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21 Where did that Lewiston bridge get its name?

26 Digital and Computational Studies’ big promise: the “capacity to claim the world.”

40 How Sally Ceesay navigated the notorious sophomore year.

Is this student right for Bates? And, as important, is Bates right for this student? Page 46

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2 Letters 4 Bates in Brief 24 Amusements 26 Features 54 Notes 92 History Lesson 96 From a Distance

Take a closer look at what these two guys on the Quad are pushing for. Page 8

OPENING THOUGHT: MARA TIEKEN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION Source: Tieken’s article, “College Talk and the Rural Economy: Shaping the Educational Aspirations of Rural, First-Generation Students,” in the Peabody Journal of Education.

When adults talk to rural, first-generation students about the value of college, they talk about jobs — often excluding other benefits.

The ubiquity of this message may cause students to be pressured into too-early career choices that leave them with few options later in life as industries change.

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Thanks for Thanks I especially liked the “I Want to Say Thank You” collection of senior thesis messages (Spring 2016).

What a nice touch and great way to bring the years together. I probably have taken the magazine for granted for many years, but there is something about this edition that made me say, “Wow, what a quality production!”

Fred Demers ’75

Naples, Maine

A Bates Oasis Returning for my 35th Reunion this year, I was enchanted.

Alumni Walk, green and graceful, has displaced that parking lot that once gashed the heart of campus.

Pettengill Hall, with threestory glass Perry Atrium, replaces the towering smokestack of the old Maintenance Center. And Lake Andrews, with nesting redwing blackbirds perched atop stands of cattails, is a bona fide lake.

Uncle Johnny Stanton, legendary professor and birdwatcher, would be proud.

One campus place, however, the concrete plaza between Coram and Ladd libraries, feels tired and worn. But if I close my eyes and squint hard, I see an oasis there.

Maybe a statue of that Bates-inspired triumvirate of civil rights champions: Oren Cheney, Benjamin Mays, Class of 1920, and Martin Luther King Jr.?

Or a statue of the aforementioned Stanton with an owl perched atop his shoulder?

Or of the late history professor Geoff Law, who helped the first group of Bates people (a group called “Gay at Bates”) come out publicly in 1979–80, and who died while leading a Short Term to India?

Or of Ella Knowles Haskell, Class of 1884, the first woman to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court? Or an alumni fountain, hanging flowers, and trellises?

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Bob Muldoon ’81

Andover, Mass.

InSpired It was an honor to participate in the concert and to see the Basilica filled to capacity.

The spires of this church, the biggest in Maine, dominate the Lewiston skyline and are visible from the Bates campus. When the 1,200 seats are filled, it means that the community has truly turned out, far more than just the customary Bates concert audience.

Missa Solemnis is a formidable challenge for all of the voices and instruments.

Maestro Miura did a great job preparing the orchestra while Maestro Corrie prepared the choirs. To put it all together in the beautiful Basilica was a thrill.

Ted Walworth

Lewiston

See a picture story about the performance of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis at picturestories.bates.edu/ missa-solemnis and, on page 18, a photo of John Corrie conducting. — Editor

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Bob Flynn

Bates Magazine arrived today, and I have learned, via the U.S. state that is listed with my name in the Comments section, of my apparent relocation to Palmer, Ark., rather than where I presumed to live, which is Palmer, Alaska.

I had been wondering why last winter was warmer than usual. Evidently, it had more to do with my being in Arkansas and less due to climate change here in Alaska.

However, I am still puzzled by the dramatic topography here, as seen in the attached photograph.

As a geology major, I wonder if the Ouachita orogony in Arkansas and Oklahoma had a more dramatic uplift than previously imagined. Perhaps we could ask geology professor Dyk Eusden ’80 if more research is needed.

I was fortunate to share coffee and a doughnut in the mornings in the old equipment room with Chick Leahey ’52 and Bob Flynn, and it is still my most endearing memory of Bates.

Whenever I screw up in anything, I still hear Coach Flynn say what I heard every day in practice: “God bless America and all the ships at sea, but what were you thinking on that throw, Pohli?!” Rest in peace, Coach Flynn.

Tim Leach ’99

Palmer, Alaska Well-played, Tim. — Editor The topography of Palmer, Ark., is looking mighty strange, writes Tim Leach ’99.

Bruce E. Stangle ’70

Belmont, Mass.

The obituary for Paul MacAvoy ’55 is in this issue.

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A Bates News story about the passing of longtime Bates coach and mentor Bob Flynn is at bates.edu/bob-flynn.

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Aye and Nay I must tell you how joyful I am to get every copy of Bates Magazine. It is absolutely wonderful. Fabulous photographs, wide range of topics, attractive layouts, portrayal of community, and valuable news and views of people and buildings make it a brilliant presentation for a first-rate (and beloved) college.

Vivienne Sikora Gilroy ’48

Paul MacAvoy ’55 A comment on the passing of Paul MacAvoy ’55. Paul was teaching at MIT Sloan in 1972 when I first started graduate school, and he was a great teacher of microeconomics and industrial organization and a great mentor to me.

When I founded Analysis Group, Paul was one of our very first academic affiliates.

He served as an expert witness in some of the largest antitrust and regulatory cases of his era, and he was always a formidable witness.

In my opinion, Paul’s accomplishments as an economist and business school dean should rank him as one of the most distinguished Bates graduates of all time.

Brian Pohli ’81

Union, N.J.

Remembering the USS Smith Hall The renovations to Smith Hall bring to mind its occupancy by the Navy and V-12 sailor-students during World War II. They used to cadence count, loud, as they marched

by Roger Bill at 6 a.m. Since we civilians could go back to sleep we didn’t mind — much!

That was summer, 1943.

Bert Knight ’46

Baton Rouge, La. Stay in step with Bates facilities updates with Campus Construction Update at bates.edu/ccu.

I find the magazine layout confusing, crowded, and a bit chaotic. I’m guessing the redesign is supposed to appeal to a younger audience.

I got an MFA in furniture design after Bates and have spent my life working as a designer. I flip through Bates and toss it aside — not interested in trying to decipher the order and content. The saying “less is more” applies to graphics and layout, perhaps especially so in the design world.

This format is not sophisticated. It feels cheap to me.

As with most schools, the alumni donor demographic is older. This design can’t help.

David Goddard ’87

Vancouver, Wash.

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Leigh Campbell ’64

‘Truest Gems’ Comments from alumni f lowed on Facebook after retired Director of Financial Aid Leigh Campbell ’64 received the Papaioanou Award for Distinguished Alumni Service at Reunion.

Leigh Campbell is one of Bates’ truest gems who epitomizes what it means to be a Batesie. You made the Bates dream a reality for so many.

Karen Finocchio Lubeck ’92

Marblehead, Mass.

On more than one occasion during my Bates tenure, I showed up at Leigh’s door in Lane Hall, quite embarrassed. It was a terrible feeling having to ask for money to stay at Bates. Leigh’s empathy and compassion immediately assuaged this awkwardness. We always came up with a solution that kept me feeling whole — reminding me that I was, and am, part of the greater Bates family.

Heather Beebe ’85

Calgary, Alberta

Read about all the Reunion award winners at bates. edu/alumni/recognition. — Editor

Over the summer, moving vans arrived on Nichols, Wood, and other streets near campus, each van carrying the stuff of Bates’ newest professors, young scholars who often live close to campus in college houses as they get settled.

In a sense, the vans also delivered Bates’ future because, as Dean of the Faculty Matt Auer notes, “what Bates looks like in the future is at least partially revealed each time we hire a new faculty member.”

Bates is abuzz with these portentous comings (and goings, as you’ll soon read). Eleven new faculty arrived this fall as either tenure-track assistant professors or long-term lecturers, a cohort that reflects the “largest faculty recruiting year in recent memory,” says Auer.

And Bates will recruit another 15 new faculty this academic year.

For the most part, a variation of Newton’s Third Law applies when it comes to faculty renewal: For each new appointment there’s an equal retirement, and to see that idea in action, we’ll check the pages of the Bates Catalog.

I just pulled off the shelf the Catalog for 1998 — that’s the birth year of most of today’s entering students. In the back, the book lists professors by seniority, so I saw, for example, that Professor of Physics Eric Wollman was the college’s 44th-ranked professor that year in terms of seniority.

Then I checked the 2015 Catalog. Wollman had moved up to ninth. And now? Well, he and 59 fellow professors are on a completely different list: the emeriti.

Yes, he is now retired, and over the last decade, the list of emeriti faculty has nearly doubled as our baby-boom professors, a cohort well-represented at Bates thanks to an aggressive faculty expansion in the 1970s and 1980s, join the ranks of retirees.

Considering that Wollman served Bates for 37 years, you can appreciate the fundamental ways that a big group of new professors, each with long-term prospects, might affect Bates down the road. (For a good look at the people who embody that future, check out bates.edu/new-faculty-2016.)

If Bates’ future is revealed with the arrival of new professors, then Bates’ journey from past to present is revealed when a professor retires. And those revelations happen each May, around the time of the final faculty meeting, as professors pay tribute to their retiring colleagues.

The honorees in 2016 were Wollman, Christina Malcolmson, Jim Parakilas, George Purgavie, Carl Schwinn, and Mark Semon. And while each was praised with the specificity befitting their varied fields — physics, English, music, physical education, economics, and physics — their gifts to Bates harmonized.

Each was praised for introducing and advancing new ways to teach; to involve students in research; and to create partnerships across disciplines.

Gina Fatone, an associate professor of music, summed up these gifts when she said that Parakilas, retiring as the Moody Family Professor of Performing Arts, gave nothing less than his “inner being” to his colleagues, department, students, and college.

That’s a high bar for new faculty. Then again, that’s Bates.

H. Jay Burns, Editor magazine@bates.edu

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Last October, football game captain Lani Eversage ’16 of Fairfield, Iowa, and his Middlebury counterpart wait to see what the coin toss reveals. See what the fall has revealed at Bates: bates.edu/news and instagram.com/batescollege.

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Small fish are the only pets allowed in student rooms.

Weekday breakfast in Commons is from 7 to I0:30 a.m.

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Apply Yourself Here’s how many colleges (other than Bates) that members of last year’s incoming Class of 2019 applied to: Malcolm Delpeche ’17 greets Melanie Binkhorst ’20 of West Hartford, Conn., with her mother, Karen, as she moves into her residence at 55 Campus Ave. The basketballs helped to tip off their hoops connection, as Delpeche plays for the men’s team and Binkhorst hopes to play for the women’s team.

Welcome Times 200 Close to 200 student leaders were on campus in August to help greet the 499-member Class of 2020.

One hundred and eight were part of AESOP, the annual outdoor and excursion program for incoming students, and 65 were residentiallife leaders, either Residence Coordinators or Junior Advisers. Another 25 were here as OWLs, Orientation Week Leaders who run activities and programs for the new students.

The large Bates Welcome Crew, which also included Bates staff, sends a message, says Erin Foster Zsiga, associate dean of students for residence life. “This is who we are. We’re here to help, we’re here to be a resource, we’re people who care about you.”

It’s about Bates community, she says. For parents, “it sends the message that their students aren’t alone.”

SOURCE: Annual CIRP Freshman Survey, administered by the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment in conjunction with Student Affairs

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A good idea never dies. In the 1950s, “Spring Spruce-Up Day” was an annual Outing Club–led cleanup of Mount David and other campus locales.

Last May, the campus EcoReps led a similar area-wide cleanup, expanding their work into the Lewiston community but keeping the focus on Mount David.

Students collected trash, got rid of derelict fencing, removed graffiti from rocks, and tidied the trails that lead to the summit from residences on Frye and College streets.

EcoRep leader Dana Cohen-Kaplan ’16 believes the popular hill, if properly stewarded, can be an even more powerful Bates resource as a gateway outdoors experience for students. “If a student enjoys a trip to Mount David, they might feel inclined to check out [other outdoor opportunities],” he says.

Katie Stevenson ’17 of Ewing, N.J., removes graffiti from rocks on a Mount David trail during last May’s EcoService Day projects.

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I2 percent of the Class of 2020 are the first in their family to attend college.

Bates provides each student with a bed, desk, chair, bureau, mirror, wastebasket, and recycling container.

Banner The Class of 2020 gathers for a photo in Commons on Sept. 6, the day before the start of classes. Behind them are the class banners, with an open spot for theirs, which they’ve since chosen by vote (see inset).

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Bag lunches are available if a class conflicts with lunch.

Splish Space Emily Ausman ’19 of Redmond, Ore., offers her w balloon target practice right before she and fellow AESOP trip leaders made their customary surprise entrance to greet the Class of 2020 at the Keigwin Amphitheater on Aug. 31.

The next day, Ausman and her fellow Annual Entering Student Outdoor Program leaders and first-year students headed out for various three-day trips around Maine and New Hampshire.

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CAMPUS

Bates has 4 electric-car chargers, including a public one for Teslas.

A number of campus trees have ID tags with the species name and QR code for more info.

After the Fall

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Far left: After sawing through its base, workers push over the trunk of a sugar maple that snapped off about 20 feet from its base in July. The old tree “had a life,” said Professor Emerita of Biology Sharon Kinsman, “and it supported a lot of life,” like the squirrels that lived in its craggy interior.

Near right: During a post-Convocation memorial service on Sept. 7, Professor of Physics Hong Lin pours a cup of water over the roots of a new maple planted in the old maple’s spot.

Two New Residences A pair of new residences at 55 and 65 Campus Avenue, across from Chase Hall and Muskie Archives, opened this fall.

Architect:

Ann Beha Architects Inside:

243 beds plus, at 65 Campus Ave., a new home for the Bates College Store and Post & Print.

What the Buildings Also Do:

Located at a seam between the Bates campus and the surrounding community, the new buildings give new prominence to the Campus Avenue gateway.

What the Buildings Represent:

A major housing upgrade that includes, in Smith Hall, changing the quads — four beds in a two-room suite — to doubles, a “de-densification” that has nearly halved the student population in Smith from 183 students last year to 97 in 2016–17.

“Out of the more than 400 students responding to a survey, 84 percent answered that ‘living with friends’ was either important or the most important consideration in making their housing choices. So we knew that building community was a key goal for this project.”

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What the Architect Says:

To learn more about Bates’ tree canopy: bates.edu/canopy

Bates is converting its fluorescent lights to LEDs.

There are 43 outdoor bike racks on campus.

Surplus underbed storage containers go to Habitat for Humanity, among other groups.

Bates the Builder For every big project like the college’s two new residences, there are dozens of smaller ones undertaken by Bates Facility Services, which has 111 capital projects on the docket for fiscal 2017.

Here are five from the summer: Converting tiered seating in Carnegie Science Hall 225 to level seating.

(While tiered seating suits lecturing, the Bates faculty wanted the space to fit more teaching styles.)

Replacing a steam pipe between Chase Hall and Muskie Archives.

Installing 100 new energy-efficient windows in Chase Hall.

Replacing some 500 lockable student equipment drawers in Dana Chemistry Hall classrooms.

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Putting a new roof on Frye Street Union.

During training exercises in August, a Lewiston firefighter enters a second-floor room in Howard House, on Wood Street, to look for a child “victim.”

In Through the Out Window

Two new residences on Campus Avenue give the college’s south side a nifty new look.

In August, three houses on Wood Street — Howard, Leadbetter, and Davis — were taken down and their lots turned over to green space, changes that are part of the ongoing housing upgrade at the college.

Before they came down, Bates did what it usually does before razing a building: offer it to the Lewiston Fire Department for training.

Taking Bates up on the offer, firefighters used Howard House to practice, among other things, extracting a firefighter from the basement and climbing to the second floor to search for a child.

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ACADEMICS

In 20I6–I7, students with GPAs of 3.94 or higher will graduate summa cum laude.

Forty-two seniors completed 43 honors theses in 20I6.

Powerful Reaction

PAULA “ We ask students to find the best answers, not the right answer. We want our students to distinguish between good and bad hypotheses, and good and bad conclusions — to move from thinking that there is a right answer to the idea that the questions we’re asking don’t already have answers.”

Professor of Chemistry Paula Schlax received the 2016 Kroepsch Award for Excellence in Teaching.

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An analytical chemist at Bates since 1981, Dana Professor of Chemistry Tom Wenzel is responsible for 162 publications, including two books. That tells you something about his productivity.

The fact that 61 of those publications were coauthored by Bates students — 82 students, all told — tells you something about Wenzel’s belief in the value of undergraduate research.

The field of chemistry’s foremost professional organization, the American Chemical Society, has honored Wenzel for those contributions, among others, naming him an ACS Fellow.

“It’s rewarding to have my profession say, ‘We appreciate the things you’ve done,’” says Wenzel.

Wenzel specializes in sophisticated techniques for identifying enantiomers — molecules that are mirror images of each other but can have different reactive effects. He’s also a national leader in reimagining how analytical chemistry is taught.

President Clayton Spencer says that the honor highlights “what we at Bates have known all along: that as a researcher, an advocate for his profession, and most of all as a teacher, Tom Wenzel is a powerhouse in the field of chemistry.”

A typical major requires between I0 and I4 courses.

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Courses numbered 400 to 499 are for seniors doing specialized work in their major.

A student can take two courses pass/fail during their career, but not during Short Term.

Lang Jingshan, Qinchen ru yunwu (Entering the Mist in Morning), composite photograph reproduced in Badeyuan shejing.

A $720,000 award from the National Science Foundation to Associate Professor of Neuroscience Jason Castro has meaning beyond the dollars.

The grant, from the NSF’s Faculty Early Career Development Program, “is the foundation’s most prestigious grant for junior faculty scientists,” says Matt Auer, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty at Bates.

And because such grant applications are evaluated by peers in an applicant’s field of study, Castro says that the award is “a vote of confidence from colleagues in your research area, and I’m very honored that my work was recognized in this way.”

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THIS JUST IN A sampling of recent faculty-authored articles.

The Allegorical Landscape: Lang Jingshan’s Photography in Context

Publication: Archives of Asian Art • Author: Mia Yinxing Liu (Asian studies) • What It Explains: Lang Jingshan was a 20th-century icon of Chinese photography, yet his images were nevertheless deemed utopian escapism removed from social reality. Liu argues that Lang did, in fact, engage with the turmoil of his times with images rich in political and social significance.

Estimating the Causal Relationship Between Foreclosures and Unemployment During the Great Recession

Publication: Economics Letters • Authors: Paul Shea (economics) and Ghulam Awais Rana ’16 • What It Explains: U.S. policy makers say that falling housing prices were a main contributor to the Great Recession, and that foreclosures were a symptom. Shea’s study shows that the foreclosure crisis itself was the likely culprit.

Millennial-scale Oscillations Between Sea Ice and Convective Deep Water Formation

Publication: Paleoceanography • Author: Raj Saha ’03 (physics) • What It Explains: Periodic and abrupt warming events of the last ice age may have been caused by the interaction between sea ice and ocean water to produce enhanced cooling and sinking of the North Atlantic current.

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THE COLLEGE

Seventy-six percent of the Class of 2016 made gifts to their Senior Gift campaign.

The pre-Orientation “Bobcat First!” program helps first-generation students get acclimated to Bates life.

Record Giving Year

Four to the Board

Bates donors contributed a college-record $28.2 million during the fiscal year ending June 30.

Giving to Bates has increased 30 percent or more in each of the last three fiscal years, more than doubling since fiscal 2013, the initial year of Clayton Spencer’s presidency.

“Those who know and love Bates have invested in the college to a remarkable degree, and we are profoundly grateful,” Spencer said. “The generosity and support of our alumni, parents, and friends have enabled extraordinary progress over the past four years, and given us great confidence in setting ambitious goals for Bates’ future.”

Total giving to Bates from all sources in fiscal year 2016 was $28,155,471, with $13 million designated to the endowment. The 2016 total breaks the previous annual dollar record of $24.8 million, reached in 2006.

Four new members of the Board of Trustees were announced in May.

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Chris Barbin ’93, chairman, CEO, and co-founder of the technology consulting firm Appirio

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Gregory Ehret ’91,

CEO and an executive

director of PineBridge Investments

Garth Timoll ’99, managing director at the venture capital firm Top Tier Capital Partners

Lisa Utzschneider ’90, chief revenue officer at Yahoo! Inc.

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New trustees bates.edu/new-trustees-2016

Honorary Degree Recipients: 2. Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, who gave the address at the college’s 150th Commencement in May 3. Daniel Gilbert, renowned psychologist and author of Stumbling on Happiness 4. Lisa Genova ’92, neuroscientist and author of bestselling novels, including Still Alice 5. Robert Witt ’62, chancellor of the University of Alabama System

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Bates has 749 employees: 380 women and 369 men.

The Bates fiscal year begins July I and ends June 30.

Designation as “faculty” affords the right to vote in faculty meetings and serve on faculty committees.

CALENDAR BASICS October 28–March 18 Phantom Punch Exhibit — Museum of Art show of important Saudi artists

Adedire Fakorede ’18:

“ Dive into your courses, branch out to make friends, be deliberate in thinking about how you move through life on this campus — because it’s great practice for figuring out how you wish to move through the world.”

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“Your real personality is what brings friends and family to you.

And being yourselves is what makes our school the very wonderful, vibrant, and diverse community that we call Bates.”

November 18 First Winter Sporting Event — Women’s hoops vs. Norwich at Bowdoin at 5 p.m.

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Taste, Dive, and Branch Out “This is an amazing journey that’s in front of you, and you have no idea where it’s going,” said Convocation speaker Dan Gediman, a renowned radio producer and co-creator of the This I Believe series of books and radio spots.

Speaking to the 499-member Class of 2020 on Sept. 6, he told Bates’ newest students that they could regard that as-yet-uncharted path “as something terrifying or...something amazingly exciting.”

The new students have arrived trailing clouds of expectations from “parents and guidance counselors and various advisers,” he noted. Notwithstanding all that, “just be open-minded,” Gediman said. “I want you to taste everything that a liberal arts education has to offer” and, particularly, “to not fear failure.”

Student Government President Adedire Fakorede ’18 of Newark, N.J., offered the formal greeting to the new class. His overriding message was an oldie-butgoodie: “Just be yourself and people will like you.”

December 31 The Year Ends — Is a year-end gift the way to give?

Visit bates.edu/give January 1 Regular Admission Deadline — Aspiring Class of 2021 was born in 1999!

January 9 Winter Classes Begin — So, how was your break?

January 16 Martin Luther King Jr. Day — Bates’ theme is “Reparations”; watch the keynote at bates.edu/live January 20 Puddle Jump — Ice, ice, Batesie January 27 The Arts Crawl — The campus rattles and hums with arts events all evening February 18–26 Winter Recess — Go south, young Bobcat March 9–13 A Midsummer Night’s Dream — A Bates trifecta of Shakespeare, Andrucki, Schaeffer Theatre March 24 Honors Thesis Deadline — That’s 3 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time March 31 Mount David Summit — Sure sign of spring and Bobcat brain activity

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Emma Katz ’17 of Holmdel, N.J., was one of 80 students who did faculty-guided research last summer. She looked at factors influencing bumblebee visits to “unrewarding flowers” — ones that don’t offer pollen or nectar — doing her beesy work in the lab of Assistant Professor of Biology Carla Essenberg.

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RESEARCH SUBJECTS photography by phyllis graber jensen Study break!

Nine students pause from their faculty-guided summer research on topics like Lyme disease, Indian monsoons, The Barber of Seville, Japan-Korea relations, and phosphorus in Lake Auburn.

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Two New Coaches

A few “Pondmen” gather around baseball coach Raymond “Ducky” Pond in May 1950.

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Bates announced two varsity coaching appointments in August.

Jon Martin, head coach at Vassar College since 2005, is the new baseball coach, succeeding Mike Leonard, now at Middlebury.

Besides his work at Vassar, Martin has extensive international coaching experience with U.S. teams in the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Spain, Japan, and Germany. He’s served as chair of the NCAA Division III Baseball Committee’s New York Region since 2014.

Most Bates games are livestreamed at athletics.bates.edu/live.

Home cross-country meets are at Pineland Farms in New Gloucester.

Micaela Holland ’11 returns as head coach of men’s and women’s alpine ski teams, taking over from Rogan Connell, now alpine director at Gould Academy.

Holland was previously head coach of alpine skiing and director of outdoor recreation at Clarkson University. At Bates, she competed in three NCAA championships and was team captain in her junior and senior years, receiving the Lloyd Lux Award for excellence in athletic leadership in 2010.

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In the Company of Pondmen Though you don’t hear the phrase “Belichickmen” much, mid-1900s sportswriters — including The Bates Student’s — had a penchant for creating team nicknames by combining the coach’s name plus “men.” Below are the era’s Bates names and how often the Student used each one.

Hatchmen: 49 Teams coached by Bob Hatch, mostly football 1952–72. (His innovative spread formation, used to tie mighty UMaine in

1962, was dubbed “the Hatchet” by Student sports editor Alan Marden ’63.)

Pondmen: 40 Teams coached by Raymond “Ducky” Pond, mostly football 1941 and 1946–51. No instances of “Duckmen” however.

Peckmen: 32 Teams coached by Bob Peck, mostly basketball 1959–65 except 1963.

“Peckmen” was printed 11 times in 1961, the team’s NCAA tourney year.

Leaheymen: 30 Teams coached by Chick Leahey ’52, mostly baseball 1955–91.

Slovenskimen: 18 Teams coached by Walt Slovenski, cross country and track and field, 1952–95.

Moreymen: 16 Teams coached by Dave Morey, mostly baseball and football in the 1930s.

Luxmen: 4 Teams coached by Director of Athletics Lloyd Lux, mostly golf c. 1960.

Wigtonmen: 2 Teams coached by George Wigton, basketball 1966–86 and also tennis.

Building a Better Boathouse

Sporting Class

Just five months after the start of construction, the college’s new rowing boathouse on the Androscoggin River in Greene went into service in September.

With an exterior of gray shingles, garnet clapboards, and white trim, the new donorfunded facility succeeds a more rustic pole-framed barn, which has been razed.

But the old boathouse, which dated to 1988, lives on in a way. Its wall planks were preserved, freshly planed, finished, and fitted as wainscoting and ceiling accents.

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SOURCE: Senior Survey, completed by 94 percent of the Class of 2016.

GreenFields TX has replaced the I6-year-old AstroTurf surface on the Campus Avenue Field.

Women’s rowing has qualified for the NCAA Championships in I0 consecutive years.

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Tailgating can start three hours before the start of any home football game.

Kevin McHugh to Step Down in 2017 Director of Athletics since 2007, Kevin McHugh announced in August he will step down on June 30, 2017.

His tenure has been marked by competitive success, a growing national reputation for inclusivity and community engagement, and significant improvements to Bates’ athletics facilities.

Achievements include the college’s first NCAA team championship, in women’s rowing in 2015; individual national titles in track and field, squash, and tennis; a firstever NCAA tournament bid for men’s lacrosse; and a return to the NCAAs for women’s lacrosse and men’s basketball.

In 2015, Bates achieved its best-ever ranking in the annual Directors’ Cup, measuring U.S. collegiate success in NCAA championships.

“I have truly valued my time at Bates, and after a decade in the role, I am ready to seek new challenges,” he said.

“I am extremely proud of the progress we have made on and off the field, as well as the student-athletes and staff with whom I have had the privilege of working.”

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McHugh steps down bates.edu/kevin-mchugh

Two Cool Among 13 sets of twins at Bates in 2015–16, eight competed on varsity teams in 2015–16, and here they are.

Front: Benjamin ’17 and Gabriel Whitehead ’17 of Shaker Heights, Ohio (rowing); Cara ’16 and David Cappellini ’16 of Manhasset, N.Y. (lacrosse); Frank ’19 (cross country) and Mark Fusco ’19 (track and field) of Cheshire, Conn.

Back: Abby ’17 and Jenney Abbott ’17 of Rangeley, Maine (softball); Coley ’19 and John Cannon ’19 of Greenwich, Conn. (squash); Malcolm ’17 and Marcus Delpeche ’17 of Wilmington, Del. (basketball); Dylan ’19 and Duane Davis ’19 of Dix Hills, N.Y. (tennis); and Daly ’19 (basketball) and Claire Naughton ’19 (volleyball) of Darien, Conn.

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ARTS & CULTURE

Eight ensembles make music under the auspices of the Department of Music.

The Bates Museum of Art’s permanent collection holds more than 5,000 works.

Dream Maker For three years, Bates choir director John Corrie worked to assemble a grand collaboration of musical organizations to perform Beethoven’s choral masterwork: the Missa Solemnis, a great musical setting of the Catholic Mass.

In early April, Corrie’s dream came to fruition, leading more than 200 singers and instrumentalists, from Bates and community, in a standing-room-only Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul.

It was a triumph of both music and the human spirit.

Missa Solemnis not only demands many singers, but, Corrie says, “the demands on the singers are really quite extreme. It takes a particular interest from people to pull it together.”

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Missa Solemnis in pictures picturestories.bates.edu/missa-solemnis

JASON “ I’ve never worked with such a close family. Sure, we give each other crap and there’s hard days, but when we work together on the same mindset backstage it’s like magic.”

Jason Ross ’19 of Des Moines, Iowa, worked in Schaeffer Theatre as a Purposeful Work intern for the Bates Dance Festival.

A production intern for the summer festival, Ross is a chemistry major with an interest in theater.

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Bates defines public art as objects in a “public, shared and/or accessible space.”

About 200 students participated in at least one theater or dance production in 20I5–I6.

The Bates Dance Festival’s Youth Arts Program offers music, dance, and art for ages 6–I7.

Direct from Bates “This internship was invaluable,” says Van Patten.

“It’s amazing to see how directors work in a professional setting outside academia.”

Still, Harrison saw overlap between pro and academic.

“The experience reminded me exactly how much I’ve learned through the theater department.”

A Shared Zenith A summer exhibition at the Bates College Museum of Art, Robert Indiana: Now and Then debuted Indiana’s important new Like a Rolling Stone series, which sets lyrics from Bob Dylan’s 1965 hit into Indiana’s trademark poster style.

Writing for the Sun Journal, reviewer Pat Davidson Reef called it “breathtaking.”

In Down East magazine, writer Kyra Spence articulated a common response to the series: “So, is Indiana summarizing Dylan’s lyrics, using them to decorate his own images, or creating new insights into both artists’ works?” (Spence advised readers to see the show and “decide for yourself.”)

The Maine Sunday Telegram’s Bob Keyes explored Bob-and-Bob parallels. “Just as Indiana was ascending to taste-maker status, Dylan was reinventing rock ‘n’ roll ... However briefly, Dylan and Indiana shared a zenith.”

Keyes’ colleague Daniel Kany set the Indiana show in the context of the museum’s other recent exhibitions, Doorway Portfolio by artist David Driskell and poet Michael Alpert, and Jay Bolotin’s print narrative The Book of Only Enoch.

“This trio could hardly have been better selected to illustrate three of the most significant visual art strands of relating text to image,” Kany said.

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Two theater majors found themselves in a professional theater environment in Down East Maine over the summer.

Both on a directing track at Bates, Colby Harrison ’17 of Kennebunk, Maine, and Katie Van Patten ’17 of Chico, Calif., received directing internships at Opera House Arts in Stonington, where they assisted director Meg Taintor in shaping an Equity production of the dark comedy Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play.

An attendee takes in all the artwork during last June’s opening reception for the Robert Indiana exhibition Now and Then at the Museum of Art.

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LEWISTON

Lewiston is 35.54 square miles of which I.39 is under water.

In May, some 400 Lewiston eighth-graders attended a collegeaspirations day at Bates.

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My Beautiful Balloon A hot-air balloon skims the surface of the Androscoggin River behind Longley Bridge during the Great Falls Balloon Festival, an August tradition in LewistonAuburn.

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Bates and the Festival

Nicole Danser ’15, studying at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, speaks to the audience in Schaeffer Theatre after screening her film Good Art at the Emerge Film Festival.

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Bates stepped up as a principal sponsor of the Emerge Film Festival in Lewiston-Auburn this year, a relationship personified by Assistant Professor of Rhetoric Jonathan Cavallero.

He sits on the Emerge board of directors and this year integrated his Short Term course, “Film Festivals and Digital Video Production,” into the festival, held from April 28 to May 1.

In part, that means that students got to work at the festival, thus learning the film business “by seeing it in action.

That’s invaluable,” Cavallero said.

The festival experience also helped to “remove barriers to their entry into the business” while letting them see the “variety that exists” in the film world.

In its third year, Emerge screened 40 films selected from some 2,300 submissions from 42 U.S. states and more than 100 countries.

Festival venues included Bates, the Community Little Theatre in Auburn, and the Franco Center’s Performance Hall and Heritage Hall in Lewiston.

Lewiston’s tallest peak is Thorncrag Hill in Thorncrag Nature Sanctuary: 520 feet.

Members of the Somali Bantu community founded a 30-acre cooperative farm in Lewiston.

What’s in a Name?

Lown The southernmost bridge across the Androscoggin (near the Rollodrome) was named for Lewiston son Dr. Bernard Lown in 2008.

Laurel Meyer’s senior thesis evaluated how senior-living centers in Lewiston support community and independence.

Dr. Bernard Lown attended the 2008 dedication of the South Bridge in his name.

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Name Dr. Bernard Lown Born: June 7, 1921 Name that Bridge Built in 1936 after a flood took out its predecessor, Maine bridge number 3330 never had an official name. Locally, it was known as the South Bridge.

Lown, Lithuania, and Lewiston The Lown family were Jewish émigrés from Lithuania. Lown’s uncle Philip came to the U.S. in 1907 and owned shoe factories in Maine, including Auburn. Bernard’s family arrived around 1934, and he attended Lewiston High School and the University of Maine.

Peace Bridge The bridge’s full name is now the “Bernard Lown Peace Bridge.” Besides being a cardiologist, Lown is a Nobel

Peace Prize-winning activist, receiving the 1985 award as co-founder of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. The Bates Peace Local resident Al Harvie ’65 pushed to name the bridge for Lown. Larry Gilbert and John Jenkins ‘74, then the respective mayors of Lewiston and Auburn, supported the idea. The Maine Legislature approved the naming thanks to a bill submitted by then-Rep. Dick Wagner, professor emeritus of psychology.

‘Timely Reminders’ When he received a Bates honorary degree in 1983, the citation noted that Lown’s peace activism offered “timely reminders to his own profession that its power ought to be in service to the healing of nations.”

Heart Healer Lown invented the direct-current defibrillator in 1960, a vast improvement over AC defibrillation.

Touch of Glass

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In an Auburn salvage yard, students react as an Auburn firefighter shows how to break a vehicle window to remove a crash victim.

The demonstration had a purpose: helping students become certified emergency medical technicians, a requirement to join the Bates Emergency Medical Services.

In this case, the students were taking a non-credit Short Term course taught at Bates

by Ben Guild, a firefighter and paramedic with the South Portland Fire Department.

Bates EMS is a volunteer first-response emergency medical service that provides aid for both the campus and local communities.

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THE WORLD

BATES IN BRIEF FALL 20I6

67 percent of the Class of 20I6 studied abroad while at Bates.

Thirteen of Bates’ 15 Fulbright award winners in 20I6 had studied abroad.

To the Top From its 2016 edition, here’s another offering from the annual Barlow Off-Campus Photography Exhibition.

Valparaíso, Chile An incendio sends smoke billowing above the port city of Valparaíso. The tangerine-colored smoke stems from the higher hills, where impoverished residents live and where foreign companies have planted highly flammable eucalyptus trees for quick and easy production. This day, as we climbed to a friend’s roof to watch the ocean reflect the blood-red sky, we couldn’t help but think that clouds should never look like that.

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Photo and caption courtesy of Bridget Feldmann ’16 of Rockville, Md., who studied abroad on the IFSA-Butler program, graduated with a sociology major, and is now teaching English in Madrid.

‘Oh Yes It Does’ Dana Professor of Anthropology Loring Danforth has published Crossing the Kingdom: Portraits of Saudi Arabia, a book researched during his 2012 Short Term trip to Saudi Arabia. In a recent interview, he talked about a dilemma he faced during the trip — which he chronicles in the book — when three of his students wanted to visit Mecca, off-limits to non-Muslims.

We had met Dr. Sami Angawi, an inspiring religious leader. I think of him as a Muslim Quaker or a Muslim Unitarian Universalist, a concept I didn’t think could exist.

He told me that if I wanted to go to Mecca, he could arrange it, even though I am not a Muslim. I said, “Thank you, but I don’t think that would be appropriate.”

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Some of my students saw him the next day, and afterward three of them told me that they were going to go to Mecca, and that Dr. Angawi was going to arrange it.

They were planning to go to the Islamic Education Foundation in Jeddah and sign a statement that would make it possible for them to go to Mecca.

I asked about the statement, which, it turned out, was the Shahada, the Muslim declaration of faith: “There is no God but God, and Muhammad is his messenger.”

So I said, “You’re going to convert to Islam?” No, they told me: “We’re just going to say that and then go to Mecca.”

I met with two of the three and said, “Well, you are going to convert to Islam.

Do you really want to convert to Islam?”

I wanted them to know that was what they were doing. It was uncomfortable

and painful and awkward, and they were angry at me.

As a teacher and Bates official, I decided that it was not my position to forbid them from converting to Islam, so ultimately, I didn’t say, “You can’t go.” I said, “If you do this you are converting to Islam, at least as I understand it.” In the end, for a combination of reasons, they didn’t go.

It was really interesting: I was taking a harder line than Dr. Angawi’s more inclusive approach. I was defending the Saudi government’s position that only Muslims can go to Mecca, which is a position I don’t agree with individually.

What I was focused on, and what I was taking really seriously, was what the right thing to do was morally. I had a firm belief it was morally wrong for them to go to Mecca, and as a teacher I was teaching the issues that came out of that dilemma, which were directly related to the question of what it means to convert.

Q&A with Danforth bates.edu/danforth-interview

The Class of 2020 comes from 30 countries.

Bates’ two 20I6 Watson Fellows will travel to a combined 8 countries during their year.

A senior thesis by Ali Haymes ’I6 examined the human-elephant conflict in northeast India.

AWAY WITH YOU Seventy-three students spent significant time either abroad or far from campus during Short Term 2016.

HILMAR “Up and out of the classroom is always a more nuanced way to get to know students as people, and Bates students invariably prove to be fascinating people.”

Associate Professor of History Hilmar Jensen (right) hangs out with students on the roof of the Museum of Civilization in Quebec City during last spring’s Short Term course on Quebec-to-Lewiston immigration that he taught with colleague Margaret Creighton.

Course: Understanding Vietnam

Course: Orphans of Genocide in Rwanda

Discipline: Art and Visual Culture

Discipline: French and Francophone Studies

Students: 16

Students: 15

Days Off Campus: 21

Days Off Campus: 22

Location: Vietnam

Location: Rwanda

Faculty: Trian Nguyen

Faculty: Alex Dauge-Roth

Course: Biomedicine and Human Rights

Course: Tetons, Yellowstone, Craters of the Moon

Disciplines: Spanish and Chemistry

Discipline: Geology

Students: 12

Students: 15

Days Off Campus: 10

Days Off Campus: 27

Location: Chile

Location: Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming

Faculty: Claudia Aburto Guzmán and T. Glen Lawson

Faculty: Dyk Eusden ’80 and Geneviève Robert

Course: Shakespeare in the Theater in London Discipline: English Students: 15 Days Off Campus: 22

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Location: England Faculty: Sanford Freedman

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am use me n ts

BOOKS

d o g g i ng i t

Blood Brothers

by Randy Roberts & Johnny Smith

The Summer Before the War

by Helen Simonson

The Orphan Master’s Son

by Adam Johnson

Ancillary Justice

by Ann Leckie

Suggested by Professor of Rhetoric, American Cultural Studies, and African American Studies Charles Nero A favorite boxing sportswriter (Roberts has written excellent bios of Joe Louis and Jack Johnson) and colleague deal with 1960s icons Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X.

Suggested by Associate Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies Margaret Imber A delightful, lazy, rainy-afternoon book set in Edwardian England.

She’s a keen observer of class differences and a delightful chronicler of small-town feuds and friendships.

Suggested by Professor of Geology Beverly Johnson A beautifully written, fascinating, and brutal tale of life in North Korea inspired, in part, from the accounts of those who have defected.

Suggested by Systems Analyst Kendall Blake Leckie does a good job of creating a universe and having great fun with language and perspective. Just relax, suspend your disbelief, and enjoy some sci-fi.

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Another round of book suggestions from the Good Reads summer reading list, compiled annually by Sarah Potter ’77, who retired last year as manager of the Bates College Store.

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

A campus-wide email in September 1994 announced that something might “change without warning.”

What was that something?

Answer: In announcing Bates’ first online presence, based on the World Wide Web’s predecessor, the Gopher protocol, the email cautioned that the content might change without notice.

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Doggelgänger The Dan’s Beagle statue near Chase Hall meets a 3D-printed version of itself.

Created as a test a while back, the printed dog is now back home in a display case in the Imaging Center, located in Coram Library.

Something You Didn’t Know You Needed from the Bates College Store Bobcat Bicycle Bell

Primarily an outside cat, Garney got the inside story by looking over President Clayton Spencer’s shoulder.

