Bates Magazine: Summer 2013 by Bates College

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18 Capturing Bobcats (on video) is easier than ever.

34 Taking back Lewiston’s notorious tree streets.

46 When is staging a bad play a good idea?

say hello to the newly identified species cercopithecus lomamiensis

“How entirely vague and arbitrary is the distinction between species and varieties.” Page 54

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2 Letters 6 Bates in Brief 26 Amusements 28 Features 54 Notes 92 History Lesson 96 From a Distance

Take a closer look at the national champ who belongs to this mighty hand. Page 19

OPENING THOUGHT: JANE COSTLOW, CLARK A. GRIFFITH PROFESSOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Source: Costlow’s new book, Heart-Pine Russia: Walking and Writing the 19th-Century Forest (NYU Press, 2012)

Walking into a forest involves crossing a boundary. There is that pause at the edge, the moment when entry seems daunting, or when the edge itself — called the opushka in Russian — is so captivating, so luminously filled with possibilities, that one is disinclined to leave that space for the interior.

letters

Beautiful Eyes

Amore ac Fidelitate

Another appropriate quotation for “Beauty and the Brain” (Winter 2013) is from Ralph Waldo Emerson, when he found blossoms hidden away “in a damp nook”: Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being....

The new Bates Magazine gets better as it gets older. I enjoyed the two illuminating Winter 2013 edition articles detailing the successes of Benjamin Mays ’20 (“Benjamin Mays’ Living Legacy”) and Nathaniel Boone ’52 (“The Beachhead in North Carolina”). I grew up in a New Jersey town where a Montford Point veteran served as a local civic leader, so I already knew the history behind Marines like Boone. We owe much to them for their bravery against adversity and hate. As a currently serving U.S. Marine and as an African American, I am proud to see both pioneers recognized for their achievements, and those heartwarming stories provide a measure of how far we have come. Apparently, we may not have come far enough, as the brief note on the experience of Phillip Dube ’16 provides a snapshot of the fact that intolerance is alive and well in some quarters. We still have considerable work to accomplish towards eradicating it, and Dube’s 12 hours of silence are the perfect reminder that we need to speak up when our conscience calls. Thank you for providing details on the good as well as the bad.

Mary Tibbetts Kelly ’46

Fairfax, Va.

An image from Between Two Rivers: A Year at Bates– Morse Mountain, a collection of photographs by Will Ash.

Jon Custis ’91

San Clemente, Calif.

Garold Thumm

Sweet Memories

Sticking It Out

I was saddened to read of the death of Professor Emeritus of Political Science Garold Thumm. Many of us were admonished by his statement that “this could have been a B paper if you had done more research, and it may have even rated an A if you’ll learn how to write!” Q: Didn’t he have someone expelled from Bates for plagiarism? A: Yes, he did (but not me). Gary and I carried on a fruitful exchange of correspondence via email last century concerning the Afghan and Iraq wars, and all the other *stan conflicts. Luckily for me we were both on the same side, or I would have most certainly lost.

I enjoyed Doug Hubley’s article in the Winter 2013 issue about Chase Hall Lounge (“Leisure Suite”). My, wife Beth (Krause ’68) and I talked, danced and watched TV (the only TV that we had access to as a couple on some Saturday nights) in Chase Hall. And as Doug knows, I was also one-fifth of The Hanseatic League, the “college’s first documented rock group” and its “house band.” Unfortunately, that meant that Beth often did not have a dance partner unless one of my friends asked her to dance while the League was playing. Others, knowing that we were dating, apparently did not dare. Nice memories, and thanks.

The cover of Bates Magazine, featuring grass tendrils poking through the snow at Bates–Morse Mountain, brought back a Bates memory from February of my senior year. It had snowed hard during the night, and the wild wind off Lake Andrews had drifted the snow to the south doors of Adams. In the morning, when we left the dorm we were greeted with a sign on the snowdrift — which I think fits well on the magazine cover, too.

Steven Dosh ’78

Mac Reid ’67

Pahoa, Hawaii

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Boxborough, Mass.

Bill Menke ’69

Swarthmore, Pa.

Thanks for the illustration, Bill. Alumni of the era might recall February 1969 as snowy, and you’re right: It was the snowiest February on record in many Maine locations. — Editor

Space Considerations

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As I looked at the aerial view of the campus in the Spring 2012 issue (“From a Distance”), I was struck by how much the campus has changed. The new buildings are great, but what attracted me to Bates versus Colby, Bowdoin and their ilk was the relative spaciousness of the campus. Unfortunately, that is being lost. Rand Field is gone. The old soccer field now has housing. The new Commons has taken out recreational tennis and basketball facilities. Why must the college continue to expand and lose the intimacy that the open space allowed? My thoughts returned to this matter when I read the story in the Winter 2013 issue “Chapel to Lewiston: Hello,” including Professor Carl Benton Straub’s comments about the Chapel’s location and the author’s statement that “where buildings aren’t is as significant as where they are.” Grow thoughtfully, Bates, and not for the sake of growth. Replacing old buildings and updating due to new technologies are a part of progress and will be ongoing, but I hope the college can find the right balance of space and facilities soon, so that it doesn’t lose the je ne sais quoi that has made the campus so appealing and comfortable.

2012: SUE REEDICH P’13

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Dan Isaac ’77

Yarmouth, Maine These two photographs show the campus circa 1975 and today. — Editor

X Games Thank you for a very informative winter issue of Bates Magazine with a range of complementary articles: Benjamin Mays’ living legacy, President Spencer’s exhortation to engage, origins of the physical

Aerial views of the Bates campus in 1975 (above) and today (below). The outdoor track, which used to encircle the football field, is now just south of campus (off the page on lower left), as are the soccer and softball fields. In the 1990s, the baseball field moved from the north end of Garcelon Field to a spot across Central Avenue.

orientation of the Gomes Chapel and Congressional Gold Medal honoree Nathaniel Boone ’52. It occurred to me that Roman numerals can be slippery identifiers in our post-Roman world. I doubt very much that Dr. Mays

conferred with Vice President Johnson while en route to the funeral of “Pope John XIII” — especially in an airplane. The only things flying at the time of Pope John XIII were birds, bats, shooting stars and meteors; John XIII died in 972 after a seven-year papacy.

Pope John XXIII, however, died in 1963, and, indeed, Benjamin Mays and Lyndon Johnson did attend his funeral. Tony Drapelick ’80

Dummerston, Vt.

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Pearson’s Peer I am delighted that Sarah Pearson ’75 is the new vice president for college advancement, not only because I’m sure she’ll be terrific in that role, but also because the news of her appointment brings back pleasant memories of Sarah acting in many other roles at Bates. She was an exceptionally talented actress during her college years, and it was a pleasure to tread the boards with her at a halcyon time in Bates theater history. Professor Martin Andrucki came to Bates during our college years, too, bringing vitality and high performance standards. I think Sarah would agree it was a wonderful time to be acting at Bates. Welcome back, Sarah.

Sarah Pearson ’75 played Helen and Ben Flynn ’76 was Menelaus in the 1974 production of The Trojan Women.

Jane Duncan Cary ’77

Yes, it’s great to have Pearson back on campus in this VP role, and her love of Bates is no act. In this photo, she plays Helen and Ben Flynn ’76 plays Menelaus in the October 1974 production of The Trojan Women, in which letter writer Jane Cary played Andromache. — Editor

THE BATES STUDENT

Wilmington, Vt.

De Facto at the Dewitt Benjamin Mays ’20 (“Benjamin Mays’ Living Legacy,” Winter 2013) was present at our graduation in 1947, and he spoke at our Phi Beta Kappa banquet. Many of us had our first real encounter with racism on that occasion — Dr. Mays was denied a room at the DeWitt Hotel in Lewiston. Jean Labagh Kiskaddon ’47

New York, N.Y.

Besides speaking at the 1947 Phi Beta Kappa banquet, Mays received his honorary Doctor of Divinity degree that year. The DeWitt, on Pine Street overlooking what is now Kennedy Park, was torn down in 1965. — Editor The DeWitt was once Lewiston’s “leading hotel,” but according to one alumna’s recollection, it refused black guests, including Benjamin Mays ’20.

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POSTCARD COURTESY OF DOUGLAS HODGKIN

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40 Acres and a Horse I read with interest and pleasure the story related to Thorncrag Nature Sanctuary (“Carnegie’s Half Horse,” Winter 2013). Around 1930, Alfred J. Anthony, a Bates trustee and professor who authored the college history Bates College and Its Background, wrote a letter to the Stanton Bird Club summarizing his role in giving the initial parcel of land that created the sanctuary. Anthony recalls how, in the early 1900s, he found it increasingly uncomfortable to ride his horse on the “harder surface of macadamized and paved streets” in Lewiston. So he took to riding in rural areas, but after being shooed away by a property owner, he decided to buy land where he could ride his horse “free from objections and the perils of trespass.” The 40 acres that he purchased, off outer Sabattus Street, had most recently been used as a tuberculosis sanatorium, since shuttered. Anthony knew that the owner was “probably carrying a load of taxes without return and would be glad to sell the property.” After moving from Lewiston to New York City in 1918, Anthony donated his land to the Stanton Bird Club, a similarly egalitarian organization that he described as being open to “persons of different races, religions, professions and callings in a broad and inclusive manner.” Today, the sanctuary comprises 372 acres, having grown through subsequent gifts of land from other benefactors, including Anthony himself, and through land purchases supported by gifts. It may be an historical leap, and I have no knowledge of documents that support this notion, but I wonder if the horse whose skeleton was retrieved from Thorncrag and now displayed in Carnegie Science Hall belonged to Alfred Anthony himself? Susan Hayward

Nothing like seeing your birth year on a 4-by-6 class banner to make you muse. The banner in question belonged to the Class of 1963, and it was carried by Howie Vandersea, Web Harrison and Thom Freeman, who led their class in the Alumni Parade at Reunion. You do the math. If 1963 is my birth year, and the Class of ’63 had its 50th Reunion this year, then it follows that 50th birthdays are in store this year for me and for all you alumni who were born in 1963. I’ve seen this birth-year cohort at four prior Bates Reunions, the first time when I was 30. So they’re a touchstone of sorts, but, dammit, this touchstone keeps moving. We’re both five years older each time we meet. Of course, we all still look great. (A few years ago, the Class of 1965 walked the parade with their mugbook photos in hand, wearing T-shirts saying, “Isn’t It Funny: We Still Look the Same.”) The late Peter Gomes ’65 talked about gaining alumni seniority by pointing out how his class notes had moved ever deeper into the magazine and were now “on the left side of the staple.” It’s an effective image (even if it doesn’t quite work now that this magazine has no staple). As alumni are borne across the staple, and propelled ever closer to the venerable front of the Alumni Parade, they also beat on against the current, sometimes in ways that mock the math of aging. For example, Tom Brown ’63 is 72 years old. But his heart is 45 — it was removed from a deceased 21-year-old man and placed into Brown’s chest back in 1989. Brown looks great, too, and he’s one of the world’s longest-living heart transplant recipients. But he doesn’t gloat. “No one gets out of this life alive,” he said at Reunion. “I accept whatever comes next.” In hopeful fashion, the class titled its 50th Reunion Class Book The Next Chapter, a nod to Thomas Jefferson’s comment that his election as president was just the first verse of a chapter. “What the last may be nobody can tell.” At Commencement, the next chapter was on the mind of another Thomas, Tommy Holmberg ’13, the senior chosen to give the first student address at Commencement in at least 60 years (see page 21). The next chapter, Holmberg said, is written when you renew the present. Just as Bates alumni, through gifts of treasure and time, help students have the same great experience they did, older students “invest in the happiness” of younger students by sharing and instilling their love of Bates. “You see, it’s a beautiful cycle we’ve got here,” he said. “The goodness of Bates is passed on, out of admiration and gratitude for what was and excitement and pride for what will be.” “What will be” has been on my mind lately. My daughter, Audrey, joins the beautiful Bates cycle as a member of the Class of 2017 this fall. H. Jay Burns, Editor magazine@bates.edu

Lewiston, Maine

Please Write

The writer is a longtime volunteer for the Stanton Bird Club. Her husband, Tom, is club president and, as of this summer, retired as the college’s humanities reference librarian and lecturer in classical and medieval studies. — Editor

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Julia Foxworth ’13 of New York City and 15 collaborators “yarnstormed” a bench on Alumni Walk in April, giving the campus some color, warmth and, yes, a few purls of artistic wisdom.

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STUDENTS

8.9 percent of Bates students are first-generation college-goers.

The average family income of a Bates student is $87,0I6.

Brave Heart Let’s get coffee, you and I, so I can match your face to the Rorschach blots my mind has inked from long nights of staring at mirrors… — from “Dear” by Kathryn Ailes ’14

You don’t encounter Katie Ailes’ poems — about unknown parents, thwarting the body with birth control, losing love through mere attenuation — and walk away unaffected. For Ailes is a bravely insightful poet. But she’s also outwardly brave, ready to put those insights out on stage for all to see. Ailes is a slam poet, making “poetry for the stage rather than the page,” as she says. Studying at the University of Edinburgh last fall, this junior from Swarthmore, Pa., won a series of slam competitions and qualified for a national championship in Glasgow. (She had planned to compete in the Scottish Poetry Slam Championship before a date conflict ruled that out.) She adds, “I love the thrill of competing with other poets. It’s a rush you don’t often find in the literary world.” Double-majoring in English and dance, Ailes learned to slam at Bates, where the form is relatively abundant, she says. “There’s a lot of experimental literary work” happening within and outside the curriculum, “and it’s really exciting to work with other students interested in pushing the limits of poetry.” Ailes welcomes the heightened audience connection that motion invites. “Reading a poem on a page is a silent, solitary experience,” she says, but performing the same poem allows the “audience as a communal group to experience something alive and unpredictable.”

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MIKE BRADLEY

Fashion Insights Jessica Clergeau ’15 of Somerville, Mass., awaits her turn on the Olin Concert Hall “runway” during the Inside Africa Fashion Show in March. Some 30 students modeled apparel from more than 10 African nations. Too often, Africa gets portrayed in monolithic terms, “when it has many countries, cultures and backgrounds,” says organizer Nicole Kanu ’15, daughter of a Nigerian couple in Little Rock, Ark. Along with traditional garb, the show explored worldwide impacts of African fashion. “A lot of clothes in America have African influences,” says Kanu, such as the tribalprint leggings popular this season.

Bates has as many students from Malaysia as Michigan (5).

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96 percent of students have checked out a book or other publication from the library.

The Math and Statistics Workshop helped I7 percent of all students in 20I2.

Gifted and Talented

LEFT TO THEIR OWN DEVICES

The Class of 2013’s total Senior Gift participation hit a record 92 percent — thanks in part to Colby. During one week in March, Bates seniors competed against Colby to see who could garner the most senior gifts to their respective annual funds. Spurred by the mantra “Beat Colby,” 29 percent of Bates seniors gave, compared to Colby’s 6 percent.

Our 1,700 students bring to campus more than 4,200 Internet-enabled devices — laptop and desktop computers, smartphones, tablets, and gaming and streaming devices. That’s an average of 2.5 devices per student. Apple takes the biggest bite of the Bates device pie, with Apple operating systems and devices (Mac OS X, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch) accounting for nearly three-quarters of student devices registered on the Bates computer network. Mac OS X* 1517 iOS iPhone 1295 Windows* 481 Android 265 iOS iPad 260 iOS iPod Touch 171 XBox 360 81 Kindle 65 Playstation 29 BlackBerry 13 Apple TV 8 Wii 5 ChromeOS 4 MicroCell 4 Roku Media Player 3 Symbian 3 Windows Phone 3 Nintendo DS 2 FreeBSD 1 Nook 1 webOS 1

BATES 29% COLBY 6%

* The numbers for Mac OS X and Windows represent mostly laptops — few students bring desktop computers to campus anymore.

An Outing at Night Under the cover of darkness (sort of) in January, students and alumni of the Bates Outing Club moved their longtime headquarters, and the stuff therein, from Alumni Gym into newly renovated space in Chase Hall. The BOC, whose basement space in Alumni Gym had been the club’s meeting room since 1929, will have its equipment room, now in Hathorn Hall, also headquartered in Chase, recently renovated to better accommodate student life programs.

H. JAY BURNS

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CAMPUS

Bates won a Maine Preservation Award for the restoration of Hedge and Roger Williams.

Sunrise on Commencement Day, May 26, was 5:04 a.m.

I6,000 people visited Bates–Morse Mountain Conservation Area in 20I2.

Endangered species at Bates–Morse Mountain are piping plovers and least terns.

The largest indoor public space at Bates is Merrill Gym, capacity 3,300.

I CAN TREE CLEARLY NOW

Pettigrew Project Student vandalism of a Pettigrew Hall restroom sink on the night of Feb. 8 sent water cascading through the lower two floors — a flood that went undetected for hours and forced Bates to close the water-damaged building for the rest of the academic year. Pettigrew Hall (1955) is a workhorse building. It’s home to the Department of Rhetoric, Brooks Quimby Debate Society, Bates Dance Festival and the 13-member team that develops and implements the college’s many online software systems. Also in Pettigrew are the Filene Room, the Digital Media Center, Gannett Theater and three classrooms. Bates relocated classes and found homes for displaced faculty and staff for the balance of the winter semester and Short Term. Remediation, restoration and repairs (covered by insurance) began promptly and are continuing through the summer, in addition to several college-funded building enhancements. Pettigrew will reopen in August.

Though he and his student workers have been busy mulching flower beds, arborist Bill Bergevin found time to share this list of campus tree species.

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Ash Green, Fraxinus pennsylvanica

Beech • American, Fagus grandifolia • European, Fagus sylvatica • Fernleaf, Fagus sylvatica ‘Asplenifolia’ Birch Paper, Betula papyrifera • River, Betula nigra

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Ginkgo Maidenhair tree, Ginkgo biloba

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Hawthorn Hawthorn, Crataegus viridis

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Hemlock Eastern, Tsuga canadensis

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What’s new in Pettigrew bates.edu/pettigrew-project

Carolina Silverbell • Carolina silverbell, Halesia carolina

We’re Stumped A dead elm removed from the Library Quad near Alumni Gym in 2012 is adding some life to the Den. Last year, as Bates reviewed renovation options for the Den, design team Canal 5 shared a photograph of a tree-trunk coffee table. “When we said we could use the dead elm tree, President Spencer jumped at the idea,” said project manager Paul Farnsworth. Fortunately, in the fine Bates tradition of reusing whatever it can, the college had asked the arborist who took down the elm to deliver the trunk to a college storage facility on Strawberry Avenue, near campus. Ron Riley, aka “The Log Hunter” of Windham, Maine, produced four coffee tables from the trunk. By my ring count, the tree was 105 years old, which means it could have been planted by that legendary Bates tree enthusiast, Uncle Johnny Stanton.

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Catalpa Northern, Catalpa speciosa

Cherry Accolade, Prunus ×’Accolade’ • Sargent, Prunus sargentii

Honey-locust Thornless, Gleditsia triacanthos

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Hop-hornbeam American, Ostrya virginiana

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Katsura-tree Katsura-tree, Cercidiphyllum japonicum

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Crabapple Many varieties, Malus Dawn Redwood Dawn redwood, Metasequoia glyptostroboides

Dogwood Flowering, Benthamidia florida • Kousa or Japanese, Benthamidia japonica •

Mountain-ash Mountain-ash, Sorbus aucuparia

Fir Balsam, Abies balsamea

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Larch • European, Larix decidua Linden Littleleaf, Tilia cordata

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Magnolia Acuminata hybrid, Magnolia acuminata ‘Elizabeth’ • Loebneri hybrid, Magnolia ×loebneri • Saucer, Magnolia soulangiana •

Maple Amur, Acer ginnala • Japanese, Acer palmatum • Norway, Acer platanoides ‘Crimson King’ • Red, Acer rubrum • Sugar, Acer saccharum

Oak Chestnut, Quercus montana • Northern red, Quercus rubra • Pin, Quercus palustris • Swamp white, Quercus bicolor Pear Bradford, Pyrus calleryana •

Pine Austrian, Pinus nigra • Eastern white, Pinus strobus • Red, Pinus resinosa •

Sourwood Sourwood, Oxydendrum arboreum

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Spruce Norway, Picea abies • Serbian, Picea omorika • White, Picea glauca •

Stewartia Japanese, Stewartia pseudocamellia

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Sweet-gum Sweet-gum, Liquidambar styraciflua

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Tuliptree Tuliptree, Liriodendron tulipifera

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Elm American, Ulmus americana • Siberian, Ulmus pumila •

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Hazelnut Turkish, Corylus colurna

Tupelo Black, Nyssa sylvatica

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Willow Weeping willow, Salix ×sepulcralis (Salix alba × S. babylonica)

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ACADEMICS

The average age of a Bates professor is 50 years.

The Interpreter

CHIP ROSS

Loring Danforth, anthropologist and winner of the 2013 Kroepsch Award for Excellence in Teaching, doesn’t mind asking his students tough questions, even when those questions hit on habits and beliefs that a student holds dear. The college’s Dana Professor of Anthropology, Danforth says those conversations are critical to getting students to think like anthropologists. True, he says, students are sometimes “insulted, offended, troubled” by hard questions. “It can be really agonizing to work through, but it means you’re hitting on something really important and interesting.” So rather than just teach facts, Danforth teaches students to be capable of analyzing any cultural phenomena, from death rituals to Barbie dolls. And when students “actively participate in the interpretive process” by eagerly dissecting their own experiences using an anthropological lens, well, “that’s the most fun,” Danforth says.

In 20I3–I4 the Bates course catalog will be a digital-only publication.

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It All Adds Up

Ask the Senator

Shown above, Professor of Mathematics Bonnie Shulman, who retired in June, accepts salutations en masse from math students during the annual Mount David Summit in March.

U.S. Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, stopped by the Harward Center for Community Partnerships this spring to talk with students about communicating effectively with elected leaders. One way to make a persuasive case, King said, is by sharing knowledge and ideas visually, and King displayed a graph on his smartphone (shown here) illustrating the rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere going back a million years. Graphs like these, he said, have had “more to do with my position on global climate change than anything else.” The students who met with King had achieved success in a national competition called Letters to an Elected Official, where students research and write letters to lawmakers about issues that interest them. A two-person Bates team reached the national finals in New York City, where they presented their issue (the cons of piping tar-sands oil across Maine) to a panel of former legislators.

Also retiring from the faculty this year: Pam Baker ’69, Helen A. Papaioanou Professor of Biological Sciences and, from 2011 to 2013, dean of the faculty Bill Blaine-Wallace, lecturer in African American studies and multifaith chaplain Tom Hayward, lecturer in classical and medieval studies and reference librarian Bill Hiss ’66, lecturer in Asian studies and former dean of admission and vice president Paul Kuritz, professor of theater Bob Thomas, professor of biology Tributes to retiring faculty bates.edu/faculty-tributes 12

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Each year about 60 students co-write published articles with Bates professors.

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The library offers more than I00 Web-accessible academic databases.

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An interdisciplinary major in Latin American studies debuts this fall.

Work Related Zak Kofos ’13 of Marlborough, Mass., laughs with Tyrone Wilson, a Facility Services staff member from West Paris, at the opening of the exhibition Bates at Work: College Staff Share Their Stories. During the winter semester, students in Professor Peg Creighton’s course “Community Studies” partnered with staff in Dining Services and Facilities Services, doing interviews and conducting research, and one result was this poster exhibit in Fireplace Lounge in Commons. The course, part of the American cultural studies curriculum, seeks to “move students beyond the bubble of the academy,” Creighton says.

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Pieck’s Progress The Interoceanic Highway connecting Pacific ports in Peru with Atlantic ports in Brazil — and running right through the heart of the Amazonian rainforest — is a prime example of why Professor Sonja K. Pieck studies “the intersection of nature and power.” Pieck has followed the progress of the 1,600-mile road from a scholarly perspective, examining conflicts between enormous economic benefits the new trade route provides and the high-impact environmental and social costs it brings as well. She’s particularly interested in how ordinary citizens can achieve greater influence over such projects. Heavily influenced by a liberal arts undergraduate experience herself, Pieck says, “My professors fundamentally changed the way I understood the world.” She strives for the same kind of effect on her students, an ambition that in 2011 earned her one of Bates’ Kroepsch Awards for outstanding teaching. For her teaching and research, the college recently presented her another award, one of the most important in academia: appointment to tenure as an associate professor, beginning in the fall. Summer 2013

THE COLLEGE

Bates has lowered the number of products used to clean buildings from I5 to four, all EPA approved.

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Top Academic Post Goes to Auer Matthew R. Auer is the college’s new dean of the faculty and vice president for academic affairs, effective July 1. Auer was previously dean of the Hutton Honors College and professor of public and environmental affairs at Indiana University. He succeeds Pamela J. Baker ’69, the Helen A. Papaioanou Professor of Biological Sciences, who is retiring. An award-winning scholar, Auer has authored or co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on environmental policy and has taught at Indiana since 1996. President Spencer describes Auer as “a globally engaged expert in the arenas of environmental policy, energy policy, sustainable development and foreign aid” who is also a “dynamic and effective academic leader who has focused his energies on improving programs for undergraduates at Indiana University.”

Leon Levasseur (left) is pictured here with his late colleague Lenny Belleau at a 2004 picnic lunch for Dining Services staff after their annual training program.

Levasseur’s Will

Matthew Auer appointment bates.edu/matthew-auer

KENDALL REEVES

The late Leon Levasseur is proof that philanthropists come from all backgrounds and all walks of life. Intellectually disabled since birth, Levasseur worked for 25 years as a dishwasher for Bates Dining Services. After his death, in December 2011, Bates received more than $100,000 from his estate, which was awarded as need-based financial aid this spring through the college’s Named Scholars Program. Earle Morse ’84, an ordained minister who serves Maine’s Carrabassett Valley community, met Levasseur through the Bates Christian Fellowship as a student and officiated at his graveside funeral last June. Levasseur would “talk to anybody,” recalls Morse. That implicitly challenged Morse and his fellow students — effectively if inadvertently — to confront their own biases. “In a world of people putting up false fronts,” he says, “Leon caught us all unawares.” Levasseur was institutionalized for the first 32 years of his life at the now-shuttered Pineland Center in New Gloucester, Maine. In the 1970s, he was among an early group of residents who left the notorious institution to lead independent lives. He eventually connected with local attorney Jon Oxman, who helped Levasseur manage his personal and financial affairs and steered him to the position at Bates. Scott Warren ’85, who also knew Levasseur through the fellowship, said that “Leon had challenges in his life, but we connected through our shared faith. “He brightened people’s lives.”

Reading admission applications online saves I25,000 sheets of paper.

Matthew Auer, new Bates dean of the faculty and vice president for academic affairs.

Bates is No. I in growth of alumni giving participation among our peers.

Bates’ application overlap is mostly with Dartmouth, Colby, Bowdoin, Williams, Middlebury.

Bates website users tend to stay on the dining menu longest (8 minutes).

CALENDAR BASICS Summer 2013 Hirshberg

Cronon

Honorary Degrees

Pinn

June 11–August 21 Class of 2017 Receptions — Coming to a city near you

of the Center for Talented Youth at The Johns Hopkins University; Vivian W. Pinn, M.D., distinguished physician and pioneering leader and mentor at the National Institutes of Health who fought for greater gender equity in all realms of women’s health, medicine and research. President Clayton Spencer said that “in their lives and work, they exemplify the possibilities that await our graduates, and they show us how the values that define the Bates experience can shape, and take shape in, the world.” Hirshberg and Cronon are both parents of 2013 graduates.

July 1–August 10 Bates Dance Festival — So moved August 16–18 Great Falls Balloon Festival in L-A — Up, up and away August 30 AESOP Trips Return — Tired and grimy yet exuberant August 31 New Student Orientation — New Bobcats get their bearings September 1 Maine State Seminary Opens in 1857 — You’ve come a long way

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Gary Hirshberg, prominent internationally in the organic food movement as co-founder and chairman of the organic yogurt producer Stonyfield Farm, delivered the Commencement address and received an honorary degree on May 26. Joining him as honorands were: William Cronon, eminent scholar and teacher in the field of environmental history whose writings have shaped public discourse about nature, wilderness preservation and the liberal arts; Elaine Tuttle Hansen, Bates’ seventh president, scholar of Middle English literature and now executive director

Hansen

Take It from the Top

September 4 Fall Semester Begins — Finals feel so far away September 4 Convocation — Renewal and regalia September 13–December 14 Redefining the Multiple: 13 Japanese Printmakers — Bates College Museum of Art

New graduates may take heart in the Bates president’s holistic yet iterative view on developing a career. In a February interview on student-run WRBC-FM, Clayton Spencer answered this question from host Clay Baldo ’13: “When you were in college...did you imagine yourself here, now?” “Absolutely not,” said Spencer. “Here’s how I think about careers. All you need to figure out at any given moment is your next gig. And you have to want to do it. If that’s how you run your life, retroactively it will look like you had a career.”

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WRBC interview with President Spencer bates.edu/wrbc-spencer

November 1–2 Homecoming Weekend — Back to Bates

September 27–29 Parents & Family Weekend — Hug ’em tight October 12–13 Dempsey Challenge in Lewiston — Cycle with McDreamy

November 23–December 1 Thanksgiving Recess — Eat, then nap

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TO THE NINES photography by mike bradley These nine portraits were taken on March 23 as Galagoers took a brief break from their revelry. Gala, an annual shindig that debuted in 1990 as a community party on the inauguration weekend for then-President Don Harward, is when Citizen Bates sheds winter blahs and blues (and umpteen layers of fleece) and blossoms into snazzy and sassy styling.

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SPORTS

Men’s track bested the 4x800 meet record by 7 seconds at Open New Englands.

Shutting out Fisher, Caroline Gattuso ’I3 pitched softball’s first-ever perfect game.

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Help from the Friends Head coach Mike Leonard videotapes a Bobcat ballplayer at Leahey Field. The digital gear described in this story was funded in part by gifts to the Friends of Bates Athletics. Learn more at bates.edu/fba.

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Men’s soccer coach Stewart Flaherty uses the screen-capture software Snagit to record opponent games, or even pro games involving teams who run plays similar to Bates’. Bobcat players might compare what they’re doing well, or what they’re struggling with, by viewing the tactics of a German team in the Bundesliga. At Leahey Field, baseball coach Mike Leonard uses an iPad to film practice pitching and hitting sessions so coaches can make corrections and suggestions in nearly real time, “as opposed to a separate film session.” It’s not that video is at all new, says infielder Griff Tewksbury ‘14 of Concord, N.H., but that barriers to using it are gone. “My freshman year, we had a video camera, but the video then had to be loaded onto a server, which had a confusing login. Needless to say, I didn’t watch much video my first two years.” With an iPad, video feedback is instant. “In a game of repetition and mechanics, the iPad gives effective and efficient feedback for correction or improvement,” said Tewksbury. Video has completely revised recruiting. Football coach Mark Harriman can see highlight films of any recruit simply by visiting YouTube or one of many recruiting-specific sites, such as Hudl (slogan: “If you can record it, you can learn from it”). As late as the 1980s, football game film was just that: film.

Assistant coaches from opposing teams would drive and meet up somewhere and exchange reels of 16mm film. Then came the greater convenience of VHS and DVD. But now, NESCAC football teams exchange film on a cloud-based system set up by the conference, and players can see film of opponents as soon as Bates’ coaching staff has it downloaded. “Once we have the opponents’ film we make it available to the players via a website that is linked to our data-analysis system run by DVSport,” says Harriman. Alpine ski coach Rogan Connell uses $50 wireless SD cards in his digital video camera. That, along with the website Sprongo, lets him send training video “to our phones, tablets and the Web so athletes can view video immediately from anywhere.” There are some perks, too, for coaches who embrace new technology. How else would women’s basketball coach Jim Murphy ’69 and his assistants, seen here, be able to review game video while sipping coffee at Starbucks?

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As soon as they hit the water, new Bobcat swimmers and divers are splish-splash data generators, underwater cameras filming each Johnny and Jenny Weissmuller so coaches can “break down their strokes and give them specific skill work,” says head coach Peter Casares. And if one of the Weissmullers is a diver, each practice plunge is also videoed and replayed on a poolside TV screen on a 30-second delay for them to analyze with diving coach Mike Bartley. When it comes to ways that technology has changed college coaching, topping the list is digital video and its accouterments — HD, YouTube, smartphones, Wi-Fi and editing software — that deliver convenience, save time and help athletes improve. Consider what coaches, who are notoriously phobic about wasting time, faced as they tried to incorporate video into their programs just a few years ago. Women’s soccer coach Kelsy Ross was a senior at Roanoke College in 2004 when the team sat through entire 90-minute game films in order to discuss game tactics. “It was incredibly time-consuming, the film quality was suspect, and after about 30 minutes our attention spans were spent,” says Ross. Sounds like a review of a Deuce Bigelow movie. Today, simple and affordable videoediting technology enables coaches to slice and dice game video into packages relevant to a player’s position.

Kevin Davis ’I4 had five doubles in a doubleheader sweep of Williams on May I2.

Football received a trophy for its Division III–best turnover margin in 20I2.

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The friend of a student, Detroit Pistons’ Andre Drummond played noontime hoops in Alumni Gym.

What’s in a Bobcat? The new Bates Bobcat was developed by Skye Design Studios, whose principal is Maine native Skye Dillon, and as part of the process Bates did an unscientific survey of alumni. What you wanted: 68 percent wanted the new look to show the head alone. 68 percent wanted “confident.” 58 percent agreed that the Bobcat should be “distinguished.”

Courting Favor Ahmed Abdel Khalek ’16 of Cairo finished a brilliant rookie squash season with a 23–2 individual record and First Team All-America honors. He is the second Bates men’s squash All-American, joining four-time honoree Ricky Weisskopf ’08.

What you didn’t want: 73 percent disagreed or strongly disagreed that the Bobcat should be “whimsical.” President Spencer summed up the new Bobcat the other day: “It’s a noble, pensive, grounded zen Bobcat.”

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A Great Shot David Pless ‘13 stands — stands tall, we might add — for a portrait by Phyllis Graber Jensen on April 22 in the throwing circle at the Russell Street Track. Pless leaves Bates with three NCAA shot-put titles and numerous meet and facility records in the Northeast, so the question of his legacy as one of the all-time great athletes in Division III history has been, well, put to the test and put to rest.

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner All-American runner Tully Hannan ’14 of West Hartford, Conn., describes what he was thinking as he sat in a snowbank outside Merrill Gym after a poor result in the 5,000-meter run at the New England Division III Championships in February. “Before that race, I didn’t allow for the possibility that I wouldn’t win. Going in with that mindset set me up for failure. But I knew early — in the first couple of laps, even — that it wasn’t my day, and I started to second-guess myself. “I was trying to reflect on what had happened. There was a lot of frustration and angst. I not only let myself down but I let the team down, and that was hard to grasp. “I didn’t know where I was going with the rest of my season. I was trying to get away from everybody and think about what I’d done wrong, and what I could do in the future to not feel that way again. “It was a lot of emotions. I’d hoped to win, and to fall back that hard and have everybody watching me was difficult.” Summer 2013

ARTS & CULTURE

Robinson Players challenge in Short Term: Create a I0-minute play in four hours.

The Ronj Coffeehouse is named for its orange interior.

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Renowned singer-songwriter Jonathan Edwards (“Shanty,” “Sunshine”) plays guitar with Lecturer in Music Tom Snow during Snow’s “Popular Composition and Arranging” class in March. This collaboration was more than a one-off, as Snow, a pianist who directs the Bates Jazz Band, is also a member of Edwards’ touring band.

The Diva’s Role Now a specialist in 19thcentury opera who teaches at Northeastern University, music historian Hilary Poriss ’91 visited in February to give a lecture exploring how the work of operatic divas has evolved — along with our contemporary understanding of “diva” itself. Italian for “goddess,” the word was originally applied to the best female singers in appreciation of their ability. “And yes, bad behavior was part of that,” Poriss says. “But it was all worth it, because they could sing.”

Reflections on The Last Portrait This painting, by Lewiston native and prominent Maine artist William Manning, captures a crucial point in Manning’s artistic evolution, explains Cara Garcia-Bou ’13 of Eastchester, N.Y. The Last Portrait “spans his use of representation, abstraction and geometric elements,” says Garcia-Bou, who worked closely with the Bates College Museum of Art’s considerable Manning collection as a museum intern in 2012–13. This 1972 oil painting, she adds, “also captures the mystical energy of Monhegan Island,” a popular artist destination in Maine. Guided by curator Bill Low, Garcia-Bou and fellow art major Nell Wachsberger ’13 assembled a spring exhibition of new acquisitions, including several by Manning. “I learned so much about the intense behind-the-scenes processes that create an exhibition,” says Garcia-Bou.

Miles Isacke’s senior thesis adapted the Catholic Requiem Mass to organ.

Dance majors are required to participate in the summer Bates Dance Festival.

Two students did Short Term independent studies arranging pop tunes for a cappella.

The Dancer and the Rapper Choreographer and dancer Erin Gottwald ’98 joined hip-hop artist Postell Pringle ’98 to lead “Tour, Teach, Perform,” a Short Term course where students create a dance piece and teach it to pupils in LewistonAuburn area schools. Pringle and Gottwald, who have collaborated before, developed the piece based on Twelfth Night. “We like the juxtaposition of modern dance with the rhythms, bass lines, soul and messages that can be found in doing rap,” said Pringle, who gained strong reviews this spring as the star of the hip-hop adaptation Othello: The Remix at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. “We’re fascinated by the marriage of those two things,” he added. “We thought, how interesting would it be to put together a show that would use modern dance to tell the story, as well as rhymes and punch lines? And who better to work with than Shakespeare?”

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Bobcat in the Hat Brett Ranieri ’16 of West Hartford, Conn., is the Cat in the Hat in Seussical the Musical, this spring’s play mounted by the Robinson Players for the student troupe’s annual Stages for All Ages production for area schoolchildren. The play’s director was Tommy Holmberg ’13, Winnetka, Ill., who was chosen by his classmates to deliver the first student address at Commencement in at least 60 years.

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LEWISTON

Jessica Cooper’s honors thesis compared music education in Lewiston, Connecticut and Chile.

For his April concert in Lewiston, Bob Dylan’s encore was “Ballad of A Thin Man.”

is right here. I wanted to learn about our community, and the thesis really pulled in my history buff side with my interest in social movements.

How has your thesis experience changed your perception of our Bates community and our Lewiston community? I think it has been huge to get off campus and do things like this. The more you take a step outside of our little box, the more you get to experience how rich in culture Lewiston really is. It has such an interesting past.

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Your go-to work space? I like to do my work in the computer lab of Hedge.

Two Sides of the River For her senior thesis in environmental studies, Taryn O’Connell ’13 of Georgetown, Mass., researched one of the first public debates about Androscoggin River pollution. This spring, she talked with Hannah Albertine ’16 of Philadelphia, Pa., about her thesis. I hear that seniors are told to practice their thesis elevator speech. What’s yours? My thesis is about the pollution debate, between 1953 and 1955, between a group called the Associated Industries of Maine, made up of the industry heads of the paper and textile companies, and a group called the Citizens for Conservation and Pollution Control.

