerprints all over it.

Looking back on the experience, Douglass says that two things struck her: her students’ creative approaches

to solving problems, and their abiding interest in improving the course for the next generation of students.

“Even though they’re done with the course, they really care about making it better for the next cohort,” Douglass says. “It’s like they’re paying it forward.”

Here is an overview of some of the coming changes: I. WE DON’T NEED NO STINKIN’ TEXBOOKS!

Much maligned by students for being dense and redundant, the statistics textbook is now gone from the syllabus. (At the very least, it will save students $130!)

2. WATCH AND LEARN

Next year, students will be asked to watch videos outside of class to help them master “hand calculations.”

That’s the ability to do rough statistics calculations on your own.

“Being able to do hand calculations helps students understand what’s happening in the statistics software,” explains Patrece Joseph.

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Hand calculations are lengthy and complicated. “Because students vary in how quickly they master them, the videos allow students to move at their own pace outside of class,” Douglass says.

3. WAIT. MORE EXAMS?

Instead of just one exam, the final, students will take three additional exams within the semester, each one testing students on material in one of the prior units.

True, adding exams increases the workload. “But we feel students need cumulative test experience before they take the final,” says Nina Tupper.

4. I DON’T LIKE MONDAY QUIZZES

The weekly quizzes will be on Friday from now on, and they’ll be at the beginning of class, not the end.

Having the quiz on Monday meant students boned up on Sunday, when there’s not a lot of academic support if they get stuck.

Giving a quiz at the end of class assesses students when they aren't at their best. Their brains are jumbled, the day’s new information competing with what they need to recall for the quiz.

5. THANK GOD IT’S (NOT) FRIDAY

Having optional review sessions on a Friday afternoon was difficult for students who had already spent an hour and 20 minutes in a lecture. “It’s hard to stay focused on statistics for three hours on a Friday afternoon,” says Kelsey Berry.

They’ll be on Wednesday afternoons now.

6. GETTING REAL

To give the course more of a real-world feel, Douglass and her students have organized the class into four units: Health Psychology, Social Psychology, Psychology and Law, and Parenting and Families.

“We had units before, but they were week-to-week and perhaps not as cohesive,” Douglass says. “They will allow students to explore their interests while applying statistical knowledge.”

7. LEARNING BY DOING

When a professor teaches new ideas and new content right up until the last day of the semester, students don’t always learn well. But they do stress out.

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This winter, the statistics course will instead conclude with student presentations. “They’ll analyze a dataset, and talk about what they’ve learned,” says Eleanor Hough.

“Preparing an oral presentation makes a student think about the material in different ways,” says Afifa Avril. “It also doubles as a way for students to review material for the final.”

8. DEMO REPORTS DONE DIFFERENTLY

The course asks students to write demonstration reports in American Psychological Association style, meaning they need four parts: Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion.

In addition, they write two appendixes, one for hand calculations and one that explains statistical concepts to a lay audience.

“We decided to eliminate two writingintensive parts of the reports, the Introduction and Discussion,” Douglass says, “so students can focus more on the conceptual content of an APA-style report.”

It’s a sensible move. Learning to write an APA-style Introduction and Discussion is already taught in two required methods courses, Psychology 261 (“Research Methods”) and Psychology 262 (“Community-Based Research Methods”).

9. PSSST: SPSS ANALYSES!

Last year, students were required to do brief, outside-of-class analyses using a software known as SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences).

Next year, students will do SPSS analyses in class. They’ll be harder and will use student-designed worksheets.

“Importantly, the worksheets will assume that students watched the videos about hand calculations,” says Douglass.

Meaning that when students come to class to do an SPSS analysis, they will (or should) be ready to roll.

“Moving the SPSS analyses into the class time will allow students to learn more about manipulating the numbers in a problem,” explains Margaret Foster.

In addition to Amy Douglass’ project to fix the Bates statistics course, four fellow professors mounted Course (Re)Design projects last Short Term.

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DESIGNING FACULTY

Above, Gideon Ikpekaogu ’17 of Abuja, Nigeria, talks with Thomas Goetz ’90 following Goetz’s presentation in the course “Social Change Organizing and Advocacy,” one of several innovative and experimental “practitioner-taught” courses last Short Term.

RHETORIC

Stephanie Kelley-Romano and her students redesigned her course on presidential campaign rhetoric. The course already included a mock campaign, which will now involve students from other courses and academic fields.

PSYCHOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE

Jason Castro and his students built a new course in computational neuroscience.

EDUCATION

Mara Tieken and her students created a new course that goes beyond teaching students about community organizing to teach them how to organize, instilling a valuable set of skills.

RUSSIAN

Dennis Browne and his students redesigned the college’s intermediate and advanced Russian language courses.

ENGAGING THE FORCES: THE TECHNOLOGY QUESTION The Engaged Liberal Arts initiative is about embracing the forces that are transforming higher education.

Technology is one such transformational force. But for all its flash and thunder, technology is often just a means to a familiar end, says author and digital entrepreneur Thomas Goetz ’90, who had a one-day residency at Bates during Short Term that culminated with an evening lecture.

For example, in terms of social networking, technology is merely “a proxy for connections we already want,” Goetz said.

“We have always wanted to have friends and always want to connect and have conversations. Technology just lets us do it more efficiently, without physical proximity, and in a distributed form.”

Goetz also spoke about the common misconception that “things are static, that the people who don’t have access to technology today will not have access to technology tomorrow.”

That has been proven wrong, “year after year after year.

When we were having this argument in 2006, 60 percent of Americans had access to the Internet. Today, 85 percent of Americans have access to the Internet.”

While visiting Karen Palin’s biology course on emerging and re-emerging infections, Goetz provided some historical context for the ever-growing scientific knowledge about infections and disease.

He pointed out that what we think is true about our world right now might not be. The good thing is, science is always working to get it right.

“Science is constantly replacing one body of knowledge with a new body of knowledge,” he said. “So we have perfectly good explanations for how the world functions now that are wrong. We don’t know what those are, but they will be replaced.”

Goetz’s current book, The Remedy, was selected as the Common Read for the Class of 2018. He joined President Spencer on stage at events in San Francisco and Chicago last March and April. n

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has sturdy, historic connections to its Maine home.

As I took these photographs last spring — a senior in my last semester — I realized that a student’s time at Bates is relatively brief.

These photographs, though they show water, sky and the built environment, are not traditional landscape shots. Instead, they are created with long exposures, up to 30 seconds.

Most of the details in each photograph are tack-sharp. Other elements of the photographs, those that are in motion, like the water and clouds, are blurred, due to the long exposure. They have the feel of a painting, visually representing the transitory nature of our four-year stay at Bates.

The scenes are beautiful — not obvious, like a postcard, but hidden. The kind of beauty discovered by paying attention.

The new Bates students who are exploring Bates, Lewiston and Maine might miss these beautiful scenes on first glance. I encourage them to look a little more deeply at their new home. n — ezra wolfinger ’14

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Above: Train moving north over the Great Falls Trestle on the Androscoggin River

Right, top to bottom: Page Hall and Lake Andrews, seen from Keigwin Amphitheater A mill building next to Great Falls on the Androscoggin River The ruins of Fort Gorges in Casco Bay

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1944 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Virginia Stockman Fisher diginny@aol.com

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class president Dick Keach richardkeach@att.net

1945 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class co-secretaries Carleton Finch Arline Sinclair Finch zeke137@aol.com

1946 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 Send your Bates news, photos, story ideas, comments, tips and solutions to magazine@bates.edu.

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

1938 class secretary Marion Welsch Spear mspear1@attglobal.net The class extends condolences to the family and friends of our class president, Howard Becker, who passed away Sept. 9, 2014. They include his daughter Carol Becker Olson ’67, her husband David Olson ’65 and his grandson Peter S. Olson ’92. His obituary will appear in the next issue.

1940 class secretary Leonard Clough leonard_clough@yahoo.com

1941 class president Edward Raftery rafandjane@sbcglobal.net The current recipient of the Class of 1941 Scholarship Fund is Emily Regan ’15 of Milton, Mass....

Charlotte Dolloff Turadian is in Maryland, content in assisted living, “about five miles from my house, which sold to a young couple who want to raise a family and live there forever — really special! Last trip back to Maine was in 2009. Good memories of the cottage where my sister Miriam Dolloff Chesley ’45 and our families met each summer.”

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1942 Reunion 2017, June 9-11 class president Rose Worobel rworobel@cox.net The class extends condolences to the family and friends of our class secretary, Barbara McGee Chasse, who passed away on Aug. 7, 2014. Her obituary will be in the next issue...Virginia Day Hayden gave up her car but still summers at Cape Cod. “Another great-grandchild arrived, Emily Jagger, making four. Have had a few medical complications, but who hasn’t?”...Paul Farris is “alive and walking as much as possible. It is sometimes difficult to compare the U.S. now with my youth and my young adulthood.

What have we become and why? I know! Do you?”...Elaine Humphrey Meader entered the Masonic Home Nursing Facility in Wallingford, Conn., because she couldn’t walk....

Helen Martin Aucoin enjoys living in Atlanta with Peter and Margaret, near grandchildren and great-grandchildren....Ruth Ulrich Coffin writes: “My four younger siblings, all of whom went to Bates, and I get together at least once a year. In May 2013, President Clayton Spencer came to Portland to meet the local alumni. Her assistant graciously arranged a private visit with her where I was able to share that I had known the prior five Bates presidents and now was pleased to meet her.”...

Rose Worobel has 17 grandnieces and nephews. She’s in a nursing home, uses a walker, and shows slides of her travels.

1943 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 Roy Fairfield has been struggling with health issues. But he and two Maine friends read “some colossal books,” such as biographies of FDR and Steve Jobs, then get together to discuss them.

class secretary Helen Pratt Clarkson hclarkson1@juno.com class president Jane Parsons Norris janenorris@roadrunner.com

1947 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Jean Labagh Kiskaddon jean.kiskaddon@gmail.com class president Vesta Starrett Smith vestasmith@charter.net

Jinx Prince Washburn ’47 is involved in church, community, musical and literary activities. “All the above keeps me busy so I’m not stealing hubcaps.”

Camille Carlson Gilmour leads a current affairs discussion group and is “forever grateful for the liberal arts background.”...

James Greenfield retired from his law practice in New Haven in 2011....Sad news from Marge Harvey Moore: Her husband, Alton, died May 4, 2013. She has moved to a senior living home in Kennebunk....Dealing with health problems, including a fractured clavicle, Roxane Kammerer says, “What can I tell you? I’m alive.”...

Petie Labagh Kiskaddon keeps busy with church and activities at her senior residence. She participated at the wedding of another granddaughter....Betty May Hansen and Glen ’48 “feel lucky to have each other and our six children.”...Jinx Prince Washburn is involved in many activities, concluding: “All the above keeps me busy so I’m not stealing hubcaps.”...Jane Sedgley McMurray still drives, and aside from her family, finds pleasure in reading, watching TV

and doing crossword puzzles....

Sad news from Vesta Starrett Smith: Daughter Barbara Joan Smith Stark ’73 died of cancer June 15, 2014. Her obituary will appear in the next issue.

1948 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Roberta Sweetser McKinnell 33 Red Gateane Cohasset MA 02025 class president Vivienne Sikora Gilroy vgilroy@verizon.net Class President Vivienne Sikora Gilroy thanks classmates who attended the 65th in 2013, and writes that “our donations surely demonstrate enduring loyalty and support for our alma mater.

Well done! And now: Oft times at night, I’ll turn off my light, And dream of dear old Bates — With happy thoughts and great affection for all of you!...Fern Dworkin Cohn has severe, painful spinal stenosis, but is able to get to the pottery studio, her reading group and the theater, which give her a lot of pleasure....Jeanne Mather Roach is grateful to enjoy good health and an active life in a mentally stimulating environment....

Pinky Planeta Gaffney recalls “Golden Days” at Bates. For her and her late husband John, “Bates was our matchmaker, and that made our alma mater forever special to us.”

1949 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Elaine Porter Haggstrom ephag@aol.com class president Nelson “Bud” Horne budhorne@gmail.com Roy Tibery reports, “My pastime has been playing duplicate bridge. I am now a Silver Life Master.”

1950 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class secretary Lois Keniston Penney hulopenney@sbcglobal.net class president Wes Bonney wbonney@maine.rr.com Bob Baal received the Lifetime Service Award from the Community Television Foundation of South Florida....Phyllis Day Danforth finds plenty to do with a great husband and nightly phone calls with “the best sister in the world,” Carolyn Day Chase ’53....

Bob Dunn’s Parkinson’s persists.

Visits from friends brighten up the time, Gladys Bovino Dunn ’51 reports....Sadly, Marjorie Dwelley Reid lost Bob, her husband of almost 60 years, in

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April 2013. “Thank goodness for family and friends and quilting and knitting,” she writes....Ginny Hastings Gamble is active in Senior College in Bethel....Walker and Sylvia Stuber Heap visited Bates and were delighted with the quality of current students and the new facilities. They visited with Marcia Penniman Hamilton and George ’51....Elaine Hubbard received the 2013 School of Nursing Dean’s Medal at Univ. of Rochester....Joan Hutton Swann lives at Birch Bay in Bar Harbor, near son Scott. Joan and Robert, both teachers, had four children...Barbara LeVine Glaser is involved in several social work-oriented volunteer positions....Lyla Nichols Barclay, in Toronto, says her family includes six grandchildren....As a couple, Hugh and Lois Keniston Penney received two community awards, one as Persons of the Year and the other for Social Responsibility....

Jeanne Pieroway Piccirillo’s time and energy are devoted to her husband of 60 years, in a long struggle with Alzheimer’s. She reports granddaughter Lauren ’15 is happy she chose Bates....Nickie Scott Them sings in the church choir, plays social bridge and duplicate bridge in statewide tournaments....Sadly, Stanton Smith lost his wife, Betty, on April 4, 2013.

Fortunately, two children and two grandchildren live nearby....

Dick Sterne is “still a conservative. I’m not pleased with what is going on in our educational system and trust we can regain our course or we could end up like Europe, Russia, etc.”...Orwell Tousley says, “Church activities continue to be my basic activity — along with doctor appointments.

Otherwise, at 92 years young I’m in great shape!”...David Turell and his wife enjoy their horse ranch in Hempstead, Texas....Rae Walcott Blackmon and Lee ’51 enjoy life in Connecticut while helping family in New Jersey....Delight Wolfe is active in a Bible study group on the life of Paul.

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 Jim Anderson and Lu welcomed two great-grandsons in 2013....

Joe Andrew enjoys being near Bowdoin and auditing courses....

Elaine Annas Bailey lives alone, cooks and does her own errands by bus....Will and Lissa Meigs Barbeau feel lucky to be aging in the family homestead with all three children nearby....Gladys Bovino Dunn and Grace Ulrich Harris joined Eleanor Wolfe Watt ’52 at the camp of Lynn Carlson Leys ’52 in Jamestown,

R.I....Art Darken volunteers as “sustainability planner” at Blackburn College in Carlinville, Ill....Bill and Jean McLeod Dill are delighted with Lasell Village in Newton, Mass., where he writes poetry and she’s on the residents’ council....George Hamilton is having a ball as a part-time carpenter. He and Marcia Penniman Hamilton ’50 divide their time among Florida, their Southport cottage and Northborough, Mass....

Jan Hayes Sterling enjoys her “octogenarian romance” with Don....Nancy Jones Lowe and Hank celebrated their 60th anniversary....Karl Koss stays active with Music for Youth, monthly free concerts with prize-winning classical artists....Edie Pennucci Mead and Dave celebrated their 60th anniversary....Ralph Perry is pleased with President Spencer’s expectations of excellence in both academics and athletics at Bates....Norma Reese Jones continues with gardening, bridge, library and knitting in the company of good friends....World War II veteran Rolvin Risska was selected to go on a Florida honor flight to Washington, D.C., to view the World War II memorial and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier....Don Russell writes that “diversity” has arrived in Texas — young people are living it day by day....Joan Seear traveled to Patagonia and Antarctic Galapagos....Dot Webb Quimby still collects, edits and writes the alumni news for Unity College.

1952 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Florence Dixon Prince fdprince2000@yahoo.com class president John Myers johnmyers52@comcast.net Nate and Harriet Howell Boone feel “blessed in so many ways, family and friends, meaningful involvement in the community, a peaceful and safe environment, and the mental and physical health to do what we want.”...

Norm Brackett enjoys Maui’s 80-degree temperatures, with Maine in summer months....

Marilyn Coffin Brown planned to spend time on Nantucket this summer....Jean Decker Brooks is happily involved in many activities at her retirement community...Flo Dixon Prince still volunteers at the library but has given up some church work. Son Doug had a big 60th birthday party on the Cape....Ginny Edge Shedd reports that Wil has four grandchildren in college, one high school senior and a 4-year-old bundle of energy. She has four in grad school, four in college, one high school senior and four others in middle or high school....Nan Kosinski has chronic health problems, yet

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Robert Pope ’46

media outlet: The Buffalo News

headline:

Veteran recalls surviving the Battle of the Bulge, then dodging U.S. bombs in Germany as a POW

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takeaway: For Allied POWs in WWII, foes weren’t the only threat World War II veteran Robert Pope ’46 of Clarence, N.Y., talks with The Buffalo News about surviving the Battle of the Bulge, then dodging U.S. bombs in Germany as a POW. A machine gunner, Pope and others in the Army’s 590th Field Artillery Battalion were cut off from Allied forces and captured by the Germans in December 1944.

Pope told of having to march 100 kilometers in subzero weather for nine days; being strafed

by U.S. planes while being held in a boxcar and seeing the American standing next to him killed; and surviving the Allied bombing of Leipzig despite not being allowed in the bomb shelters.

Weighing 175 pounds when he joined the Army, Pope was 125 when he was liberated. His psyche had taken a pounding from the trials of war, but he resolved to move forward, telling himself, “That was my past. I’m going to work on my future.”

Pope eventually settled in western New York state and served as a fundraiser for building projects, including Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital in Williamsville.

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her humor’s intact....Katie Lang Patterson ’55 had a birth and a wedding in the offing....Chick Leahey received the Helen A. Papaioanou Award for Extraordinary Service to Bates. See the Sports section for a nice photo of Chick and Ruth....John Myers’ youngest son, Chris, is chief engineer on the Mv Cape Ray, the ship assigned to process the poison gas from Syria. John, Flo, Marilyn, Dotty Pierce Morris and Ron Clayton ’53 gather for lunch on the Cape as health and schedules allow....Austin Rich had carpal tunnel surgery. He and Zell Wilcox Rich enjoyed the Marlboro Music Festival and plan to attend this year....Mason Taber and John get together every so often for lunch. Mason is the caregiver for Cynthia as her health declines....Eleanor Wolfe Watt attended her 65th high school reunion and welcomed a second great-grandchild.

1953 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Ronald Clayton rondot@comcast.net class co-presidents Virginia LaFauci Toner vatoner207@gmail.com Richard F. Coughlin dcoughlin@maine.rr.com

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college in the Northeast and one in Florida; one is in high school in Bruce’s hometown of Newton, Mass.; and the four youngest are in nearby Waltham, offering ample opportunity for babysitting. Bruce extended a 40-year family tradition by attending the Boston Marathon....Marion Shatts Whitaker and Pete ’53 welcomed another great-grandson....Betty Sherman Wildes and Glenn moved to OceanView at Falmouth, Maine, joining 11 other Bobcats in residence representing classes from ’44 to ’67....Ted and Sandy Thoburn report life is sweet in their South Carolina retirement community where activities abound....Don Weatherbee and Epsey lead an active life. He’s president of the American-Indonesian Educational and Cultural Foundation in New York and finishing the revised third edition of his book International Relations in Southeast Asia....Enjoying the good life on Cape Cod, Tom Whitney practices medicine on a limited basis.

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Reunion 2015, June 12–14 acting class secretary Merton “Mert” Ricker mertr33@gmail.com class president Beverly Hayne Willsey stonepost@cox.net

Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Jonas Klein joklein@maine.rr.com class president Marion Shatts Whitaker petmarwhitaker@gmail.com Jerry and Deborah Perkins Handspicker ’64 enjoyed a vaudeville comedy performance in Bennington, Vt., featuring Justin Lander ’98 and Brent McCoy ’03, and had a good conversation with them afterward....Granddaughters’ graduations kept both Jonas Klein and Chris Hendrickson Kunz from enjoying the 60th Reunion, although each promised to wave garnet colors at Dartmouth’s commencement. Jonas’ grandchildren have launched challenging careers: one in software engineering ( joining his grandfather’s “family business” at IBM), one as an actress and improviser (following her late mother and her dad’s “family business” on the stage), and the youngest as a financial analyst. Jonas lunches with Dwight Harvie monthly between Portland and Damariscotta where they plot class activities, brag about family, tell and mostly re-tell tales....Bruce McIntyre says nine grandchildren are the focus of life: one with new MBA is married and buying a first home; two are in

Sally Perkins Poland ’55 and Ted have one son but two new daughters-in-law.

Maine voters made it possible for Rebecca to marry longtime partner Wendy, and the Iowa courts made it possible for Kate to tie the knot with Susan.

Bev Hayne Willsey shares “a story of dear Bates friends and extravagant hospitality.” It involves son Steve, his 8-year-old daughter and a friend needing a place to stay overnight after a long drive to Jackman, Maine.

Reid Pepin invited the three to stay at his Moosehead Lake place for three nights, not just one, and cooked them wonderful meals. “Reid’s hospitality truly touched our hearts!” Bev says....

Nancy Howe Payne participates in the Bates Alumnae Book Club, drawing women in the Boston area from classes spanning ’42 to ’06....Caroline Keiger is busy with library, hospital and a foundation that supports the elderly and indigent....Deborah

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Frank Perham ’56 Keirstead Bublitz still practices pediatrics, now on the second and third generations of kids she calls “Grand Patients.”...Jim Leamon collaborated with older brother Tom, a WWII combat vet and artist/illustrator, on a booklet, “The Military Art of J. Thomas Leamon.”...Carole Lindblow Kull works three days a week at the Outreach Center and Food Pantry on Cape Cod....

Janet Lockwood Johnson plans to retire as a psychiatric mental health person for a home health agency....Warner Lord is transcribing the 1760–99 diaries of Jonathan Sayward, a prominent York resident and Loyalist...

Silver Moore-Leamon enjoys preaching and leading worship in a Universalist church in South Paris and teaching review math to adult learners....Julius Mueller is still involved in medical practice one day a week in Modesto, Calif. He’s been in touch with Norm Sade....Sue Ordway Pfaltz lives on a farm in central Virginia with longtime partner Waverly Parker....Sally Perkins Poland and Ted have one son but two new daughtersin-law. Maine voters made it possible for daughter Rebecca to marry longtime partner Wendy, and the Iowa courts made it possible for daughter Kate to tie the knot with Susan. “We celebrate this and so much else in our lives.”...Charles Ridley sent some 1,500 pages of his study of moral education in East Asian countries that are heirs of the Confucian tradition to a library at Princeton.

1956 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Frederic Huber himself@fredna.com class co-presidents Alice Brooke Gollnick agollnick@valley.net Gail Molander Goddard acgpension@tds.net Since losing her husband in 2012, Sybil Benton Williamson has drawn strength and comfort from family and friends. She’s glad to be busy with her docent work at Dartmouth’s Hood Museum of Art....Arthur Curtis has been considering whether to cut back on his involvements, such as treasurer of the Children’s Learning Center for Dyslexia in Worcester, Mass....After health problems, Rick Hilliard returned to college teaching, “in part because of the legacy I inherited from many gifted and intellectually passionate Bates faculty members such as Dr. Roy and Dr. ‘B’ ”...Dick Hooper lives in Harrison, Maine, with partner Marion Dover. He’s on the Maine Gerontological Society board....Reflecting on his first year without Edna since 1951, Fred Huber writes,

“We ’56ers have endured many, many sad moments, assuaged in part by much heartfelt support from those with whom we move forward.”...Recovering from hip replacement surgery, Nancy Johnson Wiegel is “doing my darndest to walk like the fashion model I always knew I was meant to be.”...Dave and Peggy Leask Olney ’57 are active in several community organizations....Kirk Watson still has a full surgery schedule and trains hand surgeons.

The payoff isn’t monetary for miners seeking Maine gemstones

1957 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 co-secretaries Wilma Gero Clapham claphamwilma@rogers.com Margaret Leask Olney pegolney@verizon.net co-presidents Judith Kent Patkin actionpsj@aol.com Richard H. Pierce rhpierce52@gmail.com

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class secretary Marilyn Miller Gildea marilyn@gildea.com class president John Lovejoy lovejoy@crocker.com Charles Dings looked forward to hosting the 10th annual gettogether of Bates friends and spouses on the Cape, including Don Blanchard ’59, Dave and Gretchen Sheets, Dan Spink and Barbara Quinn, and Hal ’59 and Sue Brown Springstead ’60....Carol Gibson Smith attends independent film showings and belongs to a book club....Dick Jasper reports that his mother, Viola W. Jasper, passed away March 16, 2014, at 105. She was our class’ oldest surviving parent and lived in the Eliot, Maine, home that the family lived in since 1949....Kay Johnson Howells continues activities in Salt Lake City and Hawaii: P.E.O., golf, church, volunteering....Art and Gail Baumann Karszes traveled to Europe and Missouri on business as he still consults for his Japan client....Sadly, Joan Kennard Michel lost Conny, her husband of 55 years, in July 2013. She is back to aqua aerobics and choral singing....Tom King published the book Something to Stand the Rain, a tribute to David Dionisi, who rose to wealth as a corporate executive before surrendering it to lift up the less fortunate....Toni Lovejoy reports the 10-year building project, Minnechaug Regional High School in Wilbraham, Mass., of which he was co-chair is almost done and looks great....

Battling a disease called peripheral neuropathy, Bill MacKin-

Unearthing Maine’s treasures

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In an overview of Maine’s long tradition of gemstone mining, the Lewiston Sun Journal caught up with Frank Perham ’56 of West Paris —the “godfather” of the search for tourmaline, amethyst, garnet and aquamarine found beneath the state’s western mountains.

A geology major at Bates, Perham’s moment of glory came in 1972 in Newry when he unearthed a pocket of tourmaline weighing nearly two tons — the largest single tourmaline pocket ever discovered in North America. Much of the pocket displayed the rare and coveted “watermelon” coloring, with a center of pink surrounded by green.

Despite the potential gem-quality minerals waiting to be discovered, “to make a profit is highly unusual,” Perham told the newspaper.

“It’s not the cash value I’m interested in. It’s the formation of the minerals in the earth.”

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Dwight’s Insights Speaking from experience, 10 tips for a healthy marriage Just as centenarians get asked about the secret to a long life, married couples hitting their 50th get quizzed about their long marriages.

After Dwight Haynes ’59 and his wife, Maryellen, celebrated their golden anniversary in 2012, “three different people in three different places — on an airplane, in church and at the hearing aid center — asked me the same question,” says Haynes, a retired United Methodist pastor.

He figured he better have at least one good answer, but he came up with 10.

Haynes still preaches occasionally and officiates weddings. Paying it forward, so to speak, he sends the tips to newlyweds a few months after he marries them “to let them know I’m still thinking of them and still cheering them on!”