$14.99

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What the Bobcat Told the Biologist An April 1 story in the online Bates News reported campus sightings of a rare but apparently amiable subspecies of garnet-colored bobcat.

Yes, it was April 1 — thus it was foolish fun, including the fantastic images of “Garney” prowling the campus.

The story noted that while bobcats usually eat small mammals, this new subspecies “mostly just begs for almond cookies outside Commons,” said Katherina Tran ’19 of Boston.

Don Dearborn, an evolutionary biologist at Bates, offered that Garney’s distinctive coloring could be genetic. On the other hand, Dearborn mused, Garney “might just be using Clairol for Cats.”

Everywhere a Sign Consider the Alumni Parade as pop-up marketing.

The space is the Historic Quad and Alumni Walk; the marketers are the Reunion classes; and here’s what three classes were selling in June 2016.

1986 Selling themselves as: Vintage How they sold it: Carrying single-word signs that hammered the brand: “Ripe,” “Classic,” “Select,” “Best,” “Venerable,” “Finest,” and “Consummate.”

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The Class of 1956 marketed themselves as “Garnet Gems.”

Sold!

1951 Selling themselves as: The Winning Team How they sold it: Carrying plastic bats, holding signs with slogans like “The 65th Inning Stretch,” and wearing T-shirts that read “We’re Still at Bat.” 1956 Selling themselves as: Garnet Gems How they sold it: Carrying signs like “Mined

By Milt” (referring to mid-1900s admission dean Milt Lindholm ’35) and “Polished by Profs,” and wearing prospector-style moustaches and bejeweled crowns.

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THE CAPACITY TO CLAIM THE WORLD In building a new Digital and Computational Studies Program, Bates has a grand goal Instantaneous, global, and ever-changing, digital information has placed unprecedented pressures on colleges like Bates to expand how they define and deliver a liberal arts education.

This was on President Clayton Spencer’s mind in 2015 when interviewer Bryant Gumbel ’70 asked Spencer, at a spring Bates event in New York City, if skills that employers want — problemsolving, collaboration, and communication — are “inherent in the liberal arts education.”

Spencer gave a “yes, but” answer, explaining that “employers tell us that Bates students are wonderful, teamoriented, and collaborative. They communicate well, work hard, and are rigorous in their approach.”

But, Spencer added, “employers tell us they need more digital and computational awareness and skills.”

Soon, there will be no buts about it.

Fueled by $19 million in gifts from seven Bates families (Bates Magazine, Spring 2016), the college will launch a new Program in Digital and Computational Studies by fall 2018.

The new program will do its work beneath a big tent: It will have three new faculty members, a range of new academic courses, and formalized connections to existing DCS-themed courses throughout the curriculum.

Ultimately, the program’s goal is squarely in the liberal arts wheelhouse — to give Bates graduates “the capacity to claim the world,” in the words of classics professor Margaret Imber.

In this Q&A, 11 Bates faculty members who’ve been involved in the program’s development explain the work of building an innovative and distinctive DCS program.

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As chair of the nascent DSC program in 20I5–I6, what are your hopes for the major?

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Lauren Ashwell, associate professor of philosophy, 2015–16 chair of the Program in Digital and Computational Studies, and an expert in metaphysics, epistemology, and feminist philosophy.

Much of my teaching in logic, metaphysics, and epistemology touches on the limits of computation. I also teach feminist philosophy, which includes the kind of social critique that I think will be important to the DCS program.

It is easy to hear that Bates is creating an interdisciplinary program and then think that the focus will be on computers merely as tools and instruments for work in other disciplines. But the Bates program won’t just equip students with the ability to use computational methods, but will also include awareness of the limits and the social impact of technology.

That’s the great thing about the group of faculty working on the program — I don’t think anyone sees DCS as merely a set of tools for other disciplines, but as something that will complement the existing Bates curriculum in a robust kind of way.

As builders of the DCS program, we can instill the idea that learning about the tools of technology is not only about all the wonderful things that you can do with them, but also about what you can’t do. Students need not just awareness of the theoretical limits of computation but also the skill and ability to think critically about the limits of technology’s ability to solve problems.

In my classroom, when we talk about critical thinking, I use the word “careful” to describe an important skill that I want my students to take away from their coursework. You are careful in the sense that you do not just accept what people tell you: You reflect on it with time and care.

You are not just being fed information — instead, you’re engaging with information in a reflective way. These are the characteristics of a future Bates DCS student.

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What would you tell a colleague at another institution about why you are keen to teach in the DCS program at Bates?

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How will the Bates DCS program be distinctive?

Jason Castro, assistant professor of neuroscience and an expert in applying data-mining techniques in his research on the olfactory system

Nathan Tefft, associate professor of economics and an expert in applied microeconomics and econometrics in health, labor, and public economics

The way DCS is conceived at Bates is unique because, for one, it will be more than just a computer science program with add-ons and peripherals.

It was conceived as a communal enterprise; the decisions about how DCS will be formed and deployed, and conversations about its intellectual makeup, involved the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences.

Having that cross-disciplinary conversation, that set of ideas built into the launch of the program, is exciting. It will make for flexible curricular programming and vivid awareness of the roles that digital media have in our lives.

Because the Bates program will be inter- and cross-disciplinary, I would tell a colleague that I am in the right place and time, in terms of my research.

In my work, I seek to answer important questions using data in novel ways.

The Bates DCS program will support my research in part by bringing me into closer contact with new methods and tools from computer science and statistics, tools that are associated with the Big Data phenomenon and are fast being adopted by economists.

The DCS program is also a crucial development in our historical liberal arts mission.

If a liberal arts education means giving graduates a deep understanding of the various ways that people interact with the world, and if people interact with the world through technology, then I believe a Bates education that includes DCS will be much more effective.

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What is the value of bringing interdisciplinary thought to the Bates DCS program?

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What are the implications for the college’s Information and Library Services operation when we add DCS to the curriculum?

Katie Vale, vice president for Information and Library Services and librarian

Rebecca Herzig, Christian A. Johnson Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, chair of the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies, and an expert in the history of science, technology, and gender

One of the things that’s particularly novel is that this is not just a straight computer science program. While students can certainly learn to code, the Bates DCS program will give students experience with a variety of technological tools and the curricular work will have ties to many different subjects and topics.

What ILS excels at, especially on the library side, is helping people make connections, find information, and learn to use technologies to ask questions and solve problems. Our librarians and academic technologists assist faculty in thinking about new types of assignments that will increase students’ understanding of the world.

For example, they can locate actual government data sets that can be analyzed to understand a range of political, social, and economic issues in a particular country or group of nations. Or they might help with GIS mapping technologies to identify population changes or environmental resource constraints. Students can report their findings via research papers, multimedia assignments, or even 3D-printed items.

Digital and information literacy skills are necessary for life in the 21st century, and we in ILS look forward to supporting the DCS program.

In my view, an interdisciplinary perspective is really about perceiving and understanding relationships, and that’s a long-standing theme at Bates, something Bates students do unusually well. And what does a networked world demand but the ability to see and frame and transform relationships in new ways?

I like to imagine that our graduates will help build a different kind of digital infrastructure and, in so doing, build a different kind of world: more inclusive, more sustainable, more democratic.

And they’ll be able to do that not only because they have the requisite technical skills in coding and analysis and so on, but also, more importantly, because those skills emerge within the context of a broader liberal arts education.

An interdisciplinary education can encourage students to explore the social underpinnings of technical skills, and the limitations of those skills, as well as their most potent applications.

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How will the Bates DCS program support what the mission statement calls the ‘emancipating potential’ of the liberal arts?

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Why might a DCS-minded student or young professor opt for a liberal arts college like Bates instead of a school known for computer science?

Nathan Lundblad, associate professor of physics and an expert in quantum physics and ultracold atomic physics

Margaret Imber, associate professor of classical and medieval studies, associate dean of the faculty, and a leader of digital humanities initiatives at Bates

Launching the DCS program underscores the college’s strong support of faculty who have a commitment to both teaching and research.

At top liberal arts colleges, cutting-edge research in the natural sciences is attracting federal dollars, being published in top journals, and sending students to top graduate programs.

For example, I have a federal grant from NASA to study the physics of ultracold atomic systems aboard the International Space Station, and as part of this I’ll be one of a few remote users of a facility orbiting the Earth performing precision tests in quantum mechanics.

This project involves extensive computer modeling and programming to guide and design various experimental processes, and, as happens at a liberal arts college, Bates students have been working directly with me on crucial aspects of the project.

I’m excited to bring DCS students aboard as interns for computational aspects of my project, and I’m looking forward to having my physics students take DCS classes to better prepare them for research where computational skills are increasingly indispensable.

Coming to Bates to work in digital and computational studies gives students the opportunity to work on projects like this while benefiting from the close teacher-student interactions that are the central pillar of the liberal arts experience.

DCS is going to allow students to ask the critical question of the liberal arts: Why do I know what I know? Why do I believe this?

How do I know it?

In pursuing those questions, you have the capacity to liberate yourself. You have the capacity to claim the world.

I have a senior doing an honors thesis on the political topography of violence in ancient Rome. He made for himself a data set of every reference to political violence in Rome in the last century of the republic. He used software to recreate images in 3D to better understand, for example, Livy’s and other written descriptions of riots down the streets of the Via Sacra.

By using these tools — more often associated with the natural sciences or graphic design than classics — he got a much better sense, almost tactile, of what the words were describing. More important, he gained the ability to ask questions about the accuracy or distortions of the historical texts.

That’s why DCS is perfect for Bates and the liberal arts. It will help emancipate students from presumptions, sloppy thinking, and living in a world that other people give to you.

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What value might an art and visual culture major find in the DCS curriculum?

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How might DCS contribute to citizenry that is more numerate, and why does that matter?

Adriana Salerno, associate professor of mathematics and an expert in number theory, arithmetic geometry, and communicating mathematics to the general public

Rebecca Corrie, Phillips Professor of Art and Visual Culture, chair of the Program in Classical and Medieval Studies, and an expert in Italian medieval art and Byzantine art

For me, numeracy and computer literacy are human rights, like reading. We believe people have a right to learn how to read because it gives you opportunities. I believe the same should be true for being numerate.

Nobody ever says you have to compete in the Tour de France in order to be considered a bicycle rider. It should be the same for learning math and computer science. You don’t have to be the best person at this. But you can still do it.

Yet in computer science and STEM fields there is often that attitude that says, “This is only for a certain elite.” But we have a problem if only certain groups of people have the skills to have those jobs, and we especially have a problem if those elite just happen to all look very similar in terms of their race and gender.

At Bates, we have the power to create a program that doesn’t have the baggage and vices of some of the established programs, where people say, “Computer science is taught this way.” We have a clean slate. We can decide what this major is going to be and who it is going to attract, whether it’s a student who likes math, or is a dancer, or takes a lot of philosophy courses.

We will create all sorts of routes for students to get a technology- and computerscience-based education.

DCS gives us a chance to equip our already great students with skills they increasingly need.

When technology arrived in our fields, you could say, “Let’s bring someone in who knows how to do that.” Today, you cannot outsource technology tasks. You have to embody them. You need to have the skills.

For example, if you are an architectural historian who needs to create a digital reconstruction, you should not only know the art history and the architectural history but also be capable of working with or even developing the programs yourself.

Fields that hire art history majors, such as museums and auction houses, for example, want hires who know how to code and who are skilled at different technologies.

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How might the Bates DCS program help faculty and students find new connections across disciplines?

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What do you see as the unifying themes of the Bates DCS program?

Pallavi Jayawant, associate professor, chair of the Department of Mathematics, and an expert in discrete mathematics and mathematics education

Eden Osucha, associate professor of English and an expert in the intersections of law, privacy, literature, and media culture

What the Bates DCS program will support and recognize — whether the ultimate goal is theorizing and applying principles of computation, exploring philosophical boundaries of artificial intelligence, modeling queries using complex data sets, or designing threedimensional digital maps using layers of coded data — is creativity and rigor in defining and answering questions.

Importantly, DCS at Bates will support collaboration across the entire faculty, inside and outside of the program, to develop new elective courses and/or enhance their existing courses with digital and computational abilities.

DCS will teach students how to get inside of and learn their way around computers rather than simply be proficient at using them. This will be especially liberating because it will help them develop and apply new knowledge and improve their understanding of the world around us.

Ultimately, an education that involves the Bates DCS curriculum can serve as a bulwark against unreflective, biased, or limited understandings of computer technologies in our lives.

Technology is transforming, in a real sense, the very objects of study that are at the heart of the humanities and the humanistic social sciences.

As we develop the program, we will recognize that in teaching students about technology, we need to be teaching students to have a critical understanding of technology’s many impacts on language, community, identity, culture, and our notions of the human.

When students do technologically driven assignments in an English classroom alongside more traditional writing assignments, an interesting thing happens: They begin to recognize something new about their academic disciplines, whether they are humanities majors or not.

A senior physics major or a math major who takes their first English class and does a digital textual mapping project, for example, might realize that, while they are adept at thinking about knowledge in terms of data, or thinking in terms of structures and relations, they now can deploy those abilities to achieve a critical engagement with a literary or other cultural text.

In so doing, they expand their own understanding of the value and purpose of those skills. n

LOCAL M A I N E

She ate only Maine-made food for a month.

And here’s what she learned by katherine c r e sw e ll ’ 0 5

It is Nov. 8, 2015, a Sunday evening in Maine. This morning, I drank my last cup of coffee, and just now I ate my last piece of chocolate for the next 30 days.

Tomorrow, I embark on a 30-day challenge to consume only foods grown in Maine or processed with 100 percent Maine ingredients, including often-overlooked ingredients such as salt, rennet, and cooking oil.

This project has been a decade in the making. As a Bates senior, I tried to answer one question: Can Maine feed itself?

Through my year-long environmental studies thesis research, trying to figure out the state’s food advantages and challenges, I interviewed farmers, Maine Department of Agriculture representatives, social service agencies, and food distributors.

My hypothesis was that Maine could feed itself if some barriers were removed: high consumer costs, rural distribu-

tion issues, and, most important, the reluctance of many Mainers to change the way they eat.

Now, a decade later, I’m setting out to gather a month’s worth of empirical evidence on the relative ease or difficulty of eating completely locally.

The obstacles: Saying “No” to treats offered by others; making everything from scratch even in time-crunched workweeks; and not overlooking anything — like spices used in sausage.

The advantages: I live on Maine’s Midcoast and manage a farm outside Waterville, so I have unlimited access to free vegetables and eggs, and know many food producers around the state. Plus, I like to cook.

The goals: To expand my cooking repertoire, inspire others to eat more locally, and arrive at an answer to the question that has been nagging me for a decade.

I’ve made a list of all of the Maine ingredients available

to me from the farm: greens, storage crops, popcorn, dry beans, eggs, and herbs. I also listed the items I could obtain from the multifarm CSA I joined for the month — flour, wheat berries, butter, fruit, milk, sweeteners, and meat — and made a short list of the items I needed to locate elsewhere, such as cornmeal and oil.

I excitedly think through my menu for tomorrow while preparing mashed potatoes with kale, garlic, and onions to take for lunch. I go to bed while cracked oats soak on the stovetop.

Cooking Lesson One: Go slow for taste I know that I cannot rely on the convenient flavor providers of my culinary past, such as soy sauce, miso, chutneys, and curry pastes.

Instead, I quickly learn that deep, satisfying tastes from a Maine-only flavor palette can come from long

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contact among the ingredients, attained from overnight simmering on the wood stove, daylong soaking or fermenting, or roasting.

In this spirit, I decide to roast a pound of CSA-sourced chicken thighs, a day ahead, in a Dutch oven with some vegetables. I cut up delicata squash, potatoes, carrots, onions, and garlic, and add them to the pot with the chicken and some sunflower oil. I put it in the oven at 400 F and cook it for over an hour.

The smells are tantalizing, but I refrain from indulging knowing that tomorrow I will have a delicious, cooked meal waiting when I come home from work, tired and hungry.

The dish sets the bar for meal quality for the month.

I’ve achieved the flavor I crave without adding condiments.

Cooking Lesson Two: Leave your kitchen comfort zone As a cook, I prefer plain, whole ingredients. While I am no kitchen coward, I do embrace the quick and easy: boiled rice, quinoa, fast sautés, or, even better, raw vegetables that are the epitome of fast foods. And I am a conservative spice user.

Given those predilections, I figured that maintaining my Maine diet would not be an extraordinary feat.

Still, as I move through the month, my quest for taste and flavor pushes me throughout my kitchen comfort zone, and I begin to discover what flavors, techniques, and satisfactions lie on the other side of quick and easy.

By mid-month, I have created some of my most flavorful meals ever as my chosen cuisine benefits from the taste and freshness of all local ingredients combined with the time I have dedicated to preparing them.

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Cooking Lesson Three: Break recipes into steps; prepare them in advance Halfway through the month, good friends invite me over for dinner. Not wanting to limit their hospitality, I regretfully decline. But they call back and, being farmers themselves, offer a list of all the Maine products they have at home, so I compromise by offering to bring the main course while they provide the salad.

I dream up a Maine version of empanadas and begin preparing them few days prior: pie-crust dough with sifted wheat flour, sea salt, a little apple cider vinegar, butter, and water; and a hash of potatoes, garlic, onion, kale, and already-cooked ground beef for the filling.

Two hours before I am due at my friends’ house, all I need to do is assemble the empanadas — the process seems quick and easy. I fold rounds of crust over small piles of filling into crescent shapes, bake at 350 F, and hope for the best. They come out browned and steaming and look beautiful. I am proud to share them with friends, and feel satisfied to welcome friends into my experiment.

Cooking Lesson Four: Keep it simple With a few kitchen successes under my belt and fully charged energy reserves, I am convinced that the Maine diet is sustainable on a practical level.

And practical often means simple.

For one long bike ride, I try granola bars made with rolled oats, butter, salt, and honey, baked in a shallow pan with an egg to bind them. From the pan, they are tasty, but in my jersey pocket they turn to crumbs. After conducting some research, for my next ride I stick with milk and honey in a water bottle with great success.

Six days from the end of the diet, I reflect on the goals I started out with. I have certainly pushed the boundary of my kitchen comfort zone and am confident that my eating habits will continue to evolve as I keep experimenting with new cooking techniques.

However, I’m finding that that I simply don’t want to give up certain foods. After busy workweeks, weekends at home are precious. This time of year, they are filled with ample reading and long bike rides — and, usually, tall cups of coffee. At the outset, I was prepared mentally to enjoy tall cups of herb tea instead.

But it’s just not the same.

So after a month of Maine-sourced diet, I have a personal answer to my thesis question. While I can sustain myself on Maine foods alone, I don’t want to restrict my diet — which leaves me unconvinced that eating a Maine-sourced diet is realistic.

Now, though, I think I have a better question than “Can Maine feed itself?” The better question is, “How can Mainers eat more local ingredients every day, for their own health and that of the environment and local economy?”

Anyone can — and many do — grow some of their own produce. They can purchase, trade, or barter with another food producer. They can access some of the 4 million pounds of farm products donated to food pantries around the state.

They can forage for greens, nuts, and mushrooms; hunt for game; and fish.

Me, I will happily resume drinking coffee on weekend mornings and nibbling chocolate toffee holiday treats — in addition to maintaining a well-stocked pantry of Maine foods and consuming all of the local items that I have access to.

For my health, my community, my environment, and most of all, superior taste, it’s an easy decision. n

Maine Recipes All Maine Granola

Maine Empanadas

Pancakes / Snack Cakes

• 10 cups rolled oats

Dough:

• 2 cups flour

• 1 cup melted butter

• 2 cups sifted wheat flour

• 1 cup cornmeal

• 2 teaspoons sea salt

• 1 cup whole wheat flour

• 1 teaspoon salt

• 1 cup maple syrup

• 1/2 cup butter, cut into pea-sized chunks

• 2 eggs

• Pinch salt

• 1/4 cup maple syrup

• 2 eggs

On very low heat, cook butter and salt together until homogenous.

Heat oven to 300 F. Thoroughly mix maple syrup into oats, then crack in two eggs and fold together. Spread onto a large baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes.

Stir the granola with a spatula, then bake another 15 minutes. Allow to cool, then break into chunks, or stir right away to minimize chunks.

Winter Salad • 1 whole small purple

cabbage, shredded

• 3 large orange carrots, shredded • 1 bunch cilantro or parsley,

chopped

• 1/2 cup cider vinegar • 2 teaspoons salt • Couple dashes of hot sauce or to taste

I use a food processor to shred the cabbage and the carrots.

Place in a large bowl. Add chopped herbs and stir or shake to mix. Mix vinegar, salt, and hot sauce together and pour over the salad. Eat right away, or allow to sit overnight for a juicier, more complex-tasting salad.

• 2 teaspoons cider vinegar • 2/3 cup cold water

Filling: • 1 pound ground beef • 1 pound potatoes, diced • 1 onion, chopped • 1 head garlic, chopped • 1/2 bunch kale, thinly chopped • 1/2 pound carrots, diced • 2 tablespoons sunflower oil • Salt to taste

Heat oven to 350 F. Mix dough, working butter into the flour with your fingers and adding liquids last. Set aside.

Brown meat in a skillet, salt to taste, and remove from skillet.

Heat oil, add onion and garlic, salt to taste, and cook until soft. Add potatoes and carrots, cooking until potatoes soften and start to brown.

Stir in kale and turn off heat.

Divide dough into 12 balls. On floured surface, roll each to an 8-inch diameter.

Top each with a few tablespoons of filling just below center line, fold over, and seal edges with fingers or a fork.

Score each empanada and arrange on a baking tray.

Bake 30 minutes or until slightly browned.

• 1/4 cup melted butter • 1/2 cup applesauce or yogurt • 1 1/2 cups milk • 1 cup chopped fruit, optional (cranberries work well)

Mix all the dry ingredients together, then add the wet ingredients and stir well.

Gently stir in the fruit, if using, at the end. Let sit five minutes while you heat a griddle to medium temperature.

Onto hot griddle greased with butter, spoon large tablespoons of batter. Cook on each side for two to three minutes.

They are wonderful eaten hot with fruit, jam, or syrup, and are still good eaten cold as a snack with yogurt and applesauce, for example.

These recipes from Creswell feature all Maine-sourced ingredients.

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Maine Producers Creswell purchased items from these Maine food producers during her Maine food challenge month.

Albion

Penobscot

Swan’s Honey Creamed honey

Blue Hill Berry Co. Organic blueberries owned by Nicolas Lindholm ’86*

Bull Ridge Farm Henry’s Organic Sunflower Oil

Edmunds Tide Mill Organic Farm Organic milk and beef

Hancock Maine Coast Sea Vegetables Seaweeds

Jefferson Beyond Coffee Chicory-based coffee substitute

Lincolnville Sewall Orchard Organic cider vinegar

Linneus

Pittsfield Balfour Farm Organic butter, milk, cheese

Skowhegan Cayford Orchards Apples Maine Grains Rolled oats Cracked oats Whole wheat flour Sifted wheat flour Wheat berries The Pickup CSA, Multi-farm CSA w/delivery options

South China

The Milkhouse Organic milk Yogurt

Thorndike

Palmer Hill Farm Cream

Turner

Ricker Hill Farm Organic cranberries

Unity

Songbird Farm Organic cornmeal Rye flour Beans

Warren

Maine-ly Poultry, Chicken

Strawberry Hill Farm Certified organic maple syrup

Aurora Mills and Farm Organic cornmeal

Marshfield Maine Sea Salt Co. Salt

Norridgewock Crooked Face Creamery Cheese

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*Curious about other alumni who are Maine food producers?

Check out: bates.edu/mainealumni-food

Maine Ingredients

Author

Creswell’s two-person household used these Maine-sourced ingredients and amounts during her challenge month. Cheese and seafood are noticeably absent from the list, the former intentionally because Creswell could not verify the origin of rennet — an ingredient in many cheeses — and the latter “for no particular reason.”

Fresh Produce

Dry Goods

• Lettuce: 1/2 pound

• Beans: 3 pounds

• Spinach: 1/2 pound • Kale: 1 pound • Chard: 1/4 pound • Beet greens: 1/4 pound • Mache: 1/4 pound • Asian greens: 1 bunch • Scallions: 1 bunch • Parsley: 2 bunches • Cilantro: 2 bunches • Carrots: 2 pounds • Radishes: 1 pound • Cranberries: 2 pounds • Apples: 15 pounds • Pears: 2 pounds

Storage Produce • Potatoes: 6 pounds • Sweet potatoes: 6 pounds • Onions: 10 total • Garlic: 8 heads • Cabbage: 1 pound • Kohlrabi: 4 pounds

• Whole wheat flour: 10 pounds • Sifted wheat flour: 10 pounds • Cornmeal: 2 pounds • Wheat berries: 5 pounds • Rolled oats: 10 pounds • Cracked oats: 4 pounds • Dry herbs (rosemary, sage, thyme, oregano, tea herbs): approx. 1/4 cup each • Poblano and ancho peppers: 1/2 cup each • Dried cayenne peppers: 1/4 cup ground

Sweeteners • Honey:

3 pounds • Maple syrup: 2 quarts

• Winter squash: 5 pounds

Oil/Other Animal Products • Milk: 3 gallons • Yogurt: 4 quarts • Butter: 1 1/2 pounds • Eggs: 3 dozen • Chicken: 1 pound

• Sunflower oil: 1 quart • Cider vinegar: scant 1/2 gallon • Hot sauce: a few

After graduating with an environmental studies major in 2005, Katherine Creswell managed the organic garden at Bowdoin for several years before managing the Farm at Kennebec Valley Community College in Hinckley, Maine.

Following last summer’s cross-country bike trip — not a problem: she’s competed in triathlons — she and her partner, Spencer Nietmann, settled in Clark Fork, in Idaho’s northern panhandle, and established Moose Meadow Farm, where they grow certified organic produce year-round.

“We bring expertise, enthusiasm, and a healthy dose of liberal-arts, figureit-outness to this enterprise,” she reports.

Moose Meadow Farm www.moosemeadoworganic.com

tablespoons

• Beef: 2 pounds

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SOPHOMORE JUMP

It’s easy to overlook sophomores. But not Sally Ceesay ’18 photo g raphy by p h y lli s g r abe r je nse n text by h . jay bu r ns

Sophomore year is a notorious transition year.

It’s like a year of Tuesdays, or like a Camry, affording no-frills passage from first-year exuberance to the adventures and mastery of junior and senior years.

In Sally Ceesay ’18, a budding biochemistry major and already a two-time All-America triple-jumper, we found a classic sophomore experience. She’s accomplished, but still a work in progress.

“You think that once you get it, you got it,” she says of her Bates experience so far. “But there’s always something to improve on. And there’s so much to learn.”

We followed Ceesay as she grappled with new ways to think, new ways to jump, and new ways to live her Bates life…with and without, as we learned, a lucky blue hair bow.

Two years ago, Ceesay came to Bates from the Bronx, N.Y., with sights set high: pole vault with the track and field team, and major in one of the natural sciences.

One day early in her first indoor season, Ceesay and her teammates were doing a bounding drill, where you leap forward with each running stride. An assistant coach, Calvin Hunter, watched her, then walked away and talked to head coach Jay Hartshorn.

“And they came back and said, ‘You’re going to jump,’” Ceesay recalls. “And I said, ‘Whaaa?’ But I tried it, and it turned out great.”

Not just great. But great “very, very immediately,” says Hartshorn. In her first three meets, a span of 29 days in January and February, her distances went from a pedestrian 31 feet, 2 inches to 37 feet, 5 inches, to win the

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Students who accomplish what Ceesay did in 2015–16, competing in multiple sports seasons while carrying the biochemistry course load, “come out with incredible time management skills.”

2015 State of Maine event and set the Bates indoor record.

Her first semester had been equally breezy, she says. “I had so much time — I didn’t have track. And I thought when track started it would be the same.”

Second semester, though, the breeze flagged. Weekend travel and daily practices quickly stripped away all that easy study time, and Ceesay hadn’t learned yet how to recover it, so winter “was a real struggle.”

Ceesay dealt with her time management troubles by “figuring out what worked and what didn’t.” She knew that practice left her tired, which left the door open to tired’s big, bad brother: procrastination. “I’d tell myself I could do an assignment the next day,” she says.

That approach didn’t work. “So I stopped making excuses, started getting things done, and gave up some things,” like modeling.

But that doesn’t mean college fun has left the building. “Track is my fun,” says Ceesay, who is a junior adviser in her campus residence, as she was last year. “All my friends are on the track team. We have practice from 4 to 6, and then we go to dinner after that, so we’re together for a long time.”

She reconnects with her non-track circle of friends on Sundays. “We get a room and we study together, hang out, and catch up. That’s my break, my fun.”

Time management means seizing time when you can. During the long wait before a meet starts, that can mean catnapping to catch up on sleep, studying, or even taking a test.

“While I was at the NCAA meet in March,” Ceesay recalls, “I had to take an organic chemistry quiz. That was stressful. But I knew I had to do it. I studied, tried as hard as I could, and I actually did well.”

Students who accomplish what Ceesay did in 2015–16, competing in multiple sports seasons while carrying the biochemistry course load, “come out with incredible time management skills,” says Professor of Chemis-

try Paula Schlax, chair of the college’s biochem program.

“I am actually shocked that our students who compete in multiple seasons are able to do as well as they do.”

Whether they are athletes or not, chemistry and biochem majors like Ceesay face a “huge transition year” as sophomores, says Schlax. It’s when they go from “thinking that all science is knowable to realizing there are questions that don’t have answers.”

At the same time, the intensity gets “really ramped up.” Gone is the somewhat passive intake of information that marked their firstyear courses; now they’ve got to take what they know and apply it to what they don’t know.

“They learn that science is not about absolutes,” Schlax says, “that there can be more than one interpretation of their data.”

In her second year of jumping, Ceesay found that things there were ramping up, too.

“I did well my first year but I didn’t know what I was doing,” says Ceesay. “My jump coach was like, ‘Just run as fast as you can and jump and see what happens.’” In 2015–16, though, jumping coach Art Feeley asked her to learn proper triple-jump technique.

Ceesay’s initial jumps last winter using the new technique reflect what Hartshorn says was a “backward path to go forward.”

That’s true in a cognitive sense, says Su Langdon, a Bates lecturer in psychology and Ceesay’s first-year adviser.

An athlete learning something new has to start with “effortful, or thought-filled processing” of the new technique, says Langdon.

In Ceesay’s case, she was winning events with her new technique yet barely topping 35 feet. “But once my body got trained to do it without thinking about it, the jumps got better and better,” says Ceesay.

Langdon calls it the “mastery phase of automatic processing” that follows endless practice — “not thinking, just doing.”

At the NCAA Indoor Track and Field ChamAt center right, Ceesay does organic chemistry lab work in Dana Chemistry Hall; at lower left, the chemistry department bulletin board displays a clipping of her from The Bates Student.

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“Yesterday, Coach Jay spoke to me about always having a goal, always motivating myself, and always thinking, ‘What do I want to do for this meet?’

pionships in March, Ceesay jumped 38 feet, 6.75 inches. Then, at the NCAA outdoor meet in May, she jumped a Bates-record 39 feet, 1/2 inch. Mastery, and two All-American honors, were hers.

Athletes and superstitions go together like bob and cat, and it’s a rare photo that doesn’t show Ceesay wearing her lucky blue hair bow.

The superstition started last winter after she dreamed that she qualified for the NCAA indoor meet while wearing the bow. So she wore it at her next meet and qualified for nationals.

The bow stayed. She’s also had a routine of wearing a white sock on her right foot and a black sock on her left.

“If I do things a certain way and I do well, I want to keep it that way,” she says. And that’s a sports-psychology truism. As Crash Davis in Bull Durham said, if you believe you do well because you follow a ritual or superstition, “then you are.”

“I think I understand the mental part” of rituals and routines, she says. “I don’t need those things but I still like to wear them.”

Ceesay also seems to grasp another mental aspect of sport: the psychological concept of “enclothed cognition.” It’s the dress-for-success idea that when you dress for the part and look sharp — as she always does — you both feel and do better.

Take her shoes, for example. “I like shoes that stand out. I have bright green shoes now, and I think I’m going to continue with the bright colors.”

Also from Bull Durham, Crash Davis offers another famous sport-psychology tip: “Don’t think. It can only hurt the club.” Ceesay agrees.

In the moment before heading full-tilt down the runway, “you can’t have any thoughts. You need to be clear-minded and ready to run.”

Joking around is one way to calm her mind, she says. “I laugh before I jump. I used to have such a ‘focus face.’ But I noticed that when I’m laughing and joking around right before I jump, I always do well.”

At right, Ceesay clears her mind before an April meet at the University of New Hampshire.

Over the summer, Ceesay was a Purposeful Work intern at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, Conn., shadowing a heart surgeon and researcher and thinking about how her love of science might translate into a purposeful career.

“I’m most interested in the human body and when we get sick, what’s happening? Why are we tired? Why are we sore? All those things are so interesting,” she says.

Looking back at Ceesay’s year, Hartshorn says it was about “being able to buckle down again, get refocused, and re-evaluate what her goals were.”

To complement what Schlax calls her “incredible work ethic,” Ceesay has gotten guidance in motivation and goal setting from her coach.

“Yesterday, Coach Jay spoke to me about always having a goal, always motivating myself, and always thinking, ‘What do I want to do for this meet?’”

The idea of short-term goal-setting is to “motivate me but not overextend me. Rather than thinking, ‘What do I need to do six months from now,’ I’m thinking, ‘What do I want to do today? How do I want to improve today?’” n

©2016 MICHAEL AUSTIN C/O THEISPOT.COM

DECISIONS DECISIONS

The Admission deans take a holistic view to be sure a student is right for Bates — and that Bates is right for each student Last spring, my colleagues in Bates Communications and I paid a few visits to Lindholm House to see and hear the Bates Admission deans discuss and vote on some of the 5,300-plus applications to the Class of 2020.

From what we heard, we have two major takeaways.

First, there are do’s and there are don’ts when it comes to applying to Bates (and most other selective liberal arts colleges).

Second, the deans strive to answer, as best they can, two overarching questions: Is this student right for Bates? And, as important, is Bates right for this student?

Answering those questions requires a veritable flowchart of other questions. Will the candidate thrive academically? What’s his potential? How will she grow? Will he contribute to our community in dynamic ways? And, importantly, does she want Bates?

All told, Bates received 5,356 applications to the Class of 2020, and they arrived from Maine, Minnesota, and Mississippi — not to mention Malawi, Malaysia, and Maldives — and from every other U.S. state except South Dakota, and from 92 additional countries around the world.

Here’s what we heard, and what it says about our newest class — 478 strong and now well into the first semester of their Bates experience. — hjb

“ This is exactly what we want to see.

The funnel.”

In the courtship between applicant and college, both are suitors. Students pursue colleges. A college then selects students. And then, in the spring, students who’ve been accepted to multiple schools get a chance to select a college.

This courtship is also called “the funnel” because of the way it narrows the flow of prospects — from the many thousands who seek Bates information early on down to some 500 who will constitute the new class.

This dean’s comment was about a student whose record of contact with Bates — from initial inquiry, to attending an Open House and being interviewed in the fall, to applying — tells the committee that she’s likely to matriculate if admitted.

The personal interview remains a linchpin of the process. Of the regular decision pool, 707 students were interviewed on campus at Lindholm House and another 861 off campus.

That’s 30 percent of the pool. “ This poor kid.”

Some mistakes are too big to overcome. One applicant’s “disastrous” 11th grade —“too many Cs and an F” — make this candidate a long shot even with a strong counselor recommendation that spoke of an “academic rebirth” during his senior year.

On this day, his grades, coupled with a suspension for “academic dishonesty,” seal his fate, and the committee votes to deny.

“ There’s no late bus.”

The extracurricular activities of one candidate are thin. But a dean, showing the committee’s mastery of uncovering details affecting a candidate’s circumstances, notes that the student’s school doesn’t offer sports or an after-school activities bus.

Furthermore, the candidate’s parent has an illness requiring the student to come home immediately after school.

Meanwhile, the student’s recommendations bolster his application. He’s “curious, intelligent, inquisitive, skillful, and compassionate,” and his interest in improv and debate “will translate well to Bates,” the committee notes. The committee votes to admit. “ So what is the rigor, though?”

Committee shorthand requesting specific metrics of a prospect’s academic record — specifically the strength of curriculum, which at Bates nearly always means their high school transcript.

Bates has had a test-optional admission policy — meaning that applicants are not required to submit SAT or ACT scores — since 1984.

“Students who submit scores at the point of application, and those who do not, perform almost precisely the same at Bates,” Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Leigh Weisenburger says.

“We know that the best predictor of academic success at Bates is the high school transcript.”

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“ Do folks know what they want to do?

All those for admit?”

If you were asked to design the ideal international student attending Bates, you couldn’t do better than this applicant from China, and it’s little surprise that Jared Rivers, senior associate dean of admission and director of diversity enrollment, tallied a perfect 10-0-0 result after calling for a vote.

In an admission interview, the candidate revealed himself to be charismatic, outdoorsy — and “excited about thesis and Puddle Jump.”

Academically stellar, the applicant, who collects paper money, wrote a book about the significance of the images on money.

(What do the Admission Committee vote tallies mean? Ten members voted to admit, none to put the applicant on the wait list, and none to deny.) “ She is aware of how fortunate and privileged she is.”

A teacher’s recommendation includes that comment, as well as a note that the student is eager not to “come across as arrogant or uncaring, of which she is neither.”

Weisenburger talks with the committee about students’ ability to be self-aware of their socioeconomic status at this age. Many have never experienced life outside their own family reality. “It’s all they know.”

Her point? While being self-aware of one’s privilege is a mark of a liberally educated person, not all 18-year-olds are there yet. “ Quite possibly the most effort I’ve ever seen on ‘Why Bates.’”

Reviewing an outstanding student’s application — English is her sixth language, she has a 4.23 weighted GPA, and was called the “most extraordinary student” in one counselor’s 18 years — a dean shares this observation.

“Why Bates” is shorthand for the Batesfocused question on the Bates Supplement to the Common Application: “What draws you to Bates?”

It’s the key opportunity for applicants to speak directly to their interest in the college.

To help them along, they’re given the Mission Statement and encouraged to pull inspiration from it.

Again, the goal is to tease out a student’s genuine interest in Bates.

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“ Great candidate for Bonner.”

A dean notes that a student with a track record of community engagement would be a good fit for the college’s Bonner Leader Program, overseen by the Harward Center for Community Partnerships.

A Bates sports coach recently said, “I’m not looking for a player who can play. I’m looking for a player who makes an impact.”

That applies to what the Bates Admission deans are seeking in every candidate. They look for evidence that a student can make Bates even better. “ Only female on the wrestling team.”

The odd or quirky item in an applicant’s file will catch the eye of the committee, especially if it demonstrates that the student is authentic.

One student, from a private boarding school, posted solid but unspectacular grades.

Her extracurriculars, however, included being an accomplished debater, always a good thing when applying to Bates, and being the only female on the boys’ varsity wrestling team.

“I love that. That’s cool,” says one of the deans. “ I’m just here for the free coffee.”

Sarah Emerson Potter ’77 draws a laugh with this line as she arrives to observe one session.

Potter, who retired last year as the college store manager, has a vast and firm understanding of Bates, and she was one of several adjunct application readers this year.

While the sessions have a certain mystique and are filled with jargon that is captivatingly opaque, like that of air traffic controllers or recording engineers, Weisenburger has been intentional about opening the process up, when possible, to campus partners and to outsiders with a vested interest.

“It’s a great learning moment,” she explains, “and an opportunity to see inside a process that touches the college in so many ways.”

This year, Weisenburger invited several college counselors who work specifically with first-generation students and/or students from underserved or underrepresented backgrounds.

Their visit provided “a chance to broaden our own outreach efforts,” she says. “It helps both our team and the counselors because we’re able to exchange ideas about how an application is reviewed in the context of how it is prepared.”

“ It took me 10 minutes to get down the stairs.”

The deans often know about an applicant’s high school through school visits the prior fall, and this dean’s quip was about his visit to a huge public high school of 2,800 students — 1,000 more than Bates’ enrollment.

Besides the chance to meet students and their counselors, school visits also provide deans and counselors with clearer understanding of a student’s environment — their community and culture.

“Context is everything,” Weisenburger says. “ And he has been in touch with Coach.”

The committee considers an accomplished football player with solid grades and a demonstrated work ethic from a respected Florida high school.

While the recent trend at many colleges is for varsity-caliber students to apply Early Decision, quality athletes are part of the Regular Decision pool, too.

This student’s candidacy draws a key question from the committee: Would he really leave his football-crazy home state for Maine?

“It’s incredibly difficult to attract kids away from a good state flagship like the University of Florida,” says one dean. On the other hand, the applicant took the step to be interviewed by a Bates alum in Florida, who took away a very good impression.

“And he has been in touch with Coach,” says another dean. With some hope that this student might opt to be a Bobcat instead of a Gator, the committee votes to admit. “ I suspect it might lack in authenticity.”

One candidate’s application seems to offer lots of positives in academics, sports, and music.

But a dean feels that the tone of her personal essay is uneven and, specifically, seems at odds with her record of volunteerism.