I tried to see how these groups tried to expand their collective identity in Lewiston using place and class to reach different social classes in Lewiston. What was the inspiration for your idea? My junior year I took a class called “U.S. Environmental History” with Professor Joe Hall that really shaped my thesis. We did a project in the Muskie Archives and learned about Walter Lawrance, who was a Bates chemistry professor and the courtappointed “river master” for the Androscoggin. There was a lot of information about the samples and testing they used to do, and I sat there and thought about how the river used to smell like rotten eggs. I realized that everything

Study-snack of choice? Hmmm. Well, I don’t know if coffee counts as a snack because I drink that like it’s my job. But I’ll go with trail mix from Commons. Any moments where you went “a-ha!”? There were definitely moments where I understood exactly the arguments that the different groups were making. I was looking at the history of Lewiston in the early 1900s when the Catholic church didn’t let its members get involved in labor unions. I had a moment where I thought, “Oh, it makes sense that if they’re not able to join labor unions, then they’re not going to fight for labor rights. And why would they be forthright in fighting against pollution if they feel it is going to compromise their jobs?” There were all of these traditions that the community kept with them over time.

What is your relationship with your adviser like? Sonja Pieck is great. She’s an associate professor in environmental studies and also teaches in the Latin American studies program. I’m really interested in the work she does with social movements. What has been the most enjoyable part of working on your senior thesis? I think my favorite part right now is just looking at it! Just getting it all on paper and putting the information together. I’m looking at your thesis binder and thinking there’s no way I can pull it off. You think, “I can’t do a thesis.” But everyone does. You just do it.

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Night at the Improv The Bates improv group Strange Bedfellows do their thing at the Lewiston restaurant She Doesn’t Like Guthries, part of College Night in Town festivities on May 1. The event, held spring and fall, acquaints area college students with various dining, shopping and entertainment options available in their backyard. 22

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Average price of a single-family Lewiston home is $II6,000.

Frye Street — cozy

student houses, hopping social scene and home to the campus coffeehouse, the Ronj — is named for an illustrious Maine family whose 19thcentury homestead was on Frye Street. One family member, William Pierce Frye, was dubbed “Lewiston’s political wonder boy” by Douglas Hodgkin, professor emeritus of political science. Name: William Pierce Frye Born: Sept. 2, 1830 Died: Aug. 8, 1911 Political Career: Served

successively as Lewiston mayor, Maine attorney general, Maine legislator, U.S. congressman and U.S. senator (1881–1911). Affiliation: Republican Bates Connection:

Uncle William Robinson Frye was a founding Bates trustee who made the final board motion that settled Bates in Lewiston.

Craig Saddlemire ’05, far left, and Lewiston resident Salat Hassan hold “cardboard reflections” at a Kennedy Park rally on May 13 to support the hundreds of downtown residents displaced by three unrelated apartment building fires started by arson. Saddlemire, a Lewiston city councilor whose ward includes the area of the fires, organized the rally that featured song, speeches and multifaith prayers. “This is sacred space we are creating,” he said. On one side of each cardboard sign was a message of pain; on the other, of hope.

Big Issue: Frye vigorously

opposed a proposed fisheries treaty with Canada and Britain in 1888 because he felt it failed to protect New England fishermen. Speechifying in the Senate, he said, with some irony: “Shall citizens of the United States — fishermen, if you please, but still citizens of the United States — be protected against injustice, wrong and outrage, inflicted by a neighboring nation emboldened to it only because it rests under the aegis of a mighty power beyond the seas?”

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What’s In a Name?

After the Fire

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Lisbon Falls hosts an annual Moxie Festival to celebrate the quirky pop drink.

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Lewiston has I8 city parks and athletic fields.

Namesake: The freighter

William Pierce Frye was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on March 29, 1943, midway between Greenland and the British Isles. Accomplishments:

Frye was a member of the U.S. delegation that negotiated the 1898 Treaty of Paris. The treaty ended the SpanishAmerican War, ended the Spanish Empire in America and began the rise of the U.S. as a colonial power.

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THE WORLD

Bates’ record II Fulbright winners will work in nine countries.

The closest border crossing into Canada is just II2 miles away in Beecher Falls, Vt.

Barlow Exhibition These images are from the 2013 Barlow Off-Campus Study Photography Exhibition, presented at the annual Mount David Summit by the Office of Off-Campus Study.

Plowing Ahead

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All In

Ellen Schneider ’13 got her hands dirty during a rural homestay in Yanque, a small town in the Colca Canyon region of Peru. Schneider, a sociology and Spanish major from Madison, Conn., took this photograph during a visit to the family chakra, the Quechua word for farm, to plant potatoes. “The men plowed the field using cattle or by hand while the women followed behind in their traditional dresses and hats, planting potatoes,” she says. Here, Schneider’s host father takes a break to drink chicha blanca, a popular beverage made from fermented or unfermented corn. Schneider was part of the School for International Training program, studying indigenous peoples and globalization during fall 2011.

These mischievous eyes belong to Rosji, host sister to Ellen Gawarkiewicz ’13 of North Falmouth, Mass., during Gawarkiewicz’s semester in Madagascar. Rosji, she says, “has the magical ability to pluck butterflies from the sky.” Madagascar was an apt choice for the environmental studies major. In evolutionary terms, the island nation has been cut off from the rest of the world for millennia, making it an ideal setting for a program in biodiversity and natural resource management offered by the School for International Training.

This colla, Catalan for “group,” is forming the base of a castell, a “human tower.” Andrew Carranco ’14, a double major in history and in classical and medieval studies from Laredo, Texas, took this photo while participating in the 2012 Bates Fall Semester Abroad in Spain. The castell is a common tradition in Spain’s Catalonia region. These towers, he says, “can grow in height to nine people, and at the top, a single young child raises their hand swiping four fingers.” The four fingers, he explains, signify the stripes of the Catalan flag.

Snow Day In February 2012, Rome experienced its first snowstorm in 26 years, and Caroline Sollmann ’13 of Wilton, Conn., was there. She was on the IES Abroad program, based in Milan, Italy, when she captured this image of a woman reaching out her apartment window to touch the aberrant flakes. The 40 centimeters (15.7 inches for American readers) forced the Colosseum to close for the day. Now that’s a snow day.

Setting Off Sparks During a Bates Fall Semester Abroad in Spain in fall 2012, Danielle Munoz ’15 captured this image of the Correfoc, or “fire-run,” in Tarragona. The Correfoc, says Munoz, “entails dancing under fireworks fully covered with a hat and handkerchief.” The event dates to medieval times and is part of the weeklong Santa Tecla Festival, Tarragona’s answer to Rio de Janeiro’s Carnaval or New Orleans’ Mardi Gras.

Each fall, 30-plus study abroad programs send reps to campus.

Typically, about 67 percent of graduates earn credit for foreign study.

Cameron Sheldon’s honors thesis examined Turkish denial of the Armenian genocide.

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Members of the Class of 2013 from outside the U.S. are all over the map. Here’s a breakdown of where they hail from. The student and country farthest from Bates is Yi Zheng Hwa ’13 from Seremban, Malaysia — more than 9,100 miles.

What Myanmar Needs Aung Myint ’15 of Yangon, Myanmar You are one of three Bates students who received prestigious Davis Projects for Peace awards this year. How will your project work? We’ll read excerpts from great books and discuss them, trying to find common solutions through conversation. It looks like a very elementary thing in terms of Western education, but it’s revolutionary in Myanmar. What root problems will the project address? Under Myanmar’s former authoritarian system, generations of students experienced passive learning with a complete absence of independent thought and exchange of ideas. Ethnic separations originate from a lack of interaction. Education in Myanmar is based on rote learning, and you were a model student, thanks to your skill at memorization. But now you’re advocating for the Western tradition of critical thinking. What happened? I studied at the Pre-Collegiate Program of the Diplomatic School in Yangon, set up by two Americans. We learned in exactly the same way that Americans learn — training in how to learn. I discovered a new perspective on things, unrestrained by conventional notions of right and wrong. It was quite an intellectual revolution! This is exactly what we in Myanmar need. How has your Bates experience been? Bates lets you develop whatever you want to develop. They teach you the way to learn, and then you teach yourself. So with that experience, I have been able to define and redefine what I want to do. Bates let me grow and gives me time and a sense of security. You don’t have to worry about anything else for four years, which is wonderful.

Bangladesh

Malaysia

Barbados

Mexico

Belarus

Nepal

Canada

Pakistan

China

Paraguay

Denmark

Serbia

Ecuador

Singapore

Ethiopia

South Korea

Ghana

Sweden

Honduras

Taiwan

India

Tanzania

Ireland

Turkey

Italy

United Kingdom

1 Japan

1 Kenya

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BOOKS

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A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton

Murder on the Rocks by Karen MacInerny

Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel

Suggested by Anita Charles, lecturer in education: “A dark novel about loss and the ways in which lives can tumble from the illusion of safety.”

Suggested by Don Dearborn, professor and chair of biology: “Not thought-provoking but mindlessly relaxing, a light-hearted murder mystery set on the Maine coast with the workings of a B&B (with detailed food descriptions) as a backdrop.”

Suggested by Kirk Read, professor of French: “As someone who’s invested a fair amount of time in therapy, I loved it.”

Ward Farnsworth’s Classical English Rhetoric by Ward Farnsworth Suggested by Sawyer Sylvester, professor of sociology: “For those who would know the uses of anaphora and epistrophe, polysyndeton and asyndeton, praeteritio and litotes, this is the book for you.”

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More selections from the eclectic and reader-friendly Non-required Reading List, featuring titles suggested by Bates people. The list is published by the College Store and edited by Sarah Potter ’77.

Games on the Computer? Never!

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The literary spectrum that Ashley Lepre ’13 covered for her creative writing thesis in English included a number of witty haiku: “ In Front of the Mirror” The dyslexic groom wastes away his wedding day: he can’t knot the tie. “ A Watched Pot” A watched pot won’t boil, this I have found to be true. But, the water will.

POETRY

If computing was still in its youth around 1970, so was the notion of what was cool, and what wasn’t, on a computer. Gaming? Not cool. By the late ’60s, students at Bates and nine other New England colleges were putting their fingers on a computer keyboard for the first time, thanks to a landmark time-share setup with Dartmouth’s General Electric 635 mainframe computer. In the Dec. 9, 1970, issue of The Bates Student, under the headline “Playing Hangman on the Bates Computer,” an unnamed reporter offered a few tips on how to figure out computers, and computer culture, at Bates. Tip 1: It’s possible to play games on computers. Tip 2: “Certain factions, perpetually seen in the computer room, will frown and scoff if they see you using their precious computer for blatant fun.” Pong, anyone? Besides the aforementioned hangman, the Student article lists these games being played in the Dana Chemistry computer room (now a prep lab): craps, bingo and football, “where you call the plays for Dartmouth and Bates cannot help but win.”

Lepre’s Haiku

“ Pushing the Boundaries of Holiday Benevolence” Above urinals would not be very ideal mistletoe placement. “ Giant Cupcakes” Dear infomercial, a giant cupcake maker is a cake maker.

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How many puns can we sneak into a photo caption? Here goes. This trio was among a few Bates Outing Club members who, when not staying abreast of their studies, bucked convention and exposed their adventurous sides in the BOC’s semi-nude charity calendar for 2013. BOC publicity directors Christiane McCabe ’16 and Jess Nichols ’15 give us the skinny on the calendar: For these outdoor buffs, experiencing nature in a state of nature is essential outdoor culture. Plus, the calendar will reveal — among other parts — BOC spirit, cheek and camaraderie. But here’s the naked truth: Supporters will find it appealing.

We’re Big in Indonesia Twit Fakta (“fact”) tweeted a Bates research finding to 650,000 Indonesian followers who then retweeted it another 936 times. The tweet — Memikirkan tentang uang secara tidak sadar dapat membuat kita lebih percaya diri, menurut sebuah penelitian oleh Bates College di AS — references the discovery by Bates psychologist Helen Boucher and Monte Kofos ’11 that thinking about money can improve self-control.

Good for the Goose True, the meme rage has gone quiet. But the Goose is still going strong. Here’s an offering from the Bates Meme Facebook page.

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

Why Oh My!

Seniors handed in their theses on April 10, 1958, and three days later a few of them were apparently still celebrating. They staged an exuberant “food riot,” in the words of the Lewiston Daily Sun, that spilled out of Memorial Commons and onto the Quad.

Seen in Dana Chemistry Hall amid a pile of corrected papers: another example of why at Bates it’s not enough to know just the facts!

What was the food weapon of choice for this riot (which the deans blamed on “spring fever”).

Answer: D. The other items are offered by the college’s acclaimed Dining Services today. Even donuts. But grilled cheese sandwiches are gone.

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a. Bobcat pop tarts b. Gluten-free baked haddock primavera c. Grilled cheese sandwiches d. Donuts e. Chicken breast with spinach and gorgonzola

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Pursuing the mystery of Maine’s ancient Red Paint People in 1969, Bates archaeologist Bruce Bourque found answers — and a calling — in an unintended destination.

Bruce Bourque talks about the Red Paint People bates.edu/bruce-bourque

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LUCKY

By a lucky accident, Bruce Bourque found the Turner Farm site on North Haven, seen here in 1972 being excavated under his direction.

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ACCIDENT

Working toward his doctorate in anthropology at Harvard in the late 1960s, Bruce Bourque encountered artifacts from an ancient, poorly understood Maine culture, the so-called Moorehead phase. Coastal sites in Maine had yielded this unusual archaeological evidence dating back some 4,000 years, including a red pigment that gave this mysterious population a more memorable modern name: the Red Paint People. Bourque has devoted much of his career to understanding the Red Paint People. His 2012 study

and memoir, The Swordfish Hunters, depicts them as a robustly maritime culture that caught swordfish as much for social position as for food. In the process, they obliterated a near-shore swordfish population in a way that anticipated today’s hard-pressed fisheries. In this edited excerpt from the book, Bourque recounts the happy accident that brought him to the best imaginable site for Red Paint research — and launched a career. — Doug Hubley

First encounter

picking up artifacts washed out of the sites by winter storms. Some had organized their collections and framed them. Some kept them in boxes, drawers and even old socks. I wasn’t choosy and eagerly looked even at the ones obtained by trespass and vandalism. I figured that my looking couldn’t unvandalize the site, and I needed all the data I could get. These amateur collections were anything but systematic in a scientific sense. Scientific collection must follow rules designed to extract information from the process, and the amateur collectors I met in 1969 often followed none of these rules, making it a challenge to learn much from their collections. Yet the collectors were often strongly attached to their collections, and many eagerly cooperated with me. After a casual conversation to size each other up, we usually embarked on a long discussion, during which the collectors showed me their favored pieces, revealing their perceived significance. Sometimes their treasures were not artifacts at all, just oddly shaped stones. Sometimes the informants’ stories conflicted with other information evident in the collection, such as things said to have been found together that should not have been, or attractive arrow and spear tips made of lovely colorful rocks that were obviously not local but “salted” into the collection to spice it up. Sometimes a “find” might turn out actually to be a gift from a friend, or an heirloom passed down without the facts surrounding its discovery. On one occasion, I noticed inked-on numbers on some pieces and realized that these artifacts had been bought or stolen from another, better-organized collection. Still, despite these difficulties, I gained much useful and, I thought, reliable information on which sites held the greatest potential for future excavation.

On my first visit to Down East Maine, in 1957 on a family camping trip to Merchant’s Island, near Deer Isle, I instantly felt at home. I had always loved the outdoors, and this was my kind of outdoors: the salt air and clear, cold water; the bold granite shorelines and delightful pocket beaches; and the impenetrably dense spruce woods filling in former pastures where thousands of merino sheep had once grazed, reduced to a few small herds by the time I first saw them. When I decided to pursue archeology, the decision to return to the Maine coast came easily. So it happened that in the summer of 1969 I headed to Maine for fieldwork. Intending to examine and photograph artifact collections of the Red Paint People, I would discover, by lucky accident, the remains of a 4,000-year-old village on the island of North Haven that had been inhabited by this distinctive Native American people. From my first encounter with Red Paint artifacts in the basement of Harvard’s Peabody Museum a few years before, I sensed that this material was very different from other cultures of the prehistoric Northeast. Yet it also seemed to be quite at home in that tradition. Red Paint artifact styles (see facing page) included many with local pedigrees, such as utilitarian stone spear tips and fishing weights, called plummets. Other styles were basically utilitarian in design but raised to a much higher aesthetic or symbolic level by superb craftsmanship or engraved decoration. Still others seemed purely symbolic. Most fascinating of all were exotic artifacts, such as colorful chert projectile points, unlike others elsewhere in the Northeast.

Shoeboxes and socks My modus operandi that summer was to visit local post offices, where the postmaster could be counted on to know who in the area liked to collect Indian artifacts. Following these leads, I’d met several collectors, some who had built their collections by digging in archaeological sites, a popular form of informal vandalism then endemic to the area, and others who had simply walked the local beaches,

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So much for Plan B But each time I tried to follow up on sites where artifacts had been found, I failed to find enough evidence to warrant an excavation. In late July, I thought I might as well try Vinalhaven, the largest of the Fox Islands. I had acquaintances there I hoped might put me up and connect me with local collectors.

The vibrant culture of the Red Paint People is reflected in these artifacts, including projectile points, pendants with multiple holes and figural forms and plummets, the latter often used as fishing-line sinkers.

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(Artifacts shown at 85 percent of actual size.)

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Bourque directs Bates students in 2009 at an ongoing prehistoric archaeological dig on Merrymeeting Bay in Topsham.

On that boat trip around North Haven I saw the large midden at Turner Farm, and nearly every other midden I would work on over the next two decades there. Then I missed the day’s last Vinalhaven ferry. So I went to Plan B and took a ferry to nearby North Haven, where I planned to cross the narrow Fox Islands Thorofare to Vinalhaven on a smaller ferry that had connected them a decade before, when I’d first visited the islands. The waterfront was quiet when I landed on North Haven. I spotted 18-year-old Eric Hopkins standing on Hopkins Wharf and asked him, “Where is the ferry?” “My father stopped running that years ago,” he replied. Stranded for the night, I explained to him why I’d come to North Haven. I told him I could make the best of my mistake if I could find a place to stay, a boat to look for archaeological sites with, and an artifact collection to photograph. Hopkins brightened as I went on and told me not to worry: I’d actually come to the right place. He then called out to a man about my age crossing the street nearby. He was David Cooper, and he offered me a room in his home, which he’d just opened as an inn. That took care of lodging. Hopkins next offered to rent me a beat-up Boston Whaler. Finally, he pointed up the hill to a large cottage. Its owner, George Burr, and his boatman, Oscar Waterman, spent their summers combing the shores of local islands for artifacts that had been washed out of shell middens onto the beach. It turned out that innkeeper Cooper also collected artifacts, and when he learned why I’d come to North Haven, he enthusiastically offered to show me the sites. The next morning, he took me on a boat trip around the island, showing me the large midden at Turner Farm, and nearly every other midden I would work on over the next two decades of research there. A day later, I took the Boston Whaler to the Turner Farm site. The seaward sides of shell middens are subject to episodes of erosion as storm-driven waves tear into them, washing away the edges and leaving a scarp as vertical and clean as the wall of an archaeologist’s excavation. These scarps slump and then become stabilized by vegetation until the next severe storm takes its toll, washing away the seaward edge. Over time, a great many shell middens must have been completely eroded in this manner, which leaves us uncertain about the density of prehistoric populations along the Gulf of Maine coast. But at the Turner Farm site, storm erosion allowed me to look carefully at its depth and structure. I was satisfied that it was old, undisturbed, well-stratified and ripe for excavation.

Cooper arranged for me to see the Burr-Waterman collection. It was housed in handmade glasstopped cases, so different from the old socks and shoeboxes that held the collections I’d been photographing earlier that summer. It was a wonder to behold. Unlike any other collectors I had met, Burr and Waterman understood systematic collecting. It was in their collection that I found exactly what I’d been looking for: early artifacts from a handful of sites, mostly from Turner Farm. Better yet, my tour of the island with Cooper made it clear that local landowners had not allowed much digging into shell middens on their properties. Access to this collection saved me at least a full season of fieldwork and thousands of research dollars.

Turnabout at Turner Farm I returned to North Haven in July 1971, encouraged by the fact that, with a crew of 12 students from several schools, I had the manpower to accomplish something useful. But while I had obtained permission to excavate some promising middens on the island, the Turner Farm site was not one of them. When I had first visited that site, it lay on land still owned by the Turner family. Cooper had told me that the Turners tended to be reclusive and that getting permission to work there was a doubtful proposition. By 1971, ownership had passed to William Rice of Massachusetts and to his cousin, an island woman named Dorothy Ames. But the islanders doubted this would make my task any easier. As the summer progressed, a growing number of curiosity seekers gathered at our other North Haven sites. One day, a tall fellow stepped from the crowd and started probing me with questions. I eventually admitted to him that my heart was set on excavation at the Turner Farm, but that things didn’t look too promising. He then said he was Bill Rice, and that he would have a word with co-owner Ames about my interests. A few days later, I had my first meeting with her. The meeting was difficult at first because Dorothy was deaf, having lost her hearing to scarlet fever as a child. But once I learned to understand her, I sensed her deep pride in the lovely Turner Farm property and her willingness to let us work there. By the second of August, we were mapping the Turner Farm site and opening excavations there, and Dorothy became a regular visitor to the site and a dear friend. At last I was poised to begin testing the idea I’d had two years prior, pondering the Red Paint artifacts at Harvard. And since then, I’ve often wondered how differently things would have turned out had I not missed the ferry to Vinalhaven. n Bruce Bourque is senior lecturer in anthropology at Bates, a leading authority on Maine’s first peoples and the chief archaeologist at the Maine State Museum.

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TAKING BACK

THE TREE STREETS

Founded by Kim Sullivan ’13 and Julia Sleeper ’08, the Tree Street Youth Center is making a name for itself by v i c tor i a stanton ph otog r aph y by ph y lli s g r abe r je nse n “Avoid the tree streets.” That was one of the first pieces of advice that both Julia Sleeper and Kimberly Sullivan heard about Lewiston when they arrived at Bates. With a reputation for crime and the reality of hardship, “tree streets” refers to a concentration of downtown Lewiston streets, just beyond Luiggi’s and the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, bearing names like “Pine,” “Birch” and “Walnut.” In April and May, the tree street neighborhood suffered three major fires. Started by arsonists, the fires destroyed nine run-down apartment buildings, including one condemned building that nevertheless had transient residents. The subsequent news coverage only reinforced the neighborhood’s shady reputation. So, given the connotation of “tree streets” in Lewiston, you might be surprised by the name that Sleeper and Sullivan chose for their youth center two years ago: Tree Street. On a sunny day in April, clumps of dirty snow still line the sidewalks. At the corner of Howe and Birch streets sits what was once an abandoned daycare center, the cracked siding along its façade belying the explosion of colors and voices within. Most afternoons at Tree Street Youth Center are organized chaos, and Sleeper wouldn’t have it any other way. Weaving her way through halls painted neon and splashed with graffiti-style murals, Sleeper drops in on homework sessions and dance workshops, chatting with youth center clients and volunteers. Meanwhile, in the front office, Sullivan enlists teens to make tickets for an upcoming fundraiser. When Sleeper and Sullivan founded their program in 2011, they chose “Tree Street” intentionally, as a way to reappropriate the stigmatized name and neighborhood, says Sleeper. “When people refer to ‘tree street,’ we want them to be referring to a place and a population of Tree Street Youth Center founders Julia Sleeper ’08 (left) and Kim Sullivan ’13 (right) flank Lewiston High School graduate Ayman Mohamed and his family. Mohamed will attend Central Maine Community College in the fall. Summer 2013

Sullivan and Sleeper talk with a parent of a Tree Street participant.

Lewiston’s new leaders “are investing in the downtown. They’re living in the downtown.”

BRANCHING OUT Twenty-nine graduates of the Tree Street Youth Center college prep program, Branches, head off to college this fall. In the last three years, Tree Street clients have been accepted to the following colleges: Assumption College Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology Central Maine Community College Clark University Gettysburg College Husson University Lincoln Culinary Institute Morehouse College Saint Joseph’s College (Maine) Southern Maine Community College Springfield Community College Thomas College University of Maine University of Maine at Farmington University of Maine at Fort Kent University of Maine at Machias University of Southern Maine Wagner College Wheaton College

kids that are going to raise Lewiston from its stereotype,” Sleeper says. In two years they have grown the center from a summer pilot program to a year-round after-school program serving as many as 150 downtown youths every day, around 70 percent from immigrant and refugee households. With Sleeper as executive director, Tree Street now has an annual budget of $174,000, a robust board of directors and advisory board, and some 30 community partners and sponsors. Integrating academics, arts and athletics, the center relies on an army of volunteers — many of them neighborhood parents. While academic tutoring is the cornerstone of Tree Street’s work, opportunities to paint, learn an instrument or practice hip-hop and breakdancing keep kids of all ages coming back day after day. But Sleeper is adamant: No play until school homework is done. If the center’s goal is to redefine “tree streets” as a place from which kids go to college and become community leaders, then central to its mission is Branches, the center’s college prep program. Developed and coordinated by Sullivan, the program supports high school students from college application to campus move-in day. Fresh from the college-application process herself, Sullivan has formed a special connection with her students. “They push you. They really challenge you, and that’s what I really enjoy about my position,” she says. And as her students will, Sullivan has embarked on the next chapter of her own life. Since graduating in May, she has joined Sleeper as Tree Street’s second full-time staff member.

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As first post-college jobs go, working at Tree Street is pretty sweet, she says. “I’m pursuing a career that I’ve been able to mold,” she says. “And this is exactly what I’m passionate about.” In a way, the sustained growth of Tree Street mirrors Lewiston’s latest efforts to make over its downtown. It’s an oft-told story: Once a booming industrial and retail center, Lewiston’s downtown declined with the closing of the mills along the Androscoggin River in the 1960s and early ’70s. Tom Carey ’73, who became director of security and campus safety at Bates in 2003 after a 20-year FBI career, was a beat cop in Lewiston during what he calls “the first renaissance,” the wave of downtown revitalization from the mid-1970s to the 1980s, when the phrase “urban renewal” carried real hope. The energy to remake the downtown came from young leaders, “people my age and a little bit older,” he says. “They basically fought that battle for 10 years, and when it was time for new people to come in and take over, nobody really did.” But something has changed in the last few years, Carey says. “A new generation has come in, and they’re making a difference,” he says. And if part of what vexes Lewiston’s downtown — and this was a big topic after the fires — is aging housing stock and absentee landlords, these new leaders “are investing in the downtown. They’re living in the downtown.” And a number of them are Bates alumni. Sleeper and Sullivan live five minutes from the Tree Street Youth Center. Documentary filmmaker Craig Saddlemire ’05 is a city councilor who lives on Maple Street. Ben Chin ’07 of the Maine People’s Alliance lives just south of the Bates campus on Davis Street. Nate Libby ’07, a real estate and consulting professional who serves as a Lewiston city councilor and member of the Maine Legislature, lives just north of downtown. And so on. Sullivan was attending James Madison University when she decided to transfer to Bates in 2010, drawn by the college’s tradition of community engagement. Her first Short Term course, Literacy in the Community, took her to Trinity Jubilee Center, a bustling soup kitchen, food pantry and safe haven in the heart of downtown whose executive director is Kim Wettlaufer ’80.

“They never let me go,” Mohamed says, “even if it was too hard for me.” It was there she met Sleeper, an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer at the time, and the first seeds of Tree Street were planted. Indeed, the two are more than colleagues — they are kindred spirits. Both are Mainers (Sleeper from Brewer, Sullivan from Brunswick) and both majored in psychology at Bates. “They work really with some kind of synergy,” says the Rev. Steve Crowson, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, which oversees both the Jubilee Center and Tree Street. “The ideas and vision that they share come out of a place of deep affection and commitment to the community they’re serving.” “Julia started out as a mentor to me when I first came and started to work in Lewiston,” says Sullivan. “She helped me learn more about the community and direct my passion, connect with the right people and meet students. Now we work side-by-side thinking about the strategic plans of Tree Street.” Tree Street is one of nearly 200 local nonprofit and municipal organizations Bates works with through the Harward Center for Community Partnerships, whose director is Darby Ray. A scholar of work and community, Ray wants Bates students to “think about themselves as citizens of Lewiston-Auburn from the minute they step on campus.” That commitment to civically engaged learning, she says, is “at the heart of the matter here.” Under the aegis of the Harward Center, dozens of Bates students descend on Tree Street every semester to conduct community-based research and to lead programs — many of which are based in the college prep program. This spring, more than two dozen of Tree Street’s high school seniors graduated with plans to continue their educations. Their acceptances include the University of Maine, Clark University and Morehouse College (see sidebar). Ayman Mohamed, who will attend Central Maine Community College in the fall, arrived in Maine from Djibouti in 2010 not knowing how to speak or write English. Sleeper encouraged him to volunteer at Tree Street to build confidence with his new language. “They never let me go,” he says, “even if it was too hard for me.” A Tree Street participant walks past Sleeper’s office door, on which is written the center’s mission statement.

Fellow neighborhood resident Kon Maiwan will attend Morehouse College in the fall, following in the footsteps of his idol, Martin Luther King Jr. He says that Tree Street, along with help from the federal Upward Bound program, has been “one of the main support systems I have.” The local community has taken notice, too. The Androscoggin Chamber of Commerce and College for ME recently recognized Tree Street for its social justice work and college prep efforts. Not long ago, Sullivan had her sights set on a corner office at Bloomingdale’s. Now, from a slightly smaller office, but still in a corner, she looks forward to staying in Lewiston and taking Tree Street’s college prep program to the next level. “I know when I wake up every day next year, I’m going to be excited to go to work, and that’s something I’m really thankful for,” she says. n

Watch Kim Sullivan’s Tree Street story bates.edu/tree-street

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IRONY

As the flu pandemic rolled around the world in 2009,

many outbreaks occurred right where you’d expect them to: college campuses, where Habitrailesque student life ensures that any virus worth its weight in RNA is only a hop, skip and a jump away from its next host. Some 300 or so U.S. colleges and universities saw outbreaks of H1N1 in 2009, and among them were the U.S. Air Force Academy, Bowdoin, Colorado College and Bates. At each place, the outbreak was characterized by a sharp spike in cases about 72 hours (the virus’s approximate incubation period) after a big campus gathering. At the Air Force Academy, the event preceding the spike was a Fourth of July meet-and-greet for 1,300 new recruits. At Bowdoin, the event was Orientation and various return-to-college events, while at Colorado College, the event was Homecoming.

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Bates researchers explain how a pair of H1N1 vaccine clinics in 2009 led to a spike in student flu cases by h . jay bu r ns

And here at Bates, the event that preceded a surge in H1N1 cases was a wild campus-wide bash known as...a vaccine clinic. It’s true. Cases of influenza at Bates soared in the days in October after the college hosted two H1N1 vaccine clinics in Chase Hall, a curious if not downright bizarre fact that has been investigated by Karen Palin, lecturer in biology, and Meredith Greer, associate professor of mathematics. The pair, who recently reported their findings in the Journal of American College Health, say that the spike in cases was not directly related to the clinics themselves. Instead, the surge had to do with how the two clinics altered patterns of student interaction on campus — a finding that tells us that student movement around and about campus is more predictable and discrete, and less “blended,” than we thought. It’s easy to fathom how a college-wide social event that brings newcomers to campus might create robust opportunities for human-to-human spread of a virus. “Such large-group mixing has long been known to facilitate disease spread,” Greer says. But the vaccine clinics at Bates, on Oct. 10 and Oct. 15, about a week after the first case of H1N1 was confirmed, were the antithesis of social. The clinics followed protocols that minimized the risk

The H1N1 outbreak would call into question the notion of a homogeneously blended community.

Bates prepared for H1N1 in 2009 with a suite of strategies and tactics.

Sept. 5 New student orientation begins and first student reports ILI, or “Influenza-Like Illness”

That means students live in close proximity and encounter each other in classrooms, residence halls, the library, club activities, athletics facilities, arts venues and, of course, in Commons. Further ensuring a good blend at Bates in fall 2009 was the suspension of a number of community programs and athletic contests that kept students on campus and newcomers off.

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of viral spread among students. Staff wore masks and gloves. Hand sanitizer was everywhere. The space, Chase Hall Lounge, was large and, at the time, unused. So it wasn’t the clinic itself that led to the uptick in flu cases, and Palin and Greer take pains to say that vaccines and vaccine clinics are Very Good Things. Instead, the two clinics, at which 999 of the college’s 1,714 students received vaccinations, acted to influence events outside Chase Hall, the researchers say. Specifically, the clinics changed the way students moved and interacted on campus. To investigate the spread of H1N1 at Bates and the three other colleges, Palin and Greer used a standard mathematical model called SIR. In this model, all community members are considered either “susceptible” to the disease, “infected” or “removed,” meaning recovered. The SIR model works best when the population being studied is fixed in size and, in the authors’ words, relatively “small and well-blended.” Indeed, each of the four colleges had a campus population between 1,300 and 2,000 at the time of their outbreaks. All four are what you would call well-blended, where barriers to student interaction are low, with Bates being “about as well-blended as any modern-day community,” says Greer.

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Aug. 27 Letter to students outlines flu-prevention plans

Mathematician Meredith Greer found that the standard model for tracking the outbreak of disease didn’t work for the Bates H1N1 outbreak of 2009.

Karen Palin, a microbiologist and lecturer in biology at Bates, discusses the H1N1 outbreak at a public session at Bates in October 2009. With her is Associate Professor of Biology Lee Abrahamsen.

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Uh-oh! Three days after the first vaccine clinic, Bates sees a big spike in new flu cases.

Oct. 10 First clinic: 638 vaccinations

Oct. 4 First positive H1N1 swab

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Oct. 2 Parents & Family Weekend

Two vaccine clinics in October 2009, at which 999 of the college’s 1,714 students received vaccinations, acted to influence events outside Chase Hall.

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Oct. 15 Second clinic: 361 vaccinations

Oct. 21 Fall recess begins

The SIR model suggested that the flu outbreak would feature a slow, steady increase in cases. So the sharp spikes in reported cases during the outbreak were “in stark contrast” to the model’s predictions. “The SIR model did not match the reality we observed,” Greer says, “which suggests that different dynamics were at play.” The different dynamics at Bowdoin, Colorado, and the Air Force Academy were the “event-based anomalies” — the Independence Day cadet mixing event, Homecoming and Orientation. They “broke the bounds of the standard SIR model,” the authors write. At Bates, the vaccine clinics did not bring larger-than-usual groups together, yet apparently they still changed student mixing patterns. “This was the most intriguing part of the work, in my opinion,” Greer says. In other words, it is likely that on the days of the clinics, students took different routes to get from point A to point B, coming into contact not with more students, but different ones. Let’s say that healthy student Sarah altered her afternoon routine to include the Chase Hall vaccine clinic. In doing so, she saw a friend she hadn’t seen in weeks due to their very different schedules: Jessica, who was feeling poorly that day. As the two friends embrace, the virus jumps from Jessica to Sarah — and from one social circle to another.

Again, another spike, and again it’s three days after a vaccine clinic. What’s up?

Adding vaccine clinics apparently altered student mixing patterns, speeding H1N1’s spread around campus.

Nov. 19 ILI/flu reporting ends

That’s how the clinics may have “facilitat[ed] the spread of pH1N1 in unexpected and unknown ways,” the authors say. By the end of the outbreak, the number of H1N1 cases at Bates totaled 285, or 16.6 percent of students. All of this means that “the concept of ‘wellblended’ is more complicated than originally thought,” Greer says. Take Commons. At Bates, students dine under one roof, and a casual observer would say they’re as well-blended as stir-fry. And initially, Bates officials figured that Commons would be where H1N1 might take off. But that wasn’t the case, says Palin. Her students had studied Commons in another context, and what they found — and this won’t be a surprise to alumni readers — is that students tend to sit with the same friends each meal. “Most of their contact is with the same social group as they’d see in other contexts,” Palin says. So the researchers concluded that while a sneeze or cough might have spread the flu here and there in Commons, the site was not a big player in the spike of H1N1 cases. “This led us to the idea that changing social patterns [due to the clinics] could really be the culprit,” Greer says. Palin and Greer stress that their findings are

not prescriptive. In other words, they’re not trying to say “when vaccine clinics should, or should not, be offered.” For one, the timing of events in October 2009 was “very unusual,” the researchers say, in that vaccine was only available after the first cases were identified. And while it’s not ideal to vaccinate a population after an outbreak has begun, as happened at Bates, the college decided to conduct clinics in an attempt to stave off a larger outbreak that could have affected the larger community. (The H1N1 outbreak of 1918 greatly affected both the college, which saw four student deaths, and Maine, which saw 5,000.) “Decisions about whether and when to use vaccine, if it becomes available only after the outbreak begins, will remain difficult,” Palin and Greer write. Knowing now that even a vaccine clinic in Chase Hall can act as an outbreak-enhancing mixing event, the researchers suggest that future vaccination programs, if needed, could take place in each student residence, thereby “minimizing new blending patterns.” And if you want your own prescription for avoiding the flu or any bug? “Get vaccinated, wash your hands and cover your mouth if you cough or sneeze,” says Palin. n

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or veteran Commencement-goers, the sight of a senior striding to the podium to deliver an address was certainly marvelous and new. But in our wonderment, we wondered: Was this a new tradition, or a reintroduced one? The senior was Tommy Holmberg (left), a history major and Bates actordirector from Winnetka, Ill., who gave this year’s Senior Address in Merrill Gym, the ceremony held indoors due to bad weather. With a confident yet measured speaking style, Holmberg offered a love letter to the college that celebrated, among other well-loved aspects of the Bates experience, the passing of knowledge and lore from one class to the next, and from the college to the world. “You see, it’s a beautiful cycle we’ve got here,” he said. “The goodness of Bates is passed on out of admiration and gratitude for what was, and excitement and pride for what will be.” From now on, he said, “We will be intelligent, because of the ardor and devotion of the good people of this institution. We will be passionate, because Bates allowed us to follow our passions and realize our dreams. We will be fun, because we’ve had fun here. We will be loving, because the Bates community showed us so much love.” Holmberg was chosen by a studentfaculty committee from a field of three finalists nominated by classmates. In fact, Bates once had a strong tradition of student speakers (and no guest speaker) that ended around World War II and the transition from president Gray to Phillips. In 1926, for example, four seniors talked about Latin and the liberal arts; religion and the college student; bacteriafighting bacteriophages; and the greatness of Edgar Allen Poe. The format pleased Alumnus editor Harry Rowe, Class of 1912, who opined that a “distinguished speaker from away could not hold the interest of the audience as those students did.” The four students, he added, “had something to say, and they knew how to say it.” n

from top Mace bearer Sawyer Sylvester and Dean of the Faculty Pam Baker ’69 make final preparations. Honorands Vivian Pinn, Gary Hirshberg (speaker), Elaine Tuttle Hansen and William Cronon listen to the senior address. Jessica Washington ’13 of Memphis, Tenn., gets a mother’s touch from Sandra Bland. Politics professor Leslie Hill hugs a graduate after the ceremony.

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from top President Spencer listens during the ceremony. Faculty members laugh at a comment by Commencement speaker Gary Hirshberg. Professors Elizabeth Eames, Alex Dauge-Roth and Sanford Freedman await the graduates outside. Taryn O’Connell ’13 of Georgetown, Mass., and Brianna Hawkins ’13 of South Portland, Maine, do a celebratory jig in front of the Bobcat statue.

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When Bad Is

Good

This past year, visiting English scholar Matteo Pangallo ’03 chose to produce a so-called bad play — but for very good reasons pho to g raphy by mi k e br adley

Is The Swaggering Damsel a bad play?

Visiting Assistant Professor of English Matteo Pangallo ’03.

ritten by amateur dramatist Robert Chamberlain, whose previous writing consisted of joke books, The Swaggering Damsel sauntered into oblivion as soon as it was written around 1640. Yet in his year as a visiting professor of English, young scholar Matteo Pangallo ’03 chose to stage the play, a broad parody featuring cross-dressing and gender confusion, some of it unintended. He spoke with Bates Magazine about the value of teaching and directing an obscure play like The Swaggering Damsel, and why we should pay more attention to “bad” plays.