Initially called “10 Tips for Staying Married,” which sounds like a test of fortitude, he now gives his advice a more upbeat title, “10 Keys for a Happy, Healthy Marriage.”

1. Share same basic values and some common interests.

2. Let there be spaces in your togetherness, not smother love.

3. Communicate clearly your thoughts and feelings, listen responsively and keep secrets to a minimum.

4. Live within your means and budget yearly; argue before, not after, money is spent.

5. Maintain a healthy sex life and healthy diet, and exercise.

6. Share housework.

7. Express appreciation — more praise, less criticism.

8. Share religious practices.

9. Be forgiving (unless you’re perfect).

10. Maintain humor and laughter.

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non does lots of hard physical therapy. “Somebody said, ‘You have to be strong to be a senior citizen.’ They weren’t kidding!”...

Donald Moses cut his psychiatry practice to half time. Sally Dean Moses ’60 teaches knitting and crocheting. Son Erik ’87 works for Nature’s Bounty....Peter and Jane Anderson Post report grandson Tyler ’18 is heading for Bates....Nancy Smith Noyes won her moose permit and got a nice cow...Sadly, Shel Sullaway lost Marilyn, his wife of 51 years, in March 2013. He keeps busy as a clinical professor at Tufts Dental School in Boston two days a week and doing volunteer work....Jane Taylor works with a greyhound adoption group and loves having her three greyhounds around....

In Tinmouth, Vt., Jo Trogler Reynolds and son-in-law Doug maintain a section of the Appalachian Trail/Long Trail as well as a shelter. Grant ’57 published Admiral Lord Carleton, the fifth in a series of books about a family on the English-Scots border in the late 16th century.

1959 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class co-secretaries Jack DeGange jack.degange@valley.net Mary Ann Houston Hermance donmar23@gmail.com class co-presidents Barbara Van Duzer Babin barbarababin@comcast.net Christian O. Miller milleridge@sbcglobal.net

Knobby Walsh ’59, who coaches football with his son, says he’s a “svelte 254 pounds, crew cut and no gray hair. Of course, I’ll never look as good as Fred Drayton, so why try.”

Reggie Abbiati Lucas went back to her first love, musical theater, performing at the Reagle Music Theatre in Waltham, Mass....Lou Brown is an adviser to the National Academy of Sciences and the Swedish Secretariat for Environmental Earth System Sciences....Vickie Daniels Aberhart continues with the docent program at the Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum and her music group....Clif Jacobs is organist at the Mount Carroll (Ill.) First Baptist Church and treasurer for the public library....

Marilyn Macomber Ives led a mission trip to South Carolina to rebuild homes in the Sea Islands....Helene Marcoux Quint enjoys performing in community theater and a couple of com-

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mercials....Sadly, Chris Miller lost his wife, Betty Cook Miller, in March 2013. He keeps active and has family close by....Both Democrats and Republicans spoke fondly of Sawin Millett as he retired as Maine’s finance commissioner. He became an expert on the state budget during his 55 years in public service....

Jay Tanzer received the firsttime award of the UConn Dental School Alumni Assn. for his positive influence on students’ lives and careers....Knobby Walsh coaches football in Canton, Mass., with son Michael.

“I’m a svelte 254 pounds, crew cut and no gray hair. Of course, I’ll never look as good as Fred Drayton, so why try.”...Calvin Wilson sang the role of King Hildebrand in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Princess Ida. Son Benjamin Chin ’07 married Nicola Wells.

Benjamin continues his work with the Maine People’s Alliance as political engagement director.

Daughter Emily ’10 works in the Omni Hotel system and has her sights on grad school, Calvin reports.

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

“My only complaint is going to so many funerals for friends and neighbors,” Ken McAfee ’60 says. “Yogi Berra reminds us that ‘if you don’t go to other people’s funerals, they won’t go to yours.’ ” Sad news from Ruth Adams Burke: Her husband of 52 years died Nov. 11, 2013, after many years of illness. Daughter Jessica and her two boys with autism live with Ruth....Chris Bird looked forward to a hiking/ sightseeing trip in Madeira....

Phil Candelmo loves his new, single-level place in Scarborough....Joe and Wanda Jones Corn ’62 travel widely and led an art tour to Cuba. They enjoyed a meal with Pete Skelley and Eleanor en route to Santa Fe, N.M....Robin Davidson sings in his church choir and in the Leominster, Mass., International Veterans Chorus....John Douglas is still active in broadcasting but starting to put it in “cruise control gear.”…Sandy Folcik Levine looked forward to a

trip to England and visiting her extended family....Nancy Harrington Walsh was excited to tour Israel and Petra in Jordan....

Franklin Holz, living with wife Julia in Manila, Philippines, reports his latest transformation is as an executive coach....

Jackie Hughes Cote, who vows to travel as long as she’s upright, and her husband had a great trip to Hawaii with Weldon and Naomi Gregoire Nelson ’60....

Peter Kliem and Ann have become snowbirds, spending summers on Moosehead Lake and winters in Sarasota, Fla....

Dick Krause loves traveling and working for Counselors to America’s Small Business. He and Jan visited his son Doug ’99 in San Diego. He stays in contact with Bates roommate Jim Hall....Betty Langle Fitzgerald reports she lives a happy, quiet life in Ossining, N.Y. She has one horse, two daughters, three grandchildren....Hank Manwell reports “one major exciting and memorable Bates-associated event last fall. My roommate at Bates, Dave ‘Deke’ Burnett, married his partner of 36 years, Larry Bacon, in Newport, R.I., in September 2013. He and Larry had worked hard with others in Rhode Island to finally make such a marriage possible and we are so happy for them.”…Ken and Judy Rogers McAfee ’61 celebrated their 51st anniversary. His major involvement is as treasurer of the Joshua L. Chamberlain Civil War Roundtable. “My only complaint is going to so many funerals for friends and neighbors. I am a great admirer of Yogi Berra, who reminds us all, ‘If you don’t go to other people’s funerals, they won’t go to yours.’ ”…Loretta Novim Jacobson moved to Boynton Beach, Fla., where she’s building a new house in an adult community....Sarah Rubin Blanshei continues to be an active scholar and presented papers at two conferences. She’s also editing a book, A Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Bologna....Edward Stiles puts in 50- to 60-hour weeks teaching medical students and residents, traveling and doing some clinical research. “It is still fun. When it becomes a job I will make a change.”…Linda Swanson Bradley completed her 50th Road Scholar trip. She is presidentelect of her local Lifelong Learning Institute....Richard Teeven and Beverly live on St. Simons Island in Georgia and travel to the Boston area to see their sons, families and friends....Gerald Zaltman remains fairly active with his market research and consulting firm Olson Zaltman Associates. He and Ann divide the year between Longboat Key, Fla., and Owls Head, Maine. “I continue to appreciate the special experience Bates provided and its impact on my career.”

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 Doreen and Bill Gleason are celebrating his 75th on an extended scuba-diving trip….Beverly Graffam Ketchum now lives in Lady Lake, Fla....Vera Jensen Bond entered M.D. Anderson Cancer Center for her second stem-cell transplant. The first was nine years ago and hopefully, this one will be successful too….June brought anniversary time — 50 years-plus for Art (’60) and Sara Kinsel Hayes.

They had a nice visit with Carl and Mary Morton Cowan and celebrated with Jerry and Gretchen Shorter Davis….Dave and Sue Kittredge Barnard moved to a condo in West Boylston, Mass., and love their new surroundings....For eight years, Louise Reid has been organizing book sales for the Ashburnham (Mass.) library. She also sets up sales for nonprofits, including food pantries and Girl Scouts….Jack Simmons was this year’s recipient of the ACLU of Maine Judge Louis Scolnik (’45) Award.

his ALS-afflicted son and family....Dave and Elizabeth Metz McNab ’64 moved one house north into the house where she grew up, the home of her late father, Bill Metz ’37. Grandson Doug ’18 is starting at Bates....

Pete Schuyler and Sonja have fun teaching English to a great group of Nepali refugees....Rob Scofield is active in church, with the U.S. Naval Academy and Reserve, and with the Colorado Symphony....Carol Smith and Sally Marshall Corngold went to Costa Rica for a yoga retreat....

Sandy Smith Boynton had a fun 2013 celebrating the 100th birthday of the MIT Women’s League....Lyn Webber Nelson finds fulfilling volunteer work at 10,000 Villages, a store that sells only fair trade items....With Jean as his excellent caregiver, Ed Wilson says he’s getting stronger after aortic valve surgery and complications....Kim and Marianne Bickford Worden traveled with Annette and Richmond Talbot to Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia. In Florida they visit often with Marian Drew Leibfried and Ray ’60....Linda Zeilstra Kellom says retirement in Hilton Head, S.C., is a nice mix of cultural, social and volunteer activities. She and John got together with Judy Willis Withee and her husband.

1963 Reunion 2018, June 8–10

Reunion 2017, June 9–11

class secretary Natalie Shober Moir nataliemoir@netflash.net

class secretary Cynthia Kalber Nordstrom cknordstrom@verizon.net

class president Bill Holt wholt@maine.rr.com

class president Edmund J. Wilson ed-wilson@kellogg.northwestern.edu

Jim Curtis’ Port City Sound group achieved a ranking of 20th in an international competition among the top-ranked 29 senior barbershop quartets....In the Senior Games State Finals in Cary, N.C., John Farr won gold medals in the 100-meter and 200-m sprints....Bill Holt’s excellent grape harvest in Cape Elizabeth led to some 500 bottles of red and white table wine....Peter Koch faces some semi-serious medical issues with prostate cancer but still planned on skiing over 100 days and biking over 1,000 miles....Bill LaVallee finished first or second in the 100, 200 and 55 hurdles, long jump and javelin at the Maine Corporate Track Assn. event....Butch Sampson and Marti love their new home in Pensacola Beach, Fla. They had a great visit with Natalie and Jim Moir in Baden, Ontario....Evelyn Shepherd Malloy and Jim had a fantastic Western trip with Janice Nelson Odlum and Brian....

As community development director for Piscataquis County, Ken Woodbury is rewarded by helping businesses.

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Jean Cushman Holt made her annual mission trip to the Dominican Republic....Marion Drew Leibfried and Ray ’60 enjoyed visiting with Kim and Bicky Worden in Fort Myers Beach, Fla...Sef Franklin teaches classes in poetry and 21st century novel at Portland’s senior college....Carroll Goodlatte Zeuli enjoyed an intensive course that provides leadership development and community awareness for active seniors....

Rae Harper Garcelon started a popular program to provide rides for seniors who don’t drive....Cindy Hunt Young is in her 31st year as administrative assistant to the health commissioner in Nassau County (N.Y.)....

Cindy Kalber Nordstrom feels like a bionic woman after successful surgery. “My pulmonologists have told me that I have given them the potential to help thousands of people.” She delighted in a memory book from Marnie Webb Snow ’63....

Carl Ketchum continues to help

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1964 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary John Meyn jemkpmeyn@aol.com class president Elizabeth Metz McNab ejmcnab@cox.net At Reunion, Elizabeth Metz McNab received a well-deserved Bates’ Best Award for embodying the college’s values as class president and Reunion chair. Her citation called her “the heart and soul of her class.”...Jon Olsen argues in his new book Liberate Hawai’i! that the 50th state has been an occupied country since 1898 and never “part of” the United States. He says the U.S. “to this very day has no valid claim to the nation of Hawaii,” and declares that Hawaii can regain its sovereignty. A self-described “unrepentant Sixties radical activist,” Jon lived in Hawaii for 36 years.

He returned to Maine in 2001 and the family homestead adjacent to Damariscotta Lake....Also at Reunion, animal welfare leader Esther Rosenthal Mechler received the Alumni Community Service Award for her lifelong devotion to improving the quality of life for countless animals and their humans. From her citation: “Her deep sense of responsibility and compassion for animals has made her a leading advocate for low-cost spay and neuter programs. She has founded or co-founded nine animal welfare programs, most notably Spay/ USA, the nation’s first and largest spay and neuter database, which serves as a model for similar services throughout the country.”

1965 Reunion 2015, June 11–14 class secretary Evelyn “Evie” Horton ehhorton@me.com class president Joyce Mantyla tiojack@aol.com Here are a few notes from our lengthy Class Letter as we prepare for our 50th Reunion....Alan Bemiss and Jean met in 2010 at a loss-of-spouse support group, have been together since and are now happily committed for the future. Their lives are active and enriched by their combined six children and 17 grandchildren....

Kendra Chandler Hough reports that seven years of retirement after 24 years of labor and delivery have brought both thrills and challenges. She has taken trips to Ireland, Costa Rica, Panama through the canal, Newfoundland, Labrador and Atlanta to see the Terra Cotta Warriors. “Everyday life brings me the fun of Scrabble meetups, hand drumming, my purple and red garden, poetic expression and books, books, books!

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Major challenge: PD (Parkinson’s disease), which I am sassing right back by editing the newsletter of local support group.”...Newt Clark and Pat (Lord ’67) enjoy grandparenting and traveling the world.

They have three granddaughters and one grandson. All of them regularly spend the first two weeks of July together. Newt and Pat spent a month traveling in South America and are looking forward to visiting the Baltic this October.

Newt says he stays young by volunteering with Meals on Wheels and an Adult Literacy Program.

“Looking forward to our 50th Reunion in June and hope many of our classmates will return.”...

Tom Day reports from Sunnyvale, Calif., that he is driving UberX in San Francisco and Silicon Valley.

“I tell the youngsters how it used to be, how we got pictures back from spy satellites that I worked on in the ’80s, before digital photography. We used little canisters with a parachute.” He enjoys writing letters to the editor of his local paper and finds great satisfaction in tutoring elementary school kids in reading....Peggy Grimmeisen Gardiner traveled to Charleston, S.C., to spend time with Andrea Buck Bartlett, Lyn Avery Gray and Minda Hamelsky Shein. She has retired from teaching yoga, is taking some courses at Tufts’ Osher Institute, and a quilting workshop. She and Bill ’64 attended his 50th Reunion and recently took their grandchildren to Barcelona. She’s involved with a new organization, Mothers/ Grandmothers Out Front, focused on issues of climate change and hoping to make Massachusetts the first state to have all new energy needs met with renewable energy sources....Judy Morris Edwards has a new grandson who lives with her daughter Kristen in San Francisco. Her younger daughter Jenny is a critical care doctor. Judy has visited with Joyce Mantyla, Karin Mueller McElvein, Irwin Flashman and his wife Elisabeth, and sees Tom Bowditch and his wife Shari often in Charlottesville, Va. “Looking forward to the ‘it couldn’t be us’ Reunion, and hope that lots of classmates decide to attend.”...

Susan Smith Copley retired from the principalship four years ago and is enjoying the newfound flexibility and more time with her husband Doug. She is the executive director of NHASCD, a nonprofit that provides professional development for educators, works with doctoral students at New England College, and does contract work for the U.S. Department of Education.

She finds time for lots of hiking, gardening, volunteering and grandparenting. Sue and Bates roomies Barb Sikes and Linda Olmsted Johnson got together in July. She hopes to see some familiar faces and have some good chats with classmates next June....Brad and Susan Huis-

kamp Wyman have been retired for five years. They have two sons and one granddaughter who lives near them in New Hampshire.

They travel frequently, mostly by tandem bike. Their most recent trip was six weeks on the South Island of New Zealand. When home, they volunteer through the local Retired Senior Volunteer Program at the hospital, blood bank and driving for folks with long-distance medical appointments.

1966 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class president Alexander Wood awwood@mit.edu NPR’s Morning Edition and other media outlets reported on a new study, whose principal investigator is Bill Hiss, that yields more evidence to support what Bates instinctively knew back in 1984: standardized tests do not accurately predict college success. And at their worst, NPR reports, standardized tests can narrow the door of college opportunity. Valerie Wilson Franks ’98 is the study’s coauthor and lead investigator. Bill told NPR that if students “have good high school grades, they are almost certainly going to be fine” in college, “despite modest or low testing.”

1967 Reunion 2017 June 9–11 class secretary Alexandra Baker Lyman toads@snet.net class co-presidents Keith C. Harvie kcharvie12@gmail.com Pamela Johnson Reynolds preynolds221@gmail.com Doug and Carla Swanson Greene live near Durango, Colo., and enjoy farming and the outdoors with 29 cows and 450 apple trees on their 120 acres where they raise alfalfa and grass hay. Their two sons have provided five grandchildren. Carla earned an MSN and became a physician assistantnurse practitioner working in Westchester County, N.Y. John Wiley published her book, Adult Primary Care, which may be made into a movie. She loves grandchildren, gardening, life on the farm and travel. Doug joined Dun & Bradstreet in 1984 and retired in 2001. While at D&B he was “loaned” to the government, and while not a 007 he participated in clandestine operations in several countries. Two knee replacements have not stopped him and Carla from skiing in Telluride. They keep in touch and travel with Nancy Muzio Lynch and Ken when necessary....Rick Powers writes that wife Darcy received her master’s

in women and gender studies from CUNY and is running for a school board seat in Mount Vernon, N.Y. Rick himself is mulling over the retirement idea and playing his trumpet whenever he can, having attended his 14th Jazz Fest in New Orleans.

Daughter Zoe Donaldson ’11 is happily employed as assistant editor at O magazine, and son Ted Powers ’01 returned from the Univ. of Pretoria, South Africa, to join the Univ. of Iowa faculty. Rick has family ties to Iowa City, so this posting is a nostalgic turn.

1968 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Rick Melpignano rickmel713@gmail.com class president Richard J. Gelles gelles@sp2.upenn.edu James Bristol joined the board of Ignyta Inc., a San Diego-based biotechnology company developing precision medicine for cancer patients....Bob Gough Jr., president and CEO of Genovation Inc., a global growth strategies firm, spoke at an executive development program at UNH’s Paul College of Business and Economics. He is also a senior lecturer in management there...

John and Carol Barry Lyons visited David Clay in Melbourne, Fla., where he moved to be near his mother and to enjoy golfing year-round....Carolyn Farr Cimino takes care of two grandkids and travels widely as an avid bird watcher and bird trip leader....

Jane Hippe Reilly works at Child Care Services in between trips to visit grandchildren.

Russ ’66 volunteers with the Middlebury men’s basketball team and Habitat for Humanity....Carla Hoag White retired from Kaiser Permanente after 20 years but hopes to return there two days per week. She keeps up with Carolyn Sturgis Hall, and she and Jim have frequent visits with Joanne Daniels....

Anne MacMillan Dolan loves her move to Portland, Ore., where she has a part-time private practice specializing in infertility, pregnancy loss and high-risk pregnancies....Rick Melpignano performed in his 14th piano recital in Boston since resuming his music studies. He keeps in touch with Kathy Holden Trainor with whom he shares a love of classical music....Scott Taylor and Janet Drewiany ’70 are in their sixth year of building a cottage near Boothbay Harbor.

They live in Fairbanks, Alaska, where he works half time for the Univ. of Alaska in planned giving and she just retired from teaching second grade....Lou Weinstein was elected an officer at large for the American Medical Assn. Senior Physician Section.

class president Richard Brogadir dbrogie1@aol.com

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 Bruce Stangle, the co-founder of Analysis Group, the largest private economic consultancy in the world, returned to Bates as part of its entrepreneurship speaker series last winter.

1971 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Suzanne Woods Kelley suzannekelley@att.net The obituary for our late class president, Peter Hine, is in this issue. We miss him, and express condolences to his wife, Candis Yimoyines Hine, and family members, including daughter Katherine Hine Smith ’99 and son-in-law Corey Smith ’99; sisters Pamela Hine ’77 and Nancy Hine Juliano ’78; and cousin Thomas Bowditch ’65. Peter and our classmate Sally Kayser Tan were remembered during the Alumni Memorial Service at Reunion last June.

1972 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Steven H. Mortimer stevenhmortimer@gmail.com class president Wayne V. Loosigian wloosigian@exeter.edu John Amols lives in Charlotte, N.C., with his wife and works in real estate development....

Paul Bibbo has worked 25 years at a Head Start program on New York’s Upper West Side....

Melinda Bowler DeVoe works as a public health nurse in Idaho Falls, Idaho, and babysits her grandkids....Donn Brous lives in the north Georgia mountains and manages a great folk art gallery....Fred Coltin traveled to Israel with his family and met up in Jerusalem with Mike Attinson, who gave them some great insights into the country....

Doug Daly’s PSP is slowly getting worse and he’s now totally

1973 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Kaylee Masury kmasury@yahoo.com class president Tom Carey tcarey@bates.edu Jim O’Connell gave a lecture based on his book, The Hub’s Metropolis: Greater Boston’s

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class secretary Bonnie Groves beegroves@comcast.net

celebrate and reconnect with bates and friends

Reunion 2019, June 7–9

disabled....Will Doherty joined Casale Media as senior director of business development for its Index Exchange division in its New York office....Judy Fraser retired and bought a house in Queensbury, N.Y....The Portland Press Herald recounted how Anna Hosmer Wells and her husband Owen, known for their arts philanthropy, gave a collection of photos to the Portland Museum of Art. The Wells collection represents many highlights of 20th-century U.S. photography with an emphasis on photographers working in Maine. “It’s an amazing gift of works by some of the most amazing photographers of the last 100 years,” said museum director Mark Bessire. Anna is current president of the museum trustees....Jan Hotaling Bass is an adjunct professor at Plymouth State Univ.’s Health and Human Performance Department. She also plays flute with the college flute choir....Wayne Loosigian is director of The Exeter Fund at Phillips Exeter and spends weekends in his apple orchard....Steve Mortimer lives in Poland Spring with Alice. At Junior Achievement he educates K–12 students on financial literacy, careers and work readiness....Peter Murray and Catherine run an insurance agency on Cape Cod. They spend time with grandson Owen Murray Stevenson and his parents, Cate Murray Stevenson ’03 and Ian ’03....Jocelyn Penn Bowman and Jim are happy to be in Fairbanks, Alaska, where she continues her work in child custody evaluation....Bob Roch retired and enjoys this new life chapter.

He and his partner Steve like to travel....Homa Shirazi likes her work as a school psychologist in Massachusetts....Connie Tuller is working to become a Maine Master Naturalist and volunteers for Great Pond Mountain Conservation Trust....In central Vermont, Ann Webster Lester and Shawn make stained-glass jewelry with hand-cut and fabricated sterling pictorial overlay....Mark Winne pursues his work as an independent consultant on food policy issues while serving as a senior adviser to Johns Hopkins Univ.

School of Public Health....John Zakian works in Lower Manhattan as a subject matter expert consultant supporting efforts to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Sandy.

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takeaway: Lester Kenway ’75

Development From Railroad Suburbs to Smart Growth, at the Watertown (Mass.)

Historical Society. He works as a planner for the National Park Service’s Boston Regional Office....Ira Waldman received the Outstanding Real Estate Lawyer Award from the Los Angeles County Bar Assn.’s Real Estate Property Section. He is a partner in the firm Cox Castle Nicholson.

Do it right and you won’t have to do it over media outlet:

Portland Press Herald

headline:

Maine’s Lester Kenway a quiet legend on the Appalachian Trail

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Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Tina Psalidas Lamson tinal2@mac.com class president Don McDade dmcdade@llbean.com Court Lewis, a clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at UConn’s School of Medicine, spoke at a series on aging in Bloomfield, Conn....Former Denville (N.J.) Mayor Carol Prochazka Spencer was named Woman of the Year by the New Jersey Federation of Republican Women, which cited her accomplishments in politics and business. She is the digital and social media manager for Morris County.

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July 27, 2014

Reunion 2015, June 12–14

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A Portland Press Herald profile celebrates Lester Kenway ’75 for his trail and conservation work around the country.

An Appalachian Trail legend, Kenway is responsible for technical advances in trail building that can be found in the nation’s best-loved parks, including Maine’s Baxter State Park, at the AT’s northern end.

His achievements include a pulley system that aids hikers attaining the summit of Katahdin, the highest mountain in Maine, a technique replicated in Yellowstone National Park and elsewhere.

This former Outing Club member has dedicated his life to making the outdoors accessible.

He was trail supervisor in Baxter from 1978 to 2000, and from 2001 to 2008 he was program coordinator for the Maine Conservation Corps.

His motto, the trailblazing trail builder tells the Press Herald, is: “Do it well, do it once, do it to last.”

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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

“Everybody can be pushed to get better,” says Pat McInerney ’75, the new head of Kents Hill School, and it’s up to teachers to both push and support.

Rich Forde, retired senior vice president and chief investment officer of Cigna Corp., was appointed to the board of Connecticut Water Service Inc....Pat McInerney talked with the Kennebec Journal about being the new head of Kents Hill School in Readfield, where he arrived in 1992 as a biology teacher and assistant head of school. Besides teaching and administration, he has coached soccer, tennis and skiing at the coed prep school.

“My education philosophy is you want to meet every student

where they arrive — whether that’s in biology or that’s in skiing or that’s in their personal hygiene if they’re a ninth-grade boy — and move them forward in all those areas.” Everyone can be pushed to get better, he says, and it’s a teacher’s job to push and support.

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Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Jeffrey Helm jeffrey.helm@verizon.net class president Bruce Campbell brucec@maine.rr.com Kathy Fisher, head of the Wealth Management Group at AllianceBernstein, talked about “China’s Challenges, America’s Advantages” at the Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning in Manchester Center, Vt....Jordan Fiore was elected to the Taunton (Mass.) School Committee where he served three two-year terms in the 2000s. A lawyer, he also served 14 years on the city council....

Richard Pettengill, chair of the Lake Forest (Ill.) College Theater Department and a musician, is the co-editor of Taking It to the Bridge: Music as Performance. In the book, musicologists and performance studies scholars examine the role of performance in musical culture....Karen Stathoplos is in her 25th year in charge of membership and financial statements for the environmental nonprofit Laudholm Trust.

She and her husband spent 16 days in Provence and Paris.

She performed three concerts with her group Mosaic and two with Two for the Show....

Steve Stycos runs a two-acre vegetable farm in Warwick, R.I., that provides fresh produce to the city’s main food pantry. He also serves on the Cranston City Council and reports he had his ward blanketed with overnight parking tickets when he voted against the police contract....

Claudia Turner published Scars and Stripes Forever, a suspense novel set against the backdrop of President Kennedy’s assassination. Kirkus Reviews called it thought-provoking and entertaining.

1977 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class co-presidents Joel Feingold joelafeingold@me.com Dervilla McCann meistermcn@aol.com class secretary Steve Hadge Steve_Hadge@alumni.bates.edu

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At Mass General, Joren Madsen ’77 transplants hearts, runs an immunology lab, directs the Transplant Center and “stays in touch with Bates through students who shadow me each year.”

Jay Bangs is chair of microbiology and immunology at the Univ. of Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences....Lisa Barry, retired from Chevron, is a new Bates trustee....In Santa Barbara, Calif., Amy Batchelor Bacheller’s holistic healing practice, Scent From Heaven, is expanding. She and Glenn ’76 love the sense of community and year-round gardening....Peter Brann teaches part time at Columbia and Harvard law schools.

His twins are college seniors....

Elizabeth Smart and researcher Landi deGregoris Turner discussed “Helping Teens Build Healthy Relationships” at the annual Adolescent Sexual Health Course in Houston. Smart, infamously kidnapped when she was 14, is an advocate for survivors of rape, kidnapping and human trafficking. Landi, co-chair of the psychology department at Eastern Univ., studies the relationship between religion and sexuality....

