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14 First-years — and their stuff — get camera time on Opening Day.

32 The story of Vietnam War casualty David Nash ’68, poignantly retold.

50 Why clay beneath Bates required welding long pipes all summer long.

VICTORS

With joyful abandon, the men’s soccer team flaunts the Hedley Reynolds Cup — honoring the late Bates president and Middlebury history professor — after defeating Middlebury in the annual rivalry game Oct. 5.

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“Bates put me into a mindset that is probably infuriating at times to my colleagues.” Page 44

2 Comments 4 Bates in Brief 24 Amusements 26 Features 56 Notes 90 History Lesson 96 From a Distance

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This photo shows part of the coastal Bates–Morse Mountain Conservation Area, with fun facts from Bates geologists and BMMCA regulars Dyk Eusden ’80 and Beverly Johnson.

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Pools are natural features of the marsh and provide Penmor: Please see page 96 / 97 for inside back cover spreadhabitat for wildlife.

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Spring floods cover the marsh, allowing marine life to move between pools and tidal channels.

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These winding channels are naturally occurring “meanders” and help drain the marsh.

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The straight ditches were designed to drain pools and reduce standing water, most recently to control mosquito numbers in the ’70s.

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The ditches eliminated vital habitats, prompting repair efforts with earthen “ditch plugs” in the early 2000s.

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A failed restoration attempt with a too-effective ditch plug resulted in this area being cut off from beneficial tides.

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Morse Mountain granite is thought to be Paleozoic in origin — up to 350 million years old.

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The natural channel of the 2.5-mile Sprague River winds through the marsh to the Atlantic.

Take a closer look at what this fingerprint signified in 1938 China. Page 22

OPENING THOUGHT: BRITTANY LONGSDORF MULTIFAITH CHAPLAIN Source: Longsdorf’s benediction at Convocation on Sept. 3, opening the academic year and welcoming new students to their Bates journeys

You are on the cusp of a pilgrimage of the heart, where you will meet yourself over and over again: in the challenging classroom, under the canopy of rustling trees on the Quad, and among the chattering hallways of this hallowed place.

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Ben’s Path

The brief article on page 9 in the Spring 2019 issue mentions the use of ipe, an environmentally endangered tree whose growth is in decline, whose wood is often illegally harvested, and much of which is cut down and wasted.

Its properties are remarkable, almost as hard and durable as steel or concrete.

I am surprised that the College went ahead with its use, considering that there exist substitutes such as reclaimed cumaru and reclaimed teak.

Bates has often touted its concern for the environment, so its use is surprising.

I am happy to see what my classmate Ben Cline ’94 has achieved. He had an ambition and he made it happen. We rarely — OK, maybe never — agreed when we were at Bates together, but he was unfailingly kind, civil, and curious.

I get that it is challenging to feel happy or proud of someone you don’t agree with, and yet, I am proud that Bates was part of Ben’s path and that Bates fostered learning and not submission.

J. William Mees ’60

Pepperell, Mass.

Good question. We asked the contractor that purchased the ipe (pronounced “ee-pay”) for the Ladd Plaza project to query the supplier about the wood. Here’s what we learned: The ipe came from Timber Holding’s Iron Wood products, and it is Green by Nature Certified, which, among other things, meets provisions of the Lacey Act banning the trade of illegally harvested plant and forest products as well as provisions of CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which seeks to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival. — Editor

Vanessa Flaherty Agee ’94

Dillon, Colo.

A feature story on U.S. Reps.

Ben Cline ’94, R-Va., and Jared Golden ’11, D-Maine, who spoke together at Reunion in June, starts on page 44. — Editor

Bates at Bat Vacationing in the Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia, I was surprised

Matinicus Hero I believe that Eva is also trained as an EMT (“My Maine Summer: Eva Murray ’85 and trash day on Matinicus Isle,” BatesNews, Sept. 13, 2019).

After I had emergency appendicitis on the island this summer, Eva was critical in my getting off the island in difficult conditions with the

to learn that two Bobcats, Henri Pratt ’21 and Peter Schuldt ’21, were playing for the local Valley Baseball League team, the Front Royal Cardinals. (“Bobcats find competition, friendship playing summer baseball,” BatesNews, Aug. 23, 2019).

Knowing this, I had to go to a game and try to meet them — and I did! Pratt was selling raffle tickets in the stands. I chatted with him for a few minutes; I was the first Batesie he’d met while playing there. Super nice kid.

What a great experience for him and the other Bobcats to play summer baseball. Best of luck to them for the 2020 season.

Doug Nicholas ’87

Pittsboro, N.C.

David Nash ’68

Nash ’68,” BatesNews, April 26, 2019). What a great legacy this Texas teacher is leaving with her students doing these projects. Her project and your story say a lot about our Bates community.

I was a contemporary of Dave and was in West Parker for three of his years there. Dave was a good guy and a positive force. It does not surprise me that he was injured as a result of volunteering to take someone else’s duty.

I had to read and watch Kelley’s video tribute more than once.

It brought me to tears each time. Thank you for sharing it.

Mac Reid ’67

Boxborough, Mass.

Thank you for the story about Annakate Kelley’s video tribute to David Nash (“Texas teen’s Vietnam tribute honors memory of David

Kelley’s video tribute is at bates.edu/david-nash, and the feature story about her project and David Nash begins on page 32. — Editor

information in hand that would help those on shore help me.

It was a bad situation, to be sure, but it could have been immeasurably worse without her help. A small, remote island like Matinicus is no joke. Without Eva and those like her these places wouldn’t work. To me Eva is

what a hero looks like.

Adam Novitt

Northampton, Mass.

Murray was part of the online series “My Maine Summer” — bates.edu/mymaine-summer — featuring Bates alumni in Maine whose lives have a summertime vibe. — Editor

I am another Bates pilot (“Catherine Winne ’41 was the first Bates female pilot,” BatesNews, March 25, 2019).

I took my first check ride in a 1947 Aeronca Champion, similar to the Piper Cub featured in the article, when I was 60, fulfilling a lifelong dream. Sometimes, when flying into a good headwind, I could look down at the cars on the highway and see them going faster than I. Julie Ragan Malkin ’75

Cincinnati, Ohio

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In early August, Eva Murray ’85 and residents of Matinicus Isle, located 20 miles off the Maine coast, load recycling onto a U-Haul for delivery via ferry to various waste disposal sites on the mainland.

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Bed Rest The photo by Phyllis Graber Jensen on page 48 of the Spring issue shows a boy resting on his sister’s dormroom bed. It brought back my first-day Bates experience, in September 1962.

The minister of my church drove me up with my bags.

Along for the ride was my high school girlfriend. We pulled up to Smith North, and they helped me get my things in, then left quickly to get back to Boston.

The next day I received a summons from the dean of students; I was perplexed as I walked over to his office. I found him in full disciplinary mode. He told me that having a female in my room — even in a room and dorm crowded with comings and goings and hustle and bustle — was grounds for immediate expulsion. (And what about mothers? I wondered, but prudently didn’t ask.)

I had unknowingly committed what Bates considered at the time a mortal sin. He said, “If you were anything but a first-week freshman, you’d already be on a bus back to Boston!”

Bates women lived in a different world back then.

Their rooms were checked by the house mother every week to be sure they were neat, clean, and, I believe, beds made. They had strict parietal hours with curfew, having to sign in and out of their dorms every day — no exceptions.

Only dresses or skirts could be worn in class. Smoking while walking on campus, for women, was forbidden.

Needless to say, none of those regulations, which were jaw-droppers to me even then, pertained to the men.

To give Bates credit, males were allowed to eat in the women’s Fiske Dining Hall, in Rand, for Sunday lunch.

So you can imagine why it’s always a thrill now when I read issues of Bates Magazine: It leaves me wishing I could be a student there again.

Richard Derby ’66

Needham, Mass.

Say what you will about Congress (and you probably have), it’s a distinctive historical moment when two Bates alumni become members.

In this case, the two Bobcats are Reps. Jared Golden ’11, D-Maine, and Ben Cline ’94, R-Va., both elected to the 116th Congress last November.

History aside, anyone who heard the pair speak at Reunion saw two Americans who share our frustration with Washington nastiness; the comity in the room was surprising (our feature begins on page 44).

Let’s widen the frame a bit. Of the 535 voting members in the U.S. House and Senate, 15 earned their undergrad degree at a NESCAC college. The numbers: Williams leads with four alumni in Congress: three in the House and one in the Senate. Tufts has three, all in the House.

With two each are Bates (both House), Middlebury (both House), and Wesleyan (House and Senate). Amherst (Senate) and Hamilton (House) have one each. Bowdoin, Colby, Connecticut College, and Trinity have none serving.

Of the 15 members of the ’CAC in Congress, all are white males, and only two are Republicans: Bates’ Cline and Tufts’ Dan Crenshaw, a House member from Texas.

Whether grouped by caucus or conference — and despite preconceptions fostered by our current politics — it’s worth remembering that our elected representatives are still individuals.

This was on the mind of my colleague Phyllis Graber Jensen as she flew to Washington on July 25 to photograph Golden and Cline. “I didn’t want to reduce them to a visual stereotype,” she said.

With congressional schedules more tightly packed than old Commons at dinner, Graber Jensen secured just a brief window of time, thanks to acrossthe-aisle help from the congressmen’s schedulers.

After meeting Golden and Cline at the Longworth Office Building at 3:15 p.m., the sprint was on.

Within six minutes, she was photographing them in the iconic rotunda of the Cannon Office Building, next door to the Longworth. By 3:31, she had them posing informally as they waited for a crosswalk signal.

Two minutes later, she photographed them matching strides (get it?) as they crossed Capitol Drive en route to the Capitol Building.

Three minutes after that, Graber Jensen posed them in front of the Capitol Building. And by 3:47 — 26 minutes after the shoot began — it was a wrap. All the while, Golden and Cline chatted affably, about both politics and personal lives.

Graber Jensen was most mindful of the stereotype trap as she shot in front of the Capitol. Really, what can you do with two male politicians wearing dark suits standing before the Capitol that won’t look like they’re straight out of an episode of House of Cards?

To that point, here’s the description of a stock photo on the Getty Images website: “Frowning politician in front of U.S. Capitol Building.”

In the end, the pair solved the problem. With the same friendly ease they had showed together at Reunion, Cline and Golden posed back to back, smiling.

And that photo is on this issue’s cover.

Perhaps it doesn’t reflect the national mood. Perhaps it’s naive. But it’s a start.

H. Jay Burns, Editor magazine@bates.edu

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Longtime Associate Dean James Reese pivots from the Opening Convocation procession on Sept. 3 to greet his friend Karl Lindholm of Middlebury, Vt., who was on campus bringing his daughter, Anne, back for her senior year.

Karl is the son of the late Dean Emeritus of Admissions Milt Lindholm ’35 and Jane Ault Lindholm ’37; he and James are Middlebury grads.

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STUDENTS

Bates received applications from all 50 states for the Class of 2023.

Commons refused a Napkin Board request to add fennel to the salad bar: “It’s not that popular.”

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AESOP Soup “I believe it was eggs, mayo, pasta salad, glitter, and water,” says Erni Whitaker ’20 (left) of San Luis Obispo, Calif.

She’s seen with Grace Warder ’20 of New York City and Peter Griffin ’20 of Beverly, Mass., being doused with the five-ingredient goop soup on Aug. 28 at Keigwin Amphitheater.

LAURA On a warm May day during Senior Week, Laura Nguyen ’19 of Paoli, Pa., spent time painting Gomes Chapel. “There’s something about the experience of painting Bates buildings, memorializing them, that’s really important to me. And it’s very relaxing to me.”

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“ I am trying to live up my last few days at Bates.”

The trio earned the drenching as coordinators of this year’s program of outdoor trips for first-year students during Orientation, known as AESOP. The annual ritual took place during the meet-up between AESOP leaders and first-year students on the eve of the popular three-day adventures in Maine and New Hampshire.

Mental-health counseling is free to all Bates students.

Captain Courageous Six-year-old Brayden Austin gives a leg hug to Phil Simplicio ’20 of West Hartford, Conn., during a football practice at Garcelon Field in September.

Austin, who lives nearby in Sabattus, served as the team’s honorary captain, chosen for the spirit and determination he showed in his long recovery from a severe intestinal blockage four years ago.

“The biggest thing that stands out to me about having Brayden around the team is his positivity,” said Simplicio’s teammate Angus Lamond ’21 of Portsmouth, N.H. “It reminds us all to stay positive throughout adversity.”

Student clubs can spend up to $40 from club funds per person, per night, on lodging.

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Students can legally vote in their hometown or in Lewiston, using their campus address.

Kicking Off He says Opening Day is about the “little things” — carrying boxes, making rounds to introduce himself to each first-year as they move in, sharing favorite songs that he solicited from his new residents over the summer.

“I’m making it feel like a place where they can spend four years and be happy,” he says.

Time’s up. “We got a car!” shouts another student leader, and Ortiz-Cedeno is off to help another first-year step into the Bates community.

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Opening Day for the Class of 2023 was Aug. 26, and by mid-morning outside Chu Hall the stream of arriving cars on Campus Avenue had slowed to a trickle.

That gave the student Orientation leaders some time to breathe…or do some eye-high kicks for a photographer.

J’Von Ortiz-Cedeno ’22, shown at left, is a Junior Advisor from Portland, Texas. Ortiz-Cedeno and other JAs serve as peer advisors to groups of first-year students in residence halls.

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Good as Goldfish On an August morning, Lake Andrews offered a hungry osprey two helpings of goldfish, and Bates photographer Theophil Syslo tagged along to chronicle the show.

Professor of Biology Don Dearborn, a bird expert who often does fieldwork on remote seal islands, appreciates the local bird show: “It’s super cool!”

He adds, “Especially since the Puddle is so popular — noontime walkers, students studying — it’s great that people have a chance to see nature in action.”

Goldfish have long populated the campus pond, and it’s assumed students introduced them. Fish being the only pets allowed in residences, one can imagine a goldfish going from, say, Adams Hall to Lake Andrews.

The southernmost point of the campus is the Campus Avenue Field.

1. Perched atop a Garcelon Field light tower, the osprey finishes munching on a Lake Andrews goldfish.

The Restoration There’s good news at Gomes Chapel, where exterior restoration continues.

A structural engineer has determined that most of the building’s portico is sound and will need only cosmetic restoration. The exceptions are its entrance facade and roof, both of which will be rebuilt.

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A telescopic handler helps workers atop the Gomes portico by removing debris and delivering material.

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Alumni Walk is I,000 feet from College Street to Commons.

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A worst-case scenario — anticipated by some — would’ve required razing the portico and rebuilding it from the ground up.

Scheduled to be finished in 2020, the Gomes project includes repointing masonry joints; replacing deteriorated stone, notably much of the concrete ornamentation; replacing the decorative cast traceries that surround most of the building’s windows; and restoring most of those stained-glass windows.

Updates to Carnegie’s rooftop greenhouse include mobile grow tables replacing fixed ones.

Four times around Lake Andrews equal about a mile.

2. Still hungry, the osprey heads back to the pond. Osprey almost exclusively eat live fish.

The address for the new Bonney Science Center will be 45 Campus Ave.

3. High in a pond-side hemlock, the osprey is about to make its dive.

4. After a successful dive — and after a shake of its head to shed water — away goes the osprey, gripping the fish tightly in its talons, helped by barbed pads on the soles of its feet. Fun fact: When an osprey flies with a fish in its claws, it orients the fish head first for less wind resistance.

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Course catalog descriptions have a I00-word limit.

Honors theses are published online at scarab.bates.edu.

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Associate Professor of Digital and Computational Studies Carrie Diaz Eaton teaches her course “Calling Bull in a Digital World” in Carnegie Science Hall.

Bull by the Horns

STEPHANIE “ It’s fear of a black president, right? It’s just blatant white supremacy and racism.”

Delivering a lecture in September to celebrate her 2019 Kroepsch Award for Excellence in Teaching, Stephanie Kelley-Romano explains what motivates conspiracy theories, such as the birther conspiracy that dogged President Obama: fear of a perceived evil — in this case, a black president. Kelley-Romano is an associate professor of rhetoric, film, and screen studies.

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mechanics and messaging power of data visualization figured prominently. (“Calling Bull” introduced students to R, a statistical programming language useful for rendering data visually.)

“We talked about how having a successful democratic republic requires access to real and authentic information,” says Diaz Eaton. Once the access goes, the democracy may follow.

“That’s the real threat,” she says. “We want people to be able to think that they have a role as a digital citizen to play in the world of fake news.”

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A course introduced this year has a goal that’s more valuable now than ever: to make students savvier consumers of information.

Carrie Diaz Eaton, associate professor of digital and computational studies, adapted “Calling Bull in a Digital World” from a course at the University of Washington.

Both courses explore the motivations and techniques driving the barrage of BS in mass media.

Diaz Eaton wanted to attune her students to what’s slanted, downright fake, or innocent but wrong. The

During an honors thesis defense, the candidate has the last word.

The First Year Seminar “DiY and Mashup Culture” explores how consumption became creative.

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An academic major requires between I0 and I4 courses.

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

Temporal Negative Priming

Publication: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General • Author: Todd Kahan (psychology) and coauthors, including Bates students • What It Explains: With significance for individuals with difficulty ignoring distractions — such as those with attention deficit-disorder — this research shows that when a distraction occurs is as important as where or what the distraction is.

Engaging Crisis: Immersive, Interdisciplinary Learning in Mathematics and Rhetoric

Publication: Journal of Humanistic Mathematics • Author: Meredith Greer (mathematics) and Stephanie Kelley-Romano (rhetoric, film, and screen studies) • What It Explains: The two professors created a classroom activity — a mock presidential campaign beset by a national epidemic — that involves mathematics and rhetoric, helping students get a real feel for abstract material.

Above, seen in 2017, neuroscience professor Michelle Greene works with Hanna De Bruyn ’18 to run an EEG test with Katie Hartnett ’18.

Making the Scene

A Benefit to Providing Information?

Publication: Behavioral Ecology • Author: Carla Essenberg (biology) and Bates student co-authors • What It Explains: A plant’s smaller flowers contribute to its overall attractiveness to bumblebees, even though bees tend to avoid smaller flowers during visits.

Racialization and Black Multiplicity: Generative Paradigms for Understanding Black Immigrants Publication: Sociology Compass • Author: Marcelle Medford (sociology) • What It Explains: To understand black immigration to the U.S. in recent years, researchers need to move beyond analogies to white immigration.

Below, Pierre Gabriel wears the Haitian and U.S. flags during a 2018 demonstration in Manhattan that protested President Trump’s disparaging comments about Haiti and African nations during a meeting on immigration.

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Bates professor Michelle Greene will use the college’s largest-ever federal grant to build a vast gallery of video clips to support research in such fields as neuroscience, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence.

Funded by a National Science Foundation grant worth $3.97 million, the groundbreaking Visual Experience Database will feature video clips that depict what, and how, people see as they go about everyday activities.

Greene, an assistant professor of neuroscience at Bates who studies how the brain makes sense of what we see, is the principal investigator for the project, which has been developed collaboratively with researchers at North Dakota State University and the University of Nevada, Reno.

When completed, the VED will comprise more than 240 hours of video created specifically for this project and findable through a publicly accessible database.

The clips will be collected by trained videographers at each institution, including more than two dozen Bates students, wearing cameras that simulate human vision, as well as devices to track head and eye movements. The observers will undertake and capture video of routine activities such as walking, shopping, or touring a museum.

Currently, much of the data used in such fields as visual neuroscience, psychology, computer vision (a branch of artificial intelligence), and computational sociology consists of vast collections of still and moving images curated largely from public online resources such as YouTube and Google.

Because such images were not intended for research purposes, they are compromised by the many biases their creators bring to them, including the reasons someone may choose a particular photo subject, frame an image a certain way, or upload one image and not another.

“All of the databases that we’ve been using for years are subject” to such biases, says Greene. The VED assets, in contrast, will be created specifically to represent ordinary scenes and will be subject to experimental controls.

Importantly, the VED will be a public resource. “This is taxpayer-supported,” Greene said, which means that it should be publicly accessible, both for the sake of transparency and simply because it should be a public good.

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THE COLLEGE

Onward and Upward Bates alumni, parents, and friends contributed a record-breaking $28.85 million to the college during the fiscal year ending June 30.

Gifts to the Bates Fund totaled $7.25 million, also a record, propelled by the highest dollar totals ever from the Bates Parents Fund ($1,826,028) and the Friends of Bates Athletics ($975,000).

Bates’ alumni participation rate historically ranks near the top among U.S. liberal arts colleges, and 43 percent of Bates alumni made gifts in 2019. Also a strong Bates tradition, parent participation reached 36.5 percent.

Total giving to Bates from all sources in fiscal 2019 was $28,848,086, including $12.65 million to the college’s permanent endowment.

The multiyear Bates Campaign now stands at $220 million in gifts and pledges toward the $300 million goal.

College bylaws call the president’s signature “essential to the authentication of diplomas.”

Bates is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.

Total yearly giving to Bates has more than doubled since 2013.

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New Trustees in 2019 The Board of Trustees announced three new members in 2019: Erica Stewart Bullard ’90 and Stacey Kelly P’21, both of New York City, and Katherine Segal Frekko ’95 of Chicago.

Bullard is vice president and general manager of Nike NYC and East. Kelly, a former equities trader with Goldman Sachs, and Frekko, a former corporate attorney with Winston & Strawn, are civic and volunteer leaders in their communities.

Bates–Morse Mountain’s New Director Caitlin Cleaver, former director of science and research at the Hurricane Island Foundation, is the new director of the Bates–Morse Mountain Conservation Area and the Bates College Coastal Center at Shortridge.

Cleaver is a doctoral candidate in ecology and environmental sciences at the University of Maine, where she earned master’s degrees in marine biology and marine policy. She also holds a master’s in public policy from Columbia University.

Most recently, the Colby graduate was the marine science lead at FB Environmental Associates in Portland, Maine, where she studied lobster fishing gear and right whale entanglement.

Managed by Bates for research and educational purposes, the Bates–Morse Mountain Conservation Area comprises some 600 acres of permanently protected salt marshes and coastal uplands on the Phippsburg peninsula.

Cleaver succeeds Laura Sewall, who retired after 11 years as director of BMMCA and Shortridge.

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Erica Stewart Bullard ’90

Katherine Segal Frekko ’95

Stacey Kelly P’21

Carolyn Ryan ’86, assistant managing editor of The New York Times, interviews President Clayton Spencer (left) about the Bates-Gallup report on April 10 in Washington, D.C.

Shift to (Carbon) Neutral Last spring, Bates declared itself carbon neutral.

Nine years ago, Bates committed to hitting this milestone by 2020. But the college was a year early in eliminating 95 percent of its greenhouse gas emissions, measured against a 2001 baseline. Bates buys emissions offsets for the remainder.

Out of some 700 U.S. schools to sign a 2007 carbon-neutrality pledge, Bates is one of seven to reach that goal.

The Bates Campaign seeks $10 million to endow the nationally recognized Purposeful Work program.

Mind the Gap? They Do A 2019 study released by Bates and the polling firm Gallup found that for more than 80 percent of college grads, it’s important to derive a sense of purpose from their work — but less than 50 percent actually find that reward.

This “purpose gap” was a major finding of Forging Pathways to Purposeful Work: The Role of Higher Education, announced in April in a media event at Gallup headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Sustainability manager Tom Twist cites three key areas of GHG reduction: Bates’ switch to renewable electricity sources in 2005; an ongoing program of efficiency and conservation measures; and the college’s conversion to fossil-free fuels — notably Renewable Fuel Oil, a sustainable wood-based product that now fuels the campus heating plant.

Students drive a number of sustainability efforts at Bates, such as the student EcoReps, overseen by Twist.

“I haven’t seen any other school trust its students as much as we do

The event featured an interview with Bates President Clayton Spencer by Carolyn Ryan ’86, assistant managing editor at The New York Times.

Bates commissioned the report to test the premise of the Purposeful Work program: that helping students find purpose in work promotes agency, adaptability, and, ultimately, a sense of wellbeing and meaning. The purpose gap is a problem for both graduates and their employers, because employee engagement is closely tied to business success.

with sustainability work,” says Twist.

“They’re basically embedded in every single sustainability project that we’re doing, and they’re doing real work.”

“Bates has stepped up, taken responsibility for its carbon footprint, and done so in a way that should be a model for other institutions,” says physics professor Travis Gould, chair of the college’s Committee on Environmental Responsibility.

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Rowing’s Traquina Boathouse was funded by $2.7 million in Bates Campaign gifts.

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With gifts averaging $50, Bates crowdfunded $4,950 to buy I2 loaner laptops for students.

In October 2016, student EcoReps George Fiske ’19, Brent Feldman ’17, and Katharine Gaillard ’19 install solar panels at the college’s Coastal Center at Shortridge.

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This page: Before leaving his Lewiston home for campus on Opening Day, Otis Caron ’23 holds a throwback photo showing him and fellow Bates first-year Hunter Landry posing in front of their elementary school, wearing their Lewiston High School graduation gowns and holding their Class of 2023 admission letters.

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ME MINE OURS photography by phyllis graber jensen A homemade box, G-for-Gabi photo collage, plants, stuffed bear, racquets, older brother, Maine vacation memento, and religious faith — these are a few of the favorite things first-years brought to their dorm rooms on Opening Day, Aug. 26.

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Head baseball coach John Martin runs prospect camps at Leahey Field in September.

PRESTON Golfer Preston Haugh ’21 (right) of Alexandria, Va., has some fun during the team’s preseason portrait session, pretending to get a distance to the pin on his rangefinder — in Gray Cage. Completing the portrait are Nick Beati ’20 (left) of Chelmsford, Mass., and Jim Stevens ’20 of North Kingstown, R.I.

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“I got 160 yards.”

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To his rowers’ delight, Bates rowing head coach Peter Steenstra takes a team selfie on the awards platform after the Bates women won their third straight NCAA Division III Championship, and their fourth in the past five years, on June 1 in Indianapolis.

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Golf’s home course is Martindale Country Club in Auburn.

In cross country, women usually run 6-kilometer races, the men run 8.

NESCAC rules limit alumni games to one per year for each team.

Bobcats in Space Several facilities improvements funded by Bates donors and the college’s capital budget greeted Bobcats returning for 2019–20.

Inside Underhill Arena, a top-of-the-line modular turf system added 17,000 square feet of new indoor multipurpose space. The first of its kind at a NESCAC school, the Nexxfield X-Gen E2 Pro system is found at venues like Montreal’s Olympic Stadium. Removed recently for skating season, the turf will be re-installed next spring.

Outside at the Russell Street soccer pitch, the old turf was stripped away and replaced with new bluegrass sod (some 300 rolls of the stuff) from Maine Turf in Fryeburg.

Football teams in NESCAC are limited to 75 players, plus one player who may return from injury.

“We’re super thrilled” that donors stepped up to fund the project, says men’s coach Tyler Sheikh. Between the new grass and the option to use Underhill during bad weather, “we now have some of the best soccer facilities in NESCAC,” he adds.

In Merrill Gym, renovations have added 800 square feet of new rehabilitation and therapy space to the Sports Medicine operation on the gym’s second level. Meanwhile, the first-floor training room was redesigned to support newly injured athletes seeking evaluation and treatment options.

At Alumni Gym, where the gym floor and grandstands were replaced in 2018, updates to the lobby included custom millwork, a new tin ceiling, floor-to-ceiling trophy cases, a large video display, and a bold new Bobcat logo in oxidized brass on one brick wall.

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Workers install a new modular turf system at Underhill Arena.

NESCAC Mystique Bates’ conference, the New England Small College Athletic Conference, again dominated the annual Learfield IMG College Directors’ Cup, which measures collegiate success in NCAA championships.

Seven of the 11 NESCAC colleges — including Bates at No. 42 — were among the top 50 Division III schools in the 2019 standings. All told, 338 Division III colleges scored cup points this year.

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en’s soccer Joe Vari, seen at left, came to appreciate NESCAC dominance when he coached at the University of Puget Sound.

Speaking with the weekly Bates Bobcast podcast, Vari reflected on “how, at first, you’d just see it on paper and think, ‘How in the world do they get four teams into the tournament?’ Then you see some game film and you go, ‘Wow, okay.’ And, obviously, the schools’ academic reputation only adds to the NESCAC mystique.”

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ARTS & CULTURE

20I9–20 artists in residence, the Momenta Quartet is famed for a contemporary-music focus.

Language study is strongly recommended for music majors planning graduate work.

A grant of $192,000 from the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts will support creation of the Marsden Hartley Legacy Project: The Complete Paintings and Works on Paper at the Bates College Museum of Art. The Legacy Project represents the first-ever comprehensive, publicly accessible guide to all known artworks by Marsden Hartley, a Lewiston-born pioneer of American Modernism.

The project’s initial phase will be an annotated online catalog of all known paintings and works on paper by the prolific artist, with publication as a book being a longer-term goal.

One of the biggest foundation gifts ever received by the museum, the grant is the museum’s second from the Horowitz foundation. The first supported work on the Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, which comprises art by Hartley and others and a treasure trove of personal possessions.

The Bates museum is widely recognized as an important Hartley resource thanks to the Hartley Memorial Collection, established at the college in the 1950s by a bequest from Hartley’s estate.

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Marsden Hartley depicted in a gelatin silver print made around 1940 by Alfredo Valente, a photographer best known for his images of Broadway actors.

Webb House was the “Experiencing Culture Through Music” theme house in 20I8–I9.

An honors thesis looked at English society through Buffalo Bill Cody’s I887 Wild West show in London.

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DEON “ The most powerful artistic expressions come when you work with people with whom you can freely discuss ideas, knowing that you will be challenged but brought to a deeper understanding.”

Company Party “There is no absolutely no way I would be the writer or researcher I am today if I hadn’t been at Bates,” Artemis Preeshl ’84, a former Bates dancer, told a Bates workshop last April.

The occasion was a signature event: a dance alumni reunion, this one celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Bates Dance Company’s debut in 1969.

Preeshl, who has taught acting, movement, and voice on five continents, was a participant in the workshop “Bodies at Work,” in which alumni explained how Bates helped prepare them for their careers.

In addition to workshops, the weekend reunion included performances and an exhibit of vintage costumes and performance programs from decades of dance. Professor of Dance Carol Dilley produced the reunion with support from Hannah Miller ’14.

Drawing 70-plus alumni, the gathering was the first since the 2016 death of Marcy Plavin, the larger-than-life founder of the dance program.

Right: Kathryn Ryan Brigham ’02 (left) greets Lynda Plavin Fitzgerald ’79, daughter of the late Marcy and Leonard Plavin, at last April’s dance alumni reunion.

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Theater and English double major Deon Custard ’21 of Chicago reflects on his Bates-funded summer internship with the city’s Steppenwolf Theatre Co., where he worked on sound design and production for the renowned ensemble company. Funded in part by the Bates Department of Theater and Dance, Custard’s internship honors the memory of the late Bates theater professor Ellen Seeling.

In an improvisational piece at the dance alumni reunion, Ya-Ya Fairley ’12 used a ghostlight as a prop, dancing in the small spot of light it cast.

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Music students presented a “Summit Jazz Gig” during the Mount David Summit last March.

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A I0-week Citizens Police Academy offers an inside look at the Lewiston police department.

Maine’s tallest building is Lewiston’s 220-foot Agora Event Center, once a Catholic church.

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Circa 1970, when Bardwell Street passed in front of Roger Williams Hall, two students are shown with their motorcycles.

What’s in a Name: Bardwell Once bisecting campus, Bardwell Street is named for Josiah Bardwell, a 19th-century business associate of Benjamin Bates, for whom Bates is named.

Cotton Connection By the 1850s, Josiah Bardwell was in business with Francis Skinner, a Boston-based middleman who sold Southern cotton to Benjamin Bates’ mills in Lewiston. In fact, today’s Campus Avenue used to be Skinner Street.

Bates Connection Like other business associates of Benjamin Bates, including Francis Skinner, Bardwell was a college trustee, from 1868 to 1873.

Cotton Problem The fact that pre-Civil War cotton for Benjamin Bates’ mills came from the South meant that Bates — and the young

college he supported with gifts — benefited from slavery.

Dying Young Gregarious and generous with “immense physical and natural powers,” Bardwell nevertheless died young, at age 47, of “apoplexy” — a stroke — while dining at Young’s Hotel in Boston in 1875.

Street Interrupted Running from south of campus to its northern terminus on the far side of Russell Street, Bardwell was once a city street that passed through campus, right in front of Roger Williams Hall.

That changed in the late 1960s when Lewiston turned over the campus stretch of Bardwell to the college so it could build Ladd Library.

New Direction What remains of the campus Bardwell Street runs in front of Adams and Smith halls, whose addresses are 170 and 160 North Bardwell St., respectively.

Bonnie Mosher checks her reflection in a mirror during Clean Sweep.

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Left and Found Held in Underhill Arena in June, this year’s Clean Sweep, the annual yard sale of items donated by Bates students as they left campus, netted a record $33,000 for local nonprofits.

Featuring bedding, bikes, floor lamps, toiletries, and everything in between, the event always attracts a huge crowd: As doors opened at 8 a.m., this year’s line to enter snaked all the way to Lewiston Middle School — more than a quarter mile away.

The Lewiston school department comprises I0 schools.

Bates purchases more than $6 million worth of goods and services from Lewiston-Auburn businesses.

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Three radio stations are licensed to broadcast in Lewiston, including Bates’ WRBC.

Motel Fix It’s one thing to stay in a motel for a day or two. It’s quite another to live in a motel for months or even years.

For her honors thesis in sociology last year, Abigail Westberry ’19 interviewed people who live long-term in motels in the Lewiston area.

She found some positives, including strong, supportive communities formed by motel residents, “particularly among members of the community who were recently incarcerated,” she said.

“They formed a lot of support networks among each other to work through all of the vast changes they were experiencing.”

But motel residents also face myriad challenges, including run-down conditions and long distances, beyond the reach of public transportation, from the motels to services in the city center.

Westberry’s thesis, “‘Before Its Smell Became Me’: Motel Residency and the Politics of Belonging,” is one of the first academic treatments of the topic, said her thesis adviser, Professor of Sociology Emily Kane. “She’s onto something.”

The quote in the thesis title came from a motel resident who worried that his downtrodden room — including its smell — would pull him down.

Westberry’s community-based research was conducted with local partners — she interviewed 15 service providers — who helped to guide the framing and goals of the project.

“I wanted something that’s derived from a community-based need and seeks to address community issues,” said Westberry, who is in India this year on a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant award.

Solutions that might help longterm motel residents could include investing in more public housing, expanding public transportation, and broadening definitions of homelessness so that motel residents are eligible for more programs.

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Language majors in 20I9: 9 in Chinese, 8 in French, 6 in Spanish, 2 in German, I in Japanese.

International applications rose I3% in 20I9.

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Between the Lines “I’m interested in telling the stories of everyday life” in China, says Assistant Professor of History Wes Chaney.

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Fulbright Might center — might represent the only personal sign of the individuals whose lives they document.

Chaney has amassed a large collection of historical contracts related to land, household division, and marriage from antique marketplaces near farming communities in Gansu and Qinghai provinces.

In one typical example, a 1914 contract stipulates how two brothers, who didn’t get along, would receive their deceased father’s inheritance.

The list includes a few parcels of land, “one shoehorn, a broken wok, seven sheep, and a leather strap.”

Together, the documents tell the story of an illiterate peasantry who left no written record other than the kinds of municipal and private contracts Chaney has in his possession.

“You can construct the history of a family over time, the kind of changes in the land that they owned, and why those changes occurred,” Chaney says.

“This is another extraordinary year for Fulbright awards at Bates,” President Clayton Spencer noted last spring, as 25 seniors and young alumni received offers of the prestigious overseas fellowships for the 2019–20 academic year.

The 25 Fulbright Student awards tie the college’s record total, set in 2017–18; that year, Bates earned recognition for having the most awards among U.S. bachelor’s degree institutions.

The “most-Fulbrights” ranking for 2019–20 will be announced in February.

300-plus juniors studied abroad in 20I8–I9. Five completed a year abroad, the rest one semester.

An honors thesis looked at issues surrounding asylum seekers, migrants, and refugees in Greece.

The Center for Global Education serves international students and offcampus study programs.

Floating Their Boats Shinto tradition and maneuvers on the Puddle culminated the Short Term course “Apprentice Learning: Building the Japanese Boat” last May. Vermont boat builder Douglas Brooks led the course and the launch of two skinny flat-bottomed boats the students built.

The launch included a purification ritual involving offerings to the spirits and the anointing of boats with salt, sake, and sparks. A Brooks colleague performed an a cappella song in Japanese amped up by a staccato call-and-response: “Yoisa!”