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Much of my teaching and research focuses on what might we might subjectively call “bad” plays, ones that have been neglected or overlooked because we tend to produce and teach the same plays over and over again. We do this because the familiar is reassuring and often seems easier to understand. Yet certain obscure plays — those written by actual playgoers who were not part of the theater industry — provide us with very useful pieces of evidence of what the Renaissance theater, in this case, was like. The Swaggering Damsel hasn’t been performed because even in its own time it was obscure. It was written by a non-professional playwright, someone who was not on the inside of the theater industry the way that Shakespeare had been. What’s the plot? Valentine Crambag convinces his fiancée, Sabina Testy, to sleep with him before they are married. After they have sex, Valentine hypocritically backs out of the marriage, fearing that Sabina may be loose and promiscuous. In the 1600s, a marriage agreement was a contract; you couldn’t just walk away from it. To get away, Valentine disguises himself as a woman. Sabina discovers the plot and disguises herself as a man.

Sarah Wainshal â&#x20AC;&#x2122;16 of Westport, Conn., played both Sabina Testy (upper left) and Sabina pretending to be a man (lower right). Gunnar Manchester â&#x20AC;&#x2122;15 of Rehoboth, Mass., played both Valentine Crambag (lower left) and Valentine disguised as a woman (upper right).

She pretends that “he” falls in love with “her” and forces “her” at sword-point to marry “him.” Of course, in the end everything is set right when Sabina reveals that “he” is actually a “she.” What attracted you to The Swaggering Damsel? Of the 400 or so surviving plays of this era, only a handful were written by amateurs who were playgoers. Of these, I think it is the best-crafted, with the best language. Of the four plays of the era that have a man who dresses as a woman, three of them are by professional dramatists. The fourth was Swaggering Damsel. What is the play’s historical context? This play came in 1640, about a generation after Shakespeare died, when London theaters were beginning to split along class lines. There were still popular outdoor amphitheaters, like the Globe, for anybody and everyone, but small and elite indoor theaters for the aristocracy and affluent were gaining power and cultural importance. These audiences often wanted plays with classic romantic conflicts — the blocking father preventing a couple from getting together, for example. Robert Chamberlain wrote joke books, and this play is a joke in five acts. It lampoons and mocks the character types and clichéd plot twists that these indoor theaters were churning out en masse at the time. For example, Valentine ends many of his speeches by announcing melodramatically that he is going to kill himself because he can’t have the woman of his dreams, but the other characters know he is ridiculous, and the audience knows it, too. If men played both male and female roles in the English Renaissance theater anyway, how would you have a male actor playing a man but pretending to be a woman? It would have been confusing for the audience. When a male dressing as a woman enters onto the stage, the audience doesn’t know whether to think it’s a male character dressing as a woman, or a real actor playing a woman. Professional playwrights almost always avoided that confusion. Ben Jonson tried it with Epicoene, and the audience hated it. Chamberlain was not a professional playwright, so either he didn’t know not to do that or he didn’t care, wanting to find out what would happen if he did try.

Why is it good for students in theater to do this play? It’s fresh and unusual. When you keep looking at the sun, you start to think that everything in the universe is like the sun. When you look to the edges, you start to see more. In this sense, Shakespeare — the sun, the center — was not typical of the theater at the time. When you do a production of Hamlet, and you get to Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy, you can look into the audience and see all the mouths flapping because everybody is saying it along with you. This puts pressure on actors to pursue novelty for the sake of novelty. Actors doing The Swaggering Damsel don’t have to try to be novel. The play is novel. What do we learn about early 17th-century theater from The Swaggering Damsel? If we look at other romantic comedies from 1625, we’ll get a sense of what the professional theater industry thought the audience wanted. When we look at what Chamberlain, an audience member, actually wrote, we get a sense of this is what somebody like me, who just likes to go to the theater for entertainment, thought about romantic comedy, how it worked and what theater was in general. We learn about the audience of that period and how they thought about these character types. Do you foresee a Chamberlain renaissance? Probably not! But beyond my own scholarly interest, I would like to see the canon of early modern drama expanded in terms of what we perform. Colleges and universities are the perfect arena for that because there are constraints on commercial and nonprofit theaters that a lot of college and university theaters don’t necessarily feel. They can experiment and take risks.

abou t m atte o pang allo ’ 03 Matteo Pangallo specializes in early modern drama and Shakespeare, theater history and dramatic literature, and the history of the book. His current book project, Playwriting Playgoers in the Early Modern Theater, looks at a group of dramatists in London who were not members of the theater industry, but instead working- and middle-class playgoers who translated their love of the stage into their own written plays. He earned a master’s degree at King’s College London in 2006 and doctorate at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst in 2012. n

Right, The big kiss at the end of The Swaggering Damsel is part of the playwright Robert Chamberlain’s mockery of romantic plots then in favor at London’s elite indoor theaters. 48

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Kate Detwiler ’95 plays a lead role in identifying a new species of African monkey — even as she’s ambivalent about species differentiation by h. jay bu r ns

, Kate Detwiler kicked off her honors thesis in biology with this conversation starter: “What is a species?” Seventeen years later, that question remains both central and curiously peripheral to Detwiler’s work as a biological anthropologist. Central because Detwiler, an assistant professor at Florida Atlantic University, played a key role last year in confirming a new species of African monkey: Cercopithecus lomamiensis, commonly known as a lesula. The species question is also peripheral because Detwiler is an expert in certain Cercopithecus hybrids (a hybrid being the living outcome when two distinct species reproduce). Rather than one species or another, says Detwiler, “I study the middle,” what she calls the fascinating and fluid boundary where “you get movement of genes.” She finds it more compelling “to look at where a genetic boundary is now, where it’s been and where it’s going. That’s just my little take on it. You could talk to another biologist who might say, ‘She’s crazy!’” Crazed or not, this species agnostic — my phrase, not hers — gets a good deal of credit for only the second determination of a new African monkey species in the last 28 years. The lesula’s path to species-hood began in 2007, when the animal was noticed by a research team led by prominent conservation biologists John and Terese Hart of the Lukuru Wildlife Research Foundation and the Peabody Museum at Yale. The Hart team was doing a biological inventory in an area known as TL2, where the rivers Tshuapa, Lomami and Lualaba flow — the “heart of the heart of the Congo,” in Detwiler’s words — when they saw what seemed to be a new monkey, what villagers called a lesula. Ironically, the animal wasn’t seen in the deepest rainforest but in a village, where it was leashed to a post as a child’s pet. Over the next few years, the field researchers headed into the rainforest to observe the lesula in the wild and gather the heaps of information needed to prove that it was distinct from the very similar Cercopithecus hamlyni, or owl-faced monkey. Detwiler entered the picture after John Hart sent an inquiry to the New York University Molecular Anthropology Laboratory, where she was completing a doctorate, asking for help with genetic testing.

Though Hart and Detwiler didn’t know each other personally at that point, the two share a strikingly similar liberal arts lineage, and Detwiler had been well-aware of Hart’s reputation for many years. Both had emerged from liberal arts colleges, John from Carleton College (and Terese Hart, too). Both Detwiler and John Hart had won postgraduate Watson Fellowships for international travel, Hart’s in 1972–73 to document the ecology of the Mbuti pygmies of Africa, and Detwiler to continue her thesis work on Cercopithecus hybrids in East Africa. And neither had diverged from what had inspired them during their Watson years. As a Watson Fellow, Detwiler spent much of her year in Tanzania, at a site where she could gaze westward, across Lake Tanganyika, toward the Congo rainforest. “I always remember saying that if I could get over there someday, there are such great things to be discovered. And that’s where John Hart went. “We are two Watson alumni still pursuing our dreams.” So when she heard that it was the John Hart asking for testing help, “I put everything else on hold,” she says. As the research moved toward publication, Hart named Detwiler the corresponding author for the collaborative article, asking her to take the lead in squiring the article through the publication process.

The lesula’s path to species-hood began in 2007, when the animal was noticed by a research team led by prominent conservation biologists John and Terese Hart. Detwiler and her fellow researchers were able to prove that Cercopithecus lomamiensis is genetically distinct from Cercopithecus hamlyni, the owl-faced monkey, seen here.

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If respect flows from Detwiler to John Hart, it also flows back to her. “Kate is one of the most inspired and creative collaborators we have worked with on our Congo projects,” Hart says. What great fortune, he adds, that the “widening ripples from those first encounters and experience with Africa, during our Watson years, have joined and been renewed in this collaboration.” Exactly what constitutes a new species has never been straightforward. This challenge is known as “the species problem,” and even Charles Darwin was equivocal about it, writing in The Origin of Species that “he was struck how entirely vague and arbitrary is the distinction between species and varieties.” Back when Detwiler was at Bates, the biological definition of species was, in very general terms, when “members of a group mate with members of that group” and produce fertile offspring. Hence the mule, the sterile offspring of horse and donkey, isn’t its own species. These days, says Detwiler, determining a new species is both art and, well, science, in that researchers consider and weigh a wide range of characteristics.

“It was really late at night, and I was looking at the screen thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, we’ve got the signal that we need from the genetics.’” Proving that the lesula was its own species presented special challenges. Known as guenons, the genus Cercopithecus features more than two dozen species that have a number of overlapping characteristics, such as similar diets, locomotion and arboreal living. In the end, Detwiler and her team would consider everything from the lesula’s genetics and behavior to the color of its butt (bright blue, by the way). “I said that we had to pick our criteria and move forward,” she recalls, “and argue that based on what we know today, we had what most biologists would call a new species.” Detwiler handled the genetic extractions and sequencing. She soon realized that at the genetic level, “we had something distinct” from the owlfaced monkey.

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Danny, a bushmeat buyer, with baby lesulas in Obenge. The researchers’ initial sightings of lesula were babies whose mothers had been killed for the bushmeat trade.

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Christina Bergey Collaborators Kate Detwiler and John Hart, both alumni of the prestigious Watson Fellowship program, travel down the Lomami River during conservation work last summer in the Congo Basin.

“It was really late at night, and I was looking at the screen thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, we’ve got the signal that we need from the genetics.’ I felt really strong about it — and that’s from someone who doesn’t really care about species differentiation.” She even allowed herself a shoutout in the lab. “We’ve got a new species!” Additional evidence came from researchers’ assessments of the monkey’s form, vocal calls and appearance. The owl-faced monkey is “darker, more somber and less vividly marked than the lesula,” which has a “grizzled blond mane,” paler facial skin and larger cranial orbits. “Our results,” Detwiler and her fellow researcher wrote, “unambiguously identify the new primate as a distinct species, Cercopithecus lomamiensis.” Their article, “Lesula: A New Species of Cercopithecus Monkey Endemic to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Implications for Conservation of Congo’s Central Basin,” appeared in the openaccess journal PLOS One in September 2012. While gratified by the media attention (much of it noting the lesula’s distinctive blue behind, a trait it does share with the owl-faced monkey), Detwiler hopes the story will energize efforts to

protect the lesula and inspire conservation efforts in the rainforest. “There are still places in the world that have not been explored, where if we can just get in there and get support, we can make new discoveries,” she says. Yet the reality of the strife-torn Congo makes it a difficult place to stay positive. “The sad thing is, even having discovered this species, it’s very challenging to rally support for conservation,” whether internationally or from the Congolese government. “I hope we can, but the Congo is such a difficult place. “You have to keeping holding on to that hope,” she says. And when Detwiler talks about hope, it comes across as a reasoned sense of the word. “You do what you do because you know why you are doing it, and you are at peace with that.” n

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1937 class secretary Jane Ault Lindholm Thornton Hall 220 56 Baribeau Dr. Brunswick ME 04011

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

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1942 Reunion 2017, June 9-11 class secretary Barbara McGee Chasse bchasse6@gmail.com class president  Rose Worobel  rworobel@cox.net Martha Blaisdell Mabee, healed from a broken pelvis,

says her darling Christine takes wonderful care of her....Norm ’43 and Priscilla Simpson Boyan are celebrating 70 years of marriage. He is still upright, although scoliosis continues its annoying effects. Pril, recovering from a broken leg, looked forward to driving again....Din Day Hayden enjoys living in the Scandinavian Living Center in West Newton, Mass., less than a mile from her house of 66 happy years....Paul Farris spends each week at a church program providing food for the needy. He keeps up with music and walking....Elaine Humphrey Meader and Raymond are busy with bridge, puzzles, crafts and chapel....Teddy Rizoulis Howard exercises, plays cards and walks a lot....Betty Robinson Harvey, who has Alzheimer’s, and Cecil celebrated 70 years of marriage, son George reports....Ruth Ulrich Coffin feels fortunate to be in her house, with a wonderful housemaid and her family checking on her....Jane Woodbury Quimby often attends family events. She lives at the Sugar Hill retirement community in Wolfeboro, N.H., which she helped plan....After two years of illness, Rose Worobel functions quite well. She’s in a convalescent/older people’s home where she worked summers while going to Bates.

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Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Virginia Stockman Fisher  diginny@aol.com class president Dick Keach  richardkeach@att.net

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

Sally Adkins Macfarlane Wilbur enjoyed visiting Vincent McKusick ’44 and Nancy in Cape Elizabeth....Scottie Miller Rowell and Waldo love their continuing care retirement community in St. Petersburg, Fla....Jay Packard Stewart is involved in blood drives, writes church letters to shut-ins and twice-a-year letters about the Bates trustee meetings she attends as a trustee emerita. She stayed in Ocean Park, Maine, with Art Bradbury ’49 and Charlotte and visited there with Jerry Walther Keach.... Helen Pratt Clarkson divides her time between Maine and Arizona and sees lots of the U.S. on trips between the two....Don and Penny Gumpright Richter are pretty much confined to their home but manage with a wonderful helper....Alden and Sylvia Gray Sears ’45 are in a book group in Bethlehem, Pa., and Sylvia tutors international students in English. They summer in New Hampshire where they see Merol Meyer Spooner....Dot Strout Cole is active in her Florida church group. She adds, “Bad knee! Bad back! No more golf! Darn!”... Sadly, Muriel Ulrich Weeks lost her 61-year-old son to a brain tumor. She keeps in touch with Suzanne Davidson Newing and Barbara Varney Randall....After 47 years of working summers at Camp Keewaydin in Vermont, Mary Van Wyck Patch and her husband are fully retired. They summer in Pittsford, Vt., but call Florida home for eight months.... Barbara Varney Randall teaches a Senior College course, takes weeklong vacations from Lewiston-Auburn and serves on a United Way committee.

1947 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Jean Labagh Kiskaddon jean.kiskaddon@gmail.com class president Vesta Starrett Smith vestasmith@charter.net Robert Tolbert wants her classmates to know why his wife, Jane Blossom Tolbert, has “dropped out of the picture.” She is progressing through the stages of Alzheimer’s and he is sole caregiver. However, Bob tells us of their wonderful life together and their exciting retirement.... Bob Harrington is concerned with the preservation of the

planet. He has taught “Ecology in Outdoor Education” at several summer sessions of the Univ. of Calgary, and his latest book is Testimony for Earth.... Jean Labagh Kiskaddon spent “turkey day” in Turkey. She visited Istanbul, Izmir and surroundings. She avoided winter in New York by spending January and February in Puerto Rico....Ralph and Ruth Moulton Ragan spent four weeks and had a family reunion at their cottage on Chebeague Island.... Jinx Prince Washburn has not slowed down. She attends daily exercise classes, sings in a choir, is finance officer of her church, knits and crochets, participates in Bible study, is secretary/treasurer of her community’s civic association and is a member of Florida Romance Writers....Vesta Starrett Smith made a spring trip to Athens and sailed along the Dalmatian coast....Hurricane Sandy did not harm Pauline Tilton Rock on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, but it troubled those who “built their homes on the sands,” she said.

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

1949 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Elaine Porter Haggstrom ephag@aol.com class co-presidents Art Bradbury chartbury@comcast.net Nelson “Bud” Horne nelsonhorne86@msn.com

Because the color orange is in style this year, says Peggy Stewart Jones ’49, “I bought a pair of orange pants!” Steve Feinberg writes, “The machine is getting older but suffers little from time. After retirement 35 years ago, went to work for IESC, a volunteer organization, in management, employed cost-free to organizations in development at ‘no fee,’ overseas in developing nations. Moved to Boston 25 years ago and continued with IESC. Then volunteered for the domestic organization here in Boston assisting local nonprofits in

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charitable and educational areas (Boston School Department). Jackie and I have the privilege and pleasure of world travel, so we are young in spirit and outlook.”...Jeanne Gillespie Ferrell writes, “No more traveling for me! I have bought a summer cottage on the Cape and will spend from June to October a half-mile from the beach. If any classmates are in the vicinity, living or vacationing, I hope they will get in touch.”...Bud Horne and Betty are still at the Chautauqua Institution in far western New York. “Eight of our offspring including three Bates grads are scattered from Washington state to Alabama and North Carolina. Betty and I celebrated our 60th anniversary with a Christmas gathering since many were coming then. All arrived except Sandy in Texas, who joined some of the festivities via Skype. I still run the 2.7mile race around the grounds.”... Sue McBride Schulze said that even after 60-odd years she looks forward to hearing news from classmates. She also looked forward to the graduation of granddaughter Elizabeth ’13 this May. “My daughter Susan ’79 will also be there as a trustee. So there will be three generations of Schulzes represented at this Commencement. Life in Sarasota, Fla., is still very pleasant. There are so many activities available — theater, ballet, opera and the Ringling Museum where I am still a docent. Of course the great weather helps too.”... Bobbie Muir Moore writes from Lawrenceville, Ga., that she is still kicking and now has five great-grandchildren, all in the area. “Have gone on many trips with my church group and in the last few years we have covered New England and Cape Cod. My craft hobby is stained glass, and I have done many projects over the last 30 years.”...Peggy Stewart Jones tells it like it is: “Like everyone else I’m 86! And in very good health. Dana ’51 is also. The color orange is in this year and I bought a pair of orange pants! We still go to New Hampshire to see two of our children and great-grandkids. Son Peter owns a restaurant, Frank Jones Restaurant and Pub in Barrington, N.H. Don is in Laconia, and Karen and family in Texas. We love being in Melbourne, Fla., away from the cold.”

1950 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class secretary Lois Keniston Penney hulopenney@sbcglobal.net class president Wes Bonney wbonney@maine.rr.com Wes Baker welcomed another great-grandchild....Wes Bonney reports Elaine’s pacemaker

“made a new woman of her. When I observed her burst of energy, I asked my doctor if he would let me have one, but he said, ‘No.’”...Avon Cheel Oakes, living near two sons in Florida, is making a new life by teaching art and playing hand bells at a church....Frankie Curry Kerr and George celebrated their 60th anniversary. She’s in charge of their retirement community’s “Getting to Know You” programs....Phyllis Day Danforth has mobility problems but still makes meals and does dishes. She talks daily with sister Carolyn Day Chase ’53....Bob and Gladys Bovino Dunn ’51 enjoyed visits from Grace Ulrich Harris ’51, Lois Keniston Penny and Hugh, and Jean McLeod Dill ’51 and Bill ’51....Marjorie Dwelley Reid says Bob keeps busy with upkeep on their old house, and she quilts....Barbara Galloupe Gagnon is pleased that daughter Laura ’88 is now associate dean of admission at Bates. Granddaughter Phoebe ’14 is at Bates....David Green plays duplicate bridge (pretty good) and golfs (not so good).... Ozzie Hammond volunteers at Maine Medical Center.... Thelma Hardy Pasquali and Frank had a visit from Bud ’48 and Ella Loud Wilmot....Ginny Hastings Gamble is active in Senior College....Joan Hutton Swann now lives in Bar Harbor, close to son Scott....Lois Keniston Penney and Hugh have many family get-togethers. He received a Connecticut Wisdom Award for leadership into his “sunset years.”...Lyla Nichols Barclay and her husband are active in a seniors academy for lifelong learning....Carol Patrell Lamothe and Richard changed their sports activity from downhill skiing to stationary biking....Jeanne Pieroway Piccirillo is grateful for her master’s degree in nursing as she cares for husband Tony, a physician in the late stage of Alzheimer’s. One granddaughter is at Bates.... Stanton Smith and Betty live a quiet life in York and at their Sebago Lake cottage....Dick Sterne, coping with the loss of his wife Barbara, is pleased that daughter Hillary lives nearby.... Dorothy Stetson Conlon published her second and third books, Born with Wings: Experiencing Life in Exotic Lands, and Care, Share, Dare: The World Through a Volunteer’s Eyes (CreateSpace)....Orwell Tousley still tries to do a little quilting.... David Turell says his third book, The Atheist Delusion; Science IS Finding God (Tate Publishing), is a definitive answer to Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion.... Bob Wade and Shirley divide their time between Maine and Florida....Rae Walcott Blackmon and Lee ’51 enjoy maintaining their Connecticut home as they ponder their next move.

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 and Lu Anderson were relieved when their Marine Corps grandson returned home from Afghanistan. They also welcomed their first two great-grandsons....Joe Andrew audited a course in poetry and says he might write a class poem....Gladys Bovino Dunn and Bob ’50 center their lives around home. His Parkinson’s keeps him from standing and walking without help. Bill and Jean McLeod Dill visited.... Barbara Buote Adams got a Hoveround electric wheelchair for her mobility problems....Art Darken says he is in a new stage in life, attending grandchildren’s weddings....Glen Collins says he joined the “Old Man’s Prostate Club” but 44 radiation treatments have apparently solved the problem....Sad news from Hal Cornforth. He lost Phyllis, his wife of 61 years, last fall.... Bill and Jean McLeod Dill are delighted with their move to Lasell Village in Auburndale, Mass. He led a current events seminar and coordinated two discussion groups. She enjoys classes in literature and art....Lefty and Ruth Parr Faulkner ’52 now live at Oceanview, a retirement community in Falmouth, Maine.... Jan Hayes Sterling enjoys the companionship of a widower she has known for years....Jean Johnson Bird and Phil play bridge, volunteer at the Colby Museum and manage their apartments....Dana Jones says it’s golf, travel, chores and doctors for him and Peggy Stewart Jones ’49....Nancy Jones Lowe and Hank had some health bumps, but they’re now in good shape and exercising to stay that way. Grandson Eric Auner ’08 works in Washington....Jim and Lu Mainland Kelly ’52 are pleased with their new home in a retirement community in Fort Worth, Texas....Betty Kinney Faella and Tony built a new cottage on Larkin’s Pond in Kingston, R.I....Karl Koss exercises daily, recovering from an old staph infection....Joan McCurdy Elton and Dick celebrated their 60th anniversary. She is active in church, preschool, knitting guild and home-delivered meals....Mickey McKee Purkis writes that she still gets up every morning....Peg Moulton McFadden and Bob downsized to an apartment. They had a lovely visit with Walt and Marty Rayder Ulmer....Audrey Norris is busy with church and volunteering at the Ken-

nedy Center for the Performing Arts....Jane Osborne Thurber finished her autobiography, The Scarlet Thread: A Story of Redemption and Grace....Edie Pennucci Mead reports Dave totally retired. She plays tennis several times a week and still skis....Ralph and Mary Louise Perry advocate for the Natural Resources Council of Maine and travel widely....Norma Reese Jones renewed her driver’s license for another four years.... Rolvin Risska spends summers in Harpswell, Maine, and winters in Florida....Don Russell attended the wedding of granddaughter Kimberly Russell ’04....Joan Seear went to Iran and signed up for a trip to Patagonia.... Arnold “Ush” Smoller is still and out and about in New York....Dick Westphal and Joan now have an apartment near his younger son’s home by the Univ. of Michigan campus....Ruth Whittier Greim says all is well with her family....Rob and Jane Seaman Wilson say life is fun in their Santa Fe, N.M., continuing care retirement community.... Dot Webb Quimby still collects and writes the alumni news for the Unity College magazine. “I feel like their ‘Harry Rowe’— to answer questions about the ‘olden’ days.”

1952 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Florence Dixon Prince fdprince2000@yahoo.com class president John Myers johnmyers52@comcast.net

1953 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Ronald Clayton rondot@comcast.net class president Virginia LaFauci Toner vatoner207@gmail.com

1954 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Jonas Klein joklein@maine.rr.com class president Marion Shatts Whitaker petmarwhitaker@gmail.com The class mourns the loss of good friends Edie White Mason, Frank Hine and Irv Knight. Edie and Frank’s obituaries are in this issue; Irv’s will be in the next issue....At some of Maine’s finest midcoast eateries, Dwight Harvie and Jonas Klein meet regularly for lunch and to swap tales of both recent and longpast times, some oft-repeated! Jonas, nattily attired in garnet and green, and Lois cheered

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on both granddaughter Amy Couture (Dartmouth ’13) and the Bates women in a club ice hockey match. They enjoyed sitting and chatting with Bates President Clayton Spencer, an ardent Bates supporter....Marion Shatts Whitaker and Pete ’53 looked forward to attending their grandson’s participation as a finalist in the “Opera Idol” competition at Lincoln Center....Lynn Willsey was an enthusiastic participant in Clayton’s inauguration festivities. Ever the faithful Bobcat fan, Lynn enjoys attending Bates events with fellow alums at both home and away games.

1955 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 acting class secretary Mert Ricker mertr33@gmail.com class president Beverly Hayne Willsey stonepost@cox.net Adrienne Adams Wright and Dave ’54 enjoy their grandchildren. They spend summers in Rhode Island....Ernie and Petie Peters Ern enjoy summers in Pemaquid, Maine....Marni Geilear-Field feels blessed to live near Bates, “a jewel in the landscape, not merely for its architectural features but for what Bates contributes to the surrounding community in the realm of the arts.”...Carolyn Gove Bennett is trying to adapt after losing Paul, her husband of 56 years, on July 16, 2012.... Sprookie Ham Dalrymple and Lee follow Michigan State sports and volunteer at the Michigan Capitol and Salvation Army.... Bev Hayne Willsey and Lynn ’54 sing in the choir, play bridge and keep up with grandkids’ activities. They try to see Ann Brousseau and Reid Pepin when they are in Vermont.... Caroline Keiger continues “to be involved: library, hospital, foundation, and on and on. The body is holding up — no problems this past year. Had a wonderful river cruise in September: Moscow to St. Petersburg, the latter a must-see.”... Jim Leamon enjoys frequent contact with Bates roommates Reid Pepin and Ed Holmes.... Warner Lord is active with the Museums of Old York, Maine, and the Gundalow Company. Carol still makes regular trips to Connecticut for her consulting job....Paul MacAvoy and a former student of his compiled all the world’s serious studies of industrial deregulation and chose 1,250 pages to be published by Edward Elgar Publishing in London....Julius Mueller practices ophthalmology on Mondays in Modesto, Calif., plays tennis and hikes....Sue Ordway Pfaltz enjoys rural living in central Virginia and devoting time to environmental groups....Nancy

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Ann Ramsdell Chandler and Bruce ’53 are active in the UU church, Democratic Party and Kennebunk newcomers group.... Charlie Ridley is active in Kiwanis Club and tree planting for a local group....Roger TannerThies published Physiology — An Illustrated Review, the culmination of his career as a teacher of health-professional students....Mert Ricker takes brisk mile walks on the hiking trail bordering his property.

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

1957 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Barbara Prince Upton pepiu@earthlink.net class president Paul Steinberg imasearch@aol.com Agnes Beverage Dailey and Scott were pleased that Smithsonian Magazine rated Brunswick No. 13 in an article on the 20 best small towns in America. “We certainly support that choice! We share a boundary with another ‘prestigious college’ and enjoy many events at Bowdoin in addition to all the other amenities that make Brunswick a great town.” They had visits from daughter Kate, who with husband Jan owns a small hotel in Den Haag, the Netherlands; and son Paul, who with wife Maria lives in Madrid, Spain. They often see son Gerard, a Merchant Marine officer, who lives in Massachusetts with wife Mary and their two grandchildren, Joseph and Danielle. Lt. Col. John Dailey and wife Jane live in Singapore where he is stationed at the American embassy. “Two months in Scottsdale, Ariz., took the edge off winter. John planned for leave after a conference in D.C., and he and Jane visited us in Scottsville. We don’t see them often, so it was a great get-together for all of us.”...Elaine Johnson Tammi and daughter Karin make many appearances to promote their book, Scallops: A New England Coastal Cookbook. At their cooking demonstration at Stonewall Kitchen in York, Maine, the attendees included Judy Root Wilcox and Pepi Prince Upton....Judy Kent Patkin, who received the Benjamin E. Mays Medal for her lifetime commitment to helping Jews in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia,

traveled to Ukraine, Belarus and, for the first time, Lithuania, visiting with many of the clients in the Jewish communities that her group works with. Daughter Karen Rosner accompanied her. Judy enjoys seeing classmates at the monthly lunches in Dedham, Mass....Semi-retired, Dick Rowe continues to go in to the office in D.C. when not traveling with Sylvia or visiting grandchildren in New Jersey and Virginia. Sylvia continues her consulting business dealing with food safety and childhood obesity issues....Bill Ryall and Edie took a cruise to St. Petersburg and the Baltic states.

1958 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Marilyn Miller Gildea marilyn@gildea.com class president John Lovejoy lovejoy@crocker.com

FDA virology researcher Owen Wood ’58 has retired. “Fifty years in the cage with microbial tigers is probably enough, and I count myself lucky to be free of any diseases.” Cook Anderson’s golf peregrinations took him to Barbados. Marjorie Koppen Anderson volunteers with assisted-living trips at their continuing care retirement community....Lori Beer and Lyn enjoy Vienna, Va.... Sadly, Pat Carmichael Waugh lost Charlie, her husband of 51 years. She’s back in Mattapoisett, Mass., in her old family home. Pat keeps in touch with Muriel Wolloff Brooks, who also lost her husband recently, and Sally Morris Thwing....Kay Dill Taylor says Gene ’56 gets excited (relatively) when there is a stock market uptick while she’s happy with horse and dog care, and good friends to share games, books and conversation....Carol Gibson Smith has extra rooms and welcomes company in Plymouth, Mass....Bill Huckabee takes part in a Memory Strategies course at Ohio State Univ. Coe Jenkins Huckabee, whose early catch on a mammogram resulted in surgery, is eating a more vegetarian diet based on her cancer survivors class.... Mary Hudson Roby was diagnosed with an atypical form of Parkinson’s and is learning to live with her disability....Dottie Hutch enjoys her ministry in East Millinocket, Maine.... Elaine Jeffries Goddard, who

lost her husband David, is back in Wilton, N.H., living with son Bill and wife Marilyn. She enjoys working at the Garden Center with daughter Abby.... Sadly, Cindy Johnson Watson lost Don after 53 years of marriage. She volunteers at the local food pantry and library.... Kay Johnson Howells made her annual drive to Kalispell, Mont., and hiked in the Swan Range....Art Karszes does woodwork and goes to the gym. Gail Baumann Karszes swims laps or treads water and talks every morning....Joan Kennard Michel and Conny enjoy Bates lunches in Dedham, Mass., when his Alzheimer’s permits.... Ronnie Kolesnikoff Abraham is still involved with a grant from Harvard and Memorial Sloan-Kettering on investigation of moles and relationship to melanoma in school kids.... Peter and Jane Anderson Post talk to Bill and Marilyn MacKinnon fairly regularly.... Longtime Rotarian activist Ann Shultz Keim went to India to give polio vaccine to babies in Rotary’s push to end polio in the world....Shel Sullaway enjoys working with students and their patients two days a week as a clinical professor at Tufts Dental School. “This is great for my ego when the students ask my opinion.”...Jo Trogler Reynolds was appointed to the town conservation commission in Tinmouth, Vt. She joined Barbara Madsen DeHart on a trip to the Arctic....Enjoying the Florida lifestyle, Tom Vail is busy on the golf course, and Carole Carbone Vail stays busy with gym, dog and friends.... Owen Wood retired from the FDA and science. “Fifty years in the cage with microbial tigers is probably enough and I count myself lucky to be free of any diseases.”...Bruce Young and Hattie remain healthy considering her MS and his aortic stenosis. They had an enjoyable lunch with Pete Alling.

1959 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 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 Calvin Wilson ccoolidgewilson@comcast.net Anita Kastner Hotchkiss received the William A. Dreier Award for Excellence in Product Liability Law from the New Jersey State Bar Assn. The award is given to an attorney noted for advancing the case of litigants in complex products liability cases. Anita is a partner at Goldberg Segalla in Princeton.

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Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class secretary Louise Hjelm Davidson l.davidson@sbcglobal.net class president Dean Skelley dean_skelley@alumni.bates.edu Fred Turner and Ken Russell are again arranging the minireunion at Homecoming, Nov. 1–2....Rae Adams Burke got two new hips after 20 years of teaching swimming and lifeguarding. Jim is in a personal care home.... Bob and Jane Braman Allen enjoy life in Barnstable, Mass., and Venice, Fla., where they hosted Laurie Trudel Raccagni and Tore ’55. In Tennessee they had a nice visit with Dave Clarkson and Bruce Jensen.... Mike Alpren works full time as a licensed counseling professional and couples’ marital psychotherapist....Joe Corn published two books concerning the history of technology: User Unfriendly: Consumer Struggles with Personal Technologies, from Clocks and Sewing Machines to Cars and Computers, and an anthology he edited, Into the Blue: American Writing on Aviation and Spaceflight. He and Wanda Jones Corn ’62 often travel as faculty on Stanford alumni trips....Jane Costello Wellehan is happy to have daughter Mary and granddaughter Lila back in Portland, Maine....Mary-Ellen Crook Gartner and Peter ’59 cruised the Mediterranean, seeing all the wonders hinted at in Cultch. They enjoyed skiing at Sunday River with Jack and Carol Heldman Flynn ’59....Dave Easton and Susan enjoy retirement in South Carolina’s Low Country....Jerry Feitelberg and his companion, Ila Loer, traveled to Spain, Brazil and elsewhere.... Jerry Feld looks forward to attending Homecoming again, an event that becomes more special as the years pass....John Flemings and Carolyn received the Ambassador Award for visiting Aruba for 25 consecutive years....Sandy Folcik Levine is active in the Mansfield (Mass.) Rotary Club. She sees roommate Patty Parker Brown on trips to New York....Bruce Fox teaches two days a week at Quinnipiac Univ., and Eleanor works in the Follett Bookstore....Jim Gallons’ widow, Nancy, sends this open letter to our class: “Our family wishes to thank the Bates Class of 1960 for all the love, prayers and condolences that have come our way since the death of my husband, Jim Gallons. Our trips back to Bates for class and football reunions were like visiting family. Jim loved Bates and treasured his many genuine friendships. All of his Bates memorabilia, including his freshman beanie, original football playbook and photos,

will be with us always, just as Jim will be. Thank you again, dear friends. Most sincerely, Nancy Gallons.”...Dave Graham lost his wife, Jean, in 2011. He’s busy as chair of the Skaneateles (N.Y.) zoning board of appeals.... Naomi Gregoire Nelson and Weldon, who love the outdoors, plan a trip to Hawaii....Jim Hall, still gainfully employed on the Santa Clara Univ. faculty, renewed connection with JB roommate Dick Krause and with Vinnie DiGangi....Nan Harrington Walsh, who returned to skiing after two hip replacements, is very active in church....Ray Hendess and Rory enjoyed having their historic house in Petaluma, Calif., on a Heritage Homes Tour....Louise Hjelm Davidson, active in the Presbyterian Church (USA), was elected to the Advocacy Committee for Women’s Concerns.... Still teaching at Notre Dame College, Stephen Hotchkiss often sees roommate Pete Bertocci and Dave ’62 and Carol Huntington Boone ’63.... Jackie Hughes Cote and Jules love their new condo in Essex, Vt. In Florida they caught up with Lin Swanson Bradley.... Dick Krause married Jan on June 11, 2011. He counsels small businesses with SCORE....Elvia Magnuson Rodick and John got together with John and Joy Anderson Downs and Nancy Anderson Osterling. For their 50th anniversary, they were joined by John ’59 and Carol Swanson Hooper. Elvia also exchanged cards with Bobbi Randall Diussa....Bill Mees found retirement boring, so he teaches English and French part time at Groton (Mass.) School.... David Nelson reports he lives in genteel poverty and is halfway through his 12-year reading plan in Western civilization (Cultch)....Jon Prothero lost his wife in 2011. He’s finding life more enjoyable after a rough year, traveling and meeting new friends....Gail Richards Dow treasures living so close to Bates and swims in its pool where she sees Ruth and Chick Leahey ’52....Recovered from sciatica, Judie Roberts Williams traveled widely to make up for lost time. She and Bob ’57 live in Jupiter, Fla., and Braintree, Mass....Ken Russell watched his house burn down to the ground last year and lost everything. “I got out just in time.”...Carolyn Sheehan Smith bought a retirement home at the Highlands in Topsham, Maine, but continues to enjoy spring, summer and fall in East Dixfield....Pete Skelley represented Ohio State Univ. at President Spencer’s inauguration. He continues as lab director of the Center for Disease Detection in San Antonio.... Nancy Stewart Kipperman and Dick are happy that all their children and grandchildren live

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in New Hampshire like them.... Carol Swanson Hooper and John ’59 host family activities at their Adirondack camp.... Richard and Barbara Hoehling Vinal are occupied with church and community volunteer work....Tom Vohr and Meg, a physician, live in Meredith, N.H., where he keeps the home fires burning....Tabby Wall Burak is an active Master Gardener with the UNH Cooperative Extension and was recognized for the most volunteer hours at the Education Center for the last 10 years.... Alan Wayne and Gail enjoy their new home in La Quinta, Calif....Jim Wylie and Karen celebrated their 50th anniversary. His startup, BioDirection, expects to launch first point-ofcare product for identification of concussion by year-end.

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 Carl and Mary Morton Cowan enjoyed a two-week tour of British Columbia. They also visited, with Jerry and Mary Goodall, the camp of Jerry and Joan Metzger Badger in the Belgrade Lakes....Many activities keep Jerry and Gretchen Shorter Davis busy, but they especially enjoy the Bates Book Club in the Portland area. They are also busy in their new community of Highland Green in Topsham....Celebrating 50 years of marriage, Paul and Freda Shepherd Maier took a group of 24 on a Boston to Bermuda cruise to celebrate. Their four children and families hosted a wonderful celebration after their return. They enjoy summer entertaining at their camp near home where visitors include Joel ’62 and Rachel Young Smith and Marcia Putnam O’Shea and Skip....Dick Van Bree was voted president of the amateur radio club at his four-season community in Beaumont, Calif. He also gave a talk to the Emergency Preparedness Committee on the use of various communication devices in cases of emergency. He and Gisela travel whenever they get the chance....Deb and Dick Watkins proudly helped celebrate son John’s becoming commander of Navy operations in San Antonio. They had a nice visit from Dick and Abby Mortensen....Rachel Young Smith and Joel ’62 spent two months in New Zealand, then celebrated their 50th anniversary with family and friends in New Hampshire.