Jane Duncan Cary and Michael are happily ensconced in Wilmington, Vt. She is director of science and technology advising at Williams College....Joel Feingold expanded his business by returning to his passion, artist management....Kate Flom had marvelous rendezvous with Robin Lee and Paul, Ellen Gross and daughter Becca, and Nancy Schroeter Werner. All were at Sue Fuller Wright’s home in Buffalo, Minn., to celebrate the weddings of her two sons....David Foster splits time between Portland, Ore., where his company is, Truckee, Calif., where he and his wife do lots of skate skiing and trail running, and NYC....Linda Griffiths Johnston and sister Carol Griffiths ’81 have been busy helping relatives in poor health. Linda plays medieval and Renaissance music in the Calderwood Consort....Carl Grove enjoys working at CMMC in Lewiston and is helping to start a new church, Victory Church, in Bath....Sherry Knudsen is now director of development at Vermont Works for Women, which helps women and girls recognize their potential....

Wendy Korjeff Bellows works for Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay. Alan ’78 has taken up blacksmithing....

Steve Lancor and Ann Marie celebrated their 35th anniversary.

He enjoys working in the wine and spirits industry....Linda LeBlanc Manning and Peter live in Kingfield. He found his niche at Mount Abram Regional High School, now in the chemistry lab. She works part time at Maine Huts & Trails, Carrabassett Coffee and Sugarloaf....At Massachusetts General Hospital, Joren Madsen transplants hearts and directs the Transplant Center. He sees Doug MacSwan and family every July 4th. “I stay in touch with Bates through the students who come shadow me for a week each year.”...

Cardiologist Dervilla McCann is taking a year of personal leave to complete a master’s in public health at Harvard. She’s been working on a project in Lewiston focusing on the increased risks among Franco Americans for very high cholesterol and early heart disease. “I hope the work can continue and possibly be complemented by studying public health.”...Ken Sabath was delighted to “re-experience” Bates and Maine through daughter Zena ’14, who graduated with a B.A. in biochem and is off to medical school....Peter Sucsy lives in northeast Florida and works for the St. Johns River Water Management District. He reports Anna ’17 loves Bates....

Keith Taylor and Wendy started renovations on a vacation home in Chatham, Mass., while dealing with full-time care of an elderly parent....Janmarie Toker Strong ’76 practices law at McTeague Higbee and is a frequent guest columnist in local papers....

Jackie Wolfe says her malignant melanoma cancer is all gone and she’s “working on the facial scar which, as far as scars are concerned, is pretty nice.”

1978 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Chip Beckwith chipwith@yahoo.com class president Dean M. Berman dean@oceanedgefoods.com

1979 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Mary Raftery mgraftery@gmail.com class president Janice McLean janmcle@charter.net

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

David Beneman was reappointed for a third term as the federal public defender for the district of Maine....Visual artist Jo Ann Fleischhauer and the contemporary music group Musiqa collaborated on the public art installation “What Time Is It?” at the Market Square Clock Tower in Houston.

1981 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Katherine Baker Lovell cklovell@verizon.net class president Kathleen Tucker Burke sburke4155@aol.com Jane Cynewski Elkin published a chapbook, World Class: Poems Inspired by the ESL Classroom. The collection illustrates her students’ struggles and triumphs by addressing their linguistic challenges and culture shock alongside broader social issues....Marcy Innes and Dan Pontbriand were married June 7, 2014....Patti Lane enjoys life in Tewksbury, Mass. She works as a BSA at Epsilon, a database marketing company, and is active in ski racing....Paul Morin was elected vice president of the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners....Bud Schultz hiked the Appalachian Trail, raising money for Tenacity, a literacy life-skill development program he started that serves youth in the Boston public schools.

While hiking through Virginia, Bud visited with Rob and Judy Dolan Jobrack and Steve Curran. Bill Heines ’79 joined him for a week on the trail, and Mark Miller joined him on the final day of the hike to the summit of Mount Katahdin....John Spence is grateful to be back in Austin, Texas, following a year in Houston with the nonprofit Reasoning Mind. He’s now a program associate with SEDL, working to support the Texas Education Agency on a variety of education change projects....

Rick Sullivan is now chief of staff to Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick....Chris Walton enjoys being a father but worries about having the energy to keep up with his 5-year-old twins. “I haven’t been mistaken for their grandfather yet, but I know that is coming!”...Karen Woodberry joined Oyster River Veterinary Hospital in Lee, N.H., as an associate veterinarian.

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

Sue Purkis ’82 stopped

by Bates and ran into her former teacher Gene Clough, who immediately recognized her after 30 years. “He is still the caring, intelligent man he was then.”

Ann-Marie Caron was inducted into the AuburnLewiston Sports Hall of Fame.

She excelled in softball and field hockey at Lewiston High and went on to play at Bates, where she also ran track. She earned 12 varsity letters at Bates and set several field hockey records and an indoor shot put record.

“It’s a great honor,” she told the Sun Journal. “It’s bizarre to be recognized for something I just enjoy doing.”...Jerry Donahoe concluded six years of service on the Bates Alumni Council. He continues as class secretary and lead class agent....

Walter Dillingham, managing director for endowments and foundations at Wilmington Trust, was quoted in Pensions & Investments on his coauthored study of 1,300 foundations that support public and presidential libraries. The report reveals a “little-examined asset-owner segment” of the endowment world that could become fertile ground for investment management services...Heidi Duncanson and Mark Weaver ’80 are empty nesters with son Andrew now a BU grad and daughter Hope attending Stonehill College....Greg Fox directs the Program for International Legal Studies at Wayne State Univ. Law School....J.D. Hale and Cindy enjoyed watching the Bates women’s lacrosse team and daughter Rosie ’14, though torn when Rosie played against sister Lacey, a freshman at Connecticut College. (Bates won 15-12)....Ruth Mary Hall is now certified as a basic hatha yoga and meditation teacher in the integral yoga tradition....Kee Hinckley and Mollie planned to marry this summer. She’s working on a Ph.D.; he has a blast working for TiVo....Neil Jamieson’s big news: Oldest daughter Ainsley ’18 entered Bates....

Tim Kane and family couldn’t be happier with the move to Gotham. He enjoys his work at The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., which Spencer (17) and Olivia (12) love. Emma ’14 graduated from Bates. Beth George ’85, entrepreneur, lawyer, writer, owns and operates Spelt Right Baking LLC....

Visiting youngest son Kent ’17 at Bates, Kim Lawrence Byrd has had fun catching up with friends like Jeff Melvin, whose

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son Andrew ’17 is a classmate/ teammate....Since he left his Vermont law practice in 2008, Stephen “Rabbit” Mackenzie has spent all but six months in Iraq or Afghanistan. He’s now in Kabul as legal adviser to the Afghan Natural Disaster Management Agency....Karl Mills concluded “10 fabulous years as a trustee” at Bates, leaving the board in the capable hands of Steve Fuller and Bill Carey....Sue Purkis stopped by Bates and ran into her former teacher Gene Clough, who immediately recognized her after 30 years. “It was great chatting with him — he hasn’t changed.

He is still the caring, intelligent man he was then.”...Yvonne Roessel lives in Amsterdam with a business as an interim/ project manager, ideally located for travel to clients throughout Europe. “I found one headquartered in Amsterdam and looked forward to spending some time at home. Joke is on me — I travel every week: Germany, Switzerland, Czech Republic, South Africa, France, Africa.”...

Ellen Wilkinson’s son Andrew ’17 is at Bates, first in Smith, the dorm his grandfather lived in, and now Webb House, where Ellen lived her sophomore year....Lori Norman Campbell and Tom attended two college graduations in May: daughter Megan from Wheaton and twin sister Bethany from Hamilton....

Rich Regan met up with MD 105 roomies Jon Marcus, Chris Scully and Dave Arenstam ’83 at the wedding of Dave’s older daughter Emma ’08, whose mom is Teri Hogan Arenstam ’81....Sunny Stiles Seale is a Meetup host for a walking group....Marty Wonson Brandt was promoted to senior quality engineer/reliability monitor program manager at IXYS Integrated Circuits Division.

1983 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Leigh Peltier lpeltier@prestonagency.com class co-presidents James D. Tobin jamestobin@att.net Terence M. Welch twelch@mfs.com Jane Calderwood is legislative director for Rep. Mike Michaud, D-Maine....Tom D’Arcy is CEO of American Realty Capital Healthcare Trust Inc....Scott Hazelton, director of IHS Global Insight Construction and Manufacturing Industries Practice, is scheduled to speak at the 2014 World Crane and Transport Summit in Miami....Charles Normand joined Hinckley Allen as a partner in the firm’s health care practice in Providence and Boston.

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1984 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Heidi Lovett blueoceanheidi@aol.com class president Linda Cohen linda@lscdesignstudio.com

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

Heather Beebe ’85 says, “I am some weird cross between soccer mom and management consultant. I am not sure if that is ‘leaning in,’ leaning out, or just trying not to tip over.”

Shannon Banks and LK Gagnon ’88 were married July 13, 2013....Elissa Bass was laid off from Patch.com in 2013 “in what was perhaps the most dramatic media meltdown ever.” After a “very enjoyable unemployment, spending four months accepting checks from the state of Connecticut and driving my children to their sporting events, I have decided I am a digital and content strategist, social media savant and public relations Johnny-on-thespot, able to bang out a press release at a moment’s notice.”

Clients include a chamber of commerce, a nature center, a coalition to end homelessness and a coffee shop. “I have all the bases covered for total world domination.”...Heather Beebe is in her 16th year in Calgary, Alberta, and 20th in Canada. “Laura (16) and Anna (13) are very involved in competitive soccer. Laura is starting to look at schools and has Bates and other NESCAC colleges on the list. I am some weird cross between soccer mom and management consultant. I am not sure if that is ‘leaning in,’ leaning out, or just trying not to tip over.” She had a very nice 50th year, with a Philly trip to visit Lisa D’Antonio Bryan and Karen Anderson, as well as a quick stop by Andy and Jane Casey Criscitiello. “My daughters are both bilingual in French, a fact that I owe as much credit to my Quebecois husband, Luc, as I do to Dick Williamson, my great Bates friend and mentor, whom I

miss greatly.”...Karen Clay Simpson and family live near Auckland, New Zealand, but are moving to the Netherlands for a year or so. Richard was offered a new position within his company. Their oldest, Kip, is 13; twins Reid and Quinn, 12, competed as some of the youngest athletes in the New Zealand Special Olympics National Summer Games for swimming and both brought home bling....Julie Carson, in Pacific Grove, Calif., now heads up product management at a company called LanguageLine Solutions. “I enjoy the challenge of managing a new business after so many years spent in telecommunications.”

Emma ’18 is at Bates....Dana DeNault relocated to Rio de Janeiro....Dan Hoffman and Kim spend most of their free time taking care of sons Jerron, who looks like Dan, and Nathan, who looks like his mom. Their winter highlight was seeing Swan Lake at the Kennedy Center. “The ballet reminded us of what was so good about Moscow where we lived from 2008–10, in contrast to Russia’s power play in Ukraine!”...John Kroger’s oldest son graduated from Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in New Hampshire.

His oldest daughter got married. “That leaves seven more.

Still living in Peru (Maine), working in Rumford, too many meetings at CMMC in Lewiston.”...Lise Lapointe-Murer lives with Louis and son Evan (7) in Williamsburg, Va., where she works as a physical therapist for Riverside health system in a large continuing care community. She keeps up with Elsie DiBella....Mark Lewis, in Shelton, Conn., and Renee celebrated their 11th anniversary.

With the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, he started a new job as brownfields coordinator, working with developers, cities and towns, other state agencies and the EPA to facilitate the cleanup of properties with contaminated soil or groundwater that are abandoned or underused. “I enjoyed a great ski weekend in New Hampshire with Dave Nightingale and Roy Belden.

Lydia Tilsley, who is Elsie DiBella’s sister, is one of my regular running buddies.”...CJ May has been reading Harry Potter in Mandarin for a potential gig this fall doing environmental magic at a Chinese artists convention. “I thought I should learn some magical terminology and the translations are a big help in putting my shows on water, energy and recycling into a magical context in a foreign language.”...Andrew McGillicuddy was named CEO of EndoCellutions Inc. in Marshfield, Mass., a development-

stage medical device company....

Camille McKayle was named provost and vice president for academic affairs at the Univ. of the Virgin Islands after holding the post in an interim capacity....

Pam Rawson Morse and Earle ’84 went to Slovakia to watch son Sam compete in the FIS Alpine Junior World Championships.

“Sam brought home a lovely silver medal (for under-18s in the downhill) — it actually looks like a very large beer mug. Now why they would give a beer mug to a 17-year-old remains the question!” Sam was nominated to the U.S. Ski Team, and Ben graduated from Dartmouth....Amber Tatnall, library director at York County Community College, talked with Tri-Town Weekly about her first book, The Trolley Parks of Maine. Amber, who likes to drive around Maine searching for traces of old trolley parks and railroad buildings, volunteers at the Seashore Trolley Museum’s library. “Trolley parks existed all over Maine, yet there is little trace left of them today.”...Deb Valaitis Kern prepared to send her first-born off to college, Albertus Magnus in New Haven.

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 Thanks to everyone who contributed to last winter’s Class Letter, one of the beefiest letters ever at Bates! Below are a few notes from that letter from friends we hadn’t heard from in some time.

If classmates or our friends from nearby classes want to read the whole letter, just contact Bates at alumni@bates.edu....Lisa Cogan Brown is in her 22nd year teaching at Freeport Middle School where she is the sixth-grade team leader and social-studies content leader. Living in nearby Durham, Lisa and David have been married 22 years, and she has three stepchildren — “grown, gone and gainfully employed, so they’re calling that a success!”...After 25 years working on programs for the homeless in Massachusetts, Deb Connolly purchased a yarn shop in Hingham Square, Mass., and named it Yarns in the Square.

An avid knitter, she relishes her 7.5-mile drive to work, and also likes making decisions without regard to how the governor or his appointees will be impacted next Election Day....John Daley suffered a T12 compression fracture in 2013. It meant no skiing for most of last winter, but otherwise he was “crazy lucky.”

He and Danelle (Corbett ’87)

greg johnson ’he

have two children: son Jack is at Milton Academy and daughter Mingge is in fourth grade.

They are still in Kennebunk....

Reginald Floyd was appointed first assistant prosecutor for the city of Atlantic City. He and his wife of 25 years, Monique, are still raising their adult “kids” in Northfield, N.J., with joy and love. He is also the senior pastor of a church in South Jersey....

In California, Peter Gluck is a partner in the intellectual property group at Brown Rudnick in the firm’s Orange County office. Eldest son Max has graduated from CU–Boulder; middle son Dylan was the goalie for Santa Margarita Catholic High School’s 2013 USA Hockey national championship team; and youngest son Nicholas plays for the Bantam AA Ducks of Anaheim. Peter’s wife, Jill Tracy, was promoted to director of environmental service for California’s largest utility....After five years in Guatemala, Melissa Hambly-Larios and family are in Lima, Peru. Andres (10) has become a surfer in addition to his passion for soccer. Her husband continues to enjoy his work as fiscal economist for the IDB. Melissa has consulted for local governance, prevention of violence and citizen security....

Cliff Hicks and Julissa Palafox, married 11 years, bought a 1927 Spanish-style home abutting San Bruno Mountain in San Mateo County with plenty of open space but still convenient to San Francisco for work and for school for their girls, Umari (10) and Nia (4). Julissa is a school social worker for the San Francisco Unified School District, and Cliff works for the Department of Public Health as a psychiatric social worker for low-income families. The work is extremely meaningful given his own beginnings as a “project kid.” He also has a private practice, Urban-based Adventures, using outdoor rock-climbing experiences to treat trauma-exposed preadolescent children, the topic of his Ph.D. dissertation in clinic social work from Smith College School for Social Work....

Sara Lander Sherman got together with freshman roommates Jennifer Moore Rynne, Heidi Galpern and Meg Webb Wright for the first time since graduation. They reminisced about their spacious quad, studying together and hours of canasta. The evening got rowdy when they passed around the rum cake, causing them to break into favorite college songs like “You Can’t Hurry Love” and “Maneater.” The night ended around 8:15, and they still got home in time for the Miami Vice marathon. Just like old times....Diane Murphy Foster and husband Hutch are in Utah, where he’s a ski patroller at

GREG JOHNSON

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Haiku You Can Use Condensed from 1,500 pages to 17 syllables, climate change explained First came the 1,500-page report on climate change. Then came the 28-page condensed summary.

Then, thanks to Greg Johnson ’85, came the 17-syllable haiku version.

The report in question was Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis, published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Johnson, an oceanographer at NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, was a major contributor to the report, serving as a lead author of the chapter on climate change and the oceans.

Sick at home one day, he was going over the shorter summary.

“I thought that if I tried distilling these ideas into haiku, maybe that would help fix them in my mind,” he told Reuters reporter Jonathan Kaminsky.

Johnson eventually created 19 haiku about climate change, pairing the poems with his watercolors. Here’s the haiku that goes with this watercolor:

Wet will get wetter and dry drier, since warm air… carries more water.

The haiku and paintings were published online by the Sightline Institute, a Seattle-based environmental policy think tank.

Another writer who covered the story noted that “Johnson proves... scientists can also be poets.”

(As a disclaimer, Johnson emphasizes that the haiku and watercolors were a personal project, and don’t represent his employer, NOAA, or the international team of scientists responsible for the report.)

For his contributions to the report, Johnson received a NOAA Administrator’s Award in 2014. In 2013, he was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and won the Georg Wüst Prize from the German Society for Marine Research.

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takeaway: Charles Perou ’87

media outlet: Medical Xpress

headline:

Solving cancer’s secrets

date:

April 21, 2014

takeaway: Better therapies follow better understanding of cancer genetics “Some fathers play ball with their sons,” Medical Xpress reporter Mark Derewicz writes in introducing cancer researcher Charles Perou ’87.

“Chuck Perou’s father took his son to his pathology lab.”

Derewicz’s talk with Bates biology major Perou surveys the genetic underpinnings of cancer and explains how ongoing research increasingly enables doctors to tailor the treatment to the disease.

Perou has identified four major breast cancer subtypes that “are really indicative of underlying genetics. And it’s underlying genetics that dictate the behavior of tumors and their sensitivities to therapies.”

Now a professor of molecular oncology in the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Perou is doing work that’s “fundamentally reshaping the scientific understanding” of breast cancer, The New York Times noted in 2012.

Park City Mountain Resort and runs the avalanche dog program. Diane earned a master’s in public administration and is city manager of Park City. After 22 years in the private sector she finds “municipal government fun, challenging and rewarding.”...Dave Reynolds welcomed Bates friends to his cabin near Westcliffe, Colo., last June for a week of hiking, rafting, flyfishing and reconnecting.

“It was a grand affair,” he says.

The crew included Joc Clark, Mark Scholtes ’84, Alex Johnston ’84, Dan Calder ’84, Nick Lindholm, John Abbott, Brad Turner and John Cutler ’87....

Mary Sulya Powell is director of operations for the Alcohol/ Drug Council of North Carolina and principal investigator for a Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services grant to enroll people in the federal health insurance exchange. An article about their project was featured in The Wall Street Journal. In 2014, son Brian finished his senior year at Camelot Academy where he was the center on the basketball team. Daughter Stacy is in high school at the Durham School of the Arts where she is a varsity tennis, indoor track and soccer player....James Tarbox and his partner were finally able to get married, in October 2013. For the last eight years, they lived in two different countries, and were continuous migrants between the U.S. and Mexico. The Supreme Court’s decision with respect to DOMA changed their lives overnight, and in ways that they thought they’d not see in their lifetime.

Recently, James asked a friend who turned 60 what she thought of her 50s and she said, “You learn to work your way through loss and to say with great certainty, ‘This is who I am’ and live strongly from that position.”…Patty Walker has been in a transitional place in life after ending a 19-year relationship, going through the difficult process of separating belongings and getting their house ready to sell. Patty took three of their dogs, leaving two dogs and two cats. Between chocolate, long walks with the dogs and watching Dr. Who DVDs, she’s muddling through. Patty enjoys her work as a software trainer at a law firm in downtown D.C. She’s also on a search team with one of her dogs, a 10-year-old Lab-Australian shepherd.

1987 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Val Brickates Kennedy brickates@gmail.com class president Peggy Brosnahan mmb263@cornell.edu

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When Lynn Grondin Hannum ’87 ran into Peggy Brosnahan ’87 at a conference in Honolulu, they reconnected with a unique combination of immunology and fire dancers on the beach.

Rich Barnard, who lives in Atlanta with his wife and two boys, works at Manheim Auto Auctions, part of the Cox Companies....John Blanchette works at Champoux Insurance as a commercial lines producer and manager. He coaches the Bates Ballroom Team, which competes on the collegiate circuit....Finishing her Ph.D. in immunology, Peggy Brosnahan hoped that 2014 brings a “real” job, a full marathon and her first ultra....Brooke Garrettson Carroll is head of school at Seneca Academy in Darnestown, Md. Brian hung out his own shingle as Brian Carroll Architect LLC. Andrew is 14, Molly 12....John Cutler launched a startup, New Grid Networks in California. He got in a lot of Maine paddling and adventuring with Dave Boothby....Kathleen Flaherty lives the cowgirl life outside Tucson, Ariz. She celebrated the 30th anniversary of meeting Bates Bunkie Molly Marchese Mullin. She gets back to Massachusetts to hang out with Molly and Chris Mullin ’85 and Kerry Crehan Dunnell ’86....Lynn Grondin Hannum, an associate professor of biology at Colby, ran into Peggy Brosnahan at a conference in Honolulu where they reconnected with a unique combination of immunology and fire dancers on the beach....

Alex Hammer published his fifth book and third Amazon bestseller, The Laws and Secrets of Success....Kari Heistad, CEO of Culture Coach International in Newton, Mass., received an award from UNA-USA for leadership in education....Erik Jarnryd is CEO of Harvey Building Products, a window manufacturer and building product distributor in the Northeast.

Susanne Morrison Jarnryd heads the Bacaanda Foundation, whose mission is to improve the quality of life in rural Mexico through schools and dental clinics. Anders ’17 is at Bates....Molly Marchese Mullin got 30 bags of Doritos from Bates roommate Kath Flaherty to celebrate their 30 years of friendship....Lynne Margulis Buscher, who teaches fifth grade on Cape Cod, has been assigning the young-adult novel The Exceptionals, by Erin Heffernan Cashman....

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Lisa Peace Tito is medical director and surgeon at the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Breast Center in Plymouth, Mass. The family — husband, son (16), daughter (8) —“travel a lot, especially to warm places with scuba diving. Coolest dive spot was Papau New Guinea. Also have volunteered with my husband, also a surgeon, in Kenya.”...

Charles Prast is CEO at adult entertainment powerhouse Private Media Group....Jeff Price is now the chief commercial officer of the PGA of America....Medical anthropologist Rochelle Rosen returned to Bates to speak on “Diabetes and Obesity: Applied Anthropology in Samoa.” She’s an assistant professor in the Department of Community Health at Brown Univ.’s Alpert Medical School and The Miriam Hospital....Bill Roy, who started five companies and worked at six others, has been in Florida for 10 years....Karl Steudel’s book, The Complete Guide to Acting in New England, comes out this year....Deb Whitney, who has been teaching in overseas posts for 17 years, moved with husband David and Isabel to Shanghai, China. “Here’s betting my daughter picks up Mandarin way faster than I do!”

1988 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class committee Mary Capaldi Carr mary.capaldi.carr@gmail.com Astrid Delfino Bernard flutistastrid@sbcglobal.net Ruth Garretson Cameron ruth.eg.cameron@gmail.com Steven Lewis lewiss@umhelena.edu Julie Sutherland Platt julielsp@verizon.net Darsie Alexander is now the executive director of the Katonah (N.Y.) Museum of Art....Doug Damberg lives in Cold Bay, Alaska, and is the refuge manager of the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. He and Carol “traded our urban Sacramento lifestyle for a backyard of bears, volcanoes and salmon in the Aleutians.”...The Maine Children’s Alliance gave pediatrician Steve Feder and Julia Sleeper ’08 individual Champions for Children Giraffe Awards for “sticking their necks out” for children. DO at Miles Memorial Hospital in Boothbay Harbor, Steve has advocated for obesity prevention, continued funding for MaineCare and Head Start, and other child health issues.

Julia is executive director at the Tree Street Youth Center, which supports the youth of LewistonAuburn through academics, the arts and athletics....Bates trustee Jennifer Guckel Porter, founder and managing partner of The Boda Group, a Boston-based leadership development firm,

spoke at the college as part of its entrepreneurship series....The law firm Bernstein Shur named Ron Schneider to co-chair its Labor and Employment Practice Group.

1989 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Donna Waterman Douglass 4498donnad@gmail.com steering committee Sally Ehrenfried sallye@alumni.bates.edu Deb Schiavi Cote debscote@yahoo.com Frank Barbieri welcomed a daughter, Michiko Rose Barbieri, on Nov. 10, 2013....Lawyer Randy Bates was re-elected to a threeyear term on the Yarmouth Town Council....Anthropologist Caitrin Lynch returned to Bates for a talk based on her research on a factory’s reliance on elderly workers....

Peter Muise published a book, Legends and Lore of the North Shore. He has been blogging about legends and lore from around New England since 2008....

Mark Thompson, appointed to Colorado’s District Court bench in 2010, has been elevated to chief judge of the state’s Fifth Judicial District....Ruth Thompson Mann and Jonathan welcomed James Denis Mann on Oct. 28, 2013.

1990 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class secretary Joanne Walton joannewalton2003@yahoo.com class president Eric Knight eric_knight@verizon.net Jennifer Beggs VanBelle was appointed vice president and chief risk officer of Capital Management at GE Capital, based in Fairfield, Conn....Tina Brickley Engberg lives in Atlanta with Kaj ’91, who’s been with UPS for 20 years, and two boys, 8 and 11.

She had her Cub Scout Den learn about weather with hurricane specialist Greg Postel of The Weather Channel....Larry Carbonneau met with the director of the Healthcare Crimes Unit of the Maine attorney general’s office, who turned out to be Bill Savage. Larry works for the Maine Department of Health and Human Services as a program manager in Licensing and Regulatory Services. His most recent new friend is Kim Gamel, an AP news editor based in Cairo....Ismael Elias Carreras and Andrea Snow are raising Caroline (16) and Julia (10) in Lexington, Mass. Andrea is a real estate broker with Hammond Residential and works alongside her mom, C.J. Snow ’63. Mel is a vice president of research at Maguire Associates, which focuses on enrollment management consulting for colleges and universities....