In fact, the candidate’s essay, describing how she lost a school election, seems self-serving. It draws a “yikes” from one of the deans, along with an observation that the candidate’s volunteer service may not reflect an altruistic impulse. “This essay gave me a bad impression on her fit with Bates.”

The committee votes to deny.

“ He’s doing well senior year?”

After hearing strong qualifications for another candidate, Senior Associate Dean of Admission Johie Farrar Seltzer ’03 asks this question. It’s true: By slacking off in senior year, a candidate can hurt their chances for admission. This student had kept up his grades. “ Do we have a chance at yielding her?”

During a discussion of another applicant, one who will be admitted with outstanding credentials — “perfect student, every teacher’s dream,” according to one recommendation — Weisenburger asks whether there’s evidence that she would matriculate.

There’s not much to suggest she would or wouldn’t, so the committee gives the candidate an “R flag,” indicating that her choosing Bates might benefit from some recruiting, specifically contact from a Bates professor in her intended academic field. “ Alone.”

The committee considers the personal backstories of applicants, and weighs both how those affect a student’s academic record, as reflected in their GPA, and how their response to their personal circumstances might enrich the Bates community.

This student’s application notes that one parent died a year ago, and that the other parent is not present.

He attends an ultra-competitive boys school and his transcript is far from A’s and B’s.

Yet the way in which he persevered through a potentially devastating personal crisis speaks volumes about who he is, the admission committee believes.

“The unevenness [in his grades] may even out in college,” says a member of the committee. “He’s more motivated than almost everyone.” They vote to admit. n

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SINGING IN THE BRAIN

As researchers discover more and more about music’s effects on the brain, Bates is in harmony by d o ug hub l ey

WHY IS IT

that many of us can recognize the Spice Girls’ “Wannabe” or Roy Orbison’s “Oh, Pretty Woman” from the very first notes?

Why doesn’t country star Mel Tillis’ speech impediment affect his singing?

Why do we hear some sounds as music and others as noise? Why do we disagree about which is which?

And how, exactly, does music make us feel happy or sad?

Such questions are the province of music cognition, a field of study that harnesses musicology, psychology, neuroscience, and other disciplines to understand music’s workings in the brain.

As cognitive science, in general, has been redefined by the digital revolution, music cognition has evolved accordingly.

And Bates is humming along with that fascinating field. Associate Professor Gina Fatone’s research lies in the intersection of cognitive science and musical experience.

William Matthews, Alice Swanson Esty Professor of Music, introduced the topic into the music theory curriculum over the last several years, even developing a textbook.

Their colleague James Parakilas, James L. Moody Jr. Family Professor of Performing Arts, designed a course called “Music and Mind” that became one of the music department’s most popular offerings.

And now, thanks to funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Bates has a music cognition expert on board to further enrich the field’s presence in the classroom: Janet Bourne, one of Bates’ Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows in the Humanities.

“We chose Janet,” says Parakilas, “because she comes out of a program at Northwestern that’s one of the leading music theory programs with that cognitive perspective” — as well as one of the very few programs in the field. “Her work impressed us.”

Bourne, who earned a doctorate in music theory and cognition from Northwestern last year, is specifically responsible for helping the department formally integrate music cognition into its four-course theory curriculum.

She’s collaborating with music faculty to create learning objectives and assessments, as well as an evaluation plan for the curriculum. She’s also bringing in top music theorists and music psychology scholars to advise the department on the process.

As evidenced by the success of Parakilas’ course, cognition in the musical context has a strong appeal to students, especially those focusing on psychology and neuroscience, as well as music. “It’s one of those things that can be personally compelling and then it turns into an academic interest,” says Fatone, the department chair. “Music is important to everybody on a very, very personal level.”

“I wonder all the time while I’m playing how music works and what’s going on in my brain,” says trumpeter and pianist Grace Link ’19 of Montclair, N.J. Eager to study both music and neuroscience, she took Music Theory II last spring with Bourne, who has introduced a solid dose of music cognition into the course.

“I find muscle memory and learning a piece of music so fascinating,” Link says — “how you can learn something complicated and be able to play it back. And also how our brain receives different types of music, and the interactions and the emotions it triggers.

I think it’s all really cool.”

Bourne is one of the relatively rare scholars who approach music cognition from the discipline of music, rather than psychology or neuroscience. This makes her a good fit for Bates because, as she says, “Bates is one of the only places I know of that’s purposely trying to infuse music cognition into its music theory curriculum.”

In her own research, Bourne focuses on patterns in music, how those patterns constitute musical conventions (consider the guitar intros to “Oh, Pretty Woman,” the Beatles’ “Day Tripper,” and the Temptations’

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Janet Bourne teaches her music theory course in March. She was recruited to help integrate music cognition into the music theory curriculum.

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“My Girl”), how those conventions relate to patterns in language — and how our minds categorize both types of pattern.

She also looks at the role of analogy, or the functioning of shared relationships, in our comprehension of music. “There are some cognitive psychologists who would say that analogy is at the core of everything that we do,” Bourne says. But analogy as an element of music cognition hasn’t been deeply explored.

In a recent paper, Bourne argues that “listeners perceive irony in music by making an analogy between music and language — in other words, passages of music that are analogous to passages of ironic language would be perceived as ironic.”

One form of irony in language is to change the meaning of a concept by changing

William Matthews, the college’s Alice Swanson Esty Professor of Music, introduced music cognition into the curriculum over the last several years.

the context in which it’s used. The same applies in music: Imagine a blues song in which the singer’s Christmas is spoiled because his lover left him, and then he quotes “Jingle Bells” in his guitar solo.

That’s some lonely one-horse sleigh.

At Bates, Music Theory II typically looks at conventions of the 18th century — such as chord progressions, counterpoint, and improvisational tactics — many of which continue to influence today’s music vocabulary. (For one class assignment, students adapted modern pop songs such as the Beatles’ “Girl” or Carly Rae Jepson’s “Call Me Maybe” to an 18th-century keyboard idiom.)

But, through readings and class projects, Bourne is also explicating not only the musical vocabulary of Mozart’s time, but relevant cognitive practices. “I’m trying to connect this to the reasons that some 18thcentury practices are still used,” she says.

Take cadences, those musical gestures that signal the end of a phrase. Bourne’s students heard music theorists’ explanations for the differing experiences of finality produced by different cadences.

But she also had the class read about an experiment that tested how listeners, both musically trained and not, perceived various cadences. “The experiment shows that you

James Parakilas, the college’s James L. Moody Jr. Family Professor of Performing Arts, designed “Music and Mind,” a course that became one of the department’s most popular offerings.

processing information, I think it enhances learning — it makes it more efficient. We can learn more when we’re aware of that.”

Bourne’s work with the music theory program, her music department colleagues hope, could be the beginning of a broader infusion of psychology into the department’s curriculum.

“Everyone in the department is interested in this field in their own way,” says Parakilas.

“Once you start thinking about this, you think, ‘Well, what about our instrumental instruction?’ What about our musicology courses?

What about ethnomusicology?’”

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don’t need musical training to hear most of the cadences as closing gestures,” Bourne explains.

Popularity with students is just one of the arguments supporting a systemic role for cognition in Bates’ music theory offering.

More objectively, “it makes a better-rounded theory structure,” says Maddie McLean ’17, a double major in biochemistry and music from Hood River, Ore. “In high school, you’d learn theory and be like, ‘Well, why does that work?’ And the answer was, ‘Because it does.’ And that’s not a great answer.” Studying music from psychological or cognitive angles, she says, “just gives more context.”

Music cognition’s power to connect with other fields is obvious. In the fall 2015 iteration of “Music and Mind,” Jim Parakilas and his students roamed a range of topics that extended from music therapy to whale song to music and infant development.

Another benefit, says Bill Matthews, pertains — in a keenly liberal-arts manner — to student intellectual development. “This has to do with what’s called metacognition,” he says.

“If you have insight into your own learning processes, if you are constantly aware of how you are learning and how you are

Bourne is one of the rare scholars who approaches music cognition from the discipline of music, rather than psychology or neuroscience.

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b ate s not e s to Vermont....Priscilla White Ohler, in New London, N.H., still lives in the big old house where they brought up six children, who often visit.

1947 PHYLLIS GRABER JENSEN

Reunion 2017, June 9–11

Who, What, Where, When?

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

1938 class secretary Marion Welsch Spear mspear1@attglobal.net

1940 class secretary Leonard Clough lgcclough@gmail.com

1941 class co-presidents Elizabeth Gardner Margaret Rand alpegrand@aol.com treasurer Dorothy Johnson ddjohn1@hotmail.com

1942 Reunion 2017, June 9–11

1943 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class president Samuel Stoddard sstoddard@gmail.com

1944 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class president Dick Keach richardkeach@att.net Ann Dearborn Brewitt stays in touch with Dick and Marjorie Walther Keach ’46, Jane Styer Campbell, Betty Cort Brooks, and Sally Adkins Macfarlane Wilbur....Ed Dunn is in touch with his three “children,” seven grandchildren, and delightful great-grandchild Elise....

Joan Hammond Underkuffler reports granddaughter Katharine Freund ’18 had a good freshman year at Bates....Dick and Marjorie Walther Keach

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’46 live at Covenant Village in Cromwell, Conn., which is also the home of Hugh ’50 and Lois Keniston Penney ’50 and Helen Papaioanou ’49. “We get together and sing, ‘Here’s to Bates our alma mater dear.’”...Anne Locke Alach says her assisted-living facility provides a rich program of activities and events. Both her children are incredibly helpful....

Jane Styer Campbell and Beverley, in Jacksonville, Fla., are as busy as they are able. They have eight grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

1945 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Carleton Finch cfinch612@gmail.com

1946 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Helen Pratt Clarkson hclarkson1@juno.com class president Jane Parsons Norris janenorris@roadrunner.com Pat Hemenway Poore, in Wells, gets together with Barbara Hall Coffin, who lives in Brunswick, and hears from Jill Langille Randall in Sarasota, Fla....Jay Packard Stewart enjoys being a great-grandmother to Bryce Stewart, whose grandfather is Randy Stewart ’72, and Katherine Munro....Alden and Sylvia Gray Sears ’45 celebrated their 70th anniversary....Muriel “Tooie” Stewart Tatham Craven remains active in the Presbyterian church and enjoys her family, including a great-granddaughter....In Bedford, Mass., Ruth Stillman Fernandez and her husband enjoy life in a retirement community....

Frances Sudhalter Pliskin moderates several book clubs and plays bridge....Hats off to Mary Tibbetts Kelly for walking a mile a day at 92....Mary Van Wyck Patch and her husband enjoy an active life in Sun City, Fla. They return each summer

class secretary Jean Labagh Kiskaddon jean.kiskaddon@gmail.com class president Vesta Starrett Smith vestasmith@charter.net Carolyn Booth Gregory enjoys Oregon’s wonderful climate and being near her daughter and family. She’s in great health but quit downhill skiing last year at 90....Camille Carlson Gilmour and her three children all love the West. Her son was given an award as the outstanding family physician in Oregon. Cam says, “The education of one person spreads to the future.” All six grandchildren are college grads, two have masters’, and one is working on a Ph.D....Jane Doty McCune sends greetings from California where she volunteers at the hospital, drives her Beetle, and lives in a condo....Stan Freeman gave a talk about “Rachel Carson’s Maine Shore.” This is the 60th anniversary of her book The Edge of the Sea, which she dedicated to Stan’s parents. His mother, who showed Carson where the tide pools and caves were, was intimate friends with her....Jean Labagh Kiskaddon’s four children, Kate ’71, Chuck ’75, Chris, and Harry, came to NYC for her 90th. Later 45 family members, including eight great-grandchildren, enjoyed a continued celebration at the home of Kate and Glenn Wood ’71 in Norway, Maine....Ruth Moulton Ragan’s husband, Ralph, died in July 2014. Rudy says her life has become quieter, with such pleasures as reading and keeping up with her six grandchildren, all college grads with jobs and one married....

Vesta Starrett Smith tripped, broke five ribs, and spent 10 days in the hospital. She’s back to normal now and plans her regular fall trip with her daughter, this time an Adriatic cruise.

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 Barbara Fienemann Muise lives in a retirement home in Westboro, Mass., and enjoys working in the garden....Norbert Gould and Phyllis, in Wilbraham, Mass., feel lucky to have two sons close

by....Roger and Beverly Young Howard ’49, who live in Florida, returned to Bates in 2015 for the 35th Reunion of daughter Donna ’80....Jeanne Mather Roach paints in acrylics and serves as a “spiritual director.” “I haven’t yet learned how to say no.”...Royce Miller moved to Maine to be near family and friends. He’s doing well with therapy after a heart attack....“Pinky” Planeta Gaffney keeps busy with family and council on aging programs....Nancy Prouty Dey paints every day. She submitted two watercolors to the Massachusetts state-run show for senior artists....In Union, N.J., Class President Vivienne Sikora Gilroy hosted a 90th birthday party to which all classmates were invited. She insisted on no gifts but welcomed donations to the Lavinia Miriam Schaeffer Scholarship (professor of theater and speech at Bates, 1938–72)....

Two years after the death of her husband Scottie, Roberta Sweetser McKinnell regained her friendship with Roger Nast. “We did a great deal of traveling and now we live in his comfortable home in Cohasset, Mass. I have to use a cane when I walk, but other than that I am fine.”...Dorothy Tillson Young, who lives near her two younger daughters in North Carolina, plays golf and still travels....Lois Youngs Dennett, in Kennebunk, is involved in conservation areas and active in UCC churches. She has eight great-grandchidren.

1949 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Carol Jenkinson Johnson rollincarol@comcast.net class president Nelson “Bud” Horne budhorne@gmail.com

Jim Facos ’49 is a new chevalier of the French Legion of Honor. In battle, he said, “You’re aware of death. But the idea is that there are things that are much more important than death.”

World War II veteran Jim Facos received one of France’s highest awards, an appointment as a chevalier of the Legion of Honor.

In World War II, Jim was a ball turret gunner on the B-17 Flying Fortress, a job “not for the faint of heart,” said the Associated Press. For one, the gunner didn’t have enough room to wear a parachute. “You’re aware of death,” he told the AP. “But the idea is that there are things that

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are much more important than death. Death is not important; it’s what you do in your time that counts.”...Serine Ferrigno Rossi, despite macular degeneration, plays golf and bridge....

Jeanne Gillespie Ferrell plays the piano, reviews French lessons, knits, and does crosswords....Bud Horne still enjoys running, though it includes some walking now....Carol “Happy” Jenkinson Johnson helps feed the homeless and other needy folk at her church. She and her husband take turns serving on the board of the mobile home park where they live....Janice Myers White was awaiting the arrival of her first great-grandchild....Charlie Plotkin recently met someone he had served with in the Army 70 years ago....

Elaine Porter Haggstrom, now a great-grandmother, still gets to church and does as much as she can....Danny Reale and his wife retired to Florida....Edie Routier lives in a retirement community in Newtonville, Mass....Betty Schoenherr Miller reminds us that the best medicine for growing older is to live, love, and laugh....Theresa Vassar Perry has difficulty standing but still hopes to do some volunteering.

1950 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Lois Keniston Penney hulopenney@sbcglobal.net class president Wes Bonney wbonney@maine.rr.com The Mark Twain House in Hartford welcomed Bates alumni to an occasion that included the presentation of a Bates’ Best Award to Lois Keniston Penney and Hugh. Family members were seated next to the Penneys, and other 1950 alumni were among the guests. Hugh and Lois are greatly honored and appreciative of this award for their support of Bates.

1951

Bob’s Parkinson’s is about the same....Glen Collins and Marion moved to a Christian Care housing facility in Phoenix....Sally Cloutman Gilrain is in touch with Walt and Marty Rayder Ulmer and Bob and Mary Lou Conron Hayes....Bill and Jean McLeod Dill enjoy social and cultural events at Lasell Village....

Bob Greene and Ellen celebrated their 50th anniversary....George Hamilton went with a church group to West Virginia to build houses for those in need....Jean Johnson Bird and Phil enjoy events at Colby College where she’s a docent at the art museum....Jim and Lu Mainland Kelly ’52 enjoy life at their retirement community....Betty Kinney Faella and Tony spend more time at their cottage in Venice, Fla....Karl Koss enjoys classes at Fairfield Univ., operas, and Broadway shows....Joan “Mac” McCurdy Elton continues her work with the Assistance League and the Knitting Guild....Mickey McKee Purkis has nine grandchildren and one great-grandson....Edie Pennucci Mead and Dave welcomed their first great-grandchild....Ralph Perry and Mary Louise are busy with family, trips, and wilderness tent camping....

Norma Reese Jones keeps busy with bridge, a knitting group, and the library and historical society....Don Russell welcomed a third great-grandchild, born to Kimberly Russell Thompson ’09....Joan Seear travels widely....

Jim and Ginger Buhl Vetrano ’54 moved into a retirement community in Kennewick, Wash....

Rob and Jane Seaman Wilson visited Bates with their granddaughter....Dot Webb Quimby keeps busy collecting and editing alumni news for Unity College.

1952 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Marilyn Coffin Brown mcbrown13@verizon.net class president John Myers johnmyers52@comcast.net

Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Dorothy Webb Quimby dwquimby@unity.edu class co-presidents Bill Dill wmrdill@gmail.com Jean McLeod Dill jdill@lassell.edu Jim Anderson and Lu now have four great-grandchildren....Joe Andrew keeps active painting, sailing, and gardening....Elaine Annas Bailey has chosen a nursing home where she will move to when she can no longer do her housework....Will and Lissa Meigs Barbeau still live in the house they bought over 50 years ago....Gladys Bovino Dunn says

Retired history professor Robert Whealey ’52 does a weekly TV program discussing the meaning of democracy. So far there are 352 tapes.

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Louis Scolnik ’45

media outlet:

The Andover Townsman

headline:

In search of a trio to play free jazz for the elderly

date:

June 9, 2016

takeaway: Music has the power to ward off age The Andover (Mass.) Townsman chronicled the musical life of a former Maine Superior Court judge and Supreme Judicial Court justice affectionately called the “swinging judge.”

Playing saxophone and clarinet, 93-year-old Louis Scolnik ’45 has been bringing the swing since age 12. “I couldn’t live without it,” he said.

Performing from high school through Bates, World War II service, and beyond, Scolnik continues to play publicly.

He’s now seeking to form a trio to play for seniors, motivated by music’s beneficial effects on people who have memory problems or dementia.

His daughter Julie Scolnik, also a musician, credits jazz with her father’s long vitality.

“Loving life and his love for music has kept his brain astute and his heart pumping for more.”

Selectman Peter Ault, who has served on town committees and boards in Wayne for 51 years, decided not to seek re-election.

He remains on a committee studying the ability of seniors to continue living in their homes....

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Larch Foxon Miller, in Wilder, Vt., keeps busy with craft projects and answering the phone at the homeless shelter every Friday....

John Myers reports the Class of ’51 was represented by 18 classmates at its 65th Reunion — a new attendance record of 24 percent. He asks, “Can we break that?”...Retired history professor Robert Whealey goes to the Ohio Univ. Library every day and does a weekly TV program discussing the meaning of democracy. So far there are 352 tapes.

1953 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Ronald Clayton rondot@comcast.net class co-presidents Virginia LaFauci Toner vatoner207@gmail.com Richard F. Coughlin dcoughlin@maine.rr.com Barbara Earl Sturgis relocated to Kingwood, Texas....George Conklin was elected to a threeyear term on the Conference Council of the UCC’s Northern California-Nevada Conference....Zip06 caught up with Chuck Fischer of Madison, Conn., who taught history at Daniel Hand High School for 36 years and coached everything from Little League to college-age students. Known as “Coach,” he loves to share his historical knowledge through talks at many organizations such as the Lions and the Shoreline Institute of Lifelong Learning. “I used to love to teach,” he said. “I’d say it was like doing five live TV shows every day without a teleprompter.”...Joan Fretheim Barlow enjoyed her annual Caribbean cruise with her sister and daughters....Class Co-President Dick Coughlin plays in the annual golf outings that benefit Bates football and basketball, as does Bob Russell....Ron Clayton and Dotty Morris ’52 still split their time between homes in Chelmsford, Mass. and on Cape Cod.

1955 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class president Beverly Hayne Willsey stonepost@cox.net Carolyn Gove Bennett had a wonderful Road Scholar trip to Costa Rica and Panama....Janet Lockwood Johnson is getting involved in a Quaker continuing care community in Sandy Spring, Md. She loves the country and having a garden....Bev Hayne Willsey and Lynn ’54 celebrated their 60th anniversary.

1956 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Frederic Huber fredna56@comcast.net class co-presidents Alice Brooke Gollnick agollnick725@gmail.com Gail Molander Goddard acgpension@tds.net

Reunion 2019, June 7–9

Alice Brooke Gollnick says the 60th Reunion was very special with about 30 classmates plus guests. “Housed in the new dormitory built next to Rand Hall with a familiar view of ‘our’ original campus, we had ample opportunity to visit and reminisce in our own hospitality lounge.”...Diane “Dinny” Felt Swett received a Bates’ Best Award at Reunion. Her award citation reads in part: “Dinny, as the lead class agent for the Class of 1956, you have done a marvelous job leading a large team of class agents to success. Under your leadership, your class now stands at a record-breaking 90 percent Reunion Gift participation — well on its way to your personal goal of seeing 100 percent of your classmates give to Bates this year.”...Rick Hilliard, who became a tenured college professor in the “third quarter” of life and taught for 30 years, took what he calls “early retirement” at 82. He says his fourth quarter will focus on writing and publishing....Marcia Rosenfeld Baker sees Alice, Sybil, Wej, and Gail for lunch now and again, and they fill her in on class happenings.

class secretary Jonas Klein joklein@maine.rr.com

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class president Marion Shatts Whitaker petmarwhitaker@gmail.com

email coordinator Douglas Campbell dougcamp@comcast.net

Dick and Jan Truesdail Liebe ’56 now live in a North Carolina retirement community. He lost a foot due to an infection and is learning to use a prosthesis. Jan has been stalwart and healthy throughout....Bruce McIntyre proudly watched granddaughter Kelly do an outstanding job portraying singer Janis Joplin on stage in Albany N.Y.

class co-secretaries Wilma Gero Clapham claphamwilma@bell.net Margaret Leask Olney pegolney@verizon.net

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class co-presidents Judith Kent Patkin actionpsj@aol.com Richard H. Pierce rhpierce52@gmail.com

Wilma Gero Clapham and Doug Campbell celebrated turning 80 with Dick Pierce and Cynthia, Judie Roberts Williams ’60 and Bob, and Margo Muth....Ralph Davis enjoys an active life with golf, exercise, and church....Judy Kent Patkin enjoys monthly luncheons with classmates in Dedham, Mass., and meetings of a Bates reading group of women of all ages....Peg Leask Olney, coping with the loss of husband Dave Olney ’56, is busy with choir and choral society, church and women’s club committees and activities, driving people to doctor’s appointments....

Pepi Prince Upton is busy with church work, bridge, and rug hooking....Grant Reynolds says being chair of the Tinmouth (Vt.) school board, including working on a merger of five school districts, has been a nearly full-time job....Richard Rowe still goes into the office about six hours most days.

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

Shel Sullaway ’58 married Carol Thibault, “a 71-year-old sexy blonde. The bad news is that our physicians suggest we do not start a family right away.”

George Adams still flails away on the golf course; Lorrie Allen Adams sings in the church choir....Don Dickey sees Phil Main monthly at the Granby (Conn.) Senior Center men’s breakfast. They and their wives have lunch occasionally with Bill MacKinnon and Marilyn....

After 30 years on Peaks Island, Kay Dill Taylor says her new passion is the Peaks Island Ukulele Group. Gene ’56 does lots of reading, crossword puzzles, and laundry....Norman Jason is involved in fundraising and choir work for his church.

He and old roommate Ken Parker keep in touch....Joan Kennard Michel moved to an active senior living complex near her daughter....Tom King, now in Fair Oaks, Calif., and Dar celebrated his 80th with a San Diego getaway that included renting Segway “magic carpets” to go whirling about fabulous Balboa Park....Jim and Betsey Gray Kirsch keep in touch

with Marti Boardman Swift and Gail Larocque Schroder, and see Pat Lysaght and John Fresina often. Jim reconnected by phone with roommate Arthur Agnos....In Truro, Mass., James Kyed serves on the energy and conservation committees and as a public library trustee....Ruth Melzard Stewart still enjoys doing real estate, working with first-time home buyers and retirees....Donald Moses retired after 50 years in the practice of psychiatry. Sally Dean Moses ’60 is in charge of their real estate holdings and continues her Oriental brush painting. Son Erik ’83 is head of IT for a major vitamin company....Pete Ryers and Jane “do pretty much what most old retirees do: read, work out, volunteer, waste time, and hang out with friends.”...Ann Shultz Keim is chair of Rotary’s main training arm for northeast America....Shel Sullaway married Carol Thibault, “a 71-yearold sexy blonde. The bad news is that our physicians suggest we do not start a family right away.”...Jo Trogler Reynolds loves ringing handbells with the Tinmouth (Vt.) Handbell Ensemble....Tom and Carole Carbone Vail keep busy with the gym, golf, and good friends....

Nancy Wickens Taylor is adjusting to full-time retirement in North Carolina....Bruce Young, coping with the loss of his wife Hattie in March 2015, moved back to Pennsylvania with his daughter and her family.

1959 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class co-secretaries Jack DeGange jack.degange@valley.net Mary Ann Houston Hermance donmar23@gmail.com class co-presidents Barbara Van Duzer Babin barbarababin@comcast.net Christian O. Miller milleridge@sbcglobal.net Reggie Abbiati Lucas has a new job (sort of ) writing grants and managed to get a couple for her favorite organization, The Beethoven Society....Jerry Davis is typing up his journals from 10 years in the Maine Legislature....

Jane Lysaght DeGange and Jack moved three miles to The Woodlands, an independent retirement community in Lebanon, N.H....Fred Drayton is coping with the loss of Augusta, his wife of 53 years....Bob Finnie and Gloria moved to their beachside condo in Indialantic, Fla., while still able to enjoy walking in the sand together....

Burt Harris “had the pleasure of seeing my granddaughter graduate from Bates in June and was on the platform (as a trustee emeritus) when she received her degree so I could be the first family member to give her a big

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hug. I am also proud to say I have a grandson starting Bates in the fall.”...Prior to the New Hampshire primary, Dwight Haynes birddogged many of the candidates. “As soon as their stump speech is ending, I wave my Bates cap and I often get called on first!”...Lynn Macomber Ives plans to lead the 14th mission trip to the sea islands of South Carolina to rehab homes for people who need assistance....Chris Miller is the public address announcer for collegiate baseball and basketball seasons in Conn.…Peggy Montgomery reports, “The Metro NY Area Bates ’59 gang gathered for their spring luncheon in May. Rene Goldmuntz, King Cheek, Charlie Updegraph, and I spent an enjoyable and story-filled time remembering and catching up.”

1960 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Louise Hjelm Davidson l.davidson@sbcglobal.net class president Dean Skelley dskelley@satx.rr.com Joe and Wanda Jones Corn ’62 continue to lecture for Stanford’s Travel Study Program....Jerry Feitelberg is having a ball with lovely companion Ila Loeb. He covers San Francisco Bay Area sports for SportsRadioService. com....John Flemings and Carolyn celebrated their 50th anniversary....Bruce Fox and Eleanor are coping with the unexpected death of youngest son Steven, with strong support from family, church, and community....Nan Harrington Walsh travels widely, recently to Australia and New Zealand....

Barbara Hoehling Vinal and Dick are on their church’s visitation team to call on shut-ins and she delivers Meals on Wheels....

Steve Hotchkiss is still teaching, singing, traveling. He visited old roommate Pete Bertocci, golfed with Dave Boone ’62, and celebrated his 80th with Carol Huntington Boone ’64....Jackie Hughes Coté participates in Lions Clubs International activities and knitting groups....

Nancy Stewart Kipperman’s paintings of flowers and natural landscapes were displayed at the Historic Palace Theater in Crossville, Tenn., where she and her husband Dick live.

1961 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Gretchen Shorter Davis norxloon@aol.com class co-presidents Mary Morton Cowan mmcowan@gwi.net Dick Watkins rwatkcapt@aol.com

Doug Ayer still teaches in Virginia Military Institute’s International Studies Department....

Betty Bonnar Kepner and Craig continue to explore, traveling to 84 or 94 countries, depending on the list....Alan Cate is building a small metal airplane which has a sliding-back canopy so he can fly with the canopy open if he wants....Carl Cowan enjoys a local lunch group, the ROMEOs (Retired Old Men Eating Out).

Mary Morton Cowan writes for young readers, with another historical biography due out in spring 2017. Son Tim ’91 is an epidemiologist at MaineHealth in Portland. Daughter-in-law Marianne Nolan Cowan ’92 works in Bates’ Purposeful Work Initiative....Gretchen Shorter Davis is still involved with fundraising at Bates and plans trips for her and Jerry. They joined many activities at their new home, Highland Green in Topsham....Tim Devlin and Sharon celebrated their 50th anniversary....Vera Jensen Bond looked forward to another family reunion with sister Nora ’64 and husband Art Goodwin ’63 and family. Husband Joe has been in a nursing home since 2011, but his eyes light up when his grandchildren visit....Art and Sara Kinsel Hayes enjoy the opportunities at their Senior College’s Belfast branch....

Sue Kittredge Barnard enjoys working part time for a local church....Paul Maier continues volunteer work as treasurer of his church, the local YMCA, and the mental health board. Freda Shepherd Maier helps out at a local church and as a community volunteer....Carol Sisson Vose and husband Bill received the 2015 New Hampshire Audubon Volunteer of the Year Award.

They have been “sanctuary stewards” of the Dahl Wildlife Sanctuary in North Conway for the past six years. Since retiring and moving to Conway, they have taken an active interest in the natural gem along the Saco River. They mow footpaths, monitor the nest boxes for cavity-nesting birds, replenish trail guides, meet and greet visitors....Although both are retired, Garry Walker insists he is fully employed running the Grandpa Taxi Service, and Judy Arlt Walker continues to tutor math, “but only if you call me ‘Grammy.’”...Dick Watkins and Deb enjoy their animals and property in New Mexico.

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media outlet: Bangor Daily News

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Does anyone know Maine values better than Sawin Millett?

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takeaway: Expertise and genuine good nature offer great value A Bangor Daily News profile calls Sawin Millett ’59 a throwback to the days when the concept of civil service embodied what it meant to be a Mainer.

A lifelong dairy and beef farmer in Waterford, Millett has also been a teacher, coach, principal, selectman, state finance chief, and state representative, including six years as the GOP lead on the budget committee.

Expertise and genuine good nature have made Millett an everlasting force for progress in Maine, said Ryan Low, also a former state finance commissioner. “I would do just about anything for him.”

“I’ve pretty much followed my father’s footsteps,” said Millett, whose father is the late Howard Millett ’34: “Bates, being a teacher, administrator, farming — I kept the family tradition alive, just like he had.”

1962 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Cynthia Kalber Nordstrom cknordstrom@verizon.net class president Edmund J. Wilson ed-wilson@kellogg.northwestern. edu

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Thom Freeman ’63 tips his hat as he and fellow Maine Baseball Hall of Fame inductees are honored prior to a Sea Dogs minor league game at Hadlock Field in Portland in July.

For Love of the Game Thom Freeman ’63, a six-foot-six All-American pitcher who led Bates to Maine State Series titles in 1962 and 1963 and to the 1962 NCAA tournament, was inducted into the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame in July.

In his remarks at the induction ceremony, Freeman thanked a “special lady” in attendance: Ruth Leahey, widow of “our beloved Bates coach,” Chick Leahey ’52, who died in March at age 90.

Freeman talked about his various love affairs that bloomed when he came to Bates: with the state, the people, the college, the city of Lewiston, and a “beautiful young lady from Lewiston named Claire,” his future wife. They’ve been married 52 years.

Not on the list was “spring” baseball in Maine.

“Not so much” of a love affair, he admitted. “We were snowed out one year on May 14. Our southern trip was Boston. And all our state games were north of us!”

A strong Bobcat contingent attended the ceremony, including Al Marden ’63, Jim Callahan ’65, Dennis Feen ’63, Web Harrison ’63, John Lanza ’67, John Lawler ’62, Susan Ramer Lawler ’62, Ruth Leahey, Bill MacNevin ’65, Howie Vandersea ’63, Ed Wilson ’62, and Monte Woolson ’63.

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Ken Holden’s retirement was celebrated by The Haverhill Gazette with both a feature article and an editorial: “48 Years of Teaching — from Science to Fly Fishing — Ken Holden says goodbye to NECC” and “Teacher’s Commitment to College an Inspiration.” The articles highlighted his 48 years at Northern Essex Community College, where he primarily taught anatomy and physiology, required courses for the hundreds of nurses now working in the Merrimac Valley....

Cynthia Hunt Young retired after 31 years with the Nassau County (N.Y) Department of Health. She was executive assistant to the commissioner.

She enjoys spending more time with daughter Heather’s two children....Al Squitieri is writing a book, and Lorrie Otto Gloede has agreed to be his editor. “It will include stories from our travels as well as stories from Bates and perhaps reveal the truth behind some of the pranks.”...Zeta Beta Tau, the world’s first Jewish fraternity, honored Univ. of Alabama System Chancellor Bob Witt with the Riegelman-Jacobs Award for Outstanding Interfraternal Service.

1963 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Natalie Shober Moir nataliemoir@netflash.net class president Bill Holt wholt@maine.rr.com Linda Antoun Miller continues as a docent at the Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum where she does special presentations on American Impressionist Mary Cassatt and a special tour of “Woman as Subject and Woman as Artist” in the museum collection....David Hosford and Maureen are busy in New Marlborough, Mass. He took on a summer gig at the Great Barrington Congregational Church, which has an 1883 Roosevelt organ with more than 4,000 pipes.

“A Bates first: I received New Marlborough’s Elihu Burritt Award. Only the truly curious will want to discover who he was and what (small potatoes) it is.”...Mary Jasper Cate still lives in her antique colonial house in Eliot, Maine, and is opening part of it to shortterm rental guests. “A new adventure!”...Alan and Anna Poehler Schmierer continue to joyfully pursue adventuring in their pickup truck with camper.

They occasionally fly to favorite areas with sought-after wildlife species. Al is working on his “life photo list” for birds and butterflies.

1964 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary-treasurer John Meyn jemkpmeyn@aol.com class president Gretchen Ziegler gretchenz958@gmail.com

“Leigh made Bates possible.” That’s the refrain from alumni about Leigh Campbell ’64, Bates’ retired financial aid director, who received the Papaioanou ’49 Distinguished Alumni Service Award.

Leigh Campbell, the college’s retired director of financial aid, received the Helen A. Papaioanou ’49 Distinguished Alumni Service Award. The citation award reads, in part: “If you ask alumni from the mid-1970s to the early-2000s about their Bates experience, you’ll hear a constant refrain: ‘My family and I wouldn’t have been able to afford college without Leigh Campbell. He made Bates possible.’ In his 39 years of service as a financial aid officer at Bates, most of that time as director, Leigh became a trusted confidant, adviser, and friend to thousands of students.”...Kevin Gallagher continues to work at the Harvard Art Museums. “It keeps me occupied during the day and adds to the retirement funds! Another benefit is that I get to see significant art works every day.”...Paul Goodwin volunteers at Mystic Seaport, where he researches and writes articles for the education website....Linda Gramatky Smith writes, “Life continues to be busy — who would have thought that at age 73? I spend my time in a memoir group, a book group, and my 12-step program that is like AA-forfood, GreySheeters Anonymous.”...Paul Holt revived a long-dormant tennis career by getting into competitive wheelchair tennis since moving to Florida two years ago. He now plays USTA-sponsored tournaments around the country and is making lots of new friends....

The Ellsworth American caught up with Hugh Sadlier, who uses hypnotherapy to help people overcome a range of bad habits. He uses vocal cues to guide the client into hypnosis, which he describes as an “altered state of consciousness.”

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1965 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Evelyn “Evie” Horton ehhorton@me.com class president Joyce Mantyla tiojack@aol.com Laura Deming Beckwith volunteers on the Central Mass Railtrail System, cutting trees, lugging wood off the trail, hoeing out ditches, and raking. She also directs volunteer groups that clean trails.

“I think that my 37 years of teaching is why I got asked to do this, and it does help; there is something about a ‘teacher voice’ that seems to get attention!”...David Heckman was elected president of the United States Academic Decathlon State Directors Organization, a two-year commitment....

Herman Lilja is chairman of the Rockport, Mass., Planning Board....Karl Wolf continues his volunteer activities in Washington, including serving as a Citizen Diplomat with the State Department.

Kneeling: Mel Burrowes, Alex Wood, Judy Marden; standing: Bill Hiss, Janet McEachern Macidull, Barbara Remick-Newhouse, Patricia Gilbert Keane, Chris Fonoti.

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For a warmup to their 50th Reunion in June, these Class of 1966ers enjoyed each other’s company and the rigors of backpacking in the wilds of Baxter State Park for four days.

A comfortable overnight at Roaring Brook Camp was followed by an ascent to base camp at Chimney Pond; local hikes — including Katahdin’s summit for some; and one particularly challenging night of open-shelter sleeping in wind, rain, and temperatures hovering a little above freezing.

All returned to Bates fit enough for a shorter “hike”: marching in Saturday’s alumni parade.

Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class president Alexander Wood awwood@mit.edu Melvin and Linda Bartlett Burrowes ’67, in their first year as snowbirds, are residents of Englewood, Fla., who spend five months on David Pond in Fayette, Maine....Bill Hiss says Reunion was “a magical 50th for our class!” Son Jed ’16 graduated, with three generations of Bates people in his family there to cheer him on. His next stop: working for Analysis Group in Boston, led

by Bruce Stangle ’70. Bill is co-author on a second national study of optional standardized testing in admissions. “Presumably this will be my academic swan song, but that is what I thought with the first study, published in 2014. Trying to find the right time balances in retirement, with the study, bee-keeping, soccer reffing, crewing boats, moderator of our church and family.”...

Judy Marden and others plan to spend “some serious time working on the Bates Outing Club’s 100th Anniversary in 2020.” She was off to New Zealand, traveling with Field Guides to see some different wildlife in the Southern Hemisphere....John Yuskis Jr. was inducted into the New Britain (Conn.) Hall of Fame. He works at GHP Media in West Haven.

1967 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Alexandra Baker Lyman toads@snet.net class co-presidents Keith C. Harvie kcharvie12@gmail.com Pamela Johnson Reynolds preynolds221@gmail.com Ed and Stephanie Young Abbott enjoyed a Smithsonian Great European Journey....

Bryan Carlson’s company specializes in recruiting college administrators for interim positions and recently connected Tim Hall with Hodges Univ.

Bryan and Annie have a summer place in Maine and often see Karen Gulbrandsen Bean and husband Don ’65....Carol Becker Olson and Dave ’65 spend time in Maine on Vinalhaven....Other sometime Maine residents include Barbara Goodlatte Steinheimer and Max ’66, who have a cottage in Tenants Harbor, and

Ken and Nancy Muzio Lynch ’66, who enjoy a summer place in Phippsburg....Sue Dallaire Lagueux and Ray serve as volunteers in local organizations in Lewiston and provide daily care for Sue’s 98-year-old mother....

Dana Dertinger Letvin’s new granddaughter tops her list of current interests. Having met husband Joel in Israel, Dana has traveled extensively....Ingrid Earn Shea joined a group of classmates to check out the 50th Reunion for the class of ’66.

Keith Harvie, Judy Lanouette Nicholson, and Pam Johnson Reynolds were in the bunch as well....Sadly, Greg Egner lost his wife, Sue, in 2015. He cares for retired racehorses, a Clydesdale, and a host of other farm animals near Denton, Texas....Lou Flynn downsized from a large law firm to a private practice in Connecticut, while his lifelong friend Jim Brown confines his workload to mediating labor issues in Florida....Doug and Carla Swanson Greene maintain

their 120-acre farm in southwest Colorado. They run a charitable foundation, Golden Dreams, “to assist those less fortunate than we are.”...The only course Tim Hall ever failed is retirement.

Recently he joined Hodges Univ. as director of development, raising funds for scholarships, endowments, and operating expenses. Tim collaborated with fellow golfers Bryan Carlson, Jon Wilska, and Kevin Murphy in the Bates Football Golf Outing....Joanne Hayes Healy and Paul often have summer guests at their home by the sea in Wells, Maine....In California, Lucille Howell Sansing married a colleague, Tom Hannen. They often travel between work assignments, a favorite being Antarctica....David Hoyt and Kathy spend most of every August at Wells Beach with extended family....In the UK, where she has lived with her English husband Bruce for decades, Suzanne Johnson Nixon is happily engaged in retirement....Richard

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and Ellie Masterson Kilbourne ’69 have been traveling a lot. Ellie continues her work as a hospice volunteer, and Dick is still restoring his 1931 Packard roadster....

In an exciting new offshoot to his second career as an artist in watercolor, Andrew Kusmin has written a book, Palette of Dreams.

It contains reproductions of many of Andrew’s paintings, but it is meant to be read, not laid on a coffee table, warns the author....

John Ladik and Joan babysit for granddaughter Lillian, 3....