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1962 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Cynthia Kalber Nordstrom cknordstrom@verizon.net class president Al Squitieri asqurol@yahoo.com

A doctor treating her very unusual health troubles told Cindy Kalber Nordstrom ’62 that “you’re famous, you know. No, let me rephrase that — you’re not famous, but your respiratory system is!” Having caught Bates fever with Reunion, Sara Ault Fasciano returned for Homecoming Weekend, the naming ceremony for the Peter J. Gomes ’65 Chapel and President Spencer’s inauguration....Johanna Babiarz Conant moved to her childhood home in Windsor Locks, Conn. To celebrate, she met Paul and Carol Long Steele ’63 “for a trip to the Yale Art Gallery to view many objects older than us.”...Ann Bowman Scholl still works two part-time jobs....Sandy Boynton Smith, who teaches ESL at MIT, is joining daughter Laura and her two grandsons in Florence, Italy, this August while Laura teaches in a semester abroad program.... Jan Carroll Moreshead enjoyed family trips to Idaho, Virginia and Washington....Tony Cherot enjoys playing tennis but needed to build the cartilage in his left knee, originally injured flipping a toboggan down Mount David long ago....Newly retired teacher Joan Duarte Ohrn takes classes, combs beaches on Cape Cod and travels....Hannelore Flessa Jarausch, who directs the Univ. of North Carolina’s French Language Program, published the sixth edition of her intermediate French textbook, Sur le vif....Sharon Fowler Kenrick, enjoying Florida this past winter, hoped to see Carroll Goodlatte Zeuli....Sef Franklin taught a class at USM’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute on four novels about the Iraq war. “I feel as if the least we owe our troops is the effort to understand what we have asked of them.”... Nancy Goldthwaite Leech, still fighting Lyme disease, retires this summer....Rae Harper Garcelon is hosting her daughter and two grandchildren this August....Swift Hathaway is a happy renter closer to the beach, “moving closer to my lifelong goal of putting

everything I own in my car.”... Ken Holden and Jane lead uncomplicated lives revolving around family, church and high school sports....Cindy Kalber Nordstrom reports her health problems have given several doctors the opportunity to see real-life situations they had only read about in textbooks. “A doctor said to me, ‘You’re famous, you know. No, let me rephrase that — you’re not famous, but your respiratory system is!’ My good news is that I am improving, very slowly, but surely.” Cindy enjoyed get-togethers with Coralie Shaw, Sue Ramer Lawler, Bernie Schulte Bowdoin and Joan Duarte Ohrn....Karl Ketchum and Lorraine are busy helping family members....Dave Kramer, pleased that Bates soccer and baseball coaches reach out to alumni who played in those programs, says it’s been great to follow the Bobcats.... Emily Leadbetter Althausen and Alex looked forward to a walk across the narrow part of the British Isles....Kathy Marshall Stricker has been busy with family trips....Sally Marshall Corngold and Carol Smith visited Sally Larson Carignan in Brunswick, then saw Sylvia Woodaman Pollock ’63 and Lee ’64 in New Hampshire....Cindy Merritt Fischer draws with an art class and sings with the Sheepscot Valley Chorus....Lorrie Otto Gloede and Horst are busy with year-round activities....Pete Schuyler and Sonja visit states they haven’t previously explored....Joy Scott Meyer and Allan find great satisfaction volunteering at both of their churches....Avid golfer Al Squitieri and Harriet travel widely....Paul Steele joined the mayor of Hartford and U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal at a ceremony renaming a street for his late father Bob Steele, a longtime Hartford radio broadcaster....Jim Swartchild and Peggy enjoyed part of the winter in Santa Barbara, Calif.... Ed Wilson and Jean take alumni courses taught by Northwestern professors and travel widely.... Bob Witt is now chancellor of The University of Alabama System....Allan Wulff and Ginger visit friends from New England to Taiwan....Linda Zeilstra Kellom and John enjoy retired life on Hilton Head, S.C.

1963 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Natalie Shober Moir nataliemoir@netflash.net class president Bill Holt wholt@maine.rr.com Peter Bagley and Elaine have done lots of U.S. travels on their

motorcycles....Dick Brown and Marge anticipated moving into a new handicap-accessible home....Skip Butler keeps his hand in the business world as an independent trustee on the MFS Mutual Funds board and doing occasional consulting. Judy Mosman Butler is active at church and produces exquisite quilts. They often see George and Dottie Stone....Jim Curtis sings with the Portland Downeasters barbershop chorus and with a seniors quartet.... Bill Dunham and his wife travel widely to fish, camp and kayak....Russell and Maribeth Perkins Grant ’65 are busy with church and kids’ summer programs....Web Harrison looked forward to getting his daffodil gardens in shape....Peter Hollis and Susan are active with the Chatham/Harwich (Mass.) Newcomers Club....Retired ophthalmic surgeon Bill Holt is having fun with the small winery he built. Dot and George Stone came to his retirement party, “and everyone loved hearing Jim Curtis and his quartet sing. He’s as good as ever, and even had them sing ‘The Bates Smoker,’ albeit with some interesting reworking of the lines.”... Mary Jasper Cate does some editing, enjoys two book groups and delights in granddaughter Sophia....John and Sue Jones Curtiss enjoy their new house on Groton (Conn.) Long Point.... Peter Koch says his “work” in Vermont was teaching skiing.... Bill LaVallee reports that trying square dancing led to his meeting, dating and becoming a partner with Aida....Margie Lord King says she and Phil ’64 love it in Moultonboro, N.H.... Nancy Mamrus Fortin and Al love retirement in Florida and have enjoyed cruising and traveling back to New England for vacations. Son Tom ’89 is an attorney in Andover, Mass.... John Meyn and Karen had a great road trip from Friendship, Maine, to Newfoundland and Labrador....Retired Col. Dick Nurnberg is executive director of the National Infantry Assn., with his office at the National Infantry Museum in Columbus, Ga....In Sequim, Wash., Loie Payne Lindner tends gardens and tries to keep up with their 10 wooded acres while battling deer and rabbits. (They are winning, she adds.).... Ruth Raymond Kapnis is very involved as a volunteer running the North Shore Medical Center Stroke Survivor Group....Ed Rucci and Kathy enjoy being near the water in Weekapaug, R.I., where they moved to take care of his father. Ed hosts the Paul Castolene Memorial Golf Outing....Rosemarie Schaefer Bates plans to downsize in 2014....Marion Schanz Ratcliff and Jim volunteer at Senior University Georgetown (Texas),

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affiliated with Southwestern Univ. “We study Spanish, geology, and history of ancient and modern civilizations. It is a process of lifelong learning of which Bates was an early integral part,” she says....Natalie Shober Moir and Jim had a glorious time reconnecting with Butch and Marti Sampson.... Douglas Smith, who finished a year as president of the Missoula (Mont.) Rotary Club, works as a real estate appraiser. He and Dale Spencer are enduring friends, and he hears from Bob Hood regularly.... Cora Jean Snow works as a real estate broker with daughter Andrea ’90 in Lexington, Mass. CJ reports her 15-year-old granddaughter hopes to attend Bates (Class of 2019), following her grandparents, Lee H. Smith ’62 and CJ; parents, Andrea and Ismael Carreras ’90; and aunt, Rachel Snow Kindseth ’93.... George and Dottie Selden Stone joined his former roommate Jim Curtis and Betsy at a barbershop concert....Gordon Rhodes and Mary Tabor were married Jan. 7, 2012. He writes that the two, who met at an AA meeting, took each other’s names so he could assist Mary’s adult son if she predeceases him. They live in Ocala, Fla.... Eugenia Wise Hathaway is heavily involved in the Canyon Explorers Club, a Southern California nonprofit outings organization.

John Farr ’63 and his daughter, Becky Farr Farwick ’91, run on the beach in Pass Christian, Miss., at dawn.

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

1965 Reunion 2015, June 11–14 class secretary Judith Morris Edwards juded@comcast.net class president Joyce Mantyla tiojack@aol.com Nick Basbanes’ ninth book, a cultural history of paper and papermaking titled On Paper: The Everything of Its Two Thousand Year History, by a SelfConfirmed Bibliophiliac, is being published this fall by Alfred Knopf. Nick received a 2008 National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship as he worked on the book.

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Dawn Patrol Unburdened, the runner’s mind ponders vast territory Running along the Gulf Coast at dawn is a little bit special. Waves come in with just a light chop off Mississippi’s shallow coastal waters, and the sand along the water’s edge has just the right cushion and purchase for running. Crabs scuttle sideways away from splashing feet, and small fish scoot away, along with the occasional stingray caught resting near shore. A wading heron keeps an eye out as you pass, as do pelicans standing sentry on a dilapidated pier. Sandpipers and willets scamper along your course. Above, terns and gulls flash in the rising sun. Running lets the brain unhinge from the twists of yesterday and the prospects for today, opening up vast territory for the wandering mind. The other day, I pondered the coordination of a runner’s eyes and feet. Scattered along the shoreline are pieces of driftwood, some rocks and lots of shell shards, so you constantly adjust your pace and where you plant your feet. A shorter stride, then a longer one. A zig left, then a zag right. A slight twist of the foot. The brain directs all these minute movements simply by scanning ahead and taking in the scenery. Hundreds of miles I’ve run on the beach, and I’ve rarely stepped on a bruising object. One time, I returned to a spot where there were sharp shells everywhere. My footprints were precisely placed, often just millimeters from the shards. Biophysics may explain this. But to me, it’s still amazing. — John Farr ’63

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nora ’hi bate s nodemleitner tes bob goodlatte ’gd 1967 Reunion 2017 June 9–11 class co-secretaries Alexandra Baker Lyman toads@snet.net Ingrid Larsson Shea chezshea4@comcast.net class president Bob Bowden rbbowden@aol.com

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Bruce Peterson, a senior scholar at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., received the 2013 Alfred C. Redfield Lifetime Achievement Award from the Assn. for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography. The award honors the career achievements of an aquatic scientist for his or her importance and long-term influence.

1968 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Rick Melpignano rickmel713@comcast.net

The Dean and the Congressman Bates’ top legal eagles talk immigration, guns, taxes Nora Demleitner ’89, dean of Washington and Lee School of Law, hosted a Q-and-A with U.S. Rep. Bob Goodlatte ’74, R-Va., at the law school in February. Goodlatte, who earned his law degree at W&L, is the new chair of the Judiciary Committee, “one of the most important committees the House has,” said Demleitner. After noting her own Bates affiliation and that of Goodlatte and his wife, Maryellen Flaherty Goodlatte ’74, Demleitner turned the discussion to immigration reform, gun control and taxes. On taxes, Goodlatte said that, yes, “we should have a much simpler tax code,” but reform always breaks down over how to replace the current code. With guns and gun violence, he ascribed the core of the problem to people who have access to guns despite criminal records or significant mental health problems. Plus, “the government is at its lowest level in more than a decade in enforcing our current gun laws.” On immigration, fixing parts of current law, as opposed to a complete overhaul, “should be in our minds and our agenda,” he said. “But I don’t think you get to that until you make a legitimate effort to make a broader bill.” One part of the bigger problem, he said, is the million or so illegal aliens working in agriculture. “These are tough, hard jobs” with low pay, he said, ones that not enough U.S. citizens will do. “If these workers were granted legal status and had the ability to work anywhere, many would simply leave these jobs.” That would create a labor shortage in agriculture, a “very competitive sector of our economy,” he said. “The same kinds of food we produce here are also available for import into the U.S.” Point being, if Congress creates a pathway to citizenship for a million farmworkers, “we also need an agricultural guest worker program to ensure you would have that supply of labor.” — hjb Goodlatte–Demleitner Q-and-A new.livestream.com/wlu/goodlatte 60

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1969 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Bonnie Groves beegroves@comcast.net class president Richard Brogadir dbrogie1@aol.com Peter Bates has been writing for Audiophile Audition since its inception in 1998. He works as a technical consultant for Analog Devices, plays the recorder, is an avid photographer and an often outrageous poet. On his website Stylus, he reviews classical and jazz performances by the Boston Symphony, Boston Philharmonic, Boston Chamber Music Players and solo artists....The Rev. Polly Hausamann Shamy retired after 28 years in the ministry, the past 15 as minister of Union Congregational Church in Peterborough, N.H. She and her husband, Joe, plan to spend the next year in England, where she’ll be a part-time volunteer minister in rural Northumberland. Polly, who came to the ministry in her mid-30s, majored in religion at Bates. “I loved it. It almost seemed like too much fun, but I had never met a woman minister,” she told the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript. She feels blessed to have served her Peterborough congregation. “I see pastoral ministry as being like a midwife. I’m there to help, but the people are doing the work. When you have a good match, there’s nothing like it.”... The Kennebec Journal caught up with Samuel Richards,

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pastor of East Winthrop Baptist Church, who has spent the past 20 years sharing his love of language and Shakespeare with hundreds of children in the Southern Maine Assn. of Shakespearean Homeschoolers. “I teach Shakespeare through performance, so you learn it not just off the page but by acting it out,” Sam said. He said Christian perspective is at the heart of all of Shakespeare’s plays because Shakespeare was guided by deep moral convictions of right and wrong. “A lot of people are astounded to hear how amenable Shakespeare is to the Christian world view. He was a Christian playwright. He was able to do it without beating people over the head.” Sam, who honed his study of Shakespeare at Bates and Oxford, founded SMASH as a means of contributing to the home-schooling community.

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 Betsey Brown completed the mountain of details involved in moving her 98-year-old mom from Connecticut to skilled care in Pennsylvania. She says she’s become an expert on all sorts of things she never planned to have to know. She warns everyone if they come to Lancaster County looking for Lebanon Levi (Amish Mafia) not to be disappointed. One of Levi’s posse really lives in the Dakotas and almost everyone is “English” and has a criminal record....The Wallingford (Conn.) Patch caught up with the Rev. Margaret Buker Jay, minister of outreach and program development at the First Congregational Church of Wallingford. A member and former chair of the town’s Youth Board, she spoke with the ninth-grade members of the church’s confirmation class the weekend after the Newtown tragedy. She urged people to find light within the darkness. “Terrible things are far too frequent,” she said. “We have to keep our faith in the midst of it.”

1971 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Suzanne Woods Kelley suzannekelley@att.net class president Peter Hine phine@snet.net Svetlana Gavnilkova and Bill Spencer were married Aug. 27, 2012.

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class president Bob Roch robert.roch@alumni.bates.edu Wayne and Gail Sickmund Garthwait, married 41 years, live in Orono where she’s a UMaine associate professor of education, teaching teachers how to integrate technology in the classroom. Gail was featured in a humorous but true Stephen Colbert report involving missing Maine “scallop guts.” Wayne started his own tax business....Joe and Pam Jordan Hanson ’73 live in an 1865 Victorian farmhouse in Bowdoinham, Maine, one of those places which, as he puts it, you have to keep shoveling money at. In 2010 he retired as head of operations for TD Bank after 32 years with the bank and its predecessors. He gardens a little and tries to get to the gym several times a week. He owns a Rangeley camp where he has an occasional reunion with Steve and Barbara Hanley Keltonic, Bob Devine ’71 and Al Frick....Besides their own jobs, Marg Kendall Buschmann and Fritz ’71 own and operate Siesta Sanctuary, a permanent home for abandoned parrots in Harmony, Maine. They recently completed a new room addition in order to provide “assisted living for 60-plus retired parrots.” A member of the World Parrot Trust, Siesta Sanctuary is a nonprofit licensed by the state of Maine that provides education about parrots, their care and threats to their survival in the wild. The website video is a must-see....Andy Moul begins his 34th year in the Brown library working in the Special Collections. When not working around rare books, he found time to learn origami. That led him to the annual Origami USA convention in New York City and to participate in an architecture class run by the art department, giving him a chance to show undergraduates how to use geometry and color with just paper. He and Diane live in a solid old east-side house and care for adopted cats and dogs. Diane is undergoing treatment for recently diagnosed advanced cancer, a labor that increasingly fills their days....Mark Winne has begun working with the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future as a senior adviser. An expert on food policy councils, he provides technical expertise for the center to diversify its engagement in food policy work.

class president Kitty Kiefer beesweet1@gmail.com Moe Dube retired as director of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Maine district office after nearly six years in the job. “Moe has demonstrated a commitment to service that is truly unsurpassed,” said Jeanne Hulit, acting SBA New England regional administrator....Tom Peters “decided that 40 years in higher education is enough! I’m retiring this summer after 35 years at UConn. Time to try some new activities while Sharen and I are able to enjoy them! I was pleased to serve as the delegate from UConn to Clayton Spencer’s inauguration — which was spectacular! I also attended the event which named the chapel for Peter Gomes ’65 and particularly enjoyed Carl Straub’s remarks about Peter. By chance, I spoke with Peter a few years ago as he was preparing to preach to the incoming freshman class at Harvard. I had no way of knowing that it would be the last time that I would have that opportunity.”...Dan Rice joined the Boston hedge fund GRT Capital Partners LLC as lead portfolio manager for the GRT Energy strategy.

1974 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Tina Psalidas Lamson tinal2@mac.com class president Don McDade dmcdade@llbean.com

1975 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class co-secretaries Deborah Bednar Jasak wjasak@comcast.net Faith Minard minardblatt@comcast.net class co-presidents Susan Bourgault Akie susieakie@aol.com Janet Haines janethaines@alumni.bates.edu The class extends condolences to the family and friends of Carol Champion Malinowski, Kevin Haines and Roy Reitsma. Carol and Kevin’s obituaries are in this issue; Roy’s will be in the next issue....Col. Todd Chace retires from the Army this summer after 37 years, and four combat tours as a doctor since 2003. He plans to continue his office practice of family medicine.... Jim Dachos is now director of

educational partnerships at The VHS Collaborative, a nonprofit pioneer of K–12 online learning headquartered in Maynard, Mass....Nancy Johnson Young and Jon enjoy their semi-retirement in Seneca, S.C. Each does some teaching to keep out of trouble, but they also enjoy hiking, boating and volunteering at the local food pantry. They had a great visit with Betsy Slocum Markesich, Steve Markesich and Carol Gordon Ladd ’76.... Mary Nucefora Buck and Fred are proud grandparents of Maddie, born in August 2012. They have traveled a lot recently, including Yellowstone National Park and a Panama Canal cruise that included ecotourism trips in Panama, Costa Rica, Half Moon Cay and Colombia....Rus Peotter, vice president and general manager of WGBY public television in Springfield, Mass., joined the board of Holyoke-based PeoplesBank....Bob Poole is finally an empty nester and enjoying it. Jean retired but he still works as an optometrist in midcoast Maine. They plan a trip to England for his 60th birthday.... Enzo Rebula welcomed his first grandchild, Alexandra, in 2012. Life is good! Four college bills down, only one remaining....The gang that lived in Wilson House freshman year had a reunion this spring at Louise Rutland’s home in Savannah, Ga. Attendees included Sue Bourgault Akie, Kathy Burns Slivka, Mindy Cole DelCioppio, Geri FitzGerald, Mame Kiltz Witsil, Sandy Shea, Patty Simmons Risley and Sandy Krot....Gov. Chris Christie appointed Michelle Volle Borden to the New Jersey Board of Social Work Examiners, which helps to monitor standards for social workers. Michelle is COO at New Bridge Services, a nonprofit that provides mental health, addiction recovery and other services. She said she was inspired to go into social work because of a Bates sociology class. Her professor thought it important to have students go into the community, so she watched a tenant union work out its problems. “This was the first time I had seen someone getting a group of people together to talk about what their housing problems were and how they could talk to the landlord to find their solution.”

1976 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Jeffrey Helm jeffrey.helm@verizon.net class president Bruce Campbell brucec@maine.rr.com Attorney, publisher and entrepreneur Robert Pladek was named president of New Jersey Lawyers Service, a legal courier

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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

Where Bobcats Bank In Bates we trust Posing during their Marblehead (Mass.) Bank board meeting are, from left, Andrew Lovely ’75, Keith Taylor ’77 and Mark Shapiro ’76, who all serve as bank corporators, Taylor as chair. In their day jobs, Lovely is a contractor, Shapiro works in commercial real estate and Taylor is an optometrist. — hjb

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Gary Fogg ’77 oversees the trail system for the Brunswick & Topsham Land Trust. “I love working with the same kind of hand tools that were used in the 19th century.” Jay Bangs was named the Grant T. Fisher Professor and chair of the SUNY–Buffalo Department of Microbiology and Immunology. His research focuses on African trypanosomes, the causative agent of sleeping sickness, a reemerging fatal disease throughout sub-Saharan Africa....In Santa Barbara, Calif., Amy Batchelor Bacheller and Glenn ’76 enjoy beach walks, mountain trail hikes and renovating their magic garden....Lawyer Peter Brann taught a class at Harvard Law School....Broncos fan Jeff Brown and Patriots fan Mark Sorensen nursed each other through the NFL playoffs. Jeff’s in touch with David Foster and Jim Geitz....Michael Cohen and Lisa work at Pfizer. She has a new position in the import export group, and he has a new position in the regulatory group....Bill Deighan practices oral and maxillofacial surgery, with offices in Bangor and Ellsworth....Joel Feingold reports work is good. He continues to advise Luminario Ballet of Los

Angeles on its business affairs.... The Forecaster profiled Gary Fogg, a “superstar volunteer” for the Brunswick & Topsham Land Trust who oversees its trail system. His Topsham consulting firm, Land & People LLC, assisted towns and developers in addressing issues related to land-use planning. After he shut down his firm in 2009, he began seeking other outlets for his passion. As trails supervisor for the trust (he previously helped maintain trails for the Appalachian Mountain Club and the Vermont Division of Forestry), he oversees the work associated with clearing and maintaining 17 miles of trails. “It’s so much fun,” Gary said. “I get to exercise in the woods, while working with volunteers from all backgrounds. I love working with the same kind of hand tools that were used in the 19th century; figuring out problems along the way is part of the fun. And I like knowing that other people will benefit from this work.” Caroline Eliot, associate director of the trust, called him “a dream volunteer. He’s able to engage with young people, and he’s a really good teacher.”...Sue Fuller Wright and Dave live in Buffalo, Minn., semi-retired from his veterinary work and her landscape designing....Steve Hadge loves his work as an elementary library media specialist and being a grandparent....Former newspaper editor and GM John Howe has a thriving second career as co-owner of New Hampshire Business Sales and director of the mergers and acquisitions division....Christine Kaminski Tolen is now director of accounting for ManpowerGroup– North America in Milwaukee, Wis....Charlie L’Esperance serves as volunteer board chair of the local hospital in Vail, Colo. He sees doctors Jeff Brown and Howard Fleishon ’78 (“lucky because I see them socially, not as a patient”) and attends an annual “Howard House reunion” at the Duxbury, Mass., summer place of Billy ’78 and June Ross Miller ’78....Terry Mailliard Keyes does volunteer work, and Bob ’74 works for Bank of America....Steve McCormick works for the U.S. Geological Survey on migratory fish species. He golfs with Nils Bonde-Henriksen and keeps in touch with Charlie L’Esperance and other Howard House friends, Billy ’78 and June Ross Miller ’78, Mark ’78 and Dori Carlson Reinhalter ’78, Howard Fleishon ’78, Harry Steuber ’78, Dwight Bell and Dave Hine ’78....Marcel Monfort works at National Funeral Home in Falls Church, Va. He reunited for an evening with Bruce Macfarlane ’74, who continues his import-export consulting business. He also reconnected with Marie-Paule Leveque Lauterbach ’79 and her husband,

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1978 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class co-secretaries Deni Auclair dauclair56@gmail.com Melanie Parsons Paras melaniep1010@aol.com class president Chip Beckwith chipwith@aol.com

1979 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Mary Raftery mgraftery@gmail.com class president Janice McLean janmcle@charter.net Bangor Daily News political writer Bob Long interviewed Bates professor Charles Nero for an article on why Maine’s population is so overwhelmingly white, and whether it matters. “When 95 percent of the people around you have a different skin color, it’s hard not to notice that you’re different,” Bob wrote. Nero, who moved from the South to teach rhetoric and African American studies at Bates, recalled wondering whether he should take his family to an agricultural fair. “I didn’t see other black people, but people were really nice to me. As a black person, you do think a lot about how freely you can move about.”...Nancy Riopel Smith is now executive director of the Western New York Land Conservancy, a nonprofit land trust that protects 5,000 acres of land in five counties. She was previously the group’s stewardship manager and community outreach director.

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Steve, veterans of the U.S. State Department....Leslie Mortimer has more supervisory responsibilities at Patten Free Library in Bath as adult services manager.... Braintree (Mass.) fire chief Kevin Murphy retired in January after more than three decades with the fire department. “I have a granddaughter now and will be getting married sometime in December, so I feel the timing is right. It’s time to move on with my life,” Kevin said....Linda Orgill Kerr works at SEI as a product manager. Her oldest son safely returned from his second deployment to Afghanistan....Marybeth Pope Salama works in hospice as a palliative care physician for one of the largest hospices in Pennsylvania....Paul Sklarew had a fine time with Jeff Brown and Charlie L’Esperance in Vail, Colo....Peter Smith and Emily bought a house in Santa Barbara, Calif.... Pulitzer Prize-winner Elizabeth Strout won widespread praise for her new novel, The Burgess Boys, set in small-town Maine. The Washington Post said the novel’s “broad social and political range shows just how impressively this extraordinary writer continues to develop.” Time said she “packs 320 fast-paced pages full of insight” and “creates a portrait of an American community in turmoil that’s as ambitious as Philip Roth’s American Pastoral but more intimate in tone.”... Keith Taylor was reelected to his seventh term as board chairman of Marblehead (Mass.) Bank. Andrew Lovely ’75 and Mark Shapiro ’76 were elected trustees of the corporation. Andy said, “We should start working on the Classes of ’74 and ’78!”...Deb Thyng Schmidt writes about financial aid for the College Board and works part time as a college adviser at the local high school. Doug ’78 is an engineer/ project manager at Ricoh. They stay in touch with Bates through daughter Amy ’16, Sarah Emerson Potter, Deb’s membership in the Cheney Society and the Denver alumni group....Besides a trip through the Grand Canyon, Pam Walch Constantine and her family “spent a week working at the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota trying to put at least a tiny dent in extraordinarily impoverished living for one Lakota family. (Pretty sure we fell short in that department.) All in all it was an amazing experience.”...David Webster, happy and healthy, plays basketball and bought a road bike.... Jackie Wolfe published her first book, New Joints and Other Mixed Blessings, a non-technical manual on prehab and rehab for orthopedic surgery....After over 20 years managing the family bus business, Jefferson Lines, Charlie Zelle was appointed Minnesota’s state transportation commissioner.

Todd Robinson ’79

A Belcampo Farm operation in Gazelle, Calif., with Mount Shasta in the background.

who:

Todd Robinson ’79

media outlet: Worth

headline: Fields of green

date:

February 2013

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takeaway : The agribusiness venture Belcampo is potentially important.

Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class secretary Christine Tegeler Beneman cbeneman@gmail.com class president Mary Mihalakos Martuscello mary@martuscellolaw.com Attorney Sem Aykanian is now board chair of the Marlborough (Mass.) Savings Bank where he has been a director since 2004.... Mark Hurvitt is still the school superintendent in Blue Hill, Brooksville, Castine, Penobscot and Surry. He lives in Blue Hill village, across from the Town Hall (handy). Daughter Hannah graduated from Smith in May, son Max will be a senior at Interlochen and daughter Celia will be a freshman at Deerfield. “I’m still into sports: running, tennis and school board meetings.”...Yale astronomy professor Jeff Kenney lectured at Bates on how to capture and interpret beautiful images of astronomical objects....Mark Weaver was

A feature story in Worth details an ambitious venture funded and founded by Todd Robinson ’79 and headed up by CEO Anya Fernald: a sustainable agribusiness with farms in Belize, Uruguay and the U.S. The firm, Belcampo, is “not just an interesting company, [but] potentially an important one,” writes Richard Bradley. Belcampo seeks to “manage its land and animals in a sustainable, best-practices fashion” but on a scale that’s never been seen before. “No agribusiness has ever tried this experiment on such a large scale, much less in three countries simultaneously,” writes Bradley. Robinson says his interest in sustainable agribusiness comes from childhood memories. “My grandparents were raised on a farm in Maine, and that’s where I fell in love with food.”

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takeaway: Jon Marcus ’82

appointed to the state circuit court in New Hampshire by Gov. John Lynch....Dan Scully is the new general manager of Winnetu Oceanside Resort on Martha’s Vineyard.

1981 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Katherine Baker Lovell cklovell@verizon.net

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class president Kathleen Tucker Burke sburke4155@aol.com

Thousands of yellow plastic bags containing runners’ gear — transported back from Hopkinton but not collected because of the bombings — sit near the finish line awaiting their owners.

who:

Jon Marcus ’82

media outlet: Esquire

headline:

Lacing up, running on

date:

April 15 and 17, 2013

takeaway : Bombs and terror won’t stop runners.

His writer’s mind and runner’s perspective gave Jon Marcus ’82 distinctive insights into the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15 and a show of runners’ solidarity the next day. Blogging at Esquire, Marcus reported how runners being treated for dehydration “ripped out their IVs and made space on the cots for the injured” right after the blasts. A Boston Marathon veteran himself, Marcus was present the next day when nearly 300 runners in East Cambridge took to the streets in a show of solidarity. On short notice, some 270 runners answered the call put out by a local running club whose weekly get-togethers usually attract around 30. The group raised $3,000 for the victims. One organizer, P.J. Aspesi, told Marcus that “we tried to figure out how we could come together afterward and help, and show everybody that Boston won’t stop running.” 64

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Kathy Baker Lovell was eagerly awaiting the arrival of her youngest from his first rugby tour. His high school team won their games and appeared to be enjoying the sights in Belgium and Holland. He, like his uncle Hal Baker ’82, plays second row....Donna Carrier Katsiaficas lunched with Judy Normandin in Portsmouth last February. They hadn’t seen each other since graduation and enjoyed catching up. Donna, the corporate counsel for the Portland Water District, is getting ready to adjust to an empty nest with her youngest at Tufts this fall....Catherine Derbyshire Lynch summarized the past 10 years. It is a miracle she is doing so well, as she suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm in 2003 and was in a coma for three months. While in Maine Medical Center she called her husband Ron three times to shut off the machines that were keeping her alive. Twice he said “no” and the third time he said “yes.” Ron called her parents to say she was dead, but in the morning the intensive-care nurse found her breathing on her own and kicking her feet. In a wheelchair, she was transferred to River Ridge in Kennebunk. She has slowly learned to walk, and in 2012 she regained her driver’s license. Sadly, after 26 years of marriage, her husband succumbed to bladder cancer in 2010 at age 56. Her sons are doing well. Stephen installs insulation for a construction company, and Sean is graduating from Babson College with honors. Catherine is just happy to be alive and says, “Don’t waste your time on this earth. Life is so precarious.” Prior to the aneurysm, she was assistant comptroller at GBF InfoSystems for 10 years. She now plays violin with the Midcoast Symphony Orchestra, has acted with the Portland Players, Mad Horse Theater Company and The Theater Project, where she also recently worked props, lighting and stage management....Jim Miller, who has had a 30-year banking career, is now senior vice president and chief financial officer for Monarch Mortgage, based in Virginia Beach, Va.... Strictly Business profiled Dave Thompson and his company,

Home Bistro in Plattsburgh, N.Y., which produces flash-frozen, chef-prepared individual meals and ships them to customers primarily in the Northeast and the West Coast. The company’s only employee a decade ago, Dave now employs 30 and predicts that 2013 sales will top $11.2 million. “We’ll focus on product quality, a positive work environment and productivity. When we’re four times our current size, the chicken breast has to taste as good as it does today,” he said....Jean Wilson’s youngest daughter, Tina Pruyn ’13, graduated in May. She loves Bates, just like her mom!

1982 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Jerry Donahoe maineescape@aol.com class president Neil Jamieson njlaw@maine.rr.com Donna Avery, who suffered multiple severe injuries in 2010 when she was hit by a car while riding her bike, is “grateful to be alive and so appreciative of the little things.” She loves teaching math to seventh graders. Daughter Caitlyn ’13 graduated from Bates....Tom and Lori Norman Campbell continue to figure out how to be parents to adult and almost adult offspring as well as children of beloved parents who are not as young as they used to be....Relocated with her family to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Melissa Chace Trace is the business development manager for Crystal Group....Wally Dillingham focuses on helping not-for-profits in metro New York for Wilmington Trust. He hiked Mount Washington with Chris Fisher....Jerry Donahoe works in public service and hopes the congressional dysfunction doesn’t scare talented young people from serving their country....Katie Eastman’s work in palliative care is now in the Northwest, and she and her husband have a counseling and coaching business, ReCreate Counseling....Chris Fisher is in his 10th year of acquiring and building small residential property. Daughter Heather ’14 is at Bates....Jon Guild, vacationing at Universal’s Islands of Adventure in Florida, saw a Bates sweatshirt and “thought that after almost 32 years I recognized Donna Avery. So I went up and shocked Donna and met some of her children. It was great to see her.”...J.D. Hale and 10 classmates trekked to Big Sky, Mont., for their 31st anniversary “Mel’s House” ski and après fun. They included ringleader Jeff Melvin, John Kirby, Johnny Hassan, Bill Carey, Dave Scheetz, Fred Criniti, Steve Fuller, Jeff Andrews, Ken Swan and Kraig

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Haynes. J.D. reports wife Cindy visited Rosie ’14 while she was studying in Florence and got together with Sharon Teasdale Watson ’81 and Dan Watson ’83, parents of Rosie’s roommate Mel Watson ’14....Ruth Hall built a dream retirement home in central Virginia and will retire fully in the next year or two after 20 years of moving in the diplomatic service....Kee Hinkley, happily ensconced in Somerville, Mass., happily works as a software architect for TiVo.... Scott Hoyt is a senior director doing economic forecasting and analysis for Moody’s Analytics in West Chester, Pa....Neil Jamieson says being a Cumberland County commissioner is challenging but rewarding public service....Empty nester Heather McElvein Malaby muses about “downsizing and moving to the beach — yeah!”...Lenny Morrison and Liz welcomed Maggie Morrison in November 2012. Kathleen is 10, Emma 12....Sue Purkis is now responsible for her software company’s technical support for the Asia-Pacific region....Terry Sherman and Linda sponsor two children at an orphanage in Costa Rica where their younger daughter is a summer volunteer....Stephanie Weiss Peck does consulting and contract work while fulfilling her favorite job as mom to one daughter in high school and one in college....Marty Wonson Brandt is a quality engineer at IXYS Integrated Circuits Division in Beverly, Mass.

1983 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Leigh Peltier leighp727@live.com class president Sally Nutting Somes ssomes@netzero.com Jeff Roy was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives for the 10th Norfolk District.

1984 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Heidi Lovett blueoceanheidi@aol.com class president Linda Cohen linda@lscdesignstudio.com The past few years have been a time of big change for Ginny Addison Siegler. After divorce, losing the house and moving, she switched careers and started working full time as a parent partner at 5 Acres Boys’ and Girls’ Society of Los Angeles. Jesse graduated as salutatorian and is a working man at 19. Dylan made the dean’s list as a freshman at the Univ. of

Brian McGrory ’84 Redlands. Riley (11) loves middle school at Millikan School’s Film Academy. Ginny is especially grateful for renewing her friendship with Marjie Needham this past year. She is trying to live her life as Marjie did — don’t wait, just do it!...Cheryl Croteau Orr is the proud parent of two college students. Will joined older brother Matt ’14 at USC. They are close by, so she and her husband share quality time with them. Cheryl enjoys running, completing the 2012 Boston Marathon, and volunteering for Bates at college fairs and conducting interviews in Southern California….Bill Driscoll and Lisa are experiencing the joys of having 1- and 4-year-old kids, including their first parentteacher conference. He’s back at work in commercial real estate after taking off six months to run for Congress in Washington state’s 6th District. Despite being a social moderate, his focus on a pragmatic approach to getting our financial house in order didn’t resonate with nearly enough voters. Bill has no regrets about his first foray into politics….Kathy Evans Wisner lives just outside Chicago with Dave, Emily (14) and Luke (11). She and her partners celebrated the 10th anniversary of their ad agency, Raindance Advertising, for which she serves as creative director and writer. She misses Bates and can’t believe it’s been so long since we were all together there….Lou Kimball Swenson wishes she had some wonderful news but has very little that makes her life stand out — and is happy about that! She still lives in Kennebunk, Maine, with two sons and her husband, a loyal field spaniel and crazy chinchilla. Trevor is in the college decision stage. Casen has been busy in scouting and is giving lacrosse a try. Lou is grateful for good health, her job and the rewards of marriage and family life….Heidi Lovett and Randall and their sons (6 and 8) bought a house in Silver Spring, Md., in 2011, with space for visitors! She has worked with the NOAA Fisheries Service on policy issues for six years and recently completed an 18-month executive leadership development program. She was excited to spend four of those as a budget analyst in the secretary of the interior’s office. Life is busy raising two boys, helping with soccer, Cub Scouts and PTA activities. It was bittersweet to see Marjie Needham in January, when her illness took its turn for the worse, but Heidi was grateful for the opportunity.

who:

Brian McGrory ’84

media outlet: The Huffington Post

headline:

Marathon coverage shows why “metro papers matter”

date:

April 16, 2013

takeaway : A city newspaper is like a town square: People turn to it for information and get it.

Brian McGrory ’84, a Boston Globe veteran who became editor in December 2012, tells The Huffington Post that the paper’s coverage of the marathon bombings shows why “metro papers matter.” “The Globe and its website became something like a town square, where people turned for information and they got it.” In a memo, McGrory praised his team for being “ahead of the competition on every important front.” As social media sites, like Twitter, fed insidious rumors that threatened to waylay public understanding of the story, the Globe “showed restraint on reporting the false rumors that many other organizations couldn’t resist.”