Alexandra Delp lives in London with husband Christopher Troulser and has been helping their son Piers prepare for Common Entrance exams....Jennifer Eifrig published her first novel, Discovering Ren, which involves Egyptian mythology and draws on her experience working in museums....JP Fingado and Jennifer live in Milwaukee with Alexey (16) and Kaitlin (7). He sold his company, API Healthcare, to GE and is figuring out his next opportunity....Tom and Betsy Dodds George enjoy Seattle, a great place to raise Graham (13) and Lacy (9)....Sue Hubley, now retired from Bates, looks forward to volunteering on the 2015 Reunion Committee....Anne Jamieson Waehner works as HR director at Galt & Co., a management consulting firm. She enjoys raising two boys, 7 and 10....Mark Kennedy is back in Japan for his third tour of duty with his longtime employer, medical device manufacturer Hollister Inc. He got together in Tokyo with Haruki Umezawa ’93 and Ted Barksdale ’91....Diana Lee is earning an M.S. in environmental studies with a concentration in conservation biology at Green Mountain College....Greg Manthei and Jennifer moved back to their hometown of Newton, Mass., to raise their two boys close to family....Spencer Ordway is busy chasing Alexis (11), Julia (9) and Corliss (8) around to sports and after-school events. He and his sister, Laura Ordway ’93, are now the owners and directors of Winona Camps in Bridgton, a boys summer residential program....Tasker Smith teaches at MIT, mentoring students in the practical use of machine tools and rapid prototyping technologies....Molly Snow Robinson works in the children’s department at a public library and as an admissions application reader for Roger Williams Univ....Sarah Stone and her husband, Don Munsil, took over running MouseSavers.com, which provides information about deals and discounts on all things Disney....Karl Uhlendorf was named communications and advocacy director of Astellas, a pharmaceutical company. He works in Washington....Chris von Jako is now president and CEO of NeuroTherm, a privately held medical device leader in the field of chronic pain, after selling his previous company to a Fortune 500 medical device company in 2013.

In May he completed his Ph.D. work in biomedical sciences by defending his thesis....Ted Walls married Azihan Tuleubay in the fall of 2013. Their son, Torehan Jean Walls, was born March 16, 2014....Joanne Walton, in Fairfax, Va., volunteers as much as she can while keeping up with Zoe (13) and Theo (7).

1991 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Katie Tibbetts Gates ktmorello@alumni.bates.edu class president John Ducker jducker1@yahoo.com

Elizabeth Rynecki ’91 searches for paintings by her great-grandfather, Moshe Rynecki, who died in the Holocaust and whose works portrayed Polish Jewish culture. “I keep thinking that if I find enough of them...I will understand.”

As Marine Corps Maj. Jon Custis sat in a hotel lobby in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, taking a quick break from a conference he was leading, a fellow American plopped down next to him. Jon learns that the man teaches history to the son of the president of Tajikistan. “I learn he’s from Massachusetts and is well-acquainted with Bates.

When I tell him it’s surreal to run across an American in Dushanbe who has such familiarity, he takes surreal to a new level: He’s a cousin of none other than Bill Hiss ’66, who, as I learn, was an academic adviser to a 2012 alum working in Tajikistan.

I’ve had some strange and interesting thing happen in my travels, but that takes the cake.

Then again, it was Dushanbe, which can be surreal in its own right.”...Josh Ferguson loves his work at Tesla Motors where he was awarded his most exciting patent so far for his design of the charge inlet/plugs for Model S....

Traci Higgins works at TERC, a nonprofit that researches and develops STEM curricula, in Cambridge, Mass. Her family has reconnected with alums like Kristin Johnson Bogue and made new Bates friends such as Karen Gunn Bulock....

Trina Janes works as a public affairs consultant in Chicago...

Joshua Macht, executive vice president and group publisher of the Harvard Business Review Group, returned to Bates as part of its entrepreneurship speaker series...Lisa McGregor Pomeroy returned to the Gulf Coast of Mississippi where she’s active on the board of a cultural and education center....Bill Myers teaches a life skills class at Lewiston High. He and his staff are involved in the Special Olympics, and he’s proud that

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takeaway: Ozzie Jones ’92

Let actors tell the truth of the words media outlet: phindie

headline:

Rhythm, race, and energy: Interview with Ozzie Jones on the first African American production of Death of a Salesman in Philadelphia

date:

Aug. 15, 2014

1992

After watching Death of a Salesman with an all-black cast, phindie.com interviewer Henrik Eger wrote that director Ozzie Jones ’92 made the production feel like “a black play written by a black writer for a black audience.”

So, Eger asked Jones, how did you accomplish that feat?

Jones answered: “I just let the actors tell the truth of the words. I didn’t spend a lot of time talking about race. I think the journey of the artist is to find and tell the truth of the moment.

“I personally believe that race constructions take people further away from the truth and not closer to it.”

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many of the events are held at Bates....Mike O’Brien joined a Silicon Valley startup, Blue Jeans Network. He stays connected to other Batesies through the Bay Area Bates Network....Writing in The Huffington Post, filmmaker Elizabeth Rynecki described her long search for works painted by her great-grandfather, Moshe Rynecki, who died in the Holocaust, and the memory of the Polish Jewish culture portrayed in his works. “I keep thinking that if I find enough of them; if I learn enough of their stories and the stories of the people whose lives they have touched, I will understand. Understand the fragments of a vanished culture the paintings portray, and in them, find the echoes of my great-grandfather.”...Ken Sherwood teaches poetry and literary theory and does digital humanities research at Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania, where wife Dawn Smith-Sherwood ’90 is a Spanish professor....

Betsy Tomlinson started a small business supporting international students, mostly Vietnamese, at boarding schools, and also reads applications for Bates part time....

Sharon Williams-Schultz is a middle school counselor in upstate New York. She remains committed to mission work, completing work trips in Philadelphia and Nicaragua recently....Kortnay Woods earned a Ph.D. in public policy and administration from Walden Univ. in May 2013.

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Reunion 2017, June 9–11 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 In Slate, Amy Bass reviews Jeff Pearlman’s best-seller Showtime about the 1980s dynasty of the Los Angeles Lakers. While the book is not about Laker great Magic Johnson’s stunning 1991 announcement that he would retire because of his HIV diagnosis, the book lays “the foundation for the impact of that announcement,” thereby taking a “fascinating sports story” and making it “so much more.” Amy is a scholar of the cultural and racial history of sports and professor of history at The College of New Rochelle....The Moscow Times profiled Jere Calmes, deputy CEO of the Tele2 Russia, a Russian telecommunications company. Jere, who has lived in Russia for 14 years, said, “There

are a lot of young people with fire in their eyes, who want to change the world, and they are creating interesting companies here.”...Scott Kelliher blogs for The Huffington Post. With AOL since 2008, he is the chief development officer for the Tech-Telco client vertical....

Larissa Vigue Picard, director of education and interpretation for the Maine Historical Society, wasn’t the only Bates alum at Maine National History Day last spring. Also taking part as judges were David Richards ’84, director of the Margaret Chase Smith Library; Kate Webber ’11, development and communications assistant for the Maine Humanities Council; and Susan Davis ’65, retired director of the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad in Portland and of the Stanley Museum in Kingfield. Maine National History Day is an annual event for teachers and students in grades 6–12 that promotes critical thinking skills through project-based learning.

1993 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Lisa A. Bousquet lisaannbousquet@gmail.com class co-presidents Michael F. Charland mfc@wilkinsinvest.com Jason R. Hanley jhanley@wrightexpress.com Ed Ellis was featured in the magazine 914Inc., which chronicled the growth of the White Plains, N.Y., law firm he cofounded in 2008. Leason Ellis LLP has become the largest intellectual property law firm in Westchester County....Marc Hallee rejoined Sullivan, Cotter and Associates Inc., an independent compensation, benefits and human resources management consulting firm, as a consulting principal in its physician compensation practice.

1994 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Jonathan Lilja jonathanlilja@gmail.com class president Susan Spano Piacenti susanpiacenti@cox.net In an essay published at the American Composers Forum, David Carpenter offered a few takeaways from writing the libretto and composing the music to his opera, based on Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence. Scenes from the opera were performed at Christ and St. Stephen’s Church in Manhattan.

For one, don’t try for something like a Wagner opera that clocks in at five hours. “Try something that’s on the shorter side, about

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an hour in length. Short stories make wonderful subjects for operas,” he said....Lori Alison Heller published her second novel, The Never Never Sisters (NAL), about family secrets and women who reunite one summer in New York. Kirkus Reviews called it “a triumph of witty dialogue and characters as true to life as your best friends.”...Anne Macomber is now associate creative director at The Integer Group, a promotional, retail and shopper marketing agency, based in Lakewood, Colo....Scott Rose joined the Somerset, N.J., law firm Parker Ibrahim & Berg as a partner and chair of the firm’s Complex Commercial and Securities Litigation practice group.

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 Robin Bitner and husband Scott Sanchez welcomed Milo Antonio Sanchez on Oct. 22, 2013....

After many years in Wisconsin and Georgia, Amy Haas “finally set down some roots, in Nashua, N.H. I opened Path of Life Chiropractic Health Center in Nashua in 2010. Being the boss has the best perk in the world: I get to bring my Labs, Izzy and Sagan, to work with me every day.”...Dasha Rafalovich (Tomsk Polytechnic Univ. ’08, Siberia, Russia) and Henry Hanley III were married Sept. 21, 2013....

Carolyn Kavanagh-Gaither writes, “Edmund (‘Joey’) and I just passed the two-year mark of a four-year assignment in Lagos, Nigeria. We are overseas thanks to Edmund’s job with Shell Oil. I left my position at ExxonMobil and am now volunteering here in Lagos and watching our kids (9 and 7) change before our eyes!”...

Nisha Koshy left her litigation job behind to stay home with Sophia (10) and Lily (7). After practicing for 15 years, she doesn’t miss the law one bit. She and her girls enjoyed visiting Beth Lurvey Bounds and her family in San Francisco, and she plans a mini-reunion with Ingerlene Voosen and Bayne Gibby....

Patrick LeRoy and Dana Lemelin (Swarthmore ’99) were married April 11, 2014. Patrick writes, “My husband’s family is from Lewiston. In fact, they have a Bates connection — they used to own Clason House! Ironically, that’s the house I was a JA in from 1993–94. Kind of crazy, and we call it kismet.”...Judy Lorenz Romeo lives in central New Jersey with Steve and two boys, and

continues to work in healthcare communications. As a reminder of how small the Bates world is, one of Judy’s clients, and now friends, is Mark Thomson ’03....Gretchen Peterson was promoted to full professor at California State Univ., Los Angeles, and then elected chair of the Department of Sociology. “On Sept. 7, I married Mike Kozachenko. I am now in my 33rd year of playing softball and don’t plan to stop anytime soon.”...Anthony and Kirsten Geisel Phillips live with their four kids, cat, dog and horse in Brentwood, N.H. He works for Cabot Corp. where he has been employed for the last 12 years. She is a stay-at-home mom who still cringes when people say, “So you don’t work then?”...Robin Postman Benson and Al expected their first baby, a girl, this summer. Robin works as a full-time consultant and “CEO on call” for small businesses. They live in Granbury, Texas, and enjoy raising border collie cow dogs, Correinte cattle and team roping....Amy Starer Gifford enjoys life in the Green Mountains with Jason ’97 and sons Jabes (10) and Eben (7).

Ever committed to helping kids develop a healthy relationship with food, she’s started working with VT Food Education Every Day, coordinating Junior Iron Chef Vermont and supporting schools with local purchasing and food service professional development....Laike Stewart and family — Melanie, son Maxwell (2) and daughter Hannah (1) — live in Miami where he enjoys his position at the Univ. of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine as associate director in the group that oversees and supports all animal-based research projects at the medical campus, undergraduate campus and marine school....Deb Nowak Verner and Jason live in Acton, Mass., with Ben (11), Sarah (10) and Kyle (8) along with two guinea pigs. Soccer, baseball, softball, swimming and violin keep their household very busy.

Jason works at The Northbridge Group in Concord, and Deb works at McCarthy-Towne Elementary School in Acton.

1996 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class co-presidents Ayesha Farag-Davis faragdavis@aol.com James D. Lowe jameslowemaine@yahoo.com David Brennan was promoted to director of programs for the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation; he’s in his ninth season with the team. He enjoys living in Manhattan Beach, three blocks from the beach....In New York City, Anne Popadic Kohler and Mike welcomed Orson Autry Kohler on Nov. 16, 2012.

1997 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class co-secretaries Chris Gailey gaileycj@gmail.com Leah Wiedmann Gailey leah.gailey@gmail.com class president Stuart B. Abelson sabelson@oraclinical.com Pat Cosquer, head squash coach at Bates, was featured in an MPBN story about the sport.

“There still remains a little bit of the prep school, Ivy League mentality in squash,” he said, “but the game is moving out to the suburbs and into the cities to public schools and it’s really exciting.” MPBN noted that Pat “has embraced this new diversity, and brought in players from all over the world.” Bates has had more than 50 international players since the program started in 1985....Chris Deem joined the Tampa, Fla., law firm GrayRobinson in its Banking and Finance Practice Group.... Edible Brooklyn interviewed Andrew Knowlton, Bon Appétit’s restaurant and drinks editor, about his annual “journey of a thousand meals”: creating the magazine’s “America’s Best Restaurants” issue. Great food has drawn him to places that he never thought he’d want to visit, he says, and while “New York, San Francisco and Chicago used to be head and shoulders above...now it doesn’t matter where you go, you get great food, design and service.”...Jack Martilotta, head coach of the Greenport/Mattituck/Southold football team in Greenport, N.Y., was named the Lou Rettino High School Football Coach of the Week by the New York Giants of the NFL....Brewmaster Jason Perkins talked to the Maine Sunday Telegram at Allagash Brewing Co.’s launch of a Belgianinspired beer, Allagash Saison.

“We have a lot of passionate beer drinkers here,” Jason said of the Portland brewery staff. “Our pilot program encourages our staff to submit ideas, and they come from everywhere.”...Geoff Pynn received the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award at Northern Illinois Univ. where he has taught philosophy since 2008. “There’s an old saying that teaching is the best way to learn, and I’ve found that to be absolutely true,” he told NIU Today....Sarah Standiford of South Portland, regional field manager with Planned Parenthood, spoke at the college’s Stringfellow Lunch Series featuring alumni activists....After the Boston Marathon bombings last year, a group of artists, including Matt Tavares, contributed artwork to an online auction supporting the Emergency and Trauma Fund at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Matt, a children’s book illustra-

tor and author, donated a watercolor from his 2012 book, There Goes Ted Williams: The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived. He told The Boston Globe that he chose that painting “because Ted Williams did so much to help kids in Boston hospitals. I feel he would want to be a part of this if he was around.”...Jonathan White is the new director of admissions and recruitment at Armstrong Atlantic State Univ. in Savannah, Ga.

1998 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 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 Jennifer Anderton Camp and Mike (UVA ’98) enjoy the adventure of life with sons Jackson (6) and Ryder (4)....Cathleen Jasper Vincent and Ken welcomed Angus Vincent on Feb. 15, 2012.

Broden is 7. Cathleen lives and works as an acupuncturist on Martha’s Vineyard....Ken Kolb, an assistant professor of sociology at Furman Univ., published a book, Moral Wages: The Emotional Dilemmas of Victim Advocacy and Counseling (Univ. of California Press, 2014), which focuses on the service providers who assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault....Former Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Peter Sanders was appointed the LA Fire Department’s first public information director.

1999 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Jennifer Lemkin Bouchard jlemkin@alumni.bates.edu class president Jamie Ascenzo Trickett jamie.trickett@gmail.com Sam Anderson is now senior managing director, head of capital markets and strategy at Medley LLC in New York....Tracy Barbaro and Zenas welcomed Reuben Grey Barbaro Lu on Dec. 6, 2013....

Julie DeLaite Mulkern and Ric welcomed John Clyde Thomas Mulkern on Oct. 10, 2013....

Julie Lundman and her husband welcomed Zoe Lundman Durrant on April 7, 2014....Lindsay Laws and Greg Powers were married Oct. 19, 2013....Rachel Walls splits her time between Jackson Hole, Wyo., and Portland, Maine, with frequent trips to New York. She’s curating exhibitions featuring the artwork of Marguerite and William Zorach and their daughter Dahlov Ipcar. Last winter she enjoyed the most skiing in years

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takeaway: Saif Ahmed ’00

In India, Shariahcompliant banking is on its way

after making a full recovery from a serious skiing accident in 2010.

In Jackson Hole she saw Sean Clark ’97, Kasja Kreiger ’00, Nick Olmstead ’00, Kieran Dulin ’97 and Mark Longfield ’00 on the slopes. TG Gallaudet made a guest appearance in March. This past year she has enjoyed seeing Alexandra Cherubini, Hampton Kew, Karina Moltz ’00, Julie Weisswasser, Elizabeth Wray Emery and Travis ’97, Jesse Field, Shana Sandberg, Karl Andersen ’98, Rosie Zaklad, Brian Beale ’00, Michelle Braunsten, LeMoyne Harwell, Steve Fortney, Keith Denton, Ashley Farrington, Jesse Connolly ’01 and Joel Mahoney.

2000 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class secretary Cynthia Macht Link cynthiafriedalink@gmail.com

media outlet:

The Hindu Business Line

headline: Halal Street

date:

Sept. 29, 2013 India’s example may shed some light on the ways and means of bringing banking practices compliant with Shariah — Islamic social and religious law — to nations where Muslims aren’t in the majority.

In an overview of India’s progress in accepting Shariah-compliant banking, The Hindu Business Line newspaper talked with Saif Ahmed ’00, managing partner of Infinity Consultants in Bangalore.

He’s exploring the adaptability to Shariah law of the so-called chit fund, a type of microfinancing distinctive to India that superficially resembles a lottery. Saif’s Zayd Chit Funds has been offering credit to Bangalore’s Muslim community for about two years.

Ahmed hopes India’s government doesn’t rush to fully enable Islamic banking just yet.

He’d rather that it grow from the bottom up, writes Hindu Business Line’s Tanya Thomas, to the point where the central bank is forced to regulate it.

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class co-presidents Jennifer Glassman Jacobs jenniferellenjacobs@gmail.com Megan Shelley mhshelley@aol.com Time Out Singapore profiled actress and filmmaker Michelle Chong, whose new movie 3 Peas in a Pod draws obliquely on her Bates experience. Michelle studied at Bates for a year, and her script draws on her feelings and observations about being an international student. “You develop such strong friendships there, spending 24 hours a day together, seven days a week. But in the end, you have to go back to your respective countries. At that moment, you don’t think it’s goodbye forever, but it is.”...A book by historian Rebecca Goetz advanced all the way to the “championship game” of a March Madness-type competition sponsored by The Junto, the preeminent blog for scholars of early America. Her book is about slavery’s origins in America, The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race (Johns Hopkins, 2012). Rebecca is an associate professor of history at New York Univ....Michael Kitces is a partner and the director of research at Pinnacle Advisory Group, a private wealth management firm....Kimberlee Leishear and David Stiteler were married April 26, 2014. Kim has degrees in internal medicine from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and in physiatry from the Univ. of Pittsburgh Medical Center and has a private practice in the Philadelphia area.

David works at Accenture....

Anne Linder, husband Jade and their daughter now live on a small farm north of Ann Arbor, Mich. “We are learning as we go and having fun with sheep, pigs, chickens, turkeys and other farm animals. This summer, I took another big leap, opening my own law practice in Milford,

focusing on business and real estate law.”...Forgan McIntosh welcomed a daughter, Harper McIntosh, on May 19, 2013....Megan Shelley and her husband, Chris Dugan, welcomed their second daughter, Whitley Lynn Dugan, on July 11, 2013. Megan has been working for The Pew Charitable Trusts since 2011, and in March moved into a new position as Pew’s grants officer....

Michael Skelly continues to raise money for many political campaigns in New York City and the metropolitan region...

Portland lawyer Hawley Strait was elected a shareholder at the law firm Bernstein Shur where he practices real estate law....

Aditi Vaidya, a program officer with the Solidago Foundation and See Forward Fund, where she manages the Economic Justice Program, spoke at Bates’ Stringfellow Lunch Series featuring alumni activists....Lots to Gardens, founded and still overseen by Kirsten Walter, received the Outstanding Community Dedication Award from the Maine Assn. of Interdependent Neighborhoods. Lots to Gardens helps families develop skills and build influence for lifelong and community-wide change....Erika Zollett and Eric Blankfield and big sister Savannah welcomed their second daughter, Keela Skye, on Oct. 5, 2013.

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 Amelia Larsen ’07 and Tate Curti were married July 27, 2013....Chris Danforth, an associate professor of mathematics and statistics at the Univ. of Vermont, was appointed to the prestigious Flint Professorship in the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences....

David Kirby rejoined the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank in Washington, as vice president of development and senior fellow....TJ Lepore, an obstetrician/gynecologist, joined the staff of Baystate Medical Practices’ Pioneer Women’s Health in Greenfield, Mass....Alexandra Hankovszky and Alexander Patrikis were married July 13, 2013....Bridie McGreavy completed a Ph.D. in communication and sustainability science from UMaine in 2013, graduating with the top teaching award in the Department of Communication and Journalism and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

She is now a postdoctoral fellow with the New England Sustainability Consortium where her

class secretary Stephanie L. Eby steph.eby@gmail.com co-class presidents Jay Surdukowski surdukowski@sulloway.com Drew G. Weymouth weymouthd@gmail.com Laurel Col and Brian Smith were married Aug. 11, 2012. They welcomed Asher William Smith on April 29, 2014....Tahoe Quarterly praised the PlumpJack Café at Squaw Valley Inn and the skills of executive chef Ben “Wyatt” Dufresne. “From first sip to last bite, dining is a well-crafted and choreographed event,” the magazine said. Ben, who earned a double degree in biology and environmental studies, said his background allows him to approach sustainable menus from both art and science perspectives.

“Customers are increasingly aware of where their food comes from and have more knowledge of ingredients in general,” he said....Meredith Gethin-Jones moved to Sacramento, Calif., and in March 2014 she married Jonathan Hargreaves. She continues to work for Haley & Aldrich as a management consultant with a focus on process improvement, strategy and sustainability....Kristin Hines and Nic Gladd (Bowdoin ’03) were married Sept. 8, 2012. They live in Washington, D.C., and both work as attorneys in the environmental and energy fields. “Our household enjoys a healthy Bobcats/Polar Bears rivalry!” she reports....On Oct. 4, 2013, Laura Shadle Balson and her husband adopted their son, Aden, who was born on July 25, 2013. He joins big sister Grace.

Last April, Laura was featured on the CBS Evening News for her role in the Chicago Equal Pay Day rally, an annual event for which she’s the volunteer co-chair. She’s a partner in the Chicago law

class co-presidents Kirstin McCarthy kirstinmccarthy@yahoo.com Melissa Wilcox Yanagi melissa.yanagi@staples.com Diana Birney Pooley, Matt ’05 and Nathan (3) welcomed Nayla Hannah on Oct. 12, 2013. They live in Albuquerque, N.M., where Matt is a pastor and Diana is busy with ministry, knitting, gardening and caring for their family....

Tiffany Carter Skillings opened Tree of Life Naturopathic & Midwifery Care LLC in Yarmouth with business partner Josie Skavdahl. The practice offers holistic naturopathic care for men, women and children....Ethan Dolleman is the new assistant principal at Wayland (Mass.)

High School. He’s completing a master’s in educational leadership at Boston College....Nicole Ouellette owns Breaking Even Communications in Bar Harbor, which she started about six years ago. It provides Internet marketing and Web content creation services to small businesses and nonprofits. She recently hired Kassie Strout ’12 as a content specialist....New York filmmaker and producer Justin Reichman returned to Bates to talk about his work and show his current film, A Wife Alone.

2004 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class co-presidents Eduardo Crespo ecrespo@alumni.bates.edu Tanya Schwartz tanya.schwartz@gmail.com

A town’s active-living plan, says planner Mike Lydon ’04, is “about community. It creates a great number of social connections” to “build support for walking and biking infrastructure.”

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firm Golan & Christie....Maria Sparks Emory, Trevor ’00 and Juliette (2) welcomed Robert James Lockwood Emory on Dec. 17, 2013....Jen Stankiewicz completed an M.S. in curriculum and instruction from Western Governors Univ. and moved to Ogden, Utah, where her partner Andy accepted a job developing board games. She hopes to find a job in environmental education or development so she isn’t forced to wander between national parks taking photographs.

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Craig Morgan Teicher and his wife, Brenda Shaughnessy, read from their poetry at Bates. He teaches at The New School and New York Univ. She teaches at Rutgers-Newark....Victoria Wyeth received a Bates’ Best Award at Reunion for continuing to enrich the campus and Lewiston-Auburn communities as an ambassador for and expert on the artwork of her grandfather Andrew Wyeth and uncle Jamie Wyeth. Last winter, she spoke at several area schools and at Tree Street Youth, founded by Julia Sleeper ’08 to support at-risk youth. Julia’s example is “why I picked Bates,” Victoria told the Sun Journal. “Most students really care about making a difference in the community.”

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media outlet: The Inquirer

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In Camden, Junior Farmers growing and nurturing

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takeaway: An urban farming program bears fruit in more ways than one Readers familiar with Lewiston’s Lots to Gardens program, founded by Kirsten Walter ’00, won’t be surprised by the successes of the Junior Farmers program run by the nonprofit Center for Environmental Transformation in Camden, N.J. Ari Rosenberg ’06, a Lots to Gardens alumna, was front and center in the Philadelphia Inquirer story about Junior Farmers, an eightweek program for young city residents that includes neighborhood gardens, paid internships, and education in nutrition and cooking.

“We’re really trying to teach not just agricultural skills, but entrepreneurial skills,” said Rosenberg, the center’s urban farmer and educator.

While “the work we’re doing is about giving the youth a chance,” Rosenberg told the newspaper, “it’s also a way for us to transform the neighborhood, and provide access to things that people want.”

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Jeffrey Apigian works for Winrock International and lives in Colorado Springs, Colo., with wife Caitlin....Rebecca Pierce and Joseph Gracia were married Aug. 10, 2013....Caitlin Homberger and Nicholas Green were married Jan. 18, 2014.

She earned a medical degree at Tulane and is a third-year resident in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. He is an associate in the law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe....Julia Judson-Rea and Craig Dulniak were married April 5, 2014....Elise West and Dominic Lee were married Dec. 22, 2013....Mike Lydon has been working with the town of Freeport, Maine, to implement an active-living plan that would encourage more physical activity and foster a sense of community.

A planner, writer and advocate for livable cities, he is a principal of The Street Plans Collaborative, based in Brooklyn, N.Y. “First and foremost, [an active living plan] is about community,” he said. “It creates a great number of social connections and it can build constituencies of people to support investing in walking and biking infrastructure.”...Emily Marsters joined Hadley (Mass.) Family Practice as a primary care physician....

Christian and Katherine Papadonis Rogers received the Distinguished Young Alumni Award at Reunion. Their citation noted that they are “go-to volunteers for all aspects of the college and exemplars for their fellow volunteers, who often look to Katie and Christian for guidance and inspiration.”...Molly Watson Shukie was elected a partner with the Auburn law firm of Linnell, Choate & Webber where she specializes in family law and workers’ compensation....Madeleine West and husband Steve Imig ’02 welcomed Wesley Jacob Imig on Nov. 28, 2013.

2005 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class co-presidents Larry Handerhan larry.handerhan@gmail.com Sarah Neukom sneukom@alumni.bates.edu Sarah Amsbary and Bret Eytinge were married April 26, 2014. She earned an MBA from the Univ. of Washington’s Foster School of Business in Seattle and works as the assistant director for MBA admissions at Foster....