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One of two newly built boats makes a turn before the eyes of the crowd on the Lake Andrews shore.

Finally, wood met Puddle and the students gave their boats a shakedown cruise.

Arranged by the Center for Purposeful Work, the practitionertaught course steeped students in Japanese tradition, as well as woodworking, from the start. Classes were mostly silent, the idea being to elevate observation and mindfulness as ways of learning.

“You kind of get into this trance where you’re meditating through your work,” said one of the students, Nathaniel Badger ’22 of Edwards, Colo.

Imider, Morocco “After we spent a week studying environmental protest in Morocco, our van got behind the only other car on the road: a truck full of activists from the protest camp outside the Imider Silver Mine, the longest continuous environmental demonstration on Earth.

“This truck was heading home as another shift came to take their place, as they have been doing for the past eight years. The woman in the middle is giving the sign of the movement, which our driver returned in solidarity.”

Environmental studies graduate Haley Crim ’19 of Sandy Spring, Md., took this photo in April 2018 during her School for International Training program on climate change. The image was featured in the 2019 Barlow Off-Campus Study Exhibition.

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Book suggestions from the college’s annual Good Reads summer reading list:

The One-in-aMillion Boy

by Monica Wood

Suggested by Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Jennifer Koviach-Côté A retelling (and reimagining) of familiar Greek myths that many of us haven’t thought about since middle school.

The Drunken Botanist

by Amy Stewart Suggested by Energy Manager John Rasmussen Thorough and often humorous review of the different plants people have used over the centuries to create alcoholic beverages.

LOST & FOUND

Suggested by Bates Dance Festival director Shoshona Currier This book is surprising and uplifting despite a really tragic inciting incident, and you can feel Maine throughout it.

Circe

by Madeline Miller

Suggested by Associate Professor of Politics John Baughman This book is not just about the man behind the myth, but how and why the man helped create the myth.

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Garnet Bates cap • Bandana-print scrunchie • Carhartt knit cap • Photocopy of pages from The Argentina Reader • Timberland work gloves • Paper for Anthropology 101, taught by Danny Danforth • Rainbow pencil eraser (broken) • Book, Medical Apartheid • Band-Aid (unused) • Wayfarer-style Ray-Ban sunglasses • Book, When Breath Becomes Air • Maineshaped pendant necklace • Ghostbusters T-shirt • Vintage-style women’s fashion belt • Tote bag from the Maine conference “Our Changing Coast” • Homecube-brand pencil case • Single black sock • Mug with meme of sarcastic, coffee-sipping housewife saying to her son: “Caffeine first, darling, then we’ll pretend to listen to each other”

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

Forty years ago, the Auburn police department asked Bates to help determine if one part of the department’s hiring practices was unfair to women.

What part was that?

Answer: The Auburn P.D. wanted to know if its “agility test” discriminated against women recruits. Bates coach Gloria Crosby said that parts of the test involving upper-body strength — e.g., climbing a 6-foot wall in 12 seconds — were unfair.

Items seen in Ladd Library’s Lost and Found.

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Bates biologist Brett Huggett (left) and sociologist Michael Rocque pass Hathorn Hall during the B-Well 5K. At the finish, Huggett (27:29) edged Rocque (28:34), and the pair finished 39th and 40th of 155 participants.

Each June the college’s wellness program, B-Well, hosts a 5-kilometer run/walk around campus. In recent years, the fastest of all has been Francis Eanes, visiting assistant professor of environmental studies. This year’s top 10: 1. Francis Eanes, 15:52 Environmental studies professor 2. Jeremy Caron, 16:02 Lewiston resident 3. Oliver Hall, 18:06 Auburn resident 4. Joe Hall, 18:15 History professor (and Oliver’s dad) 5. Eddie Szeman, 18:18 Student Affairs staff 6. Sadie James ’17, 18:18 Student Affairs staff 7. Aleks Diamond-Stanic, 20:33 Physics professor 8. Darren Gallant, 21:04 Center for Global Education staff

10. Cary Gemmer ’07, 21:23 College Advancement staff

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HIT PARADE

Last June’s Alumni Parade saw the Class of 1979 brandish classic rock albums to celebrate their 40th Reunion theme, “Top 40 Reunion.”

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Seth Holbrook with Boz Scaggs’ Silk Degrees.

Marguerite Carpenter with Bruce Springsteen’s The Wild, the Innocent, & the E Street Shuffle.

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Mark Bennett with the debut album from Maine-based The Blend.

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Amy Gordon with Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours.

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Richard Stanley with Bob Seger’s Stranger in Town.

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A (NOT SO) GREAT DEBATE THEOPHIL SYSLO

In the early I900s, membership in prestigious Delta Sigma Rho was denied to black Bates debaters.

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A key figure in the Delta Sigma Rho controversy, John P. Davis ’26, right, poses with fellow debaters — from left, Erwin Canham ’25, Fred Googins ’27, and Harold Walker ’26 — during a I925 debate tour of Cambridge and Oxford universities.

A century ago, Bates fought, yet benefited from, a racist national debate organization, revealing a stark conflict between Bates’ ideals and the reality in which it operated by em ily m c c onv i lle In August 1926, recent graduate John Preston Davis wrote a letter to fellow alumnus Louis Costello, who, like Davis, had been a standout Bates debater.

Importantly, Costello was a member of the college’s Board of Trustees, and in his letter, Davis, who was black, levied charges of racism against Bates and its vaunted debate program, already famous around the world.

The letter probably staggered Costello; as a Lewiston newspaper executive, he would have been well aware of Davis’ “unhesitant, even passionate involvement in student affairs” at the college, in the words of Professor Emeritus of History Hilmar Jensen in his profile of Davis for Bates Magazine in 1991.

Davis had racked up speaking and writing prizes, edited several student publications, and was nominated as a Rhodes scholar.

Perhaps his most impressive legacy, though, was as a debater. President of the Debating Council, he competed internationally and was part of a team that competed in the U.K.

While the letter may have surprised Costello and others, it came from someone who had long been wrestling with questions about how he should live his life in a racist society.

“Should I be grateful for the half-way freedom they have offered?” wrote Davis one spring evening in 1925, as he ruminated on his decision not to attend a dance on campus.

Davis understood early on that the opportunities available to him, such as being able to dance with white women at a Bates event, should not depend on the generosity — and whims — of white people: “Should I be ‘thankful’ for the kindness of people who cannot see why my contact with them shouldn’t leave me with a decided ‘inferiority complex’?”

The summer after he graduated, Davis took a stand, going public with his efforts to correct one particular injustice that he felt the college had not done enough to address.

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Arthur Dyer (left), Class of I9I7, was the initial African American debater from Bates to be excluded from Delta Sigma Rho. He poses with fellow I9I6–I7 debaters Mervin Ames, Charles Mayoh, and Brooks Quimby.

Quimby, as Bates’ director of debate, would later take up the fight to integrate Delta Sigma Rho.

the national debating honor society. Davis met every requirement except one: The society did not admit black members.

In his letter to Costello — himself a Delta Sigma Rho member of the Class of 1898 — Davis said that “either Negro students should be frankly told before being misled into coming to Bates that privileges which are open to other students are in their case to be abridged; or else, Delta Sigma Rho should not be allowed to continue as a Bates organization.”

With the letter, a “furor broke on campus,” wrote Jensen, and the “ensuing crisis...became a moral touchstone for a decade of Bates alumni.”

Davis’ letter made public a stark conflict between Bates’ ideals and its reality, a conflict that had been playing out for years. Indeed, correspondence, articles, and meeting minutes in the college’s Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library tell the story of the fraught and frustrating efforts the college and its debaters had been making to persuade Delta Sigma Rho to change its racist policy.

Ultimately, it took two decades and a change in the national organization’s leadership before the society reversed its exclusion of black debaters.

Founded in 1906, Delta Sigma Rho’s central goal was to promote excellence in debating and raise the prestige of its members. The Bates Student trumpeted the creation of a chapter at Bates in 1915, even as it assured readers that despite the Greek letters, it wasn’t that kind of fraternity.

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When Bates joined, Delta Sigma Rho did not have a formal rule excluding black debaters. But when Bates advanced the nomination of one of its star debaters, Arthur Dyer, who was black, the team quickly found out that the national organization enforced an unwritten policy of segregation.

“This provision must be adhered to by all chapters,” wrote national secretary-treasurer Stanley B. Houck in 1916 to Harry Rowe, Bates Class of 1912.

Rowe, the chapter’s secretary, was just beginning his long tenure as a Bates administrator. Houck, a prominent Minnesota lawyer, would be a fixture in the national organization for decades to come.

To prevent integration Houck would, at least on paper, appeal to the cohesion of the organization.

“The possible injury done to a few Negroes by excluding them from membership would be offset by the good which the society could do in the South,” he wrote. “The welfare of the society required that there be no split between the Northern and Southern chapters on this issue.”

The Bates debate council went ahead with solidifying its Delta Sigma Rho chapter and inducting members, but at its first annual meeting in 1916, Rowe was told to write again to Houck “concerning Bates’ feeling in the matter of exclusion of Negroes from membership,” according to the meeting minutes.

Rowe also sought other colleges’ support for a petition ahead of a National Council meeting in 1917, asking the University of Chicago for “your

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moral and active support in presenting a re-opening and re-consideration of the matter.”

“It seems to me,” Rowe wrote, “that if Phi Beta Kappa, an old and long established honor society, makes no reservation as to race, color, creed, or sex, that Delta Sigma Rho might well follow this good example.”

Other Northern colleges seemed to be on the same page — Williams College asked Bates to support its own measure at the national meeting. Their efforts failed. “I personally appeared before the National Council at New Haven and remonstrated on their ruling, and was told that Chapters were not admitting colored men,” Rowe wrote in 1920 to Arthur Dyer, who had graduated three years earlier.

In 1920, Rowe wrote to the National Council, again asking it to change the rule. That year, Benjamin E. Mays, the future civil rights leader who served as president of the Debating Council and would have been eligible for Delta Sigma Rho membership, had graduated.

Not only were those efforts unsuccessful, but the society doubled down, officially changing its constitution to prohibit black members. Delta Sigma Rho held another National Council in 1922, but since it was in Iowa, Bates could not send a representative. The chapter did, however, submit a petition to strike the phrase “not a negro” from the national constitution’s list of membership requirements.

Seen in I977 at age 90, longtime Bates dean Harry Rowe, Class of I9I2, was the Bates point person for college efforts to eliminate Delta Sigma Rho’s racist membership rules.

Meanwhile, Bates enjoyed the prestige and the networking opportunities that the society afforded its white members.

The petition was less about taking a moral stand against racism and more about appeasing the chapters that did want to exclude black members; it emphasized that local chapters should have as much autonomy as possible. “The policy of local autonomy is very definitely limited by inability to elect Negroes to membership,” the petition said. That petition, too, failed.

Meanwhile, Bates enjoyed the prestige and the networking opportunities that the society afforded its white members. Bates’ debating victories and its methods were covered extensively in Delta Sigma Rho’s publication, and debate faculty contributed articles. Around Commencement each year, The Bates Student published the names of new inductees, along with those inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.

In 1926, John P. Davis became eligible for membership in every way except his race. Meeting minutes in June of that year record that Marion J. Crosby, the chapter secretary-treasurer, was instructed to write to the national secretary, asking permission to induct Davis.

Houck, now the president of Delta Sigma Rho, replied with a firm, racist no. “Several Negroes had been elected to membership with exactly the same result in each case, namely, the wrecking of the chapter and its practical non-existence as a functioning organization until the negro passed out of college and the memory of the members of the chapter,” he wrote.

(The society did not, as it happened, have a problem with women and with members of other minority groups becoming members.)

“The Bates College chapter of Delta Sigma Rho can officially bestow upon and accord Mr. John Davis any distinct and special recognition for his ability as a debater which it considers desirable or appropriate,” Houck wrote, “so long as the recognition does not take the form of membership.”

Three weeks later, Davis wrote his letter to Costello, prompting Rowe, debate coach and professor J. Murray Carroll, and Bates professor and Delta Sigma Rho member Oliver F. Cutts to submit a statement to the college trustees.

“Some feel that Bates should no longer retain her charter,” they wrote. “Others believe that altho the attitude of the national organization is regrettable, it is not the fault of Bates, but rather a part of the general disability under which Negroes labor, and if Bates takes this course it will only deny her students the advantages of affiliation with this honor society without in any degree furthering the rights of the negro.”

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Shown carrying the class sign for his 60th Reunion in I980, Benjamin Mays thanked the college for fighting Delta Sigma Rho: “It is gratifying to know that Bates has kept on the job.”

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Professor Emeritus of History Hilmar Jensen, above, is among a few Bates people who have looked at the story of John P. Davis, Delta Sigma Rho, and Bates debate.

History major Tom Connolly ’79 devoted a chapter to the controversy in his senior honors thesis on the history of Bates debate.

The late Professor of Rhetoric Robert Branham touches on the controversy in his book, Stanton’s Elm: An Illustrated History of Debating at Bates College, as did the late historian Charles Clark ’51 in the 2005 college history, Bates Through the Years.

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The question of racism “stirred us up a bit,” wrote Brooks Quimby, the 1918 graduate who would later become a college legend as director of debate.

Getting the segregation rule changed, however, only became more difficult. During the 1920s, Delta Sigma Rho changed two key procedural rules: Not only did meetings now take place every five years, but any constitutional changes required the approval of four-fifths of the local chapters.

So the Bates chapter began, again, to gather support for a rule change ahead of the 1931 National Council. Case Western Reserve University mounted its own campaign on behalf of one of its debaters, and the Wisconsin Legislature even passed a resolution urging Delta Sigma Rho to integrate so that a star University of Wisconsin debater could join.

Before the conference, Quimby wrote to Houck to let him know that Bates’ delegate would again try to get the chapters to vote to change the rule. Houck replied that he himself would put the matter to a vote — but he didn’t do so.

“Our delegate felt that both Houck and [vice president Gilbert] Hall did all they could to prevent the vote,” Quimby later wrote. “Mrs. Hall made the most remarkable argument to our delegate; that the reason that Negroes wanted to get into D.S.R. was so that they could marry white women!”

Bates had not asked for full integration of Delta Sigma Rho, but that each chapter be allowed to make its own decision. “We shall be sorry if this causes any chapters to leave,” Quimby continued, “but, personally, I see no credit in such logicians in a society like ours.”

many years of effort she has won.”

In 1956, Mays would be honored by Delta Sigma Rho with its distinguished service award.

Delta Sigma Rho would later merge with a rival debating society; Bates is no longer a member.

For Davis, the letter to Louis Costello launched a career as a public advocate for equality. After graduation, he moved to New York City, putting his written and oratorical talents to practice in the flourishing Harlem Renaissance.

Earning a law degree from Harvard in 1933, Davis moved to Washington, D.C., to work to ensure that African Americans were included in New Deal programs. In 1935, he helped found the National Negro Congress, a landmark civil rights organization, and became its executive director.

After World War II, he founded the nationally distributed magazine Our World, describing it as a “picture magazine for the Negro family.” Lena Horne was on its first cover.

A good friend and colleague of Thurgood Marshall, Davis mounted an early legal challenge to school segregation, in 1944, when he attempted to enroll his young son in an all-white elementary school in Washington, D.C. It’s unlikely that Davis, who died in 1973, ever joined Delta Sigma Rho. n

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In the end, the 1931 National Council did vote on whether to admit black members, and a strong majority voted yes — but not the four-fifths required for the measure to pass.

Delta Sigma Rho therefore remained segregated, but the damage to its leadership was done.

Houck was re-elected president but, sensing a loss of support, resigned a couple months later. The new president was H. L. Ewbank of the University of Wisconsin, with Quimby joining the national leadership as vice president.

The groundswell of support for integration and the leadership shakeup did not translate into a sense of urgency — or perhaps procedural rules prohibited swift action. It was another four years before the prohibition against black members was finally lifted and Dyer, Mays, and Davis became eligible for Delta Sigma Rho membership.

Mays, soon to become president of Morehouse College and earn the title “schoolmaster of the Civil Rights Movement,” sent Brooks Quimby $17 for his membership dues.

“It was my impression when I was in college that Bates had tried to make it possible for Negroes to become members of the National Forensic Society of Delta Sigma Rho,” Mays once wrote. “It is gratifying to know that Bates has kept on the job, and that after

Shielding his son’s face from photographers as white children look on, Davis leads his son Michael, age 5, away from a Washington, D.C., elementary school after the principal refused to admit his son to the all-white school in I944. Davis intended to challenge separate-but-equal Jim Crow laws.

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a debt of gratitude

COURTESY ANNAKATE KELLEY

“ At first I thought of him as a tough soldier.

But he was just a kid.”

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David Nash ’68 and bird-flipping friends pose in Parker Hall in October 1965.

In telling the story of David Nash ’68, a Texas teenager honors the memories of many Bates people while teaching a lesson about a tragic chapter of American life by jay bu r ns A senior at Westlake High School in Austin, Texas, Annakate Kelley is vice president of the school’s famed drill team, and her college search is kicking into high gear.

After a bunch of campus visits last year, she’s planning to apply to 11 colleges, all over the country. She’s at a familiar stage in the search: “I have no idea where I want to go!”

Even as Kelley’s future calls, she’s done her part to touch and honor the memories of many Bates people while teaching a lesson about a tragic chapter of American life.

As part of an AP English project during her junior year, she created a simple video tribute, based on her research, to the life and death of a beloved Bates alumnus, David Nash ’68, who was killed in Vietnam in spring 1970.

Along the way, she made contact with a slew of Nash’s friends from Bates, catalyzing an unexpected round of conversation and memory-sharing nearly 50 years after his death.

Each year since 2009, AP students at Westlake High have read The Things They Carried, author Tim O’Brien’s collection of short stories about combat soldiers in Vietnam.

Then they research a person — assigned to them randomly — whose name appears on the national Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Using quotes, photographs, and other ephemera, including letters home, they create a video with their own voice-over.

“It moved me,” said Mike Nolan ’69, a Vietnam combat veteran, after seeing Kelley’s video. Noting

that it was created by someone encountering the war for the first time, Nolan says that “her young age and time separation give her a certain honesty without prejudice.”

Rebecka Stucky, a high school English teacher of 44 years, created Westlake’s Vietnam tribute program in 2009, gaining support from the school library to create a public site for the video projects. Since then, Westlake students have created an astonishing 4,292 tributes, also including one for Charles Pfaffmann ’67.

For her 16- and 17-year-old students, reading O’Brien’s book and creating the tributes “helps make the war more real, more tangible,” says Stucky. “They are near the age that some of their soldiers died, so it makes a tremendous impact on them. They begin to refer to the person they are researching as ‘my guy.’”

Such is the case with Kelley. As she began her AP coursework, she recalls how “it felt hard to find a connection to the war. It seemed so long ago.” After reading the book and creating the video, “it feels close.”

That proximate feeling hit its height as photos poured in from Nash’s Bates friends, including John Lanza ’67 and Bill Bensch ’67.

In one, Nash is with a bunch of friends in Parker Hall. He’s grinning, a beer in hand, and more than a few of his buddies are flipping the bird at the camera.

Did Kelley notice the gesture? “About the third time I looked at the photo, yeah,” she says with a laugh.

Seeing him in his Bates environment — with friends, beer, and laughter — changed her perception of Nash. “At first I thought of him as a tough soldier,” she says. “But he was just a kid.”

For Annakate Kelley, left, seen posing for her senior portrait at Westlake High School in Austin, Texas, creating a video profile of David Nash made her realize that “people live with the pain of the war every day.”

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“ The war still affects people every single day.

People live with the pain of the war every day.”

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O’Brien’s book is about the literal and intangible things that soldiers carried with them in Vietnam.

Nash carried “love for his sister and his mother,” Kelley believes. “I think that’s what was getting him through, thinking of them.”

Nash’s mother died in 2010 (his father had died when he was 5 years old). His sister, Susan Rice, lives in Brewster, Mass., with her husband, Jonathan.

She loaned Kelley letters that her brother wrote from Vietnam.

Along with his own self-deprecating dry humor, Nash’s letters are filled with a soldier’s growing disillusionment, frustration, and fear — sentiments that are all too familiar after decades of books, movies, and documentaries about Vietnam.

It was hard to re-read his letters, says Rice, and the experience revived some regrets. Four years older than her brother and already married and living far from home, she “didn’t even get a chance to see him play baseball” in high school or at Bates.

That’s been the hardest part of this experience, says Kelley, and what made her tear up at times: realizing that “the war still affects people every single day. People live with the pain of the war every day.”

The pain does endure, says Rice, but so do hope and appreciation.

“Annakate’s high school is not allowing their students to forget about this very sad chapter of American life,” Rice says. “In that sense, I feel good about it, the same way I felt about watching Ken Burns’ Vietnam War. It’s hard to watch, but good to always keep bringing those lessons forward.”

For Stucky’s students, reaching out to family and friends to learn about “their guys” becomes “an amazing experience to guide them in their discovery.”

Importantly, the students “are creating something for a very real audience.”

At first, Kelley’s Bates audience numbered just three, all Bates alumni.

Reviewing Nash’s presence on various Vietnam tribute sites, including the Vietnam Veterans Virtual Memorial Wall, she saw tributes from Sal Spinoza ’68, Bill Penders ’70, and Charlie Buck ’70.

Buck lives not far from Nash’s hometown of Mountain Lakes, N.J., and as fate would have it, he’d recently visited a cemetery in Basking Ridge to find Nash’s grave. Then he received an email inquiry from Kelley. “It almost knocked me off my chair,” says Buck.

After Kelley contacted the trio, they and others, including Lanza and Bruce Stangle ’70, helped to widen the circle, which now includes well over 100 Bates alumni, not to mention friends from Nash’s hometown that Kelley contacted.

Rice says that the pain of losing her brother is also lessened by knowing that “classmates and Bates friends still hold him in high regard.”

Left, David Nash ’68 sits atop his armored cavalry assault vehicle, or ACAV, in Vietnam in January 1970.

On the back of the photo he wrote, “I have to do something about that beer belly.”

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the jungle to find and engage the enemy.

Being an ACAV commander “is not always conducive to good health,” Nash wrote dryly. “I will be sitting in the open turret…firing a 50-caliber machine gun in plain view of everyone.”

Nash wrote about the dangers of RPGs, or rocket-propelled grenades, that “will go through an ACAV like a baseball goes through a window. That’s how we get most of our casualties (along with mines), and they really scare me.” Twice, Nash’s ACAV ran over a mine, and each time he avoided injury.

He also wrote about his perplexing encounters with civilians, mentioning Stars and Stripes coverage of the My Lai massacre in one letter and expressing the familiar soldier’s lament: “You just don’t know who to trust.”

By December 1969, after heavy fighting near the Cambodian border, his platoon, which was supposed to have 40 men, was down to 24. “All three of my crew are 20 years old — fresh out of high school.

My gunner is a medic. That’s how hard up we are for men,” he wrote to his sister.

Still, his “gung ho” platoon leader, a first lieutenant, kept volunteering for extra assignments.

“We have now been in the field for 32 consecutive days,” wrote Nash. The lieutenant, he added, “doesn’t think of his men enough.”

For Kelley, the event that defined Nash’s character came the night he was mortally wounded.

And for those who knew Nash, what transpired that night was no surprise.

When deployed in the field, armored cavalry units would create a defensive “laager” for the night, the same idea as circling the wagons.

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Do they ever. At Bates, Nash played baseball, majored in history, and, in his senior year, served as president of the intramurals council. Friends told Kelley how Nash was a “really good kid,” a “Bates hero,” and a “first-class guy.”

To Penders, Nash was “wonderful, loving, sensitive, and kind.” And a letter to his hometown paper after his death called him “well-mannered, decent, and polite…. He only wanted to ‘play ball.’”

The outpouring tells Kelley something about Nash’s college. “Bates seems like a community where everyone is supportive,” she says. “Bates people seem to hold their connections forever, and I don’t think that happens at all colleges.”

Shortly after graduation, Nash was drafted to fight in Vietnam. He underwent a new type of Army training at Fort Benning, Ga., geared toward filling a pressing need for more noncommissioned officers who could lead troops into battle.

Nash was tapped as his group’s “Distinguished Graduate” and promoted to staff sergeant. With his usual irony, he judged the honor to be the result of “a calamity of errors” by the Army.

By September 1969, Nash was in Vietnam. Rather than the infantry, he was surprised to learn that he would command an armored cavalry assault vehicle, or ACAV, in the 11th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Squadron, I Troop, 3rd Platoon.

It scared him. “I know nothing about armor — its maintenance or operation,” he wrote. “I guess my first month will be ‘on the job training.’ It’s really typical of this ______ [sic] Army to train me to be an infantryman and then put me with armor. C’est la vie!”

For the armored cavalry in Vietnam, missions came fast and furious. Considered the Army’s jackof-all-trades, armored cavalry units barreled into

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David Nash ’68 (second from left) and fellow Bobcat hurlers gather with their baseball coach, Chick Leahey ’52 (right), in the Gray Athletic Building in spring 1967.

and Claymore mines,” explains Mike Hoffnagle of Abilene, Texas, who served with Nash.

In turn, North Vietnamese soldiers tried to anticipate where the Americans would establish their laagers, booby-trapping likely spots.

That night, March 26, 1970, a new soldier had been assigned to check the perimeter for booby traps.

Nash, because of who he was, or because of what he didn’t like about his platoon leader, or perhaps both, volunteered to take the new soldier’s place.

Nash “was in the process of setting out night defensive weapons when he tripped a booby trap,” recalls Hoffnagle.

Since he knew Nash, Hoffnagle is asked if Nash was the type of person who would’ve volunteered to do dangerous duty. “Yes, that is true.”

The blast cost Nash his leg. On April 17, he dictated a letter to a Red Cross worker from his hospital bed in Japan. “My wounds have healed but I picked up intestinal problems, malaria, and other assorted problems,” he wrote to his sister. He was fed intravenously. “At this point I think I’d pay ten dollars for a cheeseburger.”

Nash died 26 days later, on May 13, 1970. He was 23 years old.

The next spring, his Bates baseball coach, Chick Leahey ’52, announced the creation of the David R. Nash Memorial Baseball Award, an effort spearheaded by Mike Morin ’68 and supported by teammates and friends of Nash. In recent years, his Bates friends have also endowed a scholarship fund in Nash’s name.

Leahey’s widow, Ruth Leahey, has seen Kelley’s tribute video. “I wish Chick were here to see it,” she says. “I remember when the call came that David was injured, and then a second call that he had died.

Chick was deeply sad and frustrated by the loss of David’s life in the war.”

Years later, the Leaheys traveled to Washington, D.C. There, Chick went to the Vietnam wall, found David’s name, and knelt in prayer.

Among Nash’s friends and family, Annakate Kelley’s unexpected appearance in their lives nearly amounts to the answer to a prayer.

“She’s done more to bring Bates people together around David’s memory than she will ever realize,” said Bruce Stangle ’70. “We owe her a debt of gratitude.” n Kelley’s video about Davis Nash bates.edu/david-nash

bate s alu m ni k i lle d i n v i e tnam Four Bates graduates died in Vietnam: Robert Ahearn ’64 in 1969 Harry Mossman ’65 in 1972 Charles Pfaffmann ’67 in 1970 David Nash ’68 in 1970 Allan Jordan ’65, who attended Bates briefly and later graduated from Union, was killed in 1968.

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ELEVEN FROM ALASKA From “mind-blowing” and “soothing” to “Grundéns” and “weather,” 11 words explaining the work and mindset of Bates students and professor Kristen Barnett doing indigenous archaeology in the village of Togiak, Alaska by jay bu r ns photo g raphy by t i m le ac h ’ 99

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A lot of what we know, or think we know, about archaeology comes from movies like Raiders of the Lost Ark: Indiana Jones racing Forrestal or Belloq to discover the next cool thing.

Hollywood aside, there’s truth to that depiction, says Kristen Barnett, assistant professor in American studies at Bates. “Really, most archaeology is still about things.”

But here’s the thing. Artifacts are often in “close proximity to living communities — people today,” explains Barnett. Despite that proximity, archaeologists have, say critics, long run roughshod over indigenous communities — the places where such artifacts truly belong — with generations of scholars “making a living conducting research on Native Americans’ lifeways, bodies, and sacred places,” in the words of scholar Sonya Atalay.

Barnett’s method, one that’s now playing out in a small village along the southwest coast of Alaska, tries to address such inequities in archaeological practice with an approach that emphasizes partnership, sharing, and engagement with indigenous communities.

It’s called indigenous archaeology because it “places the needs of the community at the center,” she says.

Flipping the script, indigenous archaeology moves away from notions of discovery, which can imply seizing ownership. As Barnett says to her students, “We’re not really discovering anything. We’re serving.”

Specifically, Barnett and her students are serving the small Alaskan village of Togiak, or Tuyuryaq in the native Yup’ik language. Located about 390 miles south-southwest of Anchorage, the coastal village is accessible only by water or air. It numbers about 800 residents, of whom about 85 percent are Yup’ik.

Barnett herself is an Alaska Native, a member of the Unangax (or Aleut) people of the Aleutian Islands and coastal mainland. She has described Togiak as “kind of a cousin village.”

Funded by a major National Science Foundation grant, Barnett has thrice brought a team of Bates students to the Togiak area, most recently during Short Term last May. As with past Bates trips, the students’ work had a twofold quality. First, they spent a week in the village, engaging with students at the local K–12 school and meeting community elders.

Then they decamped across Bristol Bay — just about a mile and a half as the crow flies — to do archaeology at Old Togiak, the village’s location until about a century ago, before inhabitants began crossing the bay to resettle at the site of today’s village.

After two weeks of fieldwork, the Bates group — comprising Barnett, 11 students, and two research assistants, Elliot Chalfin-Smith ’21 and alumna Kelsey Schober ’16 — returned to Togiak for another brief stay, including attending the school’s prom.

Midway through their Togiak fieldwork, Tim Leach ’99 joined the group for a couple days of photography and interviews. He came away with these 11 words that explain the Bates students’ experiences and insights.

Left, Kristen Barnett and her students walk along the shore near the Old Togiak excavation site on May 15, 2019.

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I. MIND-BLOWING A prospective biology major, Emma Christman ’22 is a Mainer who grew up in nearby Litchfield. With most of her first Bates year behind her, Christman felt some wanderlust. “I needed to get out for a little bit. Plus, I’d never been on a plane.”

The course introduced her to big ideas now facing the field of archaeology. “Some of the big ethical and moral questions that come up in indigenous archaeology and community-based research I had never even heard of,” she says. “It was mind-blowing to walk into this field and be like, ‘Holy...’. This is a whole new world.”

2. NARRATIVE Solaine Carter ’21 of Tucson, Ariz., was drawn to the course by her major: rhetoric, film, and screen studies. “I’m really interested in narratives and storytelling,” she says.

In terms of indigenous archaeology at Togiak, she’s interested in “what it means, what it can look like, and what it should look like. That’s where the rhetoric piece comes in for me.”

When talking about her interest in the course, Nell Pearson ’20, an anthropology major from Brooklyn, N.Y., references a famous TED talk

by Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie, “The Danger of the Single Story,” who argues that it is “impossible to engage properly with a place or a person without engaging with all of the stories of that place and that person.”

The village of Togiak knows the dangers of the single story because it’s been the victim of at least one.

In the 1960s, a doctoral student briefly explored Old Togiak and removed thousands of items, including human remains that Barnett, several years ago, helped to repatriate. In his dissertation, he dismissed the site as a midden, a dump for domestic trash — a single story later proven wrong.

“With Professor Barnett coming here, we can see if the narrative is a little bit more complex than just one definition of a place,” says Pearson. “That’s cool to be a part of.”

3. CONTINUITY Now, Barnett is challenging current thinking about Togiak and other regional models, specifically that the site was occupied by one group of people during the Medieval Warm Period, circa 950 to 1250, and then, when the Little Ice Age arrived later, “there was a total replacement of that population.”

Emphasizing disruption, such a theory can have “severe” implications for an indigenous community by severing the community from its own past — “from its own story,” Barnett says.

As is typical of pre-colonial Yup’ik dwellings, the ones at Old Togiak are partially below ground.

There are larger community houses for men’s work and activities, known as qasgi, and smaller sod houses, about 4 meters in diameter, for women, known as ena.

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at Togiak, Barnett is zeroing in on how women ran and organized their households in the ena. For her, “ideas about cultural continuity are really wrapped up on those small homes.”

While some things might change in a village over time — such as architecture, population, and what villagers ate — what might not change, and be a better indicator of continuity, is the operation of households.

“We all have a mental roadmap of what it means to make a home,” explains Barnett. “For instance, no matter where I live, I’ll put my keys in the same spot.” All those routines create “a roadmap of what my home means and how it’s organized.” At Old Togiak, a consistent household roadmap could be key to supporting ideas of cultural continuity over hundreds of years.

Of course, if the evidence ultimately shows a population change at Old Togiak, “you don’t ignore it,” Barnett says.

But, either way, “the archaeological framework needs to be expanded to consider local perspectives and insights and to work through the process together. The archaeologist is working with materiality, whereas a community might be working with thousands of generations of knowledge and experience.”

Speaking of the Little Ice Age: Barnett, pointing to research from University College London, notes that this period of global cooling in the 16th and 17th centuries may have been brought on by the genocide of millions of Native peoples in the Americas beginning in the 15th century. The resulting revegetation of land previously occupied by humans soaked up enough atmospheric carbon dioxide to cool the planet.

4. OWNERSHIP Indigenous archaeology has “a lot to do with power dynamics,” says Jinzhi Wei ’20, a religious studies and economics double major from Liuzhou, China.

In that sense, Barnett “doesn’t claim ownership of the project, and she doesn’t prioritize the needs of archaeology over the needs of the community. She’s helping the community trace back its cultural past.”

5. SOOTHING At the dig site, students had two primary jobs, one inside the 10-by-20 WeatherPort canopy that covered the dig, and one outside.

Inside, students carefully excavated soil with trowels, placing any found objects into plastic bags for labeling and logging. Outside, students screened excavated soil for smaller items missed by the inside team.

Eventually, the work gets even tinier. The soil will undergo geochemical analysis as well as “flotation” to separate light from heavy particles and, in so doing, identify plant remains.

Inside the WeatherPort, a grid marks 1-meter squares that are typical for a dig site. For students new to excavation with a trowel, “one meter is huge,” says Barnett, so she further divides the

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Inside the WeatherPort at the excavation site, Jinzhi Wei ’20 holds a grid line level while another student point plots an artifact. The site is gridded with string to create 50-centimeter quads that are then excavated by hand.

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On the beach, Nell Pearson ’20 prepares to screen dirt excavated from the site above.

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During the screening process, Maya McDonough ’22 winces and mud splashes as Jinzhi Wei ’20 pours water onto excavated soil.

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Trowel in hand, Hanna Webster ’22 excavates soil at the site.

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Indigenous archaeology discounts notions of “discovery” and instead emphasizes engagement with local indigenous communities. “We’re not discovering,” says Barnett.

“We’re serving.”

meter squares into smaller, more manageable 50-centimeter quads.

Anna Truman-Wyss ’21, an American studies and anthropology double major from Auburn, Ala., preferred the slow, steady, and mindful process of excavation.

“Excavating is soothing,” she says (even though she feels that she’s “not good at it”).

The process of screening excavated dirt, on the other hand, is “sitting around waiting for more soil, and then you go-go-go, and then you sit around again. I like the consistent work of excavating.”

6. GRUNDÉNS To do this type of fieldwork, you have to be equipped both intellectually and otherwise, with gear that’s right for days and days of outdoor work in breezy, cool (highs in the 40s, lows around freezing), and sometimes wet weather.

What Bean boots are to students on the Bates campus, Grundéns outerwear, especially bib overalls, was to the students on the Togiak trip. “We learned to love them,” says Maya McDonough ’22, a prospective geology major from Aspen, Colo.

At first, “everyone was like, ‘They’re so ugly and bulky.’ But they keep you dry and they keep you warm — and mostly clean.”

7. RESPECT For Joseph Willky ’20, a double major in American studies and anthropology from Randolph, Mass., the guiding concept behind indigenous archaeology is respect.

“We follow the values that Togiak stands by,” he says. Whether it’s archaeology, or land use, or “things that might not be seen as sacred,” like pieces of wood that float onto shore near their campsite, “it all falls under respect. We are the visitors.”

Barnett, he says, tries to instill humility in her students. “You cannot take whatever privilege that you were born with and automatically place it into a new place. That does not cut it.”

8. WEATHER The absence of distractions from things like cell phones meant that the Bates students began to pay greater attention to the weather, as does anyone who works outdoors.

Asked what surprised her on the trip, Hanna Webster ’22 of Shelburne, Vt., seemed abashed by her answer. “This might be generic, but it’s the weather.”