1985 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class secretary Elissa Bass bass.elissa@yahoo.com

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class president Lisa Virello virello@comcast.net If you are on Facebook, join the Bates College Class of 1985 group! It’s a fun place to catch up, share photos, say hi or brag about something!...Shannon Billings and Graham Anderson still live in Silver Spring, Md. Graham says, “Since Alec (UNH ’13) and Kelsey (UMD ’16) are both away in college, we have had a great time figuring out how to live, cook, play as a couple again. Last fall, we celebrated our 25th anniversary.” This spring, Graham celebrated his 25th year with Gannett, having moved from USA Today to the corporate headquarters several years ago. He’s now a team leader in the group that sets all client computing standards for the company. Shannon continues her work in the nonprofit world, and is an expert in Federal Election Commission laws. She jokes that she practices FEC law without being a lawyer. Graham gave up running road races to take on ultra-marathon trail races. It is easier on the knees, and the scenery is much nicer. Shannon studies yoga. “Last fall, we met up with Patty Lemay Lufburrow on her yearly sojourn to the D.C. area. Last winter, the whole family skied at Sunday River with Sue Shaskan Arenstam and her daughter Abby (a schoolmate of Alec’s). We regularly see Greg Johnson when he travels to visit the NOAA headquarters right down the street.”...Peter Arenstam published a children’s book, The Mighty Mastiff of the Mayflower, based on the story of the dog who came over with the Pilgrims. He works at the living history museum Plimoth Plantation where he is in charge of the care and upkeep for the reproduction ship Mayflower II....Elissa Bass was named senior regional editor for eastern Connecticut for Patch.com in June 2012 and now oversees 42 hyperlocal news/community websites. “My daughter Summer finished her freshman year in high school and had a great season on the freshman basketball team. We are beginning to think about colleges! My son Max finished the sixth grade and plays soccer, basketball and this spring tried lacrosse for the first time, having retired from baseball. It’s been too long since I have seen my Bates ’85 BFFs Kate Sweeney, Deb Valaitis Kern, Karla Austen and Leanne Belmont Valade, but we are getting together to celebrate turning 50. Fifty. How’d that happen?”... From Heather Beebe: “We have just marked our 14th anniversary of moving from Montreal to Calgary. So much for the

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five-year plan to get us back east! We desert the city most years at Stampede time to head home for 4th of July. The mountains and prairies are gorgeous, but being landlocked, I miss the lakes and ocean. Laura is 15, Anna 12. We live the crazy school, activity, work routine. We’ll be in New England this summer while Laura attends some NESCAC prospective student soccer camps. (Bates doesn’t have one, so we’re forced to go to our competitors!) The college hunt begins already. It is my fourth year back in the consulting workforce. I work in change management, process improvement and strategic planning, and find it all challenging and interesting. Thankfully, the oil and gas boom here in Alberta makes work easy to find.”...Leanne Belmont Valade shares that life is happy and healthy in North Reading, Mass. “I managed to ring in No. 50 in fine style with friends and family over the course of two weeks in February. Don’t fret it! It’s all good. Enjoying life with an eighth- and sixth-grader, who are always involved in something that keeps myself and husband Jay active and on the go. This will keep me younger, right? It’s fun to run into classmates at kids’ tournaments every now and then too! Fidelity is keeping me out of trouble during the day ... well, most of the time! When we can, we love spending time at our house in Maine no matter the season ... not too far from Bates either. Our family is excited to head to Parma, Italy, for two weeks this August with an eighth-grade baseball team!”...Stephen Brackett, a managing partner at Ironside Capital Group, was named to the Eastern Massachusetts Region of Red Cross board....Lisa D’Antonio Bryan completed a master’s degree and certificate in May. “Despite the gap of many years, my Bates thesis writing greatly helped me over the past four years at Moravian Seminary and Chestnut Hill College. I plan on wearing my Indian sari underneath my cap and gown to honor my Kripalu yoga certification as I receive my diploma in holistic spirituality and certificate in spiritual direction. Meanwhile, my youngest will also finish college soon. On to our 50s and beyond! The adventure has just begun.”... Beth George joined with a new partnership to create Spelt Right Foods based in Brooklyn, N.Y. Its new production facility opened there in April 2013, facilitating the expansion of the product line and distribution channels. Spelt Right makes all-natural artisan ancient grain (spelt) products including bagels, breads and pizza dough. Its products, which are kosher-certified by Circle K,

are available at select Whole Foods in New England and New York and in select locations in Maine, including Bates!...Andy Grethlein is now executive vice president of technical operations at Geron Corp. in Menlo Park, Calif., a biopharmaceutical company developing therapies for cancer....Dan Hoffman is back from the USSR! “My wife Kim and our sons Nathan and Jerron have been living in Washington since returning from Moscow, where I served as a diplomat in the U.S. Embassy until 2010. I am still swimming, often with our older son Jerron, who loves the water!”...Clarissa Hunter Basch is “still working at The Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, Conn., as the director of college counseling and in my work am able to steer some of my best students toward Bates. I live on campus with my husband and children. Talia will be a junior at Walker where she plays field hockey, acts in plays and gives tours for the admissions office. Ethan will be a seventh-grader and baseball is his life ... and seems to have become ours as well! It was fun to catch up with a bunch of classmates including Andy Carman, Georgeanne Ebersold and Sam Paul at the Bates event in Hartford that welcomed our new president. I’m sure I’m not the only one in our class who is in disbelief that we are turning 50 this year — how did that happen! Happy birthday to all on this big one!”...Greg Johnson was awarded the 2013 Georg Wüst prize for outstanding achievement in marine science by the German Society for Marine Research. The prize is sponsored by the Springer Verlag journal Ocean Dynamics and was presented in April at the European Geophysical Union’s 2013 General Assembly in Vienna....Dave “Kappy” Kaplan spends lots of time back on campus these days. “Our daughter Katie ’16 just finished up her first year and played volleyball. It was particularly enjoyable to run into classmates Pat Curry, Colleen Quint, Scott Freeman and Rick Wells, all of whom have children at Bates. There have been some great improvements to the campus since our graduation with the New Commons, Pgill, 280, and the renovated Bill and Hedge. To the contrary, Smith and Adams look as they did when we were there — which made me feel right at home! The community and campus are as vibrant as ever and it always brings a great feeling when I visit. Our new president and the winning season of the football team have brought a heightened sense of excitement to the campus, and I hope to see more of our classmates on campus in the fall.”...Doug Kaufman is an

associate professor at the Univ. of Connecticut and lives in Storrs with his wife Jennifer (Smalley) ’88 and daughters Rebecca (17) and Emily (14). “We love our life here and are very busy. Jenn’s a big shot in town, helping to develop our new master plan of a federal HUD grant. I teach literacy education in the Neag School of Education, focusing on writing. I do a lot of research on how writers write and how to get teachers to write in classrooms with their children. This summer I’ll be going to Santiago, Chile, to do work with professors and teachers there, helping them to infuse authentic writing into their curricula. This past year I was named a Univ. of Connecticut Teaching Fellow, which is the highest award for teaching bestowed by the university, and the one I would most want to receive — I love the teaching aspect of the job. My kids are extremely active people, involved in sports, performance, Model UN, History Day, etc. It’s hard to keep up with them but so fun to watch.”...Lise Lapointe-Murer lives in Williamsburg, Va., with husband Louis and son Evan (6). She works as a physical therapist at a local hospital and several long-term care facilities. She and her family enjoy camping, fishing and hiking all over Virginia.... Mark Latham says, “Renee and I continue to live in Shelton, Conn., and we will be celebrating our 10th anniversary in July. I’m still working as an environmental analyst with the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. I work on the cleanup of contaminated properties in the eastern part of the state. My largest site is the Naval Submarine Base in Groton. I’m also on the department’s wildfire crew, and last August I spent 16 days with the crew fighting wildfires in western Montana.”... Bob Lieberson, who finds it amazing that ’85 Bobcats are turning 50 this year, is “enjoying an empty nest with daughter Sarah at Delaware and son Matt at Vanderbilt (I was hoping he chose Bates). Lila the English Bulldog and Mrs. Lebo are getting a lot of extra attention these days. Thanks to professors Walther and Schwinn for preparing me for a career in finance at the investment management firm of Moody, Lynn & Lieberson Inc. in Boston.”...Bill Locke is busy celebrating 50th birthdays with lots of classmates. “I had mine in January and since I have been to Beth Wheatley Reynolds and Mark Abate’s surprise party. Both were a great success and both Beth and Mark were shocked. These are great parties because we get to celebrate a milestone but also because of the wonderful friends you see. I had a great time with Mylene

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year at Virginia Tech, my youngest will be a sophomore at Univ. of South Carolina. I started a nonprofit called the Centre for Spatial Law and Policy that focuses on legal and policy issues around the world associated with location data that is collected about and around us, and am founder of GeoLaw P.C., a law firm.”...Sue Rodgers Phinney says, “In addition to working with Beth George and her company Spelt Right Baking two years ago, after a 14-year hiatus from the medical industry, I started working in the health and wellness industry, and aligned myself with NSA, the company behind Juice Plus+. I share healthy solutions to improve nutrition and prevent disease. It’s a very rewarding business!”... The Bowdoin Chorus and Mozart Mentors Orchestra presented the world premiere of As It Began to Dawn, an oratorio about the awe and mystery of the morning of the Resurrection and Jesus’ appearances to his disciples, composed by Delmar Dustin Small....Linda Tamkin Waller now lives in the Netherlands with her English husband Simon, Jamie (16), Sophie (13) and Christina (10). “I teach English at a business school in Breda and very much enjoy the Dutch lifestyle.”

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 The Evanston (Ill.) Review interviewed Doug Bolton, administrator/principal of North Shore Academy in Highland Park, who spoke of his message of perpetual hope. He said the K–12 academy helps kids build the skills they need for school and life through a philosophy called the Circle of Courage. Developed by psychologists to help therapeutic programs strengthen the resilience of at-risk kids, “the Circle of Courage really drives our programming,” Doug said. “Staff members at NSA are remarkably warm, patient and compassionate with kids, which naturally fosters belonging.”...Ashley Parker Snider was named to the board of Bishop Garcia Diego High School in Santa Barbara, Calif, her alma mater. Well known in the community for her work in business, public relations and philanthropy, she stepped down as director of admission and public relations for Bishop to resume working full time at her family’s business, FesPar Enterprises.

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Skinner, Jenny Graf, Neal Neilinger, Jennifer Ellis Dugan, Melissa Bailey Abate and Julie Newton Greenspan at these parties. I had a great year in 2012, got caught up with Amy Coffey on Martha’s Vineyard and had a great ‘guys weekend’ with Mark and Neal in Florida. Work is going great, and I am very involved in several nonprofits, which I cherish. My daughter will be a senior at Emma Willard and is thinking about Bates for college. My son is going into seventh grade and can’t play enough baseball or basketball. We spend lots of free time at my house in the Adirondacks. Lastly, I have been dating the love of my life now for four years. Carin, who grew up in northern Italy, is the most beautiful skier I have ever seen. How lucky I am to be 50 and in love!”...Jana McBurney Lin’s second novel, Blossoms and Bayonets, was released in October 2012. “While doing a signing for my first book, My Half of the Sky, a Korean engineer approached, saying, ‘Your novel reminds me of old Korea. Will you help me tell my story?’ He grew up during WWII/Korean War as the son of one of the few Christian ministers in the city. In the space of five years he lost half his family, but not to any one group. His mission was not to point a finger, but to emphasize that when you have a bad leader the innocent suffer. Although the book was only recently published, it’s already received great reviews from best-selling author Caroline Leavitt and past Korean resident/author Cliff Garstang.”...Camille McKayle is “still at the Univ. of the Virgin Islands, though in a new position: interim provost. It has been quite busy, as I split my time between the St. Thomas and the St. Croix campus.”...Chris Mullin writes, “My son Kevin (with Molly Marchese Mullin ’87) finished his freshman year at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, and my daughter Rachel is deciding among the seven colleges and universities to which she was admitted for this fall.”...Jeff Pasco lives in northeast Connecticut with his family and works as the home office underwriting manager for MAPFRE Insurance. “Spent time over the winter chaperoning and skiing with my son’s middle school ski club, and am getting ready to travel the 395 corridor for ECC softball this spring, and then the East Coast this summer for AAU softball. The college search has begun with my daughter, who will be a senior, and sad to say, Bates is not currently on her short list.”... Kevin Pomfret remarried three years ago “to a wonderful woman named Janie. Still living in Richmond, Va. My oldest daughter Talene is in her final

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1987 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Peggy Brosnahan mmb263@cornell.edu

COURTESY OF THE COOPER-HEWITT NATIONAL DESIGN MUSEUM

class president John Fletcher jaxfletch@gmail.com

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who:

Caroline Baumann ’87

media outlet: The New York Times

headline:

Graphic design: what a trip

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Jan. 11, 2013

takeaway: A blog reveals a museum’s icebergian riches. The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum’s Object of the Day blog, brainchild of Caroline Baumann ’87, is the “best new blog in the design world,” writes New York Times style writer David Colman. “It was something I had been wanting to do for years and years, so I am thrilled,” said Baumann, the Cooper-Hewitt’s director. “We have 25 centuries in our collection here.” The blog, writes Colman, is “curation in all its glory,” noting that recent entries have ranged from a Saul Bass movie poster to a 14th-century polka-dot silk-velvet fabric. He credits Baumann’s “enthusiasm for so many forms of design ingenuity” as well as the museum’s “icebergian riches ” for making the blog so wondrous. Cooper-Hewitt Object of the Day cooperhewitt.org/object-of-the-day

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Jeff Price led a campaign to raise $100,000 from former players to name the new athletic field at Laconia (N.H.) High School in honor of their football coach, Jim Fitzgerald. “So many important moments, so many life lessons, I got from coach,” Jeff told The Laconia Daily Sun. He is president and publisher of Sporting News.

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 Julie Sutherland Platt julielsp@verizon.net Adrienne Terry D’Olimpio adonddo@hotmail.com Jon Jameson joined Cogent Partners, a private equityfocused investment bank, as a managing director based in New York....Stephen Morin, Suffolk Univ.’s new senior vice president of advancement, told the student newspaper of the future he envisions for the Boston school. “In the ’70s, my parents were all about the hippie, back-to-theearth movement.” Growing up in “a rural, poor part of Maine,” he said he believes his background is not unlike that of many Suffolk students. “Students here [at Suffolk] are working hard to get somewhere — I get that.”

1989 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Donna Waterman Douglass 4498donnad@gmail.com steering committee Sally Ehrenfried sallye@alumni.bates.edu Deb Schiavi Cote debscote@yahoo.com Anne Baldwin Beckmann reports Butch was promoted to associate director of quality control at Shire Pharmaceuticals. She stepped away from the world of work to spend more time with their kids, ages 3 to 17. They are in regular contact with other Boston area Batesies including Rachel Carr Goodrich ’90, Allan ’87 and Sidney McLean McNab ’88, and Dan Ramirez ’87.... Susan Campbell Linnell is being dragged through the trenches of teenager-dom. She teaches

at Chatham Elementary....Jeff Cook left Dartmouth to join the Philadelphia Union of Major League Soccer as director of recruitment for the club’s nascent youth academy. He will also work with the professional team. As men’s soccer coach at Dartmouth, he led the Big Green to five Ivy League titles....Brian Cullen’s law firm in Nashua, N.H., continues to grow, as do his three girls....Amy Freeman Winslow is a guidance counselor in suburban Chicago. She and Jim coach with Strikers Fox Valley Soccer Club, and one of their players played as a Bates freshman last season....Paul Guenette is now assistant director of ministerial services for the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision....Linda Johnson was quoted in a Bloomberg News story on cybersecurity that ran in Business Week. Linda is corporate communications manager for CenturyLink, a telecommunications company that was one of the first companies to sign up for a U.S. program giving them classified information on cyber threats that they can package as security services for sale to other companies. The Pentagon provides the classified threat signatures to the Department of Homeland Security, which in turn provides them to companies approved to receive such information. CenturyLink is “seeing strong demand from private companies” in buying the service, Linda said....Heather Jones teaches high school math at Severna Park High School in Maryland. She and Phil enjoy boating on Chesapeake Bay.... The Memorial Garden is a respite for patients and others at the Cancer Care Center at Framingham (Mass.) Union Hospital. Betty and Dana Jost created it in 1989, a year after their son, Bob Jost, one of the center’s first patients, lost his battle with acute myelogenous leukemia. The Josts, in their 80s, still do most of the work to maintain the garden, The MetroWest Daily News reported. Diagnosed in 1984, just before his senior year at Framingham South High, Bob was able to enjoy four more years of life, “which is more than most people” with that form of cancer, his mother said. “After 30 years, people aren’t going to know who Bob Jost is, but they’re going to know the garden,” she said....Amy Knott Job, Robert and Isabelle (10) live in Wenham, Mass. She’s expanding her retail Jolie Tea Co. shop in nearby Hamilton....Bruce Macdonald was promoted to manager of the Institution for Savings’ Salisbury Square office in Salisbury, Mass....Peter Muise is a director of reunions and class programs at MIT....Zack Robbins works for Morgridge Institute for Research, a private biomedical research institute at

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1990 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class secretary Joanne Walton joannewalton2003@yahoo.com class president Eric Knight eric_knight@verizon.net Shelburne (Vt.) Museum director Tom Denenberg said its expansion with a $7 million Center for Art and Education will transform the museum into a year-round institution. He told The Burlington Free Press that the museum, with a collection of more than 150,000 objects ranging from fine art to handmade quilts, is an important part of Vermont’s identity. “We want this literally to be the spiritual center of the state.”...Auto industry veteran Dave Hazlett was named general manager of Prime Infiniti in Hanover, Mass....Christine Johnson Conrad was named chief customer service officer at the Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank. CJ is pursuing a master’s in banking and financial services at Boston Univ....Gavin Little-Gill is the global head of Linedata’s asset management product strategy and acts as managing director for North America....Joff Redfern is the head of LinkedIn’s global mobile products team.

1991 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Katie Tibbetts Morello ktmorello@alumni.bates.edu class president John Ducker jducker1@yahoo.com

Brendan Gillis happily reports that in January 2012 he started his own business, Gillis Accounting Services, LLC, in Darien, Conn. “Business has been wonderful. My clients are small businesses who don’t need a full-time accountant, as well as individuals, doing budgeting, organization and planning. I typically work three out of four Saturdays a month, but that’s far better than the alternative.” He and Jill celebrate their 10th anniversary this year.... The Times-Dispatch reported how musician Corey Harris and City Councilman Parker Agelasto ’98 are involved in a project to memorialize the historic Fulton neighborhood in Richmond, Va. Fulton was the object of a misbegotten urban-renewal effort that erased its urban grid and architecture in the 1970s, the newspaper said. Former residents have worked to establish a memorial park. Corey has lived in the Fulton area for three years and wrote the collection Fulton Blues, inspired by a local history, and gave a benefit performance to raise money for the park. “As a songwriter, I’m always drawn to stories,” he said. “I think it’s a tragedy anytime people are pushed out of their neighborhood, and people’s sense of place is demolished for other people to come in and make money.” Parker helped bring Corey onboard through the musician’s relationship with his brother, who has a recording studio in Nelson County. “I graduated from Bates College, as did Corey, and his career in the music industry has been pretty remarkable,” Parker said....Freeport Town Councilor Melanie Fleming Sachs is the new executive director of Freeport Community Services. A clinical social worker, she’s been involved in the organization and its needsbased programs for a long time.

1992 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

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the Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison....Clara Zone Avalos and her husband and menagerie of pets relocated to Raspberry Falls in Leesburg, Va. Director of federal government contracts and compliance at Thomson Reuters since July 2011, she loves working at the fast-moving, creative global company where she is able to define and expand her role in its dynamic IP&Science division. “The best thing about working at TR is the fact that the company truly values its employees as assets and treats us like the human beings that we are. This past year I was fortunate to be allowed to work from home on a flexible schedule to accommodate extensive treatments for advanced-stage breast cancer. Work was one of the major things that kept me active and positive and helped me to get through the roughest parts of chemo, post-op and radiation. I still have a long way to go, but I know that I am going to beat this — and being able to continue to be ‘normal’ has been one of the greatest medicines and motivators of all.”

Caitrin Lynch ’89

who:

Caitrin Lynch ’89

media outlet: The Boston Globe

headline:

Needham firm finds success with older workers

date:

March 31, 2012

takeaway: Work provides an oasis of meaning for older adults.

For her book Retirement on the Line: Age, Work, and Value in an American Factory, researcher Caitrin Lynch ’89 spent five years studying the workforce at Vita Needle Co. in Needham, Mass., where the median age is 73. Lynch, an associate professor of anthropology at Olin College, tells The Boston Globe that for many Americans getting old is like a vanishing act. “People don’t even look at them, and if they do look at them, they look at them with pity.” But work provides “an oasis of meaning for older adults,” she says, telling Northeast Public Radio that her research illuminates “the economic, social and psychological values” of work in America. “What is it people are seeking? What are their values? How do you understand work in the context of people’s lives?”

The Times Union in Albany interviewed Jim Cable, deputy chief of the New York State Office of Fire Prevention and Control. He has been a 911 dispatcher, fire protection specialist, arson investigator, volunteer

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firefighter and EMT. He now oversees firefighter training and certifications. “Fifty percent of the line-of-duty deaths every year nationwide are cardiacrelated events, so there’s an increased emphasis on firefighters being fit, and being mentally and physically prepared for the job that they have to perform,” Jim said....Erin Lydon was named to the board of Roomlinx Inc., a developer of media networks and interactive TV applications for hotels. She is a director at Marbles: The Brain Store, a national retailer based in Chicago....Judy Robbins joined Bates lecturers Robert Farnsworth and Robert Strong in a joint poetry reading during Brunswick’s Longfellow Days....Former Glastonbury (Conn.) town councilwoman Carolyn Treiss was named to fill a vacancy on the town’s board of education. She works as a program manager for the Connecticut Department of Social Services.

1993 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Kimberly Donohue Kavanaugh k.kavanaugh@alumni.bates.edu class president Madeline Yanford Gorini madelinegorini@me.com Alexandra Pray Dumont and Joseph welcomed Joseph Jackson Dumont (Jack) on April 11, 2011. Alex and her family enjoy their new hometown of Portland, Ore.

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1994 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Jonathan Lilja jonathanlilja@gmail.com

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class president Susan Spano Piacenti susanpiacenti@cox.net Rachel Cohen, Jessica Parsons ’93 and Ben Chin ’07 spoke about their careers in social activism at a Bates panel discussion. Rachel, a global health and humanitarian worker who has worked with Doctors Without Borders, is now regional executive director for the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, North America. Jessica, an environmental education community organizer, is project manager for Circle the City at the Emerald Necklace Conservancy in Boston. Ben, a political strategist and activist, is political engagement director for the Maine People’s Alliance....Joy GrierEarle and Frank “Robin” Earle III welcomed Evelyn Barrett Earle on Aug. 26, 2011....Publishers Weekly profiled Ru Seneviratne Freeman, a social justice activist and freelance journalist who explores in her creative writing many of the same themes

as her political commentary: war, peace and reconciliation, education and women’s issues. Born in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), she recalls a tumultuous youth in a family of intellectuals, set against a backdrop of political conflict. Her new novel, On Sal Mal Lane (Graywolf ), weaves together the experiences of a large cast of characters whose lives are ripped apart by the real-life civil war that erupted in 1983 between the Sinhalese majority and the Tamil minority. “In Sri Lanka,” Ru said, “you have to live with everybody else. You don’t get to isolate yourself. So, when there are riots, or war, or suicide bombs, it doesn’t just kill one group; it kills a lot of people. They are from everywhere, from all religious backgrounds, from all ethnicities.... War defined my entire childhood.” After one brother was jailed, her parents urged their other two children to apply for scholarships abroad. Ru studied in Australia before transferring to Bates. Ru and her husband, Mark ’92, the director of institutional research at Bryn Mawr, live in the Philadelphia area with their three daughters.... Sarah Whitten was named Librarian of the Year for 2013 by Romance Writers of America, a nonprofit association for writers of the genre. Sarah, a circulation assistant at Bangor Public Library, helped found Not Your Ordinary Book Club at the library, a romance novel readers book club. She told the Bangor Daily News that heroines in romance novels have changed in the wake of feminist attitudes. “No longer does a woe-is-me heroine need to be rescued by the hero. Heroines are much more independent, confident and strong.” Sarah will be the guest of honor at the Romance Writers’ conference in July in Atlanta, where she will address several thousand people. “I’m passionate about the romance genre, a strong proponent of it. It’s an escape into a fantasy world, a complete remove from everyday life. Everything [in the novels] always ends up OK. I think we need that, to get away from life’s struggles and problems — read what you want and enjoy it.”...Barnaby Wickham, director of marketing at Met Laboratories Inc., was elected board president of the American Marketing Assn.’s Baltimore chapter.

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

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Los Angeles filmmaker Christine Beebe directed and produced Felix Austria!, a new documentary about American aesthete Felix Pfeifle, who crisscrosses the globe to deal with his father’s Huntington’s disease and his own mortality, immersing himself in the myths of the lost Habsburg Empire. The film premiered at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto.

1996 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class co-presidents Ayesha Farag-Davis faragdavis@aol.com James D. Lowe jameslowemaine@yahoo.com As a writer, novelist Jessica Anthony says she has always valued imagination over experience. “When I started writing fiction, I often struggled with real life and invention,” she said in an interview posted on PRWeb. “But as soon as I let go of what I ‘knew,’ as soon as I began aiming for pure unadulterated invention, the boundaries suddenly disappeared. It was a very freeing, happy experience not to have to rely on experience to tell a story.” Jess, who teaches creative writing and literature at Bates, received a 2013 Individual Artist’s Fellowship Award and $13,000 grant from the Maine Arts Commission....Geoff and Laura Babchuck Jarbeau welcomed Jacob Wildin Jarbeau on Feb. 1, 2013. He joins Noah and Eva....Ayesha Farag-Davis is now principal at Williams Elementary School in Newton, Mass. She’s working on a Ph.D. at Lesley Univ....Ari Friedlaender, a marine science and conservation researcher at Duke Univ. Marine Laboratory, spoke at Bates on how technology can be used to study the feeding behavior of humpback whales.... New artistic director Amy Geller kicked off the Boston Jewish Film Festival’s 24th year with an emphasis on young Israeli filmmakers. “Israeli cinema is like the indie film scene of the 1990s. First-time directors working with low budgets are turning out provocative and amazing films,” she told The Boston Globe....Meg Hopper and Chris Matty were married Aug. 29, 2012....The Los Angeles Times reviewed the cross-cultural family drama Christmas in Hanoi, featuring Joseph Kim in a lead role. Written by Eddie Borey and staged by the East West Players, the play “is very much a family drama, but echoes of the catastrophic ‘American War,’ as it is known in Vietnam, reverberate,” the Times wrote. Joseph, who performs under the stage name Joseph Daugherty, plays

the American-born grandson of a Vietnamese grandfather. After a March performance of the play, Joseph joined Chris Donovan ’92, senior VP with The CW network, and Marco Black ’92, line producer and unit production manager for CSI: Miami and CSI: Vegas, for a discussion about their work.... Sarah Spitz and David Jellinek welcomed Sydney Grace and Calla Alexandra Jellinek on July 25, 2012. Avalon is 3.

1997 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class co-secretaries Chris Gailey gaileycj@gmail.com Leah Wiedmann Gailey leah.gailey@gmail.com class president Larry Ackerman larryack@hotmail.com

Not only is there no dominant, Led Zeppelin-type band for the current generation of music fans, it’s hard for anyone to separate “the wheat from the chaff ” of new music, says music producer Jonathan Wyman ‘97. Adam Chadbourne is now director of alpine coaching at Proctor Academy in Andover, N.H....Mike Ferry was promoted to senior vice president at DDG, a multi-platform real estate firm headquartered in New York....Shanon Leonard was elected vice president of human resources for Texas Instruments’ embedded processing business unit, based in Dallas....The New York Times Book Review praised the children’s book Becoming Babe Ruth, written and illustrated by Matt Tavares. “There is warmth and affection in Tavares’ paintings, which generously illustrate the text, often in immersive spreads,” the Times said.... Jonathan White is the new vice president of enrollment management at the College of Saint Elizabeth in Morristown, N.J.... After a Forbes blogger noted that “there seems to be no Led Zeppelin for the current generation of music fans... or, in a way, Led Zeppelin is this generation’s Led Zeppelin,” music producer and engineer Jonathan Wyman offered that “I’m 100 percent for the democratization of music recording and am not a major-label sympathizer, but keeping up with and separating the wheat from the chaff in new music is daunting.” But he thinks

there may be something on the horizon. “The last time we saw something like [the late ’70s], where the charts were filled with records that would eventually stand the test of time, was the early ’90s with Pearl Jam and Nirvana. Interestingly enough, today we’re almost equidistant in time from the release of the debut albums of Pearl Jam and Nirvana as the releases of those albums were to the debut of Led Zeppelin and the demise of the Beatles. Now maybe we’re due for the next big shift.”

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 Jessica Ludders and Jack Hunter welcomed Thomas Bell Hunter on Oct. 4, 2012....Rapper, writer, actor and director Postell Pringle won raves for his star turn in the title role of Othello: The Remix at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Time Out Chicago named him its Performer of the Week. In an interview, he said working in theater at Bates sharpened his delivery as a rapper. “I wouldn’t be as good of a rapper if I hadn’t spent all that time working on just acting and just theater.” Othello: The Remix was adapted from Shakespeare’s tragedy by the Q Brothers — aka GQ and JQ, who with Postell and a fourth member are also members of the rap group the Retar Crew. The entire Crew performed in The Remix. With classmate Erin Gottwald, a dancer and choreographer, Postell returned to campus this spring to lead the longstanding Short Term unit “Tour, Teach, Perform,” in which students create a dance piece and teach it to pupils in local schools.... Kelly Richards Reuell and Peter welcomed Alexandra Richards Reuell on Sept. 29, 2012.

1999 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Jennifer Lemkin Bouchard jlemkin@alumni.bates.edu class president Jamie Ascenzo Trickett jamie.trickett@gmail.com Jen Allard Zilinski, who works as a veterinarian on Cape Cod, and Daniel welcomed James Daniel Zilinski on Aug. 20, 2012. He joins Emma (3)....Ben Ayers, in Kathmandu, directs programs for the DZI Foundation....Tracy

Barbaro married Zenas Lu on June 15, 2012....Paige Bonito Leone, who works as a school counselor, and Jason welcomed Alexis Brooke on Sept. 2, 2012. Lexi joins Maddy (5) and Jake (4)....Damon Bowe and Claire started a physical therapy clinic in downtown Washington, D.C. He enjoys working at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.... Rachel Coffield is now a nurse practitioner at Williams College’s health center and enjoys the close proximity to family.... Jennifer Coleman Fosbroke was promoted to director of endocrinology, diabetes, nutrition and weight management at Boston Medical Center. Cole is 4....Cam Donaldson is starting a vascular fellowship at Mass General....Liz Ellsworth and Andy Brownlee welcomed Hannah in March 2012. He works at UTC as a project engineer. Liz writes a weekly environmental column for the local paper....Lyle Estell, Melissa and Luke (5) welcomed Maggie Grace on March 30, 2012....Now in Malden, Mass., A’Llyn Ettien and Nathan Meharg ’97 welcomed a baby on April 1, 2012....Christina Favretto Morris and Sean welcomed Daphne Grace Morris on Nov. 14, 2012. She joins Nicholas (4) and Everett (2). Christina now works at her alma mater, Catholic Univ.’s law school, in the career services office. “I got the job lead from Erin Russ Scherzer ’03. OCS at Bates put me in touch with her when I said I was looking for a career change. Love the Bates alum network!”....Abby Fierman and Michael welcomed Jack Lieff Grossman on June 3, 2012. He joins big brother Tyler. Abby is a nurse practitioner in the OB/GYN department at the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center....Jill Firestone Elman and Jeremy are enjoying twins Tyler and Oliver (5) as she takes a break from practicing law....Addie Fletcher Dublin started a new job at Boston Univ.’s Student Health Services as a psychiatric nurse practitioner. She and Max are parents to Tucker (5) and Wylie (2).... Beth Frissora has a great new job in New York, continuing in the fashion industry....Marian Drake and Mark Jensen plan to consummate a Bates-era ambition by hiking Katahdin this summer. Louisa is 4 and Natalie 2....Kari Jorgensen Diener now works with Mercy Corps, a global development and humanitarian relief organization, as a senior policy adviser and lives in Maryland with Obie, Cyrus (1) and Teo (3). In the wake of anti-American protests in the Middle East, Kari and co-author Victoria Stanski told Christian Science Monitor readers that these countries, especially Yemen, need foreign aid more than ever. In their op-ed they wrote, “What Yemen needs are

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Ed Walker ’02

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Ed Walker ’02

media outlet: The Boston Globe

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Giving back to the community

date:

December 9, 2012

takeaway : Basketball brothers give an assist to the next generation.

Ed Walker ’02 and Hugh Coleman bonded on the basketball court at Charlestown (Mass.) High School nearly 20 years ago. Later, they realized each was struggling with troubled family histories. Coleman’s mother was a drug addict; Walker’s family past is equally messy. But both attended top colleges — Coleman at Bowdoin — and each played college hoops. Now, both help other Boston-area disadvantaged youth. “Ed is my brother,” Coleman, now an acclaimed basketball coach at Brighton High and a teacher, tells the Globe. “Neither of us had a real father figure,” Walker adds, “so we gave each other a lot of support.” Walker recently founded Independent Consultants of Education, providing disadvantaged students with equitable access to college. “There were times in my life when I needed a helping hand, especially around school. I vowed that one day I would return that helping hand,” he says.

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simultaneous initiatives to build a more dynamic private sector, while supporting market development, job training and youth employment programs to address systemic issues.” Kari reports that her editor at the Monitor was Cricket Alioto Fuller ’05.... Liz Kay teaches biology at Suffield (Conn.) Academy, where she works with Maeve Ryan, and now coaches basketball at Amherst (Mass.) High School, where John Bechtold heads the theater department....Daniel Kreiss published Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of Networked Politics from Howard Dean to Barack Obama (Oxford), a book that explains how Democrats gained an advantage in online campaigning and social media. He’s an assistant professor in UNC–Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication....Jess Kremen-Kotlen Musiak loves consulting to startup medical device and pharmaceutical companies, leaving more time with Alek (7) and Jake (3)....Chris Lanoue is still at SMMC. Liz Pancoast Lanoue loves being at home with Addison (8) and Samara (5), running half and full marathons and doing triathlons....Jenn Lemkin Bouchard, Ryan ’01, Grant (6) and Avery (2) are moving this summer to the Boston area where Ryan works for ORA....Rosie Lenehan, who teaches fourth grade, and Andrew welcomed a second son, George, on Nov. 11, 2012. They live in Portland near Scott McAuliffe....Kelsey MacMillan Banfield welcomed Garner Reid Banfield on Jan. 17, 2013. She sold her second cookbook, due out in 2015....John Nesbitt opened a private psychotherapy practice. He looked forward to a Maine wilderness canoe trip with Ian Cleary and Tom Tucker....Gary Piandes is engaged to Jayme Hennessy ’05....Amanda Prendergast Reyes, who starts nursing school this fall, welcomed Madera Moon Reyes in October 2012. She joins big sister Ember....Now in New York, Pete Putignano is an in-house attorney at IBM.... Noah Rabinowitz is “living the dream in Colorado as a teacher/ skier raising our two daughters with wife Suzanne.”...Jennifer Reynolds Weiner and Andrew welcomed twins Jacob Benjamin and Amelia Rose in May 2012. Nathan is 3. Jennifer enjoyed visiting freshman year roommate Michele Anandappa....Josh Rosenblum loves his work as a physician assistant specializing in emergency medicine at Springfield (Vt.) Hospital. He and Honor welcomed Sadie Hanna Rosenblum on Nov. 15, 2012. Lilly is 2....Now the director of marketing and communications at Suffield (Conn.) Academy, Maeve Ryan “was happy to discover that three other Bates grads work here: Liz Kay, Dave Pillsbury ’00 and Sean Atkins

’03.”...Mike Schlechter is now managing director of Code Worldwide’s North American operations. Sarah Picard Schlechter is busy with Josh (7) and Eli (4) and consulting for DHL. She also helped lobby the Connecticut Legislature in support of gun control....Becky Skarbek Roberts is the middle school head at Belmont (Mass.) Day School. Her boys are 6....Kate Hine Smith and Corey Smith now live in Freeport with Madeline (9) and Ian (7). Corey works with Stantec Consultants. Kate teaches as an online adjunct professor....Greg Sundik is the events coordinator at Portland’s Victoria Mansion. He and Jennifer welcomed William Frederick Sundik on Aug. 10, 2012. Alexander is 2....Erik Thomson and Sarah Weiss ’01 live in Gothenburg, Sweden, with Anika Holder Thomson, born March 23, 2012....Now in North Reading, Mass., Eric Trickett runs his recruiting company, Dissero, and oversees his other business, Venturefizz. Jamie Ascenzo Trickett works in product management focused on foreign exchange trading at State Street. They welcomed Declan on May 1, 2012. Anderson is 3.... Sarah Walker Hodges finished her second year at UMaine Law School....Emily White Steinberg teaches high school biology. Teddy is 7, Timothy 4....While raising a brood of four with Tom, Wendy Zimmerman Thorpe enjoys heading the admissions for their co-op preschool.

2000 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class secretary Cynthia Macht Link cynthiafriedalink@gmail.com class co-presidents Jennifer Glassman Jacobs jenniferellenjacobs@gmail.com Megan Shelley mhshelley@aol.com Jon Adler and Jonathan Lewis welcomed Miles Benjamin Adler-Lewis on April 10, 2013.... Erika Fulenwider Ainslie and Brad welcomed a daughter, Kaia Ocean, on Aug. 20, 2011.... In Haleiwa, Hawaii, Jenn Glassman Jacobs and Nate welcomed Jackson Kai Jacobs on Oct. 20, 2012....OrganicAuthority.com and MSN both featured Jesse LaFlamme, CEO and president of Pete & Gerry’s Organics in Monroe, N.H., a fourth-generation family farm committed to producing fresh, organic, cage-free eggs. “Since 2000, not only has the company been promoting and helping 30 family farms to distribute the eggs they produce, but they have come to be seen as one of the leaders in humane, environmentally responsible and sustainable egg production,” reported OrganicAuthority, a Web resource devoted

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to all things organic. MSN’s Business on Main website, a portal for small businesses and entrepreneurs, described Pete & Gerry’s under the headline “Businesses find benefits in going green” and called it “a regional powerhouse, distributing ‘certified humane’ organic eggs up and down the East Coast.” Jesse said, “A large part of my value system and my understanding of the world was shaped by my time at Bates College and my study of international political economy and relations.” With that in mind, he forged partnerships with small family farms. “[They] are really only interested in taking care of their hens and being farmers. We provide a stable income and grade and package their eggs along with ours. We see the impact that this opportunity is having on smaller family farms and young families, and growth and support of these family operations has become central to our mission.”...Ashley Maurin and Paul Rodden were married July 28, 2012....Savoy Magazine named Lena Sene one of the most influential women in corporate America. A managing director with Deer Isle Capital, Lena is responsible for overall business development and for the firm’s Africa investment strategy. In 2011, Lena, who is a Bates trustee, served as campaign manager for former Senegal Prime Minister Idrissa Seck during that country’s presidential election, won by Macky Sall. Born in the U.S., she was raised in Senegal, Russia and Ukraine....Bernadette and Ben Shaw welcomed Hannah Eliza Shaw on Jan. 2, 2013.... As the communications and political director for the New York City Correction Officers’ Benevolent Assn., Michael Skelly directs the union’s political support for candidates running for city-wide office in 2013. He posed for a photo with actress Scarlett Johansson and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, who is running for comptroller, at a fundraiser for Stringer....Sarah and Hawley Strait welcomed Zachary Nathan Strait on Feb, 3, 2012.... Maine Gov. Paul LePage promoted Carlie Tuggey McLean, his natural resources policy adviser, to general counsel and senior natural resources policy adviser.

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

Irina Babayan and Arman welcomed Simon J. Gevorgyan on Sept. 30, 2012. He joins big brother Adrian....The Oregonian wrote about the Portland-based startup Your Brandlive, cofounded by Fritz Brumder. He describes its Web application as a “tool that allows retailers to reach consumers through live video chats akin to Home Shopping Network or QVC events.” Consumers pose questions from their computers directly to the retailer, who in turn can direct a pitch or demonstration to a captive audience. “Retailing and shopping by nature is a personto-person, social process,” Fritz says. “While the Web has given us tools to sell and merchandise and make it utilitarian, I think human nature is about putting people in front of people and have them interact around a product or market.” Fritz says the startup has worked with more than 45 retailers across the country since launching in 2010, including Marmot, Levi Strauss, Gerber Legendary Blades and Nordica....Matt Carriker talked about his role as the new interim Protestant chaplain at Brandeis Univ. in an interview with the campus newspaper. An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ who spent three years in Belize and then traveled to Haiti, he serves part time at Brandeis and is also an associate pastor in South Natick. He believes Protestant services and fellowship should be both traditional and open to new ideas. “I think there’s a sense that you would want any kind of spiritual community to ‘fill your cup.’ There are a lot of different ways to do that through worship, prayer and song, so we do a combination of that.”... Katherine Enfinger Orton and Olly welcomed Lillian Martha Frances Orton on Dec. 9, 2012.... Elena John and Joseph Toce III were married April 20, 2012. She is a director at Gitterman Gallery, a fine art photography gallery in New York. He is a senior manager in the transaction advisory services office of Ernst & Young, an accounting firm....Elizabeth Kaplan Frew and Jason welcomed twin boys Eli Thompson Frew and Carter Samuel Frew on Feb. 15, 2012. Lauren is 3... Meredith Mendelson is now deputy commissioner of the Maine Department of Marine Resources....Sveta Srinivasan Doucet, an authority on helping brands assert leadership in both digital and traditional channels, joined M&C Saatchi in its New York office as chief strategy officer. She also teaches at the Miami Ad School and is a member of Account Planners of New York and Planning for Good, a group created to solve strategic problems for nonprofit organizations.