After writing his book Shot Down Over Italy, about his uncle’s World War II experiences, John “Archie” Lanza participates in a number of veterans’ events....Still in the small dairying town where they settled 38 years ago, Bruce and Alexandra “Sam” Baker Lyman stay too busy with a big old house, gardens, and church and community affairs. Bruce is co-coordinator for the free Community Kitchens meal that serves 70 people each Monday, based at the UCC church next door....Surely a contestant for most exotic travel award, Elaine Makas journeyed to Mongolia and Tierra del Fuego....Still in Ann Arbor, Mich., where he moved right after college, Harry Marsden is now “in glorious retirement.” Sadly, he lost his wife in 2006....Shirley Murphy Mongillo and Tony traveled to Amelia Island for a car show and auction and attended the Mystic, Conn., rendezvous with Bates classmates. Shirley also enjoyed visits from Cynthia Hignite Archibald and Gary, Linda Bartlett Burrowes and Mel ’66, Carol Becker Olson and David ’65, and met Marty Braman Duckenfield in West Hartford. Marty works 10 hours a week at Clemson Broadcast Productions on educational programs for the college television site....Sally Myers McGinty’s firm, McGinty Consulting Group, provides application advisement to undergrad and grad students in both the U.S. and abroad....Bill Paris continues to transport special needs students in the Glastonbury, Conn., public schools, utilizing his counseling skills in this part-time vocation....

Busy volunteers in retirement, Rick Powers and Darcy live in Mount Vernon, N.Y. They enjoy Broadway, jazz joints, and visiting their five children and four grandchildren....In Troy, N.Y., Anita Preston Stanley works part time as a speech-language pathologist. She keeps in touch with Nancy Long Struve....

Carol Renaud Gaffney resides in Florida and has taken up golf....Hildy Spooner Danforth had planned to become a matriarch but her children upset that idea by moving to Colorado and North Carolina.

The matriarching is thus limited to a couple visits a year for her and Ray ’66....Charles “Rocky” Stone and Leanne have taken

several river cruises in Europe and have attended Bates and OCS reunions. These events have let them rekindle old friendships and establish new ties with classmates with whom Rocky had only minimal contact (as good an advertisement for Reunion as any!)....Ann Toner Frey moved to a warmer clime, only to have a Virginia storm drop a large oak tree on her new home in Reston. The repairs are now complete. Ann spends her summers on a cove in Harpswell, Maine....Ann Warren Turner is more grateful than ever for life after a long string of surgeries and chemo in her “festive bout with cancer.” She also expresses gratitude for “tiny hair, now one inch long [in July], and silvery gray.”...The generous, retired Jon Wilska and even more magnanimous wife Mary hosted two dozen classmates at the Inn at Lower Farm in North Stonington, Conn., where they operated a B&B for many years. This third rendezvous, with much talking, eating, touring — and talking — was again organized by Keith Harvie and provided for the first steps in planning the 50th Reunion....

Since our last edition of class notes, we have met with sadness the deaths of Marvin Aronson (Oct. 19, 2011), Elizabeth Clark Barrington (July 17, 2015), Tom Flach (Sept. 21, 2015), Charles Phillips (Sept. 29, 2015), and Philip Towle (Feb. 10, 2016).

1968 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Rick Melpignano rickmel713@gmail.com class president Richard J. Gelles gelles@sp2.upenn.edu Now retired from banking, L. Michael Lindblom enjoys his seven grandchildren. He tries to spend three-four months in Florida and five-six months in Wells each year....David Riese’s Echo from Mount Royal won the general fiction/novel category in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, the world’s largest notfor-profit book awards program for self-published authors. It also won second-place grand prize for all fiction books....Earle Wescott’s 1988 suspense novel Winter Wolves, about a reporter who returns to Maine and finds his hometown living in terror, was reissued last year by Tough Times in e-book format.

1969 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Bonnie Groves beegroves@comcast.net class president Richard Brogadir dbrogie1@aol.com

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1970 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class co-secretaries Stephanie Leonard Bennett slenben@comcast.net Betsey Brown efant127@yahoo.com class president Steve Andrick steve.andrick@aig.com Janet Freudenberg Smith and Roy live in Chapel Hill, N.C., and travel extensively....

Tom and Ann Nagel Stone took an Alaskan cruise with 11 family members, five of them Batesies including George ’63 and Dorothy Selden Stone ’63 and daughter Sarah Stone ’90. Tom is president of the 300 Committee of Falmouth, Mass.,

a successful land trust. He and Ann, mostly retired, are busy with church and community activities....Andrews and Susie Spalding Tolman ’68 have been working through home projects, starting to check off items from their life list since she retired.

“Painted a number of ceilings, seen a lot of parks, and taken many thousands of pictures.”

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Chantal Berry Dalton enjoys part-time work at her local church. She’s coordinator of the Washington Seminar Center, a hostel with meeting rooms and a commercial kitchen....Bonnie Groves retired, not by choice, from a nonprofit community action agency in Fitchburg, Mass. “The silver lining is that my cortisol level has really gone down; I lost some weight, and I’ve had time to help care for my aging mother when needed.”...

Alan Howard continues to “Make Magic” at Walt Disney World in Orlando, greeting guests as concierge at Disney’s Contemporary Resort and the Disney Vacation Club Bay Lake Tower. Melanie McHenry Howard ’71 is now executive director of First Presbyterian Church in Eustis, Fla....Greg DeLisle completed his 35th year at the Willie Ross School for the Deaf in Longmeadow, Mass., where he’s the director of educational services....In Fairbanks, Alaska, retired high school counselor Carol Drewiany Johnson “indulges in my hobbies and vices — Senior Games, genealogy, table tennis, gardening, and geocaching. In the small world department we discovered that one of our daughters worked for the same company as Mike Nolan, and met him in Beverly, Mass.”...

Charlie Kolstad is a professor of environmental economics.

He welcomed a grandson, born to daughter Kate ’04....Dawn MacPherson-Allen writes, “I retired from my service to the Appalachian Trail by staying in Shaw’s Hiker Hostel in Monson, Maine, this year. Retirement is now real!”...Peter Martocchio lives in Nova Scotia near Grand Pre and takes advantage of Acadia Univ. offerings. He paints and exhibits watercolors....

Retired from 3M, Bill Yaner lives in Jamestown, N.C., with his wife of 46 years. A father of two, he learns to cook every night, rides his motorcycle, reads books, and watches the amazing dramas coming out of TV.

1971 Reunion 2021, June 10–13 class secretary Suzanne Woods Kelley suzannekelley@att.net

“Serendipity has a sense of humor,” says David Riffelmacher ’71, who, after moving back to Prague in 2006, discovered his paternal German Bohemian ancestors.

Jan Face Glassman spends most of the year in Naples, Fla., where she’s the fundraising chair of the Collier County Republican Executive Committee and also volunteers with PACE, a successful goal-oriented program for at-risk teenage girls. She’s also the New Hampshire chair of Maggie’s List, a federal PAC that helps elect strong conservative women to the U.S. House and Senate....“Serendipity is my favorite word; its invisible hand has drawn the wonderfully irregular path of my life thus far,” says David Riffelmacher. After roaming the world building mobile companies and an international communications business, he’s lived in Prague since 2006 and merged lives with a Czech woman. “I will become a Czech citizen in two years, my personal squaring the circle. Serendipity has a sense of humor — after moving back to Prague, I discovered my paternal German Bohemian ancestors. My random walk led home.”...Mike Wiers continues in his law practice, not ready yet to retire, but he has stopped saying he’ll be working until he’s 93. Libby Glover Wiers retired from subsidized elderly housing management and now spends as much time as possible crafting....A Boston Globe story about the college’s move away from traditional mailboxes featured alumni from the 1970s to the ’90s talking about the glory days of Bates mailboxes and mail from home. The Chase Hall mailbox of Steven Girvin, today the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Yale, sat empty freshman year, until he said yes to a blind date in 1969 with a girl from Lewiston. “After that date (and

Muhammad Ali, circa 1966.

Eulogy for a Heavyweight Bryant Gumbel ’70 was among the eulogists at Muhammad Ali’s memorial service on June 10 in Louisville, Ky. Gumbel quoted Maya Angelou, who said that although people may “forget what you did” they will “never forget how you made them feel.”

“I doubt any of us will ever forget how Muhammad Ali made us feel,” said Gumbel, describing how the great boxer and humanitarian “gripped our hearts and our souls and our conscience and made our fights his fights for decades.”

Gumbel said that he and others will always remember and cherish what Ali “freed within us. Some of us, like him, took pride in being black, bold, and brash. And because we were so unapologetic, we were, in the eyes of many, way too uppity. We were way too arrogant.”

Ali defied and mocked those race-based notions about how a young black man should behave. “By stretching society’s boundaries as he did, he gave us levels of strength and courage we didn’t even know we had,” Gumbel said.

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a few more), the box began to fill with love letters from the woman who became his wife.” The story also quoted Nora Demleitner ’89, Sarah Pearson ’75, Mark Erelli ’96, Pamela Alexander ’70, and three current students.

Many alumni enjoyed lingering around the post office. “You were never disappointed even to find an empty box, because there was always a cohort of people there,” said Nora, who teaches law at Washington and Lee....Carolyn Russell Locke read selections from her three books of poetry at the Vienna (Maine) Union Hall.

1972 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Steven H. Mortimer stevenhmortimer@gmail.com class president Wayne V. Loosigian wloosigian@exeter.edu Sue Bates Ahnrud says her longarm quilting business has really taken off. She played in national tournaments with her over-65 women’s soccer team....Paul Bibbo retired from a small Head Start program in Manhattan and returned to Milford, Mass., to care for an aging parent....Donn Brous enjoys managing a folk art gallery in north Georgia....Fred Coltin looked forward to shortening his work hours with more time for travel, working around the house, and grandchildren....

Susan Cross Kelly works part time with the New Hampshire Historical Society’s Education Department where she also volunteers. She serves on the state Juvenile Parole Board....Botanist Steve Hill, now retired, enjoys gardening and traveling....Kathy Hurley Sevigny retired after 33 years of teaching accounting at Bridgewater (Mass.) State Univ. She and Arnold celebrated their 30th anniversary....David Lentz works for AIG in New York as communications lead for Digital Marketing Solutions.

He workshopped a new novel, The Fine Art of Grace, at the Yale Writers’ Conference....Bill Lowenstein, board president of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Services, returned to Bates to speak as part of a series on masculinity sponsored by Residence Life & Health Education. He is a childhood sexual abuse survivor and in long-term recovery from alcohol addiction, and a cancer survivor....Jack MacLean is now the official town historian of his hometown of Lincoln, Mass. The author of two books on Lincoln’s history, he lives on the Flint family farm, dating from 1709, said to be the first family to own land and a home in Lincoln. “I can’t say I’ve noticed a great change,” Jack said of the designation. “I was getting historical questions (from residents) beforehand,

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but people are more comfortable asking me questions now because it’s part of my official duties.”...Pam McCormack Green retired after 36 years with the Maine Bankers Assn. and looks forward to road trips to visit old Bates friends....J. Andrew Moul works at Brown Univ. Special Collections and takes care of his house....Steve Mortimer works for the Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program in Auburn, along with Scott Williams ’71, and loves the mission of keeping Maine’s lakes pristine....Kevin Norige was inducted into the South Windsor (Conn.) Schools Hall of Fame.

He was cited for his academic and athletic accomplishments in high school and at Bates, where he played soccer all four years and was president of the Dana Chemical Society. A dentist, he owns South Windsor Smiles....

John and Lee Kennett Paige ’75 live in Brunswick where he works as curriculum coordinator for the school department. They visit Bates more often now since grandson Tenzing is the son of their daughter Bonnie and her husband, Bates professor Raj Saha ’03....In Fairbanks, Alaska, Jocelyn Penn Bowman works in the courts as a child custody investigator trying to push parents and judges to resolve custody issues in the best interest of the kids....John Rand is senior vice president of Market Insights at Kantar Retail, with a team that includes two other Batesies. Paula Nadeau Rand is an active chemist and reagent specialist at Astra Zeneca....Chris Riser had dinner with Matthew Cassis and Lea Mannon. He welcomed a new grandchild....Bob Roch enjoys retirement and traveling with husband Steve....Don Smith, in his 41st and last year teaching math and administering at Albuquerque Academy, and his wife have agreed it’s time to do some traveling....David Troughton retired as superintendent of schools in North Reading, Mass. He now works part time for the Mass. Department. of Elem. & Sec. Education and also teaches graduate courses in school policy & law and school finance at UMass Lowell....Bob Winston is interim provost and dean of the college at Dickinson College for the 2016–17 academic year, then plans to retire. Deb Fulham-Winston ’74 retired after a successful career in the nonprofit sector, primarily in fundraising.

1973 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Kaylee Masury kmasury@yahoo.com class president Tom Carey tcarey@bates.edu

Jay Baker reports he has had five bouts of laryngeal cancer and is winning the battle to date....Mel Donalson is updating his 2003 book, Black Directors in Hollywood, for the Univ. of Texas Press, which is planned for publication this winter. He and his wife Beverly traveled to Maine to visit with John Jenkins ’74 and Jill Sturtevant Bruce ’77....Retired librarian Debbie Gahm is still active in the library world as the PR chair for the Maine Assn. of School Libraries. She enjoys being an Alumni in Admissions interviewer for Bates applicants....Brion Gallagher, retired, completed the Appalachian Trail....Susan Hellen Fitzgerald is a grandmother of Cecilia Florence Harris, who is also the granddaughter of Mark Harris, and she brightens the life of all. Susan teaches second grade at St. Thomas Aquinas School in Fairfield, Conn....Steve Mason is now Rabbi Emeritus of North Shore Congregation Israel in Glencoe, Ill....Anne Meinken Powers has been studying stained glass art in North Carolina with her daughter, who is “more accomplished at it and definitely faster.”...In Wells, Maine, Bev Nash Esson is an assistant registrar and ballot clerk for the town, and volunteer at the library....Richard Partridge, semi-retired, keeps busy with animal rescue volunteering and artistic pursuits....Retired and having lost their wonderful Sheltie, Rebel, Tom Peters and Sharen enjoyed a “fabulous” three-month road trip by car from their Connecticut home to Florida and then California, visiting relatives and friends....

Mary Ruchinskas was named temporary executive director of the Ann Geiger Center for New Beginnings in Lewiston which serves runaway and homeless youth and their families....Ira Waldman, a partner in the Los Angeles firm Cox, Castle & Nicholson, received the 2016 Real Estate Lawyer of the Year award from Who’s Who Legal for the second year in a row.

1974 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Tina Psalidas Lamson tinal2@mac.com class president Don McDade dmcdade@llbean.com After 30-plus years doing nonprofit development work, Deb Fulham-Winston retired from full-time work. She plans to start her own business doing freelance grant writing this fall....

Peter and Ellen Brown Hollis, pretty much fully retired, spend as much time as possible at their home in the White Mountains....

Tom and Merrill Bunce Hurst ’73 enjoy living in New York’s Finger Lakes Region, near one daughter and family. She’s delighted to be “Gigi” to their two granddaughters. Tom, diagnosed with Young Onset Parkinson’s in 2000, received a Duopa Pump last February....Retiring Waterville High School teacher Rosemarie King Smith drew upon a slogan from the 1960s while giving advice to graduating seniors: Practice peace, love, and rock and roll. Rosemarie, who led many Science Olympiad teams to state championships with her coaching, told seniors: “You will find peace if your actions toward others match how you feel inside.”...With all three of their sons becoming fathers in 2015, Tina Psalidas Lamson and Steve “are now officially Yiayia and Papou!” — that’s Greek for “grandmother” and “grandfather” — to two granddaughters and one grandson....

Carol Prochazka Spencer and Henry Kafel were married Aug. 20, 2016. Carol speaks at conferences on the topic of whole community digital communications planning, focused on disaster communication.

She and Kaylee Masury ’73 planned a trip to Italy this fall....

Deb Radding Zawalich uses her retirement time for volunteering with a few community activities....Rob Sollmann is a senior adviser in Accenture’s insurance management consulting practice. Daughter Caroline ’13 works in advertising as an art buyer in New York....Nort Virgien writes, “I am both a beneficiary and a victim of globalisation. Still living in Dublin, Ireland, directing a couple of little-kid cartoons for Disney, with ever-amazing help via email from Charlie Grosvenor. When I can I visit Joanie (’73) and the kids (plus the first grandchild) in California.”...Dirk Visser works in Belgium, trading grain.

One son is at Bates....John Walker teaches ESL in a small community in Brazil’s interior with his Brazilian wife....Having survived three strokes and stage four cancer, Dan Walsh-Davenport is grateful that he and husband John have retired to their home near Myrtle Beach, S.C. They plan to travel to parts of the West they haven’t seen as his health allows.

1975 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class co-secretaries Deborah Bednar Jasak Deborahjasak@gmail.com Faith Minard minardblatt@gmail.com class co-presidents Susan Bourgault Akie susieakie@gmail.com Janet Haines jbh580@aol.com

class secretary Jeffrey Helm bateslax@gmail.com class president Bruce Campbell brucec@maine.rr.com Betsy Bellows Dachos writes that she and Jim ’75 share a great life. “We love the mountains, the sea, and sharing adventures from Hawaii and Colorado to Bermuda and Peaks Island, where we once had a home and still visit as often as possible.”

Son James ’04 is a senior consultant with PCG in Austin, Texas....Chuck Bracken is chairman and CEO of Barton Mines, LLC, based in Glens Falls, N.Y., a family-owned company. After a career in medical technology as a specialist in blood banking and director for the local blood bank, Melinda Chace Bracken began a second career as a preschool teacher and shares her love of science with preschoolers.

Daughter Heather Lazur ’05 and her husband Nathan live in Pittsburgh.... Bob Cedrone of Stoughton, Mass., was named USA Track & Field New England Athlete of the Month in July 2015. He won the USATF Masters championship in the hammer for his age group (60) with a throw of 157 feet, and has the pending American record in the Ultraweight Pentathlon. At the USATF Masters Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Jacksonville, Fla., he won two M60 national titles, with gold medals in the hammer throw and the weight throw....Linda Hermans and Rich Goldman have lived in Dresden, Maine, since 1985. He’s a lawyer. She’s a physician and has a dream job at the Richmond Area Health Center. “It’s good old-fashioned family medicine — house calls, birth to grave, and such a privilege to know and love the fine people in this extended community.” Youngest child Wendy ’16 graduated from Bates.

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

Lisa Barry remains very involved as a board member of Refugees International and with Bates as a trustee. She looked forward to seeing Liz Skinner King and Jane Duncan Cary....Don Earle enjoys keeping in touch with Paul Grillo, Nils Bonde-Henriksen, and Steve Hadge “where we try to avoid spending all of our time discussing whose aches and pains are the worst.”...Anne Allen Majsak remains connected to a variety of organizations in the nonprofit realm. She serves as a volunteer tax preparer for the elderly and disabled as well as the co-director of The Raptors Special Needs Hockey Team, of which son David is an able defenseman. Joe, to celebrate his 60th birthday, completed the Iron Butt Assn. “50 CC Quest Gold,” driving his 2009 BMW motorcycle from San Francisco to New York City in under 50 hours....

In July, Liz Strout’s My Name Is Lucy Barton was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

Speaking to Terry Gross on Fresh Air, Liz reflected on her attempt to be a lawyer: “I thought, OK, I can probably be a bad lawyer for the rest of my life or I can go back to writing and be a cocktail waitress who’s never published anything, and that will be my life.’”...Keith Taylor and Wendy finished a first-floor renovation of their home. “Projects like this can be grueling, but what made this one so easy was our Bobcat contractor, Andy Lovely ’75.

Thanks, Andy, for doing such a great job!”

1978 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Chip Beckwith chipwith@yahoo.com class president Dean M. Berman deanocean@aol.com Chip Beckwith says his Reader’s Digest job is a relief after 18 years of working for Internet startups....Amy Chapman Stebbins reports, “After 33 years of marriage I am happily divorced. I’ve just joined the ranks of bionic women with a new hip, and am lovin’ it!”...Ann Clark Tucker has lived in Minnesota for 15 years, working for both Cargill and Ecolab in marketing and communications, but balances that with a house in Harwichport, Mass....After 29 years, Cathy Hatton Attig retired from The Dictionary of American Regional

celebrate and reconnect with bates and friends

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My Name Is Lucy Barton by Liz Strout ’77 was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

Learn more: bates.edu/reunion

David Nelson consults on the planning and management of passenger railroads all over the country. He and Jim Hartrich and their wives traveled to Andalusia to celebrate 35th anniversaries....Rich Zawalich is managing director for White Mountains Insurance.

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English project, a multi-volume reference work based at the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison. She now spends all the time she can outdoors to make up for all those years at a desk....Nancy Ingersoll Fiddler was inducted into the Maine Ski Hall of Fame. She had never skied until she entered Bates but made up for lost time in a hurry as a cross-country skier for the ski team, earning All-America honors. She skied her way onto the U.S. Ski Team, skiing World Cup for seven years and winning 14 national titles.

She skied in the Olympics in 1988 and ’92, and has continued in competition winning the 18-mile Great Race from Tahoe to Truckee six times. Nancy, who coaches nordic skiing and running in Mammoth Lakes, Calif., and Claude are proud parents of Laurel Fiddler ’17....Peter Moore went “back to Bates” for real last spring to teach a Short Term course in journalism. “I also drank at the Goose, ate a Fergy, dined excessively in Commons, learned exactly how hard (and how rewarding) it is to teach, and I came away impressed by my students, by all that is new at Bates, and by all that endures from our time there.”...Peggy Morehead Wilber’s “passion is to teach reading skills to anyone who dislikes reading.” She tutors kids and adults, ages 17-70. She and David ’77 live in Colorado Springs....Bill Seixas says his work at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab as an enterprise architect keeps him engaged. “Go Juno!”...

Doug Tate and Beth have spent four years restoring their latest sailboat, Harmony, in preparation for extensive cruising when they retire....Attorney Les Wilkinson Jr. joined the Augusta-based law firm Lipman & Katz.

1979 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Mary Raftery mgraftery@gmail.com class president Janice McLean janmc79@gmail.com Bill Sweat’s Winderlea Vineyard and Winery in Dundee, Ore., specializing in the limited production of Pinot noir and Chardonnay, earned Demeter Biodynamic Certification for both farming and winemaking.

It also received Organic Certification by Stellar Certification Services.

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Tim Dewey is now the chief executive of one of the UK’s most iconic breweries, Timothy Taylor, and the first non-family member to run the 157-year-old company in Keighley. Tim, who spent his Bates junior year at Oxford where he met his future wife Jane, eventually settled in England, and he has 30 years of experience in global marketing....

The Maine Supreme Court’s Katahdin Counsel honored attorney David Soley, an attorney with Bernstein Shur, for his continued service to the American Civil Liberties Union and Maine Homeless Legal Clinic.

1981 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Katherine Baker Lovell cklovell@verizon.net class president Kathleen Tucker Burke sburke4155@aol.com Cheryl Andrews, a dentist, was elected to a three-year term on the Provincetown (Mass.) Board of Selectmen....Kathy Baker Lovell had a wonderful time at Reunion in June. She reports it was great to see classmates, roommates, fellow JYA travelers, and those who have become close friends since graduation. Bates provided a weekend full of lively entertainment and the chance to visit with other alumni and faculty. Kathy had a nice visit with Susan Campbell Rainville last spring and sees her brother Hal Baker ’82 whenever possible....

Anita Bernhardt is the new director of curriculum for the York School Department....Dave Donelan said his favorite memory of Reunion was the wild, nonstop dancing to the band following the class dinner and catching up with everyone. He and his wife and two boys moved to a house on the water in Marion, Mass.

Although his commute is longer, it’s worth it to live on the ocean....

Anne Loewenthal Shain writes it was tough to pick a favorite memory from Reunion, but atop her list is the visit the Class of 1981 modern dancers shared with their beloved teacher, Marcy Plavin....Minoo Malek Saghri and her family stayed with Karen Knudsen Nielsen in Copenhagen and enjoyed a fantastic mini-reunion. Minoo and Faraj returned to Conn. after 2 1/2 years in London....Jennifer Meyers joined Caris Health as director of revenue cycle management.

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Reunion 2020, June 12–14

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class secretary Christine Tegeler Beneman cbeneman@gmail.com

class secretary Jerry Donahoe maineescape@aol.com

class president Mary Mihalakos Martuscello mary@martuscellolaw.com

class president Neil Jamieson njlaw@maine.rr.com

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Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker named Ray Campbell executive director of the Center for Health Information and Analysis....Veteran ESPN producer and editor John Hassan was appointed to the new position of director of marketing and public relations at The Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford....

Renee Oehling Turvey loves her part-time job as the program assistant at the beautiful library in Jericho, Vt.

1983 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Leigh Peltier leighp727@gmail.com class co-presidents James D. Tobin jamestobin@att.net Terence M. Welch twelch@mfs.com

Lisa Harvie McIlwain ’83 and Reeven Elfman ’83 moved into a Victorian home in Portland’s West End. “Our first date was 33 years after meeting at Bates!” she writes.

Donna Bailey ran as the Democratic candidate for Maine state representative in Saco. While knocking on constituents’ doors, she met up with Bill Zafirson, “who gave me some great fiscal advice.”...Ron Cagenello manages the development and deployment of web applications at BlueSkyETO. For their 30th anniversary he and Lizzie visited Dave and Sarah Jameson Cooke in Bermuda.…Deb Clark Dillingham serves on the New York City Panel for Educational Policy overseeing the chancellor and pre-K to 12 education. She and Wally ’82 looked forward to seeing Frank Aimaro in LA....

Mary Couillard Schneller enjoys getting together with Denise Mooney, Shari Sagan McGuirk, PJ Johnson, Carolyn Campbell McGovern, Pam Fessenden Stearns, Stephanie Poster, Sarah Collins Eriksen, Nancy Foley Battaglino, and Lori Peotrowski Ouimet....

David Ehrenthal is now senior vice president of marketing and strategic development at The Savings Bank Life Insurance Co. of Massachusetts in Woburn....

Lisa Harvie McIlwain and Reeven Elfman moved into a Victorian home in Portland’s West End. “Our first date was 33 years after meeting at Bates!” she writes. They’re having fun entertaining and running into Batesies from all generations....

Global construction economist Scott Hazelton won re-election as a Westford (Mass.) town selectman....Steven Kates was appointed chief scientific officer and vice president, regulatory affairs at Lakewood-Amedex Inc. in Sarasota, Fla., a developer of anti-infective pharmaceuticals....

Shannon Kenneally Coray is now director of volunteer services for Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick....Laura Murray Montenegro works part time as a wrangler, taking visitors on beautiful trail rides through the Saguaro National Park, adjacent to her home in Tucson, Ariz....

Marie Regan now works for Neighborhood Health Plan and loves it....Susan Schnapper Lanning works in a playgroup for babies and toddlers at her girls’ old primary school....Matt Twomey is executive officer of the USNS Joshua Humphreys.

He wrote from Japan but looked forward to cycling back to New England for some alumni hockey....Forrest Ward has the same spouse, the same cat, and lives in the same place, Hampton, Va.

1984 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Heidi Lovett blueoceanheidi@aol.com class president Linda Cohen linda@lscdesignstudio.com Derek Langhauser was selected as the president of the Maine Community College System where he has worked since 1994....The Boston Globe caught up with former Belmont High and Bates baseball standout Jim Sylvia. “My coach at Bates, Chick Leahey ’52, preached getting the bat on the ball, especially if you were down in the count.

So I batted, fouled off a few and drew a few walks,’’ recalled Jim, who hit .327 as a senior. He lives in Newton with his wife, Lori Rogers Sylvia ’83. Son Will has committed to his parents’ alma mater. Jim, who coaches Newton Babe Ruth League baseball, is a real estate and development officer for Ahold USA....Jeff Trombly joined Charter Trust Co. as in investment officer in the Concord (N.H.) office.

1985 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Elissa Bass bass.elissa@yahoo.com class president Lisa Virello virello@comcast.net Laurie Candelmo McCammon is working on a companion volume to her book Enough! How to Liberate Yourself and Remake the World with Just One Word.…

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1986 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 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 Maine Library Assn. gave its Lupine Award for best children’s book of the year to the picture book Island Birthday

by Matinicus Island author Eva Meltzer Murray, illustrated by Peaks Island’s Jamie Hogan....

Podiatrist Todd O’Brien joined Penobscot Community Health Care’s Helen Hunt Health Center in Old Town....Scott Steinberg, dean of university admissions at the Univ. of New England, offered “seven tips for starting your college search” in a Bangor Daily News column....Lee Ann Swan Hesse was promoted to senior vice president and human resources officer at The Cooperative

Bank of Cape Cod....Mainebiz interviewed Darrell Williams, the founder, president, and CEO of HealthTech Maine, a Portland consulting firm that provides small business development assistance to health technology entrepreneurs.

1987 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Val Brickates Kennedy brickates@gmail.com class president Peggy Brosnahan Andrew Aspel works as a psychologist for the Newton (Mass.) Public Schools and also has a private practice....Caroline Baumann welcomed Hugo Baumann Malcolmson on April 6, 2015....Ted Bucknam was named chief operating officer of Solis Mammography, headquartered in Addison, Texas....

The Vermont weekly Seven Days profiled Bill Falls, who was promoted to dean of the Univ. of Vermont’s College of Arts and Sciences after 17 years in the psychology department. His top priorities: to put the luster back on liberal arts and boost current enrollment. Bill believes it’s all the more important to emphasize that “the liberal arts train you for a lifetime.” ...In Bordeaux, France, David Farrington works for a large shipbuilder in operations and customer service....Kari Heistad continues to lead her company, Culture Coach International in Newton, Mass. She was honored by the UN Assn. of the USA for her lifelong commitment to international education....Ambra Watkins published a new book, Escape from Dark Places: Guideposts to Hope in an Age of Anxiety & Depression, about triumphing over anxiety and depression. She lives in Denver....

Scott and Melinda Potts Quigg report son Hunter ’20 entered Bates this fall.

1988 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class committee Mary Capaldi Carr marcapcar@me.com Astrid Delfino Bernard flutistastrid@sbcglobal.net Ruth Garretson Cameron ruth.eg.cameron@gmail.com Steven Lewis mojofink@gmail.com Julie Sutherland Platt julielsp@verizon.net Lisa A. Romeo romeoli66@gmail.com

THE BODA GROUP

Georgeanne Ebersold DiCenso, a three-sport athlete at Manchester (Conn.) High in field hockey, basketball, and softball, was inducted into the Manchester Sports Hall of Fame. She was captain of the Bates field hockey and softball teams....Michael Jeresaty was inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame at Kingswood Oxford in West Hartford, Conn. Captain of the high school football and baseball teams, he earned ECAC honors in football at Bates. President of Ralston Health Group, he now lives in Charleston, S.C....Rich Maloney is clinical associate professor of performing arts administration and director of the performing arts administration graduate program at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development....Atea Martin was appointed head of claims for life agent and broker dealer professional liability insurance at Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Co....Chris Mason works in New York for Marsh McLennan with Camille McKayle, his sister-in-law. He’s spoken with Ali Ourusoff and Joyce Perley in NYC, Paul Hodes in Singapore, and Sam Hoye ’84....Biology teacher Kim Miller LaCelle went to Rwanda to work with teachers there to develop curriculum for their school....Barrett Murphy was named commissioner of the Chicago Department of Water Management....Lisa Virello went to NYC with Atea Martin and spent some quality girl time with Geri FitzGerald ’75.

She also reconnected with Sue Rodgers Phinney and they had a blast with Cathy O’Keeffe Buckley.

media outlet:

Harvard Business Review

headline:

How to give negative feedback when your organization is “nice”

date:

March 14, 2016

takeaway: The goal must always be to help “Building candor and feedback into any [workplace] culture is challenging,” writes Jennifer Guckel Porter ’88 in Harvard Business Review, and it can be particularly difficult when a company’s culture is “nice, respectful, cordial, warm, relationship-focused, and calm.”

Porter, who is a managing partner of The Boda Group, a leadership and team development firm, offered HBR readers seven tips for leaders who want to instill a culture that’s a bit more feedback- and candor-driven.

Giving feedback “is not about venting or getting something off our chest,” she writes.

Instead, the goal must always be to help, whether that’s helping “someone else develop and be more effective” or helping a “conversation, decision, or group be more productive.”

Honest, constructive feedback is “in service of other people…. It has nothing to do with us feeling better.”

Jess Nevins is a reference librarian and faculty member at Lone Star College–Tomball “and a man obsessed — with superheroes and pop culture,” the Houston Chronicle reported.

Jess has spent a decade “scour-

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ing every corner of the world for popular literature in all different languages,” and last spring, his research culminated with the publication of The Encyclopedia of Pulp Heroes....Laura Young was elected to the board of Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine. A former Bates trustee, she’s vice president of philanthropy for the Maine Community Foundation.

1989 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Donna Waterman Douglass 4498donnad@gmail.com steering committee Sally Ehrenfried sally.ehrenfried@blackbaud.com Deb Schiavi Cote debscote@yahoo.com

For a Boston Globe story, Nora Demleitner ’89 and other alumni recalled the charm of their Bates mailboxes.

“You were never disappointed even to find an empty box, because there was always a cohort of people there.”

Capt. J.J. Cummings is the commanding officer of the USS Anchorage, an amphibious assault warship based in San Diego. J.J., Sara Hagan Cummings, and their family now live as close as possible to Mexico without actually being in Mexico....Lawyer Kelley Doran joined Pepper Hamilton’s Washington office as a partner in its Government Contracts Group....

Craig Ziady was named senior vice president at Woburn, Mass.based commercial real estate firm Cummings Properties.

1990 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Joanne Walton joannewalton2003@yahoo.com class president Eric Knight eric_knight@verizon.net Lisa Utzschneider, chief revenue officer at Yahoo! Inc., joined the Bates Board of Trustees; she is joined by Gregory Ehret ’91, CEO and an executive director of PineBridge Investments; Chris Barbin ’93, chairman, CEO, and co-founder of the technology consulting firm Appirio; and Garth Timoll ’99, managing director at the venture capital firm Top Tier Capital Partners....

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Actor David Al-Chokhachy, former star of Baywatch, visited businesses in his hometown of Plymouth, Mass., making the rounds in support of businesses committed to healthy lifestyles.

His sister, Heather Al-Chokhachy Cronin, owns and runs SISU Fitness. David “is well loved in his hometown” and “is known for his easy smile and kindness to everyone who approaches him,” Wicked Local reported....Jacques Bazile started a doctoral program in educational leadership....

Whitney Blanchard Soule is the new dean of admissions and financial aid at Bowdoin College....

Rochelle Johnson completed a yearlong fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of her work on 19th century environmental writer Susan Fenimore Cooper.

She teaches American literature and the environmental humanities at The College of Idaho....

Rebecca Laroche is the coauthor of the book Shakespeare and Ecofeminist Theory, due from Bloomsbury Press in February....

Anne Pettigrew Woodruff made it back to Maine with husband Dan ’88, settling in Camden and working at PenBay Medical as a nurse on a psychiatric-addictions unit....Dan Record is the new principal for Hillsboro-Deering Elementary School in Hillsboro, N.H. Ann Elise Rodrigues Record is an elementary math specialist....Todd Zukowski joined Northeast Bank as a vice president and commercial loan officer.

the next adventure in July 2017 when they will join the American School in Dubai....John Quinlan works for Northeastern Log Homes and Classic Post and Beam. His work and clients have been featured in such magazines as Log Home Living and Country’s Best Log Homes.

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 roldav92@gmail.com Peter Friedman peterjfriedman@gmail.com Leyla Morrissey Bader leyla.bader@gmail.com Jeff Mutterperl jeffmutterperl@aol.com

Cheryl Rainford ’92 and Jon Dreibelbis ’92 shared their engagement story with a newspaper. It involves a failed marriage proposal at Bates, science-store geodes, and Jon exclaiming, “That’s a really big rock.”

1991 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Katie Tibbetts Gates kathryntgates@gmail.com class president John Ducker jducker1@yahoo.com Sports Business Daily profiled sports agent Peter Carlisle, noting he’s “largely credited with creating the industry of representing top athletes in Olympic sports.” His Saco office showcases the agency’s clients, including swimmer Michael Phelps and snowboarders Seth Wescott, Ross Powers, and Kelly Clark. “I never liked structured learning,” Peter said. “That is consistent throughout my life.

That is why this work suits me.”...

Cathy Haynes Fenton joined the Ellsworth law firm of Jones, Kuriloff and Sargent as an associate attorney....Chris Manges’ daughter Erin O’Farrell ’20 started at Bates this fall. He returned home to Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom where he teaches high school Spanish at Lyndon Institute and coaches the Nordic ski team....

Martina Todd Richards and Paul, in their last year in Saudi Arabia working at International Schools Group, look forward to

DeDe Alexander loves her job as a third-grade Spanish immersion teacher in Tucson, Ariz. She reconnected with Stephanie Stamatos....Marco Black works in film and TV production, currently on the CBS show Scorpion....Cheryl Rainford and Jon Dreibelbis of Bexley, Ohio, shared their engagement story with The Columbus Dispatch in a story about the role reversal of women asking men for their hands in marriage. A couple at Bates, she said no to his senior-year proposal. They remained a couple, Jon saying that the next proposal would have to come from her, along with a big rock. Three years later, perusing the aisles at a science store, she found some beautiful geodes and knew what to do with them. “He said, ‘That’s a really big rock,’” recalled Cheryl. “Then he got this look on his face and said, ‘Does this mean what I think it means?’” To his question, she gave her own “yes.” They married in 1996 and have a 10-year-old daughter....Karen Finocchio Lubeck says it has been great to see Mike Lieber and Greg Guidotti during work travels to Chicago....Peter and Kitty Northrop Friedman ’95 and

their children moved to Park City, Utah, “just seeking bigger mountains to live the mountain life.”...

Abraham “Bo” Grayzel owns a fast-growing business, ReRack, in Portland, Ore., a reuse business specializing in Yakima and Thule car racks. “ReRack was started in 2008 just as the bottom fell out of the economy. We now employ over 20 people at our store and online sales operation.”...Mark Paone and Rokia welcomed Max Tucker Paone on July 17, 2016....

Candice Poiss Murray is in her 12th year as commissioner of the North Eastern Athletic Conference and enjoys it very much....

Anike Tourse, a professional solo artist, is now part of the First-Year Orientation program at Bates, whose goal, among others, is to give members of the Class of 2020 the tools to discover how to live respectfully, think independently, and learn with integrity.

Anike returned for Bates' 2016 Orientation with a performance celebrating the idea that there is no single Bates experience, no one way to be a Bates student.

1993 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Lisa A. Bousquet lisaannbousquet@gmail.com class co-presidents Michael F. Charland mfc@wilkinsinvest.com Jason R. Hanley jhanley@wrightexpress.com After achieving success as a freelance game designer with the card game Gloom and the D&D setting of Eberron, Keith Baker just released his first game, Phoenix: Dawn Command, with his own company, Twogether Studios....Katharina Osmers Bandlow reports Elizabeth Yuda came all the way from New Zealand to visit her and Cordula Schimmer Foerster, a visting student in 1993, in Munich in September 2015....In a profile of writer Carrie Barnard Jones in the Portland Press Herald, the young-adult novelist talked about her path through Bates, including meeting the poet Seamus Heaney (see Spring 2014 Bates Magazine) as well how she infuses social-justice themes into her young-adult books. Her newest books are Time Stoppers, a fantasy story, and Flying, a science fiction title....Attorney Michael Bosse, chair of Bernstein Shur’s Construction Practice Group, spoke at an American Bar Assn. seminar on construction law....

Mike Charland and Aya Murata ’92 celebrated their 20th anniversary. He planned a golf trip with Jeff Bass and Mike Stuart....

Trevor Day was appointed the commissioner of procurement for the City of Philadelphia, having oversight of much of the contracting opportunities “for one of the best cities in the

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Jon Kropp is now the vice president of digital media at the Golf Channel and moved to Orlando, Fla....Evan Medeiros received a Distinguished Alumni Award from Classical High School in Providence, R.I. He currently leads Eurasia Group’s research on Asia. In 2015, he stepped down as special assistant to the president and senior director for Asian affairs at the White House’s National Security Council....In Annapolis, Md., Matt Nespole is the head of the Key School, a college prep school that is proud to send Madison Shipler ’20 to Bates this fall. Matt and Jennifer Lockhart Nespole ’94 celebrated their 21st anniversary....Paola San Martini lives in Recife in northeastern Brazil, where she and husband Luke work at the Amercan School. She saw Mike Charland and Liz Dempsey Lee in Boston and spent a day with Candice Poiss Murray ’92 and her two daughters.

1994 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class co-presidents Courtney L. Fleisher courtney.fleisher@gmail.com Jonathan M. Lewis jlewjlew@mac.com Central Washington Univ. appointed Katherine Frank provost/vice president for academic and student life. Previously she was dean of Northern Kentucky Univ.’s College of Arts and Sciences....Lauren Popell Velasco is in her 17th year on the faculty at Foothill College. She and her family enjoyed visits with Nisha Ahamed in New Jersey and Tim Robbins ’93 in Connecticut....