The mornings, she described, “have been kind of cloudy. It’s been a little bit rainy at night. Then we wake up, and I expect to see rain, but all of a sudden the sky opens and it’s a beautiful blue sky.”

Then there were the two days of rain and wind that threatened to blow away a tent at the campsite until they created a wind block.

“We had to have people standing against the tent to hold it up and build a wind block in the

pouring rain. Those moments were really challenging,” she says.

“But looking back, it was also really exciting — kind of fun, in a way. It was a different kind of fun.”

9. BOX During their visit, the students witnessed the delivery of a small wooden box, labeled “fragile,” to Barnett.

The box contained human remains looted from Old Togiak in the 1990s. During prosecution of the crime, the remains were held as evidence, then boxed and delivered to the Traditional Council of a nearby village, Twin Hills.

There they sat for years. Complicating and delaying repatriation was the transfer, from Twin Hills to Togiak, of the rights to the land from which the remains had been looted.

While some archaeologists work with or research human remains, Barnett doesn’t. Still, there was the box, so she informed Togiak’s Traditional Council and made arrangements to return them to the village.

With such communications with the council, she is mindful of her role. “My goal is not to burden, but be of service. So, if I’m like, ‘I’ve got this, and what are you going to do now?’ — that approach can become really burdensome.”

The remains were returned to the community.

Any decisions regarding their treatment and care rest with the community, Barnett says.

I0. INSTAGRAM None of the students had cell service in Togiak, and that suited them just fine.

“I don’t know where my phone is right now,” said Jack Johnson ’22 of Brewster, Mass. “It’s refreshing. You realize all the things that you don’t need at all. You don’t need to go to Instagram, Snapchat, and all that stuff. It’s just fluff.”

Kyle Jorgensen ’22 of Lawrence Township, N.J., agrees.

“Away from the phone, I feel that I can absorb more of where I am and what I’m doing. It’s kind of like you have more purpose.”

II. AWESOME “Awesome” is perhaps overused, but apropos when you’re surrounded by snow-covered peaks on three sides, the Pacific Ocean on the fourth, and blue skies above.

For Ian Christiansen ’22, a prospective physics major from Hudson, N.H., an awesome moment occurred when clouds and rain shrouded everything, during what’s become an annual tradition for Barnett’s students and local schoolchildren: a climb up Two Hill, a small rise near town not much higher than Mount David.

“It wasn’t pouring, but it was rainy, cold, and damp. But it was an awesome bonding experience,” Christiansen says. “We were all chugging through it together.” n Fall 2019

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DIFFERENT

BUT ALIKE The political divide in Washington is institutionalized and wider than ever. Still, newly minted Congressmen Ben Cline ’94 and Jared Golden ’11 are willing to give bipartisanship a go by em ily m c c onv i lle photo g raphy by p h y lli s g r abe r je nse n Jared Golden ’11 is a Democrat from Maine, while Ben Cline ’94 is a Republican from Virginia.

Different, but alike.

As Bates undergraduates, both felt a bit different from their peers — Golden was older and a Marine veteran, while Cline was a conservative from the South.

Both majored in politics (Golden also majored in history), and both worked on Capitol Hill before being elected to the legislatures of their home states.

Now, they’re both first-term congressmen from largely rural districts, Golden representing Maine’s sprawling 2nd District, the largest east of the Mississippi River, and Cline serving Virginia’s 6th District, in the northwest part of that state.

Interviewed by professors John Baughman (politics) and Stephanie Kelley-Romano (rhetoric, film, and screen studies) in a packed classroom at the 2019 Reunion, the pair met up for the first time and talked about their Bates pasts, about what it was like arriving in Washington during a government shutdown, and how the alignment of powerful — and surprising — forces tends to stymie bipartisanship.

When Golden and Cline were sworn in, in early January, the federal government was in the middle of a five-week partial shutdown. There was barely time to get acclimated to the offices and technology, Cline said. “We were voting on day one.”

The 116th Congress includes a number of charismatic, media-savvy freshman members comfortable in the national spotlight, and both Golden and Cline frequently referenced Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., during their discussion, with Golden distancing himself from her style of legislating.

“There’s room in every caucus for all kinds, and you need a little bit of every type of leader,” he explained. “Mine is, I think, a more quiet, dogged focus on issues and work, and then getting to the district and traveling around and meeting people face-to-face and making sure they feel a strong connection to their representative.”

Golden and his staff decided, instead of jumping straight into high-profile issues, to hang back and wait for his committee assignments — but he hit a wrinkle there.

He had promised during his campaign that he would not vote for Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., as speaker of the House, saying Congress needed a new generation of leaders. He, along with 14 other members, followed through on their promises, but Pelosi was reelected speaker anyway.

“I’m not gonna lie,” Golden said. Voting against the speaker “doesn’t make it easy to get your top committee assignments.”

One of Golden’s two committee assignments is the Committee on Armed Services, whose 62 members include 20 military veterans. Twelve of those served combat tours, but only Golden served in the enlisted ranks.

“I think I bring an enlisted perspective into that committee room,” he said. “There’s a lot of officers sitting in that room. It’s a different, boots-on-theground perspective on Afghanistan and Iraq or other things.”

He’s also on the Committee on Small Business, chairing that committee’s contracting and infrastructure subcommittee.

“That committee’s been a real blessing,” he said.

“It’s interesting, and in my experience, the one you might not enjoy as much turns out to be really deeply engaging.”

A lawyer, Cline landed among many other lawyers on the Judiciary Committee, an assignment he credits to the congressman he succeeded in Virginia’s 6th District, Bob Goodlatte ’74, who was the committee’s chair.

He also joined the Committee on Education and Labor where, as the representative of a district dotted with four-year colleges, he works on the higher education subcommittee.

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Jared Golden ’11 (left) and Ben Cline ’94 speak to a full room at Reunion in June. Creating bipartisanship in the “rubble” of Washington is challenging, to say the least, said Cline.

members of Congress join a lottery to pick their offices, and Cline got first pick among the 80 new representatives — and was promptly inundated with calls from news outlets asking him about his new office. “Just to show you how the priorities of D.C. are messed up,” he lamented.

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“CBS This Morning wanted to follow me around,” Cline said. “I said, ‘Can I go on CBS This Morning? Because I’d like to talk about my priorities for legislation.’ ‘No, we just want to follow you around and see what room you pick.’ That was my moment of fame.”

Cline didn’t go on This Morning, and he said the national media requests have largely subsided. “I’ve been on a very quiet committee assignment of Judiciary ever since,” he joked.

What most people don’t realize, Cline said, is how much of a House member’s attention and resources are devoted to issues back home in the district.

“They see us in Washington, but they don’t see that half of our budget is constituent services, running the offices. Half my staff is in the district helping folks who have problems with Social Security benefits or veterans benefits, solving problems with passports and things like that.”

Golden and Cline or their staffs spend three or four days out of most weeks in the district, hearing their constituents’ opinions.

“I have 19 counties and cities in my district, and so I’m trying to have a town hall in each one of them,” Cline said. “That’s where the rubber meets the road, when people can actually talk to their representative. You’re just being available. That’s what’s going to restore faith in the system.”

A squad leader in the Marines, Golden said that leading a congressional staff was very different. “I hired good, smart people who challenge me and try and push back and make sure I’m making the right decisions and be thoughtful about it. That’s a learning experience for me, too.”

Golden said he might hold a town hall now and

again, but finds that the format favors loud and politically extreme views. (Maine’s two U.S. senators, independent Angus King and Republican Susan Collins, also tend to eschew the town hall format.)

Golden also has roundtables and coffee hours, appears at public events, and even tells his constituents to take a hike.

“We say, ‘Come meet us at the head of the trail, and walk through the woods with your congressman for an hour.’ We’ll get three or four people; but maybe some people need it that low-key.”

Cline, a former member of the Republican-controlled Virginia House of Delegates, had to get used to being in the minority in “one of the most partisan environments imaginable,” he said — and during a shutdown, to boot. “We’re trying, but it’s like starting from 20 yards behind.”

In Virginia, Cline said, it was much easier to work across the aisle.

“In Richmond, all of us sit in the House together on the floor at the same time, and there’s one room in the back called the Members’ Lounge, and that’s where the food is. In line, it’s Democrat, Republican, Democrat, Republican. When we sit down, we’re all sitting together in the back sharing stories.”

On Capitol Hill, Cline has found that there’s a partisan slant to everything from orientation, which is largely separate for Republicans and Democrats, to doorways.

“The caucuses don’t even enter rooms through the same doors. The Republicans go through one door, the Democrats go in another door. Every committee has separate lounges, a lounge for Republicans and a lounge for Democrats.

“We are starting from a place of stark division and for those of us who want to make changes, the

institution’s very resistant to change,” Cline added.

“We’ve got a lot of work to do to make it happen.”

Cline said he sometimes plays “Democrat roulette,” saying hello to various Democratic members of Congress and seeing who is responsive and who is not. Golden joined the For Country Caucus, a group of military veterans from both parties who are committed to bipartisanship.

“It’s really a commitment to forge relationships and try and put yourself in the mindset of, what’s the best step for the collective country?” Golden said.

One audience member in the Keck Classroom called the separate doors “heartbreaking,” and asked the congressmen if there was any hope for bipartisan cooperation. Neither was optimistic.

Golden recalled listening to a podcast featuring a marriage counselor who also worked on Middle East peace efforts. The counselor said that cooperation is very difficult if people don’t trust either the process of negotiation or negotiators themselves.

“I really thought about our politics these days,” Golden said. “Forget talking about Middle East peace. Here in our country, with our politics, both sides don’t trust one another. The general public doesn’t trust the process. We’re in a lot of trouble.”

Cline said the Judiciary Committee, which during Reunion was conducting some of the highestprofile hearings on the Hill in connection with the Mueller Report, is a microcosm of the hyperpartisanship sweeping Congress. “We were talking past each other and making points and then going back to our offices,” he said.

(Not long after Reunion, Cline was part of another very Bates moment when he got to question legal expert and media commentator Joyce White Vance ’82 during her committee testimony.)

The eighth and ninth Bates alumni to serve in Congress, Cline and Golden take the short walk from their offices to the Capitol on July 25, 2019.

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Cline said he’s trying to get all the freshman members together for lunch once a week, but the work is frustrating.

“It’s building those relationships from the ground up,” he said. “Right now we just have dust.

We just have rubble. Trying to get a seedling to sprout in that rubble is challenging.”

Cline grew up in Lexington, Va., the son of a Washington and Lee economics professor. He had the liberal arts ethos in mind when he arrived at Bates, and he said he got what he wanted.

On a largely liberal campus, the more-conservative Cline was “confronted on day one,” he said. But he learned to debate his beliefs in Commons, where anything and everything was up for debate.

“Everything was on the table,” he said. “If you had something to say, say it.”

In 1992, Cline’s mother sent him a newspaper clipping — Bob Goodlatte ’74 had won that year’s House seat in his home district. Two years later, Goodlatte returned to campus for his 20th Reunion, and Cline made a point of joining the student BatesStar team for the Class of 1974.

The BatesStars were encouraged to write notes of introduction to the returning alumni. “Mine said, ‘I’m Ben Cline, I’m from Lexington, Virginia, I’m majoring in political science, and I really want to work on Capitol Hill.’”

And during the weekend, he got to meet the new congressman and his wife, Maryellen Flaherty Goodlatte ’74.

“Sure enough, after he and Maryellen got back to Washington, there was a resume waiting for him.

It was at that point that the very first staffer, an entry-level correspondent who wrote the mail, had decided to leave. I got called in for an interview.”

Cline worked for Goodlatte for eight years, be-

In July 1999, Ben Cline ’94 (left) confers with Rep. Bob Goodlatte ’74 in Goodlatte’s office in the Rayburn House Office Building. Cline was Goodlatte’s legislative director at the time.

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coming chief of staff. After his time in Goodlatte’s office, Cline earned a law degree and served eight terms in the Virginia House of Delegates. When Goodlatte decided to retire in 2018 after 26 years in Congress, Cline won his seat.

“My Bates network was one guy,” Cline said, “but it was a very critical guy.”

Born in Lewiston and raised in nearby Leeds, Golden served two combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan before returning to Maine. By the mid2000s, he was working a few jobs to make ends meet, including one at George’s Pizza in Auburn, a favorite Friday night pizza takeout spot for Bill Hiss ’66, a longtime Bates dean of admission.

The two met one night, and Hiss encouraged Golden, who had briefly attended the University of Maine at Farmington, to return to college, at Bates.

“I’m like, ‘You’re out of your mind, buddy,’” Golden said in recalling Hiss’ suggestion, eliciting a big laugh from the Reunion audience. But, he said, “Bates didn’t laugh.”

“It’s a real lesson that nothing is really impossible. If you want to try something and work hard enough for it, and people will give you a chance and opportunities, you grab onto it, and you can do it.”

Golden ticked off the ways he was a non-traditional student: He was in his mid-20s and “could also qualify as a townie and the only veteran on campus — so being a little different and facing some resistance in the classroom, but also bringing some,” he said.

After graduation, Golden worked in Collins’ Senate office before returning to Maine in 2013. He served two terms in the Maine House of Representatives and was elected assistant majority leader in his second term. In 2015, he married Isobel Moiles ’11.

In terms of his political perspectives, the lessons

THE BOBCAT NINE Including Ben Cline ’94 and Jared Golden ’11, a total of nine Bates alumni have served in the House of Representatives. One alumnus, Ed Muskie ’36, has served in the Senate.

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dani e l m c g i lli c u ddy D-Maine, Class of 1881

c ar r oll be e dy R-Maine, Class of 1903

In 2010, Mustafa Basij-Rasikh ’12, who came to Bates from Kabul, Afghanistan, and Jared Golden ’11, who served in Afghanistan as a Marine, posed together for a Bates Magazine story about their friendship.

c h ar le s c lason R-Mass., Class of 1911

donald partr i dg e R-Maine, Class of 1914

f r ank c of f i n D-Maine, Class of 1940

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he learned as a Marine and as a Bates graduate sometimes intertwine. One result, he said, is being able to see different sides of an issue and a propensity to challenge conventional thinking.

When a Reunion audience member asked whether the U.S. government should intervene in Venezuela, Golden pointed out that Congress didn’t have much power to initiate or stop armed conflict these days. Even so, his experience tended to prevent a yes-no answer.

“It gets real complex, real fast,” he said. “When I talk about my feelings on Afghanistan, I can go, ‘Geez, what are we doing over there? We’re not really helping. We’re wasting so many resources and blood and lives of both countries.’”

But then, “I go and talk to Mustafa.”

As a student, Golden became good friends with Mustafa Basij-Rasikh ’12, a student from Kabul, Afghanistan, who had received support to study in the U.S. from the Peter M. Goodrich Memorial Foundation, founded by Sally and Don Goodrich, whose son Peter ’89 died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Golden and Basij-Rasikh both thought deeply about the state of education in Afghanistan, and Golden returned to teach there one summer.

So when Golden thinks about his friend from Kabul, “it gets real hard to say we should just walk away and not engage in that type of [military] activity. A lot of questions, and the answers, are tough to come up with.”

On Capitol Hill, “Bates has put me into a mindset which is probably infuriating at times to some of my colleagues,” Golden told his fellow alumni at Reunion.

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ALICE DOUGHTY

The light blue in this Maine map shows where the sea, driven higher by melting glaciers 14,000 years ago, once covered parts of Maine, including much of Lewiston and the Bates campus. Where the sea encroached is approximately where marine clay is found today.

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Marine clay expands when wet and contracts (and cracks) when dry, as this section was doing at the Bonney Science Center construction site in June.

From bricks to onions, everything you want to know about the underground clay that makes building at Bates so special by d o u g h u bley

The story of Bates’ new Bonney Science Center will have many chapters. And at least two of them are about clay.

During spring and summer 2019, as crews excavated for the building’s foundation, they removed a stunning amount of ancient blue-gray marine clay — more than 10,000 cubic yards, according to an estimate from subcontractor Gendron & Gendron.

We watched captivated as excavating machines scooped and scraped the clay, all clingy, sculptural, and glistening like unappetizing Jell-O. For weeks on end, a procession of G&G dump trucks arrived empty at the Campus Avenue site, across from Carnegie Science, and drove away full of clay. We found it remarkable, but for G&G, as for earthwork contractors in much of Maine, it was no big whoop.

Likewise unsurprising to the construction team was the behavior of the clay left behind in the ground, which complicated preparations for laying the science center’s foundation — in what was just another installment of the complications clay has caused for the people who build and maintain facilities at Bates.

Still, likely next spring, in an ode to the transformative power of a 2,000-degree kiln, clay will also find redemption at Bates. When it’s time to start covering the science center’s steel and concrete walls, the college will look to Morin Brick Co., which will make the bricks for the job from its very own clay, mined across the river in Auburn.

The Morin mine and the Bonney site are parts of the glaciomarine clay layer that geologists call the Presumpscot Formation. Thousands of years old, the formation extends from Maine’s coast well inland, as far north as Millinocket. (The formation was named in 1959 by a Yale doctoral student. Hurrying to finish his geology dissertation, he chose the clay-banked Presumpscot River, in southern Maine, for the formation’s namesake after his first choice, “Portland,” was rejected by his professors as being overused.)

Along with Maine’s many ponds and its roundedoff mountains, the Presumpscot Formation is a product of the Pleistocene Ice Age. About 35,000 years

ago, according to the Maine Geological Survey, the Laurentide ice sheet began expanding into New England. At its largest, the sheet covered all of Canada and parts of the U.S. It grew thick enough to conceal Maine’s highest mountain, Katahdin, which stands nearly a mile above sea level.

So how does a glacier make clay? Friction is part of the answer. As the ice sheet advanced and retreated over time, it ground up and carried away whatever got in its path, even bedrock, which included feldspars, micas, and quartz. The smallest bedrock particles were fated to become clay. (The U.S. Geological Survey categorizes as clay those particles smaller than .002 millimeters, which are too small to see without a strong microscope.)

And the other clay-making thing the glacier did was melt. In our region, the ice sheet reached its maximum extension near today’s Georges Bank fishing ground about 20,000 years ago. Then, as the climate warmed, the retreat began, a slo-o-w melting back over thousands of years.

Glacial meltwater carried away the rock particles the ice had picked up during its advance. Over the centuries, these and other detritus liberated from the ice sheet flowed into the sea and settled on the seafloor — which was far inland from the present coastline. That’s because the unimaginable weight of the glacier, in a process called isostatic depression, smushed the land beneath it down to levels that were hundreds of feet well below current elevations.

Around 14,000 years ago, explains Bates geologist Mike Retelle, such meltwater was entering the sea at a delta at the south end of today’s Lake Auburn. (Retelle and UMaine geologist Thomas Weddle co-edited a book on Maine’s postglacial history.)

Gracelawn Memorial Park, a cemetery located on a rise of land just north of Walmart in Auburn, “is the top of that delta, so if you’d been able to stand on the shoreline there, you’d be looking at kind of a fjord environment,” with water surrounded by sharply higher land, Retelle explains.

Much of the region otherwise was submerged, including the low-lying portions of Bates — that is,

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Over the summer, 260 steel pipe piles like these were driven into the ground to stabilize the marine clay at the Bonney Science Center construction site.

Here, a worker welds a second pipe onto the first to achieve the required length for driving.

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With a dime added for scale, this marine mollusk fossil, from the genus Yoldia and likely 13,000 years old, was found in the marine clay at the Bonney Science Center construction site during a June visit by Bates geologists, including Mike Retelle, Beverly Johnson, and Dyk Eusden ’80.

virtually all of campus — and the neighborhood. At the sea’s highest stand, Retelle estimates, the Bonney site was under 100 feet of seawater. And all the while, sand, silt, and clay were washing in with the meltwater and settling right where Bates and other institutions would later want to build things. (The nerve!)

One indication that Presumpscot Formation clay is sited on an ancient seabed, as opposed to some lake bottom, is the presence of preserved sea animals. Fossilized specimens of the genus Yoldia, a marine mollusk, turned up at the Bonney site during a June visit by Retelle, Beverly Johnson, and other geology faculty (a shell will be carbon-dated).

The Maine State Museum has remains of a walrus and a mammoth found elsewhere in Maine clay.

The dynamics of this whole business get confusing. Being depressed in an isostatic sort of way, the land surface was much lower during the glacier’s reign — but so was sea level, because so much water was captive in glaciers around the world. As that water was released, sea levels rose. But so did land elevations! — rebounding as the weight of the ice sheet went away. Today, the science center site is about 250 feet above sea level.

Maine has a longstanding love-hate relationship with Presumpscot Formation clay. In the “I Love PF Clay” column, Maine ceramicists make plates and pots from it. In addition, layered with other materials, it’s good for capping defunct landfills. (And for water retention in Lake Andrews, whose floor is marine clay.)

Of course, as mentioned above and below, Maine clay generally makes good bricks. (Morin adds a bit of sand to stabilize its formula.) In the 19th century, brickyards abounded in Maine. According to the Bangor Daily News, the town of Brewer alone had 18 brickyards in the 1870s.

And the “Hate” column? While Presumpscot clay goes into bricks that are good to build with, it’s not so swell as a substance to build upon. Compressed by the weight of a building, highway overpass pier, etc., a clay layer is prone to settling, and unpredictably so. While adding a frisson of adventure to your building project, these qualities often necessitate time-consuming and expensive “soil improvements.”

References to clay and Bates buildings date at least as far back as 1925, when The Bates Student reported the need to remove clay before construction could begin on Alumni Gym.

Prior to the construction of Lane Hall, in 1963, President Charles Franklin Phillips reported to the trustees that “[W]e swallowed hard when informed that the earth formation on the proposed site is such that 144 piles” were needed to support the building’s foundation. Phillips doesn’t say “clay,” but we’re thinking he meant clay.

During site preparation for Kalperis Hall, a couple blocks down the clay deposit from Bonney Science, an initial round of injected soil reinforcements, each resembling a stack of doughnuts, proved inadequate. A second round using different technology, which made underground piers with a bulbous, onion-shaped base, was required.

This was a burden on the construction team, for sure. But it did give us, writing as Campus Construction Update and referring to the contrasting pier shapes, the opportunity to make the best construction joke ever. “So despite the similarities,” we noted, “you can’t really compare the Geopiers to the GeoConcrete Columns. It’s very much a doughnuts vs. onions comparison.” (Well, you had to be there.)

Bonney Science itself, being constructed on clay that’s 50 feet or so thick (thicknesses of 200 feet have been documented in the Presumpscot Formation), has required 260 so-called pipe piles to stabilize the soil. Complicating the piledriving job in the foundation hole was the unexpected length of pipes needed to provide effective support — 60 feet instead of the anticipated 40.

Since the pipes came in 40-foot lengths, it became necessary to splice two pipes together for each pile. Not only did this double the pipe budget, but the per-pile time investment ballooned because of the need to weld, grind, and inspect each splice.

Ultimately, project management firm Consigli Construction saved the day by moving the pipe-splicing operation out of the hole, and then off campus altogether, to get it out of the way of other pressing activities.

“Without that layer of clay, we likely wouldn’t have needed to drive piles,” says Chris Streifel, the Facility Services project manager overseeing the Bonney and previously the Kalperis–Chu Hall projects. “It’s definitely made life more challenging. It’s mucky, messy, and slippery. It’s not a fun substance to work with in general, but that’s the nature of the business.”

Clay is the font of other dubious blessings. It makes a poor bed for parking lots, steam vaults, etc.,

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Commons is one of many Bates buildings cloaked in waterstruck bricks sourced from local clay. “No two waterstruck brick are exactly alike,” says Jason Lachance of Morin Brick Co. of Auburn. (Brick professionals don’t pluralize with an “s.”)

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In the 1950s, the impervious clay beneath Bates helped to make Garcelon Field’s old cinder track puddle-prone.

visit included a drive past the lot where freshly which necessitates replacing it with more stable mined clay is rototilled, dried, and stored in heaps; soils as part of infrastructure makeovers. Plants and a distant look at the mine itself. don’t thrive in clay, so grounds crews planting a tree We couldn’t get close because the dirt road or shrub in a new spot will generally “want to put in was paved with rejected bricks that keep heavy some good organics and soil in place of clay to get machinery from bogging down but are too jagged things to root,” says Jay Phillips, director of Facility for passenger vehicles. (We’re still puzzling over Services operations. the symbolic potential of a red-brick road that we Then there’s drainage (not). Spring rain and couldn’t follow.) snowmelt can collect in long-lasting puddles on Two employees of Shaw Brothers Construccampus that are big enough for the ducks to enjoy. tion, an earthworks contractor in Gorham, Maine, And since the clay layer doesn’t absorb water work the open-pit clay mine for Morin. “It’s about easily, campus runoff tends to erode the clay, cre86 acres,” Lachance said. “We’ve been mining there ating nutrient-rich silt that washes into Lake Annow for approaching 30 years,” with perhaps anothdrews and can lead to algae blooms. er five to 10 years of life left in the deposit. Given the Garcelon Field was infamously damp and mucky need to find clay matching its established processuntil drainage infrastructure was installed, in 1986. es and customer interests, Morin is already taking “Only the muddy condition of the field, which made steps to secure its next clay source. (The National it impossible to kick a goal from a touchdown, gave Brick Research Center, at Clemson University, asthe victory” to the University of Maine, The Bates says prospective clays for Morin.)

Student griped after a 7-6 Bobcats loss in 1912.

Founded in 1912 and now Maine’s last maker of But once water does permeate clay, the clay clay brick, Morin also bills itself as North America’s wants to keep it. So Presumpscot Formation clay last manufacturer of “waterstruck” brick. Where tends to be wet. Wet clay is plastic (hence the instamost brick is extruded, like dough from a pasta mability) and it’s also, weirdly, both slippery and sticky, chine, waterstruck is made with the age-old techdepending on which condition will cause the most nique of pressing soft wet clay into wooden molds. inconvenience, especially to the people who work (“Waterstruck” refers specifically to the use of a jet closely with it on a job site every day. A Google of water to knock bricks out of the molds. Morin search on “removing clay from clothes” generated makes extruded as well as waterstruck.)

35,500,000 results.

The many Bates buildings cloaked in Morin A smaller but more meaningful number is the waterstruck include the 2008 estimated count of brick — brick Commons and, on Campus Aveprofessionals don’t pluralize nue, Chu and Kalperis halls, for with “s” — needed to sheathe which the company devised an the steel and concrete walls extra-long brick. of the Bonney Science Center: “No two waterstruck brick 180,000, project manager StreifBates Communications are exactly alike,” Lachance el estimates. The clay for those writer Doug Hubley explained. “That irregularity bricks (sorry, we need the “s”) produces the popular and random event, if you will, is coming out of a mine in a field online series Campus combined with a manipulation near a stand of trees in Auburn’s Construction Update. of flash in the kiln” — extra-hot Danville neighborhood. And not Chock full of news, facts, flare-ups — “yield some wonderfar from the field is the Morin and wit about Bates ful ranges of colors. The Bates Brick Co. plant. facilities projects, campus is a perfect example of On a July morning we met CCU is now focusing what can be accomplished with Morin’s director of sales and on the Bonney Science waterstruck brick.” marketing, Jason Lachance, Center project. Find it at Not to mention what can whose family once owned the bates.edu/CCU. be accomplished with watercompany and who started in the logged clay. n brickyard when he was 17. Our

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b ate s not e s enjoy hearing from any and all of you ‘survivors.’ Dearborn is new territory for me. I miss New York City and a message from you would be delightful.”

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Reunion 2023, June 9-11

Who, What, Where, When?

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

1940 class secretary Leonard Clough leonard.clough@yahoo.com

Leonard Clough ’40 hopes to celebrate his 100th birthday in February. “By then my 21st great-grandchild will be due. Still grateful to Bates for a good education.”

Leonard Clough writes, “Still in reasonably good health and hope to celebrate my 100th in February. By then my 21st great-grandchild will be due. Still grateful to Bates for a good education.”

1941 class presidents Elizabeth Gardner Margaret Rand alpegrand@aol.com

1946 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Helen Pratt Clarkson hpclarkson7@gmail.com class president/treasurer Jane Parsons Norris janenorris@roadrunner.com Jane Parsons Norris writes, “It is not so much fun being 95 as it was being 18 and entering Bates. I am still in my own home and grateful I can be. Of course I have help. Bates did a solid job preparing us for life and I am thankful for that.”…Helen Pratt Clarkson, who split the year between Green Valley, Ariz., and Freeport, looked forward to her 94th birthday party. “I’ve had to slow down, but enjoy many things including my book groups and being actively involved with the Linus Project [making] quilts for traumatized children.”

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1943 Norm and Priscilla Simpson Boyan ’42 celebrated their 76th anniversary on July 10, 2019. “We were married in Amherst, Mass., where I was stationed in a U.S. Army Air Corps training program,” Norm said. “Bates brought us together and we are very much still that way. Go, Bobcats!”

1945 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Carleton Finch cfinch612@gmail.com Louis Scolnik, a founding member and first president of

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the ACLU of Maine, received its annual award for his lifetime of service. The award, called the Justice Louis Scolnik Award, was established in 1989 to honor an outstanding commitment to the protection of civil liberties.

Gov. Janet Mills presented the award to the retired justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. Lou, who has played the tenor saxophone since he was 12, also entertained everyone with several jazz standards.

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Reunion 2022, June 10–11 class secretary/treasurer Jean Labagh Kiskaddon jean.kiskaddon@gmail.com class president Vesta Starrett Smith vestasmith@charter.net Jean Kiskaddon notes with sadness the passing of Muriel Henry Tinkham and Bill Jarvi, husband of the late Betty Hill Jarvi. “The pleasant news is that Vesta Starrett Smith had a great trip last spring with her daughter. They traveled on the coast of Portugal and Spain, from Lisbon to Barcelona. Like Muriel, I too have moved to be near family. I would

class president Vivienne Sikora Gilroy vgilroy@verizon.net

1949 class secretary Carol Jenkinson Johnson rollincarol@comcast.net class president Nelson “Bud” Horne budhorne@gmail.com Bud Horne still runs and planned to do the Chautauqua (N.Y.) Old First Night 2.7 miles.

His home is winterized. Son David retired as music director and now has a similar part-time job at First Presbyterian in Jamestown….Carol Jenkinson Johnson keeps active at church doing things like feeding the homeless.

1950 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class president Wes Bonney wbonney@maine.rr.com Frankie Curry Kerr says that old saying “Old age is not for sissies” has become a reality.

“Have had a good life though lonely now without George. Days spent at Bates were some of the best. Fortunate to have relatively good health and keep active in retirement community.”…David Turell took in the Pinto World Championship Horse Show in Tulsa, Okla. “Planning a trip to the Great Wall if it all works out.”

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board with environmental news at Blackburn College….Bill and Jean McLeod Dill enjoy active lives at Lasell Village. They have two great-grandchildren….Lee Faulkner’s dementia is slowing him down but he and Ruth (Parr) ’52 still attend Bates football games….Carolyn Goddard Reid and Chuck enjoy their new apartment home in Lancaster, Pa….Jan Hayes Sterling’s hip replacement has all healed. She’s back to her volunteer work….Jean Johnson Bird is still a docent at Colby Art Museum and a trustee of the Waterville Public Library and she’s still playing bridge….

Betty Kinney Faella and Tony had a Caribbean cruise at the submarine veterans convention.

They had their first great-grandchild….Karl Koss’ trips are now to multiple doctors, friends, and concerts….Jim and Ginger Buhl Vetrano ’54 are settled in with their new lifestyle after four years in a retirement community. “Both Ginger and I are quite active in local programs here and enjoying good health. We are looking forward to our family reunion next spring and enjoying occasional visits from kids, grandkids, and greats.”…Ruth Whittier Greim enjoys her “boringly uncomplicated life in beautiful California.”…

Rob and Jane Seaman Wilson stay in touch with Karl Koss, and Jane talks regularly with Edie Pennucci Mead. Jane continues to paint and draw. Rob’s undertaken to finish his historical novel about a journey up the Missouri River in the 1870s. “New Mexico treats us well; it is sunny and dry with enough rain and snow in the mountains to keep the Santa Fe River running outside our windows.”…Dot Webb Quimby had a great visit with Betty and Tony Faella at the cottage and looked forward to another visit from them. Still involved with Unity College, she has five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

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class secretary Dorothy “Dot” Webb Quimby dwquimby@unity.edu

class secretary Marilyn Coffin Brown mcbrown13@verizon.net

class presidents Bill Dill wmrdill@gmail.com Jean McLeod Dill

class president John Myers johnmyers52@comcast.net

Jim and Lu Anderson, both in good health, are in a senior living facility. They have seven grandchildren and six great-grands with another on the way….Joe Andrew now has a website for his paintings: JoeAndrewOriginals. com. They’re all for sale but free for classmates….Will and Melissa Meigs Barbeau chug along with minor mobility issues while enjoying reasonably good health. She is newsletter editor of the Barrington (R.I.) Woman’s Club while he pushes national awareness of climate change. He considers current national leaders “criminally neglectful” on this problem….Art Darken still maintains a bulletin

Peter Ault still drives — once in a while the vintage 1928 Franklin sedan and ’28 Ford Station wagon — and does home chores with help from son Will ’82, who makes it to Maine from Connecticut twice a month….

Marshall Solomon would love to hear from any classmates. His phone Oct. 10 to May 10: 781-5939066, and from May 11 to Oct. 9: 561-998-5772.

1953 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 class secretary Ronald “Ron” Clayton rondot@comcast.net

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class presidents Ginnie LaFauci Toner vatoner207@gmail.com Richard F. Coughlin dcoughlin@maine.rr.com David Bennett and Esther live in the same house they built in Torrington, Conn., in 1961.

Granddaughter Sarah ’22 is at Bates….Sadly, Sally Bidwell McBride lost her husband Dick last year. She looked forward to greeting a new great-granddaughter….Bruce and Nancy Ramsdell Chandler ’55 moved to Portland….Jean Chapman Neely “retired from all activity wherein I am expected to attend meetings and produce reports.

As an emeritus member of two nonprofit boards, I do keep a hand in.”…Dick Coughlin still golfs and does some gardening….

Marge Finkelstein Goldberg and Bob get together with Ginnie LaFauci Toner and Don Hamilton ’54….Chuck Fischer gave a series of talks on the Civil War….Nancy Forbes Myers lives with her daughter in Rochester, N.H….Jinni Forbush Goddard is back home after a fall and rehab. Daughter Sueanne calls or comes by every day….Joan Fretheim Barlow does warm-pool exercising; it really helps alleviate pain….

Clark Griffith has full-time caregivers, but attends church and enjoys the Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra….Alice Huntington Vannerson and Bob enjoy life at Newbury Court in Concord, Mass….Doris Jung Jacobs lives at River Woods in Exeter, N.H., as does Margery Schumacher Clark ’52….

Joanne Kennedy Murray and Floyd enjoy traveling away from their Colorado home….Ginnie LaFauci Toner was diagnosed with Parkinson’s; now under control with medication and exercise. She and Don Hamilton ’54 were able to attend his 65th Reunion….Nancy Lowd Hanby moved to a condo in Benton Harbor, Mich….Pat Scheuerman Pfeiffer’s play fish received an enthusiastic reception at City Lights Theater Company in New York….Toby Thoburn Watkins takes advantage of the many activities at their retirement complex in Lynchburg, Va….

Mary Van Volkenburgh Kashmanian and Kash play bocci, use the pool, and take advantage of their community garden….Ron Clayton and Dot Pierce Morris ’52 continue much the same.

Ron tries to walk most days and go birding when he can.

1954 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretary/treasurer Jonas Klein joklein@maine.rr.com class president Dwight Harvie dwightwharvie@gmail.com Dwight Harvie and Jonas Klein received Bates’ Best awards at

Reunion. They have a combined 30 years of service as class agents. Dwight has been class president for eight years, and Jonas has served as secretary for 23. “Together, you have been a dynamic team, creating novel ways to keep your classmates informed and engaged,” their citation says. “For countless years, you have partnered on clever letters ranging from the traditional ‘call-for-news’ communications to fun and experimental class surveys.

Together, you have been remarkable community-builders, always striving to make all members of your class feel welcome and celebrated. You are classmates and friends whose personalities and skills complement one another perfectly.”…Bob Greenberg has “a list of aches and pains that are too boring to talk about. Blame four years of football at Bates, 25 years of squash at Williams College, some lousy skiing thrown in, and a surgical list that is well forgotten. I use a cane for sympathy. I blame my few years in the Marine Corps as a blessing and not a curse. The VA is a wonderful organization for us vets, mark my words. I treasure a list of bad jokes that I keep to myself. That is enough; time for bed. Semper Fi.”…Bill and Carolann McKesson Laird are now in the assisted-living section of NHC Place in Franklin, Tenn.