2002 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Drew Weymouth weymouthd@gmail.com class president Jay Surdukowski surdukowski@sulloway.com Charles Antin is head of sale and auctioneer in Christie’s Wine Department in New York. He writes frequently for Food & Wine magazine, and his fiction has appeared in the Michigan Quarterly Review, The Gettysburg Review and elsewhere.... Charis Campbell Loveland left SAP, where she streamlined the software patch process for supply chain management software SAP Sourcing, to work as a senior program manager for EMC’s Flash Products Division. She finishes her Northeastern Univ. high-tech M.B.A. program this July, and looks forward to spending more time with Lucinda (4) and Bryan ’99.... After 10 years in corporate law, Matt Dominici quit his job and headed to business school at Babson. He’s scheduled to graduate in 2014. Luckily, there are a few other Batesies there with him along for the roller coaster ride....David Johnston, an assistant professor of earth and planetary science at Harvard, received a Sloan Research Fellowship, given to early-career scientists and scholars whose achievements identify them as rising stars....Kelly McNamara Peake and James welcomed their first child, Camden, on Halloween night 2012. Life has been crazy since then. “I am gearing up to take over as head of school at Community Day Charter School in Lawrence (Mass.) beginning in July and trying to adjust to being a working mom. Life is good and we are enjoying the ride.”...Between occasional but consistent stints in professional housesitting, stone masonry and Web development, Wren Schultz finds lots of time to pursue less than professional endeavors. He is active in the Pacific Northwest’s circus scene, occasionally performing, and is on the board of and tours with the New Old Time Chautauqua, an all-volunteer vaudeville group dedicated to taking entertainment and education to lesserserved communities. Wren is building a tiny stone cabin in the woods. He is patiently waiting for his millions to roll in via troothpicks, his must-have party invention. Wren enjoys getting out to see the world and tries to visit at least a couple new countries each year. Yep, life is good....Jenn Strahle and Andy enjoy every minute with daughter Quinn, born Oct. 23, 2012.... Drew Weymouth completed his 11th year at Wachusett Regional High School in Holden, Mass.,

and his sixth as an assistant principal. He has two boys (Carter, 1, and Tyler, 3) and looks forward to coming home to them (and of course his wife) every day! Also, Reunion last year was awesome and Drew hopes even more people will consider coming to the 15th....Alene Wilmoth Reich is on “family sabbatical” with daughters Izzy (3) and Evelyn (1). “We are looking forward to planting seeds in our aquaponics greenhouse, built by dad, Jesse Reich ’01.”

2003 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class co-presidents Kirstin McCarthy kirstinmccarthy@yahoo.com Melissa Wilcox Yanagi melissa.yanagi@staples.com Patrick and Hannah Parmelee Boyaggi ’04 welcomed a son, Noah, on Sept. 14, 2012....Sam Chamberlin, a marine designer at the Rockport (Maine) Marine wooden boat yard, talked about his work on the three-year restoration of the 83-foot schooner Adventuress, built in Scotland in 1924. The vessel was relaunched in 2012. Sam, who grew up exploring Penobscot Bay from his family home on Isle au Haut, spoke at the Rockport Public Library....Amanda Devine and Kevin Ryan were married Aug. 25, 2012. She works as a regional steward at the Maine Coast Heritage Trust in Topsham. He is a Ph.D. candidate in wildlife ecology at UMaine. They met in 2009 at an Army Corps of Engineers wetland soil identification workshop at Reid State Park in Georgetown where Kevin was a teaching assistant. “We were wearing grubby, grimy biologist clothes,” Amanda told The New York Times. When the subject of deer overpopulation came up, “I knew I wanted to pursue her when I found out she was a deer hunter. She understood,” Kevin said. When they met for a date later, she hardly recognized Kevin. “I see this handsome man, nicely dressed, carrying a bouquet of flowers. I looked behind me thinking someone else had this handsome date.”... Cynthia Gorman talked about the internship program she created and directs at Rutgers Univ. that fosters service learning and leadership by bonding Rutgers students with surrounding communities. A doctoral candidate in Rutgers’ Department of Women and Gender Studies, she created the Community Leadership, Action and Service Program at the Institute for Women’s Leadership seven years ago as her master’s degree practicum. CLASP merges academic interests with handson community involvement. Through internships, the 20 participating students explore

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how to become more effective change agents. “They learn how they can contribute meaningfully and start to truly appreciate the difficulties of this work,” Cynthia told Rutgers Today. At Bates, she volunteered with community organizations to fight poverty. Her experiences transformed her understanding of and relationship with Lewiston. She believes CLASP and similar programs can do the same for New Brunswick’s town-gown relations. “Students usually just pass through a city without much interaction with the surrounding community. This is a way to move beyond simple exposure and get the students to really engage with the city in productive ways.”... The Falmouth (Mass.) Enterprise caught up with science teacher Janice Lewis as she taught a seventh-grade STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) class at Lawrence School. Her lesson that day — the science of flight — involved hands-on, experiential learning as the students made their own hot air balloons out of tissue paper and glue and tested them. “A huge part of this class is just problem solving,” Janice said. STEM classes also make it easier for special needs students to participate and thrive, and they teach the students that all the subjects are connected. “Science is not a bubble. Math is not a bubble. Nothing is in a bubble,” she said. Janice, who was in her first year as a full-time teacher at the junior high school, said she had wanted to be a science teacher since ninth grade.... Kirstin McCarthy and Eric Boehm were married Sept. 2, 2012....Dominick Pangallo is now chief of staff to Salem (Mass.) Mayor Kim Driscoll.... Wisam Hirzalla and Jack Sallay were married Oct. 13, 2012. She works as a business development and strategy manager for Microsoft. He works in Seattle as a senior vendor manager in the Kindle group of Amazon. com....Chefs Andrew Taylor and Mike Wiley of Eventide Oyster Co. in Portland were named “The People’s Best New Chef” for New England in an annual contest sponsored by Food & Wine magazine. “I think it’s fantastic,” Andrew told the Portland Press Herald. “We had such stiff competition — wonderful chefs in the region — and we’re pretty psyched to come out on top in the region. It really speaks volumes about all the people that supported us.” Andrew and Wiley, who are also co-owners of Hugo’s, were the only Maine chefs to be nominated. They decided to have fun with it and produced a humorous video, similar to an Obama campaign video that showed them meeting with fishermen and kissing babies as they campaigned

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for votes. “Our Facebook page reached over 30,000 people that week,” Andrew said. “It was just incredible. It really gave us the opportunity to expose ourselves to everybody.”

2004 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class co-presidents Eduardo Crespo ecrespo@alumni.bates.edu Tanya Schwartz tanya.schwartz@gmail.com ESPN Boston interviewed Pat Foley, former All-NESCAC linebacker who is the new head football coach at Brooks School in North Andover, Mass., where the team has won one game since 2010. “Between now and when I get on the practice field for the first time, I’m not gonna put too much weight on the past, and see how the guys do moving forward,” he said. Pat took the position, his first head coaching job, after four years as co-defensive coordinator at Colgate. He wants “to be more involved with other aspects of kids’ lives” outside football and will also work as an admissions counselor....Foster’s Daily Democrat in Dover, N.H., caught up with Matt Gagne, who is living his dream. He has been working for Sports Illustrated as a fact-checker since 2010, and occasionally writes a story for the magazine. “I always wanted to work there and never thought it would happen,” he said. Matt goes on the road for weeks at a time to cover, for example, a dozen NFL preseason camps or games, sometimes putting in 20-hour days between coverage and driving. “It’s fun. There’s something new every day. But I love the writing aspect more than I love the sports. You have to.” A diabetic, he makes sure that he has two weeks’ worth of insulin with him in case he’s on the road and SI needs him to do something else. “My philosophy hasn’t changed. I never said no and I won’t.”...Rachael Madden-Connor moved to Fairbanks, Alaska, and works as a children’s therapist at a community mental health center.... Amherst College assistant psychology professor Julia McQuade says she chose to teach there “probably a lot because I went to Bates College. There is something really special about small liberal arts colleges.... I wanted to go back to a school where I would actually be able to work closely with students, where they could be involved in my research,” she told the student newspaper. Her research focuses on young people with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). “I’m really interested in trying to understand why kids with ADHD have so much trouble socially because if

we can really understand why, then maybe we can figure out what we need to do to treat it.”... Margherita Pilato and Kevin Jarrett (Colorado College ’03) were married Aug. 12, 2012.... Randi Rawson, a Ph.D. student in neuroscience at the Univ. of Utah, spoke at Bates on “The Role of Mitochondria in Axon Degeneration.”...Molly Watson and Steve Shukie were married June 16, 2012. She is an attorney with Linnell, Choate and Webber in Auburn, specializing in family and workers’ compensation law. He is an assistant football coach at Bowdoin.

2005 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class co-presidents Larry Handerhan larry.handerhan@gmail.com Sarah Neukom sneukom@alumni.bates.edu Bill Ball is the dean of upper school students and coach of the boys lacrosse team at The Calverton School, a prep school in Huntingtown, Md. Bill played lacrosse and football at Bates....Rachael Ranger and Jon Furbush were married Oct. 7, 2012. Jon is the head men’s basketball coach at Bates....Laura Gross is an assistant professor of criminal justice at Norwich Univ. in Northfield, Vt. She earned a Ph.D. in criminology and justice policy at Northeastern Univ. where her dissertation, “Struggling for Success: The Role of Social Support in Female Reentry Pathways,” explored the post-incarceration experiences of women on parole.... Julie Hilliard and Michael Posternack were married Aug. 27, 2011....Katherine Kemp and John Malcuit (North Carolina State ’02) were married Oct. 6, 2012....Kristin Musto and Elliott Linsley were married on Aug. 20, 2011....Kelton McMahon, a postdoctoral researcher at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, spoke at a Bates seminar on “Linking Habitat Mosaics and Connectivity in a Coral Reef Seascape.”...Leslie Milk and Stephen Stubna were married Sept. 15, 2012....Sarah Neukom was named director of events for the Chicago Innovation Awards, a yearlong series of events and activities designed to show the importance of innovation to the local economy. She is now also business development and relationship manager for Kuczmarski & Associates, an innovation consulting firm.... Lewiston City Councilor Craig Saddlemire received the “Just Do It” award from the Bicycle Coalition of Maine for his advocacy of effective non-motorized and public transportation options, including the development of a Lewiston-Auburn Bike-Ped Committee....Patrick Wales-Dinan is now head

cross-country/distance coach at Cal State Long Beach. He was a three-time All-New England Division III athlete at Bates.... Blake Wayman, who completed his certified financial planning program at Boston Univ., is a senior vice president at Boston Partners Financial Group in Concord, N.H. Katrina Bergevin Wayman, who earned a master’s in nursing at Yale, is a certified nurse midwife at Women’s Health Associates in Derry. Married in September 2009, they welcomed their first son, Dean Russell Wayman, on May 12, 2012. They live in Hooksett.... Vanessa Williamson, an eighttime All-America swimmer at Bates, is now assistant swim coach at the college.

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

Kendall Herbst ’06 founded StyleUp, a startup that offers fashion recommendations based on a subscriber’s location, weather and personal taste. Diana Gauvin and Ben Lebeaux were married Aug. 11, 2012....The Silicon Valley Business Journal said Kendall Herbst’s StyleUp was one of the startups that “seemed to generate the most buzz among the investors and press” at Y Combinator Demo Days, a Silicon Valley institution where startups pitch to tech investors. “Don’t have a thing to wear today?” the Journal wrote. “Founder Kendall Herbst, a former fashion editor at InStyle and Lucky magazines, has some personalized suggestions that she and her team will deliver to your email inbox daily. The Mountain View (Calif.) startup offers women subscribers recommendations that take into account their location, the weather and their personal taste. The only thing it doesn’t do is help you pay for the clothes it may suggest but it will link you to where you can find them.”... Sky-Hi News caught up with former Olympic biathlete Haley Johnson Stewart as she led a clinic at Devils Thumb Ranch in Colorado. “The Fraser Valley is one of my favorite places to ski, so it is nice to come here and put on a clinic,” she said. A Colorado native who grew up in Lake

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2007 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class co-presidents Keith Kearney kdkearney@gmail.com Rakhshan Zahid rakhshan.zahid@gmail.com Sachi Cole and Greg Reihing were married Aug. 25, 2012.... Rachel Fragner and Andrew Dilsaver were married Aug, 11, 2012....Amy Radke and Ben Keller were married Oct. 6, 2012. She earned a graduate degree at Columbia Univ. and works at Putney Inc. He works at a real estate investment company in Portland....Claire Lieberman and Nicholas Keefe were married Feb. 23, 2013. The New York Times recounted how Nick, as their wedding day approached, was nervous about the first dance. Nick, a foreign-exchange specialist with the New York financial firm Gain Capital, was quick enough on his feet. But Claire, an associate vice president with AllianceBernstein, had originally trained to become a professional dancer and once appeared with the Joffrey Ballet. The two practiced but on their wedding day their choreography unraveled as they realized there wasn’t enough room for all the moves they wanted to do. Then Nick “began to improvise, shifting his gaze from her eyes to his own feet for his big finish, in which he spun his new bride around (something she was not expecting) and lifted her off her feet. With that, the crowd went wild,” the Times reported.... Jackie Olson and Jesus Zubiate were married April 5, 2013.... Emily Poole and Jeff Bates

(Middlebury ’08) were married Aug. 18, 2012....Madelyn Rubin and Matthew Ziino were married July 28, 2012....Carolina Delgadillo and Mark Strobel were married Nov. 24, 2012.

2008 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class co-presidents Elizabeth Murphy elizabeth.jayne.m@gmail.com Alison Schwartz alisonrose.schwartz@gmail.com Alie Schwartz and Alex Egelson were married Sept. 15, 2012. She earned a law degree at Northeastern Univ. and now works as an associate at Berchem, Moses & Devlin, P.C., in Milford, Conn. He works in corporate development at People’s United Financial in Bridgeport.... The Salt Lake Tribune caught up with singer-songwriter Bryan Frates, who released his first album, From the Ground Up, last fall, drawing upon multiple influences. “I love driving from place to place listening to Amos Lee, James Taylor, James Morrison and singing along,” he said. “I wanted my album to be a CD that people could listen to again and again because they love belting out the melodies.” Bryan works as the boys program coordinator at the Utah Lacrosse Assn.... Jason Godsell earned a doctorate in physical therapy from NYU in 2012 and works as a physical therapist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center....Actor Stephen Lattanzi had a small role in Argo, which won the Oscar for Best Picture of 2012, in a scene opposite John Goodman. Steve also writes, produces and stars in the award-winning Web series Keeping Up with the Downs. Recent episodes featured Tim Fox ’11 and Marielle Vigneau-Britt ’10....Kathryn Schierberl and Alexander Kidder were married Sept. 22, 2012.

2009 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class co-presidents Timothy Gay timothy.s.gay@gmail.com Arsalan Suhail arsalansuhail@gmail.com

2010 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class co-presidents Brianna Bakow brianna.bakow@gmail.com Vantiel Elizabeth Duncan vantielelizabeth.duncan@ gmail.com Sarah Davis, Nate Libby ’07, Julia Sleeper ’08 and John Jenkins ’74 took part in a Bates symposium titled Beyond Intellectual Profit: Using Classroom Knowledge in the Workplace. Sarah works with Welcoming

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Placid, N.Y., Haley started as a competitive alpine skier before switching to cross-country and biathlon. She left Bates after two years to compete on the U.S. Biathlon Team. She retired from the competitive biathlon circuit after finishing the 2011 World Cup in Oslo with career-best times. She’s now in Denver with her husband, David, and finishing her education at the Univ. of Denver studying public policy and social services. Her small business, Snowfall Cards, creates greeting cards with original motifs....Lissa Moses and Rob Johnson (Ohio Univ. ’04) were married Sept. 22, 2012. She is an education writer for CBSChannel One News in New York City. He is an associate producer at NBC-Peacock Productions.... Molly Balentine ’08 and Tyler Paul were married July 7, 2012. She works at the Univ. of Michigan Health System. He earned a master’s in business administration at Michigan’s Ross School of Business....Jenna Vendil won re-election to the Portland School Board.

Starting Them Young Learning about Bates, one image at a time Sarah Rorimer ’03 teaches first grade at P.S. 33 Chelsea Prep in Manhattan, and for the school’s college fair she created this Bates display using pages from old college calendars and other publications, including Bates Magazine. “All of the students in the school, grades K–5, had a chance to browse colleges by attending the poster session,” Rorimer explains. “Teachers dressed in their college sweatshirts, and students took notes on clipboards and collected information. Who knows what kind of an impact this will have on the future Class of 2028!” A Russian major and music minor at Bates, Rorimer taught English in Russia after graduation, then earned a master’s at Hunter College in teaching English to speakers of other languages. — hjb

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Can Do Spirit Downeast Cider expands into cans It’s been a changeable year for the Downeast Cider startup. Initially based in Waterville, Maine, the ciderhouse moved operations to Leominster, Mass., last year before recently settling in Charlestown, Mass. Also changed is its availability. At first the hard cider was only on tap in bars and restaurants. Now it’s canned, so you can buy the cider in any number of stores or “packies” (for you Boston readers) in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Co-founder Ben Manter ’11 has moved on, so when the cider was showcased at the Bobcat Den in March, co-founders Tyler Mosher ’11 (left) and Ross Brockman ’11 represented the label. Mosher tells Gary Dzen ’05, who covers craft beer for The Boston Globe, about the move to Charlestown. “There’s a lot of excitement in the craft alcoholic beverage industry right now, and Boston is square in the thick of things.” —hjb

Maine, an organization that supports community integration for immigrants and refugees. Nate is a Lewiston city councilor and state representative to the Maine Legislature. Julia co-founded Tree Street Youth in Lewiston, a community center that empowers youth to make healthy choices through academics, athletics and the arts. John, now a public speaker, is the former mayor of Lewiston and Auburn as well as a state senator....The Portland Press Herald told how Chomba Kaluba helped new immigrants cope with a Maine winter. When he arrived from Zambia eight years ago to attend Southern Maine Community College, he had never seen snow. “Just touching it and playing in it was fun.” Chomba, who now teaches sociology at SMCC, was eager to help recently arrived immigrants discover the joys of sledding, skating and other winter sports at the WinterKids annual festival last January in Portland, where he served cocoa and other treats to hundreds of people. “I know how it feels,” he said....Forbes magazine named Peter Simon one of its “30 Under 30” entrepreneurs under the age of 30 for his work as co-founder of the Industry City Distillery in Brooklyn. The distillery is the newest venture of The City Foundry, a research, design and engineering group focused on improving smallscale manufacturing processes by blending science and art. After building a distillery from scratch, Peter and his four cofounders are transforming beet sugar into a flavorful vodka. While a traditional distillery usually separates liquor into four parts, ICD separates it into 30, each having its own distinct flavor, then blends certain elements back together to create the exact flavor desired. “We can, quite literally, separate out every chemical from an alcohol,” Peter told the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. “If you want a sweet flavor, we can do that. If you want it to be earthy, we can do that. There’s even one that tastes like bananas.”

2011 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class co-presidents Theodore Sutherland theodoresutherland89@gmail.com Patrick Williams dapatch20002000@yahoo.com Embracing her entrepreneurial spirit, Stephanie Cabot anticipated starting Rêve Cycling Studio in Portland, Maine, in spring 2013....Talking with his hometown newspaper the Lowell Sun, Drew Gallagher discussed his teaching awards and educational disparity in the nation’s capital. He teaches

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at Bruce-Monroe Elementary School, where most students are multilingual or English-language learners. “You’re not just bringing kids into the classroom and teaching them math or reading or how to write an essay. You’re helping them develop social skills that some have lacked or just haven’t been able to develop.... The hardest part of teaching in an inner city is the range in academic levels. I teach 44 kids currently, and their academic levels go from reading at a kindergarten level to reading at a fifth-grade level.” Entering the teaching profession through Teach for America in 2011, Drew won the New Teacher of the Year award in 2012 and shared the Rubenstein Award for Highly Effective Educators with 27 other teachers in the district.... Uri Gonzalez works with the UNO Charter School Network as a graduate support adviser on the Hector Garcia High School campus in Chicago....Ben Manter was named the assistant alpine skiing coach at Colby College. He earned All-America honors at Bates in the slalom.... Anna Tuggle was accepted this fall to the Denver Teacher Residency program that prepares people to teach in the Denver Public Schools by combining a yearlong, in-classroom residency with master’s level coursework at the Univ. of Denver....Kaitlin Webber, an AmeriCorps volunteer on Swan’s Island near Bar Harbor, spoke at a public forum about her work to digitally record and exhibit town history four years after fire leveled the town library and destroyed historical documents. An Island Fellow with the Island Institute, Kate expanded the collection of oral histories on the island and designed an exhibit that was shown at the library and other venues. She also launched a “History Detectives” club at the school to engage students in exploring the island’s lore and legends.

2012 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class co-presidents Mikey Pasek mikeypasek@gmail.com Sangita Murali murali58@comcast.net

As a new high school field hockey coach, Sarah Merullo ’12 says that her “routine has been eat, sleep, school, field hockey for the past 11 years, so why stop now?”

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and creating a market for credits among private buyers and sellers, he said. Corey is a Peace Corps volunteer in the environmental conservation sector in Paraguay....Tess Glancey is now deputy press secretary to Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) in Washington....Jessica Howard, a research scientist working on a drug discovery project at Albany Molecular Research Inc. in Indianapolis, had considered graduate school, but tells Chemical and Engineering News, for a story about young science graduates, that she “loves the hands-on” aspect of work in the private sector....Sarah Merullo teaches Spanish and coaches the field hockey team at Ipswich (Mass.) High School, which she led to the state tournament in 2012. Sarah, who played four years at Bates where she was team captain, told the local paper, “I have a passion for the game and love being part of a team. Besides, my routine has been eat, sleep, school, field hockey for the past 11 years, so why stop now?”

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Ann Marie Russell assumed a key college post in May as director of the Office of Institutional Research, Analysis and Planning. She comes to Bates from Princeton University where she was a postdoctoral research associate in the Office of the Dean of the College and where her duties

included, among other things, staffing a university-wide task force to examine issues of educational access and support for low-income students....Peggy Rotundo, director of special initiatives at the Harward Center for Community Partnerships, joined the panel discussion “Women in Public Leadership” in March 19 at the college. Also a member of the Maine Legislature representing Lewiston, she chairs the Appropriations Committee....Whitehouse Professor of Sociology Emily Kane received the Maine Campus Compact’s Donald Harward Award for her success in designing courses that instill the workings of sociology while meeting community needs....Sonja Pieck was promoted to associate professor of environmental studies, with tenure, beginning in the fall. See story in Bates in Brief.... The Rev. Bill Blaine-Wallace, multifaith chaplain since 2006, has retired. “I am deeply grateful for the quality and texture of Bill’s engagement with matters of the spirit — variously conceived — on this campus, for his wisdom in difficult passages and for his steadfastness in challenging us to be our better selves,” said President Clayton Spencer. Blaine-Wallace will build a counseling practice up Route 4 in Farmington....Dana Professor Emeritus of Art Don Lent presented a solo show at the George Marshall Store Gallery in York, Maine, during the spring. “He’s such a kind, gentle

and unassuming man, and just such a wonderful artist,” says gallery curator Mary Harding. See page 92 for a story on Lent’s Chase Hall mural.....Doug Hodgkin, professor emeritus of political science, helped the Kennebec Journal plumb the roiling waters of public sentiment about gun-control legislation that the Maine Legislature considered during the spring. Gun-rights advocates tend to cast their votes for candidates who share their views, Hodgkin told the KJ, but gun-control supporters are less inclined to punish lawmakers for voting against their beliefs because other issues simply carry more weight with them....Richard Davidson, visiting assistant professor of English in 1988–89, reports that he and his wife, Helen, completed two related books in one volume: Prelude: A Novel, and The 1854 Diary of Adeline Elizabeth Hoe. Dick and Helen researched and annotated the diary of the daughter of Richard March Hoe, inventor of the rotary printing press and Helen’s direct ancestor....Bates has marked the passing of several retired staff members: Romeo Breton, baker; Fern Desjardin, Admission receptionist; Clifton Dow, carpenter; Ernie LaBrie, assistant director of security and concierge for athletics; Leo Lemay, groundskeeper supervisor; Eva Rouleau, Dining Services staffer; and Hollis Winslow, mechanic and groundskeeper.

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The English-language Saudi Gazette newspaper published “Bridging the Cultural Gap,” an account of the Bates Short Term trip to Saudi Arabia written by Casey Andersen and Devin Tatro ’14 and featuring photos by Leena Nasser. Led by Dana Professor of Anthropology Loring Danforth and facilitated by Leena, a Saudi citizen, the trip was ambitious in scope, the authors wrote. “The unparalleled generosity of the many Saudis who eagerly invited us into their homes, offices and schools, shared delicious meals with us, and were quick to engage in inspiring dialogue about their country, opened our minds and shaped our perceptions of Saudi Arabia and its people.” At a mosque, the students asked the imam’s daughter about wearing her veil, or niqab. Didn’t it make women feel self-conscious? “If I didn’t cover and wear my niqab that’s when I would feel self-conscious,” she explained.... Ali Cornforth won an internship at Dream Local Digital, a digital marketing agency based in Rockland, Maine, providing social media and online marketing services....Writing in The Hartford Courant, Corey Creedon urged Connecticut’s congressional delegation to support a bipartisan effort at dealing with climate change through carbon pricing. Carbon pricing has both an economic and environmental value by taxing carbon emitters and/or limiting total carbon emissions in a particular region

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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. Snow & Lindner ’03 Erica Snow and Dan Lindner ’03, Oct. 1, 2011, Wilburton Inn, Manchester, Vt. Front: Josh Levin ’03, Amanda Ferrante-Owen ’03, Maya Levine ’03, Dan and Erica, Amanda Golden Berg ’03; back: Matt Lipstein ’06, Brooks Crowley ’03, Travis Crooke ’03, Tom Nagle ’03, Jeff Berg ’03, Matt Royles ’02. Leonard & Liscord ’11 Brittany Leonard (Allegheny College ’11) and Rob Liscord ’11, June 10, 2012, wedding at Old Wilton Center, N.H., reception at Mile Away Restaurant, Milford. First row: Erin Bourgault ’11, Molly Mylius ’11, Emma White ’11, Rob and Brittany, Liz Lee ’11, Marissa Maliwanag ’11, Jennelle Liljestrand ’11, Schuyler Rooth ’11, Gwen Caffery ’11; second row: Patrick Harris ’11, Gabrielle Otto ’11, Bridget Brewer ’11, Diane Saunders ’11; back: Nathan Kane ’11, Sam Woods ’11, Nick Silverson ’11, Matt Parker ’11, Andy Wood ’11. Balentine ’08 & Paul ’06 Molly Balentine ’08 and Tyler Paul ’06, July 7, 2012, Bangor, Maine. Front: Aviva Goldstein ’08, Victoria Aghababian Wicks ’74, Christine Wicks ’08, Tyler and Molly, Caroline Ginsberg ’08, Rachel Katz ’08, William Vaya ’06, Robert Schuler ’07, Caroline Gottlieb ’10, Griffin Finan ’07; back: Leigh Campbell ’64, Bruce Wicks ’74, Elizabeth Murphy ’08, Jon Blanchard ’08, Thomas Lucey ’06, Sean Cahill ’06, Peter Meisel ’07, Anthony Arger ’06, Nathan Miley-Wills ’06, Paul Kazarian ’06. Adams ’07 & Doyle ’07 Katelyn Adams ’07 and Casey Doyle ’07, July 14, 2012, Portland, Maine. Ellie Wilson, Melissa Linville ’07, Sarah Catignani ’07, Jenny Sadler ’07, Benjamin Umiker ’07, Andrew Tibbetts ’07, Sarah Janoff ’07, Rashel Burton ’07, Jen Yee ’07, Alex Chou ’07.

Dessain ’07 & Schwab Alicia Dessain ’07 and Pierre-Emmanuel Schwab, Aug. 4, 2012, Metz, France. Betsy Hamm ’07, Danielle Rettinger ’07, Rebecca Dessain Marx ’05, PierreEmmanuel and Alicia, Carine Warsawski ’07, Tasha Kimmet ’07, Jane Mellors ’07, Mary Bucci ’07, Luke Feinberg ’07. Hueber & Palsho ’06 Lindsay Hueber (Fairfield Univ. ’06) and Chris Palsho ’06, June 12, 2012, Osterville, Mass. Back: Donovan Driscoll ’06, Alexander Maulucci ’08, Adam Worrall ’06, Andrew Foukal ’06, Mike Nelligan ’06, Todd Myers ’06, Peter Noonan ’86, Matt Gerety ’06, Brooke Anable ’06, Amanda Grillo ’06, Zack Mueller ’06, Marie Hemmelgarn Mueller ’06, Sarah Willhoite ’06, Machias Schoen ’06, Anna Schechter ’06; front: Brooke DenneeSommers ’07, Sean Caplice ’06, Lindsay and Chris, Connor Boyle ’06, Divna Wheelwright ’06. Wentworth ’06 & Kernan ’06 Ashley Wentworth ’06 and Zachary Kernan ’06, July 28, 2012, Sunday River Ski Resort, Bethel, Maine. Back to front: Cynthia Mauer ’06, Emily Davie ’06, Zachary Mueller ’06, Marie Hemmelgarn Mueller ’06, Kay Gonsalves ’07, Nick Harty ’07, Stewart Ames ’80, Debora Furlong Wentworth ’79, Nathan Wentworth ’79, Adam Worrall ’06, Donovan Driscoll ’06, Toshi Odaira ’06, Christine Chmura Farber ’06, Ashley and Zachary, Adam Tokarz ’06, Connor Boyle ’06. Lochner ’00 & Paulhamus Lauren Lochner ’00 and Ryan Paulhamus, Aug. 10, 2012, Poulsbo, Wash. Back: Lauren Nichols ’00, Jennifer Peterson ’00, Mojeje Omuta ’00, Leah Bennett ’00, Allyson Maynard ’00; front: Grace Spencer O’Connor ’00, the bride, Claire Donohue ‘00. Not pictured: Ryan and Nic Gurnon ‘01.

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Helliesen ’06 & Aldrich Meghan Helliesen ’06 and Nathan Aldrich, Aug. 18, 2012, Flag Hill Winery, Lee, N.H. Back: Mark Boccard ’06, Maureen Noble ’06, Joel Colony ’06; front: Julie Dutton Patrisso ’04, Holly Bales ’06, Larry Handerhan ’05, Beth Pagnotta ’04, Ben Hagberg ’05, Nathan and Meghan, Jeremy Fisher ’06, Jen Caban ’07, Evan Michel ’05, Elizabeth Scannell ’07, Rebecca Fraser-Thill, Julie Yeterian ’06. Knott & Dufresne ’02 Whitney Knott and Ben Dufresne ’02, July 22, 2012, Squaw Valley, Calif. Maia Steward ’02, Jerry Ireland ’68, Dana Axtell Ireland ’68, WJ “Duke” Dufresne ’71, Betty Ireland Dufresne ’71, Ben and Whitney, Nate Breznau ’02, Alex Patrikis ’01, Alexandra Hankovszky ’01, Nick Holquist ’02, Christy Deysher ’03, Andrew O’Donnell ’02. Cook & Ambra ’07 Erica Cook and Michael Ambra ’07, May 27, 2012, Midland, Mich. Vaibhav Bajpai ’07, Ryan Creighton ’07, Rakhshan Zahid ’07, Jeff Davis ’04, Michael and Erica, Keith Egan ’07, Nils Johnson ’07, Daniel Cohen ’07. Watson ’04 & Shukie Molly Watson ’04 and Stephen Shukie (Johns Hopkins ’05), June 16, 2012, New Harbor, Maine. Matt Gagne ’04, Rebekah Friedman Gagne ’04, Kristy Ten Haagen ’06, Allison Wensley ’05, David Brown ’05, Chrissy Dove Davis ’04, Madeleine West ’04, Libby McConnell ’04, Steve Imig ’02, Molly and Steve, Migina Tsai ’04, Katie Zettek ’04, Jon Kelley ’04, Catie Hinckley Kelley ’04, Megan Simmons ’02.

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Meyer ’07 & White ’07 Hannah Meyer ’07 and Len White ’07, Aug.18, 2012, Barrington, R.I. Les Wade ’09, Adam Bristow ’07, Katie Graeff ’07, Madeline White Wade ’09, Ben Morrill ’07, John Anderson ’07, Julia Eiferman ’07, Sidney Walker ’07, Hannah, John D’Ascenzo ’07, Len, Phil Taylor ’07, Tyler Maynard ’07, Scot Wilks ’07, Nick Leonard ’07, Nancy Smith LaBelle ’89, David LaBelle ’89, Tony DeSisto ’06. Good ’06 & Balogh Joanna Good ’06 and Jessica Balogh (Bowdoin ’99), Aug. 6, 2011, Yarmouth, Maine. Nicole Moraco ’06, Lauren White ’06, Kristen Fries Wilson ’07, Sarah Wilson ’06, Mary Beth Lee ’06, Joanna and Jessica, Hayley Anson ’06, Brigid Beech ’05, John Phelan ’06, Megan Hamilton ’06, Erin Culbreth Hotchkiss ’06, Sam Hotchkiss ’05. Melchor ’01 & Trajani ’03 Allyson Melchor ’01 and Endri Trajani ’03, Sept. 3, 2011, Rye, N.H. Back: Carlin Aloe ’01, Anna Wulffleff Marley ’01, Katie Goodspeed ’01, Andrew Rahedi ’03, Kristian Bodek ’01, Sean Hurley ’01. Front: Endri and Allyson. Randall ’04 & Chung Lauren Randall ’04 and Scott Chung, Sept. 22, 2012, Rumson, N.J. Clayton Sanders ’04, Susannah Pugh ’04, Swita Charanasomboon ’04, Lauren and Scott, Katie Harris ’04. Goddard ’07 & Carpenter Marian Goddard ’07 and Adam Carpenter, Oct. 6, 2012, Meredith, N.H. Jen Rasmussen ’07, Sean Maguire ’08, Sarah Sprague ’07, Marian and Adam, Ashleigh Coren ’07, Hisa Abe ’08. Healey ’02 & Beyer ’00 Jessica Healey ’02 and Jason Beyer ’00, Aug. 27, 2011, Geneva, N.Y. George Recine ’00, Josh Howes ’00, Paul Rodden ’00, Jessica and Jason, Eric Wei ’01, Marissa Borin Leaversuch ’02, Mike Leaversuch ’00, Andrew Sisto ’01. Lebowitz & Spector ’02 Abbie Lebowitz and Dan Spector ’02, Sept. 1, 2012, Old Field Club, East Setauket, N.Y. Fred Nostrant ’00, Kate Humphrey ’02, Abbie and Dan, Drew Weymouth ’02, Greg Hurley ’02, Mollie Chamberlain Hurley ’01.

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1928 Alfred Chester Webber August 8, 2012 Al Webber found many ways to look at the world. He could roll back part of the roof of his house to use his home observatory, or he could use his stereoscopic equipment to look at tiny mineral crystals. He could walk four doors down the road to chat with Andrew Wyeth while he painted, or he could drive to the Univ. of Delaware and put on a “star party” at the Mount Cuba Astronomical Observatory. He was a physicist by training, with a bachelor’s degree from Bates cum laude in both physics and mathematics, and a master’s in physics from Boston Univ. He joined DuPont in its plastics department, where he set up its physical measurements lab. He developed standardized tests for comparing products in research and development throughout the company. In 1962, he was president of the American Society of Testing and Materials, and was plastics chairman of the International Standards Organization. He received the International Award of the Society of Plastics Engineers and the ASTM Award of Merit. After he retired in 1972, he indulged in his hobbies of stamp collecting, gardening, astronomy, photography and lapidary. The Delaware Astronomical Society awarded him the Luther J. Porter Educator Award. His 2,600 micro-mounted mineral crystals are now part of Bates’ collection. His wife, Margaret Vaughan Webber, died in 1984. Survivors include children David, Alfred Jr. and Judith Stark; four grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and cousin Susan Bates Spooner ’62. Edna Canham Priest ’37 was his cousin.

1930 Jeanette Cutts ’30 had her thesis from Wellesley on the fundamental strokes in tennis graciously accepted by the Chris Evert Tennis Academy. Jeanette Cutts October 10, 2012 Jeanette Cutts — “Al” to her friends — grew up on the Bates campus where her father, Professor Oliver Frost Cutts 1896, was the director of physical education. Her sister, the late Charlotte Cutts Wise ’33, followed her. She graduated cum laude in French and Phi Beta Kappa, went on to earn master’s degrees from Wellesley in physical education and from Harvard in education. She taught physical education in Maine and French and English in Massachusetts. Later, she became a guidance counselor. Her thesis from Wellesley on the fundamental strokes in tennis was graciously accepted by the Chris Evert Tennis Academy. She is survived by several nieces and nephews, including Eugenia Wise Hathaway ’63.

1931 Martha Joe Verrill Swain November 14, 2012 Oh, how I hate to get up in the morning! Did Martha Swain ever get that song out of her mind? She lived near the site of Camp Upton, where she had been a Gray Lady, and where Irving Berlin had written that iconic song of World War I weariness. She also was a spotter for enemy aircraft during World War II. Her first husband, now deceased, was James Russell Edwards ’31, the society columnist for The New York Times from 1954 to 1976. They divorced in 1968.

Elden Herbert Dustin August 6, 2012 Elden Dustin never forgot it: He needed money for books, and it was Assistant to the President Harry Rowe who gave it to him — $15, with which Eldon bought, among other books, a dictionary that he desperately needed so Professor Paul Whitbeck wouldn’t mark him down a grade for every misspelled word in his weekly theme papers. Harry Rowe refused to let him repay the money, and as the years passed, Elden shuddered to think what it amounted to with compound interest. He earned his room and board by shoveling coal to keep President Gray’s house warm. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and received a master’s in education from Yale. He was a principal and headmaster of several schools in New Hampshire before moving to Connecticut, where he served several schools in the Stratford school system as vice principal and principal. The auditorium at the Frank Scott Bunnell High School is named in his honor. He retired in 1993 to New Hampshire, close to the Contoocook farm where he grew up. He came to Bates because the principal at his high school (his graduating class had six students) was a graduate, who simply picked up the phone and asked if his valedictorian could enroll. Obviously, he could, and he ended up marrying classmate Rosamond Nichols, herself the daughter of an alumnus (Roger Nichols 1903). She passed away in 2004. From their separate and combined families emerged more alumni than there were in his high school class: Roger Nichols ’39, Clinton Nichols ’33, Catherine Nichols Osborn ’30, Frances Nichols Wills ’28 and Daniel Dustin ’42, all deceased; son Daniel Dustin ’68; and niece Donna Dustin Strachan ’70. Other survivors include daughters Sara Dustin and Susan Clarke; 10 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. Althea Howe Adelhelm January 12, 2013 Two lines, no more. That’s all she gave herself. Althea Howe Adelhelm was better at it than that, certainly.

She called them “tidbits,” and they were her own form of poetry, two lines of two syllables, developed early in her marriage to Adolf Adelhelm. She became a teacher in Saugus, Mass. — of sixth grade, which her daughters found funny, since Althea had skipped sixth grade. It took her 27 years to pass it this time around, but the school board finally let her retire in 1980. She wrote poetry throughout her life, establishing and editing the newsletter of the North Shore Poets Forum. She also was the vice president of the Massachusetts Poets Society, and created and edited the Saugus Senior Center newsletter. She was preceded in death by her husband and daughter, Maria Heller. Survivors include daughter Elizabeth Emmett; five grandchildren; and six greatgrandchildren. Dorothy Sullivan Higgins January 9, 2013 Dot Higgins, a French major, married a career Army officer and traveled the world with him, yet still spent many summers at her family camp on Sebago Lake. Her husband, Col. E.R. Higgins, predeceased her. Survivors include son John; a granddaughter; and two greatgrandchildren.