Barnaby Wickham is now a marketing specialist at Annapolis Micro Systems, a high-performance computing company.

Kate Ganley Wickham is a guidance counselor at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. She tries to maintain college impartiality, but can’t help putting multiple Bates posters on her office walls. They and their two kids vacationed in France with Grace Coulombe and Melissa Heym Walch ’97.

1995 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Philip Pettis ppettis@nhlawfirm.com class co-presidents Jason Verner jcv@nbgroup.com Deborah Nowak Verner debverner@gmail.com

Matt Cranson and Heather Josselyn-Cranson returned to the Boston area after 11 years in Orange City, Iowa, where she was on the Northwestern College music faculty. Heather is teaching at Regis College as the Sister Margaret William McCarthy Endowed Chair of Music. She published the book The Reason Why We Sing (OSL), an exploration of how music functions in different worshipping traditions.

Matt continues his video production business....Dave Guay was promoted to associate dean at the Univ. of New England’s College of Arts & Sciences. He’s a senior lecturer in marine sciences....

Carolyn Kavanagh Gaither and Joey are in Houston where his job at Shell continues to get bigger. She joined a social impact group, GenesysWorks, as a fundraiser....About 40 years after the premiere of “The People United Will Never Be Defeated!” — Frederic Rzewski’s piano composition based on a populist Chilean song — John Kramer performed the 50-minute piece at Bates and the Berklee College of Music, where he’s an assistant professor in the harmony department....After 21 years in NYC, Halley Love and Peter Bysshe ’93 now live full time in Waccabuc, N.Y., with their two boys....Deanna Bushart and Brian Powers were married in June 2016. He works in finance for Sapient, a digital marketing agency in Boston....Camping on Burton Island, Vt., with her boys, Margaret Schroeder ran into Raloon Thurston-Kramer and Grant Bialek and their kids a couple lean-tos down. Margaret’s helping co-lead an Appalachian Mountain Club family weekend in NH this fall with Amy Bean....

Jason and Deb Nowak Verner traveled to Japan with their three kids.

1996 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class co-presidents Ayesha Farag-Davis faragdavis@aol.com James D. Lowe jameslowemaine@yahoo.com Foster’s caught up with Cindy Dale Marsh of Rochester, N.H., a dedicated marathoner and triathlete, as she prepared for her third Boston Marathon. Her supportive network of friends and family are always “backing me up and making sure I’m not doing too much.” She works for Living Innovations, which offers support services for people with disabilities....In New Jersey, the Morristown Green described how all 336 students at Normandy Park School — kindergartners through 5th graders — were guided in their mural-making by Caren Frost-Olmsted, a Basking Ridge painter....Erika Jones and Joel Massie were married May 28, 2016. They live in Denver....

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Transgender in Maine

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takeaway: A change in gender can change workplace attitudes The Lewiston Sun Journal’s feature “Transgender in Maine” profiled several transgender Mainers, including Jenna Ginsberg ’94, who transitioned to a woman about a decade ago.

A psychology and philosophy double major at Bates, Ginsberg was working for a Maine ski resort at the time of her transition, and the experience revealed the “privilege” she’d had as a man in that workplace. She had “independence and autonomy as a man.” But as a woman, she was “told how to do things and micromanaged.”

After many positive performance reviews, “all of a sudden I had a negative performance review for the same types of behaviors. I literally went from being [called] ambitious...to being told I was pushy.”

So Ginsberg left the resort and now runs her own company, a sporting-event support company, All Sports Events.

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wife Amy and their two sons.

He’s busy coaching baseball, basketball, and football....Brendan MacMillan is chief investment officer at Ocean Road Advisors in New York....Teri Page, Brian, and their two kids spent a fourth summer on their off-the-grid homestead in northeast Missouri.

She documents their homesteading adventures on Homestead Honey....Alexandra Socarides, an associate professor of English at the Univ. of Missouri, was awarded a William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence. The fellowships, which include a $10,000 check, are given to five outstanding teachers at Missouri each year....Driving from New Hampshire to Bates for Reunion in June, classmates Breck Taber and Dan McGee talked about their other alma mater, Lebanon High School, where the girls soccer coaching job was vacant. “It’s a long car ride, and (McGee) kept saying, ‘Breck, you have to apply for that job,’” Breck told the Valley News. “Eventually, I realized he was right, that it would be something I’d regret if I didn’t do.” Breck, who co-owns Omer & Bob’s sports store in Lebanon, applied for the job, got it, and took over as the Raiders’ head coach this fall.

1997 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class co-secretaries Chris Gailey gaileycj@gmail.com Leah Wiedmann Gailey lgailey@bates.edu class president Stuart B. Abelson sabelson@oraclinical.com Andrew Bisson still works in energy, focusing more on the renewables side of the business.

His company is being sold, so he may tag along when his wife goes to Ireland for a year for work....

Steamboat Today caught up with Adam Chadbourne, the new alpine director for Steamboat Springs (Colo.) Winter Sports Club. He’s been an alpine skiing coach for 20 years, including four with the U.S. Ski Team. “I never intended to become a ski coach. I just fell in love with it.”...

Pat Cosquer was named the NESCAC Coach of the Year for the third time in his eight seasons as the Bates women’s squash team won the Walker Cup, the men won the Summers Cup and finished second in the NESCAC Tournament....Erin Flynn and Lenora were married in 2014 and also welcomed a daughter, Addison. In 2015, Erin received a Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching and met President Obama in the White House....Billy Hayes lost his father, Bill Hayes ’60, on Dec. 30, 2015. He and wife Rie welcomed Mary Yuzu Hayes on March 31, 2016. Billy works for 68

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1998 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class committee Rob Curtis robcurtis@eatonvance.com Douglas Beers douglas.beers@gmail.com Liam Leduc Clarke ldlc639@yahoo.com Renee Leduc Clarke rleducclarke@gmail.com Tyler Munoz tylermunoz@gmail.com Jennifer Anderton Camp and Michael welcomed Easton Alexander Camp on Feb. 15, 2015....

Kate Caivano Macko joined the board of the Acadia Family Center in Southwest Harbor. She works at Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor....Damion Frye is the new principal of Seth Boyden Demonstration School in Maplewood, N.J....Nils de Mol van Otterloo was awarded a Fulbright to go to India to study dementia and music interventions. He has an MSW from the Univ. of Southern California.

1999 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Jennifer Lemkin Bouchard jennifer_bouchard@hotmail.com class president Jamie Ascenzo Trickett jamie.trickett@gmail.com Brianna Adams is now a trust officer at Piscataqua Savings Bank in Portsmouth, N.H....A’Llyn Ettien and Nathan Meharg ’97 welcomed Malcolm Patrick Ettien on May 10, 2016....Rebecca Gasior Altman is completing her first book with Vanderbilt Univ.

Press. Her essay on the legacy of plastics appeared in Aeon Magazine in 2015....Brian Henry enjoys life as an urban planner at the Seattle Department of Transportation. He and Alicia celebrated their 10th anniversary....Joanna Stavropoulos-Shumway and family are excited to move to Wells this fall after 15 years in Boston....Christopher Terry and Erin Migausky ’01 welcomed Marshall Dirk Terry on Jan. 18, 2016....Melissa Vining Stundick is now head of strategic alliances at Spero Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company in Cambridge, Mass.

2000 Reunion 2020, 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 A group of Bates friends missed Reunion 2015, so they decided to hold a mini-reunion at the home of Maria Sparks Emory ’02 and Trevor Emory. Among the revelers were Scott Balicki ’01, Dan Driscoll ’02, Chris Lau, Steve Dutton, Emily Winsett Dutton ’01, Brenden Hahesy, Matt Twiest, Adam Kessler, Kate Kirstein Kessler, Michael Costa, Lisa Prueser Moulis ’01, Matt Moulis ’02, Jess Ames Balicki ’01, and Heather McCormack ’01 — plus 16 future Bobcats!...Matt Hintermeister, a real estate broker with Telluride Sotheby’s International Realty in the Telluride/Mountain Village, Colo. market, joined the Haute Residence Real Estate Network....Nate Hornbach and Rebecca Quinn welcomed Rosalind on Dec. 29, 2014....Allyson Kelley Bailey and Tucker welcomed Olivia Stearns Bailey on Dec. 28, 2014....Caroline Homlish and Trip O’Shea were married June 25, 2016. She works as the vice president for e-commerce and online content at Veronica Beard. He’s the vice president for investments in sustainable aquaculture and food systems technology at Encourage Capital....Jeremy Pickford joined the commercial insurance division of Allen Insurance and Financial, based in Camden....

Ben Shaw and Bernadette welcomed Maxwell Benjamin Shaw on July 15, 2016.

2001 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Noah Petro npetro@gmail.com class co-presidents Jodi Winterton Cobb jodimcobb@gmail.com Kate Hagstrom Lepore khlepore@gmail.com

Krista Anderson Mostoller lives in Harvard, Mass., and works on science/technology, natural resources, and environmental issues at the U.S. Government Accountability Office. She’s now focusing on drinking water and wastewater infrastructure issues....Caroline Damon and Andrew Gardner ’00 welcomed Samuel Damon Gardner in June 2015....Pat and Kim Bosse Livingstone ’02 welcomed Morgan Rose Livingstone on April 23, 2016....Science Daily reported on a promising new mechanism for wound healing identified by Vicki Losick, an assistant professor at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory....Bridie McGreavy is an assistant professor of environmental communication at UMaine Orono. Her research focuses on communication and resilience, and she’s deeply interested in the sustainability of clamming and intertidal ecosystems in coastal Maine....

Erin Mullin Shank is a program and events coordinator for the Employee Resource Council in northeast Ohio. She loves catching up with Mimi Datta ’90 at University School where their sons were kindergarten classmates. “Noah Petro did the amazing favor of Skyping with their class from NASA during their space theme and the kids were enthralled.”...Carrie Noel Richer is now the creative initiatives coordinator at Center for the Arts in Jackson, Wyo....

Dennis Pereira was promoted to partner at the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in New York....Noah Petro received the Susan Niebur Early Career Award from NASA’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute, for contributions to NASA’s science and exploration program....Val Rosenberg, a licensed clinical psychologist, joined Loyola Medicine. She’s an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences at Loyola Univ. Chicago Stritch School of Medicine....Journalist and comedian Kate Spencer’s first book, The Dead Moms Club (Seal Press), a memoir about losing her mother to pancreatic cancer, comes out in the fall of 2017.

2002 NASA’s Noah Petro ’01 Skyped with a kindergarten class whose students included sons of Erin Mullin Shank ’01 and Mimi Datta ’90.

“The kids were enthralled,” says Erin.

Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Stephanie L. Eby steph.eby@gmail.com class co-presidents Jay Surdukowski surdukowski@sulloway.com Drew G. Weymouth weymouthd@gmail.com Kristin Hines Gladd and Nic welcomed Sylvia Vale in January 2016....Jenn Strahle finished neurosurgery training

class co-presidents Kirstin Boehm-McCarthy kirstincboehm@gmail.com Melissa Wilcox Yanagi melissa.yanagi@staples.com Whit Albohm joined Fox Sports as vice president, daily studio production for FS1, based in Los Angeles. He won a sports Emmy working on NBC’s NASCAR coverage....Isabel Aley and Jurgen Nebelung ’04 welcomed Giselle Luella Nebelung on Feb. 19, 2016....Diana Birney Pooley and Matt ’05 welcomed twins Emma Margaret and Caleb James on March 7, 2015....

Patrick Boyaggi blogged about how he and another community banker launched a technology startup in Boston and became finalists in the 2016 class of MassChallenge, a not-for-profit “accelerator” and competition which helps entrepreneurs around the world....Kristin Carlson and her husband welcomed a son, Fletcher, on July 14, 2015....In New Orleans, Morgan Carter Ripski started her own consulting firm working with education nonprofits and schools....Pamela Conley Euring and James welcomed Dean Hendrix Euring on May 3, 2016....Caitlin Cook Rogger works on public health policy for the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization in Washington....

Yuko Eguchi returned to Bates to visit classes and give two public presentations: a performance of traditional Japanese music and dance, and a demonstration of the traditional Japanese tea ceremony the following day. She recently defended her doctoral dissertation in ethnomusicology — specifically, geisha songs — at the Univ. of Pittsburgh....Hannah Gaines Day and Steve welcomed Charlotte on Nov. 8, 2015. John Scanlon and Sheldon Malcolm helped celebrate her baptism....

Jill Kopicki Blankenhorn received the David G. Russell ’66 Alumni-in-Admission Award. Her award citation reads, in part: “Jill, you have been a critical part of the college’s outreach to prospective students in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Utah, and New Mexico — attending admission fairs and meeting with individuals to educate them about the strength of Bates’ academic programs as well as our distinctive history and values.”...CJ Neely is head boys basketball coach at Franklin (Mass.) High

2004 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class co-presidents Eduardo Crespo eduardo.crespo.r@gmail.com Tanya Schwartz tanya.schwartz@gmail.com Brooke Beebe Noble welcomed identical twin girls on April 11, 2016....Amanda Beck is now the scientific director of The Histology and Comparative Pathology Facility of the Albert Einstein Cancer Center in the Bronx, N.Y., where she functions as a comparative veterinary anatomic pathologist....

Hedda Burnett and Ben Schippers welcomed Wyatt Burnett Schippers on June 6, 2016. They live and work in Brooklyn, N.Y. Ben at his software development firm HappyFunCorp and Hedda at Hope Animal Hospital as a veterinarian and medical director....Anne Conway is a teacher and administrator at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn.

She earned a master’s in humanities and social thought with a concentration in gender politics at NYU....Carrie Curtis Clancy lives in in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia, and works as the music teacher at the local primary school. She and husband Bernard welcomed a son, Tucker Maurice Clancy, in 2015....Jessie GagneHall Boardman teaches fourth grade in a small, rural town not far from Lewiston. She and husband Greg recently adopted their son Michael, 7....Catherine Hinckley Kelley was promoted to state and local reform program director at the Campaign Legal Center in Washington, a nonprofit that defends democracy in the areas of campaign finance, voting rights, political communication, and government ethics....Andrew Borchini and John Scott Johnson were

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School, a wellness teacher at Foxboro High School, and owner of Take Charge Athletics....Morgan Perlson Close welcomed a son, Hayes O’Dell Close, on March 29, 2016. She’s a senior program manager at the Project WET Foundation....

Kelley Puglisi Parent and Jake welcomed Josephine Kelley Parent in August 2015. They live in Arlington, Va....Maine Magazine’s list of the top 50 Mainers who are “charting the state’s future” includes Portland restaurateur Andrew Taylor and Lewiston’s Julia Sleeper ’08. Julia co-founded Tree Street Youth as a Bates student, and it now serves up to 150 children each day and offers a robust college-prep program.

Andrew, with two partners, coowns a “block-long epicurean empire” on Portland’s Middle Street — three restaurants that have “picked up numerous accolades,” the magazine notes.

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Mike Mwenedata (left) and Nick Mazuroski ’09.

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Portland coffee bean wholesale business growing to help Rwanda

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Oct. 5, 2015

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takeaway: Coffeemakers who plan to equitably compensate farmers Portland Press Herald reporter Susan Kimball profiled Nick Mazuroski ’09 and Mike Mwenedata, friends who are co-founders of the wholesale Rwanda Bean Co. in Portland.

Mwenedata is a survivor of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda who came to the U.S. in 2009.

Kimball says that “by buying coffee beans directly from a farmer’s cooperative in the western Rwandan province of Karora, they cut out the middleman coffee broker and pay the farmers more.” The pair have also “pledged to return 50 percent of the company’s profits to the farming community.”

“What drives me is equitably compensating the farmers,” Mazuroski said.

This fall, Rwanda Bean Co. is competing in Greenlight Maine, a pitch competition that airs weekly on Maine’s NBC TV stations.

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married May 21, 2016. Andrew is a vice president in New York with Barclays bank. John Scott is the vice president of Urban Standard Development, a real estate development company....Meghan Johnston is an internal medicine physician in Bozeman, Mont., and enjoys teaching medical students through the Univ. of Washington....Mike Lydon married Elisa Colombani....Karen Moore Lambek and Dom welcomed Evan on June 1, 2016....Mike Philbrick is in his sixth year as a police officer in Montpelier, Vt., and finds the work very rewarding in this challenging time for police-community relations.

He enjoys helping to normalize police interactions through everyday common sense policing, community-focused programs such as Coffee with a Cop, and social media and other government transparency efforts....Melanie Shaw Nesbitt went on a medical mission trip to the Dominican Republic, her third year providing dental care in San Jose de Ocoa, and looks forward to returning in 2017....Carrie Smith earned a Ph.D. at the Univ. of Texas at Austin and now works as a licensed clinical psychologist in Portland, Ore., serving English-, Spanish-speaking, and refugee populations of children and families....Sarah Tolford Selby and Luke ’05 welcomed Jackson Henry on March 27, 2016.

They are now in Denver while Luke finishes his surgical residency at the Univ. of Colorado.

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Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class co-presidents Kathryn Duvall duvall.kathryn@gmail.com Melissa Geissler melissa.geissler@gmail.com Siri Berman and Stefan Barsanti were married in April 2015.

They welcomed a son, Miro, in March 2016. They teach at the Graded American school of São Paulo in Brazil....The Hartford Courant reports Bill Cartun is “creating a niche” as director of operations for the Colorado Univ. men’s basketball team. “He’s got the most job security of anybody on our staff because nobody can do what he does,” said Buffaloes coach Tad Boyle....Michael Downing and wife Lindsay took over her family sporting camp in Mount Chase, Maine. It’s on Upper Shin Pond, close to the northern entrance to Baxter State Park and the proposed national park lands....Austin Faison and Nneka welcomed Zoe in December 2015. He works as the assistant town administrator in Brookline, Mass....Chris and Erin Johnson Felton ’07 welcomed Charles Henry Felton on Oct. 2,

2015....Carrie Garber Siegrist and Adam welcomed Thomas Alexander on June 1, 2016....

Andrew Haserlat returned to Bates to talk about his work as an actor, director, and designer.

He appeared in HBO’s Olive Kitteridge and Cinemax’s The Knick....After a summer in the Philippines as a Kiva Fellow, Caitlin Hurley is excited to study at the London School of Economics....Katherine Quincy Kemp Malcuit and John welcomed Ted Quincy Malcuit in February 2016....Emily Parker and Jon Ivers were married Jan. 16, 2016. She works as a brand manager in New York for Moët Hennessy USA. He’s a founder and the president of Shop Freely, an online retailer of home furnishings in West Boylston, Mass....Elizabeth Pemmerl and husband Drew welcomed daughter Margaret Reeves in January 2016....After 15 years, Andy Peters accomplished his dream of being accepted as a Magician member of the World Famous Magic Castle in Hollywood....Anna Sleeper Cressey runs her optometry practice in Wellesley, Mass., and assists Eric with their Cressey Sports Performance business in Jupiter, Fla., in the winter....Kara Stenback Barr joined WinterWyman Executive Search, a talent acquisition firm based in Waltham, Mass., as research manager....Diane Tolis and wife Jayne welcomed Jonah Orion Nucete-Tolis on Jan. 27, 2016....Dan Vannoni launched a new venture, Housequarters, “offering everything you could ever need for your home,” from brokering to insurance to furniture....Kat Whelan Sparta and Dan welcomed Eleanor “Ellie” Ruth Sparta on July 1, 2016.

2006 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class co-presidents Chelsea Cook chelsea.m.cook@gmail.com Katharine M. Nolan knolan06@gmail.com John Ritzo johnnyritzo@gmail.com Christopher Petrella has been quoted on issues of U.S. prison reform. A lecturer at Bates and member of Grassroots Leadership, an advocacy group that studies private prisons, he told Business Insider that private prisons act and talk more like real-estate businesses and “that’s a major, major problem,” he said, “because when we’re talking about incarcerating human bodies, the language of real estate is just so grievously inappropriate.” Christopher is the college’s writing specialist in the social sciences....Brenton Pitt, an investment adviser representative at Centinel Financial Group in Needham Heights, Mass., was named a 2016 Five Star Wealth Manager for the fourth consecutive year....Producer Emily Rand

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2007 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class co-presidents Keith Kearney kdkearney@gmail.com Rakhshan Zahid rakhshan.zahid@gmail.com Ava Bessel Schaefer is now an associate attorney at Pisanelli Bice, a Las Vegas-based firm....

Allison Caine gave a talk at the Jesup Memorial Library in Bar Harbor about her doctoral research in Peru. She has spent almost two years living in a remote community of alpaca herders doing research and fieldwork for her doctorate in anthropology from the Univ. of Michigan....Patrick Conway paid tribute to his Deering High School English teacher Gaetano Santa Lucia in a Portland Press Herald article. Lucia, who died Jan. 28 at 77, “approached literature from the angle of what it means to lead a good life, what it means to deal with the world,” said Patrick, who teaches English composition and American literature to prison inmates in Massachusetts....John D’Ascenzo earned an MBA from the Univ. of Washington Foster School of Business in 2015. He lives in Seattle where he works for ARRYVE Consulting.

2008 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class co-presidents Elizabeth Murphy elizabeth.jayne.m@gmail.com Alison Schwartz alisonrose.schwartz@gmail.com Christina Sumpio and Demian von Poelnitz were married April 9, 2016. She’s an associate counsel in the New York office of the Carlyle Group investment firm. He’s an associate specializing in corporate law at the New York law firm White & Case.

2009 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class co-presidents Timothy Gay timothy.s.gay@gmail.com Arsalan Suhail arsalansuhail@gmail.com The Boston Globe caught up with Valerie Beckwith for a story on the life lessons she learned playing basketball at Woburn High and Bates. “Athletics had a huge impact on my life as far as teamwork and perspective and having a hard-working, competitive attitude,” she said. Valerie works as a sales

account manager for ForeScout Technologies. She’s engaged to Ben Thayer, a former men’s basketball captain at Bates....A Chicago neighborhood paper talked with Jonathan Dowdy, who helped his cousin, Michael Dowdy, train and win a spot on the Seton Hall men’s basketball team. For three summers Michael endured rigorous workouts with Jonathan, who played basketball at Bates. Jonathan is a licensed personal banker at Chase Investment Services in Chicago....Sam Evans-Brown hosts New Hampshire Public Radio’s new series Outside/ In, which takes a broader look at the natural world while challenging the audience to think and engage with the world around them....Sean O’Brien joined the Buffalo, N.Y., law firm of Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman as an associate attorney....

Molly Ritner was hired as campaign manager for Sue Minter, a Democratic candidate for governor of Vermont....Virginia Schippers and James Coltheart were married May 15, 2016. She works in Canberra, Australia, as the economic growth manager for the Asia-Pacific region of the Palladium Group. He’s a major in the Australian army.

2010 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class co-presidents Brianna Bakow brianna.bakow@gmail.com Vantiel Elizabeth Duncan vantielelizabeth.duncan@gmail. com Tom Beaton is the new head football coach at the Williston Northampton School in Easthampton, Mass....Vantiel Elizabeth Duncan joined the American Red Cross of Maine as a major gifts officer....Elise Lang and her husband, Sergio Chwoschtschinsky, who were married Sept. 12, 2015, live in Maryland....Bradley McGraw received the Distinguished Young Alumni Award. His award citation reads, in part: “Since graduating magna cum laude with a degree in economics, Bradley has never failed to make time for Bates or to encourage other New York City-based young alumni to volunteer for the college. His own lengthy record of service includes ongoing work as a BCDC Career Adviser.”...Elliot Moskow welcomed Livia Marie Moskow on March 5, 2016.

2011 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class co-presidents Theodore Sutherland theodoresutherland89@gmail.com Patrick Williams dapatch20002000@yahoo.com

First-year pathology resident Diane Brackett ’11 says playing hockey is a refreshing stress-reliever partly because it’s “completely outside of my life as a medical student.”

Diane Brackett is enjoying her first year of residency in pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston....

Gwen Caffrey earned her M.D. from Cooper Medical School and began her internal medicine residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. She and husband Iain Ridgway welcomed a daughter, Meredith, in November 2015....

Tyler Dewdney was promoted to vice president of agency at Appcast, a pay-per-applicant job ad exchange headquartered in Lebanon, N.H....Briana Gross and her younger sister Cat are fixtures in the Merrimack Valley Conference lacrosse community.

They are now opposing head coaches — Briana as the new Methuen girls lacrosse coach, and Cat in her second year at Andover....Cambria Hempton Brockman’s business, Cambria Grace Photography, was awarded Best of Boston for wedding photography....Liz Johnston volunteered as a physician assistant with Amazon Promise, a U.S.-based nonprofit founded to provide desperately needed medical care to remote populations in Peru’s Upper Amazon basin....Nicolette Robbins and Lorenzo Zangari were married June 18, 2016. She started a clinical psychology Ph.D. at the Univ. of Kansas.

2012 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class co-presidents Mikey Pasek mikeypasek@gmail.com Sangita Murali sangitamurali12@gmail.com Josalynne Cottery and DeJuan Love were married May 28, 2016....Lauren Dobish started a wedding photography business in Boston and is excited to be photographing five Bates weddings in 2016....A photo James Dowling-Healey took of a painted turtle (Chrysemys picta) was printed in a Canadian science textbook, Saskatchewan Science 9, published by Pearson....Leah Elsmore earned a master’s of public health from the Univ. of Colorado....Tasnia Huque, a venture investment associate at Cue Ball Capital in Boston, spoke with FemTechLeaders.

com about her career. She’s excited about venture capital and the technology sector because “it is ever-changing and you are always engaged!”...Carver Low works at a media company specializing in the urban millennial male demographic. He creates content for its web properties and oversees integrated marketing efforts for content and digital ad sales....Former Bobcat standout midfielder Kelly McManus is now assistant coach of the Bowdoin field hockey team....

Kyle Philbrook joined the sales team of Mortgage Network Inc. in Boston....Sam Schleipman is a Fulbright English teaching assistant in Malaysia....Ned Scott started a social network built around a cryptocurrency that has seen exorbitant growth since its launch. His company, Steemit. has been featured in The Guardian and Yahoo Finance....Saya Srisamart is a third-year student in the doctor of dental surgery program at Thammasat Univ. in Bangkok....

Julia Winder started an MBA at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business....Hannah Zweifler started an MBA at Cornell’s Johnson School of Management.

She received a Park Fellowship, a full-tuition scholarship and leadership development program awarded to individuals with demonstrated excellence in leadership, academics, and service. She’s joined, both at Johnson and in the Park Fellowship, by Graham Pearson ’10.

2013 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class co-presidents Ryan Sonberg rsonberg9@gmail.com Megan Murphy megan.a.murphy@gmail.com Ashley Brunk teaches English to kids and adults at ECC Foreign Language Institute in Tsu, Japan....Nadine Beaupierre is in her third year of teaching with KIPP WAYS Academy in Atlanta....Kelly Coyne is pursuing a master’s in English at Georgetown....Lindsay Cullen completed her first marathon in May in Providence and qualified to run the Boston Marathon as an individual in 2017....Catherine “Cat” Djang received the David G. Russell ’66 Alumni-in-Admission Award. Cat earned a J.D. with honors from Columbia, where she was awarded the Allan Morrow Sexuality and Gender Law Prize for achievement in the furtherance of LGBT rights and was the inaugural law school recipient of the Campbell Award for university leadership and volunteerism....Kate Fetrow finished her second year at Stanford Law School where she participated in the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic and worked on two briefs before

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APOGEE ADVENTURES

Jeremy Cronon ’13

media outlet: The New York Times

headline:

10 months, 45 national parks, 11 rules

date:

July 3, 2016

takeaway: Following rules can help mindfulness In The New York Times’ Travel section, Jeremy Cronon ’13 shared 11 rules for mindful road tripping. Among them: Drive the speed limit. Use paper maps. And avoid interstates.

He came up with his “roadtripology rules” during a 10-month trip visiting 45 of the 47 national parks in the contiguous U.S. The rules are really “a series of daily practices... to force myself to be as deliberate as possible about the trip.”

Following rules might seem contradictory to the spirit of a road trip, but Cronon says he “sought to enhance spontaneity by making sure I noticed it when it happened.”

For example, by following posted speed limits, “I detached myself from the compulsive urgency so often associated with long-distance road travel. I set my cruise control and avoided the passing lane. In doing so, I experienced the freedom to focus.”

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the U.S. Supreme Court....Hank Geng was promoted to assistant director of major gifts at Brigham and Women’s Hospital....Joanna Harran graduated from Yale’s School of Nursing as an acute care nurse practitioner and now works as a trauma and burn nurse practitioner at Univ. of Kansas Hospital, a Level 1 trauma center....Amna Ilyas is in Columbia Law School’s JD program. She married Syed Ibrahim Hasan ’10....Travis Jones teaches flying trapeze and is both rig manager and director of curriculum for Trapeze School New York. He started grad school this fall for performing arts administration and will use his degree to create and innovate in the circus arts.

Travis and his husband, who were married in February 2016, live in Harlem....Amanda LaFarge Goss lives in Girdwood, Alaska, and fishes commercially on a salmon seiner....Sylvia Leiva is now an apprentice teacher for KIPP LA....An essay in AllAfrica praised work by Desmond Mushi to “change the negative perception of Africa.”

Desmond, who lives in Dar es Salaam, is a research assistant with the think tank Economic and Social Research Foundation....Now in Boston, Corinna Parisi works as an office administrator at Alosa Health, a nonprofit that develops and implements academic detailing programs...Rachael Perlman is working on a master’s in positive developmental psychology at Claremont Graduate Univ....

Margaret Pickoff started a master’s of science program in plant, soil, and environmental sciences at UMaine’s School of Food and Agriculture....Dylan Reffe earned an M.A. in journalism at the Univ. of Maryland and is the new digital media coordinator for the Detroit Lions....Ursula Sandstrom is a trail ranger and program coordinator of the Washington Area Bicyclist Assn., which has a grassroots approach to building a diverse and sustainable biking community....Catherine Tuttle is in her second year in the Peace Corps in Albania and plans to start a master’s program afterward. She got engaged last April....Caroline Ulwick joined NBCUniversal as an East Coast page. Her duties include assisting with the Today Show, leading tours around 30 Rock, and responding, “Yes, just like Kenneth” to tourists while faking a smile....Pursuing a career in dinosaur paleontology, Hank Woolley is finishing a second bachelor’s degree in geology at the Univ. of Colorado Boulder. His fieldwork as an intern at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science has taken him to remote regions of the American West and Madagascar in search of fossilized remains.

2014 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class co-presidents Hally Bert hallybert@gmail.com Mildred Aroko mildredaroko@gmail.com Danny Birkhead started at Tulane Univ. School of Medicine....Ben Bogard works in NYC government in the Office of Management and Budget’s legislative affairs unit....The Sun Journal recounted the love story of Tomi Chipman and Sam Ricker. When the two Penn State graduates marry on July 22, 2017, “the wedding will unite two of the area’s most well-known farm families — owners of Ricker Hill Orchards in Turner and Chipman Farms in Poland,” the newspaper said. She is the eighth generation on her farm; he’s the ninth generation on his....Matt Furlow works as a legislative assistant for Rep. Mark Sanford (R-SC) on Capitol Hill, focusing on transportation and technology policy issues....

Rosie Hale moved to Denver “and so far it has been absolutely amazing.”...Clara Maeder joined The Traveling School, a Bozeman, Mont.-based nonprofit semester school, as an academic teacher for the spring 2016 semester in South America....

Mariya Manahova earned a master’s in cognitive neuroscience and is starting a Ph.D. in the same field. She works at the Donders Institute in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. “The Dutch cheese selection really is impressive, so I am staying.”

2015 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class co-presidents James Brissenden james@brissenden.org Benjamin Smiley bensmiley32@gmail.com Lesea Bourke was offered a job at a fashion PR company....

James Brissenden lives in Portland and works as an event planner....Becca Carifio works as a certification adminstrator at the Portland firm Diversified Communications....Becky Culp enjoys working at the fitness startup ClassPass in New York.

“It’s been amazing working for a company that aligns so nicely with my values.”...Nicole Danser screened her short film Good Art in Schaeffer Theatre during the Emerge Film Festival that brought hundreds of New England cinephiles to Lewiston and Auburn last spring. Her film was chosen from more than 2,300 applicants. She also spoke to Bates students taking the Short Term class “Film Festivals and Digital and Video Production.”...Paul Fourgous is attending ESSEC business

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Jackie Ordemann ’15 school in Paris....Audrey Grauer works as admissions coordinator at New Roads School in Los Angeles....Olivia Gregorius and Emma Lutz embarked on a self-supported, 2,000-mile bike trip along the Pacific Coast last summer to promote female empowerment. Partnering with Bates professor Aimée Bessire and her organization Africa Schoolhouse, they raised money for an all-female boarding school being built in Tanzania....

Cameron Griffin couldn’t be happier working as the buyer for Wayfair’s pet and recreation categories....Elena Jay works in the admission department of the Steppingstone Foundation in Boston, a nonprofit dedicated to programs for underserved public school students....Katie Kirwin works as a research associate for Codiak Biosciences, a biotech startup....Megan Lapp ran the 2016 Boston Marathon on behalf of the Wellesley Scholarship Foundation. Megan works as an associate with Boston Consulting Group....Henry Lee works at MediaRadar, an ad sales analysis software company in New York....Kara McGowan joined the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic as a primary literacy promoter....Rebecca O’Neill spent a year doing 1,700 hours of national service for AmeriCorps, working with migrant students and English-language learners in Watsonville, Calif. She now teaches Spanish and coaches rowing at Blair Academy in New Jersey....Nicholas Pray enrolled in UConn School of Dental Medicine’s Class of 2020....Lucas Wilson-Spiro, in Boston, works freelance as a theatrical video engineer, electrician, carpenter, and stagehand. He was the lighting associate for the acclaimed world premiere of Dan Hurlin’s Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed.

2016 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class co-presidents Sally Ryerson sallyryerson@gmail.com Andre Brittis-Tannenbaum andrebt44@gmail.com

Brittany T. Reid ’16 and Brittany M. Reid were married July 5, 2016. “Yes, we do have the exact same first and last name, spelled the exact same way.”

Marlborough, Mass....Hyo Sun “Sunny” Hong teaches Spanish at the Maine School of Science and Math....Alexandra Arax LeFevre is in Yerevan, Armenia, on a Fulbright fellowship....Megan Lubetkin headed to Delhi and Dunagiri, India, with project partner Miles Schelling to conduct their Davis Project for Peace....Jia-Ahn Pan started a chemistry Ph.D. after finishing a summer rotation in the Univ. of Chicago’s Talapin lab....Brittany T. Reid and Brittany M. Reid were married July 5, 2016. “Yes, we do have the exact same name spelled the exact same way” except for their middle names.

“Thank you, Bates, for allowing me to grow and prosper while attending. Also, thank you for bringing me, my wife, and son together in Lewiston for my senior year!” Brittany T. works as a mortgage loan processor/ account executive for Boston Private Bank & Trust....Bianca Sanchez is teaching English for a year in Hiroshima....Allen Sumrall began a combined JD/ Ph.D. program in government at the Univ. of Texas at Austin....

Marit Wettstein is a lab technician at the Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology.

media outlet: Science News

headline:

Lead’s damage can last a lifetime, or longer

date:

March 19, 2016

takeaway: How lead might play a part in brain disorders Science News points to new research by Jackie Ordemann ’15 and her Bates thesis adviser, former chemistry professor Rachel Austin, that suggests how lead could play a part in brain disorders like schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s.

Reporter Meghan Rosen says that lead might “do its dirty work” by “masquerading as zinc,” a helpful trace element in human physiology that “lets proteins flip genes on and off like a light switch.”

Ordemann and Austin, who is now a professor at Barnard, say that when lead substitutes for zinc, it can “disrupt optimal neurological functioning during development and much later in life.” Their research was published in the journal Metallomics.

After working at an organic vegetable farm in Maine for a year, Ordemann is now at Tufts Medical School in its Maine Track Program.

Phil Dube is a Capital Fellow in Sacramento, Calif....Tom Fitzgerald works at Concentric Energy Advisors, a boutique energy consulting firm based in

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Please email your high-resolution 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.

Mochrie & Carnegie ’91 Kim Mochrie and Sean Carnegie ’91, May 21, 2016, Sudbury, Mass. Jeff Kubick ’91, Mike Golden ’91, Amy Cutler Maloney ’90, Mark Peabody ’90, Sean Maloney ’89, Kim and Sean, Tim Shaw ’91, Jamie Maloney ’90, Mike McNulty ’92, Janine Henry McNulty ’93.

Conover ’07 & Levin ’09 Lily Conover ’07 and Ben Levin ’09, Aug. 8, 2015, Rockport Maine. Chris Cary ’05, Ben Motley ’10, Frances Chase ’10, Nate Merrill ’08, Billie Hirsch Cary ’07, Lily and Ben, Chris Berry ’09, John McDonald ’09, Nate Levin ’16, Kimberly Russell Thompson ’09, Erin Sienkiewicz ’09, Charlotte Green ’11, Billy Hines ’11, Kate Reilly Thorson ’10, Kevin Thorson ’10.

Anable ’06 & Hammond Brooke Anable ’06 and Zachary Hammond (Bowdoin ’07), Sept. 19, 2015, Bishop Farm, Lisbon, N.H. Brooke Dennee-Sommers Witherspoon ’07, Brenton Pitt ’06, Michael Nelligan ’06, Abigail Mathews ’06, Andrew Foukal ’06, Sean Caplice ’06, Emily Ulfelder ’06, Jamie Nissen ’06, Brooke and Zach, Johnny Ritzo ’06, Katie Hayes ’06, Jesse Robbins ’06, Shannon Walsh ’06, Eben Mathews ’05, Jenna Sholl ’06, Adam Worrall ’06, Machias Schoen ’06.

Hardy ’08 & Baum Jeanette Hardy ’08 and Joe Baum, Sept. 26, 2015, Peaks Island, Maine.

Jeanette and Joe, Alex Hernandez ’09, Jon Steuber ’08, Katie Cohen Judkins ‘09, Kate Harmsworth ’08, Whitney Warren ’06, Kris Schmitt ’08, Wiley Todd ’08, Meg Downey Hardy ’80, Sam Hardy ’81, Susy Hawes ’08, Henry Myer ‘08, Caroline Ginsberg ’08, Emilie Swenson ’08, Ryan Fitzsimmons ’08, Ariel Childs ’08.

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Ewing ’10 & Lokitis Sarah Ewing ’10 and Laura Lokitis, Sept. 5, 2015, Bourne, Mass. Max Sackett, Chrissy Grover ’10, Eleanor Gourley ’10, Sarina Rosenthal ’10, Emma Scott ’10, Christine Hayek ’10, Molly Radis ’10, Charlotte Brill ’10, Evan Procknow ’10, Sarah and Laura, Sam Guilford ’10, Brendan Julian ’10, Carolyn Powers, Gina Petracca Julian ’10, Laura Traverse ’11, Mark Stehlik ’10, Peter Linsley ’10, Danielle Traverse ’13, Zach Jylkka ’10.

Hoffman ’04 & Chapman ’04 Kim Hoffman ’04 and Kurt Chapman ’04, July 25, 2015, Brunswick, Maine. Front: Bart Fromuth ’03, Ethan Dolleman ’03, Rebekah Friedman Gagne ’04, Laura Nafe ’04, Kim and Kurt, Jared Cash ’04; standing: Matt Gagne ’04, Lauren DuBois ’04, Lisa Golobski Twomey ’03, Jonas Sherr ’03, Betsy Hochadel Flaherty ’05, Maya Dutt Sherr ’04 (hidden), Olivia Zurek ’05, Lauren Yanofsky Wirth ’10, Jen Coty Frizzell ’04, Matt Frizzell ’00, Sean Wirth ’10, Tamara Helfer Karass ’04, John Karass ’05, Elle McPherson ’04, Jake Cash ’10.

Lang ’10 & Chwoschtschinsky Elise Lang ’10 and Sergio Chwoschtschinsky, Sept. 12, 2015, East Lynn Farm, Round Hill, Va. Rachel Eades ’10, Lisa Hartung ’10, Liz Casline ’10, Elise and Sergio, Alison Leonard ’10, Rebecca Lange ’10, Sarah Kwoh ’10, Lily Sheridan ’10.

Cohen-Shikora ’07 & Dulle Emily Cohen-Shikora ’07 and Brent Dulle, Sept. 27, 2015, St. Louis. Emily, Clare Magneson ’07, Taimur Khan ’07, Greg Musso ’07, Michael Springer ’07, Anita Deshpande ’07, Niraj Chokshi ’07, Katy Rodden Walker ’07, Forrest Walker ’07, Graham Enos ’07, Ky Winborn ’07, Laura McConaghy ’05, Alli Earon ’09, Meg Reynolds ’07, Alden Davis ’07.

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Haupage & Charron ’05 Samantha Haupage and David Charron ’05, Jan. 18, 2015, East Wind Hotel, Long Island, N.Y. Joseph Clough ’05, Nicole Langelier ’05, Jamil Zraikat ’05, David and Samantha, Russell Anderson ’05, Eric Batscha ’05, Joshua Grubman ’05.