“Although our travel days are over, we do various activities as our mobility allows. Some of our new friends have actually visited Maine, and two are familiar with Bates College!”

1955 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class president Beverly Hayne Willsey stonepost@cox.net Berkshire Eagle columnist Ruth Haskins Bass weighed in on the “dreadful college admissions scandal,” saying “the playing field at many schools has always been tilted…. Many schools need to look in the mirror and review their admissions policies.”…Silver Moore-Leamon is “freshly aware of the value of friends and community as the news on a national and international level reports levels of thoughtlessness and boorishness to which I have never before been exposed. The local L/A community is trying hard to learn new ways of inclusion and valuing diversity, not always getting it right but trying, and Bates is helping in that effort.

On a more personal note, life is such a marvelous classroom for learning what is truly important! And however did I/we get to 85?”…Lois Stuber Spitzer and Ken spent a week at their summer home at Henderson Point on the island of Southport, Maine. “The ‘cottage’ there has been in our Stuber family for 119 years. Many Bates classmates (of my parents ’25 and ’26 and mine) have visited during Reunions.”

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Dorothy Foster Kern

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1942

media outlet: Sun Journal

headline:

Three Auburn natives — all named Dorothy — turn 100 in 2019

takeaway: Memories stick with you The Lewiston Sun Journal included Dorothy Foster Kern ’42 in a feature story about three local women named Dorothy who celebrated 100th birthdays in 2019. The three all graduated from Auburn’s Edward Little High School and have been friends for nine decades.

Kern, who hit the century mark Sept. 23, worked for local newspapers before becoming Edward Little’s school librarian. She told the Sun Journal’s Matthew Daigle about exploring the woods and playing on sand in Auburn house lots in the 1930s, her time in a “Young Mothers Club,” and her love of gardening, reading, and music.

She recalled in particular one childhood favorite, especially valuable during the Great Depression.

“We had to be very careful how we spent money, but whenever we could have a doughnut, it was a real treat.”

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Taking Their Q’s Ralph Perry ’51 and his wife, Mary Louise Seldenfleur, are founders and supporters of the Mount David Summit, and last March they posed for a photograph during the 2019 edition.

Attracting hundreds of students, faculty, alumni, and visitors — somewhat reminiscent of the Science Exhibitions of the mid-1900s — the annual showcase of student research is held in Pettengill Hall’s Perry Atrium, named for Ralph’s late wife, Joan Holmes Perry ’51, who died in 1994.

As they posed, we posed four questions:

What was on this site when you were a student?

“A dump! Plus the old heating plant.

Not much else,” said Perry.

What role does the audience play at the summit?

“Really important,” said Seldenfleur. “They help give the event a great sense of purpose.”

What’s one word to describe this scene?

“Magnificent!” said Perry.

Why is it powerful to celebrate academics in this way?

“Because academics is what a college like Bates is all about. Because it lasts your whole lifetime,” said Seldenfleur.

Jessie Thompson Huberty ’56: “I happily watch my grandsons grow into fine young men and am enjoying every minute of life before the lights go out!”

In a letter to the Maine Sunday Telegram, Richard Hooper of Harrison recalled how Bates government professor John Donovan played an “indispensable” role in the revival of the Maine Democratic Party. Donovan brought in outside speakers. “One of those featured [in 1953] was a tall, slim failed candidate for mayor of Waterville. Doubtless, at the time, none of us had heard of Ed Muskie [’36], who spoke about his mission to make Maine a two-party system.”…

Gail Molander Goddard had a memorable trip to Israel and Jordan. “My life in New London, N.H., continues with my varied volunteer activities. I try to stay active and maintain a healthy lifestyle.”…Marcia Rosenfeld Baker and Wilmer looked forward to the wedding of granddaughter Becca and her fiance Brendan. Becca is the daughter of Deb Baker Taylor ’79 and Jim Taylor ’80….Jessie Thompson Huberty volunteers for the UC Davis Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies in its oral history department. Travel keeps her busy.

She planned to attend the 25th anniversary of Memorare, which honors the 100,000-plus civilians massacred by Japanese troops in 1945. “I happily watch my grandsons grow into fine young men and am enjoying every minute of life before the lights go out!”

1957 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 email coordinator Douglas Campbell dougcamp@comcast.net class secretary Margaret Leask Olney pegolney@verizon.net class presidents Judith Kent Patkin actionpsj@aol.com Richard H. Pierce rhpierce52@gmail.com Nan Henson Hey recently shared a recording of a propaganda broadcast by her father, Lt.

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Col. Hank Henson, in 1944 after D-Day. It was broadcast throughout Europe. Nan presented it to a class of 200 retirees who have been taking classes about D-Day. Her father, in civilian life a broadcast journalist, had been working for Gen. Eisenhower at his London headquarters….Jim McGrath and Jean now live in a Highmeadows condo in Monroe, Conn., and spend four months in Naples (Fla.) Land Yacht Harbor.

“I guess I’m a senior citizen but still feel good riding my bike and using my eliptical strider almost every day. I often think of great friends at Bates including some that have left us.”…Bill Ryall and Edie celebrated their 60th anniversary with a Crown Princess British Isles cruise and then with all 14 family members during a Boston weekend. They looked forward to making Class of ’57 gatherings in Dedham, Mass.

1958 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 class secretary Marilyn Miller Gildea marilyn@gildea.com class president Peter Post postp74@gmail.com Lori and Lyn Beer took a five-week trip to Europe which included many stops and visits with his German family in both Heidelberg and Munich….

Harry Bennert now resides at the Maine Veterans Home in Scarborough….Coe Jenkins Huckabee enjoyed a cruise to the British Isles….Kay Johnson Howells had lunch with Marilyn Miller Gildea in July….Alan Kaplan enjoys retired life, his first great-grandchild, and Road Scholar trips….Art and Gail Bauman Karzes are mostly healthy and happy with lots of family, friends, and activities….Jim and Betsey Gray Kirsch celebrated their 60th anniversary by cruising down the Mississippi before moving to a continuing-care community in Exeter….Marilyn Miller Gildea met Marge Harbeck Schlitt ’56 for lunch in May when Marge attended the annual Alternatives to Violence Conference at Mills College.

“Mills Hall deserves the title of the most beautiful educational building in the country.” Marilyn reduced her responsibilities with the neighborhood association, but still produces its newsletter, updates the neighborhood website, and takes advantage of local performances and exhibits.

Her 5- and 7-year-old grandkids and their family join her for dinner once a week….Grant ’57 and Jo Trogler Reynolds saw all five plays at the Theater at Monmouth while staying at the camp on Wilson Pond they bought decades ago with the Taylors and Huckabees….Ann Shultz Keim and her husband are active Rotarians and try hard to live by its motto “Service Above Self.”

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India to give oral polio vaccine to children, part of Rotary’s longtime mission to eradicate polio.

“We hope to eliminate polio in just another year or two.”…Gene ’56 and Kay Dill Taylor are still grateful to wake up each morning — ah, yes — on Peaks Island in beautiful Casco Bay….Bruce Young planned a Danube cruise from Nuremburg to Budapest.

1959 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretaries Jack DeGange jack.degange@comcast.net Mary Ann Houston Hermance Donmar23@gmail.com class presidents Anita Kastner Hotchkiss ahotchkiss@goldbergsegalla.com Gerald “Jerry” Davis gmdavis@maine.rr.com A mega-newsletter with all sorts of news reached all ’59s during the summer so here are 60th Reunion highlights: 40 classmates, spouses, and friends attended all or part of our Reunion: Fletcher Adams, Barbara Van Duzer Babin, Alan and Betty Drum Coykendall, Jerry Davis, Ross Deacon, Jack DeGange, Fred Drayton, Mary Foster Everett and Dana Shutters, Audrey Kilbourne Flanagan and Jim Flanagan, Carol Heldman Flynn and Jack Flynn ’60, El Guthrie and Phoebe Nichols, Mary Ann Houston Hermance, Anita Kastner Hotchkiss and Christopher Martin, Barbara Sharpe Hoyt, Marilyn Macomber Ives, Jack and Beverly Keigwin (and granddaughter Annie Cooke), Howard and Gail Kunreuther, Mary Lou Shaw McLean, Barbara Smith McIntosh and Ken McIntosh, Chris Miller and Elizabeth Zaglauer, Peter Onksen, Beverly Woods Paca, Ralph Posner, Jay and Lois Tanzer, Carl Tobie, Dave “Knobby” Walsh and Rachel Walsh, Linda Tanner Winham….The excused absence: Reggie Abbiati Lucas, who had a last-minute higher priority: her granddaughter Sarah Lucas, shortstop on an undefeated (fifth-grade) softball team, was in the post-season playoffs (which they won) on Reunion weekend….The Reunion headquarters lounge at 280 College St. hummed with conversation throughout the weekend. The class sponsored a Saturday “book talk” (over 100 from all classes attended) with Amy Bass ’92, author of One Goal: A Coach, a Team and the Game That Brought a Divided Town Together. It’s the tale of how the longtime Lewiston community and its newly arrived Somali immigrants came together on the soccer field to capture Lewiston High’s first state soccer championship in 2015. Amy, Coach Mike McGraw, and members of the LHS team were guests at our Reunion dinner. Also a Reunion dinner highlight: Knobby Walsh, reading from his recently published book

of 323 poems that he started writing in 1981. (Knobby has 400 more poems in his pocket for another book.)…Thanks to Barbara Babin and Chris Miller for their fine service as co-presidents over the past five (or has it been 10?) years. Their successors as co-presidents until 2024: Anita Kastner Hotchkiss and Jerry Davis. Mary Ann Hermance and Jack DeGange continue as co-secretaries. Jack also continues as class agent and reports, with thanks to all: We exceeded our 2019 Bates Fund dollar goal. Every classmate attending Reunion donated to the fund and they’re among a remarkable 80 percent of members of the Class of 1959 who contributed to the fund in 2019. Well done!!...Clif Jacobs was sorry to miss Reunion but osteoarthritis in both legs makes it too painful to travel far. He and Mary Lou moved to DeKalb, home of Northern Illinois Univ., from which daughter Susan and grandchildren Kelly and Lauren graduated. They enjoy living in a retirement home, where Clif can play the piano or organ for worship services and other special events….Sabe Scoville Vacca wrote with sad news: Husband Vince, who was in declining health, died at home, as he wished, on June 28, 2019….

Charlie Updegraph is now in his 47th year of selling pianos and organs to churches in New York and New Jersey. He does volunteer work for his NYC church and is active in the American Guild of Organist Chapters….

Jack DeGange received a Bates’ Best award at Reunion.

A dedicated volunteer for many years, he has been a class officer and class agent and interviewed prospective students. “You have generously provided job shadow opportunities for Bates students interested in communications, your own area of expertise,” his citation reads. “This year, you created a special 60th Reunion memories book, a project that went above and beyond the call of duty. You are thoughtful and kind and care deeply for the well-being of your classmates.

Your warm personality and sense of humor helps bring people together in service to the college, and for this we are very grateful.”

1960 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Louise Hjelm Davidson l.davidson@sbcglobal.net class president Dean Skelley dskelley@satx.rr.com

takeaway: Frank Perham

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media outlet: Bangor Daily News

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Mainers are old, but still doing things “most people half their age don’t do”

takeaway: A miner, too, can be a gem The Bangor Daily News interviewed Jason Paris Smith, a photographer who took portraits of elderly Mainers — including Frank Perham ’56 — to showcase the diversity and knowledge of people in a state that has the oldest population in the nation.

A third-generation miner and acclaimed mineral expert from West Paris, Perham grew up mining with his grandfather, who discovered feldspar on the family farm and started a feldspar mill, and his father, Stanley I. Perham ’31, who owned a mineral store. He studied geology at Bates before serving in the Korean War. (His mother was Gwendolen Wood Perham ’27, and his daughter is Trish Perham ’83.)

He’s something of a Maine icon (or a gem, as it were), writes Smith on his website. “People stop in to hear his many stories and learn about Maine’s minerals from someone with an unbridled passion for minerals and a lifetime of experiences.”

Bob and Jane Braman Allen saw son Scott ’84 receive two major awards. See page 68….

Christine Bird enjoyed her 30th summer at her house in Campton, N.H., in the White Mountain region. “Buying it was one of the best things I ever did.” She plans to go to Patagonia in January….

Jackie Hughes Cote enjoyed

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reunion awards lots of traveling as usual this year.

She had a lovely visit with Naomi Gregoire Nelson and husband Weldon….Jerry Feitelberg and Ila planned a Baltic cruise this fall….Dave Graham joined daughters Wendy ’89 and Ginger on a trip to Paris to celebrate his 80th….Frank Holz and his wife have lived in the Philippines more than 30 years. Retired as a partner from what is now Accenture Inc., he does executive coaching work, “which suits me just fine.” Being 80 “offers challenges, but also gratitude that I can wake up every morning, and if not smelling the roses (they are too expensive here), at least hearing the birds chirping (which comes for free).”

1961 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Gretchen Shorter Davis norxloon@aol.com

At Reunion, award winner Rae Harper Garcelon ’62 congratulates David Longdon ’14, a member of the Board of Trustees who received a Bates’ Best award.

Top Three At Reunion in June, three alumnae received major Bates Alumni Association awards, joining several fellow alumni — Dwight Harvie ’54, Jonas Klein ’54, Jack DeGange ’59, Michael Nolan ’69, Alicia Hunter Warner ’94, John Harvey ’09, and David Longdon ’14 — awarded Bates’ Best honors for service to the college in their Reunion year.

Patricia Sullivan Doyle ’79, a longtime rural Maine physician and advocate for healthcare reform, received the Alumni Community Service Award.

With the retention of rural physicians a major issue in states like Maine, Doyle “put down roots and rolled up her sleeves to serve a community in need,” noted her award citation.

Rae Harper Garcelon ’62, who has served Bates alumni as a valued employee and an effective volunteer, received the association’s Helen A. Papaioanou ’49 Distinguished Alumni Service Award. As one classmate puts it, “she is not just a person of our class, but the highlight of our class.”

Emily Buchanan ’89, a painter whose work has been part of a Department of State global visual arts program and was featured in the 2014 White House holiday card, was awarded the association’s Sesquicentennial Prize, which honors an alumnus or alumna for “a single academic, artistic, or scientific achievement.”

A psychology major, Buchanan says her Bates experience gave her “the maturity to pursue my art.”

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class presidents Mary Morton Cowan mmcowan@gwi.net Richard “Dick” Watkins rwatkcapt@aol.com

Doug Rowe ’61 moved to a new house in Ashland, Ore., on 8.5 acres.

“It takes about four hours to mow. Ah well, so much for retirement and there goes my golf game.”

Mary Morton Cowan participated in the National Science Teachers Assn. annual convention after NSTA named her latest book, Cyrus Fields’ Big Dream, a 2019 Best STEM Book. Carl continues to sing in their church choir with their son Tim ’91….Jerry and Gretchen Shorter Davis enjoyed a Road Scholar trip on a barge in France’s Alsace-Lorraine region….Paola Mangiacapral, who enjoys her residence in rural southern Rhode Island, paints watercolors and remains a proud member of a cooperative art gallery in Newport….

Babs Oldach Larson and Victor enjoy life and traveling with two Road Scholar trips and a cruise planned….Nadine Parker’s life in Nashua, N.H., is very full: violin in the local orchestra, running her own part-time sales business, genealogy, and now quilting….

Paul Popish and wife Beth Schultz moved to Carol Woods, a continuing care retirement community in Chapel Hill, N.C., near their three children. He remains active in the nonprofit world and is a legislative appointee to a state board, the North Carolina Partnership for Children….

Doug Rowe, who still does the occasional TV show or film, and his wife moved to a new house in Ashland, Ore., on 8.5 acres. “It takes about four hours to mow.

Ah well, so much for retirement and there goes my golf game.”

1962 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Cynthia Kalber Nordstrom cindyknordstrom@gmail.com class president Edmund J. Wilson ed-wilson@kellogg.northwestern.edu

Sara Ault Fasciano ’62 saw granddaughter Amanda Fasciano ’18 receive her Bates degree.

Three other grandchildren are on campus: Andrew Fasciano ’20, Sara Dardis ’20, and Ben Fasciano ’23. “The beat goes on!” Sara says.

Sara Ault Fasciano saw granddaughter Amanda Fasciano ’18 receive her Bates degree.

Three other grandchildren are on campus: Andrew Fasciano ’20, Sara Dardis ’20, and Ben Fasciano ’23. “The beat goes on!”

Sara says….Dick Carlson made it to 72 before retiring and loves it.

He does volunteer work with his church “and of course there’s politics.”…Jan Carroll Moreshead went to the Bates Field House to watch oldest grandchild Cameron Rice run track for the St. Joseph’s Monks….Tony Cherot and his wife plan to downsize if they leave Santa Barbara, Calif….

Barbara Crowell Fairbanks is in a church book group and garden club while supporting Dick with his many community involvements….Jean Cushman Holt and Bill ’63 report granddaughter Jordan Wilson, daughter of Mary ’92, is early decision Bates Class of 2023. Granddaughter Alanna Haslam, daughter of Laura ’89, is Bowdoin ’20….

Tom and Linda Eichorn Day ’64 enjoy the retirement life and generally travel 23-27 weeks a year….

Scottie Doscher Payne has a great snail mail relationship with four-year roommate Jan Carroll Moreshead….Sad news from Joanne Ekwurtzel Coghill: She lost her husband John on Jan. 3, 2019. Their two sons have helped her through the transition….Hannelore Flessa Jarausch retired in 2018 and enjoys volunteer teaching ESL...Sharon Fowler Kenrick, who winters in Florida, volunteers with the art teacher in an after-school art club….Peter Green is “still in my comfortable old Irish shanty” in Portland.

“Mostly ‘The Way Life Should Be’ other than my knees which are complaining.”…Wanda Jones Corn’s exhibition and book, Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern, is still out on the road. It’s at the Norton Museum of Art, West

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Joy Scott Meyer and Al enjoy retirement, mostly at home, and catching up with grandchildren….

Co Shaw “had the pleasure of renewing acquaintances with the Merimanders, courtesy of Debbie Peterson Mawhinney ’63, who had sent all six of us a CD of the record we made way back then.”…Carol Smith started taking qigong again and has a meditation practice. She enjoys sharing grandchildren with Sally Marshall Corngold….After 27 years, Sandy Smith Boynton stepped down from teaching with the MIT Women’s League English Conversation Classes.

She continues to enjoy events at MIT and has added new activities to her plate….Ken and Marnie Webb Snow ’63 enjoy living in a senior retirement community. He was re-elected to the New Hampshire House and became a trustee of the Manchester City Library and the Mary Gale Charitable Foundation….Al “Squit” Squitieri and Harriet had to cancel a trip because of health issues but are ready to go once again….Caroline Taber Kiessling does water aerobics, sings in the church choir and Neponset Choral Society, and is active in Delta Kappa Gamma, a society for women educators….

Gray Thompson and Eloise and their geologist/climber friends are below sea level in Death Valley where they admire its geology. “The rocks are so interesting geologically that we’re well entertained.”…Richard Valcourt retired this year after serving as editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence since 1996. He and Edina plan to spend more time in Florida.

He’s now a board member of the newly established Institute for National and International Security, Belgrade, Serbia….Lyn Webber Nelson and Bob moved to a continuing-care facility close

to where they were living, “so the adjustment is much easier than it could have been, but still kind of a shock to the system!”…Carol Williams Jackson and Dan love living on Hilton Head Island, S.C. They spend a lot of time visiting and enjoying grandchildren’s activities….Ed Wilson and Jean have lived in the Chicago area nearly 50 years. “Those years have treated us well, yet we still are considered New Englanders and that is fine with us.”…Carol Young Washer works full time but can telework four days a week. “I like the money as well as the work.”…On Hilton Head Island, Linda Zeilstra Kellom enjoys book club discussions, mahjong, lifelong learning classes, and various volunteer projects.

1963 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 class secretary Natalie Shober Hosford nataliemoir@netflash.net class president Bill Holt wholt@maine.rr.com Ginny Erskine Harrison, in Fort Collins, Colo., lives 45 minutes from the Wyoming border. “At first it was hard to be away from Maine, but 14 years later I am used to it. I visit back east once or twice a year to see old friends and relatives and always find it hard to leave.”…Jim Linnell recently published a memoir, Take It Lying Down: Finding My Feet After a Spinal Cord Injury (Paul Dry Books). It recounts how, six months shy of retirement, he broke his neck on a family vacation and how he dealt with a catastrophic spinal cord injury. A writer, teacher, and director, he is a professor emeritus in the Univ. of New Mexico’s Department of Theatre & Dance….Gary Post, moving to semi-retired status, does financial planning exclusively for churches and notfor-profits, He fills his time with grandchildren, vacation trips, and being a volunteer chaplain at Masonicare Healthcare Center in Wallingford, Conn. He had a fun lunch with Al Seelig and Dot and George Stone….Ken Woodbury taught full time for two years in the Orange County (Orlando, Fla.) School District, with students with disabilities.

He hopes to teach full time again in the Denver school system where he moved last summer.

“I also got married. My spouse is a dental technician specializing in CAD/CAM. He and I had been together for the last several [years] and decided to relocate from Florida. Our townhouse has terrific views of the Colorado Rockies.”

1964 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretary-treasurer John Meyn jemkpmeyn@aol.com

class president Gretchen Ziegler gretchenz958@gmail.com Keith Bowden retired and now splits his time between Scarborough, Maine, and Zephyrhills, Fla. “I am in good health and enjoying life.”…Peter Bowman completely retired June 1. “Been married 55 years in November and now facing the ultimate test!”

He spends a lot of time working outside, swimming, hiking, and traveling back to northern New England….The Maine media reported on the induction of Leigh Campbell into the Maine Basketball Hall of Fame.

Entering the hall as a “Legend of the Game,” Leigh was the official Bates basketball scorer for nearly 50 years and the official scorer for the annual Maine high school basketball tournament for decades. “Leigh Campbell represents the hundreds of unsung heroes that make basketball special in Maine,” the citation reads. Revered at Bates for supporting generations of students on financial aid, Leigh retired as director of financial aid at Bates in 2007….Marion Day Czaja had a fun time with sister Nancy Day Walker in Chapel Hill, N.C., and a friend…. Nancy Day Walker writes, “Bates kept us busy with great stuff at the Reunion! So nice to see and share times with classmates. Fabulous!”…Donald Delmore and Jeannette moved to East Lyme, Conn., but still have their place in Melbourne Beach, Fla., near Bates roomie Paul Holt….Dave Harrison and Norma enjoy summer and fall in Hulls Cove, near Acadia National Park….John Holt worked for Democratic candidates and for a Green Amendment to the New Jersey state constitution….Paul Holt spent the summer restoring another house in Northampton, Mass., with grandsons helping.

“I’m supposed to be retired living on an island in Florida.”…Esther Rosenthal Mechler planned to see Macchu Picchu, long on her bucket list. “Am trying now, in the fourth quarter, to learn a little Spanish! You never know!”…

Scott Wilkins volunteers for Freedom Waters Foundation, taking veterans, sick and underprivileged children boating two or three times a month.

1965 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Evelyn “Evie” Hathaway Horton ehhorton@me.com class president Joyce Mantyla joycemantyla@gmail.com Sam Aloisi was drafted into “those with college grad grandchildren,” with two more on their way….Emily Blowen Brown enjoyed getting together with Bates roommate Evelyn Breck Morgen and her husband Chris in East Haddam, Conn….Newt and Pat Lord Clark ’67 have

settled into their cottage at Thornton Oaks in Brunswick.

He had coffee with Oliver Andrews III ’66….Bruce Cooper is very happy with his move to a continuing care community….

Laura Deming Beckwith lives in a 55-and-older community in Virginia Beach, Va., “where, it seems, almost everyone has a small dog which they walk several times a day. That has made it much easier to meet people.”…

Ann Googins Kramer, an APRN (advanced practice psychiatric nurse), has a private practice and works at a clinic prescribing medication for children and adolescents….Evie Hathaway Horton enjoyed seeing Jean Hager-Rich and Karin Mueller McElvein for lunch….Peter Heyel keeps his commercial pilot’s and driver’s licenses current, “and, yes, I drive buses 50,000 miles each year to keep in shape.”…Leon Hurwitz and Fran have taken several trips this year….Louise Kennedy Hackett and Dave ’64 were delighted to see daughter Kate marry longtime companion Melanie. “Both their families came to celebrate with them, which shows you how far we’ve come.”…Joyce Mantyla is “choosing to continue to focus on travel at this stage of my life.”…John Norton published the first book in a six-book series for pre-teens: Eva’s Secret Name: Book 1 of the Adventures of Eva and Buckskin Charlie (Best Publishing)….This fall, Dick Rozene’s wife Wendy marked her 29th year as an ordained deacon in the Episcopal church, and he marked his ninth year as treasurer of the diocese of Maine. He volunteers at a center for newly arrived immigrants in Portland.

Daughter Heidi ’00 teaches in Newton, Mass….Susan Smith Davis says Maine Huts & Trails continues to engage and inspire her. “As volunteer coordinator, I have every excuse to work on trails, check out hiking options, make sure things are going smoothly in the huts, etc. Great way to stay in shape.”…Sally Smyth’s nine years on the Vital Ground Foundation board timed out this fall, “but not my interest in the land trust I consider ‘best of the West’ because of its large-scale focus centered on the wildlife corridors needed for that largest of mammals to go walkabout, without scaring a human.”…Frank Sroka and Linda, who celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2018, now live in Frankford, Del., and enjoy their new lifestyle. Son David ’94 and his family live in Niwot, Colo….

Karl Wolf is a very active volunteer in the Washington, D.C., area, and travels a great deal.

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sister Elizabeth Metz McNab ’64 and brother-in-law David McNab ’62. Bill’s obituary will appear in the next issue….

Summering in Fayette, Mel Burrowes found proximity to Bates helpful for reconnecting. He spent time with Jan McEachern Macidull and Judy Marden, had a visit with dormmate Larry Brown and Donna, and had an enriching lunch and conversation with Dean Emeritus Carl Straub….Chris Falk Fonoti has taken up a new sport — barrel racing. “Just walk/trot this year.

Next year, full out! Enjoying every moment.”…Pat Gilbert Keane enjoys walking, biking, and swimming, despite some “age 75-related health challenges.” Travel is also a source of enjoyment, as is, especially, an annual get-together with roommate Sara Jones Oakes….

Bill Hiss had a new hip installed then enjoyed a blizzard of travel, including two weeks in Italy with wife Colleen Quint ’85 and family. He planned to be a volunteer consultant for Fulbright University Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City, where Ngan Dinh ’02 is one of the founding officers….

Bob Houlihan and wife Susan were in an art gallery last summer when the Cape Cod tornado touched down. Amid the chaos, Houls reports he employed his well-honed bar-tending skills to dispense water for those sheltered inside the gallery. He also enjoyed the pastels. Later the Houlihans got together with Kel House in Maine….Alice Kaplan Rapkin and Fred celebrated their 50th anniversary.

They looked forward to seeing Claudia Lamberti Kennedy and Bruce….Judy Marden enjoyed an active summer, kayaking, gardening, and taking a leadership role in planning the celebration of the Bates Outing Club’s 100th anniversary. She got together with Hildy Spooner Danforth ’67 and Ray in Camden….Rob Thompson and Edie enjoy travel, volunteering, church activity, going to the gym, tennis, and seven grandkids.

They wrote from Yellowstone National Park. Rob says: “Our motto is ‘if not now, when.’”…

Woody Trask and Susan (Evans) ’70 hadn’t planned on being landlords but bought the property next to theirs on Taylor Pond in Auburn when it came up for sale. “It looks like we made the right decision,” with lots of rentals booked except for when it’s blocked off for family.…Alex Wood completed his 10th year of teaching a graduate-level course at MIT on the process of drug discovery, from defining an unmet medical need to securing marketing approval from the FDA.

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class presidents Keith C. Harvie kcharvie12@gmail.com Pamela Johnson Reynolds preynolds221@gmail.com Ed Abbott and one of his sons, an infectious disease doctor who treats many HIV-positive patients, rode from San Francisco to Los Angeles with 2,300 bikers.

The group raised $16,750,000 for AIDS research and care. Steph Young Abbott cheered her men at the finish line….Marty Braman Duckenfield retired completely from Clemson after 30 years. She remains an affiliate member of the school….Kathy Butler Carlson keeps busy volunteering for her township in Pennsylvania as a planning commissioner. Glenn is returning to fishing, his passion….Marian Clough Hillsdon is happy to have moved to Heath Village in Hackettstown, N.J. “I am meeting so many interesting and caring people.”…Ingrid Earn Larsson Shea played on her volleyball team in the National Senior Games in Albuquerque, her third foray in this tournament. Her team won a gold medal in the Women’s 70+ division….In June, Tim Hall reports, he, Bryan Carlson, Kevin Murphy, and Dick Reynolds made a valiant but unsuccessful effort to defend their 2018 championship in the Bates College Alumni Football Tournament, a golf match played at Wentworth by the Sea in Rye, N.H….Pam Johnson Reynolds has spent several academic years mentoring teachers for the Stern Center in Burlington, Vt., thanks to Google Hangouts. Failing at retirement for the third time, Dick is now interim vice president of operations at Brandeis, thanks to headhunter Bryan Carlson….

Dick Kilbourne moved to Exeter, N.H. He and Ellie (Master) ’69 celebrated their 50th anniversary….Pat Korol Wilson enjoys retirement but does not sit still for long. She and Scott volunteer in support of the volunteer fire company and she also serves on the school board….Having relocated to Brunswick, Maine, Pat Lord Clark and Newt ’65 are enjoying their new environs.

Pat is active in the Brunswick/ Topsham Land Trust. She has connected with Esther Rosenthal Mechler ’64, and they have attended Alliance Français together….Bruce Lyman has a lot of first-place medals from local races, where he’s sometimes the only runner in his age group to finish. He and Sam Baker Lyman enjoy their gardens and life in the small town of Woodstock, Conn….From Armonk, N.Y., Colin McBride reports he has retired as senior vice president, assistant general counsel, and secretary of RJR Nabisco Inc….In Williamsburg, Va., Jeanette Smith Cureton says serving on the vestry of Bruton Parish Church and on the board of her former school keeps the calendar full and Jeanette off the streets….Ann Warren Turner works to become fit with more

energy after her bout with cancer three years ago. Most of all, she is grateful to be here and to have reconnected with Elaine Beede Bennett, Marty Duckenfield, and Sally McGinty.

1968 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 class secretary Rick Melpignano rickmel713@gmail.com class president Richard J. Gelles gelles@sp2.upenn.edu In the Sun Journal, Nancy Hohmann reflected on her life. After a 25-year career as a teacher in Oxford Hills, she spent 10 years teaching therapeutic horseback riding to children with special needs. She moved to Falmouth to be near her daughter and two grandchildren. “I have loved my life and continue to love it,” she said. “And now I’m moving to Falmouth….I find myself thinking, ‘Now what are my goals?’ Now, it’s different. I’m in a transition and I feel good about it.”

1969 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretary Deborah Bliss Behler debbehler@aol.com class president George Peters geo47peters@gmail.com Writer Amy Belding Brown gave a talk on her research into the life of Sarah Sartell Prentice, the radical, independent wife of Grafton’s first minister, at the South Grafton (Mass.) Community House….James Burch toured around Australia and New Zealand….Peter Handler has two full-time careers: furniture maker and climate activist. The group leader of the Philadelphia chapter of Citizens Climate Lobby, he went to Washington for CCL’s International Annual Conference and to lobby for the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act….Clark Kearney and Carol now live in Peoria, Ariz., closer to family. He’s active in community groups and the Veterans Assn. and volunteers at a hospital. He reports his golf game has shown no improvement….Michael Nolan received a Bates’ Best award at Reunion. “As the 50th Reunion Gift Chair, you have modeled the importance of giving back and leaving a legacy for future generations,” his citation reads.

“Your creative fundraising efforts and ability to motivate others have resulted in your class more than doubling the amount raised for the Bates Fund as compared to previous years. As a former Bobcat football player, you have also been incredibly influential to the Friends of Bates Athletics and one of the biggest supporters of Bates football. Along with your

classmate Steve Brown, you helped create the popular Annual Football Golf Outing 16 years ago. Mike, you are always willing to tell memorable stories about your time on campus and spread Bobcat pride. Bates has been the fortunate beneficiary of your unwavering determination to succeed in all that you undertake.”…

Dottie Kinraide Welch attended the U.S. National Square Dance Convention in Atlanta where she completed a multi-year process and became a CALLERLAB-accredited caller-coach….Richard Poole, in Chatham County, N.C., is vice chair of the county’s Affordable Housing Advisory Committee.

1970 Reunion 2020, June 11-14 class secretaries Stephanie Leonard Bennett slenben@comcast.net Betsey Brown efant127@yahoo.com class president/treasurer Steve Andrick steve.andrick15@gmail.com Our 50th Reunion is right around the corner — June 11–14, 2020!

Reunion planning is already underway, but there can never be too many hands on deck for such an event (plus, the more people, the more fun!). If you would like to help the Gift Committee raise funds for our class gift to the College, please email Betsey. The Social Committee is reaching out to encourage classmates to come, and planning Reunion events. To join or offer suggestions, please email Steve. And, if you still have your bio, memories, or memorial for a classmate to contribute to our 50th Reunion Yearbook, please email them to Stephanie now! Most important: Please put the dates on your busy 2020 calendar now, contact all your Batesie friends, and persuade them to come too. Steve, Betsey, and Steph all have the latest contact info from Bates for most of our classmates. Please email us, or get in touch with anyone you know on the Reunion Committee and we’ll do our best to reconnect you with that long-lost friend you’d love to see again.

We’re planning The Event of a Lifetime….Kathy Brown remains busy on the boards of her homeowners association and the Assn. of Retired Faculty at NCSU, and with fundraising for an endowment to support the public school system in Greenville, Maine….

Kemp Coady and wife Rosita Moreno are pretty much retired and travel all over the world. He taught the last six years in small business and graduate programs in entrepreneurship with the Goldman Sachs Babson 10KSB program and in Univ. of Connecticut’s graduate program in experiential learning….David and Diane Akers Libbey ’68 enjoy grandkids (and their parents), old Fords, slightly newer tractors, good friends, and traveling.

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1971 Reunion 2021, June 10-13 class secretary Suzanne Woods Kelley suzannekelley@att.net class president Michael Wiers mwierse@mwiers.com class vice president Jan Face Glassman jfaceg1@hotmail.com

Mike ’72 and Paula Foresman Touloumtzis ’71: “We are a Deansmen/Merrimander couple. So, we continue to do much of what we did back in the ’70s, at an appropriately age-adjusted pace, of course.”

After retiring, Susan Cragin Cole and Steve moved from Honolulu to Athens, Ohio, to be close to three of their grandchildren. “We miss Hawaii (and especially my son Cameron, his wife Cheryl, and our granddaughter Nia, who live there) and it will always have a special place in our hearts but it is good to be back mainland and be able to drive (instead of fly!) to visit family and friends.”…Jan Face Glassman graduated from Greater Naples (Fla.) Leadership, a program that helps proven leaders fulfill the nonprofit and civic needs of greater Naples. She serves as the Collier County Republican state committeewoman.

In May, she was recognized as Pace Collier’s 2019 Pacesetter for her volunteer efforts since 2010 on behalf of Pace, a nationally recognized program for at-risk teenage girls….Steve Girvin completed a 700-page graduate textbook for his field of condensed matter physics.

After 10 years as deputy provost at Yale, he enjoys being back in

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the classroom teaching first-year undergraduate physics….Bob and Micca Andrzejak Gray ’70 enjoy retirement in Northern California with morning walks with their rescue dog and occasional lunches at the nearby coast. They have also been exploring the world. “Traveling the world is a great tool to put into perspective what is happening in the USA.”…

Carolyn Russell Locke’s poem “Swimming with My Father” was read on Maine Public Radio’s “Poems from Here” series. She’s the author of three books of poetry, most recently The Riddle of Yes.

1972 Reunion 2022, June 9–12 class secretary Steven H. Mortimer stevenhmortimer@gmail.com class president Wayne V. Loosigian wloosigian@gmail.com Erik Bertelsen is still failing at retirement. He was called to duty, albeit part time, as the interim director of college counseling at the White Mountain School….