Siri Berman is accumulating inordinate amounts of alpaca clothing while teaching high school psychology in Quito, Ecuador....Heather Bracken and Nathan Lazur (Carnegie Mellon ’05) were married Aug. 24, 2013....Rebecca Perlmutter and Dan Bradford were married Aug. 3, 2013....Having recently “retired” from rowing for Team

Canada, Andrew Byrnes received a satisfying parting gift of sorts in June when he and his teammates on the 2008 Olympic gold-medal winning Canadian men’s eight were inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame....Kelly Fitzgerald and Marco Charamella were married June 29, 2013. She is in a joint degree M.D./Ph.D. program at Yale School of Medicine, focusing on cancer research.

Marco, who has an MBA from Assumption College, works in Northeast Utilities’ corporate real estate department....Dave Charron is busy comparing wedding notes with the other 44 Nichols boys, while professionally pursuing his passion for youth leadership education. He spent the summer in Victoria, British Columbia, directing the Global Leadership Academy....

Chet Clem is an entrepreneur and business consultant living in Somerville, Mass., with wife Julie. She is funnier than he is by quite a margin. He still plays softball too aggressively, enjoys drinking Tito’s vodka with Smith Middle roommate Dave Hurley, and trying to come up with excuses to not have to hang out with Josh Kleinman. He’s considering getting a dog and also recently made Noah Davis a website....Noah Davis lives in Brooklyn and works as a freelance writer. His piece on the U.S. national team prior to the 2014 World Cup was featured on the front page of ESPN’s Grantland. He also went to Brazil with a group of fellow American soccer fanatics, including Nate Purinton ’06, where he proceeded to write many mildly insightful pieces for obscure soccer websites like The New Yorker....Rachael Ranger (Connecticut College ’03) and Jon Furbush were married Oct. 7, 2012. They welcomed Anabelle Grace Furbush on Aug. 18, 2013....Carrie Garber Siegrist and Adam welcomed a daughter, Ellie, on Dec. 1, 2013. They live in the Washington, D.C., area....

Michelle Gomperts Kirby received a McGowan Fellowship, given to second-year MBA students who show outstanding leadership ability and strong dedication to ethics and community service. She’s an MBA student at Duke pursuing a concentration in social entrepreneurship and a certificate at the Sanford School of Public Policy in international development policy....Larry Handerhan works at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and enjoys all things D.C. (political dysfunction aside). He is honored to travel back to Maine three times a year as a Bates Alumni Council member and looks forward to an epic 10-Year Reunion....Nathan Harrington is happily ensconced in a garden

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commune of his founding in far southeast D.C., where he leads the restoration of the spectacular but neglected 205-acre Shepherd Parkway.

He’s finishing a master’s in educational administration and policy at Howard Univ. and exploring new opportunities after eight exhausting years of teaching social studies in high-poverty schools....Dave Hurley teaches psychology at Stonehill College where he received the 2014 Athletic Department Outstanding Faculty Member Award, chosen by athletes and the department. He puts equal effort into lesson planning and picking out his Outfit of the Day. He is a well-dressed man. In his minimal free moments, he likes to bowl, watch the Sawx and relive his finest Bates memories with fellow Bostonians Chet Clem, Josh Kleinman, Mike Lopez ’04 and anyone else who happens to be in Somerville/ Cambridge that evening....Josh Kleinman passed his licensing exams to become a real architect. He works for Behnisch Architekten in Boston where he specializes in waterproofing methods and apparently makes other important contributions, too. Josh and his Rachael celebrated two years of marriage and he still thinks he doesn’t deserve her. He misses playing intramural sports, smiles frequently and desperately wants to hang out with Chet Clem, but the highlight of Josh’s 2014 was finally seeing Rihanna live in concert. Next up: Beyoncé with his Bates Blurb writer Dave Hurley....Angela Knox and Aung Pyaesone were married May 24, 2014. Angela earned a master’s degree in project management from Northeastern Univ. and now works as clinical trial project manager in Massachusetts General Hospital’s Department of Neurology. She also teaches part time in the regulatory affairs program at Northeastern....The Bangor Daily News looked at Working for the Weekend, a new Web series that follows Ben Leoni and fellow backcountry skiing friends into the boondocks of the Northeast.

Ben created the series, and the contributing videographers included Lincoln Benedict ’09, whose own day job is as a video producer at L.L.Bean. Ben, a lawyer with the Portland firm of Curtis Thaxter, says backcountry skiing is “my release. You have to have a good work-life balance.”...

Haley Lieberman and Michael Friedman were married May 3, 2014. She works in New York as a costume designer for operas and films and as a commercial stylist. He is the senior rabbi at Temple Israel in Westport, Conn....In May 2013, Meredith Maller Strahl earned a JD from the Univ. of Maryland Francis

King Carey School of Law. This past year, she completed a master of laws in taxation at Georgetown Univ. Law Center and joined the D.C.-based investment firm Brown Advisory as an associate strategic adviser, focusing on private wealth planning. Meredith’s husband, Ben, joined the dental practice of Giannini and Gray in Chevy Chase, Md. In their spare time, they enjoy sailing, kayaking and skiing, although their English bulldog Anna is ambivalent about any physical activity....

Tyler Middleton earned an MBA from the Univ. of Washington’s Foster School of Business in Seattle and works at Starbucks’ corporate headquarters....Sarah Neukom lives in Chicago and manages one of the city’s newest events spaces.

When she’s not producing events at the Chop Shop and 1st Ward, she acts as chair of the associates board for StreetWise, which helps end homelessness in Chicago by creating stable jobs for men and women on the verge of poverty. With the influx of Batesies in Chicago, she attends every Bates/NESCAC event she can. And she can’t wait to start planning the 10-year Reunion with Larry Handerhan....Craig Saddlemire returned to campus for Short Term to lead one of four new practitioner-taught courses, a pilot program initiatiated by President Clayton Spencer to knit the Bates experience more closely to ideas about work (broadly defined). Along with Sarah Standiford ’97 and Aditi Vaidya ’00, he taught “Social Change Organizing and Advocacy.”...Whitney Sheen is a neurosurgery resident at the Univ. of Arizona. In June she married Richard James and changed her name to Dr. Whitney Sheen James....

Stephanie Shokal and Logan Masters were married in July 2013....Jacqueline Starnes and her husband moved to Maryland where she works for the National Aquarium in the development department. She is also a volunteer diver and aquarist....Diane Tolis and Jayne Nucete (Univ. of Missouri ’01) were married Oct. 19, 2013....

Daniel Vannoni, founder of Gecko Ventures and CEO and co-founder of Novopyxis, returned to Bates as part of its entrepreneurship speaker series....Cynthia Tufaro Verhave and Alex welcomed Madeline Parker, “named after the Bates dorm where we met,” on April 11, 2014. Isabel is almost 3....Blake and Katrina Bergevin Wayman celebrated their fifth anniversary. Dean is 2. They live in Hooksett, N.H., which is exactly like Boston except there is nothing to do or see there. The three travel frequently....

Vanessa Williamson entered

her third year of coaching swimming at Bates. “Raising my 4-year-old daughter and training for World’s Swimming Champs and loving life.”

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 Cali Lanza-Weil and Dan Burstein (Emory ’98) were married Nov. 9, 2013....Writing for the blog Political Violence @ a Glance, Aliza Luft probed the question of what led some Hutu to “evade participation and help Tutsi” during the genocide in Rwanda 20 years ago. And why, she asked, did some Hutu who killed Tutsi also, at other points, save Tutsi lives? She wrote: “Central to the way social scientists understand who participates in a genocide is the notion of dehumanization — the perception among killers that their victims are less than human. However, interviews often show how some Hutu civilians had nuanced perceptions of their victims, which led them to save some Tutsi, even as they continued killing others....

[It] seems as if the process of dehumanization is actually an outcome of participation in killing rather than a precursor to it.”

Aliza is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the Univ. of Wisconsin– Madison and a visiting research scholar at The Graduate Center of the City Univ. of New York....

Hannah Lund and Ryan Taylor were married May 4, 2013....

Mike Metzger, special assistant to the Defense Department’s deputy chief management officer, talked about the unpredictable nature of his job with FCW, a publication covering the business of federal technology. He can spend one day working with Congress and the next briefing top-level Pentagon officials on efforts to reform DOD’s financial management. “I get to dip my toe into processes, standards and architecture, and I get to have a broad-based view of business operations of DOD. I really don’t know what my day is going to be when I go into the office, and I like that.” Mike, who is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, credits another unusual aspect of his education for his success: the Bates debate team. “It’s helped in my career, being able to use that critical thinking and organization of thought in writing, project management and being able to communicate in DOD.”...

Hallie Preston and Philip Aaron Greene were married March 28, 2014....Katy Reedy Woodring and Ben welcomed Waverly

Lynn Woodring on Dec. 11, 2013.

Katy is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Harvard; Ben is a student at Yale Law School....Mary Tong and Zaw Min Oo ’07 were married Feb. 2, 2013.

2007 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class co-presidents Keith Kearney kdkearney@gmail.com Rakhshan Zahid rakhshan.zahid@gmail.com Megan Birmingham and Stewart Wolf were married Nov. 9, 2013. She earned a master’s in nutrition and dietetics from NYU. He is the general counsel for the asset management division of the Amerevision Group, a financing and financial services concern, in New York.

The New York Times recounted how the two were introduced in 2011 “through the meddling of a woman neither knew very well.” When they later talked on the phone, “the conversation never lagged and we didn’t have a hard time finding things to talk about,” Megan remembered....Emily Crawford ’10 and Danny Bousquet were married Oct. 5, 2013....

Brooke Dennee-Sommers and Carter Witherspoon were married Aug. 17, 2013....Akiko Doi and Christopher Theile were married Sept. 6, 2013.

Akiko, who has a Ph.D. in cellular molecular medicine from Johns Hopkins, is a postdoctoral fellow at MIT. Chris, who has a Ph.D. in chemistry from Boston College, is a postdoctoral fellow at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. They live in Arlington, Mass....Sarah Drosdik and James Pelletier were married June 14, 2014. She is a nurse practitioner at Veterans Hospital in Boston. He earned an MBA from Boston College....

Darren Elwell was promoted to principal of Ware (Mass.) High School....Katherine Ferriter and Fritz Hauschild were married Oct. 19, 2013....Mary Bucci and Luke Feinberg were married Aug. 17, 2013. Luke is finishing a master’s at UC Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Science & Management. As a yearlong capstone project for the degree, he was part of a team looking at the feasibility of offshore wind energy development in central California along with Zach Jylkka ’10. At Bren, Luke specializes in energy and climate and corporate environmental management, pursuing a passion for renewable energy systems and climate change science and policy. He serves as the CalWind project manager and aspires to use the baseline of knowledge gained at Bren to be a facilitator for solving complex environmental problems. Zach, who grew up lobster fishing, is

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takeaway:

Taegan McMahon ’07

media outlet: Nature

headline:

Amphibians can acquire resistance to deadly fungus

2008

date:

Reunion 2018, June 8–10

July 9, 2014

takeaway: Deadly fungus threatens biodiversity but Mother Nature (and science) fight back Amphibians are in decline worldwide, and one reason is the emergence of deadly fungi.

But there’s hope, according to the cover story of the July 9, 2014, issue of Nature, spotlighting new research by Taegan McMahon ’07 and fellow researchers at the University of South Florida.

Their findings, which McMahon co-authored, show that several amphibians, including the Cuban tree frog Osteopilus septentrionalis, can learn to avoid the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.

In addition, frogs that survived exposure to the pathogen had improved immune responses.

There’s more: Frogs can even be immunized against the poisonous fungus using dead pathogen.

“This is one of the first studies to actually provide hope for managing amphibian decline,” says McMahon, now an assistant professor at the University of Tampa.

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dedicated to researching and implementing innovative strategies to improve environmental stewardship and conservation, with a focus on sustainable fisheries and fishing communities. He specializes in coastal marine resource management at the Bren School and serves as the CalWind web manager....

Katherine Forester and Andrew Sweeny were married June 8, 2013....Laura French and Sam Rigby ’08 were married June 15, 2013....Sara Gusky earned a Ph.D. in Spanish, Romance studies with a concentration in Caribbean literature from the Univ. of Miami....Jason Starrett lives in Connecticut and has been working in ESPN’s Stats & Information Department since 2009. He was nominated for his second Sports Emmy for his work on the show “Numbers Never Lie.” This fall he will be the lead studio researcher for college football on ABC and ESPN. Outside of television, Jason has written for the network’s website and has also been a contributor to ESPN The Magazine....Jenny Stasio and Brandon Parise were married Sept. 1, 2013....Rakhshan Zahid and Mark Lukmani were married in June 2013.

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class co-presidents Elizabeth Murphy elizabeth.jayne.m@gmail.com Alison Schwartz alisonrose.schwartz@gmail.com Liz Murphy and Jon Blanchard were married Aug. 10, 2013....

Meghan Conley and Ryan Wimberly were married Aug. 24, 2013....Aubrey Nelson and Sam Evans-Brown ’09 were married Aug. 18, 2012....The San Francisco Chronicle caught up with Greg Waters, Nate Witherbee and Pete Granquist ’07, who make up three-fourths of the Oaklandbased indie band Guy Fox. The three met at Bates, performed on and off, gradually made their way to the Bay Area and finally came together for Guy Fox in 2010. The band has released two EPs. Greg calls the band’s sound “Afro-indie-yacht-rock.” Pete, the drummer and lead singer, said, “Putting on a live show should be a truly interactive experience between the band and the audience. We’re making all of our shows a party, and we want everyone in the room to feel like they’re making it a celebration together.”...Martha Klemm and Noah Gauthier were married Sept. 14, 2013.

She has a master’s in applied sociology from UMass Boston and works as a senior research associate at Endpoint Outcomes in Boston. He is a consultant at Deloitte....Perry Kleeman ’09 and Jake Hardy were married

June 22, 2013....Avery Pierce ’10 and Tommy O’Connor were married June 22, 2013....MaryCarson Saunders and Joshua Stiff were married Oct. 5, 2013.

They live in Norfolk, Va., where Mary-Carson is an environmental policy consultant and Josh practices bankruptcy law....

Former Bates squash standout Sean Wilkinson is now head coach of the Princeton men’s squash team.

2009 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class co-presidents Timothy Gay timothy.s.gay@gmail.com Arsalan Suhail arsalansuhail@gmail.com John Adams went back to the boarding school life three years ago when he started teaching at Dublin School in New Hampshire. He is currently chair of the mathematics department and head coach of the boys lacrosse team. At Dublin’s yearend, he won the Norm Wight Distinguished Coach Award and the Charles Latham Jr. Distinguished Teacher Award....

Joanna Dees (William & Mary ’05) and Aaron Bobik were married Sept. 14, 2013....Emma Halas-O’Connor helped found The Voter Education Brigade, a nonpartisan, grassroots group in Maine that seeks to “equip voters with sound information and enable easy access to candidates and elected officials” to ensure that “elections are focused on representing the people’s interests.”...Caitlin Murphy and Paul Dufault (Harvard ’08) were married Sept. 14, 2013....Kimberly Russell and Joshua Thompson were married July 14, 2012....

Thomas Wesson, a professional actor in New York working in a range of areas in the entertainment industry, returned to Bates to talk about his work.

2010 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class co-presidents Brianna Bakow brianna.bakow@gmail.com Vantiel Elizabeth Duncan vantielelizabeth.duncan@ mail.com Craig Friedman and Kush Mahan launched The MindBright Foundation, a nonprofit consultancy that seeks to provide effective mental health services for the underserved communities in New York City....

Katewatson Prins ’11 and Ryan Horvath were married Jan. 18, 2014....The Salem News quoted Rich McNeil when his former St. John’s Prep football coach, Jim O’Leary, stepped down after 30 years as head coach at the Danvers, Mass., school. “He laid the foundation for what I’m

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2011 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class co-presidents Theodore Sutherland theodoresutherland89@ gmail.com Patrick Williams dapatch20002000@yahoo.com Michael Brooks is the host of Intersection, an Aslan Media weekly podcast dedicated to providing a deeper understanding of the political and cultural currents driving the Middle East, South Asia and North Africa....After earning a master’s in engineering from UVA, Charles Burgis works in Madison, Wis., as an environmental consultant with Leggette, Brashears & Graham....Stephanie Cabot, who founded Rêve Cycling Studio to provide an urban escape for riders in the middle of Portland, hosted a fitness and wellness event with the Portland Bates Network....Alisa Hamilton spoke at Bates about her two and half years in Senegal where she worked for the NGO Tostan, first as a volunteer and then as a graphic designer and website editor. She returned to the U.S. to pursue a master’s in art therapy....Writing in The Colorado Independent, clinical social worker Anna Hogeland took note of “post-biblical flood disorder” in the wake of the state’s record flooding: “Reactions to disasters can set in weeks later. It may not be until it rains heavily again or you drive over the repaired bridge or hear a siren that you could feel an odd sense ripping you back to that night and all the confusion and fear and even the adrenaline rush that came with it.” Anna earned a MSW from Smith College and is now a postmaster’s fellow at CU Boulder’s counseling center....George O’Connor joined Cassidy Turley, a commercial real estate services provider, as an associate specializing in Boston’s metro south suburban markets....Nkese Rankine is featured in Hold Fast to Dreams, a book that documents the lives of 10 Brooklyn students, including Nkese, at the Secondary School for Research as they navigated their way through college applications while battling daily realities. Nkese, the first in her family to attend college, told the New York Daily News, “I don’t want my story to be ‘Oh that’s the girl who did it.’ I think that everyone can do it if all the resources are provided.” She works as manager of volunteer

and partner engagement at the New York nonprofit Everybody Wins!, which promotes children’s literacy through shared reading experiences with caring adults. She begins a master’s in education policy at NYU this fall....Ebbe Sweet, a New York City-based photographer, returned to Bates to teach a dance photography workshop and talk to students about her career path....Liz Rowley is a writer and editor for the online Elite Daily.

2012 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class co-presidents Mikey Pasek mikeypasek@gmail.com Sangita Murali murali58@comcast.net The key players in a recent $5.5 million real estate deal in Portland, Maine, were four Bobcats: Palo Peirce, Alex Jones, Vince Ciampi and Brandon Cooper ’10. In 2013, Palo and Alex founded a real estate investment firm, V3 Partners, while Brandon had co-founded a similar firm in California in 2012. In 2014, the three teamed up to buy four multi-unit apartment buildings in Portland for $5,587,500, and Vince, an associate with CBRE | The Boulos Company, was their broker. Vince bumped into Palo at a Boston Bates Network event last year, and they exchanged business cards. After Palo connected with Brandon, explains Vince, “they decided to go after Portland as their next market.

The four of us all played a part in putting the deal together.” The deal is a large one in recent years in Portland’s multi-unit market....Casey Dropkin planned to bike across the country to raise money for Massachusetts Vest a Dog, an all-volunteer nonprofit whose goal is to support Massachusetts police dogs by helping provide bulletproof vests, equipment, training and purchase of dogs for law enforcement. Casey, daughter of a police officer, is studying at Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine and was accompanied by her mother, Wendy, a teacher....

Tess Glancey is the digital coordinator in the office of House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., on Capitol Hill....

Sarah Merullo was named field hockey Coach of the Year by The Salem News after Ipswich (Mass.) High School compiled a 13-2-3 record and reached the state tournament for the second straight season, which was also her second season as coach. She also teaches Spanish at Ipswich High....Jee Hye Kim spent a week in Jordan as a missionary with a team from her church. “I have been following my passion of becoming a painter in New York City,” she writes....Mikey

Pasek was awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation....

Meg Ramey of San Francisco received a Fulbright to teach English in Mexico.

2013 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class co-presidents Ryan Sonberg rsonberg9@gmail.com Megan Murphy megan.a.murphy@gmail.com

Cheri-Ann Parris ’13 taught children how to play chess while volunteering at the Lewiston Public Library. “Chess always lives with you. It keeps your brain alive.”

Andrew Berry is an associate at Massey Knakal Realty Services, headquartered in New York....

Liza Dorison is now an assistant account executive at the public relations firm Ruder Finn in New York....Ellen Gawarkiewicz of North Falmouth, Mass., received a Fulbright to teach English in Nepal....Ashley Lepre of Portland was awarded a Fulbright to teach English in Bulgaria....The Lewiston Sun Journal caught up with Cheri-Ann Parris as she taught children how to play chess while volunteering at the Lewiston Public Library. “Chess always lives with you. It keeps your brain alive,” she said. Growing up in Barbados, she started playing chess at 11; at the same age, she was a competitive squash player who had represented her country in squash on many occasions. At 17, she represented Barbados in the Chess Olympiad.

“It was a blast....To come into a different arena as a chess player, it felt so inspiring in the sense that I knew I had the ability to reach this level in another

sport.”...Among the alums working at McLean Hospital in the Behavioral Genetics Lab of Bill Carlezon ’86 are research assistants Samantha Landino and Abby Alexander ’14....Thanks to a first-of-its-kind Nature Conservancy fellowship program, Eliza Perry is a “job ready” wildlife conservationist, The Omaha World-Herald reported.

She and another fellowship winner spent a year learning the nature of Nebraska. The two drove tractors, herded cattle and harvested seeds of native prairie grasses and plants. They also attended professional workshops, practiced land management principles, wrote blog posts and learned the fundraising and marketing side of conservation. “The first thing that struck me about Nebraska was the sky,” Eliza said.

“The whole 360-degree color change, that was very striking.”

Although she wants to pursue a career in marine conservation, she said lessons from her time in Nebraska will serve her well.

2014 Reunion 2019 June 7–9 class co-presidents Hally Bert hallybert@gmail.com Mildred Aroko mildredaroko@gmail.com Hello from your presidents!

We wish we could have come back for Homecoming and hear updates from everyone, but it is all good because it is time to put together our first Class Letter.

Alumni from classes before us say that Class Letters are a great adjunct to social media in helping classmates stay connected.

In addition, sharing your news and whereabouts helps Bates.

By providing up-to-date contact information, the college can communicate with us in ways we want. And, when we stay in contact with the college, Bates can keep us connected to current students as they reach out to the Bates network. So, when you receive our “Call for News,” please share an update for the Class of 2014 Letter!

Best to all, Hally and Milly

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doing now and set the tone with his message to work hard all the time,” said Rich, who played football and competed in track at Bates. He’s finishing a graduate degree in athletic administration at Springfield College....Emily Staszak and Patrick Carroll ’11 were married Oct. 19, 2013.

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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.

Dees & Bobik ’09 Joanna Dees (William & Mary ’05) and Aaron Bobik ’09, Sept. 14, 2013, Meridian Hill Park, Washington, D.C. Aaron and Joanna, Michael Petrick ’09, Winthrop Rodgers ’09, Kristopher Kane ’09, Rachel Goodermote ’09.

Larsen ’07 & Curti ’0I Amelia Larsen ’07 and Tate Curti ’01, July 27, 2013, Canterbury Shaker Village, Canterbury, N.H. Liz Pancoast Lanoue ’00, Chris Lanoue ’00, Brooke Dennee-Sommers Witherspoon ’07, Sarah Drosdik ’07, James Pelletier ’07, Katie Unger Hayes ’06, Nate Michelsen ’01, Tate and Amelia, Clarke MacMillan ’01, Lindsay Allsop ’06, Joseph Reynolds ’01, Alison Neubauer Miller ’07, Matt Purtell ’01, Burke Davis ’01, Josh Leland ’01, Portia Hard Clark ’98, Josh Clark ’96.

Pierce & Gracia ’04 Rebecca Pierce and Joseph Gracia ’04, Aug. 10, 2013, Purcellville, Va. Seamus Collins ’04 (with son Edison), Nick Robert ’04, Jeff Butler ’04, Joey and Rebecca, Glynnis Gracia ’01, Anne Wrigley Collins ’04.

Hines ’02 & Gladd Kristin Hines ’02 and Nic Gladd (Bowdoin ’03), Sept. 8, 2012, Barnard, Vt. Carroll ’05 & Livengood ’05 Kathleen Carroll ’05 and Ian Livengood ’05, June 29, 2013, Hopewell, N.J. Erica Nason Ross ’05, Dan Bradford ’05, Matt Marshall ’05, Whitney Richey Rubenstein ’05, Tom Hutcheon ’05, Rebecca Perlmutter ’05, Ted Ely ’05, Nancy Highcock ’05, Ian and Katie, Karen Goldberg ’05, Dan Ross ’05, Rahel Wondwossen ’05, Rob Weller ’05.

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Doi ’07 & Theile ’07 Akiko Doi ’07 and Christopher Theile ’07, Sept.

6, 2013, Lyman Estate, Waltham, Mass. Carine Warsawski ’07, Ann Lovely ’07, Kate Luddy ’07, Whitney Stowell ’06, Ashleigh Coren ’07, Chris and Akiko, Leyi Wang ’07, Courtney Shirley ’07, Mary Tong ’06, Zaw Min Oo ’07.

Bracken ’05 & Lazur Heather Bracken ’05 and Nathan Lazur (Carnegie Mellon ’05), Aug. 24, 2013, Longue Vue Club, Pittsburgh.

Kelsey Barrett ’05, Izzy Ishizuka ’05, Melissa Chace Trace ’82, Chuck Bracken ’76, Melinda Chace Bracken ’76, Heather and Nathan, Kelley Sinnott ’05, Betsy Bracken Barrett ’73, Todd Chace ’75.

Russell ’09 & Thompson Kimberly Russell ’09 and Joshua Thompson, July 14, 2012, Windsor, Vt. Front: Lily Conover ’08, Erin Sienkiewicz ’09, Helen Odegaard Russell ’49, Beth Russell Campo ’73, Charlotte Green ’11, Kim and Joshua, Ebbe Sweet ’11; back: Aubrey Smith Frost ’09, John McDonald ’09, Benjamin Levin ’09, Christopher Berry ’09, Lawrence Hinkle ’09, Donald Russell ’51.

Stasio ’07 & Parise Jenny Stasio ’07 and Brandon Parise, Sept.

1, 2013, Union Bluff Hotel, York, Maine. Aislinn Hougham ’07, Jane Mellors ’07, Dana Lee ’07, Brandon and Jenny, Brandon Colon ’08, Alicia Doukeris ’07, Kate Luddy ’07, Elisa Orme ’07, Christina Doukeris Superina ’04, Caitlin Henderson Eldridge ’07, Chris Eldridge ’06.

West & Lee ’04 Elise West and Dominic Lee ’04, Dec. 22, 2013, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, D.C. Katy Seager ’04, Elise, Julia Judson-Rea ’04, Dominic, Aram Parsegian ’04, Michael Kitces ’00, Samantha Kitces, Eleanor Lee Kitces ’00.

Klemm ’08 & Gauthier ’08 Martha Klemm ’08 and Noah Gauthier ’08, Sept.

14, 2013, ceremony at Westport Point United Methodist Church, reception at Synton House, Westport Point, Mass. Andrew Percy ’08, Christopher Murtagh ’11, Richard McNeil ’10, Matthew Capone ’07, John Miley ’08, Dustin Gauthier ’05, Sarah Baldwin Bellem ’05, Noah and Martha, Maggie Lathrop Anderson ’83, Michael Watson ’09, Jessie Smith ’09, Rachel O’Hara ’08, Dorothea Manelas Price ’55, Ken Adams ’07, Oscar Cancio ’08, Katelyn Provencher ’08, Erica Foulser ’08.