1934 Verna Brackett Kirby February 3, 2013 Verna Kirby and her late husband, Vincent Kirby ’33, were honored with the Distinguished Alumni Service Award in 1992. She was secretary of her class for nearly 20 years, and they were leaders of the Southwest Florida Bates Club as well as class agents and Reunion committee members. She was a member of the Venice (Fla.) United Church of Christ and the Venice Yacht Club. Survivors include daughter Barbara Stewart; son Paul Kirby; three grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Her late father was Vernon Brackett 1912; her late sister was Frances Brackett Zwinck ’33.

1935 Elsie M. Gervais January 1, 2013 Some kids just won’t let a teacher wash her hands of them. Take the five who insisted on buying lunch every year for Elsie Gervais, who’d been their French teacher over 50 years ago at Edward Little High School in Auburn. She would travel to Florida every winter to the same rented condo from her home in Maine, and there her students would whisk her away. She was the head of the high school’s foreign languages department, and the mastermind behind its initial incorporation of technology. She

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also was the organist at High St. Congregational Church for 24 years, and a member of the parish guild, as well as a former president and secretary of the Auburn Art Club. A member of the College Key, she graduated from Bates Phi Beta Kappa in French, and also received a master’s in French from the college in 1943. In 1955, she received a master’s in education from Columbia. Her sister, Florence Gervais ’35, died in 1944. William Scolnik January 22, 2013 William Scolnik was a lifelong resident of Lewiston, a lifelong supporter of the Red Sox and a lifelong supporter of Bates athletics teams. He wrote more than one letter to the college wondering why the local newspaper didn’t give better coverage to Bobcat sports; he was a fixture at home events himself. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, and worked as a buyer for several department stores: R.H. White, Wanamaker’s and Filenes. Both of his late brothers were Bates graduates, Samuel ’33 and Edward ’39. Louis Scolnik ’45 is his cousin, as was the late William H. Scolnik ’35, who was married to the late Mary Abromson Scolnik ’36.

1936 Montgomery Farrington December 11, 2012 Monty Farrington left Bates after two years and graduated from UNH. He was a cryptographer who landed on Normandy the day after D-Day and participated in the liberation of Paris and the Battle of the Bulge. He worked as a procedure analyst for General Electric in Massachusetts. Survivors include children Dave and Diane; one grandchild; and three great-grandchildren.

1937 Elizabeth Stevens Earle December 18, 2012 Betty Earle claimed that she was “at home and an outsider on both sides of the Atlantic.” A Mainer by birth, she happily lived most of her life in England. A French major, she studied at the Sorbonne, then went on to Grenoble; there she met Ion Earle. She received a diploma from the institute in 1939, but impending war forced her to return home; it would be seven years before he could finagle a way to the U.S. and find her again. In the meantime, she earned a master’s in French from Middlebury and taught for a few years in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. They ended in a lovely English seaside village home full of treasures of a lifetime of travel. Ion passed away six years ago. Survivors include children John and

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Katherine Earle Bird ’69; five grandchildren; and seven greatgrandchildren. Another relative is cousin Benjamin Trafton ’00, who is married to Stephanie Liteplo ’00.

Before there was an Ask.com, said The Providence Journal, people with history questions just asked Bill Metz ’37. William DeWitt Metz February 11, 2013 Rhode Island’s diminutive size belies its rich history, one that William Metz made his passion and specialty. He could answer any arcane question about the history of the Pettaquamscutt area or if there was a Cocumscussoc tribe. “Before there was an Ask.com,” The Providence Journal wrote, “people with history questions just asked Bill Metz.” His interest in history ranged from the smallest detail to the grandest panorama, from a butter churner to a Civil War battle. He also saw history in his years at Bates, serving as class president and as class agent for many years. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in history from Bates, earned a doctorate from the Univ. of Wisconsin and joined the Univ. of Rhode Island history department, which he chaired 1962–1968. He retired in 1982. He was the editor of the New England Social Studies Bulletin and The Historian: A Journal of History and served as president of Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honor society. He was active as a volunteer firefighter, parent-teacher organization member, in the Rhode Island National Register Review, Rhode Island Council for the Humanities and as a Sunday school teacher. He and his wife, Clarice, were especially involved with Kingston village and the Kingston Congregational Church. Bill recorded the history of both in his book, The History of the Kingston Congregational Church, which covers the years 1695–1995. In 1997, the state of Rhode Island awarded him its highest historic preservation award, the Antoinette R. Downing Volunteer Service Award. Survivors include children Elizabeth McNab ’64, who is married to A. David McNab ’62, William Metz ’66 and Margaret Munroe; six grandchildren; and 10 greatgrandchildren. One grandson is Allan McNab ’87, whose wife is M. Sidney McLean McNab ’88. His late sister was Mary Metz Calder ’37, whose daughter is Barbara Calder Brown ’76.

1938 Elizabeth Alice Gregory October 30, 2012 Betty Gregory, the oldest child of parents who fled the murderous hands of Turks intent on wiping out the Armenians among them, never forgot that heritage, that genocide, that sacrifice. Her father, a teacher in Armenia, could find no work except in a shoe factory in Lewiston, but he put three of his four children through college and graduate school. She distinguished herself well enough in biology at Bates that she was accepted into Boston Univ.’s medical school at a time when it was strongly suspected that such studies would shrivel women’s internal organs. She once said, “Bates is where my life began. Before that I was the daughter of my parents — helped, nourished, directed, encouraged, pushed by them. At Bates, I became an individual who recognized my own ambitions and abilities and knew where I wanted to go.” She was elected to the Board of Overseers in 1956 and served for five years. President of the Boston Bates Alumnae Club in the 1980s, she co-chaired her 50th and 55th Reunions. In 1993, at that 55th Reunion, she received the Alumni Distinguished Service Award. She immersed herself in the Armenian community near Boston, making herself an aunt and grandmother to all of her young patients as their pediatrician. She was a founding member of the National Assn. of Armenian Studies and Research, and a board member of the Cambridge-Yerevan Sister City Assn. and the National Center for Genocide Studies. Two of her brothers, now both deceased, also attended Bates — Sirak Gregory ’42 and Hoosag Gregory ’39; one or both might have used their original Armenian last name of Kadjperooni as students. She is survived by her brother Robert Gregory, and a number of nieces and nephews, as well as her countless patients. Edith Wier Prohaska September 22, 2012 Edie Prohaska came to Bates after two years at Wellesley to finish her degree in government and history. She was a longtime member of First Church, Congregational in Glastonbury, Conn. Her husband, Bradley Prohaska, passed away in 2007. Survivors include children Susan Edelman and Robert; one grandchild; and two greatgrandchildren.

1939 Hope Flanders Bailiff January 9, 2013 It’s probably safe to say that Hope Flanders was the first and perhaps the only high school

student to be recruited to Bates while pouring a cup of coffee for the college president. She grew up on Martha’s Vineyard, and President Clifton Daggett Gray was summering next door to her family. He often ate at the restaurant where she was a waitress, and he used the opportunity to convince her to apply. She left after two years, however, to marry her first husband, Arthur W. Danielson ’37, whom she divorced in 1970. He passed away in 2012. Her second and third husbands also predeceased her. Survivors include son David Danielson ’59 and five grandchildren. Her aunt was Bernice Mayhew Humphreys ’25. Earl Robert Kinney May 2, 2013 Bob Kinney entered the food industry by canning crabmeat in his Maine home during World War II, en route to becoming CEO of General Mills. A Bates trustee for 27 years, including 17 as chair, he received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree in 1985 and the Benjamin Elijah Mays Medal for distinguished service to Bates and the larger community worldwide in 2008. When he received his honorary degree, then-Dean of the Faculty Carl Benton Straub praised Kinney for “his compelling example that commitment to the common weal is the indelible mark of liberal learning.” Born in Burnham, Maine, and raised in Pittsfield, Kinney earned money for college by working and living in the home of Lewiston mill industrialist Scott Libbey Sr. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate in history, Kinney’s philanthropic impulse began at graduation. Having received about $500 in scholarship support, he told Dean of the College Harry Rowe that “I don’t know how I’m going to do it, but I’ll try to pay you back the scholarship money.” At the time of his death, he was the college’s most generous living donor, and was a charter inductee into the Benjamin Bates Society, an honor accorded the college’s leading philanthropists, in 2005. In 1942, while doing a Works Projects Administration study along the Maine coast, Kinney saw that lobstermen were tossing away the crabs caught in their traps. So he entered the crabmeat canning business, learning the skill at home. By the 1950s his North Atlantic Packing Co. was a $2 million-a-year business employing 400 in Bar Harbor. Later, he led Gorton’s to explosive growth as the company expanded its innovative product line of frozen, ready-to-cook fish. In 1973, he took the helm of General Mills, later serving as CEO of IDS Mutual Fund Group. At Bates, Kinney provided major support for the construction of Pettengill Hall (1999), was instrumental in securing foundation grant

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funding for the Olin Arts Center (1986) and established an endowed professorship in history and a scholarship fund. In his adopted home city of Minneapolis, Kinney served on the boards of the Minnesota Symphony and Guthrie Theater, among other organizations. Elsewhere in Maine, his support and service went to the Bangor Theological Seminary, the Maine Central Institute, Friends of Acadia National Park, The Jackson Laboratory and many other nonprofits. He is survived by his wife, Margaret (Margee) Kinney; daughters Jeanie Small and Isabella Keating; stepdaughter Lucy Thatcher Penfield; stepson Ford Thatcher; seven grandchildren, including Samantha Kinney Leone ’93; two step-grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; and his sister, Elizabeth Kinney Jones ’44. He was predeceased by his son, E. Robert Kinney Jr. ’70, who is survived by his widow, Sally Greenlaw Kinney ’69. Arthur Graves Wilder October 12, 2012 So it’s your 80th birthday. You’re in Utah. What do you do? Go skiing! That’s all Art Wilder wanted to do, because his favorite ski area, Alta Ski Resort, let anyone 80 or older ski for free, and he’d been waiting for a while. He skied as often as possible well into his 90s. He was a charter member of the Wild Old Bunch (70-plus skiers), but sadly his wife Ginny Parker Wilder preferred golf. Now, before you start to think that Art was a ski bum his entire life, he put in a long career as a chemist, with his degree from Bates and a master’s from Stanford, earned after a stint in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He worked for Lockheed-Martin as a metallurgist, then moved to Salt Lake City and worked for Christensen Diamond Products Co. His wife died in 2008. Survivors include children Arthur Jr., Peggy Elmer and Carol; 10 grandchildren; and 23 great-grandchildren.

1940 Bertha Maboth Bucklin November 1, 2012 Bee — don’t call her Bertha! — Bucklin was strong-minded. She left Bates after two years because she disliked the dean of women, who, according to Bee, “never smiled, had no sense of humor and did not like people.” She came to regret not having a Bates degree, and retained much more allegiance to Bates than any other college she attended. She also believed strongly in the value of education and wanted Bates to invest heavily in its future. She herself taught for many years in Pennsylvania, at a school for the disabled, and at Abington Friends School. She held advanced degrees from

Lehigh and Temple, and was a principal part of the Children’s International Summer Village at the School for the Blind in Germantown. She and her brother, James Bucklin, visited every state together in their mobile home. He survives her, as do a number of nieces and nephews. She established a scholarship in memory of her parents to aid students interested in a career in education.

Thirty thousand hours. That’s how many hours Shep Shepherd ’40 flew. That’s 1,250 days. Harry Buffum Shepherd August 30, 2012 Thirty thousand hours. That’s how many hours Shep Shepherd flew. That’s 1,250 days. More than 178 weeks. Four months. In the air. He flew for the Navy in the Pacific during World War II, and again during the Korean War, and again during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He reached the rank of captain in the Navy Reserves, simultaneously becoming a captain for American Airlines. Pry him out of an airplane and he’d roar away on his motorcycle, or in his boat, with his wife, Beatrice “Bee” Wilson Shepherd ’42, close by. And it seems that’s how much time he gave to Bates, too, between all he volunteered and all the new students he sent to Lewiston, starting with his own son, Robert Shepherd ’69, and grand-nephew, Zachary Altman ’01. A member of the Phillips Society and the College Key, he co-chaired several Reunions and the 1985 Alumni Fund, was class president a number of times, and a class agent in every decade. Somehow, Bee and Harry found time to ski, play tennis and dance — on the ground, presumably. But that pace of activity won’t surprise anyone who knew him at Bates: His list of activities as a student ranges from track and field to musical groups to student government to campus publications. Bee and Robert survive him, as does another son, Ric; and five grandchildren. Other survivors include Bob’s wife, Alice Grant Shepherd ’71; Bee’s sister, Marcia Wiswall Lindberg ’47; and an ex-daughter-in-law, Pamela Coulouras Shepard ’72.

1941 Barbara Abbott Hall August 19, 2012 Barbara Hall held a variety of jobs shortly after finishing Bates, but one she remembered especially: counting and recounting how many points a soldier had received in different educational matters while in the

service toward college credits, and whether he qualified for graduation. She remembered the vicarious thrill she got when she realized that the unknown young man in the photo on her desk was now a Harvard alumnus. It was while working there that she met her husband, Richard Leland Hall, himself a World War II veteran, about to enroll in graduate studies. (Her first, brief marriage to Harold N. Goodspeed Jr. ’40 ended when he was killed during the war.) She wasn’t keen on attending Bates at first, but “I loved every minute of it. It was the best thing that ever happened. The friends I made at Bates are the friends that…are still my closest friends,” she told an interviewer. Her career was in volunteering. One of the founding volunteers at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center, she logged more than 13,000 hours there from 1965 to 2008. She was known for doing whatever needed to be done, whether patient care or organizing shoes for the secondhand sale. She volunteered for the Heart Fund and the American Cancer Society and, when her daughters were younger, led a Girl Scout troop. She was class secretary for many years, president of the Alumni Council in 1972–73, and a Bates trustee from 1975 to 1980. She received the Distinguished Alumni Award in 1996. In 2011, she returned to campus for her 70th Reunion. She also became a faithful steward of the AbbottHall Scholarship Fund established by her father, Charles H. Abbott 1912, in memory of his mother, and augmented by Mrs. Hall and her husband. Besides her husband, survivors include daughters Ann Hall Dorr ’73, Nancy Abbott Cooper and Elizabeth Hall Ottinger; and five grandchildren. Her cousins were Ruth Hopkins Spooner ’27 and Warren Spooner ’27; her aunts were Emma Abbott Mosher ’24 and Dorothy H. Abbott, a Bates staff member. Her uncle was John W. Abbott ’27, and her brother-in-law was Robert F. Goodspeed ’44. Selma Viola Bliss Stevens Clark November 7, 2012 Who hasn’t muttered a dark thought or two when shuffling around the block in the cold and the dark with the pooch? Selma Clark, that’s who. She raised Weimaraners, champion Weimaraners, one of which she took all the way to Westminster. She was just completing her master’s in education at the Univ. of Bridgeport in 1960 when her first husband, Bud Stevens, passed away, and her teaching career suddenly became serious. There’s at least one family in Stratford, Conn., that’s on its second generation of using her recipe for cranberry dressing for its Thanksgiving

dinner. She taught there for 37 years. She married again in 1963, to Carl Clark, a childhood friend; together they sailed Long Island Sound by sailboat, South Carolina by glider and rural Connecticut by hot air balloon. He, too, predeceased her. Survivors include sons Howard Stevens Jr. and Craig Stevens; stepdaughter Donna Lemos; seven grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. Anna Ford Peaslee February 2, 2013 Anna Peaslee left Bates after two years to attend the Massachusetts General School of Nursing. She served on the Louis A. Milne, a hospital ship, in the Atlantic and Pacific Theaters during World War II. Survivors include daughters Lynn Bonney, Merril Dwyer and Marcia Peaslee; seven grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

1942 Francesca Harlow Evans June 13, 2012 Fran Evans grew up on land owned by her family since 1866, land to which she returned after her husband retired in 1986. There, they built a new house on old land, and she moved from parenting to grandparenting, and invigorated her career in volunteering, especially in conservation, peace, justice and social welfare. She was a strong supporter of Seeds of Peace and Nature Conservancy and a co-founder of Community Action Planning in Woodville, Ohio. She became part of Bates activities too, volunteering for her 50th and 60th Reunions. Her husband, Weston Evans Jr., predeceased her. Survivors include children Lucy Ellen Smith, Mary Anne Evans and Forrest; six grandchildren; and eight greatgrandchildren. Sons Thomas and Weston III predeceased her, as did a great-grandchild. Albert Raymond Harvey February 6, 2013 From the time he was in high school in Lewiston, Ray Harvey planned to escape the dark and cold by moving to California. And that’s what he did, as soon as he got everything he could from the best schools there were in the dark and cold. His degree in math from Bates was granted cum laude, and he received his doctorate from Harvard. Only then did he venture past the Mississippi to Cal Poly Tech for a year as a research fellow and then on to San Diego State Univ., where he was an advanced mathematics professor for more than 30 years. He said he tried to emulate the teaching style of Professor Percy Wilkins, and thought he was successful. He retired in 1991. That gave him the opportunity to escape the dark and cold of La Jolla, and he joined his daughter Summer 2013

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in Hawaii. His first wife, Ella Stuart Muir Irwin, and second wife, Janet McCarthy Harvey, predeceased him. His brothers, Edward ’37 and Robert ’38, also predeceased him, as did Robert’s wife, Annette Gorman Harvey ’37. Survivors include daughter Heather DeGeus; stepchildren Dorothy Capwell, George Capwell, Robert Capwell, Kathleen McGuines and Jeanne Harris; 17 grandchildren; and many greatgrandchildren. Eleanora Keene Dalton July 14, 2012 Elly Dalton held a bachelor’s in biology from Bates and a master’s in zoology from the Univ. of California, Berkeley. She taught nursing students at Massachusetts General Hospital and at Bates. In 1948, she married H. Clark Dalton. After he retired from Penn State, they moved to Lihue, Hawaii, where she became active in the ACLU, the League of Women Voters and the National Tropical Botanical Garden. Her husband passed away in 2006. Her aunt and uncle were Alice Frost Holmes 1904 and William K. Holmes 1901. Lucille Leonard Jewell December 31, 2012 Alphabetical order does have its advantages, especially when it seats you next door to that handsome young man in your freshman English class. Such was the case for Lucille Leonard in Dr. Whitbeck’s class, eyeing Malcolm Jewell as he eyed her. Lennie would enjoy 66 years of marriage with him, until his death in 2008, years marked with cribbage wars and trekking off to Brunswick to sell homemade butter and smelt fishing weekends with no smelt and all manner of small-farm life, good, bad, and in-between. Somehow, she managed to plant perennial beds and vegetable gardens, can and preserve fruit and vegetables, play tennis, welcome exchange students, raise farm animals and chase down children. She was also very involved with the Unitarian Universalist Church, a founding member of the Merrymeeting Audubon Society, and secretary-treasurer of her class. In 1971, she earned a master’s in education from Univ. of Maine, and taught junior high mathematics. “Keywadin,” the farm in Bowdoinham that Mal’s great-grandfather built in the 1840s, is now under the stewardship of the Maine Farmland Trust, which will preserve it as a farm while allowing their children to construct homes there. Survivors include sister Nina Leonard Sloan ’44; children Nina Jewell Mendall ’65 and Stephen; seven grandchildren, one of whom is Carrie Lucille Jewell ’97; and 14 great-grandchildren. Her daughter is married to Peter J. Mendall ’66. Her late sisterin-law was Elizabeth Jewell Ballard ’45. Two children, Jeffrey

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and Jeremy, died in childhood. Her husband was the third of five generations of his family to attend Bates. Barbara Madison Stanhope December 10, 2012 In 1994, a flurry of letters whipped back and forth between Lane Hall and Grand Forks, N.D. A professor at the Univ. of North Dakota had been asked to reflect on her memories for her 40th reunion at the Abbot Academy in Andover, Mass., and in doing so, she realized that Barbara Stanhope was the best teacher she had ever had, and she now wished to contact Ms. Stanhope. Could the powers that be help her? The powers that were did indeed help her, via forwarded mail, and Ms. Stanhope did indeed learn of her former student’s highest compliment; she also realized it when another student sent her a copy of her first published novel inscribed to her. These things tend to happen to certain teachers. As a teacher of English, she taught in Lisbon Falls and Groton, Mass., before starting work on a master’s in English at the Univ. of Maine. She later taught in independent schools: Abbot Academy, the National Cathedral School and Lincoln School, a Quaker school for girls, from which she retired after 26 years. Her companion, Rachel Alden, predeceased her. She is survived by nieces and nephews. Her father was Charles Stanhope 1912; her aunt was Effie Stanhope 1911. Ruth Wyer Haines February 19, 2013 Imagine: You’ve just spent 11 days miserably hunkered down on a rolling deck traveling from India to Kenya. Christmas and New Year’s passed you by somewhere in the middle. You stagger to the American Express office in Mombasa to see if there are any letters for you: just a package, a big one, from Ruth Wyer Haines. And it is Christmas! She has sent you Christmas! Somehow she has packaged enough evergreeneryin-a-box to deliver Christmas spirit halfway around the globe, as full of kindness as she was herself. The young couple who received that box in the 1970s never forgot it. Ruth earned an M.L.S. from the Univ. of Rhode Island and was the librarian at high schools in Canton and Wellesley, Mass. She taught library science at BU and Bridgewater College. She was active in the political process throughout her life, especially with Common Cause and People for the American Way. She volunteered at the Farnsworth Museum and Penobscot Bay Hospital. Her husband, David Haines ’44, passed away in 2004. Survivors include children Janet Haines ’75, Linda and Alan; and six grandchildren. Kevin Haines ’75 died a week after his mother; his obituary is also in this issue.

1943 Elizabeth Avery Palmer February 10, 2013 “Much to my dismay,” said Betty Palmer, “I left Bates in my sophomore year.” She didn’t say why, but she ended up working at the Children’s Study Home in Springfield, Mass., where she met Allan Urquhart, a student at Springfield College. They were married for 25 years and had four children before divorcing. In 1975, she married William R. Palmer, with whom she enjoyed many RV trips. Both of her husbands and son Ross Urquhart predeceased her. Survivors include children Gary Urquhart, Brian Urquhart and Janet Hutchinson; eight grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

1944 Osmond Richard Cummings January 15, 2013 Dick Cummings left Bates after two years to attend what is now Bentley College. While there, he was bitten by the newspaper bug, threw caution — and therefore money — to the wind, and enjoyed it thoroughly, he said. He worked for the Newburyport (Mass.) Daily News as a reporter, then joined the staff of the Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader. He retired in 1987. Survivors include several cousins. His mother was Mary Audley Cummings 1912. Despina Doukas Athans January 13, 2013 Despina Athans divided her life into four phases. The first lasted past her time at Bates, until she met Sotiris A. Athans, an orthopedic surgeon visiting from Greece. They married and settled in New Jersey, where he worried about medicine and she worried about his office finances. The second phase ended with his death in 1976, and she started the third phase with a young teenager and no employment. She decided to learn to invest, so she tried brushing up on the economics she learned at Bates at the New York Institute of Finance, “where I learned not to listen to brokers,” as she wrote in her 50th Reunion note. Instead, she read the Wall Street Journal front to back every day. Ready to retire after that 50th Reunion, she gave the fourth phase a big shove when she knocked the plans for a condo in Maine out of the way in favor of a home on the waterfront in Cape Elizabeth. Survivors include daughter Marego McDyer and one grandchild. Edmund Howe Gibson December 9, 2012 Tod Gibson rarely missed a Bobcats home game, be it basketball, football, baseball or track. A varsity tennis player as a student, a government and history major,

he interrupted his studies to serve in the U.S. Navy in World War II before graduating and starting his teaching career. He taught math at Bath Junior High School for 20 years, and was head of the city’s math department, athletic director and baseball coach. He and his wife, Patricia, established a nursery school in their house. He liked to call himself the superintendent of schools, but “nobody takes me seriously.” The school was in operation for 39 years, meaning that generations of adults and children would wave to Tod and his family wherever they drove in town. He was co-president of his class and a member of the Reunion committee. Besides his wife, survivors include daughter Susan Priest and two grandsons, one of whom is Scott Priest ’06. Jane Rawson Tompkins April 8, 2012 Jane Tompkins followed her brother Freeman ’43 to Bates. As an alumna, she was secretary-treasurer of the Hudson-Mohawk Bates Club for more than 15 years. She served as a deaconess at the Saratoga Chapel and the East Glenville Community Church, where she worked part time as a secretary. Later, she was a real estate agent in Clifton Park, N.Y. Her husband, Russell Tompkins, predeceased her, as did son John and brother Freeman and his wife Patricia Peterson Rawson ’43. Survivors include son James; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Meredith Gilbert Williams Jr. June 29, 2012 Bacronym. You can look it up: Meredith Williams invented it in November 1983, when he won a monthly “new word” contest in The Washington Post. It’s an acronym in reverse, a word that was a word first but was retrofitted to become an acronym. Apgar is probably the best-known example, as in the well-known test immediately performed on newborns, named after its inventor and not given its five-letter hints until 10 years later. But that clever word invention of his came after a long career with the U.S. Navy, one that started after graduating from Bates with a degree in physics. He worked in electronics repair during the war, and entered civil service as an oceanographer and then a physicist for the research section of the sonar branch of the bureau of ships of the Navy Department. He retired after 32 years as head of the nucleonics branch. Always drawn to puzzles and problems, he noticed when he drew up a list of “highlights of a life” (his own), that 11 of them occurred in leap years and wondered what to make of that. (Sadly, his death adds to that list.) After he retired in 1984, he increased his civic activism, serving in various capacities on the boards of the Potomac Glen

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Assn., the Glen Preservation Foundation, the Potomac Library and the West Montgomery County Citizens Assn. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa as an alumnus. Survivors include wife Eleanor Graf Williams; children Nancy Madden, Lisa Calvert and Jennifer Monahan; nine grandchildren; and brother Robert K. Williams ’52. Son Timothy Williams predeceased him. His father was Meredith C. Williams 1905.

1945 Franklin Seymour Burroughs July 29, 2012 He was a hard-boiled detective, a retired FBI special agent, worked as a private investigator, called himself Sam Spade, kept his hat pulled low and his grin pulled high. Frank Burroughs found PI work rather ho-hum after 31 years in the FBI, but he must have done something right: Three of his four children followed his example into careers in law enforcement (two as FBI agents). An economics major at Bates active in theater groups, he missed graduation by one semester because of World War II and didn’t graduate until 1947. He served in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific during the war, married and started at the FBI in San Francisco. He worked for Pacific Gas & Electric before becoming a private investigator. He and wife LaVerne enjoyed long railroad vacation trips, and he was especially thrilled to walk in the footsteps of his greatgreat-grandfather, a colonel at the Battle of Gettysburg. This no doubt inspired him as he wrote his 1995 history of the Burroughs family, “Burroughs: from sea to shining sea.” Besides his wife, survivors include children Bruce, David, Carol and Janet; three grandchildren; and four greatgrandchildren. A son, Paul, died in infancy.

Clif Gates ’45 needed snowshoes to reach his rural patients at his first medical practice, so remote that he was both doctor and dentist. Clifford W. Gates December 27, 2012 Jamaica. Snowshoes. Wasn’t that a movie? No, that was bobsleds. Oh, this is Jamaica, Vt., and Clif Gates needed snowshoes to reach his rural patients at his first medical practice, so remote that he was both doctor and dentist. He came to Bates pre-med, ended up enlisting in the Naval Reserve, met his wifeto-be Lyn Dudley on a blind date before he got called up, went off to the Univ. of Buffalo

School of Medicine, and proudly served his country in three wars over the course of 40 years. He oversaw the development of a new radiology department at Pearl Harbor Naval Station and was the senior member of a national board of radiologists reporting to the surgeon general. He became a real country doctor again when he moved his family to Gorham and practiced medicine for 14 more years. His wife passed away in 2005. Survivors include daughters Ronda Gates and Cristanne Mitchell; two grandchildren; and two greatgrandchildren. His late brother was G. Lawrence Gates ’29.

1946 Evelyn Virginia Rutledge Alexander June 22, 2012 Ginny Alexander left Bates after two years and graduated from the Univ. of Pennsylvania School of Education and Occupational Therapy. She earned a master’s degree from American International College and became a master teacher at the Hampden County (Mass.) Learning Disability Center. She was an avid gardener and an accomplished painter. Her husband, Leonard Alexander Jr., died in 2011. Survivors include sons Leonard and Rand; and six grandchildren. Constance Wood Norte December 11, 2012 Constance Norte, a member of the College Key, was class secretary in the 1990s and active in the Buffalo Bates Club. She and her husband, Daniel Norte ’45, visited more than 40 countries and just as many states. Her husband predeceased her, as did daughter Cynthia Bodine. Survivors include sons Harvey and Clifford.

1947 Raymond Walden Hobbs August 5, 2012 Raymond Hobbs’ parents were members of the Class of 1918, and he, his sister and brother all followed in their footsteps: first Raymond, then Carolyn ’49, who married Carl Holgerson ’51, and finally William ’54. Raymond worked for Gulf Oil and then Chevron as an economic and financial analyst. His degree from Bates was in economics; he also held an M.B.A. from Harvard. He served as class president and as president of the Pittsburgh Bates Club. He and his wife, Nancy Clough Hobbs ’47, hosted the first meeting of the Texas Bates Club. They also created an endowed scholarship in memory of his late parents, Walden and Blanche Wright Hobbs. Besides his wife, survivors include children Susan and David; and two grandchildren. Cynthia M. Hobbs ’81 is his niece. Another grandchild predeceased him.

1948 William Alan Chamberlain January 15, 2013 He didn’t graduate cum laude, his wife said, but Bill Chamberlain did graduate cum filii — with children, three to be exact, and three years late to boot. Like so many men of his original class, he enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1943, and found himself on a converted steamship crossing the English Channel on Christmas Eve, 1944. The ship, the S.S. Leopoldville, was torpedoed, and more than 800 men lost their lives. Those who survived continued on to their original destination: the Battle of the Bulge, from which only a quarter of his division would emerge alive. Bill was one of the few. These experiences strengthened his desire to enter the ministry after he returned to Bates. He earned a B.A. in theology from BU in 1952. He was in ministry through the Maine Conference of the United Methodist Church until retirement in 1984. His wife, Margaret (Midge) Dikeman, passed away in 2009. Survivors include children Gary Chamberlain ’67, Pamela Haynes and John; seven grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren. His late brother was George Chamberlain ’37, whose late wife was Margaret Melcher Chamberlain ’37. His late brother-in-law was Alan Dikeman ’54. John Gaffney August 4, 2012 World War II changed the lives of many Bates men, and many Bates women, too. But if the war hadn’t happened, the stars would have needed to find another way to bring together John Gaffney and the woman he would marry, Isabel “Pinky” Planeta ’48, because she would not arrive on campus until four years after he was originally scheduled to graduate. But he completed only one year before he was inducted into the Army. As things worked out, he served three and a half years in the Pacific Theater before returning to finish his degree in physics, court Pinky and graduate. He added a master’s degree in physics from Notre Dame and then went to work at the Naval Research Laboratory as a research physicist. He later joined Raytheon in semiconductor marketing and as manager of the reliability and analysis laboratory. Later, he provided technical supervision of personnel in its Trident missile program. He was also an accomplished clock and watch worker. John and Pinky were co-class presidents, 50th Reunion co-chairs and class agents. In addition to her, survivors include children Lorna Stafford, Kathryn Carson, Michael and Christopher; six grandchildren; and three greatgrandchildren. Son John Gaffney predeceased him.

Wayne Lester Sweatt December 9, 2010 Dean Harry Rowe gave Wayne Sweatt a stern talking-to about punctuality when he came to the campus to interview for admission — because Wayne arrived 10 minutes early. Oh, well, Dean Rowe admitted him anyway. He majored in biology and chemistry, which stood him in good stead as a chemist during his long career with the National Biscuit Co. (aka Nabisco). After he retired in 1983, he began a full-time volunteer career with the Salvation Army in New York City, directing feeding and clothing programs. When the city walls closed in, he took up corresponding responsibilities in Mexico or the Bahamas. His college years were interrupted by service in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Survivors include two brothers.

1949 Hugh Mitchell December 18, 2012 Not bad: 87 years and only one major disappointment — he wasn’t a scratch golfer. That’s what disappointed Hugh Mitchell. But it didn’t seem to disappoint Longmeadow Country Club, which named him Mr. Longmeadow in 2004 anyway. He seemed to have overcome his other major disappointment well. He had hoped to be a Navy pilot during World War II, but poor vision precluded that. By then he was in the V-12 program at Emory Univ. near his family home in Atlanta; but the war ended, his family moved to Maine, and he transferred to Bates. He stayed with Texon, which manufactured and sold materials for shoes, and its successors his entire working life, ending as a vice president. He traveled the world, was president of the American Footwear Industries Assn., and found work in Texon’s charitable organization very satisfying. Survivors include wife Sarah Kissell Mitchell; children Sollace, Carter, Rebecca O’Shea and Marcia Kessler; and seven grandchildren. John Arthur Palmer Jr. October 23, 2012 All John Palmer wanted to do was teach. He earned a master’s in education from Canisius College and another in geology from Case Western Reserve Univ., and he won a National Science Foundation grant one summer, all of which contributed to his work as a science teacher in the Glendale (Calif.) school system. He and his family enjoyed RV camping and photography. Survivors include wife Phyllis; daughters Nancy, Wendy and Amy; and three grandchildren.

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Thelma Smith Blake October 10, 2012 Thelma Blake taught English at Lexington (Mass.) High School while raising four daughters. She also was very involved with the local Unitarian Church, and became known for her day lilies. Her husband, Carl, passed away in 1998. Survivors include daughters Teresa Watts, Joyce Ryder, Ellen Leckband and Laurie Benaloh; 10 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Elaine Smith Swanton July 23, 2012 Elaine Smith met John Swanton Jr. in New York shortly after graduation. His career was in advertising and marketing — her own “mad” man, you might say — and they moved first to Illinois and then to Florida where he opened his own business. She worked with him until he passed away in the 1980s, then found employment as a salesperson and a secretary. Nicholas Valoras November 18, 2012 Nicholas Valoras earned his degree from Bates in geology and held a master’s from USC. He delayed college to serve in the U.S. Army during World War II, and later was active in the American Legion. He worked as a chemical engineer at Goodyear and at the Univ. of California, Riverside. Survivors include sister Olga and brother Deno.

1950 Betty Daniels Towle January 14, 2012 Betty Towle taught at several schools in Maine, including Berwick Academy, as well as raising five children, all of whom survive her. They are Peter, Geoffrey, Deborah, Amy Swiezynski and Sarah Spoerl. Other survivors include six grandchildren. Her husband, Edward Towle, predeceased her. Esther Freese Tardy December 3, 2012 Tess Freese Tardy came to Bates for only her senior year, after three years at the Univ. of Maine. She had already married Dick Tardy, whom she had met at the university, and she waited to start teaching until her family was established. Her husband passed away in 2002. Survivors include daughters Linda Hopkins, Esther Tardy-Wolfe, Karen Walter and Kimberly Potts; and seven grandchildren.

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music, studying it from elementary school until a stroke four years ago. He even conducted a small choir and played the organ while in the Navy during the Korean War. His degree from Bates was in English, and he also held a master’s in English literature from BU. He taught English, primarily at Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School in Hamilton, Mass., where he was the department chair for 10 years. From there, he and his partner retired to Truro, Mass. It was nearly four times as far to Boston, but they kept their first balcony seats at Symphony Hall. In retirement, he became a real estate broker and an advocate of land preservation. Survivors include Warren Hassmer, his partner of 54 years. Barbara Schenck Collins April 30, 2013 Much more of Barbara Collins than her name is on the Collins Arboretum at California Lutheran University. The place also embodies and showcases her vast botanical knowledge and passion for teaching. A CLU professor of biology for 50 years and the author of 10 textbooks, she compiled an online catalog of trees and plants in the arboretum and elsewhere, including Southern California and farther afield in the Canadian Rockies. Her husband, Lorence, a fellow professor and skilled photographer, teamed with her to do the photography. The title of her memoir, You Lead a Mean Trail: Life Adventures and Fifty Years of Teaching, came from a student who declared, “Dr. Collins, you sure do lead a mean trail,” as he struggled to keep up during a typically strenuous Collins-led field trip. She took students all over the place — to California’s deserts, Hawaii, Australia, Fiji and New Zealand — and for her efforts received the CLU President’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2007 and the national Sears-Roebuck Foundation Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award in 1991. Still teaching at the time of her death, it was a chronic lung disease that forced her reluctantly to announce her retirement, which was to have begun within weeks of her death. A Bates geology major, she was the first woman to earn a doctorate in geology from the University of Illinois, to which she later returned to earn a doctorate in botany. In addition to her husband, she is survived by children Glenn, Greg, Kevin and Rachel. She was predeceased by daughter Beth. Her late aunt was Dorothy Holt ’22.

1952 Leo Edward Begin October 31, 2012 Leo Begin joined the U.S. Army Air Forces after graduating high school in 1943, completing 25

missions in the Pacific Theater. He was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross and the Asiatic-Pacific Theater Service Medal. He owned and operated a lumberyard near Plymouth, Mass., retiring in 1994. He was a member of the Duxbury Rotary Club and the Plymouth Rock Bible Church. Survivors include wife Arlene Bourne Begin ’49; children Timothy, Wayne, Kenneth and Rosanna Buhl; and two grandchildren. Another grandchild predeceased him. John Robert Manter September 28, 2012 Jack Manter followed his father to Bates, but first he followed his heart to the sea, earned a degree from Massachusetts Maritime Academy in 1947 and put in a few years in the Merchant Marines. An economics major, he built a career with Travelers Insurance. He also stayed active in the U.S. Navy Reserves, retiring after 40 years as a captain. He was a founding member of the Minnechaug Swim Club, a member of the Hog River Outing Club and a deacon of the Buckingham Congregational Church in Glastonbury, Conn. He was president of his class for many years. Besides his wife, Nancy Larcom Manter ’52, survivors include sons Donald Manter ’80, James and Kirk; daughter Marjorie St. John; and four grandchildren. His father was Franklin Manter 1913. His aunt was Marion Manter 1911. Roger Langley ’59 is Mrs. Manter’s stepbrother.

1953 Elizabeth Driscoll Bodwell September 8, 2012 Neighbors recalled seeing her walk uptown every day, snowing or not, in Andover, Maine. Liz Bodwell was a homemaker, a frequent visitor to the library (to be expected of an English major, one supposes), a party planner, happily involved in the life of her family. Survivors include husband James Bodwell; children Richard and Deborah Bodwell-Travers; and four grandchildren. Her late brother was John Driscoll ’49. His daughter is Susan Driscoll Nolan ’71, and his son was David Driscoll ’68, who passed away April 21, 2012. He was married to Jo-Ann French Driscoll ’68. Paul Eustace Brunelle Field Jr. May 9, 2012 Paul Field attended Bates for two years before joining the U.S. Navy to serve in Korea as a radar man in the Atlantic fleet. He was mostly employed as a real estate broker in Scarsdale, N.Y. He was a Rotarian and Paul Harris Fellow recipient. His wife, Lois Ann Haskell, died in 2011. Survivors include children Stephen, Andrew and Ruth Howe, and three grandchildren.