Donn Brous is slowly moving toward retirement at her folk art gallery, so she signed up to be a desk volunteer at a nonprofit cultural center where she worked for many years….Stephen Comee has lived in Japan since 1974 and worked for the Japan Foundation since 1986. He’s also a semi-professional Noh actor who performed a Noh dance this fall at the Imperial Shrine of Yasukuni in Tokyo to help commemorate the shrine’s 150th anniversary and the enthronement of Emperor Naruhito. “It is very significant for an American to perform an ancient Japanese art upon this stage, since Yasukuni Shrine is where all the war dead of World War II are commemorated.” Stephen and his partner were officially married in Hawaii in 2016….Marilyn Lantery Anderson retired from teaching. “Probably will do some substituting at my school but we shall see how it all unfolds.”…

Steve Mortimer loves living in Portland, Bon Appetit’s “Restaurant City of the U.S.” He splits his time between helping the immigrant community and the nonprofit Amistad, which helps those with mental illness, substance use disorder, and chronic homelessness….Linda Oliwa Machalaba retired from a lifetime of wonderful years teaching English to speakers of other languages. “Now I get to enjoy doing some language learning and traveling of my own and will have time to join more singing groups.”…Retired in Brunswick, John Paige does some traveling and enjoys more time with Lee Kennett Paige ’76 and family….

Mike Schwartz spent a week in Dubai completing a healthcare consulting assignment. “While I was there the temperature reached 128!”…Don Smith and his wife spent a terrific year in

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They celebrated 50 years of marriage last summer….Dave Rogers serves on the foundation board and the Medical Matters Committee at Butler Hospital in Providence, R.I., and is on the Community Advisory Committee of the United Way of RI….Jim Rurak and Kathy were blessed with their first grandchild, Slater James. They’ve subdivided their land and are building another house on it. The whole family will live on this “working class compound” on the Merrimack River….Marcia Weston Haas is involved with the Springfield (Mass.) Kiwanis Club, the YWCA of Western Mass, and loves reading aloud to first-graders at an inner-city school in Springfield.

She and Dick have taken some great trips.

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The Ward siblings pose in summer 1970: from left, Anne, Ron, Matthew (held by Ron), and Vicky.

media outlet:

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takeaway: Family and friends offer a safety net during hard times Ron Ward ’71 contributed a personal essay to “Meetinghouse,” the Maine Sunday Telegram’s monthly storytelling project. He wrote about how, when he was a Bates sophomore, his father left the family, forcing Ward, his mother, and his three siblings to fend for themselves.

Ward wrote that family friends immediately stepped up to support his siblings, C. Anne Ward ’74, Matthew, and Vicky, helping them feel a sense of normalcy during a time of great and unexpected change and stress.

Thanks to the reassurance of the late Jim Carignan ’61, Dean Emeritus of the College, Ward knew that he could stay at Bates despite the financial shift.

“The enormous help and generosity from our friends, our town, my mother’s employer, my college, much of it spontaneous, were our keys,” Ward wrote.

“Mainers with no direct stake in this outcome allowed this result.”

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Spain where he came out of retirement to teach in an American school in Zaragoza. “It has been a fabulous experience, but I am ready to re-retire again.”…Mike Touloumtzis, newly retired, and Paula Foresman Touloumtzis ’71 read, run, hike, bike, quilt (Paula), play the tuba (Mike), and sing. “We are a Deansmen/Merrimander couple. So, we continue to do much of what we did back in the ’70s, at an appropriately age-adjusted pace of course.”…

Mark Winne’s fourth book Food Town, USA (Island Press) is just out. It tells the food stories of seven cities including Portland, Maine.

1973 Reunion 2023, June 8-11 class secretary Kaylee Masury kmasury@yahoo.com class president Tom Carey tcarey@bates.edu Mel Donalson wrote, produced, and directed his play Shout at the Fremont Theatre in South Pasadena, Calif., in 2017. He also updated his novel The Third Woman. He’s deepened his friendships with Walt Toombs, Ira Waldman, Jill Sturtevant Bruce ’77, “and my man for all seasons, John Jenkins ’74.”…

The blog Coast Guard Compass highlighted the career of Janna Lambine, a Coast Guard aviator who was inducted into the Women in Aviation International Pioneer Hall of Fame last March. A geology major at Bates, she joined the Coast Guard and went to flight school, earning her wings for both airplanes and helicopters in 1977. “This made her the first female aviator, the first female helicopter pilot, and the first female HH-3 helicopter pilot in the Coast Guard,” wrote Diana Sherbs. Janna now lives on Cape Cod….Dorrie Mitchell and Dana Ring are taking advantage of their Senior Lifetime National Park passes, spending 12 days in Utah hiking five national parks, a national monument and visiting Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. Both are active in theater with the Suffield Players. Dorrie is in her 13th year volunteering for Connecticut Humane Society and received “The Gold Standard” volunteer award this year. They got together with Ann Hall Dorr and Donna Byrnes….Bev Nash Esson has been a local election official for 10 years and volunteers for the Wells public library.

She met up with Ira Waldman at the inauguration of Maine’s new governor. She and her husband traveled to Italy for the first time to visit Lake Garda where her grandparents were born….

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short stories and three poems published by various magazines.

She lives in Moretown, Vt., not far from Ginny Garrison, with whom she graduated high school as well.

1974 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretary Tina Psalidas Lamson tinal2@mac.com class president Don McDade dmcdade@llbean.com Julia Holmes Reuter is “happy being typical — retired December 2018, enjoying two grandchildren that do not live close by, and had so much fun at last June’s Reunion dancing the night away with Dave Nelson, Nort Virgien, Steve Mathes, Chris Doyle, Maryann DeSomma Ott, and Jim and Janne Jensen Roehm.”

1975 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretaries Deborah Bednar Jasak Deborahjasak@gmail.com Faith Minard minardblatt@gmail.com class presidents Susan Bourgault Akie susieakie@gmail.com Janet Haines jbh580@aol.com To celebrate retirement, George Anders, Donna, and family took a guided tour of Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Scotland….

After 23 years of service to the Bates campus community, Sarah Hawken Bernard retired last April. Her many different roles included working as a programmer/analyst supporting HR and as a database analyst in Information and Library Services. She retired as director of Human Resource Information Systems.

She received the Stanton Environmental Stewardship Award in 2017. Sarah “is passionate about volunteering, at Bates and in the community, environmental sustainability, and libraries, where she not only volunteers, but has most likely checked out materials from every library in Maine. In her local community, she volunteers on the board of the Harrison library where she will work part time when she retires,” said Shanna Hines, assistant vice president for Human Resources and Environmental Health and Safety….Cynthia Robbins-Roth, in California, says retirement is awesome. “My kids are now in their 30s, happy and healthy. Bob and I are enjoying traveling for fun, not work.”…

Marty Welbourn Freeman had the pleasure of a morning hike and good visit with Steve and Betsy Slocum Markesich when they were visiting Alaska. “I apologize for the record-breaking temperatures and wildfire smoke!”

1976 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Jeffrey Helm bateslax@gmail.com class president Bruce Campbell brucec@maine.rr.com Wendy Ault received the Maine Higher Education Excellence Award from the New England Board of Higher Education for her outstanding leadership and devotion to academic excellence.

A former state legislator, she worked as a reproductive health teacher and associate director of admissions at Westbrook College (now Univ. of New England) and the Univ. of Maine at Farmington. She’s now executive director of the MELMAC Education Foundation….Ann Austin was appointed interim associate provost for faculty and academic staff development at Michigan State Univ. She was recently named a University Distinguished Professor….Multimedia artist Bill Jeter was one of 10 black Minnesota artists whose work was chosen for the first Minnesota Black Fine Art Show….Marge McCormick Davis writes that her “unending crusade to get a 5-cent deposit on beverage containers in Tennessee was noted in a New York Times story in July. The article describes how the big beverage brands continue to fight bottle bills even as they commit to recycling rates achievable only through bottle bills. But my allies and I are more determined than ever, and expect to make even bigger headlines in next year’s legislative session!”…Corinne Rogers finished her PhD in archival science in 2015 and has been working for an international research project studying issues of trust and trustworthiness of digital material online.

She now works for Artefactual Systems, a software company that develops and supports software for digital preservation and access….Claudia Turner published The Scions of Atlantis, a suspenseful sequel to her first book, Scars and Stripes Forever.

Both have received 5-star reviews.

1977 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Steve Hadge schmuddy@yahoo.com class president Keith Taylor drkeithtaylor@msn.com Jay Bangs, chair of microbiology and immunology in the Univ. of Buffalo’s Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, was named a fellow of the American Society of Microbiology….Washington Life magazine named Bates trustee Lisa Barry

and her husband James Gale to its list of “The 2019 Philanthropic 50.” Lisa, a longtime government relations executive and trade specialist for Conoco, Time Warner, and Boeing, “kept a keen eye on corporate giving throughout her career in Washington and is continuing her philanthropic ways in retirement,” the magazine reported.

Bates has benefited from more than $500,000 in recent years.

They have also given to Georgetown Univ., where she serves on the advisory board of the Foreign Service School; Refugees International; and many other organizations….Lawyer Peter Brann says his most interesting recent case was successfully defending Jared Golden ’11 in the first congressional election using ranked-choice voting….

Stan Dimock thoroughly enjoys his new waterfront home in Barrington, R.I. He’s worked at Save The Bay in Providence for 21 years….Joel Feingold and Houda bought and renovated a house just outside Fort Lauderdale, Fla. His project for Broadway, a musical based on the life of reggae icon Peter Tosh, is moving along….James Geitz completed Mount MacNaughton in the Adirondack high peak region and is now officially a 47er. He also became a grandfather. “Reached out to Paul Sklarew and Mark Sorensen. Great conversations, great friends. Why did it take so long? I needed a way to reconnect with the passing of Jeff Brown.”…Bruce Ginsberg is an assistant baseball coach at Babson College, which was ranked No. 3 in the country and made it to the College World Series for the first time. “I love working with and mentoring the kids ....definitely helps keep you young!”…Steve Hadge is semi-retired and enjoying the extra time. He and his wife became empty nesters….Pat Mador is a volleyball referee. “The Bates team was awesome and made the NESCAC playoffs.”…Jennifer Malia Takahashi’s greatest joy is her first grandchild, a little boy. She works three days a week in her private practice.

“We had a lovely rendezvous with Deb Thyng Schmidt and Doug Schmidt ’78.”…Kevin Soucy says his new chemo drugs are working well and his cancer is stable. He’s finally able to enjoy retirement somewhat….

Vicki Tripp Gordan had a couple of great trips with family and friends and was headed to Ireland for a friend’s wedding in September.

1978 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 class secretary Chip Beckwith chipwith@yahoo.com class president Dean M. Berman deanocean@aol.com

1979 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretary Mary Raftery mgraftery@gmail.com class president Patrick Murphy patrickm@paceengrs.com Mary Raftery reports, “Just about 40 class members made their way back to campus for our 40th Reunion on June 7–9. We shared life stories, retirement plans, pictures of grandchildren, and lots of good food and drink (especially Bill Sweat’s wine collection). Memories took us to old sports fields, The Goose, and thoughts of old friends; we laughed and cried about our days as 20-year-olds (what we could remember anyway). Unofficially, we think Bart Siebelink came the farthest — from Amsterdam — and Kurt Carlson came back for the first time in 40 years. For two days, we were surrounded by sweet memories and just plain good people. Thanks to Patrick Murphy for agreeing to serve as our class president.”…

Allyson Anderson-Sterling, enjoying retirement, and Rick celebrated the marriage of daughter Sara to Tim last July….

Nancy Arey Cohen moved back to Maine full time. “I say full time, but really it’s just an excuse to travel more. Road Scholar trips and cruising have become my new favorites.”…Bill Bogle has been with the same company for 33 years. He’s still trying to figure out how to hit a golf ball properly….Sue Calhoun and Jack now live in Windham where she’s happy to have a yard to garden in….John Casey was named chief justice of the Massachusetts Probate and Family Court system….Steven DiPirro became a grandpa and is about to become an empty nester. He’s a software engineer with a side photography business….Steve Doppler is back in Afghanistan, where he worked full time between 2011 and 2017. He works in Kabul at the Ministry of Mines & Petroleum as a transaction adviser. He helps structure, negotiate, and close deals for private sector investments that will fund exploration and development of gold, copper, iron ore and industrial minerals projects throughout Afghanistan. “Away from Afghanistan, I cherish my time at home in Colorado (and the USA) with family and friends, and am grateful for the appreciation and perspective on life (and the friendships made) that working in an active conflict zone has given me.”…In 2018 at age 61, Kathryn Doran found kickboxing. “And I love it ... in an almost addictive way!

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After over 20 years in the STEM publishing industry, Deni Auclair happily works from home as an independent consultant. She’s a member of The 10 Club, which also includes Mary Henderson Pressman, Melanie Parsons Paras, Amy Gordon ’79, Susan Hannan, Jacki Alpert, and Becki Hilfrank Ramsey. They keep in close touch through good times and bad. “I refer those who ask about the name to the movie 10 with Bo Derek. The response from most younger people is ‘Who is Bo Derek?,’ prompting a heavy sigh from this Baby Boomer.”…Kip Beach coaches the linebackers on the varsity football team and freshman basketball at Buckingham Brown & Nichols, a prep school in Cambridge, Mass.

“New England prep football champs in 2018 ( just saying).”…

Rick DeBruin welcomed his first grandchild, Vivian Leigh Calieri.

His group at the Portland Press Herald “is now responsible for the obituaries of six of the seven daily newspapers in Maine — over 800 per month! Who said it’s a dying business?!”…Mary Henderson Pressman retired as a Bates trustee in June after serving for 15 years. “It was the honor of my lifetime to be so closely involved with the College.

I came to know Bates in a very different way and found that my interaction with Batesies of all generations proved that there is a sense of belonging to a great community that joins us all.”…

Chuck James moved to South Florida but still commutes back to the Washington area for his software sales job to the federal government….On a recent stop in the D.C. area, Peter Moore and his wife were entertained at a summer feast by Don Pongrace ’79 and his wife, then spent a wonderful day with Richard ’80 and Ann Kees Fieldhouse ’80.

Peter’s now the editor of a new magazine, NatuRx: Better Living through Cannabis. “Those nights in Hedge weren’t wasted, after all.”…Peggy Morehead Wilber and David ’77 downsized by moving into a town home. She has lots of fun working part time as a reading interventionist at a Title 1 elementary school in Colorado Springs, Colo. “I’m very concerned about what’s happening to children on America’s southern border. Traumatizing children is not in anyone’s best

interests.”…After several decades in Seattle, Emily Wesselhoeft Kelly and her husband now spend half the year in Sun Valley, Idaho.

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Rick DeBruin ’78 reports his group at the Portland Press Herald “is now responsible for the obituaries of six of the seven daily newspapers in Maine — over 800 per month!

Who said it’s a dying business?!”

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All Four Bates Decked out in Bates finery, four generations of Richard Sullivans — including the newest, Richard K. “Rico” Sullivan IV — gather for a photo nine days after Rico’s March 22 birth.

Great-grandfather Dick Sullivan ’57 holds Rico, and at right and left are Rico’s father, Kick Sullivan ’12, and grandfather Rick Sullivan ’81.

Rico’s mom, Kick’s wife, is Mariana Cayres Sullivan. (And there’s more! The newest Sullivan’s extended family includes more than a dozen Bates alumni.)

“So very proud of this amazing group!” says great-grandmother Edie Lysaght Sullivan ’56, who married Dick Sullivan not long after his graduation in 1957.

“To think it all began at Bates. We’ll be working on getting that little fourth generation to follow the others — so get ready for more fun!”

Kick says he was “honored to be able to bring three generations of Batesies and four generations of Richards together to celebrate our wonderful family and alma mater.”

Matt Buchman, back on the East Coast after 39 years in the Pacific Northwest, caught up with Geology Department pals Chase Curtis ’81, Al Carter, and Dave Covill. He celebrated the release of his 60th novel and 100th short story (as M.L. Buchman). Being a full-time writer since 2012 “beats the living daylights out of my 30 years as a corporate project manager.”…The Journal Inquirer sat down with John Elsesser, who has been the town manager of Coventry, Conn., for over 30 years. John, who has improved Coventry’s trash and sewer systems as well as its school and recreation programs, mused that he took to local government partly because of his upbringing as the son of a Baptist minister.

“We were taught that you should do good for others, try to make an impact,” he said.…Alicia Tierney Guinee and her family had a wonderful time supporting Bates football from fall 2011 through fall 2018, when two sons played. “It was great to experience campus from a different viewpoint. With the younger of the two having graduated from Bates last spring, we are four-fifths done with college educations. My eyes are bad, but ... I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.”…Jeff and Lisa Jepson Wahlstrom have lived in Bangor for 25 years, and each has led separate consulting businesses for 14 of those years.

Preoccupied with the care of aging parents, they still find time to camp, hike, canoe, and connect with Bates friends. Lisa has multiple volunteer commitments while Jeff has started showing his block prints and watercolor collages in local galleries.

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Friday from 6 to 7 a.m. without fail. Stronger than I have ever been in my life. (And yes, I am the oldest one in the class, but no excuses. I am fierce!).” Last year she became a full tribal member of the Patawomeck Indian Tribe of Virginia. “The reason? Pocahontas is my 10th great-grandmother!”…Brenda Garrand is stepping down from active leadership of the 30-year-old Portland advertising and marketing company she founded, but will maintain part ownership and stay on as board chair. Brenda told the Press Herald it will be difficult to give up “my life’s work,” but she’s eager for new challenges. She was also appointed to the Univ. of New England board and to a second term as Honorary Consul of Canada….Chuck McKenzie finally pulled the plug after 40 years in asset management. “Time to golf, volunteer, travel, and spend

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some quality time with my wife (in that order...).”…Jackie Miller and Dave are both happily retired and moving into a smaller home this fall. She volunteers with a cat rescue, and they have four “furkids” of their own….Jon Piper is a professor of biology at a small college in central Kansas where he divides his time between the Great Plains and Costa Rica….Laurie Schultz Heim still loves Washington, D.C., after 36 years. Now retired, she supports her husband, who runs a small optics manufacturing business, and spends more time in Vermont with her parents. “I run into Batesies everywhere, most recently on the early morning biking/jogging trail along the Anacostia River, and teaching cross-country skiing at Trapp Family Lodge in Vermont.”…

When a touring display of pinot noir wines from Oregon’s Willamette Valley came to Boston,

it included two produced by Bill Sweat and his wife Donna Morris. Bill told the Boston Herald they were working in financial services in Boston when they were inspired to open Winderlea Vineyard & Winery, a boutique winery in the Willamette Valley — America’s hottest region for crafting outstanding pinot noir.

The pinot makers travel together to introduce laypeople to Oregon wine. “The collegiality and collaboration of winery owners is incredible,” Bill said. “We realize that if a Willamette Valley wine achieves success, we can all benefit from it.” Bill reports Sam Sirkin and Patrick Murphy live nearby.

1980 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Christine Tegeler Beneman cbeneman@gmail.com

class president Henry Howie hhowie@gmail.com Marty Levenson ran the Boston Marathon this year for the first time in 26 years but with a special purpose: to honor childhood friend Richard “Ratt” Kennedy and his fight against amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Diagnosed with ALS in 2016, Kennedy is prominent in the Boston area for raising awareness and funds to fight the disease that killed his father and a younger brother. For Marty and Ratt, running was a “constant” in their long friendship. Ratt ran the marathon for many years; Marty, who lost an eye to a tumor and had both hips replaced, gave up running entirely. His friend helped Marty through tough but survivable troubles. How do you reciprocate in the face of a cruel illness? “I vowed to him, however much time he had left or I had left, we were going to make the most of it, and we were going to leave this place without

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any regrets,” Marty said. They took trips: San Francisco, Beijing, England, Paris. And, because Ratt could no longer run the Boston Marathon, Marty decided to do it for him….Sue Lovett started her own proofreading business, SML Proofreading, “hoping to, at some point, no longer have to work for someone else!” Enjoying life in Gloucester, Mass., she keeps in touch with Mindy Hanssen, Brad Fenn, John Aime, Felicia Garant, Betsy Kennedy, MC, and others….MC McNeill McBain celebrated her 38th anniversary with IBM. “Still having fun and learning new things every day.” She and her husband saw the Pope in Rome after an Italian cruise….James Miller was promoted to president of TowneBank Mortgage in Virginia Beach, Va….Mark Miller joined Brookline (Mass.) Bank as senior vice president in its commercial banking division….Jean Wilson retired after a rewarding career at L.L.Bean as CIO. “Enjoying the time traveling, cycling, hiking, and spending time with family. I love staying connected with Bates as an alum, parent, and trustee.”

1982 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Jerry Donahoe maineescape@aol.com class president Neil Jamieson neil@southernmainelaw.com

Marty Wonson Brandt ’82 gives a shoutout to Lisa Farrell Wilk ’82, who hired Marty’s daughter as an environmental scientist. “Woohoo!

It’s great to have those Bates connections.”

Barry Boss loves being an attorney in D.C. at Cozen O’Connor.

He’s co-chair of commercial litigation and the white-collar defense and investigations practice group….Ray Campbell is the executive director of the Massachusetts Center for Health Information and Analysis, an independent state authority that collects huge amounts of data on the state’s healthcare system and uses it to serve state agencies and policymakers. He stays in touch with Woody Haskell, Chuck Peterson, John Chapman, John Hayes, and Clay Campbell ’83….

Tom Campbell has shifted his focus at Waynflete in Portland, taking on a great deal of the educational logistics of the pre-K-12 school as dean of educational operations. He finds the job interesting and challenging. Lori Norman Campbell continues as a supervisor and social worker

at Southern Maine Agency on Aging. They saw Beth Stemmler and Clark Porter ’81. Tom got together with Greg Pizzo, Nick Kent, Neil Jamieson, and Eric Leimbach ’83 at their fantasy baseball draft at Bates….After 59 years of calling Lewiston home, Ann-Marie Caron lives in Ocala, Fla., closer to family. “Florida living is definitely a whole new ballgame (new critters, new pests, and new landscaping issues to learn about).”…After a 35-year career in HIV services, Bob Carr published his first full-length collection of poetry, The Unbuttoned Eye (3: A Taos Press). It unpacks 35 years of the HIV pandemic in dialogue with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe….Wally Dillingham continues to specialize in the endowment and foundation sector for Wilmington Trust in NYC. His article on Catholic foundations was carried by The New York Times and U.S. News & World Report. Deb Clark-Dillingham continues to do great work as a member of the NYC school board. They saw Chris and Michele McKeown Fisher ’83, Jeff ’83 and Kristen Carlson Garnett ’86, and Jeff and Linda Andrews….Jerry Donahoe is still living life in Washington and working as a public servant at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. His many travels included trips to Georgia and Washington state to gain insights from President and Mrs. Carter and the Carter Center folks during donor weekends on both coasts….

Mark Dorion has lived in El Paso, Texas, on the U.S.-Mexico border for 35-plus years. “The millions of us residing here in this vibrant international culture keep being told by the president that we need a wall (we already have one) and that he may ‘close the bridges’ (most of our border crossings are over very short 1/4-mile-long or so bridges).

Funnily enough, a neighbor of mine ( just ‘Beto’ to me), whom I sometimes pass while we are both running, is also ‘running’ for president! (I was actually friends with his late, great father, who was a judge plus a good runner and cyclist.) Beyond that I have no political comment!”…

Heidi Duncanson, in her fourth year at Seacoast Science Center, is happy to work in the areas of sustainability initiatives and environmental advocacy. “This is a critical time for our world and I’m glad to be part of an organization that’s speaking up and helping people to take action.”

She, Felicia Garant, and Lori Norman Campbell hit up several Maine craft fairs. They also went to Nick Kent’s fun store, Wicked Maine Goods in Freeport….Lisa Farrell Wilk reports all is going well at her company, Capaccio Environmental Engineering Inc., in Marlborough, Mass. She’s active in the Boston Bates Book Club monthly meetings and periodically attends Boston Bates Business Network meetings….Pretty much fully

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Joyce White Vance ’82 speaks at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Mueller Report on June 10.

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Prosecutors pick their battles

takeaway: Prosecuting undocumented immigrants is a poor use of resources Best known these days for her legal insights into special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation and report on the 2016 elections, Joyce White Vance ’82 in August turned her attention to the massive Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid of food processing plants in Mississippi.

The raid, which resulted in the arrests of more than 600 undocumented people, was a wrongheaded use of prosecutorial resources, she wrote in an op-ed.

A former U.S. attorney for Alabama, Vance once declined to pursue an ICE raid because she failed to “see how it would be a wise use of our resources to pull away from crimes that were affecting our community in visible ways to arrest people who, while they might have lacked legal immigration status, were going to work every day.”

Noting that it took months to plan the ICE raids, Vance wondered if there aren’t other prosecutions that might have “better served the community” than “removing parents from children — children that the parents were hard at work for, so they could help them grow into productive citizens.”

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Whistle-blowers say detaining migrant families “poses high risk of harm”

takeaway: Confining children to a detention center is a horrid policy Dr. Scott Allen has appeared in The New York Times, 60 Minutes, and other outlets to publicize the harm children suffer when confined to detention facilities, such as the ICE centers at the Southwest U.S. border, “even when confined with a parent,” writes New York Times reporter Miriam Jordan.

Investigations during both the Obama and Trump administrations “frequently revealed serious compliance issues resulting in harm to children,” Allen and Dr. Pamela McPherson wrote in a letter to the U.S. Senate’s Whistleblower Protection Caucus.

Even the detention of children with a parent “poses high risk of harm to children and their families,” said the two doctors, who are medical consultants for the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.

“The medical community is quite unified in opposition to the detention of children. Decades of research have shown that detention is harmful to their medical and physical health,” Allen told NPR’s Christiane Amanpour. Allen and McPherson received the 2019 Physicians for Human Rights Award for their efforts on behalf of children and families in immigration detention. The two were also awarded the 2019 Ridenhour Prize for Truth Telling for the same work.

Allen is a professor emeritus of medicine at the University of California, Riverside.

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recovered after a serious medical issue in 2018, Felicia Garant is building her home-based business, Garant Consulting LLC. She works with attorneys and other professionals to provide trustee, personal representative, and conservatorship services to their clients. She’s also primary caregiver for her parents and an aunt….J.D. Hale worked a lot on Season 4 of Weekends with Yankee, an American Public Television and WGBH/Boston travel/culinary show broadcast nationally. He and Cindy looked forward to their 19th ride in the Pan Mass Challenge….Ruth Hall continues to enjoy service on the ACLU Virginia Chapter Board. She also serves on the steering committee for the Lotus Center for All Faiths, and attended the North American Interfaith Network Conference in Edmonton, Canada, as well as the Parliament of the World’s Religions conference in Toronto.

Afterward she took the scenic rail trip across Canada from Toronto to Vancouver….Scott Hoyt, who loves his job as an economist at Moody’s Analytics, has done some traveling to give talks on the economic outlook….

Neil Jamieson reports daughter Ainsley ’18 works in the Capitol Hill office of Jared Golden ’11 after working on his campaign for Congress. Neil and Heather visited daughter Lexie ’20 in Argentina during her semester there….Heather McElvein Malaby is “still working. Still have grown kids doing their thing. Still glad to be breathing, married, and happy. Not necessarily in that order!”…Suzanne Stiles Seale enjoys good health, friends, and early retirement. “I went to a fun Bates event at the new Seaport area of Boston. I’m amazed at the impact Bates has through its alumni.”…Rebecca Swanson Conrad was a judge for a juried art show during Auburn’s 150th anniversary celebration. She’s president of Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce….Marty Wonson Brandt gives a shoutout to Lisa Farrell Wilk, who hired Marty’s daughter, Mary Catharine, as an environmental scientist. “Woohoo! It’s great to have those Bates connections.”…

Richard Wood helped Jared Golden ’11 do his part to take back the House. “Met a number of young Bobcats working on that campaign, and hope to see more of them in 2020.” On a California trip, he got together with Beverly Ruf Matsuda for the first time in many years.

1983 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 class secretary Leigh Peltier leighp727@gmail.com class presidents Pamela Johnson Dearden tribecapj@yahoo.com William Zafirson bzaf@maine.rr.com

Steven Kates joined Dicerna Pharmaceuticals Inc. as vice president, regulatory affairs.

1984 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretary Heidi Lovett blueoceanheidi@aol.com class president Linda Cohen linda@lscdesignstudio.com Julie Jackson Flynn and her family traveled to Barcelona and enjoyed a different culture….

Mike Katz, a Delaware physician, entrepreneur, and former lawmaker, is seeking the Democratic nomination for president. His door-to-door initiative in New Hampshire, called “House Calls to Heal America,” has convinced him the country is much like the trauma patients he has cared for throughout his career, he said.

“In the last few years our political system has been traumatized and like a trauma team in the emergency room, we must take decisive measures to heal it. And we have very little time — we must act now to restore a spirit of compromise and consensus.”…

Ann Kranjec Fortescue is the new president and executive director of the International Museum of Art & Science in McAllen, Texas….Heidi Lovett and her husband looked forward to traveling with their kids to Europe for the first time. She was especially excited to return to Denmark, “visiting families I lived with in 1978–79 while a high school exchange student.”…

Earle and Pamela Rawson Morse ’85 live at Sugarloaf where they’re the resort chaplains and run their own interior furnishings and general contracting business, Birchwood Interiors.

Earle’s “mid-life crisis fling was to buy a local breakfast/lunch restaurant named D’Ellies here in the resort.” He enjoyed skiing with Mory and Sarah Hammond Creighton and Mike Katz. “The guest room is always ready for wayward Bates ski bums.”…

Jim Sylvia joined the board of ShopOne Centers REIT Inc. He’s the founder and president of READCO-Sylvia Advisors.

1985 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Elissa Bass bass.elissa@yahoo.com class president Lisa Virello virello@comcast.net WashingtonExec reported that Daniel Hoffman, who recently retired after 30 years in the intelligence community, is giving back to a mainstay of his college career and life beyond: swimming. He’s now a senior adviser for the International Swimming League, comprising swim teams from the U.S. and Europe. A swimmer

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at Bates and a coach for many years afterward, he wants to raise the profile of elite swimming between Olympics. “There is a supply of elite swimmers who frankly aren’t receiving any of the financial compensation that they should be receiving because there aren’t opportunities to continue swimming during those four years (between Olympics) unless you’re in a college program,” he said….For the second year in a row, Robin Waterman spent a fabulous weekend with Bates friends Judy Kohin, Dan MacDonald, Becky Jones, Sam Smith, Patty McAndrew, Mark Payne, Jeanne Cahill, Joe Zaia, and Stefanie Fairchild ’87.

“After minimal contact the past 30 years, the weekend was alive with energy as we reconnected across many important shared values — including concern for other people in our world as well as the environment and a desire to engage intellectually with a myriad of topics.” Robin also enjoyed contact with dear friends Sam Paul, Julie Vallone, Beth George, and David Muelken ’87.

1986 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Erica Seifert Plunkett ericasplunkett@gmail.com class presidents Bill Walsh messagebill@gmail.com Catherine Lathrop Strahan catstrahan@gmail.com The National Institute of Mental Health awarded a $13.5 million grant to a team of McLean Hospital investigators, including Bill Carlezon, to support their research into stress chemicals and circuits in the brain. Bill is chief of McLean’s Basic Neuroscience Division.…Mike Goldberg remains the president of Child and Family Psychological Services PLLC, the largest private outpatient behavioral health group in Massachusetts.

It’s now affiliated with LifeStance Health Inc., the largest outpatient behavioral health provider group in the country. He’s also the Northeast Division president for LifeStance. He and his wife live primarily in Sarasota, Fla….

Restaurateur Deborah Hansen writes, “Having grown children come home to visit is a joy — and a blast! The Taberna de Haro cookbook, 10 years in the making, has reached its final stages, just as the restaurant turns 21.”…Carolyn Ryan, assistant managing editor of The New York Times, returned to Bates for a conversation with Bates Magazine Editor Jay Burns and Sarah Rothmann ’19, editor-in-chief of The Bates Student….Beth Simermeyer was elected to the board of Securian Financial. She’s executive vice president of global marketing & communications and life sciences for Ecolab in St. Paul, Minn….

Chris Walsh is now a director at Integra Realty Resources in Bos-

ton….Sharon Williams is taking a break from paid professional work to devote more attention to her health and myriad family responsibilities. She’s been using much of what she’s learned in social work volunteering for social justice programs such as a local racial equity working group and being trained and operating as a rapid responder to ICE actions in the area. Sharon gets together with many Bobcats, including Kerry Crehan Dunnell as she completed a half-marathon, Joanna Stevens, and Maria Packett Cashdollar.

1987 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Val Kennedy brickates@gmail.com class president Erica Rowell erica@honeybeemedia.tv Caroline Baumann, director of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, in New York City, opened her presentation on inclusive design at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, by talking about classmate Erik Kondo. Erik has used a wheelchair since he was in a motorcycle accident as a Bates student. An avid athlete before and after his accident, he participates in a range of sports and has also created an electric skateboard adapted for wheelchair users. Caroline used a quote from Erik that urges designers to prioritize users’ agency as they create products for people with disabilities: “We are the pilots, not the passengers.”…The Portland Public Schools hired Sue Chevalier as the first director of the district’s pre-K program….Midori Gellert Shaw’s oldest son, Keaton ’21, is at Bates. “It’s fun to have a future alumnus in the family.”…

QMA named Linda Tilton Gibson to the newly created role of chief business officer, a step in the firm’s continued global expansion. QMA is a business of Prudential Financial Inc….David Wise, senior vice president and treasurer at Qualcomm Inc., was named interim CFO.

1988 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 executive committee Astrid Delfino Bernard flutistastrid@sbcglobal.net Ruth Garretson Cameron ruth.eg.cameron@gmail.com Mary Capaldi Gonzales marcapcar@me.com Steven Lewis mojofink@gmail.com Julie Sutherland-Platt julielsp@verizon.net Lisa A. Romeo romeoli66@gmail.com Hans Dekker, president of the Community Foundation of New Jersey, was elected to the board

of Public Media NJ Inc., operator of NJTV, New Jersey’s public television network…. In Harvard Business Review, Jennifer Guckel Porter took on a prickly topic: changing unproductive behavior and rewiring bad habits in the workplace. The answer is self-management, “a conscious choice to resist a preference or habit, and instead, demonstrate a more productive behavior,” wrote Jennifer, the managing partner of The Boda Group. “Start by recognizing your current actions, considering alternative options, and then putting in the hard work required to resist what may be most familiar or comfortable.”...Pacific NW Magazine profiled Robin Leventhal, an artist and chef who rose to the top of Seattle’s restaurant scene before making her way to Walla Walla, Wash. She studied art at Bates but developed an interest in cooking. She opened a respected restaurant on Capitol Hill and even competed on Top Chef, but health and other issues forced her to close the restaurant.

Robin found a culinary school job — and, she told the magazine, contentment — in Walla Walla.

In addition to cooking, she maintains a ceramics studio, creating, among other things, a line of oyster plates. Both pottery and cooking, she said, are “craft-driven. It’s mastering a craft, then elevating it.”…

Peter Pierce writes, “Sayonara Tokyo, Ni Hao Shanghai. After three amazing years in Japan, we moved to Shanghai to start a new adventure.”

1989 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretary Sara Hagan Cummings cummings5clan@gmail.com steering committee Sally Ehrenfried sjehrenfried@gmail.com Deb Schiavi Cote debscote@yahoo.com Phil Bonasia and Pauline continue at their “old” jobs having passed the 19-year mark at Sunovion and Genzyme/Sanofi….

Win Brown enjoys his work in healthcare at Heywood and Athol Hospitals in Massachusetts.

Daughter Kali ’21 “loved being one of our 30th Reunion student hosts.”…Darrell Crate received the Embracing the Legacy Award from Boston-based Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps, which works to reduce risks faced by youth. Darrell, who has worked with causes to benefit young people for the past two decades, is chair of Easterly Capital in Beverly, Mass….Sara Hagan Cummings owns and operates a professional organizing business, helping people downsize and organize their homes and lives. “Yes, kind of like Marie Kondo, but less rigid.”

She also assists Beth Tener with a blog and newsletter she puts out through her company, New

Directions Collaborative. JJ Cummings is commanding officer of the USS Gerald R. Ford….

Michael Foley was promoted to professor of dance at the Univ. of South Florida, and was recently honored with a Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award from the Chicago National Assn. of Dance Masters. He got to hang out with Anne Mollerus when she visited him in Paris and brought him a Class of ’89 Alumni Weekend bowling shirt….Laurel Hemmer and Kirk Upton ’88 connected with Stacia Zukroff Biel ’91, who led a trip for the AMC with seven families hiking the Dolomites in Italy….Michelle Quagge Bennett loves being a Realtor with Keller Williams in Portland. She’s happy to live in the sweet village of Yarmouth with her husband of 25 years, Will. Adjusting to lives as empty nesters, they plan lots of travel….

Grace Tallman Gooding and Andrew are excited that younger child Christopher ’23 is starting at Bates. They celebrated their 28th anniversary and are in their 20th year in Huntington, W.Va., where Andrew helps returning adult students at Marshall Univ. complete their degrees. Grace works as a substitute teacher.