Disney ’10 & Schuler ’10 Alexandra Disney ’10 and Kurt Schuler ’10, Sept. 26, 2015, Jackson, N.H. Rachel Laaff ’10, Kara Sullivan ’10, Dana Bennett ’10, Charlotte Coulter Bowden ’09, Tom Bowden ’09, William Loopesko ’10, Kurt and Alexandra, Liz Leberman ’10, Will Brunnquell ’10, Pete Goodwin ’10, Cody Newman ’11, Adam Nielson ’10, Ben Flanders ’10, Kitty Galloway ’11.

Williams ’07 & Scialabba Emily Williams ’07 and Tim Scialabba (Univ. of Colorado ’07), Oct. 3, 2015, North Peak Lodge, Sunday River Ski Resort, Maine. Ann Lovely ’07, Kathryn Moore ’07, Elizabeth Scannell ’07, Erin Bougie ’07, Emily and Tim, Mary Bucci Feinberg ’07, Luke Feinberg ’07, Atdhe Matoshi ’07, Jane Mellors ’07, Jackie Olson Zubiate ’07, Alicia Dessain-Schwab ’07; also attending: Henry Butman ’12.

Johnson ’04 & Borchini John Scott Johnson ’04 and Andrew Borchini, May 21, 2016, The Parker Palm Springs, Palm Springs, Calif.

Gabe Reilly ’04, Julia Allen ’04, Tina Browne ’04, Nate McConarty ’04, John Scott, Tim Talbot ’04, Andrew, Val Wicks ’04, Sara Kravitz ’04, Anne Conway ’04, Rachel Martin ’04.

Boyatsis ’09 & Barnard Alexis Boyatsis ’09 and James Barnard (Cornell ’09), Sept. 19, 2015, Portsmouth, N.H. Front: Sarah Reingold ’10, Claire Beers Mcintosh ’10, Michelle Perry ’08, Alexis, Bailey Edward ’09; back: Oscar Cancio ’08, Dan Perry ’08, James.

Saniuk ’09 & Gove Stacia Saniuk ’09 and Andrea Gove, June 28, 2014, North Peak Lodge, Sunday River Resort, Newry, Maine.

Samuel Hewett ’09, Jean McIntyre Clark ’10, Beth Lakin ’08, Liz Stahler Bard ’10, AnnaMarie Martino ’13, Mollie Kervick ’13.

Voeller ’06 & Mention Gabby Voeller ’06 and Andy Mention (Hamilton ’07), June 20, 2015, Livermore, Colo.

Kristin McCurdy Motley ’06, John Van Nostrand ’04, Katy Clark Van Nostrand ’05, Rachel Sorlien ’06, Helen Minsky ’06, Emily Trono ’06, Colin Hollister ’06, Gabby, Justin Graves ’06, Mariah Pfeiffer ’07, Colin Barry ’12, Julia Simons ’06, Andy, William Loopesko ’10, Christine Woll ’07, Alexis Grossman ’07, Maria Jenness ’07, John Baxter Leavitt ’08, Alida Ovrutsky ’08, Elyse Wiechnicki ’08, Zand Martin ’08, Melissa Jones ’08, Emily Hoffer ’06.

Tavani ’10 & Cauteruccio ’10 Regina Tavani ’10 and Joe Cauteruccio ’10, May 9, 2015, The Lenox Hotel, Somerville, Mass. Front: Marc Tollin ’12, Doug Ray ’10, Kyle Hutton ’10, Bradley McGraw ’10; back: Meredith Greene ’12, Shana Biletch ’10, Daniela Jaeckel Shasha ’10, Regina and Joe, Benj Shasha ’10; not pictured: Mike Sagan ’12.

Lyons & Sieck ’04 Casey Lyons (Colby ’07) and Dan Sieck ’04, Aug. 29, 2015, Loon Mountain, Lincoln, N.H. Colin Schless ’04, Casey and Dan, John Saunders ’04.

Cohen ’07 & Peck ’05 Adrian Cohen ’07 and Ben Peck ’05, Aug. 29, 2015, Full Moon Resort, Big Indian, N.Y. Andrew Jennings ’06, Dana DiGiando Jennings ’04, Matthew Rosler ’05, Jon Croteau ’05, Karen Moore Lambek ’04, Dom Lambek

’04, Sela Fermin ’08, Jake Grindal ’06, Taisy Conk ’07, Jeremy Fisher ’06, Anna Stockwell ’08, Ian Jones ’04, Charlie Hely ’07, Will Gluck ’04, Anna Jarashow ’06, Aaron Baker ’05, Peter Pawlick ’05, Carola Cassaro ’09, Mark Boccard ’06, Chip Means ’04, Hanna Sterzel Means ’04, Elizabeth Cohen ’03, Elisa Orme ’07, Caitlin Henderson Eldridge ’07, Chris Eldridge ’06, Tucker Pawlick ’10.

Gold ’07 & Mechem Lauren Gold ’07 and Chris Mechem (Hamilton College ’06), Aug. 29, 2015, Newagen Seaside Inn, Southport Island, Maine.

Kristen Andersen ’00, Sam Metzger ’14, Lou Dennig ’07, Stephanie Beauvais Dennig ’07, Mike Metzger ’06, Meghan Getz Metzger ’07, Lauren and Chris, Windy Black Jansen ’07, Dustin Jansen ’06, Jeanethe Falvey ’07, Kathryn Doherty Kurtz ’07, Courtney O’Farrell Shirley ’07.

Calabro ’06 & Daigle Siena Calabro ’06 and Matthew Daigle (UNH ’11), Aug. 1, 2015, Keene, N.H. Matthew, Marissa Corrente ’06, Nick Klinovsky ’06, Christine Beckwith ’06, Lindley Brainard ’06, Lylee Rauch-Kacenski, Siena.

Smith ’10 & Kan ’07 Taylor Smith ’10 and Gary Kan ’07, Sept. 5, 2015, Christ Episcopal Church, Blacksburg, Va. Christine Roemer ’10, Lauren Slipp ’10, Cecily Tennyson ’17, James Reddicliffe ’13, Chloe Tennyson ’09, Taylor and Gary, Matthew Boller ’08, Michaela Schneier Boller ’10, Phoebe Uricchio ’10, Bill Mortimer ’10, Christy Zink ’10.

Somers ’09 & Spencer ’08 Meghan Somers ’09 and Kevin Spencer ’08, Aug. 31, 2014, Northport, Maine. George Gregory ’09, Katherine O’Connor Gregory ’09, Lisa Hartung ’10, Kristen Meyers ’09, Brianna Belanger ’09, Julie Berman ’08, Mike Keohan ’08, Jaclyn Orloff Michel ’09, Nicole Svirsky ’09, Ali Puffer ’08, Haleigh Armstrong ’09, Lindsey Ferguson Warren ’08, Mark Grande ’08, William Warren ’08, Allegra Timperi Wilson ’08, Meghan,

Caitlin McMahon Patriquin ’09, Zachary Wilson ’08, Travis Granger ’08, Gary Somers ’52, Nick Petrucelli ’08, Richard Magnan ’69, Daniel Ricciardi ’08, Alex Egelson ’08, Kevin, Derek DiGregorio ’06, Kathryn Somers DiGregorio ’06, Nate Walton ’08, Kaitlin Hagan ’08, Alison Schwartz Egelson ’08, Michael Canova ’08, Kerry Glavin ’08, Nithya Sabanayagam Grande ’08.

Kiefer & Squires ’06 Claire Kiefer and David Squires ’06, Oct. 31, 2015, Richmond, Vt. Kate Harmsworth ’08, Whitney Warren ’06, John McNulty ’06, Mitch Crosskill ’06, Sela Fermin ’08, Jake Grindal ’06, Scott Priest ’06, Helen Minsky ’06, Justin Graves ’06, Diana Gauvin Lebeaux ’06, Ben Lebeaux ’06, Alex Teague ’06, Nikki Moraco ’06, Ben Haley ’06, Matt DeFina ’06.

Forbes ’06 & Mattie Margaret Forbes ’06 and Nate Mattie, July 18, 2015, Black Mountain Lodge, Arapahoe Basin ski area near Breckenridge, Colo. Erin Bragg ’06, Audrey Blanchette Wayne ’06, Bradford Wayne ’07, Adam Tokarz ’06, Caitlin Olmstead Warner ’06, Becky Anderson Gallardo ’06, Nichole Scott Rouached ’06, Kara Dietrich Shuler ’06, Alexis Lincoln Isabelle ’06.

Gemmer ’07 & Blake ’08 Cary Gemmer ’07 and Craig Blake ’08, July 3, 2015, Spurwink Church, Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Katy Corrado ’07, Kaitlin Hyde ’07, Allegra Timperi Wilson ’08, Jordan Swaim ’07, Pat Grater ’08, Claire McClintock ’07, Alex Connor ’08, Dan Ricciardi ’08, Katie Cohen Judkins ’09, Lily Hanstein ’09, Nithya Sabanayagam Grande ’08, Mark Grande ’08, Harry Poole ’10, Josh Galvin ’08, Zach Wilson ’08, Nick Petrucelli ’08, Alicia Doukeris ’07, Brandon Colon ’08.

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also operated a popular farm in Livonia, N.Y. Survivors include children Vivien Terry, Bernard Jr., and Bert; five grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren.

1934 Doris Neilson Whipple April 7, 2016 Not long before she passed away at 102, Doris Neilson Whipple performed religious music and jazz for an audience that gave her a standing ovation, the last in a career that went back to having her parents drive her to the theater to play accompaniment to silent films. She also loved to play the Alma Mater at Reunion, and in 2013 she was presented with the prestigious Bates’ Best Award on the occasion of her 100th birthday. For many years, she served as president of the Class of 1934. She taught English at Maine public high schools for years, once writing, “I believe Bates College started me on the road to many years of joyful and fruitful living.” Her husband, Carroll Whipple, owned Flanders, a men’s clothing store in Auburn. After he died in 1993, she took over as director of the company, and president and treasurer of Auburn Hall Realty.

In time, she sold Auburn Hall back to the city of Auburn to return it to its original use as a municipal building. Survivors include children Nancy Griffin and James Whipple; five grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and cousin Lara Mrosovsky ’02.

1936 Robert Joseph Darling August 9, 2014 After a few years as a high school teacher and military service during World War II, Robert Darling earned a Ph.D in education from NYU and began a career in guidance, rising to become the state supervisor of guidance for Delaware. He held similar positions in Michigan and California. He was also an instructor at the NYU School of Education and a professor of education at Montclair State Teachers College. His first wife, from whom he was divorced, was Elisabeth Wilson Darling ’34. His second wife, Fritzi Hender Darling, died in 2003. His son, Robin Darling, died in 2008.

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June Lovelace Griffin April 25, 2016 “I paint in my own way,” said June Lovelace Griffin. “Every painting is just me.” She was talking to the editor of this magazine last year (“A Century of June,” Spring 2016), at the age of 101 still living in her home near campus, painting in her studio that didn’t get enough of the right kind of light, reduced to using acrylics rather than oils because she didn’t need to bother with linseed oil, her one concession to advancing age.

Her art was displayed in many galleries and one-woman shows throughout New England. A student of Jamie Wyeth, she took her sketchbook with her wherever she went — and she went around the world. She visited nearly every country but missed India and Australia, at last count. Not only did she turn her trips into paintings, she made them pay for themselves by writing articles for newspapers and magazines, such as Lewiston’s Sun-Journal, Boston Globe, and International Traveller Magazine. She disappointed the Globe’s editor with one article because she didn’t write about the difficulties of traveling by cruise boat when you’re 86: She didn’t consider it a problem.

She came from a large Bates family; her nephew is Richard H. Lovelace Jr. ’78. Other relatives, all deceased, include husband Lewis J. Griffin ’35; brothers Daniel D. Lovelace ’30 and Richard H. Lovelace ’41; and sister Helen Lovelace Ward ’25.

Besides her nephew, survivors include son Richard L. Griffin; three grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Bernard Arthur Hutchins October 3, 2014 Chances are, if you had any photos developed by Eastman Kodak over the years, Bernie Hutchins had something to do with it. He was a supervisor in the chemical laboratories of its photographic division. A cum laude graduate in chemistry, he was a member of the American Society for Quality Control. He

Harriet VanStone Vernon August 17, 2012 Harriet Vernon earned a master’s in library science from the Univ. of Michigan and worked as a librarian at the Univ. of Arkansas where her husband, Thomas Vernon ’35, was a professor. She was a member of the Unitarian Universalist church in Fayetteville and active in the League of Women Voters and NOW. Survivors include two daughters; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

1937 Ruth Clough Mendall September 21, 2015 Ruth Clough Mendall loved words. She loved the stories behind them, their histories. Once you know that tuition evolved from a Latin word that meant to care for a child, you might feel better about that monstrous bill.

She hadn’t intended to return to teaching Latin after her children were grown; she protested that she had “forgotten” it, but a few graduate courses at Tufts and a semester at the Virgilian Academy in Cumae, Italy, set her up for 16 years of classical studies at Coburn Classical in Waterville, Oak Grove-Coburn in Vassalboro, and the first faculty of Maranacook in Readfield.

She told her family that she did not want an obituary, but if they insisted, to write this in it: “I had a driving pony named Lady Luck and her foal, Fortune’s Folly. I had a merry-go-round horse named Gigi. I drove my convertible to Florida and back.

I was observed skinny-dipping with two of my daughters by a troop of Boy Scouts at Katahdin.

I have petted a manatee. I have petted a boa constrictor. My dearest treasure is my family.”

A member of the College Key, she and her husband, the late George V. Mendall ’35, were active in alumni affairs. Survivors include children Judith Mendall Redding ’63, Peter J. Mendall ’66, and Martha Mendall Floyd ’71; six grandchildren, including Sarah K. Redding ’99; and 10 great-grandchildren. Her daughter-in-law is Nina Jewell Mendall ’99, and a niece is Kathleen E. Clough ’72. Her brother was Fred A. Clough Jr. ’39.

1938 Virginia May Harriman Baker November 7, 2015 Ginny Harriman Baker’s career as a math teacher didn’t really take off until her husband retired from the U.S. Marine Corps and they stopped moving to such places

as the Panama Canal Zone. Then she was able to put in 20 years in California, retiring in 1981.

1939 Sadie Elizabeth Stevens February 29, 2016 In 1970, Sadie Stevens received the Ordre des Palmes académiques, awarded by France for contributing to the expansion of the art of French culture in the world.

She was a French and Latin teacher in New Hampshire, in Suncook, Laconia, and finally in Exeter, where she remained for the rest of her career. Her father was Oscar A. Stevens 1899; her sister was Gertrude Stevens Davis ’34; and her brother was Oscar D. Stevens ’37.

1940 Joan Wells Dorman April 18, 2016 Joan Wells Dorman was known around Damariscotta as the “Pot Holder Lady” because she was a sewer and quilter. At Bates, she was active in sports and the Outing Club. As an alumna, she was a member of the College Key; she and husband Hamilton P. Dorman ’40 received a citation for outstanding service to Bates in 1963. Survivors include children Barclay Dorman ’68, Michael Dorman ’70, and Susan; eight grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. Her husband predeceased her, as did brother Henry M. Wells ’36 and brother-in-law Barclay N. Dorman ’38.

1941 Stella Clifford Gray May 31, 2016 Stella Clifford Gray so loved Bates that she kept a copy of its Alma Mater on her dressing table. She thought at first that she wanted a career in music — her freshman year was at the Eastman School of Music — but she was thrilled with the transfer, and she found after graduation that she was thrilled with teaching, too, especially at the college level. She earned a master’s at Bread Loaf, then was awarded a scholarship to the Univ. of Wisconsin to study for a Ph.D. in American literature. Her dissertation on Constance Fenimore Woolson was the first comprehensive study of the 19th-century American author. She taught and served as chair of the humanities division at the UW extension at Kenosha. She was the first college teacher to be inducted into the Southeastern Wisconsin Educators Hall of Fame. Upon her retirement, the university created the Stella C. Gray Teaching Excellence award. Survivors include children Camilla, Charles, Robert, and Peter; six grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Her parents were Harold and Gladys

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Mower Clifford, both Class of 1916; and her uncle was Earle A. Clifford ’22.

Mary Bullard Hennessy March 17, 2016 Mary Bullard Hennessy was active in many civic causes in the Westboro, Mass., area. She was a docent at the Worcester Art Museum and a volunteer at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, She and her husband raised Arabian horses on their farm. Survivors include children Ananya Hixon, R. Brian Hennessy, and Joanne Huyler; five grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Maizie Joy Newcomb December 14, 2015 Maizie Joy Newcomb left Bates after a year to attend Gorham State Teachers College (now USM). She taught elementary school in Yarmouth and played bridge with unusual fervor. Survivors include children Florence Verrill and Frederick Newcomb III; five grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Edward James Raftery March 16, 2016 “Raf” Raftery served three years in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. A history major, he earned a law degree at the Univ. of Conn. and was a corporate lawyer at Aetna for over 30 years. He didn’t want children, he said, but wife Jane Cook Raftery wanted six. They decided to compromise: They had six. He was active in civic life in Collinsville, Conn., everything from Democratic politics to musicals. He was also president of his Bates class for many years.

Survivors include children Kate, Anne, Jane-Cole, Mary Gilbert Raftery ’79, Stephen, and Helen Raftery; nine grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Winnifred Hansen Seaver May 22, 2016 After raising her children, Winnifred Hansen Seaver returned to teaching, first at Peterborough (N.H.) High School, then at Marlborough High. She retired in the mid-1970s. Surviving are children Charles Seaver Jr., Karen Joslin, Ingrid Bayliss, Sally Downing, and Richard Seaver; 10 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.

Warren Williams February 9, 2016 Warren Williams was at Bates briefly, ended up in V-12 training, and left for the Great Lakes.

Lucky thing: He met his wife in Duluth while stationed there with the Navy during the war. He returned after the war to UMaine-Orono and worked primarily in the food processing industry in Maine. Survivors include wife Harriet; daughter Rebecca Wright; and one grandchild.

1942 Elaine May Hardie June 13, 2015 Elaine Hardie was a master of the French language, teaching it for over 45 years in the Concord, Mass., schools. She earned a master’s in French from Middlebury and one in special education from Simmons. Named one of the most outstanding teachers of foreign languages in the U.S. by the Modern Language Assn. of America in 1961, she was instrumental in establishing the first language lab in a public high school in 1957. Before that, students just learned to read a language rather than speak it. She served on the Massachusetts State Advisory Commission on Foreign Languages for its entire lifespan, 1958–76. The French government awarded her its highest honor, a Chevalier dans L’Ordre des Palmes Academiques, for the promotion of French language and culture, in 1985. In retirement, she was active with the Concord Council on Aging, the Concord Women’s Club, and the Concord chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Martha Blaisdell Mabee July 22, 2015 A Lexington (Mass.) resident since 1945, Martha Blaisdell Mabee enjoyed volunteering for its Historical Society. She had worked at the high school library for 10 years before she started to volunteer. She also volunteered for the Lexington Council on Aging in its library and sang in the town’s choral society. A strong supporter of conservation, she managed the Blaisdell family farm in Franklin to preserve its heritage. A member of the College Key, she was an alumni club officer in the 1970s, secretary of her class for over 10 years, and active on Reunion committees.

Survivors include children Carleton Mabee, Marcia Mabee, Christine Faragher, and Stephen Mabee; four grandchildren and one step-grandchild; sister Constance Blaisdell Nickerson ’45; brother-in-law David D. Nickerson ’42; and cousin Jeffrey S. Purinton ’82. Her parents were Margaret 1912 and Leo W. Blaisdell 1912; her husband was Irving H. Mabee ’42. Other late Bates relatives include her uncle Raymond W. Blaisdell 1919; brother-in-law F. Carleton Mabee Jr. ’36; cousin Anne Blaisdell Purinton ’52; and niece Bonney Nickerson Ford ’67.

Eleanor Davis Scully December 18, 2015 For Eleanor “Wes” Davis, it was love at first sight: She saw Robert Scully, a Boston Theological Seminary student and the summer pastor at Charlton Methodist Church near her family’s farm, and she knew he was the guy. Six days later, they decided

to marry. On Christmas Day, they did. It lasted until his death in 2001. She enjoyed a life in Ohio of raising four children and supporting her husband’s career.

Survivors include children Susan Walsmith, Martha Stevens, Mary Jane Chubb Robinson, and Robert Scully; eight grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.

Chester William Wezevitz December 10, 2015 Chet Wezevitz was at Bates for two years before transferring to American International College.

He served in the U.S. Army in the Asian-Pacific Theater and in the liberation of the Philippines. He worked with his father as a general contractor, eventually taking over the business. Survivors include sons John and Chuck.

Rose Worobel September 26, 2015 A woman ahead of her time, Rose Worobel was the first woman to do this, the first to do that — and she never seemed to get the credit for it. A math and physics major at Bates, she earned a master’s from RPI in 1959. She worked in aeronautics and was the first woman recipient of the SAE Manley Award for a paper she co-authored. In 1980, she was appointed to serve on the Connecticut Board of TV and Radio Examiners. She was a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Society of Women Engineers. The author of some reports for NASA, she retired in 1977 as a senior analytical engineer. A proud member of the Ukrainian National Women’s League, she was also a photographer; she took a book of rough sketches being used by the American School for the Deaf and created photographs for it instead. Survivors include sister Jennie Irelan.

1943 Thomas Aiguier Doe September 25, 2015 It used to be measles and mumps. As the years went by it became chicken pox. Then, as vaccines improved, it was car accidents. Something different was always coming through Dr. Tom Doe’s door, but he met it with calm good humor. He had known since childhood that he wanted to be a doctor and pursued that at Yale Medical School after earning his Bates degree in biology. His medical training was under the Army training program, so he and his first wife, the late Harriett Gray Doe ’43, spent time in the Panama Canal Zone after his residency in New Haven. He began private practice in Springfield, Mass., and started the pediatric cardiology service at Springfield Hospital (now BayState Medical Center). In 1987, he and

Harriett retired to the home they had built in Chatham, Mass.

There, he renewed his love of music and joined the Mid-Cape Chorus and the bell choir at First Congregational Church of Chatham. Survivors include wife Judith Hamilton Doe; children David Doe ’68, Allan, Douglas, Robert, and Stephen Doe, Deborah Schindel, and Prudence Mattoon; 13 grandchildren, including Charles A. Schindel ’05; and one great-grandchild.

Dorothy Winslow Drew April 20, 2011 Dorothy Winslow Drew credited her Bates professors for the knowledge and training they gave her to glide through the two-year master’s in library science program at Simmons in one year (and on the honor roll no less). She returned to her hometown of Presque Isle, where she joined the U.S. Air Force and helped start the first library on base at the air field. She met and married Robert Drew in 1948, and resigned from the base in 1956 to start her family. They moved to Bangor in 1959, where she lived for 40 years. Bob passed away in 1988. She occasionally wrote for the Bangor Daily News and the Maine Library Assn., and was a Friend of the Bangor Public Library. Survivors include daughter Susan Heim; one grandchild; and two great-grandchildren.

Her nephew is William Dean ’79, whose wife is Ann Wymore Dean ’79; and her grand-niece is Melissa Dean Coito ’79. Her father was Percy Winslow 1920; her sister was Marilyn Winslow Dean ’54.

John Edwin Marsh September 15, 2015 He sang. Wherever he was, whomever he was with, John Marsh sang. Especially to his wife, Bonnie Laird Marsh ’44, who accompanied him on his foreign service missions to India, Jordan, Sri Lanka, and Kuwait from 1955 to 1974. From 1974 to 1987 he and Bonnie lived on Cyprus, where he worked as a businessman. Coming “home” to the U.S. in 1987 was definite culture shock. They settled in Lynchburg, Va., where he was often sought out for his opinion on Middle East affairs.

He was active in local tree care and management as well as Habitat for Humanity and the performing arts. Directly out of college, he joined the U.S. Army Air Forces and piloted 32 B-24 combat missions out of Italy. He received five Air Medals and two Distinguished Flying Cross medals. Bonnie died seven months before he did; her obituary is in this issue. He is survived by his son, David Marsh.

Ruth Swanson Rollins September 29, 2015 Ruth Swanson Rollins worked as an insurance underwriter and secretary before returning

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to her hometown of Brockton, Mass. After a few years off to get her family situated, she went to work for a transportation company and became its office manager and executive secretary. In 2009, she was honored by the General Federation of Women’s Clubs of Massachusetts for her service. Survivors include children Herbert Rollins Jr. and Nancy Gardner; four grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

David Burr Sawyer February 11, 2016 The Sawyer name is woven through the fabric of Bates as deeply as the ivy. David Burr Sawyer was the son of a beloved biology professor, William H. Sawyer Jr., a graduate of the Class of 1913, and mother, Beatrice Burr Sawyer, who was a member of the Class of 1918.

He was the father of Michael Burr Sawyer ’72, who died Aug. 12, 2016, and who was married to Susan Cooper Sawyer ’72. The family established two funds that benefit Bates students. It is inextricably linked to the College’s future. David inherited his father’s love of biology and the physical sciences and spent much of his career teaching those subjects at Suffield (Conn.)

Academy. An outdoorsman, he loved to hunt and fish in Canada and the Pacific Northwest. At Suffield, he developed its Outing Club, having found a model at a certain college somewhat to its north, which became the most popular extracurricular activity on campus. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy and Merchant Marine. He also taught school in the Bahamas, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Maine.

His wife, Sylvia, passed away in 2015. In addition to Susan, survivors include two grandchildren.

Jane White Stoddard June 25, 2015 If one wanted to describe the quintessential Bates student of the 1940s, Jane White Stoddard would fit the bill. She crossed the river from the big family dairy farm in Auburn to attend college, just like three of her siblings and her mother, took advantage of every activity she could, was an avid part of the Outing Club and student government, and married a classmate, Samuel Stoddard Jr. ’43. A math major, she later earned a degree in speech pathology and audiology from Temple. She worked as a speech therapist in public schools, then became a professor of speech pathology and audiology at East Stroudsburg State Univ., where she became chair of the department. Jane and Sam retired in 1986 to Little Sebago Lake. They served as co-vice presidents of their class for several years. They spent 72 years together in marriage; he survives her. Other survivors include

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children William F. Stoddard ’75, Samuel III, and Katherine Pope; seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Her grandnephew is Tobin F. White ’94. Her mother was Marion Wellman White, Class of 1917; her brothers were John W. White ’39 and Wallace H. White III ’42; her sister was Sally White Byrkit ’47; her sisters-inlaw were Evelyn Jones White ’38 and Claire Greenleaf White ’42.

Her brother-in-law was Bateston F. Stoddard ’29.

Richard Stoughton Jr. January 13, 2015 The Rev. Richard Stoughton was proud of his Bates education, and proud of its heritage. He was disappointed, however, when he read the announcement of the installation of T. Hedley Reynolds as Bates president — nothing to do with Reynolds, but with how the college described itself: simply as “founded by abolitionists.” While that might be true, he said, it was so much more. He objected to the failure to mention Bates’ Freewill Baptist roots., and Harry Rowe had always stressed the importance of being worthy of that heritage. He himself was part of the United Church of Christ, having received a B.D. from Andover-Newton following his B.A. from Bates. He served churches in East Jaffrey, N.H., and Brockton, Mass., before retiring to Wellfleet, where he became the summer pastor at Truro Congregational Parish.

His first wife, Charlotte Hawkes Stoughton ’46, predeceased him. Survivors include wife Betty Sawyer Stoughton; children Martha McNeil, Nanci Blakeslee, and Thomas Stoughton; nine grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and niece Susan Hawkes-Teeter ’74.

His sister was Virginia E. Stoughton ’48.

V-12 Richard L. Achorn February 7, 2016 Richard Achorn was part of the V-12 program at both Bates and Bowdoin and served in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific during World War II. He returned to work for Maine Central Railroad. Survivors include wife Elizabeth Huff Achorn; children Anne Pietroski, Edward Achorn, and Mary Ellen Harvey; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Samuel E. Kinsley October 10, 2015 Sam Kinsley was a V-12 student at Bates who served in the Pacific during World War II. Just 17 when he came to Bates, he ended up commanding his LST-847 unit for a brief period. He chose Bowdoin when he returned after the war and went on to earn a master’s from Tufts. Survivors

include wife Georgia Harbeck; daughters Jill Kinsley, Martha Weissbaum; stepchildren Cheryl Romuald, Carin Lehnert, Bill Lehnert, and Barbra Perry; and nine grandchildren.

1944 Stephen James Bartlett December 1, 2015 He claimed he held the world record for the 100-yard dash — on snowshoes. And who was there to challenge him? The race hadn’t been run since that day in 1940-something when as a track runner from Lewiston High he competed in the city’s Winter Carnival. He also ran track (in running shoes) at Bates, but chose to fly on skis as a ski jumper. His love for skiing continued into his 80s. His father, Paul Burroughs, taught economics at Bates, He had a long career with the Addressograph Multigraph Corp., the big name in copying before photocopying came along.

This job took him to every byway and back corner of Maine, and he could find the best piece of pie in any town. Traveling the state this way and incidentally getting to know its diners prepared him for his second career: being the chief bottle washer and curmudgeon at Becky’s Diner on Portland’s waterfront, owned by daughter Becky Rand, where he ran errands, swept the floor, and did whatever needed to be done, as well as tell as many lies as he could get away with. His wife, Corinne Lapointe Bartlett, predeceased him in 2015. Survivors include children Paul, Stephen, and Christopher Bartlett, and Rosemary Unnold, Rebecca Rand, Katherine Mathews, and Millicent Norton; 20 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and sister Barbara Bartlett Hammond ’47, whose son is James B. Hammond ’81. Her husband was Burton G. Hammond ’49.

Another sister was Mary Bartlett Gardner ’42.

Daniel Chase Boothby October 16, 2015 Dan Boothby saw other parts of the world during his time in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific Theater during World War II, and as a teacher and principal in Maine, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, but Parsonsfield was always home. It’s where he was raised and where he returned. He excelled in its sports programs, and Bates’ programs as well. A history and government major, he earned a master’s from the Univ. of Maine. One highlight of his teaching career was a educational exchange program in Russia in 1970. Survivors include daughters Linda Marsh and Deborah DuBois; three grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and niece Sandra Boothby Lee ’73, whose father was E. Harry Boothby ’41.

Walter Moody Davis October 29, 2015 Walter Davis’ path through Bates was interrupted by World War II and time in the Army Air Corps, but that didn’t stop him from making the dean’s list. He went on to a career at Devonshire Financial and the National Shawmut Bank of Boston. He and his high school sweetheart, Betty Sayles, were married for 56 years until she passed away in 2002. Survivors include children Walter Jr. and Sally Yeatman; four grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; nephew William N. Davis III ’66; and cousin Ellen Landry-Rooney ’85. His sister was Delia N. Davis ’36; his brothers were William Jr. ’41, John ’40, and Charles Davis ’44.

Almon Sutphen Fish Jr. June 11, 2015 Al Fish graduated from Bates by surprise: He was serving in the Navy in the South Pacific when he opened a letter telling him that grade points earned in the V-12 program were “sufficient for you to graduate in absentia.”

And so he had a degree in religion when he was in the first wave to invade Saipan. But a subsequent conversation in Hawaii would change his life from serving God to serving...apples.

A sugar plantation owner told him it took a ton of water to produce a pound of sugar, and that steered him toward a career in plant sciences. He tried a year at Princeton Theological Seminary, but went on to earn a master’s in horticulture at Kansas State and a Ph.D. at the Univ. of California Davis. He taught and researched at state universities in Massachusetts, Kansas, North Carolina, and California. From 1970–81 he owned Belle-Vue Orchards in Yakima, Wash. He and his wife, Lois Miles Fish, were deeply involved with the Presbyterian church. Their Christian commitment led them to a UN Desertification Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1977, where they experienced nomadic life while evaluating Church World Service development projects and experiencing the issue of drought and desertification.

They developed a slide show on this issue which they presented countless times.

Virginia Stockman Fisher October 26, 2015 The Monday after she graduated from Bates, Ginny Stockman Fisher “became” the social studies department at Paris (Maine) High School, teaching six classes a day — no resting on those Phi Beta Kappa laurels for her! She was one of a small group of students who’d graduated in October to help out the war effort. Part of that effort was Irving “Bud” Fisher ’41, whom she’d met by chance at a Bates cabin event he’d come to on his

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first Navy leave. They married in 1945, and she became a faculty wife as he pursued a career as a geology professor at the Univ. of Kentucky. After raising three children, she thought she wanted something to do that wouldn’t have any “take home work,” and came up with the perfect idea: drive a school bus.

She drove a school bus for 11 years until Bud was ready to retire and they could move “home” to a house on Great Diamond Island and a condo in Portland.

She was secretary-treasurer of her class for 22 years, and a leader of several Reunion committees. Bud passed away in 2009. His mother was Marion Sanborn Fisher, Class of 1914, and his brother was Joseph O. Fisher ’39. Survivors include children Larry, Beth, and Chuck Fisher; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Bonnie Laird Marsh February 24, 2015 Bonnie Laird Marsh turned a picnic into an opportunity to bring a permanent source of fresh water to a drought-stricken Indian village, the kind of serendipitous moment for which she was famous. Her life as the wife of a foreign service officer took her to Cyprus, Jordan, Kuwait, India, and Sri Lanka, often at the edge of war, before they settled in Lynchburg, Va., in 1987. It also brought her a 13-year-old son, whom she and her husband, John E. Marsh ’43, adopted from a Sri Lanka orphanage. Once settled in Lynchburg, they opened their house with its worldwide resources to a local school to use as it pleased. She also used retirement to indulge in her real interests: reading and painting (she’d once had her papier-mâché work and paintings exhibited in Nicosia). Her husband died seven months after she did; his obituary is in this issue. Her son David Marsh survives her.

1945 Miriam Dolloff Chesley June 11, 2015 Mickey Chesley had one major complaint about her life: not enough time. She had to choose which of her favorite activities to pursue. Even winter didn’t give her a break from gardening: There was the Scituate Garden Club’s entry in the March Flower Show in Boston to worry about all winter long, interrupting her writing and weaving. She made herself an expert on the lost art of tape weaving, a colonial necessity that fell by the wayside as modern sewing notions emerged.

She became expert enough in the field to build a business out of it. She wove and knit costume elements for Plimoth Plantation and for productions of The Crucible, and had articles published in Yankee Magazine and in its

Forgotten Arts series of books.

Survivors include children David Chesley and Victoria Brega; two grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and sister Charlotte Dolloff Turadian ’41, whose late husband was Z. Robert Turadian ’42. Their mother was Zela Bridgham Dolloff 1912, and their cousin was Mary Swasey Stewart ’33.

Arline Sinclair Finch October 20, 2015 Arline Sinclair left Bates after three years to marry classmate Carleton “Zeke” Finch, who was in the V-12 program. The war cut short his college career as well, but both remained close to Bates and were active in their Reunion Committees for their 50th, 55th, 60th, and 65th Reunions. She also served as class secretary for many years. In addition to all of this attention to Bates, she raised seven children of her own and welcomed the neighborhood kids as well. She worked at schools in Fitchburg and neighboring towns, both as a substitute and as a paraprofessional. She was a member of Faith United Parish, serving on the outreach committee and diaconate for many years. Besides her husband, survivors include children William Finch, Joanne Finch Tulonen ’70, Deborah Finch, David Finch, Patricia Kelly, William Judge, and Thomas Judge; 12 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Elaine Maher Harrison May 6, 2016 Penny Maher Harrison enjoyed a career that ranged from Southwestern art to library cataloging.

In 2002, she co-authored an acclaimed biography of Frank Paul Sauerwein (1871–1910), an overlooked Southwestern painter; it grew out of her master’s degree in history at West Texas State Univ., where her husband, Lowell Harrison, taught from 1952–67.

In 1967, they moved to Kentucky, and she became the manuscripts librarian at Western Kentucky Univ.’s Kentucky Library until she retired in 1986. She earned a second master’s, in library science, at WKU. She was active in forming the Kentucky Council on Archives and was named a fellow of the council in 1987. Survivors include nieces and nephews.

Elizabeth Haslam Henry February 29, 2016 Betty Haslam Henry was employed as a social worker at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Rhode Island and volunteered with the American Cancer Society and Grace Episcopal Church.

Survivors include husband Rusk Henry; and sons Paul, David, and Stephen.

Janice Freeman Josselyn December 26, 2015 Janice Freeman Josselyn left Bates for Boston Univ. She was a

librarian at Rockland (Mass.) Library. Survivors include children Phillip, Stephen, and Duncan Josselyn, and Patricia J. Hoffman; and two grandchildren.

Jean Phelps Lehnen March 20, 2016 Jean Phelps Lehnen put her degree in sociology to good use.

She was the executive director of two Girls Clubs, a children’s convalescent home, a social worker in three different cities, and, oh, during World War II, she worked with the U.S. Signal Corps. She lived for many years in Walla Walla, Wash., where she was well-known for her needlepoint. Survivors include daughters Martha Lehnen and Ruth Lee; four grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

Norman Paul Morin March 19, 2016 It’s a long way from the icy streets of Lewiston to the warm bayous of Louisiana, but Norm Morin started out on wooden skis and ended up as an orthopedic surgeon. Along the way, he joined the U.S. Navy, which placed him on inactive duty so he could attend McGill Univ.

Medical School, where he met fellow medical student Irene Kenny, whom he would marry.

He interned in New York and did a residency in New Jersey— and then received orders to Japan. Then came a fellowship under the English royal family.

Active duty complete, Norm and Irene chose Louisiana for the French language, Cajun culture, and warm weather. He was the senior orthopedic resident at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. He later had a private practice in Lake Charles, retiring in 1992. Besides his wife, survivors include children Normie Voilleque, Reinnette Marek, Norman II, Patrice Spatz, and Lise Cope; nine grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

Alice Louise MacArthur Scholtes April 28, 2016 Louise MacArthur Scholtes was a teacher at military bases around the world, in Japan, Germany, Eritrea, and Cuba, but she also taught at Derby Academy in Hingham, Mass., for 25 years. She earned a master’s in education at Bridgewater Univ. Survivors include sons Christopher and Peter.

1946 Beula Greenberg Diamond August 7, 2015 Billie Greenberg Diamond taught in the Miami-Dade elementary school system for 26 years.

It once wanted to give her its teacher of the year award but she declined, saying there were too many good teachers to single out one. An advocate for children

both inside the classroom and out, she was a longtime volunteer guardian ad litem and oversaw 32 children in 15 cases over the years. Her other longtime passion was the Dranoff International 2 Piano Foundation, on whose board she served for over 20 years. A performer herself, she entertained soldiers with her World War II-era stage act in which she and her feathered gown went one way and her bustled behind went the other, courtesy of a younger, smaller sister, Joan Greenberg Brenner ’49, scrunched inside the voluminous bustle. She and her late husband Jack helped found Miami’s Temple Beth Am. Survivors include children Barry, Liz, and Dan Diamond; four grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and sister Joan, whose late husband was Everett H. Brenner ’47.

Joseph Sheffield Dow March 5, 2010 Joseph Dow, a veteran of World War II and the Korean War, was an attorney who practiced in Boston for many years after graduating from Harvard Law. Survivors include daughters Sarah Dow and Rachel Gaffey; and two grandchildren.

Donald Paul Richter January 25, 2016 Don Richter was working as a tool grinder before a full scholarship made it possible for him to attend Bates. That made him passionate about his education, and he never stopped. He became a top debater and was elected to Delta Sigma Rho and Phi Beta Kappa. His Bates years were interrupted by service in the U.S. Navy during World War II. A Yale Law School graduate, he was a Bates trustee for 32 years and for 28 years a trustee of Suffield Academy, where fellow trustees funded the annual Richter Award for Excellence in Teaching in his honor. To continue his commitment to education he served as chair of the advisory board of the WALKS Foundation, a consortium of independent schools in the Greater Hartford area dedicated to providing scholarship assistance to disadvantaged students. At his passing, he was counsel to the law firm of Murtha Cullina in Hartford. He often observed that, while the law was his profession, education was his passion. After he became of counsel to his law firm, he administered the Manchester Rotary Club Reading Program at Washington School in Manchester. He cherished the many cards and letters he received from the fourth- and fifth-graders he read to over 13 years. He was especially involved with the YMCA of Metropolitan Hartford, serving as a director, trustee, and for seven years as board president.

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Cynthia Richter and Christopher Richter ’77; and cousins Dorothy A. Richter ’70 and Karen S. Voelkening-Behegan ’85.

Patricia Wilson Sanborn June 15, 2015 Patricia Wilson Sanborn didn’t have much use for television — too much gardening to do — but when it came time for the annual high school basketball tournament, nothing got between her and the TV set. The same was true of the grandchildren’s events: She attended every one she could. A sociology major, she worked as a social worker in Connecticut and Colorado before returning to Maine to marry Parker Sanborn in 1951. They farmed in Windham before moving to Augusta where he became the farm manager at what was then called the Augusta Mental Health Institute (now Riverview Psychiatric Hospital). Eventually the family moved to its own farm, but Patricia worked for over 30 years at AMHI as a social worker. She enjoyed gardening and mowing the lawn until she was 90. Survivors include children Abigail Sanborn ’75, who is married to Scott Balcomb ’75, Wilson and Kate Sanborn; and four grandchildren, including Hallie Balcomb ’14.