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Horvath ’I0 & Prins ’II Katewatson Prins ’11 and Ryan Horvath ’10, Jan. 18, 2014, Bernardsville, N.J. First row: Masid Cader ’11, Elizabeth Prins ’17, Meredith Legg ’11, Noah Burke ’11; second: Morgan Kapinos ’11, Frankie White ’11, Katewatson, William Prins ’09, Ryan, Hannah Richardson ’11, Julia Murphy ’11, David Romagnoli ’09; third: Sarah Cullen ’11, Andrew SteikerEpstein ’11, Chris Burke ’11, Josh Linscott ’10, Nate Johnson ’10; fourth row: Custer Cook ’10, Dan Roop ’10, Ryan Mannelly ’10, Matt Devin ’09, Ben Shwartz ’09.

Banks ’85 & Gagnon ’88 Shannon Banks ’85 and LK Gagnon ’88, July 13, 2013, Driftwood Inn, Harpswell, Maine. Center front: Barbara Galloupe Gagnon ’50, Robin Stidworthy ’83, Ali Desjardin ’14, Megan Kearns ’14, Phoebe Tamminen ’14, Sarah Emerson Potter ’77, Shannon and LK, Vivienne Kaye West ’84, Allan McNab ’88, Sidney McLean McNab ’88, Carolyn Townsend ’87.

Lanza-Weil ’06 & Burstein Cali Lanza-Weil ’06 and Dan Burstein (Emory ’98), Nov. 9, 2013, Baltimore.

Ali Vander Zanden ’06, Nick Foster ’06, Alex Battestin Foster ’06, Kaitlyn McKechnie Nelson ’06, Stephanie Beauvais Dennig ’07, Raymond Lanza-Weil ’06, Cali and Dan, Jon DeCarlo ’06, Chelsea Cook ’06, Ari Levin ’07, Andrea Wolf ’06, Mike Metzger ’06, Meghan Getz Metzger ’07, Lou Dennig ’07, Alex Johnston ’84.

Staszak ’10 & Carroll ’II Emily Staszak ’10 and Patrick Carroll ’11, Oct. 19, 2013, Bates’ Gomes Chapel. Alicia Fannon ’13, Ryan Quinn ’11, Charlotte Green ’11, Chris Berry ’09, Emily and Patrick, Byron Cooper ’11, Kara Leasure ’12, Richard “Kick” Sullivan ’12, Peem Chatikavanij ’11.

Tong ’06 & Oo ’07 Mary Tong ’06 and Zaw Min Oo ’07, wedding Feb. 2, 2013, celebration July 5, 2013, New Haven, Conn.

Waiyan, Htay Min Hlaing ’06, Sanda Myo Lwin, Prem Neupane ’05, Ayana Sawai ’04, Didier Frantz, Mihoko Maru ’05, Upasana Mainali, Chris Theile ’07, Akiko Doi ’07, Mary, Sao Ohn Hseng ’05, Zaw, Leyi Wang ’07, Jr-shiuan Yang, Shirley Yeo ’07, Ben Pasquale.

Perlmutter ’05 & Bradford ’05 Rebecca Perlmutter ’05 and Dan Bradford ’05, Aug. 3, 2013, Broadturn Farm, Scarborough, Maine.

Front row: Dan Frost ’05, Erica Nason Ross ’05, Katie Carroll ’05, Karen Goldberg ’05, Sarahbelle Marsh ’05, Rebecca and Dan, Kyle Rushton ’07, Sarah Paruolo ’05, Kim Bouris ’05, Alison Pennelli Lawler ’05, Rebecca Westlake ’07, Joe Grube ’73, Sally Danforth Grube ’75, Carol Goldthwait Bradford ’73, Joe Bradford ’73; second row: Danny Ross ’05, Emily Ross, Ian Livengood ’05, Tom Hutcheon ’05, Rob Weller ’05, Sam Duvall ’05, Mike Greenway ’06, Jeff Bruson ’06, Kathryn Rice Duvall ’05, Jaclyn Howell ’05, Matthew Lawler ’05.

Murphy ’09 & Dufault Caitlin Murphy ’09 and Paul Dufault (Harvard ’08), Sept. 14, 2013, Duxbury, Mass. Mark Murphy ’12, Tatum Fraites ’09, Adam Scharff ’12, Gabriella Vannoni ’09, Brian Klein ’09, Emily Doble ’09, Julia Merriman Traggorth ’09, Julie Hennessey Donovan ’82, Caitlin and Paul, Thomas Bowden ’09, Charlotte Coulter Bowden ’09, Nora Collins ’11, Grace Haessler ’12, Timothy Henderson ’09.

Crawford ’I0 & Bousquet ’07 Emily Crawford ’10 and Danny Bousquet ’07, Oct. 5, 2013, Colony Hotel, Kennebunkport, Maine.

Front: Meagan Forsythe ’11, Elizabeth Cohen ’07, Rachel O’Hara ’08, Alicia Doukeris ’07, Danny and Emily, Alicia Orkisz ’10, Jenna Finegold ’10, Melanie Harkins ’10; back: Nick Schmiemann ’11, Evan Hancock ’10, Scott Kraus ’07, Brandon Colon ’08, Katy Corrado ’07, Jason Starrett ’07, Jordan Swaim ’07, Scot Wilks ’07, Carter Casner ’07, Tommy Imboden ’07, Morgan Brown ’07, Andrew Jacobs ’07, Nick Keefe ’07, Chris Ward ’08.

Col ’02 & Smith Laurel Col ’02 and Brian Smith, Aug. 11, 2012, Ashland, Ore. Christopher Hurld ’00, Stephanie Eby ’02, Leah Battaglioli ’02, Laura Medina ’02, Laurel and Brian, Kevin Porter ’02, Vanita Jain ’02, SooAe Shaneyfelt Jones ’04, Christopher Jones ’02, Emily Bisson ’02 Bucci ’07 & Feinberg ’07 Mary Bucci ’07 and Luke Feinberg ’07, Aug. 17, 2013, Southport, Maine. Bill Cuthbertson ’75, Emily Williams ’07, Andrew Loula ’07, Alicia Schwab ’07, Vin Bucci ’75, Mary and Luke, Adi Matoshi ’07, Jackie Olson Zubiate ’07, Jane Mellors ’07, Ann Speers ’07.

Forester ’07 & Sweeny Katherine Forester ’07 and Andrew Sweeny, June 8, 2013, Brewster, Mass. Jenny Sadler ’07, Sarah Catignani ’07, Ellie Wilson ’07, Rachel Fragner Dilsaver ’07, Timothy Forester ’12, Melissa Baker Linville ’07, Katelyn Adams Doyle ’07, Casey Doyle ’07, Sarah Janoff ’07, Jen Yee ’07.

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Kleeman ’09 & Hardy ’08 Perry Kleeman ’09 and Jake Hardy ’08, June 22, 2013, Park City, Utah. Seated: James Pelletier ’07, Haleigh Armstrong ’09, Perry and Jake, Madeline McLean ’09, Hadley Washburne ’09, Sarah Drosdik ’07; standing: Johnny Ritzo ’06, Sarah Jordan ’09, Tyler Schoen ’09, Dana Pool ’10, Sean McKenna ’06, Brynn Kernan ’09, Pat Halloran ’08, Sheridan Maguire ’09, Josh Galvin ’08, Mike Nelligan ’06, Tim Howard ’09, Carter Casner ’07, Machias Schoen ’06.

Dennee-Sommers ’07 & Witherspoon Brooke Dennee-Sommers ’07 and Carter Witherspoon, Aug. 17, 2013, Waitsfield, Vt. Front row: Conor Boyle ’06, Michael Nelligan ’06, Brooke and Carter, Sarah Drosdik ’07, Laura Harris ’07; middle: Chris Palsho ’06, Brooke Anable ’06, Tate Curti ’01, Amelia Larsen Curti ’07; back: Sean Caplice ’06, Johnny Ritzo ’06, James Pelletier ’07, Sawyer Fahy ’06, Andrew Foukal ’06.

Conley ’08 & Wimberly ’08 Meghan Conley ’08 and Ryan Wimberly ’08, Aug. 24, 2013, Chatham, Mass. First row: Maura Beatty ’08, Andy St. James ’08, Michelle Perry ’08, Meghan and Ryan, Halley Elliott ’08, Willy Warren ’08, Lindsey Ferguson ’08; second row: Will Akie ’08, Hope Fleming ’09, Emilie Swenson ’08, Kerry Glavin ’08, Katie Nickerson ’08, Pete Dennehy ’08, Lincoln Tirpaeck ’08; third row: Nick Stamas ’08, Graham Raymond ’08, Pat Flaherty ’08, Alex Connor ’08, Brian Day Machunski ’08; fourth row: Ryan Fitzsimmons ’08, Justin Simon ’08, Dan Perry ’08, Alex Maulucci ’08, Andrew Isaacson ’08, Fionna Sherwin-Murray ’09, Andrew La Manna ’07.

Lund ’06 & Taylor Hannah Lund ’06 and Ryan Taylor, May 4, 2013, Barren Ridge Vineyards, Fishersville, Va. Standing: Todd Myers ’06, Sean Siff ’05, Taryn Craig ’06, Jeff Addis ’06, Katie Somers DiGregorio ’06, Annie Whiting Siff ’06, Ryan and Hannah, Kyla Decato ’06, Lauren Bauder ’06; kneeling: Meghan Currie ’06, Derek DiGregorio ’06.

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Service Award. In 1984, the local community services council gave her its senior citizens award. She was also an officer of the Ocean Park Bates Club in the 1980s and served on her 50th, 55th and 60th Reunion gift committees.

She is survived by children Richard and Arthur Holbrook, and Deborah Harville; seven grandchildren; and four greatgrandchildren. In addition to her husband, her Bates relatives were her mother, Elvena Young Wheeler 1906; aunt, Mrytle Young Winne 1906; and cousin, Catherine Winne Tonis ’41.

1937 1934 Edward Isaac Lelyveld August 18, 2013 Edward Lelyveld was known as one of the most cordial and most liked men in his class. He was active in band and the Outing Club, played baseball, track and club basketball, and participated in the Athletic Assn. He majored in economics — and became a podiatrist. It was a natural transition from his job as a shoe salesman at the family store in his hometown, Rockland, Mass.

He and his brother, Mark ’40 (now deceased), owned the store until 1979. He was also president of the Rockland Credit Union, chamber of commerce and school board. Survivors include wife Jacqueline AbramsLelyveld; sons Morris ’64 and Louis ’66 and daughter Gail; and nephew Irwin Shiffer ’69.

His brother-in-law was Maurice Shiffer ’34; his niece was Sandra Lelyveld Marill ’55.

1935 Thelma Poulin Vincent December 3, 2013 There’s a library? That, more than anything, impressed Thelma Vincent about her new home when her family moved to Springvale, Maine, when she was little, and it started her on a lifetime of reading. She became an English and French teacher, moved all the way to Alaska and back to Sanford. She married Walter Vincent midway in Seattle — he was a pilot in the U.S. Navy, and his career took them all over the country. When they retired to Sanford, she taught French at Nasson College, just as she had at Sanford High School years earlier after she graduated from Bates. A member of the College Key, she was active as an alumna in planning class Reunions. Her husband died in 1994. She is survived by children Maggie, Andrew, Miriam and Robert; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

1936 Dot Wheeler Holbrook ’36 wrote, “The idea that women are persons rather than adjuncts has occurred to most of us, even though we graduated back in the Middle Ages.”

Dorothy Wheeler Holbrook July 21, 2012 A note from a staff member in Dot Holbrook’s alumni file reads: “Mrs. Holbrook’s class notes were once mistakenly placed after her husband’s in an issue of the alumni magazine.

She replied with a sharp report to the alumni secretary that ‘The idea that women are persons rather than adjuncts has occurred to most of us, even though we graduated back in the Middle Ages, and even if we live in remote settlements beyond the Hudson River.’ While this indicates that Mrs. Holbrook is a sharp woman, every other indicator proves she has a sharp mind and a warm personality.”

Indeed, every other indicator did. At Bates she played every sport you can think of, from baseball to hockey to speedball — but she was also a member of the Orphic Society, all the rage at the time, the art world concept of combining color and music. A French major (Phi Beta Kappa), she taught Latin and English as a second language throughout her life. She organized students at Oberlin College to volunteer as tutors to neighborhood children.

Her husband, Clyde Holbrook ’34, was a distinguished professor of religion there. He passed away in 1989. She worked with the League of Women Voters and the YWCA and many other civic organizations, and in 1981 Oberlin College awarded her its Distinguished Community

Saranush Jaffarian December 24, 2013 Every school needs a library, said Sara Jaffarian, and in order for a school to be excellent, its library has to be excellent. That takes more than books and fancy materials, she believed. It takes thoughtful programming, attention from administrators and parents and community leaders.

She devoted her life to advancing this idea, from her first job in the public schools in Quincy, Mass., to seven years directing the libraries in Greensboro, N.C., before hearing the clarion call in 1961 from Lexington Public Schools in Massachusetts, her home state, that it needed to revise its libraries. She designed and developed the system there, and the Encyclopedia Britannica School Library Award was given to the Lexington Public Schools in 1964. She retired in 1981.

Besides her Bates degree in history and government, she earned a degree in library science from Simmons and a master’s in education from Boston Univ. She was a member of countless library groups, notably the American Library Assn. When she donated more than $50,000 to the organization, it established the Sara Jaffarian School Library Program Award for Exemplary Humanities Programming, given each year to a school (K–8) that has demonstrated an outstanding program. She was active in the Armenian Apostolic Church at Hye Point in Haverhill, Mass. Survivors include cousin Alan Babigian ’88; niece Sarah Dunham Finley ’93; and nephew William J. Dunham ’83.

Anne Marie Diebold Sattler August 9, 2013 When World War II ended, Anne Sattler used her perfect English skills — with a New England accent — to correct the liberating American officers that they were in France, not Germany. That accent, those skills and her love of her two years at Bates lasted her entire life, said daughter Hélène Voegele, and so did her friendship with classmate Betty Stevens Earle, who passed away last year.

She married Pierre Sattler in 1940; he became a veterinarian

after World War II, and she assisted in his office in addition to raising their six children. She was active in the French-American club in her area, and hosted American students visiting with the Experiment in Living program. Her husband died in 2010. In addition to Hélène, survivors include children Nelly Herren-Sattler and Jean-Pierre, Michel, Daniel and Line Sattler; 21 grandchildren; and 25 greatgrandchildren.

1938 If your family is affected by cancer, keep Charlotte Corning Wright ’38 in mind.

She was part of the impetus for a sea change in the way cancer patients were treated by nurses and families.

Charlotte Corning Wright October 4, 2013 If your family is affected by cancer, keep Charlotte Wright in mind. She was part of the impetus for a sea change in the way cancer patients were treated by nurses and families.

Cancer was considered shameful and contagious; there was no such thing as an “oncology nurse.” She helped change all that. In 1974, she won one of 12 grants from the National Cancer Institute given nationally to programs to introduce Project ONE (for Oncology Nurse Education) at Waterbury (Conn.) Hospital.

She didn’t stop there: She worked with Yale–New Haven Hospital as it prepared to open the country’s first hospice; she organized programs for clergy, pharmacists and licensed practical nurses; and she started a cancer center at another hospital in Waterbury. By the time this grant expired, she was in demand across the country to open similar projects. She worked for three years in Oregon before retiring to Auburn. In 1981, the Yale School of Nursing awarded her its Outstanding Alumna award, recognizing not only her work with Project ONE but her other major achievement: bringing nursing into the professional world. Charlotte had originally hoped to become a doctor, like her father, but his accidental death when she was very young left her unable to afford the tuition. She had expected nursing school to be like medical school, and was appalled to find that instead she was expected to learn literally on the job, by tending to patients in hospitals. She became determined to move nursing pro-

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grams out of hospitals and into colleges. That way, nurses would obtain not only nursing degrees but associate’s and eventually bachelor’s degrees. She also encouraged men to become nurses, something heretofore unheard of. She brought in outside experts to lecture classes, and took field trips to unusual locations to supplement classroom learning.

Her secretary described to The Hartford Courant one trip a class took to a car junkyard so the nurses could understand how people were extracted during car accidents. Today, nearly every nursing program in the U.S. is affiliated with a college or university, and all but 10 percent of nurses hold at least an associate’s degree. Programs exist for nurses to earn master’s degrees (which Charlotte earned) and even doctorates. Throughout her working life, Charlotte accompanied the love of her life, the Rev. M. Webb Wright ’38, as he ministered to churches in Connecticut, Maine and Massachusetts. She dovetailed her volunteer work with church youth groups and handbell choirs with her nursing career, just as he found ways to assist her work after he retired in 1976. He died in 1998. Survivors include daughters Anne Wright (herself a nurse) and Nancy Shantia, and six grandchildren.

1939 Ruth Robbins Adamo January 9, 2014 “Up until September 1961, I was a homemaker only,” Ruth Adamo wrote modestly. “Am now trying to combine a job with homemaking!” Before then, she just tried to combine it with raising two daughters, being the editor of the Wilton Times, and (before the girls were born) teaching for three years at two schools (including her beloved Wilton Academy) and working at the local farm bureau. Just a housewife. She went on to write for four area newspapers, publish a history of her hometown and become a feature writer for the Lewiston Daily Sun. Her husband, John, passed away in 2005, and her daughter, Starr, died in 2011. Survivors include children Michelle Ouellette and Jesse Jones; and three grandchildren.

1940 Ladora Davis Blowen September 13, 2013 Ladora Davis couldn’t talk to Arthur Blowen except at Saturday night dances — freshman rules! — until after Thanksgiving, but they were convinced by then that they were meant for each other, and still felt that way 49 years later. The first in her family to attend college, she graduated with a degree in sociology and went on to Andover Newton Theological Seminary with Arthur; he completed a

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degree then, but she did not finish hers in Christian education until 1988, after Arthur’s death in 1985. By that time, they had raised three children, two of whom, Emily Blowen Brown ’65 and Martha Blowen ’75, followed their parents to Bates. Together Ladora and Arthur served churches in Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts and Connecticut; she taught elementary school in many of these locations as well.

She taught Sunday school well into her 80s, and worked at the UCC office in Yarmouth, Maine.

Daughter Martha passed away in 2008. Survivors include children Emily Brown and John Blowen; nine grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

Charles Graichen July 29, 2013 Charles Graichen made good use of his Bates degree in chemistry.

Except for service in the U.S. Army during World War II, he worked as a chemist for his entire career. Before the war, he was employed by Dupont de Nemours Co. in New Jersey and Kentucky; afterward, he worked for the Food and Drug Administration, retiring in 1979.

He was active with Wesley United Methodist Church in Vienna, Va., where he worked with the Committee for Helping Others. Survivors include his wife Gwenie Rosser Graichen; daughters Mary Elizabeth Couch and Margaret Graichen; and one grandchild.

1942 Lester Everett Forbes June 2, 2013 After two years at Bates, Les Forbes and Margie Lewis left for schools in Boston that they felt better suited their future. They’d met at the first dance their first year, and would marry once they completed their degrees, he at Bryant and Stratton, she at Katherine Gibbs. But their hearts remained at Bates, to the point that they established an endowed fund at the college.

Les built a career as a buyer at General Electric, interrupted by service in the U.S. Army, which turned him away the first time but came back begging for him when the going got tougher. In retirement they traveled to nearly every state and everywhere in Europe they could manage.

Margie survives him.

“Bates is a tradition in our family,” wrote Dorothy Tuttle Tarr ’42. The college has awarded at least 10 degrees to members of her family over 120 years.

Dorothy Tuttle Tarr October 6, 2013 “Bates is a tradition in our family,” wrote Dorothy Tarr in her 50th Reunion yearbook. And indeed it is. From her grandfather (Thomas Spooner 1874) to her granddaughter (Allison Colbath ’96), the college has awarded at least 10 degrees to members of her family over 120 years, five generations in all. A lifelong resident of New Hampshire, she served as secretary and president of the Boston Alumnae Club for a number of years. Her parents were Eugene Tuttle 1905 and Elizabeth Spooner Tuttle 1906; her uncles were Guy A. Tuttle 1908 and Thomas Spooner 1905. Two cousins, now deceased, also attended Bates: Richard A. Tuttle ’35 and Alice Spooner Saunders ’44. Her husband, Charles Tarr, predeceased her.

1943 Virginia Gentner Marshall Crosslin August 24, 2013 Ginny Gentner Marshall married Norman Marshall six months after graduation and worked at Boston’s Children’s Hospital while he attended Tufts Medical School. By 1950, they found themselves in Colorado with two children and orders for Norm to report for duty in Korea. His aid station there was overrun in July, and he refused to leave his comrades. Norm’s remains were eventually recovered.

“Her dreams were shattered,” her daughter said, but Ginny carried on by caring for her children, and by supervising a day and evening nursery at an Army hospital, for which the Army considered her suitable because of her Bates degree in psychology. She married Amos Crosslin, a general contractor, in 1956 and worked in his office. He passed away in 2011. She never lost her connection to Bates: Its calendar always hung on her wall. Survivors include children Susan Vasey, Peter Marshall and Janis Johnson; 11 grandchildren; and 22 great-grandchildren.

Francis Seymour Jones October 14, 2013 Like his father, Francis Jones was a pathologist. But he became a medical doctor, interested in the pathology of human disease.

His father, Fred Reuel Jones Sr. 1909 was a plant pathologist.

Francis managed to finish his undergraduate degree in biology before the U.S. Army scooped him out of medical school and put him through its paces. He finished his residency at the Univ. of Wisconsin and became a professor of pathology there before college roommate Freeman Rawson ’43 convinced him that the coalfields of Big Stone Gap, Va., were the place to be — and for three years in the mid-1950s,

they were, until the Univ. of Tennessee in Knoxville built its new hospital. He was the first pathologist there and put together its laboratory. From 1956 to 1992, he chaired the department, watching it grow from him and six technologists to 11 physicians and 130 technologists. He also handled all of the medical and forensic examiner tasks until those positions were filled as well. (And, he once said, he remembered Patricia Cornwell, the crime novelist, stopping by several times for advice.) He was appointed professor of pathology when the university formed a medical school in 1969, and was active in local and national blood banks throughout his career. He was an aircraft pilot and owned a publishing company that published biographies of his parents. His brother, Fred Reuel Jones Jr. ’45, died in June 2013; his obituary is also in this issue.

Survivors include wife Elizabeth Farmer Jones; children Ted Jones, Lucy Mark and Clifford Miller; five grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and sister Phoebe Jones Samelson ’50.

V-12 Matthew A. Medick January 31, 2014 Matthew Medick was at Bates for V-12 training in 1945 and went on to earn a degree in aeronautical engineering at the Univ. of Illinois. He served in the U.S. Navy and the Naval Reserves from 1945 to 1961. He earned a doctorate from Columbia and became a professor of mechanical engineering at Michigan State. Survivors include children Jean Carlton, Cynthia Smith, Julia, Matthew Jr. and John; seven grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

1944 Robert Ernest Landick Jr. August 27, 2013 Bob Landick surprised himself by being accepted at Bates, he said, and immediately started the important task of courting Phyllis Chase, who would become his wife once they both graduated and he finished up with the U.S. Navy, which he did, via the college’s V-12 program and a detour through Cornell.

He went on to Tufts Medical School and set up a general practice in Marblehead, Mass. Later he found that he really wanted to teach. So he accepted a faculty position at the then-new medical school at Michigan State Univ., to teach new doctors behavioral science skills, designed to make them more effective doctors.

He retired in 1990 and became active in Habitat for Humanity, wielding a mean hammer both there and in his own woodshop.

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Other survivors include cousins Robert Hager ’75, Jean HagerRich ’65, Christine Julia Hager ’68, Richard P. Hager ’69 and Caitlin Rose Hager ’05. His late uncles were Russell P. Hager ’34 and Herbert F. Hager ’37.

1945 Dorothy Babcock Bragdon November 26, 2013 “Babs” Babcock graduated magna cum laude in sociology and completed a master’s at George Washington Univ. She worked as a social worker for the Children’s Aid Society in Boston and at the YWCA in White Plains, N.Y., and as an instructor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City before starting her family. Her husband, Roger Bragdon, a Bowdoin man, became head of the foreign language department at Fryeburg Academy, and she became dean of girls and a teacher there.

They retired to Bath, where she became a docent at Bowdoin’s Peary-MacMillan Museum, letting the schoolchildren believe that her prophylactic walking stick was rugged hiking gear.

Her husband predeceased her.

She is survived by daughters Elisabeth Siek, Joanna and Sarah Bragdon; four grandchildren; and two great-granddaughters.

Ruth Anna Stone Gallagher August 24, 2013 That name of hers — Stone — gave lie to who Ruth Anna Stone Gallagher was. She never stopped moving, as any of her classmates can tell you. The Bates basketball and ski teams benefitted from her talents, and she continued to swim, hike and walk throughout her life.

But that name also symbolized her New England roots: A descendant of the first governor of New Hampshire, she grew up in the house he built, majored in history, and taught the subject at high schools in her home state and in Florida junior colleges for decades. She met her husband, Charles J. Gallagher, at the high school in Littleton, N.H. He survives her, as do children Chuck Gallagher and Ann Ottinger; one grandchild; and two greatgrandchildren.

Fred Reuel Jones Jr. June 17, 2013 Fred Jones Jr. came east from Wisconsin following his father’s footsteps. His father had graduated with the Class of 1909 and was making a name for himself in the world of plant pathology, but Fred Jr. was more interested in the hard stuff — rocks, that is. He concentrated on geology until the Navy called him away, first via the V-12 program and

then active duty. He returned to complete his degree in 1947, meeting his first wife, Frances Howarth ’46. They later divorced. He became a teacher, moving to Colorado. There, he started the Continental Divide horseback ride and enjoyed riding with the Appaloosa Club in Roosevelt, Utah. He was commodore of the Rio Grande Sail Club and the El Butte Windrider Club of Elephant Butte, N.M. Survivors include his third wife, Byrnina Jones; children Perry and David Jones and Patricia Lyons; several grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and sister Phoebe Jones Samelson ’50. His brother Francis Jones ’43 died four months after he did; his obituary is also in this issue.

Charlotte Stafford Brauneis September 10, 2013 Charlotte Brauneis started out as a Latin teacher in rural New Jersey, veered into foster care work in New York City, became a social worker in Denver, got a master’s degree in social work from the university there, and remained a school social worker for the rest of her career, moving among seven schools, dealing with special-education students.

In Denver, she met and married Harry Brauneis. Besides her husband, survivors include sons David, Karl and George; five grandchildren; and one greatgrandchild.

1946 Earle Robinson Clifford Jr. July 29, 2013 After one semester at Bates, Earle Clifford joined the U.S. Marine Corps and served in the Pacific until the war ended.

He graduated from the Univ. of Maine, where he met his future wife, Pauline Curtis Clifford. He worked in the paper industry in technical and management positions. Besides his wife, survivors include sons Michael and William; and two grandchildren. His son Robert predeceased him.

His father was the late Earle R. Clifford 1915. His uncles were the late Wallace A. Clifford 1908, Stephen P. Clifford 1918, Burton K. Clifford ’23 and Walter Mathews 1911. His aunts were Caroline Clifford Mathews 1911 and Mary Clifford Colley ’22.