1990 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Joanne Walton joannewalton2003@yahoo.com

David Chokachi ’90 on a possible Baywatch reboot: “If we shot it in today’s world, we could do magic with that thing.”

Catherine Boosales Chandler’s home staging business in the Portland, Ore., area “is doing really well and I’m super happy to be building a business doing something that I love to do!”…Tina Brickley Engberg is state leader of Decoding Dyslexia Georgia, part of a network of parent-led grassroots movements across the country concerned with the limited access to educational interventions for dyslexia within the public education system. She was part of a group of people who worked to pass the first legislation to directly address dyslexia in Georgia. She’s now working with the State Board of Education to see the law is properly implemented….All seasons of Baywatch are now on Amazon Prime Video, and to mark the occasion, David Chokachi’s hometown paper in Plymouth, Mass., caught up with the cast member, who’s had a steady stream of TV and movie roles since playing Cody Madison. Unfortunately, life in the real Los Angeles is not as

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glamorous as life on the beaches of Los Angeles County; David and his family lost their home to last year’s brush fires in Malibu.

He’s looking ahead, though — possibly to a Baywatch reboot.

“If we shot it in today’s world, we could do magic with that thing.”…Mark Kennedy and Naomi are excited younger son Ty ’23 has just entered Bates….

Ann Elise Rodrigues Record and Dan relocated to Concord, N.H. She’s now an independent elementary math consultant doing lots of online work as well as traveling to help teachers explore math concepts….Sarah Stone and Don have adjusted to an emptier house. She took a break from volunteering for a year, but plans to start up again at the high school giving kids feedback on their college essays and applications.

1991 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Katie Tibbetts Gates kathryntgates@gmail.com class president John Ducker jducker1@yahoo.com

Jon Custis ’91 is now a vice consul at the U.S. Consulate in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

“One of my daily duties is interviewing applicants for student visas, and I am always on the lookout for my first prospective Batesie.”

Macht laid out the current landscape of podcasts, a storytelling medium that has seen explosive growth in the past five years. “A new entertainment format takes off only when it fits easily into our lives. For the moment, audio — with its modest production values and small files that transfer efficiently even over 2013-era phone networks — is doing just that,” he wrote….Rachael Morris Rothman-Ould was named executive vice president and chief financial officer of Apple Hospitality REIT Inc….Elizabeth Rynecki offers “a profound thank you to all the Batesies who have come to see my Chasing Portraits documentary film. It’s been such an honor to see you at film festivals from Boston and New York to Los Angeles and Portland, Ore. I always knew when I graduated from Bates that it was a special place, but I’ve learned over the years that its alumni community is pretty darn incredible.”…Amy Schrag, who earned all-Central Connecticut Conference East recognition in soccer, basketball, and tennis at Rockville High School, was inducted into the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame.…

Bowdoin women’s basketball coach Adrienne Shibles was named the 2019 NCAA Division III National Coach of the Year.

She led the Polar Bears to a 31-2 record, losing in the national championship game. She has an overall record of 253-64 (.798) in 11 seasons….Tina Todd Richards and her husband are in their third year at the American School of Dubai where she’s a school photographer and he’s superintendent. She’s still connected to junior year roommates Jennifer Ketterer Lustenberger and Anne Peterson and hoped to get them together with Holly Mackintosh last summer.

1992 Rick Cagle leads the MITRE Corp.’s Tactical Edge Computing department. “I’m planning to leverage my department head role to work closely with the Bates career planning office, publicizing internships and hiring at MITRE to attract Bates students and grads.”…Pete Carey is the rector of an Episcopal church in Philly’s Roxborough area and coaches lacrosse at Wissahickon High School. Lisa works at The Shipley School. Pete had a great time when he met up with lacrosse teammate John Shay to watch the NCAA lacrosse finals….Christina Chiu was the Grand Prize winner of the 2018 James Alan McPherson Award, an annual contest designed to recognize minority authors, for her novel Beauty. It will be published in May 2020….Jon Custis became a Foreign Service officer in 2017 and is now a vice consul at the U.S. Consulate in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. “One of my daily duties is interviewing applicants for student visas, and I am always on the lookout for my first prospective Batesie.”…

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Reunion 2022, June 10–12 executive committee Ami Berger ami_berger@hotmail.com Kristin Bierly Magendantz kmagendantz@comcast.net 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@gmail.com Lacrosse coach Brooke Oliver Fritz, who took Radnor High School to a 2017 Pennsylvania state championship and into the state finals two other times in nine years, stepped down as head coach. She led Radnor to an 18-6 record last season. She was an All-American in lacrosse at Bates….Being Patient, a news site focused on Alzheimer’s disease and brain health, spoke with neuroscientist and novelist Lisa Genova about the emotional lives of people with Alzheimer’s, the

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1993 future of research and clinical trials, and the power of storytelling.

Lisa has crafted a literary career defined by empathetic insights into the workings of the brain.

“Empathy is feeling with someone. That’s the imaginative leap I make when I imagine and feel what it’s like to be you. In doing that, it makes a world of difference,” she said….Amy Horne was hired as the outreach coordinator for the Court Appointed Special Advocates of Caroline County, Md….Gillian Kahn Hargreaves and her family live in Berlin, Germany. She’s chair and website manager of the PTA at Berlin Brandenburg International School. “Occasionally my Russian comes in handy!”…This fall, Erin Lydon drew upon her Wall Street and board room experiences to discuss “Equal Pay for Equal Work” at TEDx Spokane and at the National Assn. of Women Business Owners Women’s Day conference….WWAY TV described how teacher Sandra Murray Jones in Burgaw, N.C., uses real-life problems to introduce math concepts to students. Because of her passion for math, the station chose the seventh-grade teacher as Teacher of the Week. In one class, the day’s lesson centered around a fictional person who lost her chicken coop during Hurricane Florence. Students had to use mathematical formulas to determine the amount of supplies necessary to build a new one.

“We used a picture and got some real measurements to make a scale model of the chicken coop,” Sandra said….Isabel Roche was named interim president of Bennington College.

1993 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 class secretary Lisa A. Bousquet lisaannbousquet@gmail.com class presidents Mike Charland mfc@wilkinsinvest.com Jason R. Hanley jason.hanley@wexinc.com Andy Cerillo was promoted to head of Raleigh (N.C.) for Credit Suisse’s Group Chief Data Office….Brian Cleasby and Melissa Clay report daughter Alysse Cleasby ’23 is the newest Bobcat in the family. They and grandmother Diane MacGillivray Clay ’68 are thrilled….After seven long years as foster parents, Robin Clifford and her partner Mandy finalized the adoption of their children, Vydia (8) and Michael (7)….Dean Jacoby and Karla Vecchia are happy and healthy in New Mexico. They bought a very small ownership in Sunora Bacanora, a producer and importer of a long-forgotten agave spirit made in Sonora, Mexico….Evan Silverman started a new job as chief operating officer of This Old House. The home improvement show is in its 40th season.

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1994 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class presidents Courtney Fleisher courtney.fleisher@gmail.com Jonathan Lewis jlewjlew@mac.com PARMA Recordings’ news site interviewed David Carpenter, a classical composer who recently released an album of chamber music, From the Valley of Baca.

His favorite moment from his latest album is when, as a baritone sings in Hebrew about rainfall, a piano’s falling notes evoke the sound of rain. “I love to use music to paint the words of a text, and I think this is a moment where the words and music come together in a very effective way,” he said….

John Clarke was the artist in residence last summer at the Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge, Mass., creating work on and off-site. He works in a variety of mediums….

Alicia Hunter Warner received a Bates’ Best award at Reunion.

“You are a remarkable volunteer for the Alumni Council, traveling all the way from your home in Atlanta to Lewiston three times each year to give back to Bates,” her citation says. “In Atlanta, you have planned Bates Days of Service for the last few years and led volunteer efforts for regional Bates programs. You have served tirelessly on the Second Decade Engagement and Event Attendance and Participation committees. We appreciate your dedication and impact as part of the Bates Alumni Mosaic engagement committee, which — in partnership with the Office of Equity and Diversity — strives to make connections and build community among alumni from underrepresented groups.

You have also gone out of your way to connect with and give guidance to students on campus, offering advice and networking opportunities — especially for those interested in public health, your own area of expertise.”…

Amanda Nickerson, a professor in the Univ. at Buffalo Graduate School of Education and director of the Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention, received the President’s Medal at the school’s commencement, the highest honor a faculty member can receive. Her research focuses on school crisis prevention and intervention, with a particular emphasis on violence and bullying….In the wake of the Easter Sunday bombings across Sri Lanka, writer Ru Seneviratne Freeman and her daughters, Duranya and Hasadri, wrote about their reactions to the terrorist attacks and their Sri Lankan heritage for Literary Hub. The world’s response, Ru said, must be one of solidarity — using as a model the Sri Lankans of all religions who supported each other after the attacks. “It is not something that can be addressed piecemeal by governments but collectively, as global citizens.”…

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takeaway: A longtime presence in sports makes history The Florida Times-Union reported that Alexandra Messore Baldwin ’93 is the first woman to head a PGA Tour global circuit.

She was appointed president of the Web.com Tour, a circuit of 27 tournaments that is the “primary path to PGA Tour membership,” wrote reporter Garry Smits. Baldwin was previously vice president of marketing partnerships at PGA Tour and has been a sports management executive for many years.

Baldwin told Smits she is excited to help up-and-coming golfers qualify for PGA Tour membership.

“I have an appreciation and understanding of the tremendous challenges they face on that journey,” she said. “I love working with people and developing relationships, and I think it’s important to listen to them about their goals and aspirations. There are some great success stories out there and we want to see more.”

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community service be done with her MBA within a year. She practices rheumatology and is chair of specialty medicine for Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene and Cheshire Medical Center….

Chelsea Turner was elected to the board of the National Council on Problem Gambling, an advocacy organization for people and their families affected by problem gambling and gambling addiction. She’s chief of strategy and government and operational affairs at CT Lottery Corp. in Hartford.

1995 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class presidents Jason Verner jcv@nbgroup.com Deborah Nowak Verner debverner@gmail.com

Pedal Power Chip Noble ’97 and his daughters Abby, 10, and Emma, 7, pedal across the finish line of the 2019 Trek Across Maine in June.

A senior product manager at Garmin International’s Yarmouth office, Noble has been involved with the annual American Lung Association fundraiser since 2005.

He organizes the Garmin team (Abby and Emma raised $1,100-plus this year) and helps to create detailed route maps for the Trek, which has generated $24 million for lung health since its inception 35 years ago.

For his efforts, Noble received the association’s Dana Dutton volunteer award this year.

Beginning and ending in Brunswick, the 2019 Trek featured a new course for the three-day, 180-mile bike ride, stopping overnight at Bates for the first time. “It was the best Trek overnight to date,” Noble says.

Noble, who ran track and played rugby at Bates, got a chance to wander through campus with his daughters, visit familiar haunts, and “talk about running track for Walt Slovenski.”

Other alums on the Trek included Douglas Couper ’83 and Leslie Latady Couper ’86, Kirk Cameron ’88, David Bennett ’88, Maureen Graves Anderson ’84, Patti Lane ’81, John Wilson ’86, Kim Price Widmer ’84, and Kerry Coffin McQuaid ’97.

“Bates hit it out of the park, from logistics to dining,” said McQuaid. “Many riders commented on the hospitality and friendliness of the Bates community. Well done!”

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Krista Crabtree created a new women’s ski program at Colorado’s Crested Butte Mountain Resort. Krista, a ski racer at Bates, a former editor at SKI Magazine, and current director of the Eldora Women’s Program, created the Elan Women’s Weekend to help test a new line of multi-condition “one-quiver” skis and to help the testers understand their own gear. “I want to teach women how to look under the hood of their cars,” she told 5280 magazine.

1996 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class presidents Sarah Ayesha Farag ayesha.farag@gmail.com James D. Lowe jameslowemaine@yahoo.com Bates lecturer Jessica Anthony’s next novel Enter the Aardvark will be published by Little, Brown in March 2020…. Nancy Audet, Rachel M. Cohen ’94, and Cynthia Gorman ’03 were on an alumni panel to help celebrate Gender and Sexuality Studies last May. The occasion was Professor Leslie Hill’s retirement from the college….After an amazing 13 years with the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation, David Brennan now works for the Manhattan Beach Education Foundation as director of development & partnerships. He’s happy to be part of a community-driven fundraising organization that helps improve the Manhattan Beach public schools….As the HR director at CEI, a mission-driven lender and investor based in Brunswick, Colleen Matlen Ippolito hires summer interns. Last summer CEI hosted two Bates Purposeful Work interns, Tamsin Stringer ’22 and Andrea Aguilera ’21.

“Neither has heard of the Bill or Tacky Party!” Colleen and Jamie live in Cumberland….In a podcast from her home studio in West Newbury, Mass., Amy Donahue Friend talked about building a business as a quilt pattern designer, author, and blogger. She was a guest on “While She Naps,” a blog

about the home sewing industry and creative entrepreneurship.

A former museum curator, Amy designs unique modern quilts with a specialty in paper piecing…

Sacha Garcia-Mailloux is the new principal at the Lt. Clayre Sullivan School in Holyoke, Mass….Barbara Raths joined Camden National Bank as senior vice president, senior treasury management sales adviser. She’s a former Bates trustee.

1997 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretaries Todd Zinn tmzinn@hotmail.com Pat Cosquer patcosquer@gmail.com class president Stuart B. Abelson sabelson@oraclinical.com After living in Tokyo for a few years, Heather Alcock Sekiguchi and her family moved to Taipei, Taiwan….Andrea Bell and husband Mike have successfully transitioned to the Boston suburbs and adopted a dog named Laney….Deborah Cantor Kirschner published her first book on Amazon. Triangle of My Heart: A memoir of family, loss, and faith explores three generations of interconnected relationships framed by AML leukemia, chemotherapy, and the subsequent turmoil it created.

Deborah is a speech language pathologist who lives in New Jersey with her husband and two kids….

St. Louis Magazine interviewed Jason Hall, a community-minded lawyer, investor, and economic developer in St. Louis. He returned there to work at a law firm and started an LGBT bar association, becoming its first president.

He’s now the co-founder and CEO of investment management firm Arch to Park and has started STLMade, an effort to boost St. Louis’ reputation. “The easy choice is to flock to the coasts — but if I care about the place that cared about me, I’m going to go back to it,” he said.…Chenda Lor was named executive director of the San Luis Obispo (Calif.)

Botanical Garden….Whitney Manger Littlewood and her family enjoy life in Pacifica, Calif. She published a children’s book about the magic of yoga, family, and the natural beauty of Northern California….Katy McCann and her family are back year-round on Chebeague Island, Maine, after living in Spain for three years.

She’s busy with three kids and growing her movement education work, specialising in helping women heal from core and pelvic floor dysfunction….Sarah Rogers had a wonderful time catching up with Pat Cosquer over breakfast with the Bates squash team when the team played at Middlebury.

Sarah lives in Shelburne, Vt., and this fall is teaching in Middlebury’s art history department….

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Todd Zinn and his family were excited to participate with the Bank Street School for Children in the LGBTQ+ World Pride March in New York.

1998 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 class committee Douglas Beers douglas.beers@gmail.com Rob Curtis robcurtis@eatonvance.com Liam Leduc Clarke ldlc639@gmail.com Renee Leduc Clarke rleducclarke@gmail.com Tyler Munoz tylermunoz@gmail.com Peter Kawada joined Imperial Capital International as a managing director to expand its London operations.

1999 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretary Jennifer Lemkin Bouchard jennifer_bouchard@hotmail.com class president Jamie Ascenzo Trickett jamie.trickett@gmail.com The Twin Cities Pioneer Press interviewed Kate Allen about her debut young adult novel, The Line Tender. Inspired by the sight of a great white shark she saw as a teenager, The Line Tender tells the story of a young girl who, in the midst of grief, must become a metaphorical “line tender,” holding the line that guides her loved ones through murky waters.

Kate said she hopes the book will help young people understand that “difficult things are going to happen in life. The power of the story is that we can adjust, adapt, find a way to move forward.”…After 10 years overseas, Amy Keith and husband Achim Apweiler are now settled (for the next couple years at least) in St. Petersburg, Fla., and are lending their skills in international humanitarian action toward local action in Florida.

2000 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Cynthia Macht Link cynthiafriedalink@gmail.com class presidents Jennifer Glassman Jacobs jenniferellenjacobs@gmail.com Megan Shelley mhshelley@aol.com Jonathan Adler was promoted to full professor of psychology at Olin College of Engineering in Needham, Mass. In addition to his research on mid-life identity development, he’s been doing a lot of theater. He directed a fall

mainstage play and is working on another play which will run off-Broadway next July….The Daily News in Newburyport, Mass., profiled Matt Bazirgan, who as director of player personnel for the Houston Texans ran the team’s scouting ahead of the NFL draft. Matt looked not only for talent but for people who would fit well on the team.

“There’s always intriguing guys on the board that you may have been really excited about watching on tape, but it’s like OK, with our current roster if we draft this guy and put a high-end asset for a second- or third-round pick, but it’s a luxury, how are you helping the locker room?”…Michael Costa was named the CEO of Northern Counties Health Care Inc., a nonprofit serving Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom….

Molly Keehn teaches part time at Mount Holyoke College as a lecturer in intergroup dialogue.

She also facilitates diversity, equity, and inclusion trainings and dialogues in academic, nonprofit, and corporate settings.

She just released her first book, based on a personal growth and goal-achievement program she created, CoJourn: Harnessing the Power of Connection to Tune into Your Wisdom, Achieve Your Goals, and Create the Life You Want. She lives across the street from sister Alison Keehn ’97….

Mark Longfield, a partner in Teton Law Group LLC, joined the board of the Jackson Hole, Wyo., Art Assn….Lawson Rudasill and Elizabeth Merrill welcomed their first child, Leia Miriam Rudasill, on Jan. 9, 2019….Megan Shelley and her family moved to Natick, Mass. They’re happy to reconnect with New England and all it has to offer, including a few trips to Bates….Kirsten Tilney Behling published her first book, Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education, with Thomas Tobin (West Virginia Press).

2001 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Noah Petro npetro@gmail.com class presidents Jodi Winterton Cobb jodimcobb@gmail.com Kate Hagstrom Lepore khlepore@gmail.com

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takeaway: Protect your actors In addition to giving the production a positive review, The New York Times reported on how Arin Arbus ’99, director of the Broadway revival of Terrence McNally’s Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, brought in an expert to help stage the play’s difficult sex scenes.

Such scenes have “always been delicate to stage,” writes Laura Collins-Hughes, “but perhaps particularly now, with the post-#MeToo heightening of sensitivities about the potential for exploitation of actors, especially women.”

Said Arbus, “There’s just such a history of actors being forced or pushed or asked to do things that they don’t feel good about.”

She worried that the show’s demands on its two lead actors, Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon, “could be problematic. And I knew it could be really scary, for both of them.”

Carolyn Reamer Blicharz ’01 loves working with her father, Ernest Reamer, in his dental practice. But there is no confusion about which Reamer is Dr. Reamer.

“That’s my dad,” she says. She goes by Dr. B.

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Andrew J. Sisto died in August 2019. Survivors include his brother, Jeffrey Sisto ’97. His obituary will appear in the Spring issue….

Keith Anthony is now a partner at the law firm Halloran Sage in New Haven, Conn….Jennifer Crawford, a partner at Smith Costello & Crawford in Boston, is proud that her small law and lobbying firm has attracted a lot of attention lately. CommonWealth Magazine said the firm jumped from fifth to second place in the ranking of lobbying firms on Beacon Hill on the strength of a 65 percent increase in lobbying fees.

“I have been fortunate to work on a number of groundbreaking issues, including helping to bring the offshore wind industry to the United States,” Jennifer said….

Tate Curti is now chief operating officer at Elliot Health System in Manchester, N.H…. Silicon Valley Business Journal named Joselle Deocampo-Gautam, a new product innovation portfolio lead at LinkedIn, one of its 100 Women of Influence. She “democratize[s] finance for historically underserved and underbanked communities,” contributor Becky Bergman wrote. “DeocampoGautam is an immigrant to the U.S., as well as the first in her family to earn a college degree.

Never forgetting her roots, Deocampo-Gautam works to reform global finance in a way that brings more of the hidden market of women and minority groups into startup funding, global growth strategies and values-based entrepreneurship.”…Jaime DeSimone, associate curator of contemporary art at the Portland Museum of Art, spoke at Bates on careers in the arts….Julia Phelan Sylla is now director of programs at Qatar Foundation International in Washington, D.C., where she oversees university and K-12 education activities and professional development for teachers in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Germany, and Qatar. She lives in Alexandria with husband Ben, Madeline (7), and Nathaniel (3)….Zip06.com caught up with Carolyn Reamer Blicharz, who joined her father, Ernest Reamer, in his dental practice in Centerbrook, Conn. Carolyn, who went to dental school at the Univ. of Connecticut, said she loves working with her father.

“He is an amazing dentist and it is a very special relationship.” But there is no confusion about which Reamer is Dr. Reamer. “That’s my dad,” she says. She goes by Dr. B. She and husband Drew ’00, an environmental specialist at Eversource, have two children, Emily and Ben….Emily Stanton Sawka and her family, a licensed foster family in Maine, welcomed a daughter, Eliyana (2), through adoption last May. Sons Asher (11) and Elijah (8) are thrilled to have a little sister.

2002 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Stephanie Eby steph.eby@gmail.com

class presidents Jason Surdukowski jsurdukowski@sulloway.com Drew Weymouth weymouthd@gmail.com Kevin Carpenter is the new principal at Kennett High School in North Conway, N.H….The New England Patriots named John Dubzinski the 2018 Coach of the Year after he led North Andover High School to the Division 2 State Championship….Attorney Eric Kaviar was promoted to partner at Burns & Levinson….

Dave Liu joined the investment firm Harrison Street as vice president, asset management….

Brandeis men’s tennis coach Ben Lamanna was named Division III National Coach of the Year for the 2019 season….Sameer Maskey, the founder and CEO of Fusemachines Inc., was a featured guest on “Voices in AI,” a podcast that features interviews with the leading minds in artificial intelligence. He noted that the same technology that’s used for mass surveillance, for example, “could be used on many applications like delivery of medicine using drones. In fact at Fusemachines, that’s something we built last year because in Nepal there’s not a lot of roads. So we built a drone with facial recognition system that would go in front of a house to drop medicine.”…Morgan Oliver Allarie joined Franklin Savings Bank in Farmington as vice president, director of branch administration and deposit services.

2003 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 class presidents Kirstin Boehm-McCarthy kirstincboehm@gmail.com Melissa Wilcox Yanagi meslissayangani@gmail.com

Emily Butterworth ’03 has traveled the world to teach. “The most I got out of Bates in many ways was kind of the idea to be a creative thinker and to keep an open mind about options in the future.”

Katie Burke, chief people officer at HubSpot, a marketing, sales, and service software provider based in Cambridge, Mass., was the 2019 Distinguished Alumna in Residence at Bates….In a podcast for “All Things College and Career,” a career guidance service in Kennebunk, teacher Emily Butterworth talked about her peripatetic career. She’s been traveling the world since graduating from Bates, teaching in Seoul, Korea; Maracaibo, Venezuela; and currently in Medellin, Colombia, where she’s teaching high school

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2004 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class presidents Eduardo Crespo eduardo.crespo.r@gmail.com Tanya Schwartz tanya.schwartz@gmail.com Costume designer Sarita Fellows received an Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Design Enhancement Fund Grant to enhance the design of Boundless Theatre Company’s production of Fur by Migdalia Cruz….Anna Felton married Brett Faulk on May 27, 2018. They welcomed a daughter, Camille Faulk, on Jan. 31, 2019.

2005 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class presidents Kathryn Duvall duvall.kathryn@gmail.com Melissa Geissler melissa.geissler@gmail.com Kara Cronin Jacob and Benjamin welcomed Nash Cooper Jacob on March 19, 2019. He joins sisters Isabelle (3) and Olivia (6.5)….Katie Hawkins, an associate attorney at Hudson Cook in Portland, joined the board of Girls on the Run– Maine….Jon Horowitz released the first season of On the Line, a comedic web series he wrote, directed, and produced. The six-episode series has an ensemble cast that includes Alex Teague ’06. Jon, his wife, and son live in Brooklyn where he and Noah Davis pursue rec-soccer glory most Thursday nights….Andrew Jarboe, who teaches AP history at a Boston public charter school, brought about 20 of his students to Bates last January. They spent

the day immersed in a workshop led by the Brooks Quimby Debate Council, the club that defined the college experience of their teacher. “My students are high-achieving juniors,” Andrew said. “Many of them will be first-generation college students. They have the stuff to succeed at a college like Bates. [This] was, for many of them, their first exposure to a top liberal arts college.” The students from Match High School picked up debate skills quickly, working one-on-one with Batesies….Ben Jones was promoted to president of Allegiant Private Advisors in Sarasota, Fla….Angela KnoxPyaesone is now senior clinical trial manager at Cardiovascular Clinical Studies Inc. in Boston….

Ben Leoni now lives in Boulder, Colo., with fiance Lindsay. When he’s not at work as a litigator in Denver, he takes advantage of the great mountain biking, trail running, and skiing….Kara Stenback Barr joined The Bowdoin Group, an executive search firm headquartered in Waltham, Mass., as head of recruiting….Diane Tolis and wife Jayne welcomed Mateo Lucas Nucete-Tolis on May 19, 2019. He joins brother Jonah (3)….

Kat Whelan Sparta and husband Dan welcomed Beatrice “Bea” Anne Sparta on Sept. 27., 2018. She joins sister Ellie (2.5)….Heitman LLC,. a global real estate investment management firm, named Irene Yartey-Onyango senior vice president, head of product strategy & design.

2006 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class presidents Chelsea Cook chelsea.m.cook@gmail.com Katharine M. Nolan knolan06@gmail.com John Ritzo johnnyritzo@gmail.com After a decade as a policy journalist in D.C., Tori Finkle enrolled in law school at Georgetown this fall. She plans to pursue public interest work focused on consumer protection.

2007 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class presidents Keith Kearney kdkearney@gmail.com Rakhshan Zahid rakhshan.zahid@gmail.com Aina Begim, Andre, and Emma (1) moved from Oslo to Washington, D.C. They spend quality time with dear friend Betsy Hamm….

Kevin Cox and his sister Katelyn appeared on the NBC game show “The Wall.”

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English. “I have a passion for teaching, a passion for traveling and just experiencing new cultures,” she said. “The most I got out of Bates in many ways was kind of the idea to be a creative thinker and to keep an open mind about options in the future.”…

Elizabeth Christian Ryan and husband Raymond welcomed Faith Carolyn Ryan on June 20, 2019….Ethan Dolleman is the new principal at Norton (Mass.)

High School….Bart Fromuth was given a 40 Under Forty Award by the Union Leader. He’s chief operating officer of Freedom Energy Logistics in Auburn, N.H., an energy management company, and has served two terms as a state representative.…Dominick Pangallo was appointed to the new Massachusetts Commission for Government of the People. It’s charged with writing an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to affirm that inalienable rights apply to people only, not corporations or other entities, and to provide for the constitutionality of measures regulating campaign contributions and spending….C. Ian Stevenson completed a PhD in American and New England studies at Boston Univ.

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Back to School Eugene Kim ’08 and Elly Rostoum ’07 returned to campus last spring to practitioner-taught courses during Short Term.

A veteran marketing strategist and consultant, Kim taught his students about purposedriven marketing, in which community and self-improvement are goals in addition to making a profit. (Patagonia, with its strong stances on political issues, is a go-to example of a purpose-driven brand.)

Whatever the purpose, a company has to walk the walk. “Purpose needs to permeate” company culture, he said.

“Everyone needs to be aligned with where they’re headed, and that needs to reflect in the way they do business.”

Rostoum has worked as a National Security Council staffer at the White House, among other career endeavors, and her course, “Spies, Special Agents, and the Presidency,” was designed to “mimic a day in an intelligence officer’s life,” she said.

Now a staple of Short Term, practitionertaught courses support the college’s Purposeful Work program by giving students opportunities to explore worlds of work, add to their practical skill set, and expand their professional networks.

class presidents Elizabeth Murphy elizabeth.jayne.m@gmail.com Ali Schwartz Egelson alisonrose.schwartz@gmail.com

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Jon Brennan and wife Melinda, in Riverside, R.I., welcomed a daughter, Evelyn, on Dec. 19, 2018….Brandon Colón is now a shareholder in Meketa Investment Group, a global investment firm that is entirely employeeowned….Emily Crowley joined the Boston law firm of Davis, Malm & D’Agostine, as an associate in the employment and litigation practices….Elizabeth Denver Ward is a pediatric nurse practitioner in Worcester, Mass. She’s raising a 2-year-old daughter and expected a second one with her awesome husband.

“Still trying to take adventures whenever possible!”…Meghan Conley Wimberly and Ryan, now in Sudbury, Mass., welcomed their second bobkitten, Hannah Margaret Wimberly.

2009 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class presidents Timothy Gay timothy.s.gay@gmail.com Arsalan Suhail arsalansuhail@gmail.com

Solar entrepreneur Nick Mazuroski ’09 says any green entrepreneurship has to make business sense.

“We live in a capitalist society. If the economics don’t work, you’ve got to find another way.”

John Harvey received a Bates’ Best award at Reunion. “Your enthusiasm and energy for all things Bates is infectious,” his citation says. “You have been a dedicated class agent for three years and have helped lead the charge as Reunion Gift Committee Chair this year for the 10th Reunion.

You have been an ideal volunteer, always eager to contribute to fundraising and alumni engagement efforts on behalf of the College. As a former staff member in the Bates Office of Advancement, and now as the director of alumni relations and engagement at Cheverus High School, you bring both professionalism and personal experience to your many roles in support of the College.”…Solar entrepreneur Nick Mazuroski was one of three “eco-innovators” Mainebiz featured in order to highlight the green economy. Nick is a parttime law student in Portland and vice president at Biomass Power Assn. He also co-founded Dirigo Solar LLC, which in partnership with an Irish company is preparing to build solar power plants, employing more than 1,000 Maine residents in the process.

Any green entrepreneurship has to make business sense, he said.

“We live in a capitalist society. If

the economics don’t work, you’ve got to find another way.”…At the head of every Yale commencement procession is a marshal holding a mace depicting the mythical “Yael” — a creature with the head of a goat and golden horns. Among the students who marched behind the Yael mace last spring was I-Hwei Warner, the great-grandson of Theodore Sizer, who designed the iconic mace. I-Hwei graduated with an MBA from the Yale School of Management. A U.S. Army veteran, he now works in Los Angeles for an aerospace startup.

2010 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class presidents Brianna Bakow brianna.bakow@gmail.com Vantiel Elizabeth Duncan vantielelizabeth.duncan@gmail. com

Kaleigh Pare ’10 is the first director of the Patton Homestead in Hamilton, Mass.

The historic site is the former home of Gen. George S. Patton Jr. Maine Home+Design spoke with Heidi Lachapelle and Katie Judkins ’09, who realized their dream of working on artistic projects together by starting Heidi Lachapelle Interiors. The two, who met at Bates, worked corporate jobs after graduation but “both knew how they wanted their lives to look,” wrote Katy Kelleher. In 2017 they started an interior design company whose “hallmark of sorts” is bringing in “a lot of slate blues and dark teals, indigos and azures,” but whose projects draw inspiration from many sources. “I benefited a lot from a liberal arts background, and from working at a few different places,” Heidi said. “I didn’t know where it would take me.” Katie said, “I have younger siblings, and I tell them that there doesn’t need to be a direct path to get where you want to go. Sometimes the diagonal path is better.”…Zach and Danielle Traverse Jylkka ’13 welcomed their first child, Raymond Traverse Jylkka, on June 9, 2019….

Last February, Kaleigh Pare became the first director of the Patton Homestead in Hamilton, Mass. The historic site is the former home of Gen. George S. Patton Jr. and family. Kaleigh is busy raising awareness and funds, coordinating public programs and private events, and building a community of neighbors, veterans, and lovers of history around the homestead….Doug Ray relocated to the Boston area to become the social media lead for the Harvard Graduate School

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of Education after three years in a similar role at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia….Michaela Schneier Boller and Matthew Boller ’08 welcomed Luke Austen Boller on Nov. 19, 2018….

Emily Treat Atwell welcomed a daughter, Aria Elizabeth Atwell, on May 28, 2019….The Telegram caught up with Michael Wenc, the chef de cuisine at simjang, an American-Korean restaurant in Worcester. Korean fried chicken is one of many house specialties on simjang’s chef-driven menu.

Originally from Springfield, Michael said he was always intrigued by food and cooking. His favorite meal to make at home?

“I like simple food, like roasting a whole chicken or fish with some sort of seasonal vegetable.”

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She planned to marry Tommy Tranfaglia this October at Walt Disney World in Florida….The local NBC affiliate’s News Center Maine covered Experiencing Difference, a panel and discussion at Southern Maine Community College created by Chomba Kaluba that encourages people to talk frankly about their differences. “When people are different, sometimes people have the discomfort, sometimes people have fear — but I look at the positive aspect of that,” he said. “How can we look at the positives in each one of us?

How can we look at the good in each one of us?” Chomba, who came to Maine from Zambia, now works for The Life is Good Kids Foundation in Boston….

Ben McCall is now an associate attorney at the Portland law firm Jensen Baird Gardner & Henry….

Nicolette Robbins Zangari earned her MA and continues to work toward her PhD in clinical psychology at the Univ. of Kansas. She and husband Lorenzo welcomed a son, Valentino, in June 2019….Richard Velotta, a managing director with Meridian Investment Sales in New York, was named one of Real Estate Weekly’s “2019 Rising Stars.”

2012 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class presidents Michael Pasek mikeypasek@gmail.com Sangita Murali sangitamurali12@gmail.com Karl Alexander spoke with Princeton, N.J., newspaper U.S. 1 about how bike-sharing companies can establish themselves

By the Numbers Daniel Oyolu ’15 is one of more than 60 students from the African diaspora in Harvard Law School’s Class of 2021 — one of the largest black classes in the school’s history.

In March, he helped to gather all the first-years for this photo; it later went viral on social media. (Oyolu wears a baseball cap in the second row, second from left.)

“We want all students to think, ‘I can see myself there,’” he told Above the Law, a news website about law, law schools, and the legal profession.

“Sometimes, seeing the possibility is all you need to take the next step.

Representation offers that possibility.”

responsibly in communities. Karl, marketing manager for Zagster, said the bike-sharing company tries to move into places — like Princeton — that will already be receptive to more bicycles, and promote bike-friendliness from there. “You have to take the time to look at what works best for the community, whether that’s bikes or scooters, or if it is something else entirely, like increasing walkability,” he said.…Hunter Archibald and Laura Kooistra were married in June 2019. Both graduated from medical school at Case Western last spring and started their residency training at the Univ. of Minnesota, Laura in dermatology and Hunter in otolaryngology, head and neck surgery….Katie Black was accepted to Eastern Virginia Medical School and got engaged.

“The only unfortunate part is that he is a Colby grad ... we all have our faults, I suppose.”…In a guest post for The Junto, a blog about early American history, Caylin Carbonell wrote about her research into colonial women’s lives as a doctoral student

in history at William & Mary. To find women’s voices, she has to take an approach of “skimming,” reading over everything she can in a manageably small archive to recover notes and records that provide insight into how women lived in early America. Often, she finds what she needs on small, loose scraps of paper — notes and records folded into larger, more “official” documents. “When creating digital resources, we might try to think more critically about the ways we categorize and tag such data so as to open up new pathways rather than reinforcing old biases,” she wrote….James Dowling-Healey is an associate attorney at McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, a financial services and mortgage banking law firm, in its Hartford office. He was also elected to the College Key. He hopes to continue to help cultivate the Bates alumni community in Connecticut….Michael Jiang graduated from Cornell Law School and passed the New York bar exam. He works as an associate at Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP in New York,

focusing on corporate matters….

Haley Manchester and Brendan Small ’10 were married in August 2018. They adopted a dog named Popover….Jessica Howard and Mark Olsen were married in June 2018. After living in Indianapolis for almost seven years, “we are excited to be moving back east to Boston where I have accepted a new job. I can’t wait to be in an area with more Batesies!”…

Alana Plaus completed her master’s in public administration at Columbia Univ., with a focus on urban and social policy and returned to her hometown of Denver to pursue a career in public policy. She’s now deputy director of the Colorado Forum, a nonpartisan policy organization focused on advancing state fiscal, environmental, health care, and growth policies….Andrew and Kelly McManus Scichilone returned to Maine in 2016. She joined the Bowdoin field hockey coaching staff; he’s a PA with the orthopedic trauma and fracture care group at MMC….Hope Staneski is engaged to Evan Garber. She’s a law clerk for a federal

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2014 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class presidents Hally Bert hallybert@gmail.com Mildred “Milly” Aroko mildredaroko@gmail.com

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takeaway: You don’t know what you got till it’s gone For “Meetinghouse,” the Maine Sunday Telegram’s monthly storytelling project, Denali Nalamalapu ’17 wrote about how living in Miri, Malaysia, on a Fulbright award changed her relationship with water.