Erma Rowe Sturgis August 8, 2015 Erma Rowe married her high school sweetheart, Deane Sturgis ’49, graduating in the morning with a wedding in the chapel in the afternoon. Deane served with the Seabees during World War II, then went to work for New England Telephone, taking Erma and their growing family to Massachusetts, New Jersey — and Iran, from which they escaped just before the Shah was overthrown in 1979, to Edison, N.J. She especially enjoyed their years in Stoneham, Mass., where she was head of a preschool of 80 students. But wherever she was, she found a way to sing, be it in a church choir or in a Sweet Adeline group. She directed musical events and plays, and served on many church committees. She also kept mentally active, attending graduate-level courses at Boston and Edison area colleges. She was a member of the College Key and Reunion committees. Deane died in 1991. Survivors include children Jeffrey Sturgis ’69, a former Bates trustee, Mark, Craig, Deanne Doherty, and Bruce Sturgis; nine grandchildren, including Jodi Sturgis Coppetta ’93, whose husband is Jonathan R. Coppetta ’93; three step-grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and three step-great-grandchildren.

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1947 Roberta Watson Libby January 12, 2016 She did the job few want: Roberta Watson Libby taught middle school math. But she did it in the shadow of the Bean boot, in Freeport, for 23 years, before retiring from teaching and joining the payroll staff of the L.L. enterprise itself. She retired in 1987 and enjoyed many trips, most by motor home, with husband Horace Libby, who survives her. Other survivors include daughters Wendy Nutting and Cathy Brann; four grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

Sophie Matus Rurak April 4, 2016 “Sue” Matus Rurak left Bates before completing her degree, but still considered herself a Batesie. She taught for several years in Florida before moving to Massachusetts, where she worked at the Franklin Medical Center as admitting manager.

When the national organization of admitting managers was first organizing, she was one of the first to pass its certification exam. She helped organize its Massachusetts chapter.

June Duval Smith September 15, 2015 With a degree in French from Bates, June Duval Smith found her calling as a teacher and went to work teaching first grade in Easthampton, Mass., her hometown. She taught for 45 years, retiring in 1998. Survivors include brothers Lowell and Paul Duvall.

Jane Blossom Tolbert January 5, 2016 When you can trace your lineage back to William the Conqueror, you’re bound to major in history and government. And you might as well graduate magna cum laude. At least that’s what Jane Blossom Tolbert did. (She also was related to John and Priscilla Alden. Yes, that John and Priscilla Alden.) She distinguished herself at Bates with her debating skills, winning the Libby Prize several times. She was an assistant in speech and argumentation, a member of the speakers bureau, and assistant director of the Interscholastic Debating League. She married Robert Tolbert in 1953 and moved with Bob, a biologist, to several universities where he taught, including Rutgers, where she worked in the psychology department; West Virginia Univ., where she became president of the Newcomers Club; and Minnesota State Univ. in Moorhead.

She joined the education de-

partment of St. Luke’s Hospital in Fargo, N.D., and had the time to return to school and earn a master’s degree in liberal arts — in between volunteering for Meals on Wheels and half a dozen other organizations. She also made most of the preparations for the family’s extensive camping, canoeing, and backpacking trips around the country, which Jane and Bob continued in retirement. Besides her husband, survivors include sons Jim and Bill; five grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

1948 Richard Farrell Daly March 1, 2016 Dick Daly might have brought basketball to Japan. He and his Navy buddies found an abandoned torpedo factory in Hiroshima, had baskets installed, and organized some games. V-12 brought him to Bates and he gladly returned to complete his degree after serving in World War II. He was past president of his class as well as a class agent and Reunion Gift Committee chair several times.

He earned a master’s in physics from BU and an associate’s in industrial engineering and a B.B.A. in engineering management from Northeastern. He worked at Raytheon for over 30 years, including assignments as director of advanced programs, air traffic control systems, and government marketing for the company. Known for his inventive mind, when he retired in 1992 he was president of a small firm developing a system called “personal rapid transit”: Imagine if the Uber service in New York City was cross-pollinated with its subway, so its cars could drive themselves automatically along the subway routes. PRT uses “pods” and above-ground stations; four systems have been built worldwide. Survivors include children Pamela, Peter R. Daly ’79, and Joan.

Leighton Shields Jr. October 30, 2015 Sometimes Batesies have to go to Harvard to carry out a Bates tradition: becoming a Bates couple.

That’s what Leighton Shields did. He was studying there when he met Gail Sisson ’64, who was teaching and living nearby. They married in 1967. He spent most of his career as a professor of history and economics and division chair at Massasoit Community College, retiring in 2013. His degree from Bates, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, was in history and economics; his master’s was from Harvard. Besides his wife, survivors include daughter Hilary W. Shields ’96.

Peregrin Frederick Schwarzer August 1, 2015 Perry Schwarzer’s time at Bates

was severely fractured by service in the U.S. Navy and the V-12 unit during World War II, but he was on campus long enough to discover Carol Johnson ’51 and marry her. (Records show he had to “start again” at Bates three times after his initial freshman orientation.) He added a master’s in physics from BU to his bachelor’s and was an engineer for Boeing around the world. Later, he and his family settled in Massachusetts where he worked for Raytheon, retiring in 1986. His wide travels nurtured his love of art and antiques and gave him a second career in a gallery that he and Carol ran until 2007 in Littleton, Mass. She passed away in 2009.

He co-chaired his 60th Reunion Committee. Survivors include children Karin Hamilton, Perry, Peter, Christopher, and Kurt Schwarzer; nine grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Marjorie McKeand Sturges February 9, 2016 “Mickey” McKeand Sturges recalled arriving at Bates as a freshman, having taken the train from New York and then the bus from Portland, with more than a bit of awe, this girl who worked at B. Altman in her summer hours. A dean’s list student, she was an economics major and a member of the student government. She apprenticed as a library assistant for two years before marrying, and worked again as a librarian’s aide after her children were grown.

Survivors include husband Frederick Sturges; daughters Patti Wilson and Susan Bodo; and one grandson.

1949 Stanley Bass Hall July 16, 2015 Stan Hall had a way of putting others first. He chose to graduate high school early to join the Army Air Corps, following two older brothers into World War II. When he had a break while training to be a pilot, he played piano over the radio to entertain other troops. When fires broke out on Mount Desert Island, he volunteered to take time off from college to go fight them.

That quiet dedication to others continued throughout his life with his approach to his family, friends, and community. He worked as a journalist, notably at The Christian Science Monitor in Boston and the Waterville Morning Sentinel. His proudest accomplishment was editing a Pulitzer Prize-winning series at the Monitor, although he would probably insist that he was more proud of his children and grandchildren. He saw his most important job as being a father to daughters Kathryn Dermott and Susan Oakes. When they were small, he read to them each

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evening, one on each knee. Other survivors include wife Barbara, whom he married in 2002 following the death of Cynthia Black Hall ’50 in 2000; and five grandchildren.

Athena Tikelis Kutrubes November 21, 2015 Valedictorian in high school, Phi Beta Kappa at Bates, Athena Tikelis lasted a whole year before she broke down and went back to school, for a master’s in education at Harvard. In Boston she met her husband, Leo Kutrubes, and they raised four children, three of whom are Bates graduates. The fourth no doubt respects the unique and sharp-clawed Bobcat bond that gives his three siblings.

She taught French, Latin, and Spanish in both Lexington and Arlington and tutored students in English. She spoke Greek as well. She and her husband were founding members of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, where she was active in the choir. A painter, she was a part of the Lexington Arts and Crafts Society. She was president of the Boston Alumnae Club in the 1980s and active on several Reunion Committees. Survivors include children James Kutrubes ’75, Jonathan Kutrubes ’81, Peter Kutrubes, and Doria Kutrubes ’83; five grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Her daughter-in-law is Lynne Martel ’80, and her niece is Linda C. Kutrubes ’81.

Nancy Jepson Leslie February 1, 2016 Nancy Jepson Leslie started at Bates but finished her degree at Boston Univ. A homemaker, she is survived by children Craig and Janet Leslie; and three grandchildren.

Jean Margaret Nauss March 11, 2016 Jean Nauss earned a degree in biology and went on to a career in cytology, primarily at the Hartford Hospital cytology lab.

She retired in 1992, returned to her hometown of Wakefield, Mass., and rejoined First Baptist Church. She was a member of the American and International Societies of Cytotechnology.

Survivors include sister Frances Nauss.

Samuel Philip Sawyer May 4, 2016 When Dr. Samuel Sawyer hung up the dental tongs in Springfield, Mass., and retired to nearby Warren, he just reopened his practice at home, figuring the people of the small town could use his skills too. He finally retired in 2013 at the age of 92.

In 2005, the people of Warren recognized him as Citizen of the Year for all the work and time that he had donated to the town. Survivors include wife Beverly Wasser Sawyer;

daughters Helen Hawley, Carol Sawyer, Mary Bowe, and Sarah Randall; eight grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.

Norman Sawyer ’35 was his brother.

June Ingalls Stevenson March 9, 2016 Field hockey, volleyball, basketball — it’s remarkable June Ingalls had time between those sports and classes to get to know classmate J. Warren Stevenson well enough to fall in love and marry him. They lived most of their lives in Virginia, first in Alexandria and then, in 1989, at Lake of the Woods. She remained active in sports, and was part of the gardening club at LOW. Besides her husband, survivors include children James Jr., Mark, Heidi Ludwig, and Holly Gale; and five grandchildren.

Audrey Hudson Winslow November 1, 2015 Audrey Hudson Winslow was an advocate for learning-disabled children and adults, and an author of children’s books.

One book, My Grandpa Says, depicted her husband as the grandfather, her husband being the late Fenwick Winslow Jr. ’49 (although she encouraged children to picture their own grandfather). She graduated from Bates with a degree in psychology and received a master’s in special education from Central Connecticut State. She taught in Simsbury, Conn., for many years, authored four books, and had articles published in several magazines.

She earned a grant from The Hartford Foundation and started an organization for parents of adults with learning disabilities that provided job counseling and socialization. Survivors include sons Scott and Tom Winslow; and three grandchildren.

1950 Barbara Elizabeth Chick October 13, 2015 Barb Chick was active in Future Teachers of America at Bates, but the biology major set her sights on med school instead.

She earned her M.D. at what is now Drexel Univ. College of Medicine and specialized in radiation therapy and nuclear medicine, a young and rapidly developing field. Her residency in Buffalo introduced her to upstate New York, and she remained in the Adirondack area for her career, settling at Glens Falls Hospital. She was the first woman to be elected vice president of the American College of Radiology. When she retired in 1984, she became director of the Albany-Area Radiation Therapy Program.

This was all so she could keep

sailing on Lake George, one of her biggest passions. Very active with Bates over the years, she was a past trustee who served on the committee to raise funds for the renovation of Carnegie Science in the 1980s. She established the Dr. Barbara E. Chick ’50 Scholarship Fund for biology students at Bates (with preference for women); a biology lab is named in her honor. At Drexel, she established a clinical education assessment center, 10 state-of-the-art classrooms that replicate a physician’s examining room or a hospital room. In 2003, she received its Service to the Alumnae Assn. award.

Beyond her medical interests, she was active in the United States Power Squadrons and the Coast Guard Auxiliary. Just to keep it interesting, she was also a certified basketball official, something carried over from her coaching days at Edward Little High School while a student at Bates. She has no immediate survivors.

Jane Appell deBeauport August 27, 2015 Jane Appell deBeauport was a five-year nursing student who left with an A.B. in nursing and went on to Mass. General Hospital for a B.S. in nursing. She worked at the Lahey Clinic in its operating room from 1950–72.

She then earned her certificate as a nurse practitioner at Harvard Medical School and became an ob/gyn nurse at Mass. General, retiring in 1984. Survivors include son Gerald Dennison Jr. and one grandchild.

Myles Joseph Ferrick September 17, 2015 Before coming to Bates, “Bud” Ferrick had to survive injuries at Iwo Jima. He served two years in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II and received a Purple Heart for those injuries. His economics degree led to a career with DFM Insurance. Survivors include longtime companion Kate Washburn; son Myles Jr.; and two grandchildren.

Sydney Stephen Gilbert Jr. January 6, 2016 Bates was transformative for Steve Gilbert. He found the college because of a chance conversation at a cocktail party: Someone said, “I know a guy named Milt…” and Steve picked up the phone. This was after he graduated from Valley Forge Military Academy and volunteered to be a nose-gunner on a B-17 during World War II. At Bates, he took hundreds of photos, which he donated to the college as a record of his years at the school. A member of the College Key, his degree was in economics, and he worked as a marketing director with the Armstrong Group until his retirement in 2003. At one point in his career he was the public relations and congressio-

nal liaison to a secret General Electric project to generate nuclear-powered airplanes. He was a member of the American Radio Relay League and his local amateur radio association. Survivors include children Christopher, Charles, and Melinda Gilbert.

Muriel Mansfield Leach May 19, 2015 Muriel Mansfield entered Bates as a junior transfer, made the dean’s list and Phi Beta Kappa, met David Leach ’50, married him a month after graduation, and moved to Alaska. Now, that’s motivation. While in the Far North, she wrote articles about it for her hometown newspaper in Massachusetts, and they both worked as teachers.

David passed away in 1999.

She returned to school in the mid-1960s to earn a master’s in education from BU to aid her career as a guidance counselor.

She worked for many years, first in Brockton and then in Braintree, Mass., where she became the director of secondary guidance. Both Muriel and David were Reunion volunteers, she for her 50th. Survivors include daughters Kathie Wicks, Karen Curtin, and Vicki Leach; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Charles Edwin MacArthur July 18, 2015 Charlie MacArthur not only practiced what he preached, he perfected it. He was a dedicated environmentalist, an avid advocate for alternative technologies, and a passionate believer in a post-petroleum world. In 2003, he drove cross-country on a little more than 64 gallons of gasoline in an alternative vehicle. He founded the Mount Washington Alternative Vehicle Regatta; its 40th Anniversary Regatta was dedicated to his memory. He also was a pioneering hot air balloonist and a pilot, having served in the Navy during the Korean War. His experiments and tinkering got him written up in magazines such as Time and Yankee and on TV shows such as “To Tell the Truth” and “Good Morning America.” He purchased an old hydroelectric mill in Dover-Foxcroft in 1977, reconditioned it so it could supply the town with most of the power it needed. He kept his collection of 60 alternative vehicles there, and developed his Dover Stove Co., an innovative wood burning stove. He also developed the TWERP — Tribal Waste Energy Recovery Plant — a compact, portable system for remote native villagers in Alaska to process their trash into energy now in use internationally. He also opened the mill to small businesses as inexpensive office space to foster community.

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Deborah Crakes, James MacArthur, and Carol Ansel; seven grandchildren; and brother David MacArthur ’50. He was predeceased by his wife, Marjorie Anne Wilkinson MacArthur ’50. His father was Vaughn H. MacArthur ’29.

Horace Atwood Record March 10, 2016 Hod Record made at least 10 overseas trips as a Merchant Marine officer during World War II. He remembered seeing the boats and ships gathering before the D-Day invasion, and he remembered crashing through the ice in Murmansk, Russia, the following December. He came to Bates after the war and threw himself into football, baseball, and track as well as his math major. After graduation, he married Carol Woodcock ’52, daughter of Bates physics professor Karl Woodcock 1918. After serving as an Air Force weatherman in Chicago, he and Carol returned to Maine and he pursued an actuarial career at Union Mutual. He was one of its first “product managers,” a radical notion at the time: put in charge of a particular “kind” of insurance. Hod was a member of the Alumni Council 1976–77 and the College Key. Carol died in 2013. His survivors include sons Andy and Scott; and niece Wendy Woodcock Mitchell ’71. Professor Woodcock was married to Hazel Luce Woodcock 1922. Their sons are Richard F. Woodcock ’48, who is married to Mary Gibbs Woodcock ’49, and the late Eugene L. Woodcock ’45.

1951 Leon Charles Blackmon September 11, 2015 Lee Blackmon was a power on the basketball team at Bates, and he took that power with him into his love of skiing and canoeing in the Adirondacks, an area he loved. He also loved to garden, and was active with the Connecticut Horticultural Society. He held several advanced degrees, including an M.B.A. from Columbia, a master’s in taxation from the Univ. of Hartford, and a law degree from Western New England College School of Law. He served as a captain in the Marine Corps for four years following graduation, then moved to New York, where he worked for Price Waterhouse.

In Connecticut, he worked for Webster, Blanchard & Willard and with Heublin Inc. He was married for 62 years to Rae Walcott Blackmon ’50. Besides his wife, survivors include daughter Diane Taylor and one granddaughter.

Janet Wilbur Blake November 7, 2010 Janet Wilbur Blake left Bates after two years and graduated from the Univ. of Rhode Island.

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She was an elementary school teacher. Her brother was C. Keith Wilbur ’45, whose wife was Ruth Asker Wilbur ’46.

Their daughter and her husband are Carol Wilbur Menke ’71 and William F. Menke ’69. Her sisterin-law is Sarah MacFarlane Wilbur ’46.

He taught English in the Bellmore School District on Long Island for 20 years after earning a master’s from Columbia. Survivors include his former wife Doris Bearden Colby; daughter Constance Savey; five grandsons; and eight great-grandchildren.

Lois Spofford Griffiths March 11, 2016 Fifty-two at 52 — that’s 5,267 feet, as in Mount Katahdin, as in climbing it on her 52nd birthday, complete with cake and candle. Lois Spofford Griffiths savored Maine’s outdoor activities all her life, from her birth in Bingham to her long life in Monmouth, where she and husband Art Griffiths ’50 took their time fixing up an 1810 Cape Cod for their four soon-to-be Bates grads. She was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Bates whose honors thesis in history was on why Maine seceded from Massachusetts: because Mainers had grown increasingly proud of their regional identity. She became a librarian at Bates when her children reached school age, and eventually became coordinator in the Muskie Archives; her husband was director of the Bates News Bureau. She retired in 1995, and she and Art enjoyed numerous trips to England, Wales, and Scotland where they indulged their passion for Richard III and history.

Art died in 2005. Survivors include children Carol Griffiths ’81, Thomas Griffiths ’73, John Griffiths ’75, and Linda Griffiths Johnston ’77; and four grandchildren.

Sara Pat Denby April 10, 2016 “Denny” Denby joined the Navy Reserves at a time when the Navy didn’t have much use for women, but she stuck around until it did. She was there when it removed many of the barriers to women and rose to the rank of captain before she retired in 1978. She had assignments in Newport, R.I., Philadelphia, and Washington. In Rhode Island, as a commander, she was one of only two women assigned to study at the Naval War College.

She also served as deputy director of the WAVES and as program director of the program analysis division of the Navy Recruiting Command Headquarters in Washington. Survivors include stepchildren Cheryl and Kevin Berthoud.

Owen Joseph Kittredge February 13, 2016 A history major, Joe Kittredge came to Bates after service in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific.

He managed the football team and went on to a career in education. He was a guidance counselor and administrator in both public and private schools, retiring from the Massachusetts Deparment of Education in 1981.

He held a master’s in education from BU and also studied at Bangor Theological Seminary.

Survivors include wife Annetta Kittredge; son Bruce Kittredge ’76; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

1952 Rinaldo Jackson Colby March 9, 2015 Jack Colby got a degree from Bates by degrees. Three degrees. First degree: normal.

Second degree: after service in the Army as a lieutenant in World War II. Third degree: after figuring out fatherhood and graduating 18 years after he started his freshman year. But he had time: He lived to be 100.

Cynthia Audrey Keating March 8, 2015 Cynthia Keating’s Bates degree was in French and she earned a master’s in education from BU. She was a class agent in the 1970s. Her husband, Mason Taber ’52, chaired their 50th Reunion and Reunion Gift Committees. Besides her husband, survivors include daughters Susan Shaw and Rebecca Flaherty; and four grandchildren.

Ronald Lloyd Kellam February 17, 2016 Korea and the U.S. Army got in the way in the middle of Ron Kellam’s time at Bates, and he ended up at Boston Univ. afterward, where he also attended law school. Starting in 1958, he served for years in the Maine Legislature, and in 1974 he was appointed to a District Court judgeship by Gov. Kenneth Curtis. He retired in 1988. Survivors include children Linda, Steve, and Janice; and three grandchildren.

Nancy Lee Kosinski February 27, 2016 Nancy Kosinski dominated the stage while at Bates, her talents landing her leading roles in many plays and directing gigs in others. She received the Senseney Award for creative ability and promise in the dramatic arts, named after William B. Senseney ’49. She went on to teach elementary school and work in the Montgomery County (Md.) Public Library system. She was a member of Reunion committees and the College Key. Survivors include two grandsons.

William Joseph Leahey Jr. March 26, 2016 The funny thing about “Chick” Leahey, who attended Bates for four years and coached at the college for 36 more, mentoring hundreds of young baseball players, is that he never played a single inning himself in a Bates uniform — yet his number is retired and he is a member of the Bates Scholar-Athlete Society. No doubt about his success: He coached his baseball teams to 300 wins, including the 1976 ECAC title among other post-season appearances. But he had an opportunity to play in the big leagues right after World War II — two years in the Yankees farm system after service with the U.S. Marines in the Pacific — and that made him ineligible for college ball. A three-sport star at Lewiston High School, he captained the football and baseball squads to state championships. As player-coach, he led the Auburn Asas, a semi-pro team, to two league titles in four years in the early 1950s.

In addition to his Bates degree in economics, he earned a master’s in physical education from Columbia. He was a member of the Auburn-Lewiston Sports Hall of Fame and the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame. In 1990 the college’s baseball field was named in his honor. “He taught us to compete fiercely but fairly,” said Thom Freeman ’63 of Wrentham, Mass., an All-America pitcher for Leahey.

“At no other time did I learn more about baseball and how to conduct myself on the field and as a person in general than when I played under his guidance.” Survivors include wife Ruth Leahey; and children Matthew Leahey, Barbara Leahey Sullivan ’88, Mark Leahey ’86, and Ann Marie Leahey.

Robert Ross Renwick April 11, 2016 Bob Renwick really wanted to go to Bates — both of his parents were grads — and started at the college but it just didn’t have the music program he pined for. Oberlin was singing his tune. Off he went. But he ended up with a career in banking, first at Canal Bank and later at Maine National, eventually rising to vice president.

He continued his musical side, serving as church organist and choir director at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Falmouth for 18 years, then singing in the choir at the Cathedral Church of St. Luke’s in Portland for 20 years. Survivors include husband Ivan Jenny; and children Stephen ’83, Caroline, and David Renwick. His parents were Erle and Helen Clark Renwick, both Class of 1918.

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Jean MacKinnon Rogers February 23, 2015 Jean MacKinnon Rogers came from a family with a number of ties to Bates. Her sister is Lois MacKinnon Davis ’50, whose husband, now deceased, was Walter O. Davis ’48. She was an editorial assistant at General Electric for several years, and an Alumni Club officer in the 1960s and 1970s in Ohio and New York state before moving to Arizona. Survivors include son William Rogers.

John Nichols Wettlaufer September 20, 2015 War is a terrible way to learn anatomy, but Dr. John Wettlaufer made the most of it. War can teach not only anatomy but physiology, chemistry, physics, medical care, and preservation of life techniques useful in everyday life. John Wettlaufer enlisted in the Army and worked as a urologist for nearly his entire Army career. He earned his M.D. from Georgetown and became chief of urology in U.S. military hospitals in Japan where he began to develop innovative surgical techniques to treat Vietnam War injuries. At Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Wash., he mentored 35 residents before retiring as a colonel in 1977. During the following 13 years at the Univ. of Colorado in Denver he used innovative surgical skills and his background in oncology to tackle pressing problems in previously untreatable aggressive cancers. He trained over 70 residents in the dual approach of creative surgery and oncology. In 1984, he and fellow urologist Anthony Orlandella ’52 collaborated on a new surgical technique, the first to be done in Colorado, involving an artificial bladder. In 2008 he co-authored a book on trauma surgery, using what he had learned in Vietnam. Although retired, he volunteered to return to duty at Madigan in 1991 during Desert Storm and Desert Shield. He retired again in 1995, but remained active as a consultant as clinical professor at the Uniformed Services Univ. of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Md., as well as being clinical professor at the Univ. of Washington in Seattle. In 2010 he received the American Urological Assn.’s presidential citation for “contributions to urology, patient care, surgical expertise, and education.” Survivors include children Catherine Buehler, Michael, and John S. Wettlaufer; and four grandchildren.

1953 Seymour Edward Coopersmith November 6, 2015 Sy Coopersmith was a founding member of the International Forum for Psychoanalytic

Education and helped lead the 20-year effort for licensing psychoanalysis as an independent practice in New York state. He earned a Ph.D. from Columbia.

He did his psychoanalytic training at the National Psychological Assn. for Psychoanalysis, where he also served on the faculty and was a senior clinical supervisor.

He was president of the NPAP Training Institute as well as the association several times. He served on the editorial board of The Psychoanalytic Review and published many papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Survivors include wife Valerie Pinhas and daughter Andie Coopersmith.

Donald Gordon Giddings February 11, 2016 Don Giddings’ Bates degree was in physics. He was retired from a career with IBM. Survivors include wife Sarah.

Norma Kay Judson August 1, 2015 Hope had to spring eternal for Norma Judson: Her inventory was washed out to sea, literally the first year her little store was in existence on the shore of Buzzards Bay. Then burglars wiped her out during three winter hibernations until she gave up and moved safely inland a few buildings.

She started that store partially based on the knitting ability of her Bates friends, friends she had made in her two years at the college, having transferred after graduating from Endicott.

She crammed everything she could into those two years and “sopped up the Bates values until they became my own. I would be changed forever.” She was a career adviser for 14 years and hosted interns twice. Her well-known specialty store, Silas Brown’s, was in operation for 44 years until her retirement. She received awards for her work on historic New Bedford houses and her work on Westport committees to preserve historic schools. She served on the community preservation committee, volunteered with the Westport Historical Society and the Westport Historical Commission, and was elected to eight terms on the landing commission. She was instrumental in creating a room in the Westport Library dedicated to the town’s history. In 2011 she was honored as the Westport Woman of the Year. Survivors include daughters Sarah Judson Moran and Julie Brown; three granddaughters; and foster son Russell Wagner.

Charmaine Kinsley Slingerland January 15, 2016 Charmaine Kinsley Slingerland started out as a technical assistant at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Library and ended up the head acquisitions librarian

at Miami Univ. in Oxford, Ohio.

She retired in 1990 after 18 years at Miami’s King Library. Survivors include son Douglas.

William Nathaniel Thurston August 16, 2015 Bill Thurston was sometimes in the right place at the right time. He earned his doctorate in history from Florida State just as the demand for history professors went into negative numbers. But he was standing in just the right place to meet the woman who would become his wife of 48 years, so who can argue with that? And he turned that scarcity of history professors into an opportunity by becoming a historian for the state of Florida. He served many years in the Coast Guard before returning to school to complete his education. In retirement, he did extensive volunteer work with veterans groups. Besides his wife, Georgia Tseckares Thurston, survivors include son Scott and two grandchildren.

Milton Conrad Van Vlack April 15, 2016 “As far back as I can remember,” Milt Van Vlack once wrote, “all I ever wanted to be was a teacher. I was — I am, and I’m damned good at it!” His teaching career stretched over 40 years, but he taught in more than one place at a time: college and high school, for example. He taught at the junior high level in West Hartford, Conn., and at the high school level in Hartford; in the Connecticut State Univ. system evening division and the Univ. of Connecticut — sometimes two different universities in the same semester. He held master’s degrees in history from Trinity and instructional communication from UConn. He retired in 1992 and moved to Boothbay Harbor to indulge his Revolutionary roots by fixing up a 1785 farmhouse and writing a book about a forgotten Connecticut figure, Silas Deane: Revolutionary War Diplomat and Politician, that he finally completed in 2013. He also wrote articles for magazines on library science and instructional fields, and gave lectures on colonial living and 17th and 18th century architecture. Survivors include daughter Tracey Greenwood.

1954 Eleanor Root Burgess February 21, 2016 Ellie Root Burgess had a lifelong love of Keeshonds, dogs that look like Pomeranians on steroids. She raised them throughout her life, and cultivated beautiful perennial gardens at her Natick, Mass., home as well. She was active in the PTA and coordinated dog obedience classes through the recreation department. She volunteered

in the schools in a number of ways, and was president of the women’s vestry at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. Survivors include daughters Gail Burgess, Nancy Olsen, and Emily Hale; seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Carmine Cornelio DiMaria November 29, 2015 Moose, Bud, C.C. — call him what you want, but that AllMaine lineman so tough for four years on Garcelon Field was gentle enough to care about child abuse prevention in Connecticut that he helped start the state’s second prevention center while district director of the Exchange Club. He was also chair of the board of education in Naugatuck, Conn., where he lived his entire life. After leaving Bates with a chemistry degree, he earned a master’s at Tufts and worked for several chemical companies before striking out on his own, successfully operating several small businesses. He was active with youth sports, especially football, and was a founding member of the Naugatuck Junior Football League.

While chair of the board of education, he was instrumental in improving the curriculum and teaching standards. Survivors include life partner Carolyn Capozziello; children Todd DiMaria, Lucida Delorenzo, and Luke DiMaria; seven grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and brother Ernest DiMaria ’51, whose late wife was Marguerite Boeck DiMaria ’51.

Barbara Mignon Doane July 26, 2015 When it was time for Barb Doane to choose a college, her parents took out a map, drew a wide circle around their hometown and told her she must go to college outside of that circle so she couldn’t come home on weekends. She was an only child and she had to become independent. She chose Bates because it didn’t have sororities; she wanted to avoid cliques. She drew on the foundation from Cultch throughout her career as an educator, teaching social studies for 30 years at Arthur L. Johnson Regional High School in Clark, N.J. She held a master’s from Montclair State Univ. She was part of the family that started Doane College in Crete, Neb., and eagerly attended Doane reunions. A lifelong member of the Presbyterian Church in Westfield, N.J., she was a member of Reunion committees. She is survived by several cousins.

Meredith Brook Handspicker February 28, 2016 Jerry Handspicker was a practical theologian, one dedicated to bringing religious traditions closer together. A cum laude graduate in physics and

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philosophy, he earned a Ph.D. in theology at Yale. As an ordained UCC minister, his practical ministry was rooted in 34 years as a professor of theology at Andover Newton Theological School, with four years added as a member of the Faith and Order Committee of the World Council of Churches in Geneva working on church unity. At Andover Newton, he developed the school’s doctoral program in church and ministry and helped found its conflict to community program. He twice received the Templeton Award for outstanding teaching of science and religion. He began his civil rights work while at Yale, continued at Andover Newton, and joined other clergy at the 1963 March on Washington. Following retirement, he and daughter Amy formed a conflict management consultancy, working with churches, businesses, and schools throughout Vermont.

He was an outspoken advocate of civil unions in Vermont, bringing his biblical perspective to bear on gay and lesbian rights.

His first wife, Diane “Dee” West Handspicker ’54, died in 1996. With her blessing, and her choice, he married Deborah Perkins ’64 in 1997. She survives him, as do children Amy Swisher, Jared, and Nathan Handspicker; five grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and nephew Brian D. Handspicker ’79.

Edward King Hempel March 30, 2016 Did you ever go to the movies and take home a tree seed? That was King Hempel’s doing, just one of his plans to preserve the Earth for future generations.

He estimated that he and wife Linda distributed 100 million tree seeds as a movie tie-in. He also created garden kits that can be used in schools, and reusable cloth bags to go with cereal boxes. They believed they started one of the first organic soil testing services. All this was a second career for King, whose first career was as a minister.

A religion major at Bates, he earned a bachelor’s in divinity at the Univ. of Chicago and served churches in Maine, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Besides his wife, survivors include children Marcia Hempel, Karen Goldsmith, Lyn Russi, Kelly Johnston, Kathy Dotson, David, and Ken Hempel; 11 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Marilyn Skelton Patch August 12, 2014 Marilyn Skelton Patch lived the life many dream of: watching the lobster boats come and go from the deck of her waterfront home in Stonington, Maine. Oh, the boredom! She did admit that the years raising her three children were actually better than the ones she spent choosing which

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tasty morsel she would have for dinner, and she volunteered and did substitute teaching as well during those childhood-raising years. Survivors include children Carol Patch Furlong ’78, Cynthia, and Jon; and seven grandchildren.

John Richard Sherman April 30, 2016 Jack Sherman started at Bates but graduated from the Univ. of Conn. with a bachelor’s in industrial mechanical engineering. He worked his way up the ladder at Avco Lycoming before switching over to Allied Signal, retiring in 1994. Survivors include partner Anne Fitzgerald.

Shirley MacDonald Struthers February 2, 2016 It wasn’t cold enough in Maine for Shirley MacDonald Struthers, so she moved to Alaska. There, she taught kindergarten and met and married Hugh Struthers. He is among her survivors.

1955 Jerome David Dubrow April 2, 2016 Jerry Dubrow married two weeks after graduation and was blissfully touring the country on his honeymoon, putting thousands of miles on the odometer, when he realized suddenly that he needed to make money. They ground to a halt in Cleveland, where he worked for two years in building supplies, learning the retail trade. Finally, he and wife Sally made it back to Gloucester, Mass., where he went into the retail liquor business, eventually owning two stores. He retired after 30 years.

Survivors include partner Rachel Gauthier; children Robert, Jane, Carrie, John, and Briana; and six grandchildren.

Edgar Miller Holmes III March 8, 2016 Ed Holmes was still throwing the discus 50 years later, still throwing the hammer. He never stopped running, believing preventive health was the answer to better health. As a sophomore at Bates, he won the New England collegiate discus championship.

He served in the U.S. Army in Okinawa for two years, where he gave clinics to aspiring Japanese track athletes, played left end on the football team, and won the All-Army discus championship.

He became an orthopedic surgeon, earning his medical degree at BU. He started his orthopedic practice in Rutland, Vt., and served as the physician for the U.S. ski team from 1977 until his retirement in 2006, including the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid. One of the founders of the Vermont Sports Medicine Center and the Sports Medicine fellowship program, he was

inducted into the Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum Hall of Fame in 2015 for his skill in treating ski-related injuries.

Survivors include sons Todd and Brooks; and five grandchildren.

Paul Webster MacAvoy February 25, 2016 “Voodoo economics.” People of a certain age can’t forget that term, which Paul MacAvoy insisted he didn’t invent as an adviser to George H.W. Bush as a way for Bush to challenge Ronald Reagan’s supply-side economics ideas. But he reluctantly took the credit for it. An adviser to two other presidents and a towering figure in business education, he was considered one of the nation’s foremost experts on government regulation of private industry. From 1980 to 1991, as dean of the Univ. of Rochester’s Simon School of Management, he helped put the business school on the map.

He also spent 10 years at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, was co-chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers in the Ford administration, and was dean of Yale’s School of Management. He became the Williams Brothers Professor Emeritus of Management Studies at Yale in 2004. He graduated from Bates magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in economics and earned his Ph.D. at Yale.

Bates awarded him an honorary doctor of laws degree in 1976 for a “brilliant career in the study of forces that mark the commonweal, and for his compelling example that the intellectual life must help render effective the councils of state.” In 1997, he was elected to the Bates Board of Overseers. He and Katherine Manning were married in a ceremony officiated by Dean Harry Rowe Class of 1912. In addition to his wife, survivors include children Libby and Matthew.

Arthur Harold Paton March 16, 2016 Arthur Paton worked for many years in sales providing gift products, and eventually owned his own business, first a stationery store and then The Exclusive Shop, which provided high-end gift products. Survivors include wife Nancy Allegier Paton; children Lori Cox, Susan Gilbert, David, and Steven; and five grandchildren.

Daniel Rubinstein November 23, 2008 Daniel Rubinstein wanted to be remembered as a warrior for animals because he was devoted to the humane treatment of all creatures. He showed that not only by caring for furry beings but by working with those struggling with legal problems or emotional issues. He held a permanent certificate in guidance from NYU and co-founded

the VERA Institute for Justice in Manhattan in 1969. This followed a stint in the Army, a few years teaching in New York public schools and then working as a guidance counselor there, and finally operating a camp for troubled children. The institute allowed him to go into private practice. He was a psychotherapist for 30 years and taught at NYU, Hunter College, and Fordham.

1956 Hans Henry Bauer Sr. March 14, 2016 Hans Bauer and his wife, Ruth Warfield Bauer ’57, made a dynamic pair at the First Congregational Church in Cheshire, Conn. He directed the choir, and she was the organist. They believed that anyone who wanted to be part of the music program was welcome; and they believed that the music should enhance the service, complement the sermon and the prayers, and they believed this years before it became the standard way of thinking. They were following these principles within years of graduation, after Hans had served in the U.S. Army, had earned another bachelor’s from Rhode Island School of Design, had worked as an industrial designer for an envelope company.

He and Ruth also spent time living in his great-grandfather’s 1844 farmhouse in Vista, N.Y., all this in the first 10 years after Bates. An accomplished artist, he then started a 26-year career teaching art and photography at Bristol (Conn.) Eastern High School. His wife died in 2014.

Survivors include children Hans Jr., Paul, and Betsy Bauer; and four grandchildren.

Martin Lewis Chaplowe September 26, 2015 Lew Chaplowe loved Stratford, Conn., practicing law there for over 35 years. He grew up there and returned after finishing law school at Columbia to start his own firm and to become involved in all aspects of town life. He chaired local Rotary and Red Cross organizations and the chamber of commerce.

He championed the idea of the town getting its own emergency service. He was president of the library association and active with the Explorer level of Boy Scouts. Survivors include wife Billie Graham Chaplowe; children Pamela, Scott, and Jonathan; five grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. His sister, Phyllis Chaplowe Greenfield ’47, died in 1978; her husband is James R. Greenfield ’47.

Jacqueline Boucher Letendre October 17, 2015 Nowadays, we accept the presence of social workers at hospitals. But someone had to be

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first. Jackie Boucher Letendre was first at St. Mary’s Hospital in Lewiston. She started the social work department there after completing graduate work at Bryn Mawr and Simmons and working in Boston at the International Adoption Agency.

Later she worked for Catholic Charities and finished her career as the supervisor of the DHS office in Lewiston. Her husband, Ben Letendre ’54, died in 2007.

in Pensacola, Fla., when she and husband Col. Frederick H. Russell ’53 were stationed there, and then at Cumming First United Methodist Church in Georgia. Besides her husband, survivors include children Jeff Russell, Cindy Wheeler, Cathy McKee, and Candace Buss; five grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

Gilberta Morris Morrison June 26, 2015 That Gil Morris Morrison chose to attend Bates is a bit surprising; after all, it’s not on the open ocean. She grew up in Gloucester, Mass, right on the Atlantic, and she married a career Coast Guard officer, destined for coastal postings (or a lake big enough to get lost in).

Her husband, Lt. Cdr. Donald Morrison Jr., predeceased her.

Survivors include daughters Bonnie and Marylin as well as her grandchildren.

Anne Denise Berkelman February 19, 2016 Perhaps Annie Berkelman’s future was a fait accompli: a Bates English professor father and a French Canadian mother.

Indeed, dean’s list, Phi Beta Kappa, Publishing Assn. president, Student exchange editor, Robinson Players executive board, English assistant, Bates Key. She stepped into the world of copywriting and advertising easily and successfully, working her way up through Boston and New York agencies, winning a Hatch award in Boston, and getting listed in “Outstanding Young Women in America” in 1965. She joined Avon in 1966 as a sales promotion copywriter and again worked her way up to vice president of communications. As a freelance writer, she wrote speeches, videos, films, product promotion, direct mail, and annual reports for many formidable clients, including Tiffany & Co., HBO, Pfizer, ABC Broadcasting, Radio City Music Hall, and The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Commission. Her parents were professor Robert G. Berkelman and Yvonne Langlois Berkelman ’29.

David Judson Olney July 29, 2015 The quotation is often misattributed to Yeats that education is not filling a pail but lighting a fire. Dave Olney was particularly skilled at lighting fires. He won national awards for his innovative teaching, and students declared they had fun in his classes — his science classes. He taught science and physics for 15 years in New Rochelle, N.Y., and then 23 years in Lexington, Mass. He earned master’s degrees from Johns Hopkins and Cornell. He was honored by the Chemical Manufacturers Assn. with a Catalyst award, one of only five given nationally, in 1985. The same year, he was one of two from Massachusetts to receive the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Teaching, which included $5,000 for his school to spend as he pleased.

When he retired in 1996, he and wife Peggy Leask Olney ’57 moved to their longtime summer home in Mattapoisett, Mass. He liked all kinds of number, logic, and word puzzles; he especially enjoyed family card games and bridge, and sailing on Buzzards Bay. Besides Peggy, survivors include children Douglas Olney ’81, Jonathan Olney, and Katherine Kleinschmidt; and four grandchildren.

Barbara Atkinson Russell April 15, 2016 What’s more fun than LEGOs? Barbara Atkinson Russell enjoyed every minute of her retirement. She was a volunteer toy buyer at a not-for-profit specialty shop whose proceeds benefitted women and children in local charities. She was also active in her church, serving in several ministries at Perdido Bay United Methodist Church

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John Henry Hartleb died 2014 Jack Hartleb went all the way to Oregon to get his dental degree and then came home to Bath to practice dentistry. He was successful enough that he became the director of dental services for Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Maine. But then came the call from that Other Coast: Oregon wanted him back. No wonder.