Austin Dana Fletcher Jr. October 1, 2013 Like many men of his era, Dana Fletcher’s college years were interrupted by the war, and he ended up graduating from Northeastern Univ. but remained attached to Bates as an alumnus. Valedictorian of his class at Westford Academy, he received numerous commendations serving in the U.S. Army and was a history buff as well as an expert on the Red Sox. His wife Muriel passed away in 2011. Survivors include children

Priscilla Stephens, Marsha Batchelder, Ken and Steven Fletcher, and Karen Demuth; 10 grandchildren; and 13 greatgrandchildren.

Melissa Jo Penney ’03; and two great-grandchildren. His son-inlaw is Bruce D. Penney ’76, son of Hugh ’50 and Lois Keniston Penney ’50.

Elwood Fremont Ireland Jr. February 9, 2014 If you were one of Bud Ireland’s kids, you learned to ski by trying to keep up with him and not careening off the trail into one of the huge pines inches away.

But if you did — well, he was a doctor. He left Bates after a year to join the Army, but he was at the college long enough to meet Joan Merritt, whom he married. They shared a passion for travel and adventure. He never got a bachelor’s degree, but he went on to Harvard and earned a medical degree, then practiced urology after his stint in the military. In addition to his wife, he is survived by children Jane I. Silvestro, David, John, Douglas and Elwood Ireland; and 12 grandchildren. His nephew is Gerald R. Ireland ’68, who is married to Susan Axtell Ireland ’68; his niece is Elizabeth Ireland Dufresne ’71, and her husband is William Joseph Dufresne ’71. Other relatives, all deceased, include his parents, Elwood F. Ireland ’22 and Frances Garcelon Ireland ’19; aunt Mona Garcelon Hadley 1914; brother Robert S. Ireland ’40 and his wife, Barbara Kendall Ireland ’39.

Suzanne Davidson Newing January 12, 2014 Sue Newing surrounded herself with black miniature poodles, and she and her daughter, Leslie Newing, made quite the names for themselves showing them at American Kennel Club shows. She insisted that her puppies all be born in her house, not in a kennel, a practice her daughter continues today. She was a member of the Quinnipiac Poodle Club and the Poodle Club of America. She served on the board of Bridgeport Hospital for 10 years and was active in its auxiliary for many more.

She was a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. Her husband, William E. Newing, predeceased her. She is survived by her daughter.

Dick Malatesta ’46 talked his way through Bates. In fact, it was while talking at a politics club meeting that he met Geraldine Weed ’46, the woman he would marry.

Richard John Malatesta January 2, 2014 Dick Malatesta talked his way through Bates. In fact, it was while talking at a politics club meeting that he met Geraldine Weed ’46, the woman he would marry. He and Geri both became involved in the debate program, and he received awards for outstanding public speaking. He also sang in the choir, served as a proctor, assisted in two academic departments and enjoyed it all. With his Phi Beta Kappa key, he headed off to Harvard Law, but changed his mind and opted for Filene’s executive training program instead, where he became a vice president known for his standards of excellence.

Besides his wife, survivors include children Phyllis Meade, Joan Storey, Janice Malatesta Penney ’77 and Steven; eight grandchildren, two of whom are Elizabeth Meade Warren ’00 and

1947 Janet Richan Elwood November 11, 2013 Janet Elwood left Bates after two years to earn a B.F.A. at Rhode Island School of Design.

She also held a M.Ed. from West Chester Univ. She worked as the head designer for Joseph Love Inc. in New York, then freelanced in Philadelphia, where she met Frank P. Elwood, whom she married. He survives her, as do children Elizabeth Gates and Keith Elwood, and three grandchildren.

Helene Arlene Crosson Henderson July 20, 2013 Arlene Henderson —“Tommy” to many of her Bates friends — kept her trombone slide well-oiled and ready to play with the musical theater group she helped form. She directed over 50 musicals with them, the Theater of Performing Arts of Southern York County (Pennsylvania), and they held a memorial program in her honor. She was a professor of mathematics at Penn State for many years and a board member of the New Freedom Library. She earned a master’s from the Univ. of Delaware. Her husband, Albert H. Henderson ’47, died in 1979.

Survivors include children Keith F. Henderson ’75 and Lynn M. Payne; seven grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. Other survivors include brother-in-law Milton Henderson ’50 and his wife Donna Golder Henderson ’49, and their son, James L. Henderson ’82.

Nancy Clough Hobbs October 2013 Nancy Hobbs lived for many years in Texas, where her husband, Raymond Hobbs ’47, worked for Chevron Oil. He

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passed away in 2012. An English major at Bates, she worked briefly as an English teacher after graduation. Survivors include children Susan Hobbs Balser and David Hobbs; two grandchildren; and niece Cynthia M. Hobbs ’81. Her husband had many relatives who attended Bates: His parents, Walden and Blanch Wright Hobbs, were members of the Class of 1918; his late sister and her husband were Carolyn ’49 and Carl Hobbs Holgerson ’51; and his late brother was William Hobbs ’54.

Lorraine Loper Neubauer December 12, 2009 Lorraine Loper married David Neubauer shortly after graduating with a degree in sociology.

They lived mostly in Nebraska.

He died in 2005. She is survived by children Nancy Harding, Carol, Steve and Tom Neubauer; six grandchildren; and six greatgrandchildren.

Jerome M. White June 4, 2013 Originally a member of the Class of 1940, Jerry White was pulled away to serve in the military before returning to Bates with the Class of 1947. He took his biology degree down to Tufts, where he added a master’s. He became a clinical chemist at a hospital in Santa Clara, Calif., and went on to run the laboratory at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.

He retired in 1986. Survivors include wife Ruth McCrerey White; children Jacqueline and David; and four grandchildren.

1948 Barbara Beattie Abbott May 5, 2012 More and more soldiers and sailors were filling the campus when Barbara Beattie arrived for her first year. But one in particular caught her eye: Pret Abbott, a gunnery sergeant who’d had quite a time during the war, and had the medals to prove it. She married the guy, and they enjoyed 63 years together until his death in 2011. Survivors include children Judy, David and Mark, and four grandchildren.

Brent Dodge ’48 let his voice be heard in two ways: from the pulpit and through his trumpet. He served churches in Maryland, Delaware, Ohio, Massachusetts and California, and found bands to play in along the way.

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Brenton Clinton Dodge September 1, 2013 Brent Dodge let his voice be heard in two ways: from the pulpit and through his trumpet.

A graduate of Eastern Baptist Seminary in Philadelphia, he served churches in Maryland, Delaware, Ohio, Massachusetts and California, and found bands to play in along the way. During the 1970s and ’80s, he directed the World Mission Support for the American Baptist Churches of Massachusetts. Retiring in 1991, he and his wife, Karen B. Tye, moved to the St. Louis area, where she became a professor at a theological seminary. He became the volunteer coordinator of the Concord Coalition, an anti-deficit group, and took up dedicated gardening. He was active with Interfaith Partnership of Greater St. Louis and facilitated an interfaith dialogue group. Even in retirement, he spent a 12-day vacation studying the history of Baptists and other dissenters in England and Scotland. Besides his wife, survivors include children Stephen and Kenneth Dodge; stepchildren David Brock and Kathleen Clegg; eight grandchildren; three greatgrandchildren; sister Marion Dodge Moseley ’49; and cousin Nancy Libby MacLean ’56, whose husband is Garvey F. MacLean ’56, and whose daughter is Ruth MacLean ’84; her mother was Abbie Small Libby ’24.

Virginia Millard Kennedy November 11, 2013 It took only one look at the Bates campus for Ginny Millard to know that Bates was where she wanted to go to college. And it took only one look at her on the dance floor for Chuck Kennedy to know he would have to break off his engagement to another woman because he wanted to marry her. That dance floor was in New Haven, Conn., close to Yale, where he was a student, and where he would continue on to divinity school, and where she would return after graduation with her degree in sociology to work as the acting field director for the local Girl Scout council.

While he earned a doctorate, she worked with children with learning disabilities and at a hospital.

In 1966, they moved to Blacksburg, Va., where Chuck, now the Rev. Dr. Charles Kennedy, joined the Virginia Tech religion department. Ginny earned a master’s degree in special education and found work in the area once her children were old enough. She also joined the county school board and was its chair for a while. In 1994, they retired to New Hampshire, where she was active in the state Daughters of the American Revolution and the League of NH Craftsmen. Besides her husband, survivors include children Betsy Kennedy ’81, Susan Kennedy and Catherine Riggs; and seven grandchildren.

John Warren Milton Jr. February 14, 2014 Winter weather and a police car in the driveway usually means bad news, but to John Milton, it just meant the police and road crews wanted to ensure they got lots of hot coffee at the café in Yarmouth he owned and ran with his wife Dorothy. He knew too much about winter weather: He fought through the Battle of the Bulge in snow up to his waist, and suffered from frostbite for the rest of his life.

Service in the Army interrupted his years at Bates, but he completed his degree in economics, which allowed him to build a career in insurance and accounting along with running the café.

In retirement, he happily fled to frost-free zones. In addition to his wife, survivors include children Jack, James and Martha Milton, and Eileen Johnson.

Robert Baldwin Vail January 30, 2014 Bob Vail was a teacher, coach and principal in Waitsfield, Vt., and served several years as superintendent in southern Vermont. He earned a master’s in education from the Univ. of Maine and served as the acting director of special education for the state of Maine. He also served two terms on the Auburn school board and as director of the Joslin Clinic for Diabetes.

He raised many litters of English setters. A veteran of the Army Air Corps, he flew in B17s in World War II and survived as a POW after he was shot down over Germany. When he retired to Auburn, he became active with his class and helped coordinate its 45th Reunion. Survivors include his life partner, Donald Nason; and brothers Jackson B. Vail and H. Theodore Vail.

For helping to liberate France from Nazi occupation, John Whitney ’48 and others in his regiment were named chevaliers in the Legion of Honor, the highest military honor awarded to non-citizens by France.

John Collamore Whitney September 29, 2013 John Whitney’s life was radically changed by World War II. A star athlete in high school and college, he was on his way to setting records in three sports — baseball, football and basketball — at Bates when the war intervened. It was off to France he went, setting records there instead. An Army Ranger from 1943 to 1945, he received

two field promotions and helped liberate France from Nazi occupation, courage remembered 50 years later when the town of Jebstein erected a statue in thanks. French President Nicholas Sarkozy appointed John and others in his regiment as chevaliers in the Legion of Honor, the highest military honor awarded to non-citizens by France. He knew at the time that his war injuries would prevent him from returning to the playing fields when he came home, but he finished his degree in history and government, and also earned a master’s from Boston Univ. He had a long career with 3M as a sales executive in the printing division. His wife, Jeanne Hawes Whitney, and two children, Kimberly and Richard, predeceased him. Survivors include children Sharon Lee Eno, Diane Walsh and John Jr.; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

1949 Theodore B. Belsky February 2, 2014 Ted Belsky never graduated from Bates, but he had strong ties to the college. He was pulled away after one semester by the U.S. Army to serve in occupied Germany; he was pulled away for good after his father and brother were killed in a car crash, and he was needed to take over the family business in Massachusetts.

But he was at Bates long enough to meet Laura deMarco ’49; they had 63 years together. The family business, which made cloth for the paper industry, occupied him for 15 years before he completed his education at the Univ. of Massachusetts, where he went straight through to a doctorate. He joined the faculty of American International College in 1969 and became a leader in the field of oral history, founding the college’s center. His interest in history led him to become involved in activities in South Hadley. In addition to chairing the Bicentennial Committee, he was a member of the historical commission and the Canal Park Committee, which is dedicated to raising awareness about preserving the town’s historic river passage. He was named citizen of the year in 2002. His wife passed away in 2012. Survivors include sons Michael, Charles ’78 and Richard, and six grandchildren.

One of his nieces is Valerie Wilson DuPuy ’64. His late brother was Robert C. Belsky ’42.

Stanton Gould January 12, 2014 Stan Gould represents the middle generation of a Bates family. His father was Bernard Gould ’20, his uncle was the distinguished educator and former trustee Samuel Gould ’30 ’H57; his son is Alan Gould ’73. He served in the U.S. Army in World War II before coming

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to Bates, where he majored in economics and played varsity tennis. He remained active athletically throughout his life, playing tennis into his 80s. He first worked for U.S. Rubber Co. and Tupperware, then relocated to the Boston area to work for MIT/Lincoln Labs, where he remained for 32 years. His wife, Ethel Gotz Gould, passed away in 2013. Besides Alan, survivors include children Susan Gould, Bruce Gould and Judy Freiman; and four grandchildren.

1950 Irma Reed Andrews August 2, 2013 Irma Andrews was a whiz at mathematics at Portland High School — she won a coveted Brown Medal, given to only the top students — and went on to become a dean’s list student in mathematics at Bates. She also met the man she would marry, classmate Robert W. Andrews.

They enjoyed 53 years of marriage, taking their twin sons around Maine, throughout the southern states, to Alaska, the Caribbean and Europe. She put that mathematical mind to work for Union Mutual once her sons were in school, first as a pension technician and later in the computer systems department.

After she retired in 1993, she volunteered as a tax counselor. Her husband passed away in 2004.

Survivors include sons Douglas and David; nephew Paul Mosher ’68; and cousin Rachel Eastman Feeley ’49. Her husband’s parents were Waldo and Mary Waldron Andrews, both Class of 1911.

Dorothy Stetson Conlon July 30, 2013 Her lifelong interest in Asia undoubtedly sparked by seven years in Japan as the child of missionary parents, Dorothy Conlon met her husband, Edward “Ned” Conlon, on her first overseas assignment for the U.S. State Department after graduating with a degree in sociology. They married in 1953.

He was an advertising executive before joining the diplomatic service himself, assuming posts in Taiwan, Singapore, Pakistan, Indonesia and India.

She took hundreds of slides and presented travel shows at nursing homes after they retired to Florida in 1979. He died in 1989, and Dorothy was moved to travel again, to Thailand this time, to teach English as a volunteer in Bangkok. She found a tutor to help her learn a bit about the language and customs of Thailand by visiting local restaurants in Sarasota, and even made some friends to visit once she was in Thailand. Her two sons, Bruce and Bradford, predeceased her, as did her brother-in-law, Weston A. Cate Jr. ’43. Her great-niece is Alison Cate Fanning ’09.

1951 Edmund Bashista July 24, 2013 Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, German, Ed Bashista spoke them all. But he taught French and Spanish, and he majored in English at Bates. He had a master’s from Springfield College and studied at Norwich and Trinity.

He joined the Army after graduation, worked for an advertising agency and in retail for a few years, then decided teaching was where he belonged, and enjoyed 30 years at Forest Park School in Springfield, Mass. He retired in 1992. He had a soft spot for animals, was fascinated by post office history and was a big fan of opera. Survivors include sister Jennie Bashista and a niece.

“Not a bad life, actually.”

That’s how historian Charlie Clark ’51 summed things up for his 50th Reunion, when he was in the midst of writing Bates Through the Years, published for the college’s 150th anniversary.

Charles Edwin Clark December 3, 2013 “Not a bad life, actually.” That’s how Charlie Clark summed things up in 2001 for his 50th Reunion, when he was in the midst of writing Bates Through the Years, published for the college’s 150th anniversary celebration in 2005. He had retired from UNH in 1997 after a 30-year career there as a history professor. Teaching history was his second career; he started out as a journalist, after majoring in government at Bates. But he got Margery Schumacher ’52 to marry him and give him four children before he decided his master’s in journalism from Columbia and a half-dozen years at newspapers in Providence weren’t quite what he wanted.

He earned a Ph.D. from Brown and then it was off to UNH. There he put his journalism skills to work writing papers and six books on topics that intrigued him, more than one of which touched on newspapers and all of which dealt with New England history. He had a way of finding the unusual and humorous in the dry and dusty, something his colleagues and students appreciated.

In 2006, Bates expressed its appreciation by awarding him its Sesquicentennial Prize for extraordinary achievement in the fields of literature or science.

Twice he was named a Fellow of the National Endowment for

the Humanities; he also held fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Huntington Library and the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture in Williamsburg, Va. He was an elected member of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts and the American Antiquarian Society. In addition to his wife, survivors include sons Douglas, Jonathan and David; daughter Marilyn Winslow; 12 grandchildren, one of whom is Jennifer Winslow Thomas ’00; and four great-grandchildren.

Shirley Deletetsky September 12, 2013 Shirley Deletetsky attended Bates for two years before moving to Boston, where she became a proofreader for book publishers. She was one of 13 children, one of whom, Milton Deletetsky, survives her, along with over 40 nieces and nephews.

Harvey Burton Goddard July 10, 2013 Harvey Goddard joined the Navy just in time for the Battle of Okinawa at the end of World War II before he came to Bates; he returned to service in the Korean War. After his second stint in the Navy, he turned to teaching, something he had never considered before Bates, and taught high school from 1956 to 1985 in California. He earned a master’s in history from UC Berkeley. Survivors include sisters Elizabeth Goddard Calabrese and Marion Goddard Mullet ’50; brother Stephen Goddard ’63; brother-in-law Frank Mullet ’47; and cousin Lizotte Panet-Raymond Greaves ’81 and her husband David Greaves ’80. His late father was Harvey B. Goddard ’20.

1952 Nancy Larcom Manter October 22, 2013 According to the calendar, Nancy Larcom should not have met Jack Manter. According to fate, or whatever you want to call it, they did meet. Normally, their years at Bates would not have overlapped, but Jack’s decision to earn a degree from Massachusetts Maritime Academy and serve with the Merchant Marines before coming to Bates placed them in the same place at the same time. They enjoyed 60 years of marriage, while he worked with Travelers Insurance and she volunteered with Scouts, their church, community groups, political organizations and alumni groups. Nancy was vice president of the Hartford Bates Club in the 1980s, and Jack was a longtime class president.

Both served on Reunion committees. Survivors include children Donald Manter ’80, James and Kirk Manter and Marjorie St. John; four grandchildren;

and stepbrother Roger Langley ’52. Her husband’s father was Franklin Manter 1913, and his aunt was Marion Manter 1911.

Wilmer Melvin Potter September 7, 2013 The Rev. Wil Potter was a special student at Bates for two years, where he met Carolyn Perry, who became his wife. They moved to California, where he completed his seminary training at Berkley Baptist Divinity School and worked as a Baptist minister until 1990. He always considered Bates to be “his college.” He was a volunteer for Habitat for Humanity and helped build more than 50 homes; played semipro hockey; and biked 1,000-mile trips in the 1990s. Survivors include wife Mary Alice Thornburg Potter; children Zonnwiece Simard and Irving Potter; three grandchildren; and two greatgrandchildren.

Robert Clinton Williams December 20, 2013 Depending on who you ask, Bob Williams was either “a wonderful man” or “a judicial coward.”

Can you guess which comment came from a disgruntled Staten Island assemblyman after a court ruling didn’t go his way?

Judge Robert Williams had just decided that the borough didn’t have the proper authority in place to secede. The fuming legislator figured it would take a whole two more years before secession could happen. This was in 1995. The “wonderful man” comment came from his wife, the former Dorothy Bertsch, who clearly knew him better, having been married to him since 1952. She’s the one who convinced him to go to law school, after standing by him through the seven years it took to finish his Bates education, what with the U.S. Army calling him to duty not once but twice.

He came to Bates in 1945 as one of the top debaters in the country, left after one year, and came back in 1948 only to be called up again in 1951. Clutching that economics degree with everything he had, he took his wife’s advice and went to Brooklyn Law School, and from there to the National Judiciary College. He served as an assistant district attorney in Sullivan County in New York and then district attorney. In 1969, he was elected the first family court judge in Sullivan County, and in 1974 he was appointed a justice to the State Supreme Court of the Third Judicial District of New York, serving for 10 years.

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1953 Leonard Richard Chase October 16, 2013 Lenny Chase’s interests had him staring at the ground — and gaping at the sky. A geologist by training, he worked as a meteorologist for the U.S. Navy before he even came to Bates to obtain his B.A. He went on to Penn State for a master’s in geology, then searched for uranium and other deposits in the western U.S. until 1958, when a family emergency called him home to New Hampshire. There, he took over work at his father-in-law’s casket company and served as its CEO until his retirement.

He expanded the business from producing cloth-covered caskets to making hardwood caskets and molded casket covers; he also added a distribution company and a granite door company. He spent hours enjoying the sky from his cottage in Harpswell, having exhausted all other outdoor activities heretofore available. He was active in his community, serving on the planning board and volunteering in Boy Scouts. Survivors include his wife Carolyn Day Chase ’53; children Melissa Chase Doukmak ’84, Amanda Chase, Melinda Chase Dennehy, Sheldon, Brandon and Vernon; seven grandchildren; and sister-in-law Phyllis Day Danforth ’50.

Lois Fehlau Kemp April 13, 2013 Her brother, Charles Fehlau ’49, and sister, Ruth Fehlau Prince ’51, both predeceased her. Her sister-in-law is Lois Javier Fehlau ’49.

Alfred Joseph Lebel October 19, 2013 Fred Lebel was at Bates for two years before enlisting in the U.S. Army. He returned to his native Lewiston and found work in the mills, mostly at the Bates Mill. He rose through the ranks there to become president of the company, a position he held when it closed in 2002. He knew he couldn’t let all of those craftspeople drift away, so he used his own money as well as a loan from the SBA to form Maine Heritage Weavers, which managed to scrape by for a few years with only one client, making its college bedspreads. The company is still going strong, with his daughter as president. In April 2013, he received the SBA Veterans Award for Maine, and notice that the mill complex in Monmouth, where Maine Heritage Weavers is now located, is going to be named in his honor.

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William Charles Cummings August 20, 2013 Fish. That was Bill Cummings’s passion. Fish and salt water. He was pleased when genealogical research revealed that he came from a long line of fishermen and seafarers, something he had suspected. (One grandfather was captain or owner of 14 Atlantic ships.) His work as an oceanographer took him around the globe, and he published numerous papers and book chapters, held five patents, and appeared on television and radio. He earned a Ph.D. from the Univ. of Miami. His wife, Joan Tangenfriend, died in 1994.

Survivors include sons Mark and Phillip; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Ed Halpert ’54 loved to immerse himself in life: theater, opera, ballet, sailing, museums.

Edward Robert Halpert September 29, 2013 Ed Halpert loved to immerse himself in life: theater, opera, ballet, sailing, museums. It makes sense that he would take up the cello in his 20s so he could surround himself with chamber music; that he founded a chain of fabric stores so he could spend his days engrossed in different warps and wefts. He sold his share of that business to his partner when he turned 60 so he could enjoy early retirement and travel and sail with his wife, Evy, then settle in for the “season” in New York during the winter. In addition to his degree from Bates, he held a master’s from Harvard in business administration. (His reward for completing that degree was three years in the U.S. Army Finance Corps.) He was a fellow of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; a past president of the Wiltwyck School for Boys; and a board member of the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia (now the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation). Besides his wife, survivors include sons James and David; and four grandsons.

Edward Lawrence Mardigan November 5, 2013 Ed Mardigan left Bates after two years to join the U.S. Army in Korea. He returned to Portland where he joined his father, a survivor of the Armenian genocide, in running their grocery store, taking time out to pursue his

passion for sports, at which he excelled. He was inducted into the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame in 2002 for his pitching ability.

Survivors include former wife Jean Mardigan; children Stephen, Julie Mardigan and Leslie Poulin; and two grandchildren.

1955 Joan Davidson Christenson December 24, 2013 Joan Christenson was at her best, she felt, when surrounded by children. She had three of her own, and was happy to eventually have five grandchildren. After her husband, the Rev. Robert H. Christenson ’54, passed away in 1989, she earned a master’s in education from Wheelock and worked in early childhood education — or, as she put it, “nurturing those babies.”

She retained close ties with Old South Church in Boston, where Bob was associate minister and where the cross behind the pulpit was conceived by the congregation as a memorial to him.

Joan served as vice president and secretary of her class for 10 years. The only known naughtiness she ever confessed to was gadding about in her 1931 Model A roadster — in 1993. She is survived by sons Mark, Stephen and Todd; and five grandchildren.

Judge Bernie Staples ’55, a religious man, said his favorite place to study the Bible was in his kayak in a quiet cove.

Bernard Clark Staples September 26, 2013 Remember the TV show “Night Court”? Bernie Staples couldn’t stand it. He thought its mockery of the court system made his work as a judge more difficult.

A district court judge for more than 20 years in Hancock County, he was especially affected by cases involving families who dissolved before his eyes. A religious man, he told the Bangor Daily News that his favorite place to study the Bible was in his kayak in a quiet cove. He hadn’t started out from Bates to become a lawyer.

His first order of business was to tour Europe with professor Rayborn Zerby. After two years in the peacetime Army, he tried teaching, but found it didn’t suit him, so he went to law school.

After earning his law degree at Boston Univ., he worked as a civilian staff attorney with the Army Corps of Engineers in West Virginia. But its profligacy offended his Yankee parsimony, and a year later he found a position at a firm in Bar Harbor, where he stayed for 26 years before being appointed a judge.

In Bar Harbor, he also met Jeannette Staples; they married in 1964. She passed away in 2006. When he retired in 2010, he enrolled in Grace Evangelical Seminary in Bangor. Having studied Greek and Latin for his degree in classics at Bates, he wanted to brush up on them, as well as add some Aramaic to his arsenal, not to mention enjoy the pleasures of theological discussions. Survivors include his daughter, Heather Staples.

Edward Kenneth Ward Jr. January 3, 2014 In 1966, Ted Ward was appointed president of Framingham National Bank in Massachusetts, the youngest bank president in the state. He had already sweetened his economics degree with work at Harvard and Oxford, as well as a few years at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In 1975, he moved on to the Conifer Group, which hired him to restore the bank to profitability, something he came to specialize in. He later moved to State Street Boston Corp. to reorganize its retail banking division and to Florida Savings and Loan Assn. to turn it around. He returned to Maine in 1986 to complete his career at Durham Trust Co. until it became a victim of the real estate bust in 1991, when he joined A.G. Edwards & Sons as a financial adviser until he retired in 1994. He was class president, a class agent and co-chaired his Reunion Gift committees. He was a member of the Harpswell Budget Advisory Committee, the Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club and the Boothbay Region YMCA. Survivors include wife Joyce Desmarais Ward; children Maribeth Brenner, Lauralyn Ward, Susan Oleson, Gail Watling and Amy Ward Bryan ’94 and her husband John Bryan ’96.

1956 Michael James Flynn January 9, 2014 Michael Flynn attended Bates and Rutgers. A U.S. Marine Corps veteran, he worked for IBM as an executive trainer.

Survivors include children Leslie, Kathi, Jennifer, Mark and Mickey Flynn; and three grandchildren.

Thelma Pierce ’56 embodied the spirit of Bates. Involved in all facets of alumni life, she was always looking for ways to make the college more available to students from middleincome families.

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Thelma Louise Pierce July 24, 2013 Thelma Pierce embodied the spirit of Bates. Involved in all facets of alumni life, she was always looking for ways to make the college more available to students from middle-income families. A former Alumni Council member, class agent, class secretary and Reunion volunteer, she was also a member of the College Key. She held a master’s from the Univ. of Hartford. She worked in personnel for Aetna and other companies for many years. She volunteered with the AAUW developing scholarships for women returning to college, and established an endowed scholarship at Bates in memory of her parents and aunt especially for middle-income students. She was active with her local genealogical library and arts organization as well as the Simsbury United Methodist Church and Friends of Simsbury Library. She and her husband were divorced. Survivors include a sister, Marcia Purcell, nieces and nephews.