A native of Falmouth, Maine, Nalamalapu grew up drinking water that “runs clear, cool and sweet from our well,” she wrote.

In Miri, where the water is unsafe to drink, she first boiled tap water and then stocked up on filtered water in the city center; she never wasted a single glass.

“So often we take for granted that which is seemingly effortlessly present in our lives,” she wrote. “We forget to acknowledge the labor involved in maintaining that illusion.”

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Matt Antonellis and Megan Brady were married June 1, 2019….Bryan Carrillo earned a PhD in mathematics at UC Riverside and is now an assistant professor at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, Calif….Lauren Farnsworth, a research physical scientist at Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory and a visiting scholar at Dartmouth, returned to Bates to give a talk on “Holocene History of the Greenland Ice-Sheet Margin in Northern Nunatarssuaq, Northwest Greenland.”…Using creativity and humor, Kevin Lentini and his wife, Kristin, won a seven-day vacation to Dubrovnik, Croatia, in a contest sponsored by NBC’s “Today” show and Airbnb. Both teachers, they submitted a video showing them standing at a marked-up whiteboard delivering a lesson on how to use persuasive rhetoric — specifically, how to “use persuasive rhetoric to persuade Airbnb and Today show to gift us a vacation.” In the “logos” part of the lesson (an appeal to logic), they calculated that together they had graded 9,000 assignments this year. Conveniently, the distance from their Massachusetts schools to Dubrovnik and back is — wait for it — about 9,000 miles….Margaret Pickoff finished her MS in plant, soil, and environmental sciences at UMaine and moved back to her home state to begin a position as county horticulturist for Rutgers Cooperative Extension in central New Jersey….The Atlanta Journal-Constitution caught up with shot-put thrower David Pless as he trains for and chases his 2020 Olympics dreams. A three-time NCAA Division III champion at Bates, he competed last July at the U.S. Outdoor Track and Field Championships, finishing eighth.

He and his fiancé live in Atlanta where he works from home as an accounts manager for a startup company. “This journey isn’t unique to me,” he said. “There are a lot of people who are doing some pretty amazing things that require a lot of perseverance.”…

Caroline Ulwick won an Emmy in Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis for her work as an associate producer on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes. “I enjoy bringing it up whenever possible in every conversation I have, especially when it’s inappropriate.”

Lexie Carter ’14 is a product development manager for EF Ultimate Break, a provider of group tours for anyone 18 to 29. “I’m like a movie location scout, travel agent, and food critic rolled up into one.”

Sophie Baron and Nick Termyn were married July 13, 2019….

ABC’s Good Morning America featured a story about Lexie Carter, described in the headline as a “26-year-old who scours the globe for incredible travel experiences.” Lexie is a product development manager for EF Ultimate Break, a provider of group tours for anyone 18 to 29. “I’m like a movie location scout, travel agent, and food critic rolled up into one,” she says. An economics major at Bates, “my perspective was forever changed when I went abroad to Nepal my junior year. There, I was introduced to a completely different culture and way of life; my experience there changed the trajectory of how I wanted to spend my life and direct my career.”…Kristen Doerer, a freelance journalist based in Washington, returned to Bates to speak on “How Colleges Confront Their Racist Pasts,” the subject of her article in The Chronicle of Higher Education….

Logan Greenblatt, two years into medical school in Grenada, plans to start clinical rotations stateside this fall….Charles Kazarian works at Credit Suisse where “I’ve spent my whole career focusing on semiconductor sector research, for which my degree in politics has come [in] very handy.”

He lives with two Bates classmates in New York City…. David Longdon III received a Bates’ Best award at Reunion. “You have truly gone above and beyond for Bates, both as a BOLD (Bobcat of the Last Decade) Trustee and as a Special Gifts Chair for the Class of 2014’s fifth Reunion,” his citation reads. “You have also taken a lead role in the Schuler Initiative, helping Bates achieve stronger engagement with young alumni. You have led regional young alumni seminars focused on developing strategies to increase participation in the Bates Fund while communicating the importance of these gifts to the college. Projects like the ‘Bates Beat’ newsletters that you and your fellow BOLD Trustee Emma Sprague ’10 have spearheaded

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class presidents James Brissenden brissendenja@gmail.com Ben Smiley bensmiley32@gmail.com Talia Mason moved to California to pursue an MFA in experimental choreography at UC Riverside…After thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, Amy Wyeth moved to Seattle to pursue a PhD in biological oceanography at the Univ. of Washington.

2016 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class presidents Sally Ryerson sallyryerson@gmail.com Andre Brittis-Tannenbaum andrebt44@gmail.com Gordon Batchelder changed career paths into UX design. A user experience apprentice, he attended a 10-week bootcamp to jumpstart his new career….Sophie Sheng is in her third year working toward a PhD in economics at UC San Diego….Sarah Stanley, the director of the Kennebunk Land Trust, enjoys leading the organization and engaging with the community. Outside of work, she’s prioritized keeping Bates friendships strong….Sarah Wainshal lives in the fantastic city of Cleveland, teaching French, Italian, and theater at Villa Angela St. Joseph High School. She’s directed multiple plays, including Peter and the Starcatcher, and loves her amazing students. She is almost done getting her master’s in French from Middlebury College….James Wyatt started business school this fall at Northwestern Kellogg.

2017 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class presidents Jessie Garson jgarson4@gmail.com Matthew Baker mattdbaker13@gmail.com

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are playing a crucial role in keeping our youngest alumni informed about and engaged with Bates.”…

Reporting on the explosion of craft breweries in New Jersey, the Asbury Park Press talked to Eric Ruta, owner of Magnify Brewing Co. in Fairfield, which recently marked its third year. Eric envisioned Magnify as a student at Bates. “The original goal was to create this community around beer that we’d see in Maine with local support,” he said. “We’re super-focused on northern New Jersey the same way a lot of these places are focused on Portland, Maine.”…After completing her Watson fellowship, Simone Schriger worked in Uganda and is now a clinical psychology PhD student at Penn. She solo-hiked the 220-mile John Muir Trail.

Worth the Weight One day before Commencement, Halsey Platt ’88 and his alumnus-to-be son Gordon ’19 recreated a family photo taken 21 years earlier.

In 1998, Halsey and Julie Sutherland Platt ’88 returned for Back to Bates Weekend, their first visit to campus with 21-month-old son Gordon.

Classmate Marc Glass ’88 took a photo as Gordon happily sat on his dad’s shoulders.

Halsey too felt joyful that day. “I was so happy to return to Bates, to a place I love, and share Julie’s and my joy, manifested in Gordon, with people that I love.”

Father and son had also recreated the photo upon Gordon’s arrival at Bates, in 2015. “Recreating these photos makes me understand that Gordon has, quite unexpectedly, multiplied Julie’s and my joy,” Halsey says. “He’s created his own deep connection to this special place — to his own special people.

“There’s joy in returning and sharing, belonging and connection.”

Melody Altschuler finished as a Sara S. Sparrow Fellow in clinical neuroscience at the Yale Child Study Center and began as a PhD student in the Developmental Psychopathology and Clinical Science program at the Univ. of Minnesota’s Institute of Child Development….The Sun Journal profiled Sam Francis, who is using his football talent and proficiency with numbers to help the Cincinnati Bengals up their analytics game. A math and economics major, Sam played football and lacrosse for Bates. A Bates connection helped him land an internship with the Buffalo Bills, and after graduation he worked for the Kraft Analytics Group in business analytics. The Bengals job is reminiscent of managing his many academic and athletic obligations at Bates, he said. “A lot of balls in the air that you’re juggling, and long days.

It definitely prepared me very well.”…Meghan Lynch joined

Speak About It, an organization that uses performance and dialogue to educate students about consent and prevention of sexual assault. The group is performing and touring as actors-educators during the 2019–20 academic year….New York City-based visual artist Calvin Reedy returned to Bates to speak “On Art and Justice”...Jordan Wenik enrolled this fall in the New York Univ.

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2018 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 class presidents John Thayer john.robert.thayer@gmail.com Jake Shapiro shapirojacob6@gmail.com James Erwin was hired as a staff assistant in Sen. Susan Collins’ Washington office. He was previously an intern there….Kiernan

Majerus-Collins ran for the Lewiston School Committee in Ward 3, which includes about half of the Bates campus, this fall.

2019 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class presidents Cara Starnbach cara@carastarnbach.com Henry Meadows harry.meadows4@gmail.com Writing in the Sun Journal, Claire Sickinger said state legislators who voted in favor of solar-power and clean energy legislation “convinced me to stay in Maine. Their actions will attract other young people invested in clean energy, environmental protection, and low energy costs.”

She especially thanked her representatives, including Sen. Nate Libby ’07, “for voting to prioritize Maine’s solar future.”

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Wedding photos are published in the order received.

Davis ’05 & Norman Rosie Davis ’05 and Brad Norman, Nov. 10, 2018, Boston. Top: Brad Frost ’04, Abi Raymond Frost ’05, Joanna Dove Maki ’05, Caitlin Miller Sheldon ’05, Rosie and Brad, Sarah Amsbary Eytinge ’05, David Silverman ’99, Ana Davis ’99, Kate Sadler ’05; bottom: Shawn Kingman ’04, Leah Skowron Kingman ’05, Charlotte Birkner Zawel ’05, Jenny Troutman ’04, Ali Pincus-Jacobs ’04.

Ciobanu ’17 & Karsten ’17 Gina Ciobanu ’17 and James Karsten ’17, Oct. 20, 2018, Grand Rapids, Mich. Brie Wilson ’18, Amar Ojha ’17, Tommy Graziano ’16, Jeremy Glover ’17, Caroline Kern ’15, Alyssa Morgosh ’15, Sadie James ’17, Tucker Trimble ’16, Ariel Lee ’19, Andrew Lachance ’17, Katie Stevenson ’17, Nevo Polonsky ’17, Patrick Wood ’17, James, Audrey Puleio ’17, Rosy DePaul ’17, Gina, Noel Potter ’17, Alexa Adams ’17, Charlie Klein ’17, Danielle Fournier ’18, Camilla Walker ’17, Caroline Mitchell ’17, Angie O’Donnell ’17, Evan Hansen-Bundy ’17, Kevin Franco ’17, Will Bolduc ’17, Noah Levick ’17, Matt Moss-Hawkins ’17, Senyo Ohene ’20.

Conk ’07 & Points-Zollo Taisy Conk ’07 and Xander Points-Zollo (Hampshire College ’09), Oct. 20, 2018, Brooklyn, N.Y. Monica Hayden ’07, Xander and Taisy, Melissa Coito ’07, Forrest Walker ’07, Katy Rodden Walker ’07.

Drake ’10 & Depew ’12 Katelyn Drake ’10 and Nathaniel Depew ’12, Aug. 11, 2018, The Chapel, Western Reserve Academy, Hudson, Ohio. Front row: Tasheana Dukuly ’12, Nathaniel and Katelyn, Emily Tato ’12, Mike Jiang ’12, Ryan Pitcairn ’12, Matt Lipoff ’12, Alex McKeown ’12, Emily Depew ’14, Hannah Singer ’18, Jonathan Depew ’18; kneeling: Dan Aupi ’12; back row: Brigid Dunn ’12, Rob Cubeta ’12, Colin Hanrahan ’12, Ned Scott ’12, Liam Zaaijer ’12, Andrew Buehler ’13, Tom Boniface

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’12, Remy Corvese ’12, Hunter Archibald ’12, Van Sandwick ’12, Caroline Depew ’16, Matt Gagne ’15, Jack Allen ’15, Venkatesh Duvvuri ’14.

Harinstein & Wolf ’06 Lisa Harinstein (Univ. of Michigan College of Pharmacy ’08) and Oliver Wolf ’06, Oct. 6, 2018, The Duquesne Club, Pittsburgh.

Geoff Abbott ’08, Lisa, Oliver, Bob Yamartino ’07.

Lichter ’09 & Cutchin ’09 Rachael Lichter ’09 and Max Cutchin ’09, May 2018, San Francisco. Front row: Anna Webster-Stratton ’09, David Al-Ibrahim ’09, Rachael and Max, Tyler Schoen ’09, Grishma Pradhan ’09, back row: James Halsch ’09, Zach Kornfeld ’09, Lily Hanstein ’09, Josh Galvin ’08, Dustin DiGregorio ’11, Julie Brown ’09.

Philipp ’08 & Miller Olivia Philipp ’08 and Jonas Miller (William & Mary ’08), Nov. 3, 2018, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, La. Melissa Jones ’08, Meredith Kummings ’08, Rachel Wardell ’08, Tommy Broge ’08, Kathryn Donnelly Broge ’08, Christine Arsnow ’08, Olivia and Jonas, Alexandra Battestin ’06, Lauren Tempest ’08, Vicki Libby ’08, Rachel Hiles ’08, Kerry Glavin ’08, Charlotte Gerrish Koster ’08, Kailey Walsh Fitzgerald ’08, Jared Cassin ’08, Alison Puffer Mattson ’08.

Hanson ’12 & Titus Abigail Hanson ’12 and Madden Titus (Denison ’12), Oct. 7, 2018, Lenox, Mass.

Bates alumni pictured are Nina Wolinsky ’12, Beth Taylor ’12, Carole Lupi ’12, Lili Bentley ’12, Joanna Goldin ’12, Jen Flanagan ’12, Kelsey Dion ’12 Julia Winder ’12, Amy Jacks ’12.

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Marshall ’07 & D’Ascenzo ’07 Allison Marshall ’07 and John D’Ascenzo ’07, Nov. 3, 2018, Quail Valley River Club, Vero Beach, Fla. Front: John and Allison; second row: Liz Greenwood Meisel ’07, Katie Graeff Bristow ’07, Alison Nestel-Patt Henderson ’07, Carolyn King Robitaille ’07, John Anderson ’07, Joe Warren ’07; two back rows: Len White ’07, Pete Meisel ’07, Griffin Finan ’07, Gabe Plourde ’07, Phil Taylor ’07, Nick Leonard ’07, Molly Lanigan Carr ’07, George Carr ’07, Steph Lebourdais Staab ’07, Isabel Yalouris ’07, Katie Boccard Pearce ’07.

Chan ’11 & Rice ’12 Flora Chan ’11 and Jocelyn Rice ’12, Nov. 10, 2018, Coolidge Family Farm, New Gloucester, Maine. Front row: Meg Loeb ’09, Haley Manchester ’12, Rachel Hastings Crowley ’11, Leah Elsmore ’12, Sarah Vigne Covie ’12, Liz Birle ’12, Qinglan Wang ’10, Anna Tuggle ’11, Melissa Ducommun Priest ’11, Jocelyn and Flora, Matej Kenda ’09, Rachel Morrison ’13, Pamela Mejia ’12, Caroline Barr ’11, Diane Saunders ’11, Catie Lary ’11, Dana Lindauer ’11, Isobel Moiles Golden ’11; back: Brendan Small ’10, Steve Whitaker ’14, Casey Andersen ’12, Ali Cornforth Covie ’12, Emily Kaldjian ’12, Tom Chapman ’10, Pat Jackson ’11, Stephanie Cabot Jackson ’11, Harry Chung ’11, Chomba Kaluba ’11, Hank Geng ’13, Somi Yoon ’12, Kedar Kurpad ’13, Sam Woods ’11, Spenser Cheung ’12, Justin Adams ’12, Ben Hughes ’12, Jared Golden ’11. Not pictured: Sarah Stillman ’11, Erin Kintzing ’11, Erin Bourgault ’11, Tessa Feldvebel ’15, Holly Lasagna, Peter Lasagna.

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O’Connor ’13 & Barrett ’10 Erin O’Connor ’13 and Dave Barrett ’10, Oct. 6, 2018, Boston. Back row: Trevor Smith ’13, Erin Harmon ’13, George O’Connor ’11, Andrew Laflam ’10, Luke Charest ’11, Taylor Cook Nadler ’11, Mike Nadler ’10, John Kinnane ’07; middle: Luke Strathmann ’10, Linnea Fulton ’13, Andrew Berry ’13, Ryan O’Connor ’06, Liz Fleming O’Connor ’08, Michael Antoniou ’12; front: Eloise O’Connor ’13, Nick Woods ’10, Jenn Brallier ’13, Erin and Dave, Charlie Clark ’13, Evan Bagley ’10, Kevin Helm ’12, Riley Kundtz ’13, Dan Hines ’13, Ali Bragg ’13, Lesea Bourke ’15.

Mehegan ’15 & Murphy ’15 Kelsey Mehegan ’15 and Mark Murphy ’12, July 6, 2019, Duxbury, Mass. Mike Nadler ’10, Evan Chen ’15, Connor Cerniglia ’15, Adam Scharff ’12, Jack Strain ’15, Erick MacLean ’15, Andy Cannon ’15, Will Levangie ’15; second row: Caitlin Murphy Dufault ’09, Tyler Mehegan ’11, Luke Charest ’11, Natalie Frost ’17, Miranda Shapiro ’15, Dakota Donovan ’15; third row: Taylor Cook Nadler ’11, Jill Conway ’15, Krista Prouty ’15, Colby Gail ’15, Nicki Brill ’15, Sarah Miller ’15; front row: Kelsey, Frances Burns ’45, Mark, Molly Lodigiani ’15, Lauren Dobish ’12.

Ten Haagen ’06 & Shapiro Kristy Ten Haagen ’06 and Keith Shapiro, Oct. 14, 2016, The Red Barn at Outlook Farm, South Berwick, Maine.

Matt Peterson ’04, David Brown ’05, Allison Wensley ’05, Keith and Kristy, Rachel Kellar Anderson ’06, Joel Anderson ’05, Molly Watson Shukie ’04.

Glancey ’12 & Crampton ’13 Tess Glancey ’12 and Rob Crampton ’13, Aug. 30, 2019, Philadelphia. Top row: Jordy Winslow ’13, Alex Greenberg ’12, Kristen Finn ’12, Elizabeth Stege ’13, Maura Neal Eger ’12, Rob and Tess, Jeff Beaton ’12, Kyle DeSisto ’13; bottom: Caroline Webb Greenberg ’12, Matt Bettles ’13, Santo Dettore ’12, Jack Tamposi ’13.

Vann & Begon ’08 Nicole Vann and Anthony Begon ’08, April 26, 2019, Hampton, Va. Chris Robinson ’07, Jennifer Diefendorf Begon ’11, Claudeny Obas ’09, Damon McGinn ’07, Anthony DiAngelis ’65, Matthew Lopez ’08, David Philbrook ’08, Ross Van Horn ’08, Jasmine Polite ’07.

Sacra ’14 & Jordan ’14 Mahala Sacra ’14 and Daniel Jordan ’14, April 13, 2019, Branch Museum of Architecture and Design, Richmond, Va. Back row: Chris Albanese ’14, Ashley Braunthal ’14, Sula Watermulder ’14, Zaki Zakaria ’14, Matt Record ’14, Claire McGlave ’15, Irem Ikizler ’15, Singha Hon ’14, Alexandra Hill ’14; front row: Sophie Pellegrini ’15, Allison Tsomides ’14, Mahala and Daniel, Phoebe Tamminen ’14, Megan Kearns ’14, Molly Huffaker ’14.

Malhotra & Hollister ’06 Kara Malhotra and Colin Hollister ’06, July 28, 2018, The Lake House, Lanesborough, Mass. Emily Hoffer ’06, David Rabinowitz ’05, Justin Streen ’06, Peter Keays ’06, Colin and Kara, Pennie Taylor ’06, Justin Graves ’06, Helen Minsky ’06, Gabby Voeller ’06, Stu Johnson ’06.

Doyle ’12 & Sullivan Meaghan Doyle ’12 and Dan Sullivan, Aug. 26, 2017, Worcester, Mass. Front row: Dan, Meg Anderson Watts ’12, Meaghan, Julie Gleason Doyle ’86; second row: Zach Jylkka ’10, Danielle Traverse Jylkka ’13, Maria Rouvalis ’12, Courtney Doyle ’14, Hally Bert ’14; third row: John Kendall ’86, Sue Chick Hiser ’86, Jane Spadorcia Shea ’86, Briana Silva ’17, Greg Watts ’12, Kelsey LaFreniere ’12, Elizabeth Stege ’13, Megan Panzer Kageleiry ’12, Jennifer Nelson ’86; fourth row: Michael Shea ’86, Steve Sughrue ’86, Matt Doyle ’17, Kristor Cowan ’87, Doug Bolton ’86, Michael Meehan ’86, Grace VanNoy ’14, Andy Doyle ’86, Andy Kageleiry ’12, Michael Floquet ’87, Chris Speers ’12, Morgan Lynch ’11, Erika Blauth ’12.

McGavick & Baker ’10 Amanda McGavick (College of the Holy Cross ’12) and Robert Baker ’10, Nov. 11, 2018, The Barn at Gibbet Hill, Groton, Mass. Dave Baker ’70, Matt Paul ’09, Lucile Davis Baker ’43, Jimmy O’Keefe ’10, Amanda and Rob, Pam Decker Baker ’69.

Tobin ’12 & Wood ’12 Tina Tobin ’12 and David Wood ’12, Aug. 4, 2018, Jay Peak, Vt. Tom Johnson ’81, Dot LeBaron ’81, Lee Smith ’12, Keller Wilson ’12, Pat Murphy ’11, Samantha Alper ’12, Alix Vandeventer ’12, Lyndsay Beaton ’12, Pat Quinn ’12, Amanda Brusca ’12, Topher Piazza ’10, Allison DiSalvo ’12, Alison Travers ’14, Mariah Piazza ’12, Brian Goldberg ’12, Kelly McManus Scichilone ’12, Andrew Scichilone ’12, Tina and David, Ben Kitendaugh ’12, Brooks Wood ’15, Margaret Harrison ’12, Mackenzie Ross ’12, John Squires ’12, Kathy Yannopoulos ’15, Lauren Dobish ’12, Johnny Murphy ’13, Sarah Merullo Murphy ’12, David Eberhart ’85.

Baron ’14 & Termyn ’14 Sophie Baron ’14 and Nick Termyn ’14, July 13, 2019, Willowdale Estate, Topsfield, Mass. First row: Laura Entwisle ’14, Emma Perkinson Simmons ’14, Kelly Yardley ’14, Hallie Balcomb ’14 (behind), Susan Russell ’14, Katie Williams ’15, Sophie and Nick, Norah Wallace ’14, Ethan Kass ’14, Lindsey Loy ’14, Liz Bassani ’14, Aisling Ryan ’14, Dan Remillard ’14; second row: Matt Comstock ’14, Jarret McKallagat ’14, Zach Abbott ’14, Sean Gemunden ’14, Sean Keller ’14, Michael Bernstein ’14, Sean Thomas ’15, Adam Cervenka ’14, Charlie Donahue ’14, Tyler Grees ’14, Wil Muller ’14.

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large body of volunteers delivering food and providing transportation for individuals needing medical care. She also served on the boards of the Wolfeboro Area Children’s Center, Sugar Hill, the Caregivers, and Huggins Hospital. She volunteered with the Asian Rural Institute in northern Japan and traveled through Israel and Scandinavia.

At Bates, she was active in debate and elected to the College Key and served on her 50th Reunion Committee. Survivors include children Gordon and John Quimby and Barbara Quimby Libby ’72; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Her late husband was C. Paul Quimby ’42.

1935 Robert Carlyn February 15, 2019 At his 106th birthday party the month before he died, World War II veteran Bob Carlyn was unofficially promoted to Air Force colonel. His daughter and a Congressman pinned full bird eagles, rank insignias, on his uniform during a ceremony in his Delmar, N.Y., home before dozens of family members. A multisport athlete at Bates, Carlyn was a teammate, classmate, and close friend of Milt Lindholm ’35. In the last week of his life, he was happy to hear from his granddaughter, Alicia Meshulam, that she had just been accepted early decision to the Class of 2023. “That makes two of us,” he said, a Bobcat to the end. He was a real estate broker before his retirement. Among his survivors are children Cynthia Carlyn and Richard Carlyn. His late brother was Benjamin Carlin ’37.

1941 Richard Wright Dearborn December 17, 2018 Dick Dearborn kept Maine close (he lived in Massachusetts) by collecting rare books by and about Maine poets, especially Edwin Arlington Robinson.

His collection is now housed at Bates. He graduated cum laude in English, Phi Beta Kappa. Before he could decide what to do next, he became part of the U.S. Navy, fighting at Omaha Beach on D-Day, at the invasion of southern France, and at Okinawa. He squeezed in time to attend law school at Harvard, graduating in 1948. He moved to Worcester, Mass., in 1952 and spent 60 years at the firm of Mountain, Dearborn, and Whiting, specializing in the law of corporations, trusts, and estates. He was a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, appointed a governor of the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers, and served on numerous corporate boards. He held nonprofit leadership positions at the Worcester County Horticultural Society, 84

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the Museum of Russian Icons, Preservation Worcester, Children’s Friend, and the Greater Worcester Community Foundation. He helped spearhead the drive to sell Horticultural Hall in Worcester and build a new public garden on an old farm in Boylston, now Tower Hill Botanic Garden. Elected to the College Key in 1959, he was president of the Worcester Bates Club from 1957 to 1960 and co-chair of the class gift committee for his 50th Reunion. Survivors include wife Tommy; children John and Mary Dearborn; and stepchildren James, Deirdre, Ruah, and John Donnelly, and Barbara Donnelly Granito. His great-niece is Kirsten D. Terry ’07.

Edith Scott Justice February 6, 2019 Scotty Justice started at Bates but graduated from Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla. She was an active member of the Rollins community who enjoyed golf, fishing, and bridge.

Survivors include children Dale, Joseph, and Robert Justice, and Marion Faubel and Stephanie Pinkhard; six grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.

1942 Jane Woodbury Quimby March 9, 2019 Jane Woodbury Quimby raised three children while working as a Christian educator, volunteering with the New Hampshire Conference United Church of Christ, and juggling Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. She had graduated Phi Beta Kappa magna cum laude with a degree in sociology, after a childhood spent halfway in Burma (Myanmar) with missionary parents. After moving to Wolfeboro, N.H., she taught English at Kingswood Regional High School, was selected Citizen of the Year, and became head social worker and director of volunteers at Huggins Hospital. She introduced the first hospice program to the area, and co-founded the Caregivers of Wolfeboro Area to organize a

1943 Samuel Stoddard Jr. February 7, 2019 Samuel Stoddard was pulled into the war effort after graduation during World War II to work on submarine sonar at Bell Labs in New Jersey. A physics and math major at Bates who earned a master’s in mathematics from Lehigh Univ., he was a professor of mathematics at Lafayette College for 40 years. Upon retirement in 1986, he and wife Jane White Stoddard ’43 returned to Maine, leaving behind the old Pennsylvania farmhouse he had restored.

He collected New England histories and liked to tinker with and drive Model T Fords. He was a class officer and a member of his 50th and 60th Reunion committees. Jane passed away in 2015. Survivors include children Samuel III, Katherine Pope, and William Stoddard ’75; seven grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and niece Cynthia Byrkit ’74. His late brother was Bateston Stoddard ’29.

V-12 Edward John Broaddus December 25, 2018 Edward Broaddus earned a medical degree from Ohio State Univ. and was a general practitioner, working in the Merrimack Valley for 30 years. Survivors include wife Elizabeth McNeill Broaddus; children John, Amy, Margaret, Mary, Laura, and William; and 11 grandchildren.

Beverley L. Campbell December 25, 2016 Bev Campbell’s posting to Bates as a member of the V-12 unit was fortuitous. It was on campus that he met Jane Styer ’44, who would become his wife. She is among his survivors.

1944 Edward Paul Dunn November 23, 2018 Edward Dunn — “Eddie” to his grandchildren — served his

country for 59 years, starting as a weather spotter for the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. He went on to a career with the Central Intelligence Agency, 30 as a staff officer and 27 as an independent consultant following retirement, working to counter Communist movements in multiple overseas assignments.

He advised on public diplomacy for arms control initiatives in the Reagan administration. A history and government major at Bates, he was a skilled debater.

He earned master’s degrees from Harvard and the Univ. of Virginia. Survivors include children E. Paul Dunn Jr., Terence Dunn, and Martha Dunn Floyd; seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Athanasia Rizoulis Williamson December 19, 2018 Sia Rizoulis Williamson became a flight instrument instructor after graduation. She and her fighter pilot husband, Jim, settled in Atlanta, where she became a successful real estate agent. She also was an avid golfer. Survivors include children Lorinda Lambert and James Williamson III; six grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and sister Theodora Rizoulis Howard ’42.

1946 Mary VanWyck Patch November 23, 2018 Mary VanWyck Patch was a physics major who taught high school math and science in Middlebury, Vt., and North Haven, Conn., for 35 years. She held a master’s in education from Penn State. For many years, she and her husband, Dan, ran a boys camp in Vermont.

She served on her 50th Reunion gift committee. In addition to her husband, survivors include children Steven, Michael, and Alyson Patch ’80; and seven grandchildren.

William Dana Perkins February 4, 2019 Bill Perkins preferred to teach in a canoe, or on the beach near his home in Massachusetts.

He started out as a “regular” teacher, which he loved, but became an administrator and felt disconnected from the students.

So he became a free-lance naturalist and instructor, taking under his wing everyone from Cub Scouts to ElderHostel. His traditional career spanned 22 years in schools in Massachusetts and New Jersey. While teaching on Nantucket, a chance encounter on his ham radio with a scientist at Woods Hole led to him becoming part of a research team studying coral reefs off the Yucatan peninsula, and his new career was launched. From his home in Halifax, Mass., he became active with the South Shore Natural Science Center, eventually becoming its executive

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director. He became an expert on the sand on Nantucket, wrote several books on natural history, and was especially keen on wild foods. An English major at Bates, his college years were divided by service as an aviation tail gunner and radioman in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He also held a master’s in school administration from Penn State Univ. Survivors include children Cynthia Perkins Pottola ’69, W. Dana Perkins Jr. ’70, and Susan Perkins; three grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren. His father was Leon W. Perkins 1921.

Glenn Alden Sears May 7, 2019 A child of the Depression, Alden Sears learned how to unbend nails to maintain and renovate old houses, and how to fix cars with aluminum siding scavenged from the town dump. This made him a practical rather than a theoretical economist, and he chaired the department of economics and business administration at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pa., accordingly. His Bates degree was in economics, as was his doctorate from NYU. His area of interest was public finance, and he researched this in both England and Yugoslavia.

He believed that one solution for solving the real estate tax burden on low-income families and areas with unmet demands for municipal services was to reduce the real estate tax and increase the earned income tax. At Moravian, he introduced an evening program and a part-time MBA program. He was the first faculty member elected to the college’s board of trustees. He and his wife, Sylvia Gray Sears ’45, served as advisers to the International Students Assn., and when they lived on campus offered housing — with the family — to a series of students from Asia and Africa.

With fellow church members, he founded Bethlehem’s Housing Opportunity Assn., which, not unlike Habitat for Humanity, depends on “sweat equity” from its beneficiaries. Besides his wife, survivors include children Stanton, Douglas ’75, and Martha Sears Anderson; and six grandchildren, one of whom is Russell Anderson ’05.

1947 Dorothy Disbury Gammans January 7, 2019 Because of the separation of church and state, Dot Disbury Gammans, a Title I teacher, had to teach in a van in the parking lot at a parochial school.

She taught for 25 years in the Fairhaven (Mass.) school system.

She continued to tutor after retirement, and also ushered at a local theater, served as church trustee and treasurer at Centre Methodist Church in Fairhaven, and as secretary to the historical

society. She was a town meeting member, on the board of a local cemetery, and active in many organizations. Survivors include son James R. Gammans; and one grandchild.

Muriel Henry Tinkham May 21, 2019 When Muriel Henry Tinkham lived in Springfield, N.H., she spent countless hours sorting innumerable items for its nascent historical society. When her vision failed, she turned to books on tape from the Library of Congress. She served on the board of the Libby Cass Library and the Lake Sunapee Region Visiting Nurse Assn. A magna cum laude Phi Beta Kappa graduate in French, she taught in Wrentham, Mendon, and Shrewsbury, Mass., retiring in 1980. She was on the board of the Inman Rehabilitation Center in Westborough, Mass., where she had lived for the past 13 years.

She served on her 50th Reunion Social Committee. Survivors include sons David and James Tinkham; seven grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.

1948 Marion Walch Burke April 20, 2019 Sue Walch Burke called Machias “a piece of heaven.” She had lived there since 1959, enjoying the fog and the blueberry barrens, working for the Maine Department of Human Services, a natural outcome for a sociology major. She was a caseworker and a supervisor for two counties, working in vocational rehabilitation. She was also superintendent of the primary Sunday school at her church and a volunteer with a children’s program at UMaine-Machias.

Survivors include children Peter and David Stackpole and Julie Kingsbury; and two grandchildren. Her sister-in-law is June Cunningham Walch ’49, whose daughter is Pamela Walch Cunningham ’77.

Jean Shumway Holden April 18, 2019 After one semester at her local (Northampton, Mass.) college, Smith, Jean Holden knew she belonged at her mother’s alma mater, Bates. She enjoyed herself thoroughly, majored in sociology, and served as class president as an alumna, as well as on several Reunion committees. She worked as a supervisor in purchasing for MIT’s Lincoln Lab, scrupulously saving her pennies with her sister Marcia for their vacation fund, which enabled them to travel the world in retirement. She especially enjoyed Institute for Learning in Retirement trips. She returned to the Northampton area after retiring, staffing the travel information booth with her sister in Amherst. She also volunteered at the library in Amherst

and with several community organizations, including the Amherst Survival Center. At 88, she rounded up all the teenage boys she knew and treated them to a whitewater rafting trip (she refused to paddle — the boys were there to do the work for her).

She was a member of her 40th and 50th Reunion committees.

Her mother was Mary Pettingell Holden 1905.

Dorothy Tillson Young January 8, 2019 Dorothy Tillson Young was a schoolteacher in Virginia, Connecticut, and Georgia who taught special education and early grammar school. She earned her teaching certificate from Southern Connecticut State College Univ. to supplement her English degree from Bates. She was a member of the Village Chapel in Pinehurst, Ga., for over 20 years, and a volunteer at the local hospital for 33 years. Survivors include daughters Carole Young-Kleinfeld, Cathy Ellis, Pamela Young, and Kimberlee Berner; and four grandchildren.

1949 Barbara Duemmling Hatch March 11, 2018 Barbara Duemmling Hatch used the perks of being a travel agent to tour the world several times over. A social butterfly from an early age, she always left the house dressed to the hilt.

She was an astonishing baker, renowned for her blueberry pie and chocolate torte. Survivors include daughters Sandra Hatch, Susan Martin, Mary Friedman, Sharon Turner, and Kathleen Daisey; 11 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.

Margaret Stewart Jones November 2018 Peggy Stewart Jones, a psychology major, worked as a secretary and a tutor in towns near Boston.

She was a former Alumni-in-Admission volunteer and a former Reunion committee member. Her late husband was Dana Jones ’51. Survivors include children Karen, Peter, and Donald.

Gilbert McAlpine Meissner December 31, 2018 Gil Meissner was a music aficionado, especially Big Band music, and owned hundreds of records.

He held two master’s degrees from Wesleyan, in addition to his bachelor’s from Bates. He was a school administrator in Clinton, Conn., for nearly 40 years. Survivors include children Connie Henrich and Paul Meissner; and one grandchild.

Serine Ferrigno Rossi November 2, 2017 Serine Ferrigno Rossi taught elementary school for several years following graduation. A math major, she taught the subject at Nor-

wich (Conn.) Free Academy. She was an avid golfer and enjoyed her condo on a fairway in Florida.

Survivors include son Raymond Rossi and three grandchildren.

George Gorham Rowan Jr. April 18, 2019 George Rowan, an economics major, was employed by F.A.G. Bearings in Stamford, Conn., for 32 years, retiring as treasurer.

Passionate about music, he was active in various vocal groups in college and served as the organist and choir director at the United Church of Rowayton (Conn.) for nearly 30 years. He was a lifelong member of the American Guild of Organists and a founding member of the Roton Point Club, a family “resort” on Long Island Sound in Rowayton. Survivors include wife Patricia Mann Rowan; children Douglas and Carol Rowan, and Jane Marie Windell; and two grandchildren.