He’d received an award for highest achievement from the Univ. of Oregon when he received his degree, and now the Oregon Health Sciences Univ. (formerly his school) wanted him on its faculty. He was on faculty there since 1976, most recently as assistant professor of restorative dentistry. Survivors include children John Hartleb and Darcy McCrea; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Richard Ivar Johnson March 5, 2016 Dick “Oley” Johnson worked for the U.S. Department of Labor as an editor and writer for over 30 years. During that time, he earned three more degrees from the Univ. of Maryland to

complement his Bates degree in sociology; another bachelor’s, this one in Russian, a master’s in library science, and one in art history. That second bachelor’s allowed him to become a volunteer translator at the Smithsonian Institution. He also studied American history and belonged to the Scottish clan associated with his roots. He served as president of his Bates class from 1982–85. He and wife Rosanne D’Aprile Johnson were enthusiastic Washington Capitals hockey fans and held season tickets their entire 32-year marriage. She survives him.

Miriam Hamm Swanson May 5, 2016 “Before the Internet,” said one of Miriam Hamm Swanson’s friends, “you could just go to her.” She was considered a “connecter” of people and opportunities, someone with two hands busy and a third ready to help you. In her senior year she was associate editor of The Bates Student, head cheerleader, an English assistant, a member of Future Teachers of America and Gould Political Affairs, and did a thesis — and earned Phi Beta Kappa honors and membership in the College Key. In 1970, she earned a master’s in educational administration from Miami (Ohio) Univ., then served as director of public relations for the College of Mount St. Joseph and as director of marketing for United Savings Assn. in Cincinnati. Returning to New England, she became the director of Newspapers in Education for the Telegraph in Nashua, N.H. She served on the boards of the Nashua Symphony and what is now Mount Washington College, volunteered at the Nashua Historical Society, and taught at Rivier Univ.’s senior college.

Survivors include children Charles, Scott, and Diana; and four grandchildren.

1958 Ronald Everett Dolloff January 27, 2016 “Fun, fun, and more fun.” That’s how Ron Dolloff described his career. And he meant it: “I can say that I thoroughly enjoyed my career from beginning to end,” he wrote. He spent that career in Waldoboro at its high schools, first as a math instructor, then department chair, assistant principal, and finally 24 years as principal of Medomak Valley High School. But he was more than just a principal: He was the school booster, attending school functions of all kinds, and was especially enthusiastic about arts in education. When he retired in 1994, the auditorium was named in his honor. He was also active in Waldoboro town government, was secretary of Waldoboro’s Meenahga Grange

for more than 20 years, and was the organist at Waldoboro United Methodist Church for 40 years and the longtime director of the church’s music program.

Survivors include wife Lillian Brown Dolloff; children Debora Tanner, Linda Pease, and Andrew Dolloff; 10 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. His cousins were Herbert Hoyt ’31 and Isaphene Dolloff Soule ’36.

Judith Perley Fitzgerald December 19, 2015 Six years after she graduated with a degree in geology, Jody Perley Fitzgerald had managed to visit 47 states, eight Canadian provinces, and 15 countries. And she’d gotten an M.S. in zoology from UNH and taught high school science and chemistry in North Conway, N.H. She decided she’d liked what she’d seen in the West, so she returned to Colorado, National Science Foundation grant in hand, to do alpine research at the Univ. of Colorado and then graduate work at Colorado State. That’s where she met Jim Fitzgerald, whom she would marry. Having three children didn’t stop her from her explorations, whether living in a sod-roofed log cabin without any modern accoutrements, tent-camping across the western half of the country with a backseat of children, or taking three trekking trips, to Patagonia, Peru, and Bolivia, by herself. Through it all, she took thousands of photos and became a prize-winning photographer whose photos appeared in National Geographic and Audubon Society. Besides her husband, survivors include children Hillary Williams, Gretchen Fitzgerald, and Shawn Fitzgerald.

August Theodore Lindquist Jr. March 24, 2016 It took him seven years, but Ted Lindquist finally made it through Bates, no thanks to the U.S. Army — oh, and marriage and two babies to boot. He spotted Audrey Arnold ’56 at a dance recital and fell “head over heels” for her. They married after she finished one year of college. He was drafted into the Army in 1954 for two years; then babies in 1956 and ’57. The would-be member of the Class of 1955 was now part of the Class of 1958.

It was worth all the trouble to earn that degree in economics, however. He returned to New Britain, Conn., to take over the insurance business started by his father, building it through many acquisitions and expansions. He added a travel agency division to Lindquist Insurance Associates that was a prosperous undertaking for 25 years, as well as a real estate agency. He was proud that all three of his children chose to join the family business, making The Lindquist Agency a three-generation business.

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Survivors include children Kristin Koos and Eric Lindquist ’85; and six grandchildren. His wife passed away in 1985, and son Kurt died in 2001.

Elizabeth Trotter Paiva July 6, 2015 Betty Trotter Paiva attended Bates briefly. She worked for Travelers Insurance Co. and Shaw’s Supermarkets and retired as a bank teller with the former Savings Bank of Manchester in Connecticut. Survivors include children Debra Wolmer, David Wolmer, Diane Norris, and Donalyn Maneggia; six grandchildren; and cousin Rella Sinnamon Dickie ’48.

Nancy Tobey Roy February 29, 2016 Nancy Tobey Roy was valedictorian of her high school class in Hallowell, and was advised to attend Bates, where she wanted to major in French so she could teach it. She thought it would be as easy as high school.

She quickly found out she was wrong. “But my love of the language and interest in teaching it never wavered,” she said. She was a member of the French Club, helped with The Mirror, and was a teaching assistant in French. She earned a master’s in French and Spanish at the Univ. of Maine and taught French, first at Kents Hill and then at HallDale High School for 30 years.

Survivors include husband Paul Roy; daughter Jennifer Brown; and a granddaughter.

Arthur Frederick Wohllebe March 19, 2016 Arthur Wohllebe came to Bates and earned an economics degree after serving in the Korean War with the U.S. Marines. An avid hunter, fisherman, and all-around sportsman, he played baseball at Bates and refereed high school basketball for 25 years. Survivors include son Keith.

1959 Mary Grant Farquhar August 27, 2015 Mary Grant Farquhar attended Bates before leaving for Columbia to complete a nursing degree and a master’s there. She worked as a nurse for the Santa Cruz County Office of Education in California for 22 years. She grew up on the rocky shores of Somesville, Maine, but spent her adult years walking on the Pacific sand and hiking the Northwest.

Survivors include husband Tom Snell; children David and John Farquhar and Nina Reese; and three grandchildren.

David Walther Hall October 7, 2015 Dave Hall started life after Bates in the most ordinary way possible: learning to

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drive a truck for Dead River Oil Co. From there, his career transformed into stranger and stranger iterations until he was single-handedly putting on banquets, parties, and wedding receptions for up to 160 people in a barn he’d built himself on 28 acres on a salt water cove. But he shut that down in 1989 and turned it into a summer rental.

Instead, he wrote a series of Maine guidebooks. He loved to sing, and sang with the Brunswick Chamber Singers and the Brunswick Choral Society. He was active in many social justice causes and spent his entire life involved in outdoor activities.

Survivors include wife Nancy Despres Hall; children Alison and Jonathan; and two granddaughters. His father was Carl F. Hall ’36, and his uncle was Clayton H. Hall ’34.

Jeannette Bajgrowicz Rose March 13, 2014 Jeannette Rose dedicated her professional life to science, to research in corneal medicine.

She dedicated her personal life to wildlife conservation and ensuring housing protection for low-income and homeless individuals. She spent several years abroad in close collaboration with renowned cornea and refractive surgery specialists establishing new protocols for successful treatments of diseases. A native of Sandwich, Mass., she established a science/ technology scholarship at the high school there.

Marc Lewis Schwarz September 1, 2015 “It is a sheer pleasure to teach,” said Marc Schwarz in a feature story in a Brandeis newsletter, “and having people respond is my life’s blood. I love it.”

He taught at Brandeis’ Osher Lifelong Learning Institute after nearly 40 years at UNH as a history professor, a specialist in early modern Britain. He held advanced degrees from Harvard and UCLA; he was spurred to get that Ph.D. after a rather disastrous experiment as a seventh-grade teacher. He was the author of a number of journal articles, notably a cogent one on James I, and was a thorough and conscientious book reviewer.

Survivors include his partner Linda J. Lash; daughters Jennifer Schwarz and Emily McGann; and one grandchild.

1960 Diane Crowell July 16, 2015 Not even a tornado stopped Diane Crowell. When one devastated a section of West Springfield, Mass., she sprang into action, forming a group to meet the needs of those affected.

This was just one of the many committees and charities that

drew her attention; she was one of the founders and the first director of the Open Pantry in West Springfield, a town meeting member, town council member, and part of the town’s charter commission. She also was a member of her Bates 25th Reunion Committee. Her degree from Bates was in Spanish; she received a teaching certificate from American International College and taught for a number of years before becoming director of Open Pantry. Survivors include children Cindy Nolan, Kent, Douglas, and Timothy Theobald; and eight grandchildren.

Sally Sessions Culton March 4, 2016 Sally Sessions Culton once drove from Plant City, Fla., to northern Alaska — a 10,000-mile trip — in a Toyota Prius, just one of the 17 relocations she enjoyed as the wife of a U.S. Air Force officer.

In all, she visited 50 states and 32 countries between his career and their travels. Ironically, she hated flying, but loved cruising and road trips. Survivors include husband Robert E. Culton; daughters Erica Bozeman and Tracey Fortier; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Joy Anderson Downs March 7, 2016 Joy Anderson Downs loved to travel — Paris was her favorite — but sitting by the lake in Lincolnville was just as fine.

She lived in North Haven, Conn., where she earned a master’s in guidance from the Univ. of Bridgeport so she could first teach and then work as a guidance counselor at area junior high schools in the 1960s. Then she was able to be a homemaker. Once her children were grown, she became a retail associate at Talbots, and host of sumptuous tailgate parties at the Yale Bowl.

She and husband John Downs loved to travel and especially enjoyed exploring Maine. She was a member of several Bates Reunion committees. Besides her husband, survivors include children Kristen Downs Bruno ’92 and Andrew Downs; and three grandchildren.

Elizabeth Jones Gilson May 26, 2016 Beth Jones Gilson made more than her share of long-distance moves in her lifetime, between her husband’s career in the U.S. Marine Corps and then his insurance business. W. Edwin Gilson Jr. ’58 passed away in 2002. She left Bates after two years to marry him but returned to Maine for summers at Sebec Lake, carrying on family traditions. Survivors include children James and David Gilson, and Debra Wright; and 10 grandchildren.

William Clovis Hayes December 30, 2015 Bill Hayes was a three-sport athlete in high school, but concentrated on football at Bates where he was voted to the self-proclaimed impartial All-Maine team multiple times.

He was elected to the Uxbridge (Mass.) High School Athletic Hall of Fame, a school where he returned to teach and coach.

He earned two master’s degrees from Northeastern. He left academia for a 43-year career in the computer software industry as a sales and management specialist, retiring in 2015. He was a member of several Bates Reunion committees. Survivors include wife Mary Victoria Hayes; children William F. Hayes ’97, Joseph Hayes, and Victoria Graves; and four grandchildren.

1962 David Jenks Rushforth September 29, 2015 Dave Rushforth chose Bates over Harvard (the scholarship offer was better), and went on to found the soccer club and watch it become a varsity sport, play varsity baseball and run track, sing bass with the Deansmen, hold office in student government and housing, and serve as a biology assistant.

He earned a medical degree at the Univ. of Pennsylvania and went to Vietnam with the U.S. Navy, spending countless hours in his spare time treating civilians with tuberculosis, mumps, pneumonia, injuries, and other illnesses. He also put his talent to work painting them, paintings that hung in his home and office his entire life. His field was radiology; he built the department at Jordan Hospital in Plymouth, Mass., from simple x-rays all the way to state-of-the-art MRIs, and became chief of hospital staff.

He was, everyone agreed, the nicest guy around. It was universally known that he left the keys to his truck in the ignition so anyone could borrow it. He said he never knew what he would end up driving home; whoever borrowed his truck would just leave their car and keys in his spot and off he’d go.

His daughter once said that the only nasty thing she ever heard him say was that something “wasn’t terrific.” He served as a town meeting member and selectman in Plymouth, and on the board of Jordan Health Systems. He also coached youth soccer and basketball. His first wife was Coralie Shaw ’62. Survivors include wife Janice Huth Rushforth; children David and Amanda; three grandchildren; and cousins Robert Morton ’71, Richard Morton ’69, and Robert Scofield ’62.

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Lee Hanson Smith October 11, 2015 Lee Smith taught English in Medfield, Mass., for 20 years before realizing a desire to build fine carpentry. So he traded his No. 2 pencil for a carpenter’s rule, joined a firm of master carpenters and participated in projects all over Boston’s South Shore, Nantucket, and Beacon Hill. He also made a name for himself in the Society of American Magicians, even editing a monthly publication for prestidigitators.

Survivors include children Bartley Snow, Rachel Snow Kindseth ’93, and Andrea Snow ’90, whose husband is Ismael Carreras ’90; and six grandchildren, one of whom is Caroline Snow Carreras ’19. His former wife is Cora Jean Snow ’63.

1963 John Richard Cook January 7, 2016 An actuary, John Cook was an avid bridge player, competing in national, international, and world championship events. He worked at Union Mutual and Chubb Life Insurance, retiring in 1991. That gave him more time for bridge — and to tend his garden in Bow, N.H. Survivors include wife Joan Boilard Cook; son John; and two grandchildren. His late Bates relatives were aunt Carlyss Cook Fournier ’29 and uncles Frank H. Byron ’33 and Roy L. Sinclair ’34.

Robert Charles Huggard November 7, 2015 Robert Huggard attended Bates briefly. He pursued a banking career before opening his own business. Survivors include wife Evelyn Vozeh Huggard; children Robert S. and Jennifer Huggard; and five grandchildren.

Alison White Muschinsky April 17, 2016 Alison White Muschinsky was the fourth generation to work at her family’s business, what is now the Record-Journal Publishing Co. in Meriden, Conn. Starting as society editor, she filled a variety of roles over the years, with time off to raise her two sons, ending up as the human resources director and on the board of directors. She worked there for over 30 years and continued part time after she retired. She also served for many years on the Visiting Nurse Assn. board in Meriden.

Survivors include sons Bodin Muschinsky ’90 and Evon; and one grandchild.

1964 Nancy Prosser Meinertzhagen May 6, 2016 Nancy Prosser Meinertzhagen left Bates after one year and completed her studies at the

Univ. of Illinois. She moved to Nova Scotia in 1976 and was such a force in teaching English and coaching drama for 30 years at Halifax Grammar School that the theater there is named for her. Survivors include husband Ian; son Steve; two grandchildren; and aunt Violet Elinor Myrvaagnes ’32. Her mother was Hazel Blanchard Prosser ’29; another aunt was Ona Leadbetter Blanchard ’30.

Peter Michael Spooner January 30, 2016 Peter Spooner, a professor of cardiology emeritus at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, was a dedicated research scientist. He earned a Ph.D. from the Univ. of Illinois. He was a staff scientist in cardiology at the National Institutes of Health and an ardent supporter of the American Heart Assn. Survivors include sister Susan Ferguson.

1966 Paul Randolph Bales March 14, 2016 Randy Bales was his own boss at his Atlanta restaurant, Huddle House, where breakfast was served all day. Just knowing that makes you think it’s the kind of place where you’d feel at home.

At Bates, he earned a degree in biology and played football and baseball. Survivors include sons Michael, Bryan, and Stephen; and seven grandchildren.

Wayne Alan Pangburn December 14, 2015 Wayne Pangburn threw the hammer so far that no one caught it for 33 years. The record, that is.

His distance record in the hammer throw was not surpassed at Bates until 1999. Twice the NCAA national division champion, he collected two bronze, one silver, and two gold NCAA medals in all. He continued his hammer throw career in the U.S. Army after college and was an alternate on the 1968 Olympic team in Mexico City. He began a successful career in the life insurance industry, rising to vice president at New England Life. But the lure of wife Stacia’s hometown, New Roads, La., was too strong, and they moved there in 1982, where he co-founded The Pangburn Group with his son to provide recordkeeping services for retirement groups. They grew it into a nationally recognized company that employed more than 50 people. Besides his wife, survivors include children Brian and Christie; and four grandchildren.

1967 Thomas Arthur Flach September 21, 2015 Tom Flach earned a degree in physics at Bates and was on the football and track teams. He held

several patents for improving fuel consumption in internal combustion engines with a company in Ohio, where he raised his daughter, Sarah, as a single dad.

She is among his survivors.

Roger James Marecaux September 30, 2015 Roger Marecaux loved his career in education, but he took full advantage of his summers off: He put that line in the water and went salmon fishing, catching the limit every season. He also put his hands in the dirt and grew vegetables for his family and friends. After a two-year stint in the U.S. Army in Vietnam, his career in education started at a school for boys with dyslexia in Massachusetts. Eventually, he and wife Dorothy Thompson Marecaux ’70 found their way back to Maine, where they both taught and he eventually became principal of the former Ashland Central School, retiring after 30 years in 2005. Besides his wife, survivors include children Amanda Davis, Emily McKenzie, and Roger Phillip Marecaux; two grandchildren; and sister-in-law Shirley Thompson Knox ’77.

Charles Lewis Phillips III September 29, 2015 Chuck Phillips served in the U.S. Navy in Vietnam, remained in the reserves for 20 years, but lived well inland working as a freshwater biologist. After working for the state of Rhode Island, he worked for many years for the Connecticut EPA as a fisheries biologist. If he didn’t have the open seas, he would have open spaces: He became chair of the Wilbraham (Mass.) open space planning committee and the town’s vision task force.

Survivors include wife Cheryl Holden Phillips; and children David, Eric, Matthew, and Katie.

His grandfather was Charles L. Phillips 1906, and his great-aunt was Eva Phillips Lillibridge 1904.

Steven Francis Rogers August 19, 2015 Steve Rogers went through Bates in two stages that made up three years, not the typical three-year plan that some of us might remember, but it worked for him. He earned an MBA at the Univ. of New Haven and a law degree from Temple. A longtime resident of Milford, Conn., he set up his law practice there and became invested in the men’s club, the historical society, and charitable organizations such as the land conservation trust and Special Olympics. Survivors include sister Sue E. Hall.

Philip Anderson Towle February 10, 2016 Philip Towle started his postBates life with graduate work at Vanderbilt and then a stint in the

U.S. Army where he researched serotonin, an odd field for a history major. He settled into a career teaching math and science at North Andover (Mass.)

High School, as well as coaching the football team, where he remained for over 30 years. He returned to research in 2003 with a three-year cap at ESI Environmental Systems before retiring. Survivors include son Austin and daughter Sydney.

1968 Claire McDonall Andersen June 4, 2016 Claire McDonall Andersen transferred to Clark Univ.

Known by the decidedly good-natured nickname “Pee Queen,” she tested thousands of samples as she monitored substance testing and compliance records of drivers for Fleet Safety Services in Worcester, Mass., until she retired in 2010. Earlier, she had been a weaver whose pillows graced the windows of Bloomingdale’s flagship store in New York. Survivors include sons Campbell and Travis; and two grandchildren.

Richard Joseph Gates January 1, 2016 Richard Gates was born in New Hampshire, raised in Vermont, went to college at Bates, but fled to Florida for his adult life. A biology major, he was active in the college choir and Robinson Players.

Renee Phillips Reid September 2, 2015 Thrust back into the workforce after her marriage of 25 years ended, with three teenagers at home and a fourth in college, Renee Phillips Reid just put her head down and plowed through the virtual snowbanks to become a licensed insurance producer and customer service specialist for State Farm Insurance to support herself and her kids. She was a devoted member of Old First Church in Middletown, N.J.; when she moved to Maine in 2007, she happily reconnected with the New England Baptist Council in Ocean Park, where she had worked before marriage. Survivors include children Eric Reid, Megan James, Susan Simon, and Joshua Reid; and nine grandchildren.

1970 Daniel James Toran September 16, 2015 Dan Toran, a big sports fan, managed to switch from a Red Sox fan to a Phillies fan when he and his family moved to the Philadelphia area in 1996 so he could become president and COO at Penn Mutual — and he switched again to the Nationals when he and wife Amy Chittenden Toran ’71 retired to Fairfax,

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Va., in 2007. He was executive vice president of sales and marketing at New England Mutual Life Insurance for 26 years and a deacon and usher at Trinitarian Congregational Church in Wayland, Mass. He served as president of the boards of the Agency Officers Round Table, the Life Insurance Management Research Assn., and The American College. Besides his wife, survivors include children Jennifer Sargent and David Toran and three grandchildren.

1972 Leslie Jane Miller March 9, 2016 Leslie Miller very well might be the only Bates graduate to leave campus with a degree in religion to go to Berlin and become a cabaret dancer. This could have been the result of two years of modern dance in Pettigrew.

She went on to earn a four-year diploma from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and had a quietly profound career in the arts as a painter, photographer, and poet. From 1990 through 2007, she worked as the assistant to the director of Oberlin College’s Allen Memorial Art Museum. Her work has been shown in Boston, Atlanta, Miami, Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv, as well as throughout Ohio, where she grew up and where she lived. She had a number of solo and group shows in Ohio in the past 10 years of her mixed media, photos, and oils. Survivors include daughter Rebecca Epstein-Levi.

Karen Hermann Pugh May 23, 2016 Whatever the situation, Karen Hermann Pugh found a way to teach about it. Graduating cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Bates, she earned a master’s in teaching of elementary education at the Univ. of Chicago. In Chicago, she taught children with learning disabilities, then taught in a cooperative school in a disadvantaged neighborhood.

Returning to Massachusetts, she taught water conservation to every child in the Wellesley public schools (in a national award-winning program no less), tutored METCO students and students with developmental needs, and volunteered as an AARP Experience Corps reading coach for elementary children in Boston’s South End. She was a docent at the Wellesley College Botanic Gardens and with her husband led bird walks sponsored by the Wellesley Conservation Council.

She became certified as a master gardener (and thus obligated to teach others) in a program sponsored by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Survivors include husband James Pugh; daughter and son-in-law Susannah Pugh Sanders ’04 and Clayton Sanders ’04; and son David.

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1974 Peter Bernard Connolly May 21, 2016 Peter Connolly combined a passion for science with an enjoyment of gardening, classical music, theater, and fine art. He recently retired as the director of research and development at one of the divisions of IDEXX in Westbrook. He previously worked at Beth Israel Hospital, Oregon Health Sciences Univ., Ciba Corning, Chiron, Bayer, and Siemens. Survivors include wife Sally Coole Connolly ’74; and sons Dean and Reid.

Richard Cushman Woodman December 20, 2015 Rick Woodman attended Bates briefly before transferring to Boston Univ. He taught physical education for over 30 years at Mead School in Stamford, Conn.

Survivors include wife Carolyn Paulus and two daughters. His grandfather was Harry A. Woodman 1913, and his grand-uncle was Stanton H. Woodman 1920.

1975 Helen Mahood Ball May 23, 2015 A go-getter on steroids: That’s how one friend described her.

Helen Mahood Ball postponed plans for law school so long that she ended up with an MBA instead, and went to work for a Fortune 100 corporation.

She rose to the level of vice president at one company and director of sales operations at another. When her mother developed early-onset Alzheimer’s, she founded the first Connecticut chapter of the Alzheimer’s Assn. When a close relative committed suicide, she became a tireless worker for suicide prevention, answering a 24-hour crisis line, speaking to groups about prevention and awareness, and facilitating support groups. She helped build houses for Habitat for Humanity in Dallas, Spokane, and Hungary, and volunteered for Dallas Read for over 10 years.

She was active in Alumni-in Admissions. She was divorced from Edward Wilchynski ’74.

Survivors include husband Robert Ball; stepson Bryan Ball; and one grandchild.

1976 Douglas Caracappa October 7, 2014 Douglas Caracappa was an avid outdoorsman who worked for the U.S. Geological Survey as a water quality field person, both in Maine and on Long Island.

He enjoyed camping and hiking with his sister, Denise Caracappa, and was a member of the Huntington Audubon Society.

His sister is among his survivors.

1977 Nicholas Dell’Erario August 13, 2015 Nick Dell’Erario lit up the scoreboards whatever sport he played — football, hockey, and especially baseball, where he reached All-America status his senior year, placing second in the country in batting average.

After graduation, he discovered a love for tennis and went on to teach it professionally. For the past 14 years, he was a director at the Arizona Research Center in Phoenix, which conducts clinical medical trials. He had done similar work on Cape Cod. Survivors include wife Melissa Robinson Dell’Erario; children Nicole and Tommy Dell’Erario; and nephew Joseph Dell’Erario ’13.

Harry Moore Landis IV November 1, 2015 “Bud” Landis finished his bachelor’s degree in physics while serving in the U.S. Navy.

He was much loved around the globe for his volunteer work to improve quality of life in remote locations. In Sierra Leone, he helped set up medical facilities and local markets using solar panels to provide electricity in areas without access to it. He kept an ultralight plane in Guatemala which he used for aerial photography and Mayan ruin investigations. He also owned a company there that provided solar panel electric systems to more than 2,000 rural customers with no access to the power grid.

Survivors include sister Carol Landis Kelly ’72.

Paul Joseph Loiero June 18, 2015 Paul Loiero earned an MBA from American International College in addition to his biology degree from Bates and worked as a supervisor for Midac Corp.

He was a member of the Mount Tom Amateur Repeater Assn. and the official observer coordinator of the Western Massachusetts Chapter of the American Radio Relay League. His wife, Cynthia Krenzul Loiero, passed away in November 2015.

Survivors include stepchildren Richard and Ronald Conroy; and two grandchildren.

David Everett Mathes November 11, 2015 David Mathes poured everything into alpine skiing and made All-East his junior year. He also was a force on the soccer field.

But he found his passion when he joined the French Foreign Legion: the French language.

He fell in love with the language and culture, earning a master’s degree in French literature and language at Middlebury. He later received a second master’s in teaching from the School of International Training. He went

on to teach French, Spanish, and ESL in Paris, Cyprus, Mexico, Illinois, and Massachusetts. Most recently, he was at Merrimack Valley High School and Bishop Brady High School in Concord.

Survivors include wife Francisca Acosta-Mathes; and brother and sister-in-law Steven Mathes ’74 and Christine Doyle ’73.

Thomas Russell Quinn June 26, 2015 Tom Quinn went on to Temple Univ. School of Law to become a lawyer, pursued a career first in the district attorney’s office and then as a criminal defense attorney in Philadelphia. He enjoyed the museums and parks the city had to offer, as well as fishing with his children, Amity and Kieran. Other survivors include former wife Lark Hall and cousins Kendrick H. Child ’65, Meredith Child Greenlaw ’95, and Jonathan K. Child ’91.

His mother was Ruth Russell Quinn ’52.

1978 Barbara Joanne Kittredge February 4, 2016 When she felt like it, BJ Kittredge could just take off in her hot air balloon from her backyard. She’d become a balloon pilot under the tutelage of balloon pioneer Bob Sparks and flown in many events, all while working at AT&T and piling up some 20 patents for the company. But after 25 years, she and husband Paul Faustine ’77 fulfilled a longtime goal of getting back to Maine when they moved to Brunswick in 2002 and opened a toy store, Red Dragon Toys, where she specialized in teddy bears and dolls. She later took on more mundane tasks at Bath Iron Works, where she was a principal engineer on the Zumwalt-class DDG-1000 and was thrilled to witness its initial sea trials after 10 years of work.

She was a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and its choir.

Besides her husband, survivors include daughter Caroline Kittredge Faustine.

1980 Timothy Duer Hillman April 1, 2016 While at Bates, Tim Hillman discovered his passion for acting and teaching, and his career was focused on both. His involvement with the Robinson Players was so dedicated that he was given the Dale Hatch award upon graduation. He taught theater at several schools across the country, but remained most proud of his work in Los Angeles, where he taught several Emmy-winning actors.

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1984 James Lee Campbell Jr. April 11, 2016 His most prized possession was probably a fishing rod — because it had been owned by Red Sox great Ted Williams — and if there were two things Jim loved, they were fishing and the Red Sox. He was a dermatologist in Dover, N.H., more or less falling into the career after surprising himself by finishing first in his class in medical school, which he surprised himself by attending in the first place.

When he graduated from Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, he received the Dean’s Medal. He began his practice in Massachusetts before returning to New Hampshire to open an office in Dover. He was recognized with the Amanda Dempsey Award last October, given annually to an individual cancer survivor demonstrating a passion for helping and working with others battling the disease. He himself was a two-time melanoma survivor.

As a dermatologist, he started a foundation called Make Big Change to fight skin cancer, aimed at New Englanders. He took advantage of every spare moment to fish for salmon or steelhead, definitely with close friends, never with Ted Williams’ rod. Survivors include children Sara and Jonathan; and fiancée Kristin Martin. He was divorced from Joan Keck Campbell ’84.

Sheldon Herrick Wappler September 2, 2015 Even his nickname links him to the sea: “Shel.” One of his proudest accomplishments and lifelong dreams was sailing his beautiful boat from coastal England to his home in South Norwalk, Conn. He taught at a local magnet school for 10 years and later became a captain in the Merchant Marine. He held a master’s degree from Sacred Heart Univ. Survivors include wife Karen Burns-Wappler and children Sam, Ivy, and Will.

1986 John Fiske III January 7, 2016 Bates couples meet in all sorts of ways. John Fiske met his life partner his first year at Bates: he was his roommate, Dan

Ludden ’86. They were together for 33 years, legally marrying in 2012. They both were active in performing arts at the college, and John went on to a career in human resources. He worked in retail companies Abercrombie & Fitch, Cole Haan, Kenneth Cole, and Talbots; most recently he was at Deloitte Consulting as a senior leader within its retail practice. Besides his husband, survivors include parents John Fiske Jr. and Linda Woronoff Fiske.

Mark Peter Zengo September 2, 2015 Mark Zengo worked in financial services as an institutional equity trader, and lived in Europe for many years. He and his family returned to Darien, Conn., his hometown, where he established Keenan Capital Management, naming it after one of his dogs, thus avoiding showing any favoritism among his three children, Peter, Brian, and Molly, all of whom he preferred to dazzle with his wit and loving heart.

Other survivors include his wife Meredith McGowan and parents Nancy and George.

1987 Brenton James Allen March 6, 2016 Brent Allen earned a tax law degree from Boston Univ. and was a nationally recognized expert in his field — Section 1031 real estate transactions. He was an attorney for Deutsche Bank in Boston at the time of his death.

His true passion, besides his family, was motorcycles. At Bates, he spent his junior year abroad at Oxford, where he was elected class president. A talented debater, he took part in the annual Japanese-American debates that were held in the 1980s. He was named a Dana Scholar. Survivors include wife Elizabeth Breed Allen ’89; and children Lisle and Henry Allen.

1991 Holly Ann Menoher February 8, 2016 If you look up Holly Menoher on RateMyTeacher.com, you’ll find that she’s ranked over four stars out of five. A master teacher who taught kindergarten through sixth grade, she taught primarily middle-school math and science in the Portland (Ore.) area for the past 16 years, after earning her teaching credentials from Simpson College in Redding, Calif., and teaching in that area for several years.

She had a master’s from Portland State. Her zest for science, literature, theater, travel, and kayaking touched hundreds of lives over her career. Survivors include parents Charles and Judith Menoher.

2002 Jack N. Sandler November 19, 2015 Jack Sandler led the Colby Mules to the NESCAC playoffs in both of his first two years as their head lacrosse coach after spending eight years at Skidmore College, where he also enjoyed success. At Skidmore, he was the Liberty League Coach of the Year in 2007 and 2011, leading the Thoroughbreds to the conference title game in 2007 and 2010. As a Bates student, he finished as the college’s second all-time leading scorer. He started his professional career right after graduation under Bates coach Peter Lasagna, who called him a “truly great, trusted friend...more like a son in many respects.” In his short career, he coached three USILA Honorable Mention All-Americans and the NESCAC 2014 Rookie of the Year. “It was clear he loved the game of lacrosse and coaching, but his real passion was teaching and helping students develop their full potential physically, intellectually, and personally,” wrote Colby President David A. Greene in a letter to the Colby community. As a Mule, he and coach Lasagna established a friendly rivalry with the Flahive-McDuffee game, in remembrance of former Colby lacrosse player Derrick Flahive and former Bates lacrosse player Morgan McDuffee, both of whom died tragically while students. At the time of his death, Jack was the vice president of USILA and also served on its Division III All-America Committee. Survivors include parents Barbara and Lance, and sister Makenzie.

2014 Julia Mary Kasparian March 28, 2016 Julia Kasparian left Bates and graduated from Boston Univ.

She died unexpectedly. Her aspiration was to build a career in service to others, and to that end she participated in fundraising activities for many causes, including the Walk for Hunger, Autism Speaks Walk, and the

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column on “local celebrities” for the local newspaper: he contended that everyday people were in fact celebrities. Ten years later, the family moved home to Rhode Island, where he continued to teach at The Prout School. Survivors include children Spencer, Jordan, and Hunter. His ex-wife is Erin P. Russell ’83.

ALS Race4Research. Survivors include father Harry Kasparian; and siblings Melissa Swergold, Amy Kasparian, and Michael.

TRUSTEE Alison R. Bernstein June 30, 2016 As a member of the Bates College Board of Trustees and a U.S. higher education scholar, policy expert, and activist, Alison Bernstein helped to open doors for diverse and historically underserved populations. Director of the Institute for Women’s Leadership at Rutgers University since 2011, she was earlier a Ford Foundation official. “Ms. Bernstein was a polymath who brought her broad knowledge to bear on an array of causes” at the Ford Foundation, said The New York Times, noting that she “expanded opportunities for learning and tackled challenging social problems” and, specifically, “worked on improving community colleges and increasing the transfer rate for students to four-year institutions; opening up higher education to more Native American students; and advancing women’s and gender studies.” At Bates, said President Spencer, Bernstein used her “wealth of experience and expertise in foundation philanthropy and academia” as a “champion of equity and diversity, both for the campus community and the Board of Trustees.” Bernstein’s first board service was in 1969, at age 22, as a trustee of Vassar College, her alma mater. In a sign of the times, then-Vassar President Alan Simpson said that “if anyone can mediate between hairy youth and hoary age, it is Alison Bernstein.” In turn, Bernstein, as quoted in a 1969 Newsday story, said that “so far as I can tell, the generation gap is a creation of people who don’t realize we’re closer together than we think we are.” Her survivors include her partner Johanna Schoen; twin daughters Emma Brown-Bernstein ’09 and Julia Brown-Bernstein; and Johanna Schoen’s son, Joshua Heineman. In her memory, the Alison R. Bernstein P’09 Scholarship Fund has been created at Bates.

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This reusable “KwikPak” laundry case, once used by the late Anne LaRocque ’54 to mail her wash home to Berlin, N.H., is now part of the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library.

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A student in the 1950s could do laundry by mail, male, or at the Hobby Shoppe by h . jay burns

in the mids few college students had cars, but they still found ways to get their dirty laundry home — through the mail, for instance.

Such students weren’t being spendthrifts. It was often cheaper and more convenient to mail laundry home than to have it cleaned at a local business.

“A lot of students sent their laundry home in those laundry cases,” recalls Ginnie LaFauci Toner ’53.

“I remember them more from the camp I attended and then worked at,” says Mary Ann Houston Hermance ’59. “Mine was made of metal, and some were of a composition material.”

At Bates, the laundry packs often came back with more than just clean socks, says Marilyn Coffin Brown ’52: “Oh, those toll house cookies that came back in my roommate’s laundry case!”

Today’s students have for-pay laundry facilities in each residence, but that wasn’t the case decades ago, hence the need for mailable laundry cases, among other options.

Those options included “big sinks in the basement and lines strung across for drying” in allwomen’s Rand Hall, Brown recalls. “Otherwise we went to the Hobby Shoppe.”

A beloved just-off-campus hangout, Ye Olde Hobby Shoppe thrived from the late 1940s until the early 1960s. Located on College Street, catty corner

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from the President’s House, the shop had hobby supplies but is mostly remembered as a classic 1950s malt shop, with Bendix laundry machines in the basement.

(It’s now offices for Security and Campus Safety.)

Mike Buccigross ’41, who settled in Lewiston after commanding a submarine in World War II, was the shop’s proprietor, and he had a good eye for what students wanted.

In April 1950, for example, under the headline “Mike Installs TV; Will Operate Soon,” The Bates Student reported that Buccigross had just installed the first TV set “located anywhere near the Bates campus.” Reception was poor, however, “because of the great distance from the two Boston stations.”

(Maine wouldn’t have a TV station until 1953.)

Still another alternative for students was a laundry service (still an option today, but rarely used).

Jack DeGange ’59 recalls bringing his laundry to a family business near Sam’s Italian Sandwich Shop, probably the eponymous Self-Service Laundry at 44 Bates St. “I think we paid 50 cents for a laundry bag — a two-week load — for a two-day turnaround,” he says.

Pick-up laundry service was available, too.

Bill Heidel ’59 was the campus agent, along with Wayne Kane ’59, for the Norris-Hayden Laundry Co. of Auburn. They handled men’s laundry, and

Ads for local cleaners in The Bates Student noted the student agents for each business.

Barbara Farnham Grant ’59 was the agent for Cummings Dry Cleaners, run by Arthur Cummings ’38.

“It worked like this,” explains Heidel. “Students would leave their laundry in marked bags on their dorm’s ground floor on a specific day of the week, and it would be picked up by laundry employees.”

Later that week, he and Kane “would drive to the laundry, load a truck, and deliver laundry and dry cleaning to all campus locations.”

On the women’s side, Grant’s routine was simpler. “I was in Rand, and around suppertime, people would come and drop off their cleaning,” she says.

“I’d label it, leave it in a closet, and then Cummings would pick it up and return it.”

She remembers one client who did every last bit of her laundry and dry cleaning through Cummings: “She was the neatest dresser on campus.”

Grant also recalls the Rand’s basement wash sinks, good for washing favorite sweaters, plus ironing boards. “I ironed a lot of shirts down there.”

On the men’s side, Kane and Heidel collected

payments by setting up a table outside Memorial Commons in Chase Hall each week to flag down students as they headed to meals. “The collection aspect was most interesting,” Heidel says.

“We got a percentage of the sales, but it wasn’t much. If we were short on collections, it came out of our pockets. And some students thought they could stiff us.”

Heidel was about to leave campus for home one spring when he spied his and Kane’s “last deadbeat” customer loading his father’s car for the departure.

“I knew that his dad was a popular radio personality,” Heidel explains. “I pulled my car behind his, blocking it. The dad asked why, and I suggested he ask his son.”

After some “hemming and hawing,” the student admitted that “he owed for laundry and that he had promised for weeks that he would pay up.” The father pulled out his wallet and paid the bill.

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Student laundry options 60 years ago included basement machines in the Hobby Shoppe, now the office of Security and Campus Safety.

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To obey “freshman rules,” Maurice O'Connell, Class of 1916, wore this garnet and black beanie for most of the fall ( first-year women wore bibs). While garnet and black go well together, Bates has just one official color: garnet.

Has a Ring To It

This class ring belonged to the late Ruth Hawkins Sullivan ’40.

High Pitch

The late Donald Webster ’41 wore this glove as a Bobcat lefty pitcher; he was also a standout high jumper who held the Maine indoor record of 6 feet, 6 1/2 inches. The indoor state meet record is now 6 feet, 10 3/4 inches.

Big Birds

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This vintage photo button suggests a kinder and gentler Bobcat.

To mark the centennial of John J. Audubon’s birth, the Bates library displayed one of its prize possessions in May, the Bien edition of Audubon’s The Birds of America. The huge book weighs 57 pounds, and each page measures 39 1/8 inches by 26 1/8 inches. This detail of one plate shows what Aububon called the “rogues” and “deceivers” of the bird world: blue jays.

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o u t ta k e Lewiston has beautiful light, and as a photographer I sometimes chase it. On an August evening, I caught up with the setting sun as it disappeared behind the Kora Temple. Parking my car at the intersection of Sabbatus and College streets, I photographed through the windshield. Nostalgia for the day past, hope for tomorrow: That’s dusk for me.

— Phyllis Graber Jensen

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President of Bates College A. Clayton Spencer Chief Communications Officer Sean Findlen ’99 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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On the Cover The process by which thousands of prospective students become an incoming Bates class of 500 is called “the funnel.”

Our feature about the bottom of the funnel — the selection of admitted students — is on page 46.

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A rock hammer can chip away a rock’s weathered exterior to give a clearer idea of what’s inside, like mineral types.

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Long pants reduce the chance of rattlesnake and tick bites.

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Kurt Niiler ’18 and Gina Ciobanu ’17 jump to it on Aug. 29 as they and fellow students help first-year students move into the two new Campus Avenue residence halls.

Here’s great news about the halls’ new names: bates.edu/naming-announcement