1958 Gordon Sinclair Bird Jr. August 2, 2013 For several years, Gordon “Buzz” Bird developed material for NASA and outer space by day, then commuted home to his family and vegetable farm in rural New Hampshire at night — two ends of the universe, it seems.

He could take it even further, if he wanted to: Give him a pickax and he’d dig for gold and silver, deep into the earth. He did, too, once he moved to Utah, where he searched not only for those precious metals but also for gallium and arsenic, and became the world’s largest manufacturer of high-quality arsenic in the free world. This led to his being acknowledged in several ways in the business world, as 1977 Small Business of the Year in Utah, election to the White House Conference on Small Business in 1980, vice chairman of the follow-up council, as well as Small Businessman of the Year in Utah.

A top-notch athlete who claimed he started the men’s alpine ski team at Bates, he took second in the Maine collegiate championships in 1958. He met his first wife, Hertha Koch, in Germany while he was away from Bates serving in the U.S. Army. After he completed his degree in geology, they moved to Boston, where he added a master’s in the same field from Boston Univ. After they divorced, Gordon married Lynda D. Bird, who survives him, as do children Peter Bird and Susanne Bird Felice; stepsons Randy and Rik Rarick; and many grandchildren.

Paula Pratt McIntyre September 1, 2013 An English major and dean’s list student, Paula McIntyre

spoke often about the college and her classmates. Survivors include son James ’92 and daughter Marianne.

1959 John Broad Tolman January 17, 2014 John Tolman had some divided loyalties about Bates. He started with the Class of 1959, but left to join the U.S. Army in Korea after his sophomore year. He married Jean Hemingway ’58 soon after she graduated, and by the time he started his job at IBM as a systems engineer, their first son was starting to engineer his own systems. After 19 years at IBM, he moved to L.L. Bean as manager of technical services. He retired in 1999 to their camp in Rangeley.

Besides his wife, survivors include sons Gregory, Jeffrey and Scott; and six grandchildren.

1960 Robert Joseph Dube July 7, 2013 Bob Dube grew up in Lewiston, got his degree in physics from Bates, left the city and never looked back. He stopped off in Delaware for a master’s in physics, then went to Washington to work for the federal government’s nuclear regulatory agencies, primarily the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, from 1963 until he retired in 1996. He was deputy chief and then chief of the safeguards branch of the division of the reactor program management in the office of nuclear reactor regulation, and chief of the performance assessment section. He and his wife, Nancy, explored more than 60 countries and all seven continents. She died in 2011. He is survived by nieces and nephews.

Joyce LeSieur Geisler February 2, 2014 It wasn’t enough to simply know the language, according to Joyce Geisler. One must also know the culture — French culture, that is.

She brought this passion to her teaching, primarily in Lakeville, Mass., conveniently close to her other passion in life: the Red Sox. She taught Spanish as well as French, and was an accomplished chef. Her husband, Klaus Dieter Geisler, passed away in 1994. Survivors include children Marc S. Geisler ’85, Scott and Paul Geisler and Kim Bourne; and eight grandchildren.

1962 Stanley Roger Hamilton March 8, 2013 Somehow Stan Hamilton found the good life when the drastic tax cuts imposed by Massachusetts’s Proposition 2½ hit the public schools in 1981: move to New Hampshire, buy a hulk of a house in a quiet neighborhood

in a quaint little town, and get an ideal job as a guidance counselor, just what he always wanted.

All that and a summer cottage in Maine to boot — and a wife willing to go dancing whenever they felt like it. He’d been doing similar work in the Bellingham (Mass.) schools, and earned a master’s from Northeastern while he was at it, but it’s clear from the way he talked about it that he relished the move northward, if only for the nights by the woodstove. His wife, Carol Barry Hamilton, passed away in 2012. Survivors include children Brian Hamilton and Stacey Pickering; four grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

Louis Alfonso Riviezzo December 22, 2013 Louis Riviezzo joined the Air Force after graduation, stayed in it for 21 years, rose to the rank of major, visited five continents and 20 countries, then decided he didn’t like it. So he quit. Went fly fishing. Spoiled his grandchildren. He enjoyed life in Florida with wife Carol Leeser Riviezzo and her four children, Kevin, Philip, Taj and Allison Leeser; along with his four children from his first marriage, A.J., Carmel, Michael and Anthony Riviezzo. He was preceded in death by two sons, Christopher and Louis Riviezzo.

1964 Thomas H. Hall November 14, 2013 Tom Hall never stopped finding a way to teach history, no matter what the forum. For a while, he actually was a history teacher, but only after he had warmed up by teaching Head Start and then English. He went on to own and operate Cinematheque, a video rental business specializing in foreign, classic and independent films in Portsmouth, N.H. From there, he branched off into selling antiques and writing a weekly column for the Portsmouth Herald.

He collected and researched folk songs sung by English, Scottish and Irish sailors his entire life. He led the weekly folk night at the Press Room pub in Portsmouth, organized the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival and the Great Bay Folklife Festival, and was on the board of the Indian Neck Folk Festival. Survivors include wife Linn Schulz.

Finn Wilhelmsen ’64 turned his back on his family’s fortune in favor of fishermen on Malta and ancient Mexican pottery, and lived his life exactly how he wanted.

Finn Wilhelmsen August 29, 2013 Finn Wilhelmsen turned his back on his family’s fortune in favor of fishermen on Malta and ancient Mexican pottery, and lived his life exactly how he wanted. He was the big chief of the Black Eagle “krewe” in the New Orleans Mardi Gras parade and even made their Native American costumes. His home was full of Mayan, African, Hindu and early Christian artifacts, and his garage housed three Harleys. He held a master’s from Tulane and a doctorate from Wayne State Univ., both in anthropology. His studies came to focus on group dynamics, especially festivals, and soon centered on Mardi Gras; not only was he chief of the krewe, he was also a badge-carrying sheriff since he visited town 10 times a year. In 1986, he moved to Los Angeles, where he taught until 2002, when he returned to Norway because his transplanted kidney, 20 years old, was failing. He and his family took the long way home, stopping off at wife Aster’s hometown in Ethiopia and making a side trip to Australia. Once ensconced in their hilltop island home in Norway, he took to translating Norwegian literature on Viking culture into English while waiting for a new kidney. He is survived by his wife and daughter Hannah.

1965 John Noseworthy Jr. November 5, 2013 Talking to the worried parents of one of his patients, pediatric urologist John Noseworthy assured them that they would have many grandchildren. Years later, they reported back that they had three — and counting. An honors graduate with a double major in biology and chemistry, he was also president of the Jordan Ramsdell Society at Bates and the Men’s Council, a biology assistant, and a member of the student senate during his senior year. He earned his medical degree from Harvard.

He moved into surgery following a cancer residency after medical school via a residency in Ohio, where he remained over the next decade, except for a few years in pediatric surgery in Boston’s Children’s Hospital. In 1987, he became the surgeon-in-chief at the Alfred I. duPont Institute in Wilmington, Del., which he developed into one of the largest pediatric hospitals in the world.

He held this position for nine years, then moved to Jacksonville, Fla., to become the assistant physician-in-chief at Nemours Children’s Clinic (Nemours is the parent foundation of the duPont Institute). Retiring in 2009, he was appointed to the emeritus medical staff and as the medical director of development for the Nemours Fund for Children’s Health, the philanthropic arm of Nemours. Its associate annual giving fund is named after his

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favorite saying, “It’s All About The Kids.” An active Bates alumnus, he volunteered to host career discovery interns and interview prospective applicants for admission. He was a member of the College Key and his 25th Reunion Committee, a class agent and president of the Cincinnati Bates Club.

Survivors include former wife Barbara Noseworthy; daughters Elizabeth Fitzsimmons and Caroline Noseworthy; and five grandchildren.

Miller ’30, had been along. But he had passed away in 1987. She was a “nontraditional” student at Bates, completing all four years in six years as a French major while working, after her children were grown. Her second husband, Merritt Bearman, died in 2007. Survivors include daughters Marta Frank, Roberta Hirshon and Sherry Miller; six grandchildren; and seven greatgrandchildren.

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1966 Catherine Lysaght Farrington January 30, 2014 When Catherine Farrington chose to attend Bates, she carried on a tradition started by her three older sisters and continued by her younger sister. She threw herself into college life, and was a cheerleader and an art assistant; she was part of the Robinson Players and she played intramural sports. A year after graduation, working at MIT, she married classmate Bill Farrington, who became one of four alumni brothers-in-law, and who survives her. When her children were small, she combined caring for them into a daycare business; when they were older, she devoted her time to PTO work and their sports teams. She and Bill also became active in alumni work. She was a member of the Alumni Council from 1972 to 1977, serving as president 1975–76; a class agent for seven years; a three-time volunteer for Reunion Gift Committees, including co-chairing her 50th Reunion Committee. Two of her sons attended Bates: Robert B. Farrington ’96 and William F. Farrington III ’93, whose wife is Mary Sporcic Farrington ’96. Other survivors include sons Gregory and Peter; seven grandchildren; her sisters and their husbands, Richard ’57 and Edith Lysaght Sullivan ’56, John ’58 and Patricia Lysaght Fresina ’58, Jack ’59 and Jane Lysaght DeGange ’59, and Claire Lysaght Stearns ’73; nieces Rosemary DeGange ’88 and Emily Lysaght ’01; and nephews Richard K. Sullivan Jr. ’81, John DeGange ’91 and Richard Sullivan III ’12.

A fifth son, David Farrington, passed away in 1999.

1970 Sue Cohen Miller Bearman October 25, 2013 When Sue Bearman was cruising to Asia, she was struck by the dramatic photographs of China displayed aboard the ship. She was flabbergasted to learn that the exhibit was created by the Smithsonian in conjunction with Bates! That gave her some additional cachet onboard, although it would have been nice if her first husband, the late Harold

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Peter Hine ’71 was “from away,” as they say in Maine, but he considered Maine home. His family had owned a “camp” on Sebago Lake for 100 years, and that made him legit, he felt.

Peter Lanman Hine November 2, 2013 Peter Hine was “from away,” as they say in Maine, but he considered Maine home. His family had owned a “camp” on Sebago Lake for 100 years, and that made him legit, he felt. Then, on a whim, he and wife Candis Yimoyines Hine ’71 turned off the highway and drove down to Harpswell one day in the 1990s, and ended up purchasing land where they eventually built their retirement home. He continued with his practice as a pediatrician in Marlborough, Conn.

He retired in 2010, and he and Candi became full-time Maine residents. Despite his busy practice, he found time to serve as class vice president (1997–2011) and as president (2011–13). He graduated from Bates cum laude with a degree in chemistry and earned his medical degree from Johns Hopkins. Besides his wife, survivors include children Katherine Hine Smith ’99 and Rook Hine; five grandchildren; sisters Pamela Hine ’77 and Nancy Hine Juliano ’78; cousin Thomas Bowditch ’65; and son-in-law Corey Smith ’99.

Sally Kayser Tan August 5, 2013 When junior year came along, Sally Kayser and Joo Eng Tan decided to spend it together — in Nottingham, England. She studied history there, and he studied psychology. They married a few months after graduation. She went on to Pace Univ. to earn a law degree, where she was the managing editor of the first issues of its environmental law review, and he got an MBA from NYU. Joo’s career gave their family the opportunity to live in

several Asian countries for extended periods, and she became fluent in Chinese. Eventually, they settled in the Dallas area, where she established a legal practice. For several years, she worked to help families adopt babies from China. They were class co-presidents from 2006 to 2011. Joo passed away in 2012. Survivors include children Alexander and Elizabeth Tan; three grandchildren; and a large extended family.

1974 John David Comeford October 28, 2013 Hockey wasn’t a big sport at Bates in the mid-1970s. No ice to skate on, at least not on purpose.

That didn’t stop Dave Comeford.

He became a linchpin of the hockey club and was its captain for three years. He taught the sport to his sons, Shane and Brett Comeford. Dave was a building contractor and lifelong resident of the Boston area. In addition to his sons, survivors include mother Doris Spear Comeford and his former wife, Shirley Stone.

1975 Paul Frederick Ashley February 1, 2014 The farthest Paul Ashley got from the New Jersey shore were his years at Bates, and a brief stint in Florida. Other than that, he stuck pretty close to the wide beaches of Point Pleasant, N.J. He went to work with his father and became co-owner of the Chevrolet dealership there and in Honesdale, Pa. Active with the Lions Club and yacht club, he took an interest in involving young people in their activities.

He chaired the local medical center foundation boards in their efforts to improve health care. His first wife, Nancy MacGregor, predeceased him.

Survivors include wife Peggy Brennan Ashley; children Thomas, Lauren, Paul, Christopher and Ian Ashley; stepchildren Matthew Vitullo and LeighAnne Vitullo Castimore; and nine grandchildren.

1976 Paul Francis Joyce October 3, 2013 After drifting from one job to the next, Paul Joyce found his home and calling in Saipan in the Mariana Islands. He moved there in 1995 on assignment with Teachers Abroad, married for the third time, and had three more children. He had found that he loved teaching, especially special education. A history major at Bates, he also played basketball and enjoyed sports throughout his life. Survivors include children Paul Jr., Sarah Morrison, Jacqueline, Jasmine

and Paulynn Joyce. His parents were John F. “Jack” Joyce ’45 and Elizabeth Benoit Joyce ’45.

1979 Frank Joseph Ficarra July 28, 2013 Frank Ficarra (he went by Francis after he graduated) ran track at Bates, and he passed this talent on to his children. He loved to watch their meets as well as their hockey games. He opened a law practice in Bridgeport, Conn., after graduating from Quinnipiac Law School. Survivors include his wife Stephanie Lloyd Ficarra; children Robert and Anniekaye; and brother and sister-in-law, Thomas ’80 and Lorraine Olashaw Ficarra ’80.

1980 Robin Ellison ’80 was funny enough to write jokes for public radio.

He was athletic enough to coach 16 state champion cross-country skiers. And he was sensitive enough to work with emotionally challenged boys.

Robin Donald Ellison January 16, 2014 Robin Ellison was funny enough to write jokes for public radio.

He was athletic enough to coach 16 state champion cross-country skiers. He was devious enough to plot murder mysteries for guest houses. He was foolish enough to cross Katahdin in a hurricane.

And he was sensitive enough to work with emotionally challenged boys. He worked as a counselor at Woodstock (Vt.) Union High School before moving to Rutland City Schools. He coached crosscountry ski teams at Woodstock, Lebanon and Hanover high schools. He earned a master’s from Antioch New England. He is survived by brother Walter Ellison, sister Gayle EllisonDavis, stepmother Molly Lofgren, stepsister Kristen Dennison, stepbrother Eric Lofgren and dear friend Lisa Chapman.

1994 Catherine Wells Hart November 11, 2013 A magna cum laude graduate with a degree in psychology and a Phi Beta Kappa key, Cat Wells married classmate Aaron Hart shortly after graduation and enjoyed a rolling honeymoon courtesy of Ryder Truck Rentals, all the way to Purdue, where Aaron started graduate school.

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2001 To Brendan Conway ’01, basketball was a ballet with bounces.

Brendan Miguel Conway November 7, 2013 To some, basketball is just a whirl of bodies racing back and forth. To others, such as Brendan Conway, it is a ballet with bounces. He loved sharing basketball with others, and excelled at it as a student and teacher. He stood out in high school and college in basketball and tennis, going on to become the athletic director at Deering High School after he graduated with a degree in psychology. He coached basketball for 11 seasons there, and tennis for nearly as many. He also taught specialneeds children at elementary schools, and earned a master’s of social work from USM in 2004.

He worked as a family counselor with Opportunity Alliance, and founded a summer camp for low-income families in Portland.

Survivors include his girlfriend, Lauren Reid; parents Nazare and Jeremiah Conway; and brother and sister-in-law, Patrick ’07 and Josepha Gonzales Conway ’07.

2009 She didn’t have electricity or indoor plumbing, but Kyra Williams ’09 did have a view of the mountains, and that’s what she wanted.

Kyra Jean Williams August 17, 2013 She didn’t have electricity or indoor plumbing, but Kyra Williams did have a view of the mountains, and that’s what she wanted. So she parked her trailer under an apple tree in St. Ignatius, Mont., and sold her organic baby food at the farmers market, a logical career path for an American studies major at Bates, whose thesis was on the “New American Sustainable Agricultural Project,” working with the people from Somalia and Guatemala, among other new Americans, who have settled in Lewiston-Auburn. Survivors include her parents, Chris and Lynne Williams, and siblings Genna, Seth and Joss.

faculty Mishael Maswari Caspi August 4, 2013 Professor Emeritus Mishael Caspi worked to bring together Judaism, Islam and Christianity through his writing and teaching, and regularly convened the “Biblical Characters in Three Traditions Seminar” at the annual international meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature.

From 1995 to 2007, he was a visiting professor and lecturer in philosophy and religion at Bates.

An internationally recognized scholar, he was known for his work in Yemenite poetry and was a leader in the American Assn. of Professors of Hebrew. He also wrote frequently on the role of women in the Bible: Still Waters Run Deep: Five Women of the Bible Speak and Women on the Biblical Road are two such works.

During his years at Bates, he was active in the Lewiston community, directing several symposia, among them “Maine Remembers the Shoah” and “Towards Harmony: Understanding New Diversity in Lewiston-Auburn,” which followed the 2003 Many and One pro-diversity rally prompted by threats of hostility toward recent immigrants from Somalia. After earning a bachelor’s at Hebrew Univ., he came to the U.S. to earn a master’s from UC Santa Clara and a doctorate from UC Berkeley. He died at his home in Haifa, Israel. Survivors include wife Gila Caspi and son Avshalom (Terrie) Caspi.

William E. Hannum II February 15, 2013 William Hannum stood before his English classes in Pettigrew Hall before distributing those little blue notebooks at exam time to deliver his disparaging remarks: Why does the college call these hourlies, he would ask. The professors would have to give them every hour then.

Grammatically, he was correct.

Hourly meant every hour. But that’s what Bates called them: hourlies. Mid-semester exams.

And we students were too nervous to laugh — we just wanted to get started. He grew up partly in Southwest Harbor but graduated from The Univ. of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., a bifurcated upbringing that brought a unique outlook to his viewpoint at Bates. He earned a Ph.D. at the Univ. of Virginia and taught for many years at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Va., where a scholarship was named in his honor. Survivors include wife Susan, children William Hannum III and Kirke Lisk; and five grandchildren.

keep adding more rocks to it. Not that it mattered, mind you: Her students adored her and were happy to help. She was known for throwing open her office, home, classroom, even her hospital room to her students if someone needed help. That is the common theme among all of the comments from her students: the amount of help she provided, how available she was to assist them. She started out as an oceanographic technician after graduating from Middlebury with a degree in geology. She went on to Texas A&M for a master’s in geology, where she met William Todd-Brown while looking for rock-climbing partners. They ended up marrying. She earned a Ph.D. at Rice in environmental science and engineering. After her years at Bates in the 1990s, she joined the faculty at Unity College and was equally popular there among students. Besides her husband, survivors include daughters Katherine, Margaret and Jesica Todd-Brown.

Emmet Finlay Whittlesey June 8, 2013 E. Finlay Whittlesey taught mathematics at Bates from 1951 to 1954 before moving to Trinity College, where he became a full professor of mathematics. He retired in 1995. Survivors include his wife Betty Navratil Whittlesey; sons Stanislaus, Saunders and Marshall; and one grandchild.

honorary James Isbell Armstrong December 16, 2013 James Armstrong became president of Middlebury College in 1963 — the worst of times.

And he made it into the best of times. He turned it into an internationally recognized liberal arts college known for its language programs. For that, Bates awarded him an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree in 1967. He was educated at Princeton, where his father was a professor at the seminary.

He himself was a classicist and a Homeric scholar. After completing his doctorate at Princeton,

he joined the faculty and served as associate dean of the graduate school. He left Middlebury after 12 years to become president of the Dana Foundation, familiar to Bates students who become Dana Scholars. He left that post in 1981. He was a trustee of Princeton and the Hazen Foundation; he served on the advisory council of the Braitmayer Foundation and was a director at Merrill Lynch. Survivors include wife Carol Aymar Armstrong; children James Jr. and Elizabeth; and six grandchildren.

Sarah Pillsbury Harkness May 22, 2013 If you were to stroll down Alumni Walk and take a gander at the Olin Arts Center, and then take a peek at Ladd Library, you would have just admired two works by Sally Harkness, one of the eight architects who founded The Architects Collaborative in 1945 in Cambridge, Mass., a pioneering firm with Walter Gropius as its inspiring figurehead. These two buildings on the Bates campus were among her most prominent in New England. She had lived almost that long in a house she and her husband, architect and fellow TAC co-founder John Cheesman Harkness, designed at the Six Moon Hill neighborhood in Lexington, Mass., which, he explained recently to The Boston Globe, aimed to build homes for under $15,000. “We were interested in down-to-earth socialist issues.” She studied at the Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, which was affiliated with Smith College, and also received a master’s certificate in architecture. Bates awarded her a Doctor of Fine Arts degree in 1974. The Boston Society of Architects honored her career in 1991. She was a director of the American Institute of Architects of New England from 1973 to 1976 and its vice-president from 1977 to 1998. In addition to her husband, survivors include children Joan Hantz, Alice, Jock, Fred and Nell Harkness, and Sara Super; 10 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

Lois K. Ongley November 16, 2013 The hardest part about being a geologist, Lois Ongley noted, is that your backpack gets heavier the longer you hike, because you

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After her first two daughters were born, she started working as a teacher at the local Montessori high school in Michigan.

Besides her husband, survivors include daughters Elaine, Lauren, Audrey and Carolyn.

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Bates students were agitating about “parietals,” liberalized social rules that would let men visit women’s dorm rooms, even with the doors closed, and vice-versa.

The football team, however, wanted nothing to do with change. The Bobcats had posted three straight winning seasons, and in 1968 they saw the chance for glory: not just another winning season, but an undefeated one, like in 1946 when Bates was invited to the Glass Bowl in Toledo, Ohio.

“That’s the team we wanted to compare ourselves to,” says Steve Brown ’69.

If the 1968 parietals controversy suggests that Bates was in some ways stodgy, on the gridiron the Bobcats were open to experimentation, thanks to their head coach, the late Bob Hatch, and quarterback Jim Murphy ’69.

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Hatch was known for adapting his offense to his personnel. In the early 1960s, Bates didn’t throw much, and for good reason. In 1963, for example, Bates tossed just 90 times. Only 41 of those passes were caught — 30 by Bates receivers and 11, as interceptions, by the opposition.

But in the Murphy era, Hatch opened up the offense. By his senior year, Murphy was throwing more than 30 times per game.

Murphy “could put the ball where it needed to be,” says tight end Walter Jackson ’69. He recalls one touchdown: “The defender was on my shoulder.

Murphy dropped the ball a few inches over the guy’s hand, in the corner of the end zone, where I could jump and get it.”

True, the team threw effectively, but Murphy correctly points out that the ground game kept

“ When a group

At right, the cover of the 1968 Bates vs. Colby program, a Bobcat victory, evokes the 1960s with an illustration

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the defense honest, opening up a range of playaction passes.

“Twenty-five Drive Pass,” Murphy recites, describing a play-fake to the running back, putting receivers like Jackson, Bruce Winslow ’68 or Tom Lopez ’69 into one-on-one coverage against a defender in the flat.

“We’d also run middle screens to the tight end,” recalls Murphy. “No one was doing that. We were using a hook and lateral that was a big deal when Alabama used it. We had a double-reverse flea-flicker” — where the quarterback hands off to runner, who hands to another player, who tosses the ball back to the QB, who then throws deep — “that we called Mickey Mouse.”

Trick plays didn’t dominate the Bates offense, however. Hatch used them just enough to play mind games with the opposition. “We’d use a trick play just once,” Murphy recalls, “and the rest of the season the defense would be screaming, ‘Watch out for the trick play!’ ” But undefeated glory was not to be for the Bobcats in 1968, as the team went 5-4. The team beat Middlebury, Norwich, Acadia (Nova Scotia), Colby and Bridgewater State, losing to Trinity, Worcester Polytechnic, American International and Bowdoin.

Injuries kept the team from achieving any kind of Glass Bowl sheen, but you’ll never hear “if only” from the former players, especially the Class of 1969 cohort, many of whom remain close today.

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“The next guy came in and did his job,” says Murphy. “We succeeded because we had great individual responsibility for what we had to do.”

“It’s what football is all about,” says Brown, now a Bates trustee and the chief operating officer of the consulting firm Braver. “The season is a snapshot of your career. A game is a snapshot of the season. And all plans and strategies can change on one snap of the ball. You learn that you have to be alert and nimble and ready, or you’ll lose.”

The four-year stretch ending with the Class of 1969’s graduation was the winningest in Bates football history, with 22 wins against 11 losses.

Jackson, a tight end who caught 43 passes in 1968, earned a doctorate and went into a career as an organizational psychologist. Winning, he says, happens when positive forces are at work.

“We really liked each other. And we had confidence — we expected to win. When a group has positive expectations, good things tend to happen.” n

a r ch iv es show and tell from the muskie archives and special collections library Runneth Over

In May 1920, the Philhellenic Club took its production of Hippolitus to Haverhill, Mass., as guests of the local immigrant Greek community. The hosts treated the Bates guests to “four royal meals” during their overnight stay, reported The Bates Student, and presented this “mammoth, loving cup” as a token of appreciation.

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Stay Strong, Men

In Rocky, trainer Mickey said to his fighter, “Women weaken legs.” In that vein, here’s a circa 1955 pep rally in Alumni Gym, where Bobcat football players are exhorted to “forget your mates” as a key to beating Maine.

This strip of leather shows legendary professor Johnny Stanton and the words “Uncle Johnny” at the top.

That we know.

Its use? Unclear.

Your thoughts?

High Honors

A great track athlete of his era, William Wheeler Bolster 1895 cleared 5 feet, 4 inches, in June 1892 to win this medal. Today, the Bates high jump records are owned by Matt Schecter ’89. He cleared 7-0.25 (indoors) and 6-10 (outdoors).

Pinterest

Back in the day, a woman was “pinned” when she wore her boyfriend’s fraternity or club pin.

Bates’ frat-free environment didn’t deter couples from embracing the tradition, recalls Betty Drum Coykendall ’59. “There were several different pins on sale at the bookstore,” and her beau, Alan Coykendall ’59, gave her this one at Christmastime 1958. “It was worn above one’s left breast, every day, as a sign that said, ‘I’m taken.’” She’s still taken: The Coykendalls celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary in September.

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o u t ta k e What photographer doesn't love window light? It's especially dramatic when it’s unanticipated, like this moment in the Black Box Theater last spring, when late-afternoon sunlight pouring through an open window illuminated Olivier Brilliant ’17 during a performance. The picture reminds me: Don’t just expect the unexpected. Cherish it, too.

— Phyllis Graber Jensen

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The Commencement academic procession is poised to start as Lincoln Bendict ’09, flying his multicopter camera, takes this aerial photo.

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October was golden for Bates rowing. First, the women won their race at the renowned Head of the Charles. Then, Bates announced construction — bates.edu/rowing-boathouse — of a new boathouse on the Androscoggin. But, there have been some travails. See page 40.

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