Richard David Holbrook October 27, 2012 Dick Holbrook transferred to Boston Univ. after one year and went on to earn an M.B.A. from Harvard. Survivors include wife Christine; children Ann, David and Katherine; and four grandchildren. Virginia Frances Keith July 23, 2012 Virginia Keith lived her life among books and cats. She held a master’s degree from Simmons College, and was a dedicated supporter of the Angell Animal Medical Center and the Dakin Animal Shelter. She also had a strong interest in the Massachusetts Audubon Society. She was a librarian at the Springfield (Mass.) Library for 32 years. She is survived by cousins, including Christopher McLean ’70 and Lyn Avery Gray ’65. Other cousins, all now deceased, were Marjorie Avery McLean ’35, Urban Avery Jr. ’37, Elisabeth Avery Scharfenberg ’42 and husband James Scharfenberg ’40. David Maylor Purdy November 26, 2012 David Purdy grabbed his degree in government from the college and tried to distance himself from New England. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps with distinction during the Korean War, receiving the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Service Medal and the UN Service Medal. He earned a master’s in political science from Georgetown, then moved to Berkeley to work on a Ph.D. He spent as much time as he could imitating Thoreau, hiking the backcountry, sleeping in meadows without a tent or tarp, drinking from the clear streams. But family duty called. Ph.D. in hand, he returned to Maine to care for family members and begin a very successful career at Unity College. There he taught environmental politics, world politics, political science and government, rising to the rank of full professor and chairing the social and behavioral sciences department. In a notice to the college about his death, friends and fellow professors used such phrases as: “a pillar of Unity College,” “a brilliant scholar with a humanistic approach who radiated caring for his students,” “I quickly discovered that I found my career and I have Dave to thank,” and “This is a passing of one of Unity College’s stalwarts.” He is survived by the scholarship he endowed at Unity, by his many students, by the Boy Scouts he led over mountains and valleys, and by anyone who listens to Verdi’s Requiem and thinks of him. Emerson Benjamin Rodgers July 15, 2012 “Bunny” Rodgers left Bates after one year to serve in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. There, he met Aiko Ono, whom he would return with to

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his hometown of Marblehead, Mass., for 57 years of marriage and a career with New England Telephone. She survives him, along with sons Allan and Kenneth, and five grandchildren.

1954 Francis Charles Hine February 16, 2013 Frank Hine left the Navy with a wife, a baby, and that’s about it. They were in California, and had to drive back home to New England very carefully, because Noreen was pregnant, and there weren’t any superhighways then, remember? The job market wasn’t that great, either. Frank took a job inspecting steam boilers, until he unpacked all of his charm and marched into the offices of Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance in Hartford, where they gave him a chance and kept him on for 30-odd years. He retired in 1989 as director of banking services, then worked for them for another six as a consultant. He even stuck with the Navy as part of the Reserves, another 23 years, retiring at the rank of commander. He volunteered with Habitat for Humanity, the Red Cross and Volunteer Income Tax Assistance. Besides his wife, survivors include children David Hine ’78, Priscilla and Steven; and one grandchild. Peter Ray Sutton September 13, 2012 Although he was at Bates only one year, he prefaced that year with a round-the-world sail on the brigantine Yankee, later giving lectures on his experiences. His grandson, Sam Hundley, is in the Class of 2015. Other survivors include children Virginia Hundley, Shepard, Mark and Sarah Dorfman; and seven other grandchildren. His father-in-law was Arthur Sager ’26. Edith White Mason January 20, 2013 Edith White left Bates early to marry her high school sweetheart. The high school, Gould Academy, liked her well enough to name her Alumna of the Year in 2003. Her voice earned her a coveted place in the Oratorio Chorale in Brunswick. She was active with the Yarmouth Historical Society, to which she was named lifetime chair. Her daughter, Leslie Mason Langley ’78, died in 2006. Survivors include husband Clinton Mason; son David; and three grandchildren.

1955 Christina Dawson Conley October 18, 2012 After enduring cold New England all the way through graduate school, Christina Conley and her husband, Richard Conley ’54, sought the good life in

California, where she worked for 20 years at Downey Community Hospital. She held degrees in nursing from Bates and Simmons (M.S.) and was a licensed nurse practitioner in California, Massachusetts and Maine. Her husband passed away in 1972. In 1989, she moved to Scarborough. Survivors include twin sister Carolyn Dawson ’55; son Robert; daughter Jean Milbrandt; and one grandchild. Son David predeceased her. Arlene Hammond Ertmer February 15, 2013 Arlene Ertmer worked as a consultant for an insurance company. She is survived by husband David; children Susan, Carol and Neil; seven grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren. Marianne Webber Brenton February 10, 2013 Valedictorian of her high school class, she liked to say — but then sheepishly admitted there were only four people in the class. Her idyllic childhood on Chebeague Island set the tone for much of Marianne Brenton’s life. She met her husband, Richard Brenton ’54, on a blind date, married him in the Chapel in March 1955 with Dean Harry Rowe officiating, flew to Germany the day after graduation to spend a “wonderful year” with Dick in Europe. Her career as a technical librarian was bracketed around her years of raising three children, all syncopated with her volunteer work as a political activist and election to the Burlington, Mass., school committee. She served three terms in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Dick passed away in 2001. Marianne was secretary of her class for two decades and volunteered at many Reunions. She is survived by children Anne Isenberg, Joan and Peter; and four grandchildren. Clifford O.T. Wieden Jr. November 22, 2012 Cliff Wieden followed his parents to Bates, but left after two years to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps. He completed his degree with honors after retiring from the Marines as a major in 1975. He was a Vietnam veteran and an expert marksman. His first wife, Mary Meyers Wieden, died in 1998. Survivors include his second wife, Linda Garnett Liolios; children Clifford III, Christian, Autumn Boles, Cameron and Craig; 12 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. His late father, Clifford O.T. Wieden, earned a master’s degree from the college in 1934, and his late mother, Marguerite Hill Wieden, earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Bates in 1921 and 1928.

1956 Barry Allan Gundling Greenfield August 20, 2012 Milton Lindholm let him into college when no other college would. Ernie Muller taught him to write. And Brooks Quimby taught him to think. That’s what Barry Greenfield said. In fact, he said the Bates debate experience was responsible for his success in life. A government major, he earned an M.B.A. from Columbia. He was a longtime portfolio manager at Fidelity and started the REIT Fund. He was inspired to put his financial expertise to work for the college, becoming a member and eventually chair of the Investment Committee. He was also appointed to the Board of Overseers in 1987, elevated to the Board of Fellows in 1996, and served as a board member with three presidents. His efforts in dealing with the college’s investments, endowments and physical plant helped bring Bates to the front ranks of higher education. In 2006, he received the Helen A. Papaioanou Distinguished Alumni Service Award. Survivors include wife Nancy Goldberg Greenfield ’57; children Lisa Konan and Andrea Sheiffer; and three grandchildren. Robert Earl Taylor October 10, 2012 “Aha! A dinga dinga!” That’s what Bob Taylor would shout when he made a three-pointer with his chalk nib into the trash can during his math class, much to the delight of his students. A three-sport athlete in high school, he carried his love of sports through his years at Bates, where he majored in mathematics, and into his teaching career, where he became a coach and then athletic director at Hartford High School in White River Junction, Vt. He retired in 1998. Survivors include wife Patricia Horvath and daughter Dawn. Russell Blaine Tiffany July 30, 2012 Russell Tiffany was a career officer with the Marine Corps who rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He served in Vietnam in 1965–66, and was assigned to the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory in 1968. His degree from the college was in history, and in 1985 he happily retired from the military to Hawaii to teach history at Leeward Community College. Survivors include wife Nettie; daughters Kellie Tiffany-Tolentino and Ronnie Tiffany-Kinder; son Russell; and four grandchildren.

1957 Ernest Monroe Crawford August 4, 2012 Monroe Crawford left Bates with a degree in biology and went on to Howard Univ. School

of Medicine for his medical degree. He practiced as a general surgeon in Houston for many years and trained many surgeons. According to his family, however, he seized any legitimate opportunity to go fishing. Survivors include wife Anamarie Crawford; children E. Monroe Jr., Lisa, Kyle and Noelle; and four grandchildren. Armand Richard L. Croteau January 18, 2013 Armand attended Bates briefly before leaving to serve in the U.S. Army in Korea. He is survived by several cousins. Richard Herman Davignon July 20, 2012 Dick Davignon retired from a teaching career in 1985 and devoted himself to poetry, using the beaches of Cape Cod for inspiration. He published more than 100 poems in various periodicals as well as a chapbook. Survivors include wife Debbie and son Marc.

The waters of the North Atlantic have more bluefin tuna than they used to, thanks to the work of Mark Godfried ’57. Mark Bertram Godfried December 11, 2012 The waters of the North Atlantic have more bluefin tuna than they used to, thanks to the work of Mark Godfried. A lifelong fisherman who especially sought out bluefin, he became associated with the Large Pelagics Research Center in Gloucester, Mass., where he was a fixture on the waterfront and helped inaugurate its “Tag A Tiny” tournament. This is a catch-and-release tournament where the anglers attach an identifying tag to the tuna before returning it to the ocean, helping researchers track migration routes, growth patterns and potential spawning areas. This year’s tournament, in July, has been named in Mark’s memory. After service in the U.S. Navy, he made his living on and around the ocean. First exporting bluefin to Japan, he soon was exporting it to countries around the world. Survivors include wife Stella “Starr” Michelson; son Andrew Godfried ’00; and three grandchildren. Jonathan Land ’80 is his nephew.

1958 Alan Van Orden Cook October 17, 2012 Alan Cook devoted himself to his family and community. He and his wife, Jean Burgess Cook, moved to Yarmouth in 1960, where he became active in Jaycees and was a Scoutmaster

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with his son’s troop. He also was a member of the Lions Club, a past president, and helped with the annual Clam Festival. Survivors include his wife, who got her start in library science under the tutelage of Iva Foster ’30 in Coram Library; children Susan Hammann and Peter; and four grandchildren. His nephew is Adam Barter ’98. Barry Pepperrell Moores February 11, 2013 Barry Moores started at the bottom and worked his way up. He did that by enlisting in the Army National Guard and becoming the outstanding trainee of the week, and by going to work as a chemist at S.D. Warren and eventually becoming a section leader. His career with the paper company lasted more than 38 years, and he became the manager of research and development administration. He developed a college recruiting program and an apprentice program that exposed new employees to all aspects of the company. Survivors include wife Loretta Fortin Moores ’58; son John; two grandchildren; and brother Brian Moores ’63. His late father was G. Duncan Moores ’32; his late cousin was Keith B. Moore ’55. Donald King Watson July 21, 2012 Don Watson left Bates after three years to graduate from Western New England College, where he also received a master’s degree. After serving in the Air National Guard in Europe during the Berlin crisis, he built a career in the paper industry and held senior positions in several envelope companies, ending as president, CEO and co-owner of Griffin Envelope Co. in Seattle. Despite being legally blind, he maintained his interests in photography and Porsches. Survivors include wife Cynthia Johnson Watson ’58; children David, Bruce and Cheryl; and two grandchildren.

1959 James Francis Ring March 15, 2010 Jim Ring transferred to Boston Univ. from Bates and went on to a career with the Concord (Mass.) Police Dept. He retired with the rank of inspector in 1993, then became the coordinator of the firearms training program for the Massachusetts Criminal Justice Training Council. Survivors include wife Martha Riel Ring ’59; children Michael, Dennis and Mary; and three grandchildren.

1960 Charles Edward Flagg January 22, 2013 Like many math majors of his generation, Charles Flagg was perfectly positioned to shape

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the nascent computer world. He stepped into the space program and helped write the software for the space shuttle program after earning a master’s from Rutgers and teaching math. He retired from Boeing/Rockwell Aerospace in 1993. His first wife is Lois Barker Harris ’63, from whom he was divorced. Survivors include his second wife, Elvira Aiello Flagg; daughter Alice Reslie; and one grandchild. James Edward Gallons Jr. February 16, 2013 Jim Gallons, a biology major, earned a certificate in physical therapy from the Univ. of Pennsylvania and was employed by Christiana Care in Delaware for 32 years. He retired as the administrative director of physical medicine and rehabilitation. He was a past president of the Delaware chapter of the American Physical Therapy Assn., and was a captain in the U.S. Army Reserves. Survivors include wife Nancy; children Judith, James and Jennie Ferdinand; and three grandchildren. Philip Arden Snell September 5, 2012 Philip Snell was bitten by a bug after he left Bates, and never quite got over it, despite having a medical degree. It was the aviation bug. He received his medical license from Albany Medical Center and then joined the U.S. Air Force, and was an amateur pilot for the next 40 years. In 1972, he moved to South Carolina to become the associate director of the family practice residency program at Greenville Hospital; he later started a practice with two of his students. He also put his skills to work as an aviation medical examiner, medically qualifying pilots to fly. He liked to capture kids’ interest in aviation, too, taking hundreds of them up in his plane through the Young Eagles program. Survivors include wife Linda Snell; children Jeffrey Snell ’91 and Jennifer Love; stepchildren Alesia Cannon and Wade Cooper; 12 grandchildren; and sister Dorothy Snell Howald ’63.

1961 Rosemary Suemena Cousins February 21, 2013 Rosemary Cousins taught. End of story. And she’d be happy with that story. If she wasn’t teaching, she was learning, probably so she could teach. She did take time off to attend every recital, concert and play involving a young relative. She taught at schools in Waterville, at the Foxcroft Academy, at Stearns High School in Millinocket and at Oak Grove School in Vassalboro, from which she also graduated. She and her classmate, Claranne Hume (“Lilly” to her “Rosie”), enjoyed arranging and co-chairing their high school’s reunions.

After her daughters were grown, she gave piano lessons at her home, and her studio was filled with photos and drawings of her students. She was divorced from her husband, David Thombs, now deceased. Survivors include daughters Mary Thombs and Margaret Cole, and six grandchildren. Her nephew is James Nutting ’76. Her father was Leon E. Cousins ’26. Catherine Harwood Shepard November 9, 2012 Catherine Shepard was a poet who published a book, A Garden of Verses, Friends & Family. She was a member of Eastern Star and Daughters of the American Revolution. Barbara Naiman Gee December 25, 2012 Barb Gee left Bates after her sophomore year and held both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in sociology from the Univ. of Michigan. She also held a certificate in teaching English as a second language from San Jose State Univ. Survivors include husband Bill Gee; children Erik Bloom and Andi Bloom Barnett; and four grandchildren. Neil Jay Newman September 5, 2012 Neil Newman graduated cum laude with a degree in government and served three years in the U.S. Navy before starting law school at Boston Univ. He worked for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and then joined Nuclear Fuel Services, which eventually became part of Texaco. He became vice president and general counsel there. His favorite job, however, was in retirement as a tour guide at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. Survivors include wife Susan Newman; daughters Rachel Newman and Becky Leavey; and two grandchildren. DeWitt Stearns Randall September 24, 2012 Randy Randall liked what he saw when the U.S. Army sent him to Fort Lewis in Washington state, so he decided to stick around. He’d already graduated from Bates with his biology degree and from dental school at the Univ. of Pennsylvania, and he was ready to set up a private practice. The little town of Issaquah looked just right. It sits in the rolling foothills that tease along the way to the mountains of the Cascade Range; no doubt their proximity was one of the attractions to this inveterate skier. He was proud that he got nine of his 10 grandchildren onto skis, proud that he himself played soccer into his 60s. He closed his practice in 2006, then volunteered for the Washington Dental Service Foundation’s Smile Mobile, a dental service on wheels for low-income children. Survivors include wife Maureen;

children Melissa Palmquist, Ryan Randall, Hillary Minter, Stephen Bunting and Monica Lucarelli; and 10 grandchildren. Another child, Trevor, preceded him in death.

1962 H. Donald Morton December 11, 2012 Donald Morton fell in love with a textile designer in the Netherlands and chose to live there with her. She worked restoring Gobelin tapestries, and he taught at the International School of Amsterdam. He also coordinated the school’s international student exchange program. Later, he translated Dutch philosophical and historical works into English. Survivors include wife Mary and daughters Mary and Melanie. Walter Herman Rand Jr. August 4, 2012 A psychology major, Walter was also a trumpet player and played professionally. He worked in the insurance industry as a claims manager, and served on the board of the mental health center of Greater Manchester, N.H. He also was a member of the American Legion. Survivors include wife Patricia Breen Rand; mother Margaret Karkos Rand; children David and Kathleen Collimore; three grandchildren; and cousin Stephen Karkos ’70. His uncles were Stephen Karkos ’33 and John Karkos ’26.

1966 William Clair Beisswanger October 21, 2012 Bill Beisswanger left Bates on a high note that just kept getting higher. Star of the basketball team, scoring 1,132 points, a Travelli Scholar in economics, headed directly for the Wharton School at the Univ. of Pennsylvania for an M.B.A., he would go on to a career as chief financial officer at several major companies, including Ethan Allen and HCI Direct. He was a partner at Ernst and Young and at Tatum CFO, LLC. His work involved extensive travel to Japan and Europe. After retiring to Houston, he taught at C.T. Bauer College of Business at the Univ. of Houston. He coached his children’s soccer, basketball and baseball teams, and served on the board of education. Elected to the Bates Board of Overseers in 1993, he also served as a class agent and class treasurer for several years. And that thousandpoint ball that the entire team signed after he scored it? He proudly displayed it in his living room all these years. Survivors include his second wife, Robin; children Bill, Greg and Debbie; and two grandchildren. His first wife and mother of his children, Joyce, predeceased him.

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1967 Susan Francis Coiner July 31, 2012 Susan Coiner was part of a large, multigenerational Bates family. She received honors in government, was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and was elected to the Bates Key. She went on to the Iowa Writers School at the Univ. of Iowa, remaining there to teach writing and English literature. Health problems forced her to change her career to the insurance world, and she became an editor and consultant for Aetna. Survivors include daughter Kimberley Coiner-Moyle; sister Carol Francis Salerno ’66; and cousin Jeffrey Brigham ’75. Her grandparents were Elsie Lowe Turner and Horace Turner, both 1911; her parents were Alice Turner Francis ’42 and Bernard Francis ’42; Hazel Turner Leard ’40 and John Leard ’38 were her aunt and uncle; and Horace Turner ’34 was her uncle. Elizabeth Harman Johnson October 2, 2012 Betsy Johnson’s interests ranged from the art of India to community gardening. She worked at the Philadelphia Museum of Art for 17 years as the administrative assistant to the curator of Indian art, Stella Kramrisch, who, according to The New York Times, “laid the foundations for the systematic study of Indian art.” In 1988, she went to work for the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, transforming trash into tomatoes, dumps into organic dirt. She shoveled out garbagefilled plots with local residents herself, helped them figure out what they wanted to grow, all part of Philadelphia Green, a program that revitalized and maintained the city’s infrastructure. Eight years ago, she moved to North Carolina, and worked with a landscape company. Her first husband, Charles Pfaffmann ’67, was killed in Vietnam in 1968. Her second husband, Floyd Johnson, survives her, as do her parents, Theresa and Arthur Harman, and several nieces and nephews.

1970 Ruth Batson Weston October 15, 2012 Sometimes one studies a field in college for four years, and then takes one class after graduation to have everything fall in place. That’s how things happened for Ruth Weston, a mathematics major and dean’s list student. One class in computer programming (at the time a very new field) solidified her talents and gave her a rewarding career. She took time off to be with her children when they were young, substituting as a math teacher during those years. She also was a volunteer for Red Cross. Later,

she worked for MassMutual as a computer systems trainer, systems analyst and consultant, and a quality assurance analyst. Survivors include husband Peter Weston, and children Mary and Matthew. Her sister-in-law is Marcia Weston Haas ’70. Stephen Lewis Griswold February 10, 2013 He was going to law school. That’s what Steve Griswold said. What originally distracted him was a job as a housing coordinator with the federal Model Cities program that tried to improve inner-city living conditions. Soon he was named housing adviser for a nonprofit that was so successful he formed the for-profit Shelter Group, which would provide low-income housing and tax shelters for high-income investors. Shelter Group soon became the second-largest taxpayer in the city, and by 1983 it had developed $50 million in property in Maine, $28 million in Lewiston alone. With his partners, he built and operated the Hilton Garden Inn in Auburn, the Hampton Inn and Suites in Exeter, N.H., and the Sheraton Harborside Hotel in Portsmouth, which was named “best franchised property worldwide” by Starwood Hotels and Resorts in 1999. He turned a burned-out shell into 27 apartments for the elderly and 15,000 square feet of retail and office space on a prominent street corner known as The Gateway Building in Lewiston for one of his earliest projects. He indulged his other interests with partial ownership of the Maine Red Claws basketball team and of a NASCAR team with Brad Leighton as the driver. He and Susan Funderburk Rainsley ’71 married during his junior year. They later divorced. Survivors include his second wife, Margaret Ellen Smith; two children from his first marriage, Laurie Craft and Matthew Griswold; stepchildren Martha Bryon and Chris Thompson; and 13 grandchildren. Susan Elizabeth Tetro August 5, 2012 For someone who loved to travel, it makes sense that Susan Tetro held onto her job as a travel consultant for AAA. Her last trips were a cruise to Russia and a safari in Kenya, both of which gave her ample opportunity to add to her collection of photographs, which she exhibited in several shows. Survivors include father Dudley Tetro; brother Bruce Teatrowe; and sisters Lynne Costa and Jean Odiorne. Her cousin is Charles Tetro ’69.

1973 Christine Casey Piattelli September 3, 2012 It took her awhile to find her true love — in life and in work — but she found them. Chris

Piattelli was an English major at Bates, and went on to library school at SUNY-Albany. She worked in the field for a number of years, drawing and doodling all the while. But it wasn’t until she met George Wilson, the love of her life, who had a habit of referring to what he considered his over-large head as his “Easter Island head,” that the two in a flash of inspiration invented a comic strip called “Big Rock Heads.” It can still be found online in tribute to her at bigrockheads.com. He survives her, as do children Vincent and Kathryn.

1975 Carol Champion Malinowski ’75 wasn’t afraid of distance, horizontal or vertical. She ran marathons and she climbed mountains. Carol Champion Malinowski December 16, 2012 Carol Malinowski wasn’t afraid of distance, horizontal or vertical. She ran marathons and she climbed mountains. She climbed all 48 4,000-foot mountains in the White Mountains. That’s an aggregate of 36 miles, more than a marathon and a third put together. She became an occupational therapist in day treatment centers after earning her M.S. at Sargent College at BU in 1988. Survivors include husband Peter Malinowski ’76; father Harry Champion; sisters Linda Champion ’72 and Pat Evans; and brother David. Kevin Barry Haines February 25, 2013 Kevin Haines died in a head-on traffic collision near his home in Norway, Maine. He had worked for various post offices in Maine for many years, most recently as a Savings Bond salesman. Previously, he had been the postmaster in Greenville and in Rumford, and had served as acting postmaster in Old Town and Auburn. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps, including two years in Vietnam. Survivors include son Zachary; brother Alan; and sisters Janet Haines ’75 and Linda. His parents were David Haines ’44 and Ruth Wyer Haines ’42.

1977 Frederick Wheeler Hayes Jr. September 17, 2012 Fritz Hayes was killed by a home burglar who surprised him and his wife when they returned after a morning walk. He was the criminal’s alleged

fourth and final victim. The case has been followed closely in the press. Fritz traveled cross-country to attend Bates (he went to high school with Bill Gates), perhaps because he loved lacrosse so much and knew it was more of an East Coast sport at the time. Refereeing lacrosse games remained a passion throughout his life, along with sailing and kayaking. He majored in chemistry at Bates and earned an M.B.A. from Seattle Univ., but his career was in high tech. Eventually, he turned that into a consulting career. His sister, Ruth Hayes-Arista, speaking for the family after he was killed, said they wanted him to be remembered as “always grinning,” because he was so smart and always a step ahead of everyone. He wrote with some relief in 2010 that now that their youngest child was off to college, he and his “amazing wife” could “mediate the conflict between what the mind commits to and what the body can handle.” Besides his wife, Margaret Hartrich Hayes, survivors include children Sarah, Emily and Nathan; parents Frederick Sr. and Catherine; and two other sisters.

1979 Alex Jose Bermudez October 8, 2012 Alex Bermudez looked at a piece of chicken very differently than most people. It was an occupational hazard: He was an expert in poultry science and avian pathobiology. At his death, he was president of the American College of Poultry Veterinarians. He was an editor for several professional magazines and a contributing author to the core textbook in the field. In addition to his Bates degree in biology, he held a master’s in nuclear medicine and a D.V.M. from the Univ. of Illinois. In 1991, he joined the faculty at the Univ. of Missouri Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory as an avian pathologist; in 2005 he became its director. Survivors include wife Lisa Lundelius Bermudez and children Alexa, Steven and Peter.

1981 Philip Thomas Cullen Jr. January 8, 2013 Philip Cullen was a psychology major at Bates. He held various sales positions in New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts before his health prevented him from working. He never lost his love of the outdoors, and was proud of his ability to adapt to any environment. Survivors include parents Philip Sr. and Mary Leary Cullen; sister Kathleen Kirks; and brother Kevin.

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1982 Edward Joseph Walsh III January 23, 2013 Developers have struggled for years to find new uses for the grand old mills that line the rivers in cities such as Lewiston and Lowell. Ed Walsh won an award in 2012 for his work at the Lofts at Perkins Place, the Paul Tsongas Award for Historic Preservation. Environmentally friendly restoration and redevelopment resulted in a revived mill building in Lowell full of welcoming up-to-date apartments, all with oversized windows and high ceilings. He also was part of the team that took 10 acres of industrial wasteland in East Cambridge, Mass., and transformed it into a multiuse park. The project won the 2006 Region 1 and National Phoenix Award for Excellence. His degree from Bates was in chemistry; he also held a master’s in engineering from Boston Univ. He challenged himself by riding every year in the Pan Mass Challenge bike-a-thon to raise money for cancer research; he had raised over $100,000, and had survived 15 years. Survivors include wife Mary Wittenhagen Walsh; stepchildren Jason, Terence and Caitlin Waldron; father Edward Walsh; and two grandchildren.

1983 Charlene Keable Blodgett September 17, 2012 After her divorce from James W. Hunt III ’84, Charlene Keable met John Henry Blodgett. He showed her that “there is life outside of New England,” she wrote. He took her around the world, to Bahrain, Singapore, Perth, Sidney, Tahiti. They traced the path of the Vikings, crossed the fjords of Greenland and came down the coast of Canada. They married in 1987. In 1990, they completed their dream house in Waterville Valley, N.H. Her husband died in 2003. Survivors include mother Joyce Keable; brother Steven; and sister Lauren Kalian.

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year from the Univ. of North Carolina. A passionate advocate for children, she worked as a counselor, school administrator and coach. She was a select coach for Nashoba United Team Soccer and president of Littleton (Mass.) Soccer during her 15-year association with them, and an 18-year volunteer for Dance Prism of Concord. She lived her life believing that “where there’s a will, there’s a way,” said her husband, Mark Andrew McKelvey. She listed him as her “favorite” in her list of “favorites,” just above her children, who were just above her pets, who were just above “vacationing in Canada.” She did not leave a list of accomplishments, but she did name her greatest one: the development of her children, Antonia, Peter, Lenora and John. In addition to them and her second husband, survivors include her first husband, Lawrence “Peter” Wood ’84. Her mother was Catherine Evans Needham ’50.

1990 William Zeus Bligh-Glover October 30, 2011 Known as William the Coroner to his many fans on his blog, Zeus Bligh-Glover’s sudden death took them and his students, friends and co-workers by surprise, and their hundreds of notes on his funeral website all spoke to his humor, kindness and copious knowledge of his medical field. An assistant professor at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, from which he received his medical degree, he also was the forensic pathologist of Lorain County, Ohio. He formerly had been the coroner of Cuyahoga County. His reputation among public defenders was for not playing favorites but for seeking the truth, for being objective. His students rated him five stars out of five in a class they did not consider easy. Survivors include his mother, Pamela Bligh-Glover, and grandparents, William and Virginia Bligh.

2001 Marjie Needham ’84 listed her husband as her “favorite” in her list of “favorites,” just above her children, who were just above her pets, who were just above “vacationing in Canada.” Marjorie Ann Needham January 26, 2013 Marjie Needham transferred to Bates for her sophomore

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Rommel Wora Akona Padonou December 11, 2012 He could dunk the ball before he could dribble properly. Being 6 foot 6 inches tall helped, and years of competitive soccer and tae kwon do gave Rommel Padonou the power to soar. But to him, basketball and other sports were secondary. He was scouted by Division I coaches, who could have offered him the world, but that wasn’t what he wanted. “It wasn’t basketball that brought me to Bates,” Padonou explained to this magazine in 2010. “It was academics. Basketball is just by accident.” He studied economics

and French literature, and wanted to return to his native Gabon to build roads and hospitals. But he refused to pay bribes to government officials in order to do business there. He was fluent in eight languages, a member of the College Key and CEO of his own company, Zegnon Group Inc.

faculty Allan Williams Cameron June 10, 2011 After teaching in the Bates government department from 1965 to 1968 and then at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts, Allan Cameron worked in Washington, D.C., for the federal government, including stints as adviser to Sen. Jeremiah Denton Jr., R-Ala., on foreign and defense policy; executive director of the Presidential Commission on Merchant Marine and Defense; and deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for international policy. At the time of his death he was a senior national security adviser for Computer Sciences Corp.

An avid fly fisherman, Professor Roy Farnsworth once explained how fishing underscored a relationship with nature based on respect and wonder. “Fly-fishing lends itself to your being in the outof-doors, looking at awe at nature around you.” Roy Lothrop Farnsworth July 18, 2012 Professor Roy Farnsworth was relatively new to the Bates faculty when the idea of Short Term was introduced, and he seized on it immediately as a creative way to explore his love of adventurous fieldwork. He led his students through the Northeast and into Canada, camping along the way, collecting fossils and doing geologic mapping, visiting mines to evaluate economic resources, studying mineralized rocks and speaking with local experts. He did the cooking, too. He earned degrees from Boston Univ. — a bachelor’s in English and a doctoral degree in geology — before joining the Bates faculty in 1961. He served as department chair for 19 of his 29 years at the college, retiring in 1990. He served with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Germany, and his fields of interest were glacial geomorphology and environmental geology. An avid fly fisherman, he once explained to this magazine how fishing

underscored a relationship with nature based on respect and wonder: “We go fishing not for … the achievement of catching that large one or filling the meat pot. Fly-fishing lends itself to your being in the out-of-doors, looking at awe at nature around you. It’s a quiet pastime. You see many animals. You see many birds. You see many changes of season.” As a teacher, he said that he tried to share part of himself with his students, and, in turn, hoped to receive “a bit of those [students] that you get to know,” thus gaining great satisfaction from following students as they build their lives. A past chairman of the Baxter State Park advisory committee, he also served on the scientific forestry advisory committee and the director’s scientific study committee. He was a trustee of the Maine Wilderness Watershed Trust and past chairman of the Auburn Water District. Survivors include wife Ruth; daughter Allyson Jutras; sons Peter and Paul, who is senior project manager for Facilities Services at Bates; and four grandchildren.

honorary Max M. Kampelman January 25, 2013 Max Kampelman was a Cold War diplomat who advised Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale on foreign policy, then became a key diplomat for Ronald Reagan. He led two negotiations with the Soviet Union on nuclear arms reductions and recognition of human rights, resulting in the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty shortly before the Soviet Union collapsed. In 1986, he received an honorary LL.D. from Bates. President Reagan awarded him the Presidential Citizens Medal, and President Clinton awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His wife, Marjorie Buetow Kampelman, died in 2007. Two of their children, David Kampelman ’80 and Anne Kampelman Wiederkehr, died in 2004 and 2006, respectively. Survivors include children Jeffrey, Julia Stevenson and Sarah; and five grandchildren.

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A young Barbara Schenck Collins â&#x20AC;&#x2122;51 dangles her feet over a rock precipice in Colorado in this photograph taken by her husband, Lorence. A professor of biology for 50 years at California Lutheran University, Barbara was still teaching at the time of her death on April 30. Summer 2013

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The Story of the Mural

The Chase Hall mural features 14th-century Chaucerian characters — and a few 20th-century Maine notables, too by h . jay burns p h o t o g r a p h y by mik e bradley

if you’re a bates graduate

from the early 1970s through 2008, you probably walked by the Canterbury Tales mural in Chase Hall more than 2,300 times en route to meals in old Memorial Commons. Walking by all those times, you may have recognized the Host, the Wife of Bath and the Prioress, among other Chaucerian characters. But did you see Phil Isaacson ’47, the prominent Lewiston attorney, art critic and architectural writer? Did you notice Shep Lee, a well-known Maine businessman (Lee Auto) and humanitarian? Dana Professor of Art Emeritus Don Lent, who painted the mural during the fall and winter of 1971–72, invited Isaacson, Lee and other Maine notables into the project as models for Chaucer’s band of pilgrims. Isaacson, for example, was Chaucer’s Man of Laws, and Lee, the Merchant. A few Bates students and faculty are depicted, too. As with viewing the mural itself, you have to step back to appreciate the details of how Lent’s mural came to be. The story starts in California, where Lent, a native New Englander, earned his bachelor’s degree at UC–Santa Barbara. There, one of his mentors was Rico Lebrun (1900–64), who had painted murals in New York City as part of the Depressionera Work Projects Administration. In his WPA work, Lebrun teamed with a young artist named Gridley Barrows. Later, armed with a

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design degree from Harvard, Barrows would land in Lewiston-Auburn in the 1950s as an architect with Harriman Associates of Auburn. The Harriman firm has handled the design work for a number of Bates renovations and new buildings, including Lane Hall and Schaeffer Theatre. By 1970, with Chase Hall needing sprucing up, Bates enlisted Harriman, with Gridley Barrows as lead architect, to renovate various Chase spaces, including the Bookstore, Den, meeting rooms and the main entrance. That put Lent and Barrows together, and Lent recalls that it was Barrows, perhaps recalling his WPA experience, who suggested that a mural would do just fine on the wall above a new sloping and curving walkway leading into Memorial Commons. “The space creates an odd problem,” Lent says. “It is hard to create something that ‘reads’ well both close up and from a distance. Gridley promoted simplicity — not trying to make things too detailed.” Lent chose the subject matter, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. He knew that three times a day, students would crowd the walkway as they entered Commons, so it is telling that the mural’s first character is the Host, his hand outstretched in welcome as he sits astride his horse. (Some characters are on horseback, including the Prioress, modeled by Lynda Litchfield ’71, so Lent went on horse rides to familiarize himself with the look of humans and horses.)

In the General Prologue, the Host proposes to the pilgrims a storytelling contest for “the best sentence and moost solaas.” As Lent depicts the scene in his acrylic-on-Masonite mural, the Host also directs his storytelling invitation to Bates students walking by and into Memorial Commons, beckoning them to share their own stories with the college community. “I had this notion that the Host would also be speaking in a fantastic way to people going up the ramp, as they are part of the story, too,” Lent told The Bates Student in 1991. In 1971, Lent had been at Bates a year when he took on the mural project. He previously taught at UC–Santa Barbara and at Bowdoin, so the mural also showcases Lent’s social and artistic circle at that time. Along with friends Isaacson and Lee, artist Tom Cornell and composer Elliot Schwartz, both Bowdoin professors, are in the mural, as is John Ridland, a poet and former colleague of Lent’s from UC–Santa Barbara. He’s the Scholar. Some of those friends have since died, including Cornell, Lee and, very recently, Isaacson. While Bates dining decamped for the new Commons in 2008, the mural remains in Chase — significantly freshened once again in 2012–13 — where the painting welcomes people heading to

Within a bright red circle, Lent evoked the fable of the Chanticleer and the Fox.

campus events in Memorial Commons, now a multipurpose venue for arts and other events. Lent, who turns 80 in December, just had a retrospective art show in York, Maine (see Faculty Notes, page 77). In the mural, he cast himself as the Knight, alongside his son, Michael, as the Squire. “I guess it’s the closest thing a painter gets to making a movie,” Lent says. “You have a story and characters, and you get to select a location and pick a cast.” n Who’s who in the Canterbury Tales mural bates.edu/canterbury-tales-mural

The late art professor Tom Cornell of Bowdoin.

Music professor Elliott Schwartz of Bowdoin.

Don Lent cast himself as the Knight.

Lent’s son, Michael, is the Squire.

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a r ch iv es show and tell from the muskie archives and special collections library Shortstrop

This 19th-century shaving kit in its burgundy case was a prize to the Bates baseball player having the highest batting average at the close of the season. The item was donated by Tappan C. Pulsifer, Class of 1895, who perhaps won the kit. After Bates, he briefly played for Lewiston’s entry in the New England League, facing teams like the Pawtucket (R.I.) Phenoms and Brockton (Mass.) Shoemakers. Pulsifer then went on to be a physician.

Bates Nurses

Seen here is the official Bates College Department of Nursing cap embellished with the department pin. Responding to the growing need for health-care workers during World War II, Bates launched its five-year degree program to train nurses in 1942. The program continued until 1958 and graduated nearly 100 students.

Mysteries Without Any Clue

Any idea at whom or what the Bobcat on the end of this 1944 pennant is thumbing his nose?

A Note for an A

Earning an A in Professor August Buschmann’s German class in 1939 also earned Muriel Swicker ’42 this note from Herr Buschmann, typed on her report card. Professor of German Craig Decker offers a translation: “It was a great pleasure for me to have you in class this year. I hope you enjoyed your first year here in Lewiston and that you are looking forward to next year with particular pleasure.”

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Presidential Support

Props for the president: This white wooden cane belonged to the college’s fifth president, Charles F. Phillips.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY PHYLLIS GRABER JENSEN AND MIKE BRADLEY

o u t ta k e These puppets, made by the Figures of Speech Theatre in Freeport, were grouped on a table during a Short Term course in puppet design and construction. Out there in the open, alongside animated Bates students, their presence created a juxtaposition of the real and the unreal. Some of these puppets seemed fantastical and bizarre, as if they were created to bring to life parts of ourselves that we try to hide from others. — Phyllis Graber Jensen

Bates Magazine Summer 20I3 Editor H. Jay Burns Designer Mervil Paylor Design Director of Photography Phyllis Graber Jensen Photographer Mike Bradley On the Cover Cercopithecus lomamiensis, photographed by Maurice Emetshu Class Notes Editor Jon Halvorsen

President of Bates College A. Clayton Spencer Associate Vice President for Communications Meg Kimmel Bates Magazine Advisory Board Marjorie Patterson Cochran ’90 Geraldine FitzGerald ’75 David Foster ’77 Joe Gromelski ’74 Judson Hale Jr. ’82 Jonathan Hall ’83 Christine Johnson ’90 Jon Marcus ’82 Peter Moore ’78

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FROM A DISTANCE

From a third-floor balcony in Pettengill Hall’s Perry Atrium, Bates photographer Phyllis Graber Jensen captured a busy poster session during the annual Mount David Summit of student academic achievement on March 29.

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Environmental studies major Hank Geng ’13 draws a crowd, including Ken Spalding ’73, as he discusses the economic value of alewives in Maine.

Bates Communications writer Tory Stanton updates the college Twitter feed with news from the Summit.

This is how Perry Atrium is used on most days, as a serene study spot.

A sofa by Thomas Moser, former Bates rhetoric professor, whose elegant handmade furniture fills the atrium.

President Spencer checks in with Assistant Professor of Physics Nathan Lundblad.

One of four ficus trees, thriving on sunlight pouring through a wall of windows overlooking Lake Andrews.

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BEDECKED

BEAGLE

As the campus yarnstormer blanketed campus this spring, Dan's Beagle got this handsome sweater. But Dan wasn't a one-knit wonder. See page 6.