Claire Lapham Smith February 12, 2019 Claire Lapham Smith loved something few of us do: She loved to shovel snow. A French major, she taught briefly in Bryant Pond, and later worked for Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. She was an active volunteer with Habitat for Humanity, First Congregational Church of Wallingford (Conn.), and the Wallingford homeless shelter. Survivors include children Christopher Smith, Diana Pound, Rebecca Kesilewski, and Kathleen Corden; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Mary Gibbs Woodcock March 14, 2019 Mary Gibbs Woodcock was the first woman elected to the board of deacons at the First Congregational Church of Woodstock, Conn. She worked as the assistant to the director of Community Health & Home Care, the first consolidated visiting nurse and health care agency for Northeastern Connecticut. Active in the League of Women Voters, she led 4-H groups for each of her children. A talented soprano, she sang in the Hill Church Choir and the Northeast Connecticut Concert Choir. She served on her 50th Reunion gift committee and volunteered as an alumni class officer. Survivors include husband Richard F. Woodcock ’48; children Debra Bard, Kathryn Lynn, and Laura Woodcock Bond ’81; and seven grandchildren.

1950 Barbara Louise Cotton April 30, 2019 Barbara Cotton started life in Massachusetts, lived in Turkey, and ended up a legal secretary in San Francisco. She was an Alumni Club officer and served on her 50th Reunion Social Committee.

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Survivors include cousin Howard H. Cotton ’52. Her former husband is John G. Blake ’52.

David Robert Green February 26, 2019 David Green entered Bates with the Class of 1949, but war and the U.S. Army got in the way, and he graduated in 1950 with a degree in economics. He was a sportswear sales executive, serving as vice president at Revere Knitting Mills and president of Beacon Hill Associates. An enthusiastic golfer, he captained both his high school and college teams. Survivors include wife Phyllis Berson Green; children Lawrence, Alan, Betty, and Bruce Green; 13 grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.

Milton Eugene Henderson May 10, 2019 Milt Henderson was chief of surgery at Melrose-Wakefield (Mass.) Hospital before he became director of the Bay State Health Care Foundation. He also maintained a private practice in Melrose. He served in the U.S. Navy at Chelsea Naval Hospital as director of medical research, and at the naval hospital in Jacksonville, Fla. A biology major at Bates, he earned his medical degree at Tufts. At Bates, he was active in vocal groups, singing in an octet, a quartet, and a quintet.

Survivors include children Albert, Christine, and James Henderson ’82, Susan Mangubat, and Elizabeth Henderson-Cartledge; 12 grandchildren; and nephew Keith Henderson ’75. His late wife was Donna Golder Henderson ’49, and his late brother was Albert H. Henderson ’47. His late brother-in-law was Charles Chakoumakos ’48, whose wife was Mary Alice Golder Chakoumakos ’48. Another sister-in-law was H. Arlene Henderson ’47.

William Francis Kelley Jr. March 29, 2019 Service in the U.S. Army delayed William Kelley’s graduation from Bates, but his degree in chemistry guided his career. He worked for over 40 years as a chemist at R.T. Vanderbilt, retiring as a senior chemist. He was active in the Knights of Columbus and the Norwalk (Conn.) Retired Men’s Club. Survivors include children Patrick, Paul, and Maryann Kelley; and five grandchildren.

Marian Goddard Mullet March 17, 2019 Marian Goddard Mullet was the only college graduate in the room in 1976 when the board of directors of a small state institution for people with Down syndrome faced the task of reinventing itself, due to changes in the law.

She realized with surprise and dread that everyone was depending on her — and her college degree — to devise a plan for a new facility. With no money, no land, and no buildings, she took on the

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task and built Pathfinder Village in Edmeston, N.Y., an internationally renowned residential campus and services provider for people with developmental disabilities.

It was the first organization of its kind for people with Down syndrome. Today, it is considered a global leader in human services and supports over 200 individuals, has a staff of over 200, and an annual budget of $11 million. A registered nurse by training (and part of the last class of nursing students at Bates), she had been a volunteer supervisor of nursing at Pathfinder’s predecessor, while raising three kids and training Irish setters. Building a new village in a cornfield had not been on the agenda. But she finagled funds and figured out best practices, and undertook a multimillion-dollar development project. Bates awarded her an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1988. She was a Paul Harris Fellow in 1984. Survivors include husband Frank E. Mullet ’47; children Martha Winsor, James, and John; seven grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and brother Stephen B. Goddard ’63.

Her late brother was Harvey B. Goddard Jr. ’51; their father was Harvey B. Goddard 1920.

Robert George Wade Jr. March 6, 2019 Bob Wade served on the Bates Board of Trustees for 23 years.

He chaired the finance committee and served on the development and executive committees.

In 1975, when he was elected as a trustee, the endowment was $10.5 million; in 1998, when he retired, it had increased to $144.4 million. That was his business: investments. He believed in providing consistent aboveaverage performance rather than hitting home runs. He served as director of research at Drexel Burnam Lambert and as the chief investment officer of Crocker Bank, Bank of America, and Citicorp. At Bank of America, he led BAIMCO (Bank of America Investment Management Co.), lifting it from the doldrums to the top 10 percent of tax-free portfolios. He capped his career by serving as chairman and CEO of Chancellor Capital Management until his retirement in 1995.

Moving from Connecticut to Florida, he served on the board of United Way of Bonita Bay. He served in both the Navy at the end of World War II and in the Air Force during the Korean War. Survivors include wife Shirley Taylor Wade; children Rob and Anne Wade, and Deborah Matheson; and three grandchildren.

More than 30 of his relatives attended Bates. His great-grandfather was George Colby Chase, Class of 1868, Bates’ second president; his grandfather was Carl E. Milliken, Class of 1897, Bates trustee and former governor of Maine; and his grandmother was Emma Chase Milliken, Class of

1897. His mother, Nelly Milliken Wade, and father, Robert G. Wade Sr., were both members of the Class of 1923.

1951 Robert Jack Carpenter January 6, 2019 After a stint in the U.S. Air Force as a navigator/bombardier, Bob Carpenter started at IBM as a sales trainee. He held a variety of positions with IBM over the next 34 years, including managing its Montpelier (Vt.) office. A proud New Englander, he enjoyed competition, whether as captain of the Bangor High School and Bates basketball teams or on the golf course. He and wife Elsa Buschner Carpenter ’52 (whose obituary is also in this issue) settled on Lake Champlain following his retirement, enjoying the wildlife and sunsets, golfing and skiing. He spent many hours volunteering at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum.

Survivors include children Kathy and James Carpenter and Susan Vigne; five grandchildren, one of whom is Sarah Vigne Covie ’12; and four great-grandchildren.

His parents were Izetta Lidstone and Roland Carpenter, both Class of 1922; his late uncle was Paul N. Carpenter ’33.

Adelbert Morrow Jakeman Jr. May 16, 2019 Del Jakeman left Bates after two years to complete his degree at Boston Univ. His parents were Adelbert M. Jakeman Sr. ’27 and Lillian Stevens Jakeman ’27.

Henry Curtis Kelly January 2, 2019 Jim Kelly was a chemist, starting out as a chemistry assistant at Bates, working for several years in the industry, then teaching at Texas Christian Univ. for over 30 years. In that time, he published some three dozen research papers, collaborated with chemists at universities in the United Kingdom and Canada, chaired the department at TCU, and oversaw the honors program. He also taught for two summers at the Universidad de los Americas in Mexico. His primary interest was in research of chemical reaction kinetics and studying the mechanisms of reactions. He held a doctorate in chemistry from Brown. Survivors include children Luanne Cullen, Nancy Kelly, and Curtis Kelly; and three grandchildren. His late wife was Lucille Mainland Kelly ’52.

Anthony Michael Rotondo December 7, 2018 Anthony Rotondo found himself in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War — but stationed in Alaska, swapping radios on bombers. He credited Maine’s winters for preparing him for Alaska. As a civilian, he worked for General Electric and Raythe-

on, among others. For EG&G, a big player then in nuclear devices, he traveled to remote areas in the South Pacific to test the explosion blasts of air-detonated bombs. He later joined the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Boston.

Survivors include wife Annemarie; children Steven, Kathryn, and Marcia; and one grandchild.

1952 Elsa Buschner Carpenter December 17, 2018 Elsa Buschner Carpenter worked in the benefits office at the Univ. of Vermont, after touring the country due to her husband’s military service and job with IBM. Her husband, Bob Carpenter ’51, died three weeks after she did; his obituary is also in this issue.

They liked Vermont the best, and settled in Burlington in 1966 for the schools, later moving to the shore of Lake Champlain. An active member of the First United Methodist Church of Burlington, she was a troop leader and state officer with the Girl Scouts of America. At Bates she served on her 50th Reunion social committee. Survivors include children Kathy and James Carpenter and Susan Vigne; five grandchildren, one of whom is Sarah Vigne Covie ’12; and four great-grandchildren. Her late in-laws were Izetta Lidstone and Roland Carpenter, both Class of 1912.

John Robert Duffett December 1, 2018 John Duffett was at Bates for only a semester, but he spun tales about it all his life. He finished his degree at North Carolina State Univ., where he also earned a master’s. His career was with DuPont, where among other projects he worked with the ill-fated synthetic leather, Corfam. Survivors include wife Joan Kinnaman Duffett; children Bob, Warren, and Debbie Duin; eight grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. His parents were Esther Fisher 1921 and Simeone Duffett 1918.

1953 Mary Lewis Meltzer May 2, 2019 Mary Lewis Meltzer worked for Travelers Insurance and the Educational Testing Service in New Jersey before returning to her hometown of Binghamton, N.Y., where she worked for a museum.

Her most meaningful work, she said, was the 16-plus years she volunteered for a crime victims assistance center. She also took courses at Binghamton Univ. For Bates she was a member of her 50th Reunion Social Committee.

Survivors include daughter Sara Meltzer; three grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.

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1954 Richard Earl Bergquist February 24, 2019 Dick Bergquist earned varsity letters in football and baseball at Bates before being called to Army duty during the Korean War. He finished his education at the Univ. of Massachusetts. He went on to become the revered coach of the UMass baseball team from 1967 to 1987. His teams won seven Yankee Conference championships, two New England championships, one Atlantic 10 championship, and finished fifth at the 1969 College World Series in Omaha, for a combined record of 392-321-5. Survivors include wife Sonya; children Andrea, Carl, Craig, and Erica; and seven grandchildren.

1955 Madeleine Helen Beaulieu January 5, 2019 Madeleine Beaulieu left Bates after three years and graduated from the Univ. of Maine. She also earned a master’s in education from UNH. She taught high school math in Massachusetts for 36 years, retiring from Clinton High School in 1992. She enjoyed playing volleyball, skiing, and skating, and was the first girls volleyball coach at Clinton, winning its district in 1976. After returning to her family home in Lewiston, she joined the Lewiston Senior Citizens and eventually became the treasurer and the trip leader. She enjoyed many concerts at Olin Arts Center and served on her 50th Reunion yearbook committee.

Survivors include many nieces and nephews.

Robert Edward Cash January 21, 2019 Bob Cash spent virtually his entire career at what is UnumProvident, starting when it was Unionmutual. He served in many positions over the years, eventually becoming vice president, then president of newly formed First Unum New York, until retiring from UnumProvident. He served as president of the York County Audubon Society and on the board of the Maine Audubon Society. For many years he volunteered for the Nature Conservancy and the Cape Elizabeth Land Trust. With his lifelong passion for literature and poetry, he taught classes after retirement on Dante, whose work he got hooked on during a Cultch course at Bates, and Emily Dickinson at USM’s Osher Institute. Survivors include wife Jean Campbell Cash; children Paul Cash, Caroline Bracci, and Jennifer Cash; and two grandchildren.

Marni Geilear-Field February 26, 2019 In 1977, at age 55, Marni GeilearField became the world’s oldest student-teacher (according to

her), after raising six children.

She worked in the Auburn, Lewiston, and Poland school departments. Called a “truly creative person” by her children, she described her interests thusly: “playing the piano for my own amazement, painting watercolors for my own amusement, rearranging furniture for my own entertainment, gardening to play in the dirt, and reading, reading, reading, for … well, you know, I’m sure.” She was admitted to Bates “due to some clerical error,” she wrote, and “piled up enough points” to graduate with a degree in English. She was a member of her 60th Reunion Social Committee. Survivors include companion Reginald Littlefield; children Sharon Haley, William Boucher Jr., Suzanna Field-Boucher, Beth Boucher, and Sarah Cleaveland; nine grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

Anne Fitton Melrose March 18, 2019 Anne Fitton Melrose taught high school math and science in Buckfield and Lisbon for several years before her children were born. She also coached basketball and softball. In 1977, she returned to teaching as a substitute in Bath until she retired in 2007. She served in the Civil Air Patrol as a major, and was commander of the Pine Tree Senior Squadron.

She was also very active in Girl Scouts for 50 years, serving as a troop leader at all levels. Survivors include daughters Elaine Baker, Marilyn Melrose, and Susan Melrose Yurek ’87; and six grandchildren.

Constance Brooke Ray April 23, 2019 Connie Brooke Ray was a biology major who started out as a cancer researcher for Pfizer.

Her husband’s Air Force career took them across the country and back, and she took on volunteering activities wherever they went. In Oklahoma, while volunteering at the base hospital, the chief nurse suggested she pursue a career in nursing. It was 120 miles round trip to the nearest college, but she persisted and received her R.N. She worked as a nurse in Oklahoma and New Jersey, retiring in 1981 to Florida where she continued volunteering at VISTE (Volunteers in Service to the Elderly). Survivors include husband David P. Ray; children Sharon Burnell, Susan Williams, and Geoffrey Ray; and six grandchildren.

1956 Jane Gaythorne Libby December 28, 2018 Jane Libby earned a degree in English and worked as an editor, specializing in history and education, for over 40 years at Houghton Mifflin in Boston. Her love of archaeology inspired her

to travel extensively in Central America, Mexico, China, and New Mexico. Survivors include several cousins.

1957 John David Arenstam May 15, 2019 John Arenstam left the practice of real estate law to go into real estate development. An economics major, his law degree was from Boston College. He worked for Allstate before opening his own firm in Chelmsford, Mass.

He was happiest when he was building his own small business, and he built many: He developed two self-storage facilities, an office building, and an industrial park, among other ventures. He served on his 50th Reunion Committee and was a former Alumni Fund committee member. Survivors include wife Doris; children Brian and Paul Arenstam, and Patricia Modzelewski and Sheila Warren Gibbons; brother Michael Arenstam ’59; and eight grandchildren. Two of his nephews are David Arenstam ’83 and Peter Arenstam ’85. His late father was Jacob J. Arenstam ’28.

Agnes Beverage Dailey November 21, 2018 Agnes Beverage Dailey devoted herself to learning, either teaching others or furthering her own education. She taught at elementary and junior high schools in Maine, Connecticut, Washington, and California. She studied at Oxford, Cambridge, and Edinburgh universities in the U.K., and earned two advanced degrees from USM. She served on her 50th Reunion committee.

Her husband, Edward G. Dailey Jr. ’57, passed away last year.

Survivors include children Catherine, Gerard, Paul, and John; and three grandchildren.

Bruce Farquhar January 14, 2019 Bruce Farquhar put his history degree to good use by teaching social studies and later sixth grade in several towns in New Jersey. He also held a master’s in teaching from Montclair (N.J.) State College, and coached track and field and cross country. In retirement, he volunteered with Habitat for Humanity. He served Bates as a class agent and as a member of his 50th Reunion committee. Survivors include wife Barbara; children Bruce, Jennifer, Gillian, and Hilary Farquhar, and Jamie Farquhar Mueller ’85; and seven grandchildren.

John Davenport Moore March 20, 2019 John Moore liked to stand at the foot of Main Street in Nantucket, greeting tourists and giving advice which earned him the unofficial nickname, “Mayor of Nantucket.” An economics major,

he founded Moore & Isherwood Communications of New Bedford, Mass. He was very involved in civic organizations, serving on the boards of the Millicent Library and the Fairhaven Boys Club, as chair of the Fairhaven Cable Television Advisory Committee and of United Way of Greater New Bedford, as trustee of Riverside Cemetery, and as vice president of the Fairhaven Improvement Assn. He was responsible for bringing “First Night” to New Bedford. He was inducted into the New Bedford Area Chamber of Commerce Business Hall of Fame. Survivors include wife Elizabeth Isherwood-Moore; children John, David, and Bradford Moore, Jennifer Foley, and Allison Isherwood ’96; 10 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. His first wife is Mary Needham Moore ’56

1958 Sonja Anderson Bridges May 9, 2019 Sonja Anderson Bridges left Bates to finish her degree in zoology at UMass. She was a reading specialist in Grafton, Mass., and later worked for a nursing home. She was also active in the Historical Society of Early American Decoration. Survivors include children Scott Bridges and Kristen Sidman; and four grandchildren. Her late husband was W. Leigh Bridges ’58.

Arthur Charles Schmid Jr. November 9, 2016 Many years after he graduated from Bates with a psychology degree, Art Schmid became a volunteer tutor in the Literacy Volunteers of America program so he could teach illiterate teens and adults to read. He put his experience to good use during three semesters in 1995–96 that he and wife Susan Lovett Schmid ’60 spent in China teaching conversational English to university students. A U.S. Navy veteran, he worked for Belzona Molecular and Palmer International in the application of coatings and repair polymers for industry and later as director of accounts for 3E Group Inc. His wife is among his survivors.

1959 Elizabeth Burrill Allard July 5, 2018 Liz Burrill Allard was a sociology major who wrote and edited when she wasn’t busy with her children. She was the editor of The Maryland Clubwoman for many years, and was named Outstanding Maryland Clubwoman in 1981. She was also active as a voting registration volunteer.

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unteer. Her father was Meredith F. Burrill 1925 and her mother was Nell Bannister Burrill 1924.

Charles E. Burrill ’60 was her cousin. Her great-grandparents were Fred Wilson Burrill 1897 and Carrie Odiorne Burrill 1897.

Her aunt and uncle were Alberta Hutchinson and Richard Burrill, both Class of 1924.

William Norman Franck Jr. May 12, 2019 Norm Franck left Bates to serve in the U.S. Air Force. He was a resident of Pennsylvania at the time of his passing.

Rene Emmanuel Goldmuntz December 18, 2018 An economics major, Rene Goldmuntz served in the U.S. Air Force before joining Ted Bates Advertising Agency in New York City. He later worked for Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn as its media supervisor. He served as second and first vice president to the New York City Bates Club.

David Edwin Schneider January 7, 2019 From the Arctic to the Amazon, biologist David Schneider’s research in marine science took him far from his home at Western Washington Univ., where he taught for 37 years. He earned his Ph.D. from Duke Univ. following his B.S. from Bates. He traveled the world, camera in tow, exploring native wildlife. His research involved the metabolism of king crab gill tissue, adaptations of sea fish to high hydrostatic pressure, and the effects of oil exposure on invertebrate sea life. He was also deeply involved in a spay/neuter program in Spokane, where he moved following retirement.

Survivors include wife Bunny Richardet; stepdaughter Dawn Roberson; and two grandchildren.

1960 David Moore Clarkson January 17, 2019 Dave Clarkson was a member of the Phillips Society, a member of his 40th Reunion gift committee, a class agent for 10 years, and a Bates PRIDE LGBT Network member. His degree was in history. He was a sales manager for many companies, including R.B. Curlin Inc., dealing in industrial equipment. He also sold real estate. Survivors include his partner Bruce Jensen.

Robert Livingstone Erdman March 27, 2019 Robert Erdman interrupted his studies as a biology major at Bates to serve in the U.S. Army.

He went on to medical school at Jefferson Medical College. He practiced radiology at Northampton-Accomack (Va.) Memorial Hospital for 30 years, and also taught at the Medical College of Virginia. Survivors include wife Judy Cothron Erdman; children 88

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Sarah Walker Martin April 11, 2019 Raised in Knoxville, Tenn., Sarah Walker Martin summered in Maine and was drawn to her parents’ alma mater. However, she left Bates to graduate from the Univ. of Tennessee. She also lived in Alaska for many years, where she taught. Survivors include daughter Harmony Rathbun, and a grandson. Her parents were Harold H. Walker 1926 and Ruth Marsh Walker 1925.

Jane Costello Wellehan January 25, 2019 Jane Costello Wellehan was interested in everything and saw beauty everywhere, always calling out to her daughters, “Look, girls, look!” She credited Bates’ famous Cultch classes with lighting her interests in art and culture, and carried this curiosity into her round-theworld travels. She came to Bates as a sophomore, one of a long line of Costellos associated with the college (the Costello Room is named after her grandfather, Louis B. Costello 1898, a trustee for 43 years). When not traveling, she worked with Girl Scouts for 13 years and was a volunteer chaplain at Maine Medical Center and Mercy Hospital. A serious art collector and ardent supporter of the museum at Bates, to which she donated her collection, she served on nonprofit and corporate boards, including Community Health Services, Community Counseling Center, Portland Ovations (a particular favorite), Sebago Inc., and Sweetser. She was also active in Alcoholics Anonymous for 35 years, and served on her 25th Reunion committee at Bates. Survivors include daughters Sheila, Katie, Jane, and Mary Wellehan, Deirdre Lacambra, and Shauna Damboise; and 10 grandchildren, including Bridget Ruff ’18 and Amelia Damboise ’21. Her late father was Russell H. Costello 1928; her grandmother, Sadie Bracket Costello, was also in the Class of 1898.

1961 Stephen Garvin May 3, 2019 Steve Garvin, an economics major, spent his career at Maine National Bank, starting out as a trainee and ending up as senior vice president of retail banking.

He had a second career far removed from banking: as an organist. He played for 65 years, beginning as a teenager. He was the longtime organist at North Parish Congregational Church in Sanford as well as at Black Point Congregational Church in Scarborough and at Falmouth Congregational Church. He was

a charter member, treasurer, and past president of the Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ, the organ inside City Hall in Portland.

He was also treasurer and past president of the American Guild of Organists. He was a member of the library building committee in Scarborough, a trustee at the Springvale Public Library, and served on the board of North Parish Congregational Church.

Survivors include wife Jane Fogg Garvin; children Scott Garvin ’89, Laurie Merrick, and Cynthia Christopher; and four grandchildren.

1962 Carl Bostwick Ketchum March 17, 2019 Carl Ketchum dreamed of writing a math textbook so interesting that it would captivate even the most reluctant student.

A math and physics major, he taught for many years at the College of the Atlantic, then at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York for 20 years before retiring. An avid outdoorsman, he held a master’s from NYU and a doctorate in oceanography from MIT. Survivors include wife Lorraine Stratis; children Andrew and Laura Lynn Ketchum and their mother Beverly Graffam Ketchum ’61; stepchildren Susan Stratis and Jennifer Bransfield; 11 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and brother Paul Ketchum ’64.

1964 Joyce Killay Patton May 5, 2019 A psychology major, Joyce Killay Patton taught briefly in New York before her husband Glenn’s career took them to the Univ. of Iowa, where he was the swimming and diving coach. Often referred to as “Mrs. Coach” and “the backbone of Iowa swimming and diving,” she hosted dinners for recruits and for the team.

She was a mother and nurse to countless student-athletes, her family said. She was a longtime member and former president of both the University Club and PEO and served on the board of Hillcrest Family Services. Besides her husband, survivors include children Marcia Donovan, and JJ and David Patton; and nine grandchildren.

1965 Robert David Bekoff October 12, 2018 Bob Bekoff made his fortune early and retired at 48. He started the first water taxi in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., eventually opening additional locations across the country. He had begun his career selling forklift trucks as owner and president of Maryland Clarklift. He spent his retirement

big-game fishing around the world. An orchid enthusiast, he collected over 700 orchids during his life. Survivors include wife Dorothy; children Norman Bekoff and Laura Miller; two grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

William Joseph Driscoll III February 24, 2019 For more than 35 years, Bill Driscoll practiced obstetrics and gynecology at Anna Jaques Hospital in Newburyport, Mass.

By the time he retired in 2008, he had helped bring thousands of new lives into the world.

His medical degree was from the Univ. of Vermont. An avid outdoorsman, he loved to drive around the countryside observing wildlife, the tides, and the beaches of Plum Island. Survivors include children William IV, Amy, Heather, Daniel Driscoll ’02, and Erin Driscoll Ketchum ’97; and six grandchildren.

William Arthur Gosling February 11, 2019 Bill Gosling collected pop-up books, the kind that delight children. He donated his extensive collection to the Univ. of Michigan library, where he finished his career in library science as curator of children’s literature in the special collections library.

He had assumed this role after stepping down as director of the library. He earned a master’s in library science from the Univ. of Pittsburgh, and worked for the Library of Congress for 10 years, interrupted by a tour with the Army in Vietnam for which he later received a Bronze Star.

He spent a decade at Duke Univ. as head of technical services, then took the same job at the Univ. of Michigan, becoming its director in 1997. He was deeply involved during his career in the transitioning of libraries to digital technology. He served on his Reunion gift committee, was a class agent, and an Alumni-in-Admissions volunteer. Survivors include wife Jean Orne Gosling; sons William and Jonathan; and one grandchild.

Noreen Nolan Orth March 2, 2019 A speech major, Noreen Nolan Orth went on to Harvard for a master’s in education. She taught for several years in the Boston area before her husband’s work took them to North Carolina, where they raised their family.

Survivors include her husband John.

1971 Dorothy Margaret Wentworth January 27, 2019 Dorothy Wentworth attended Bates and USM before receiving her bachelor’s degree in political science from Hunter College. She went on to earn an MBA in international finance from Fordham

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1973 Rolvin Reid Risska March 29, 2019 Rol Risska was a writer and poet, an art and opera lover. He was published by several magazines.

He made his living in public affairs and fundraising, most recently at San Francisco State Univ. He moved to the Bay Area in 1984, cherishing the freedom that San Francisco offered.

Previously he taught English in Georgia and Massachusetts, and worked for Northeastern and Andover-Newton Theological School. He earned a master’s degree from Northern Arizona Univ. During the worst years of the AIDS crisis, he volunteered at the Shanti Project. He also was an Alumni-in-Admissions volunteer. Survivors include his father, Rolvin Reinhold Risska ’51, and sisters Regina Booth and Christy Guerra.

1974 William Norman Robinson October 15, 2018 After graduating with a major in economics, Bill Robinson worked for several years at the Quincy (Mass.) Savings Bank before moving to the West Coast. Eventually he settled in Florida. Survivors include sister Judith Robinson Cox ’71 and friend Tom Burns.

1977 Jeffrey MacCollam Brown January 29, 2019 Jeff Brown cleverly based his career in pediatric medicine close to Vail, Colo., where he enjoyed the back-country bowls.

When diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, he switched from two skis to two wheels, and biked in the MS 150 several times, as well as half a dozen other long-distance challenges. He earned his medical degree from Albany Medical College and his master’s in public health from Harvard, making him the perfect person to direct pediatrics at the Westside Neighborhood Health Center in Denver and later at Vail Valley Medical Center. He concluded his career by serving as a neonatal hospitalist for a network of eight hospitals in Fort Worth, Texas. He was a diplomat of the American Board of Pediatrics and board certified in medical management. He taught pediatrics for many years at Colorado Univ. School of Medicine, and published numerous

peer-reviewed articles. For Bates he volunteered on his Reunion gift committee and was an Alumni-in-Admissions volunteer.

Survivors include wife Margaret McCormick; children Matt and Nick Brown, and Lila, Anna, and Jack Stenson; brother Kurt A. Brown ’83; and cousin Jacqueline Grannis-Phoenix ’88.

1978 Laura Malinda Aalto December 22, 2018 Laura Aalto had a soft spot for animals and took in many rescues. She loved to dog-sit for her friends. Her career was in health care administration; she earned an MBA in that field from the Univ. of Minnesota in 1978, complementing her biology degree from Bates. She was employed by Kaiser Permanente in California, and eventually moved to Medford, Ore., where she ran an animal business and helped with the town’s elections. Her late mother was Barbara Phillips Aalto ’45. Survivors include a brother and sister.

William Lee Ashworth January 28, 2019 Bill Ashworth was a machinist and owned a company in Chester, Conn. He was secretary of the Connecticut Motorcycle Riders Assn. When he moved to Oregon, he became a real estate broker.

He enjoyed sculpting, literature, and the arts. Survivors include two sisters.

Marie Anne Laverdiere December 14, 2018 Marie Laverdiere lived nearly her entire life in Lewiston. She graduated from Lewiston High School and returned there to teach English for 31 years after earning an English degree from Bates. She also taught Confraternity of Christian Doctrine at Sts. Peter & Paul for several years. She worked at L.L. Bean’s call center seasonally. Survivors include five siblings.

1984 James John Wohlrab March 22, 2019 Jim Wohlrab served an entire career in the U.S. Navy — 23 years — before coming to Bates.

An economics major, he went on to a second career in Lewiston, managing the Clubhouse of Lewiston Raceway, Cumberland Fairgrounds, and Topsham Fairgrounds. He then returned to the Department of the Navy as a civilian, as supervisor of shipbuilding at Bath Iron Works.

He later worked as a funeral attendant at Albert & Burpee Funeral Home. Survivors include wife Anita Hamel Wohlrab; children Michael, Nathan, and James Wohlrab, Michael Curran, and Nancy Herbst; five grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

1988 Jarema Malicki January 4, 2019 Jarema Malicki came to Bates after fleeing Poland via Japan and California, arriving by bus with little money or knowledge of English. He stayed for a year and left to enroll in Yale’s molecular biology Ph.D. program. He became a pioneer in developmental studies of the vertebrate retina, known for his work with zebrafish as a model organism for vertebrate retinogenesis and human ciliopathies. He was a faculty member at Harvard and Tufts before moving to the Univ. of Sheffield in the U.K.

1994 Ian Christopher McDonald May 16, 2019 Ian McDonald became a reporter at 15, joining the staff of the Cape Cod Times, where he had 28 articles published, including five on the front page. He was the film critic and a copy editor for The Bates Student, and went on to become a reporter and columnist with TheStreet and then to a six-year career at The Wall Street Journal, where he once had two lead stories on the same day. He covered the mutual-fund industry. He was named to The Journalist and Financial Reporter’s list of 30 top journalists under 30 in 2001, and won the New York State Society of CPAs award for excellence in financial journalism in 2000. He left the Journal in 2007 to become a buy-side equity analyst at T. Rowe Price. He was a former Alumni-in-Admissions volunteer. Survivors include wife Molly Saint-James and daughters Ellie and Poppy.

2006 Kristofer Steven Djupedal April 17, 2019 Kris Djupedal left the Class of 2006 to earn bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Strayer Univ. He worked for HyVee before joining the Mayo Clinic in management positions in 2006.

He was active with the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill in southeast Minnesota for many years, holding every board office other than president. Survivors include parents Eivind and Gwenn Djupedal; and sister Jenny.

funds in the group over his 50year career. He’d started out to be a biochemist, but his father’s ailing health forced him to step into the family’s investment business, which then had one fund.

He held a bachelor’s degree and an MBA from Harvard. He was passionate about orchids and a model train aficionado. He served on many boards, both charitable and public, from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund to the Manchester-by-the-Sea (Mass.)

Finance Committee. Survivors include wife Nancy Burrows Boardman; children George III and Bambi Putnam, and Susan Peck; 10 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Nancy Grace Roman December 28, 2018 “I am glad,” Dr. Nancy Roman once told Science magazine, “I ignored the many people who told me that I could not be an astronomer.” She was discouraged from taking a second algebra course in high school and from majoring in physics at Swarthmore. Even at work, she had to use the honorific “Dr.” to get by the secretaries. She was the first chief of astronomy at NASA (and one of its earliest employees), a position she held for two decades. She was a driving force behind the Hubble Space Telescope, even though it didn’t launch until well into her retirement. (When in 1994 NASA announced the repair of a faulty mirror that caused its early photographs to be blurry, Roman was in the audience, knitting.) She received a bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore and a Ph.D. from the Univ. of Chicago, both in astronomy. NASA credited her with leading the agency’s “first successful astronomical mission,” the launch of Orbiting Solar Observatory-1 in 1962, to measure the electromagnetic radiation of the sun. She concluded her career at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, where she oversaw the Astronomical Data Center. Bates awarded her a Doctor of Science honorary degree in 1971.

ho no rary George Putnam March 25, 2019 George Putnam received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Bates in 1985. He was the retired chairman of Putnam Investments, and, at some point, chaired each of the 100 mutual

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Announced in The Bates Student, the debut of the Bates Interscholastic Basketball Tournament in 1922 promised the winner the chance to represent Maine at a New England tournament at Tufts.

Finding the Basket

In 1922, Bates offered the first statewide high school basketball tournament, establishing a great Maine tradition. (Except for the year with the “baby riot”) by h . jay burns

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that pack arenas and civic centers in Bangor, Augusta, and Portland, the Maine high school basketball tournament culminates in March with 10 different championship games for boys and girls across five different classes.

The tourney is a grand Maine tradition — and one started by Bates 97 years ago when an ambitious director of athletics invited eight schoolboy teams to Lewiston to compete for the first statewide high school hoops title.

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Smith, whose Bates tenure was brief, from 1919 to 1923, but profound.

A star college athlete at Colgate, Smith earned 13 letters in baseball, track, basketball, and football. As reported in his New York Times obituary, Smith qualified for the 1904 Olympics in the 440yard dash “but missed participating in the event because of an injury.”

After graduation, he studied physical education at Yale, then switched to law, earning a degree from New York University. But he never practiced, instead moving back to coaching and teaching.

Before coming to Bates, Smith had equally brief stints at several schools and colleges; after Bates,

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The boys team from Deering High School in Portland was one of the eight teams in the 1926 Bates Interscholastic Basketball Tournament.

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also praised Smith for being “a conhe coached basketball at Middlebury sistent worker for clean sport.” for a year before settling down as A century ago, basketball was rela high school teacher and coach in atively new on the local sports scene, New Jersey. and the local papers’ coverage of the At Bates, Smith seemed eager to inaugural 1922 tournament reflected build and boost the athletics program. that. Along with game coverage, the In his second year, he founded the Daily Sun offered a column of “Basmen’s varsity basketball team and, ketball Facts Worth Remembering” similar to the hoops tourney, organized Carl H. Smith was the in Q-and-A format. campus tournaments for high school promotions-minded Bates A few questions focused on the track and tennis athletes. director of athletics who created Maine’s first quirky nature of the tournament’s His goal, he said, was to “bring the statewide high school first venue, the bygone auditorium of pick of the local schools to our cambasketball tournament.

Lewiston City Hall (since converted pus,” thus presaging today’s “prospect into office space), where rafters and camps” that draw high school athbalconies loomed over the court. letes to college campuses around the country, inOne Question: “A player out of bounds makes cluding Bates, for recruiting purposes. an honest effort to throw the ball into court. Ball In fact, it was an era of growing outreach to strikes a rafter and bounds into basket. Does the high school students. On the academic side, the goal count?” college had earlier created the Bates InterscholasThe Answer: “No.” (Indeed, the paper said that tic Debating League, a Maine forensics competithe otherwise excellent court “could be perfected tion that doubled as a recruiting venture. entirely by placing the north goal somewhat farIn creating the basketball tourney, Smith ther from the balcony.”) knew how to work the media, savvily involving Truly statewide, the first tournament welthe sports editors of Lewiston’s two daily newscomed teams from cities and towns from way up papers, the Journal and the Daily Sun (now one north (Limestone, 230 miles away), south (South paper, the Sun Journal) as members of the early Portland), east (Bangor, Eastport, Jonesport, tournament selection committees. and Northeast Harbor), and west (Rumford and The Daily Sun returned the favor, offering lavWoodstock). ish coverage of the 1922 tournament, including From the get-go, the Bates tournament, though banner headlines over two full pages on the tourheld off campus, captured the attention of the ney’s final day. campus. “Let’s not fail to extend the Bates spirit The paper praised Smith as a “big booster for of hospitality to these athletes,” The Bates Student school sports,” noting that he has “proven valurequested in its editorial on March 10, speaking able not only as a coach but as a publicity man for specifically to the campus men. the college” with “readiness to assist in reporting “Every Bates man is thus placed into the position events connected with the college.” The paper

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These rare images, pulled from a vintage Bates film, offer a glimpse of the 1935 Bates Interscholastic Basketball Tournament at the Lewiston Armory.

A Deering High School player makes a granny-style free throw.

A Portland High School player argues vigorously with a referee.

A Portland High School player makes an old-style set shot.

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of a host,” the paper said, noting that the new tourney was a “unique thing among the colleges of Maine,” one that offered an “unusual privilege to greet such a group of high school representatives to Bates.”

Led by the men’s Varsity Club, the college rolled out the garnet carpet for visiting teams, which stayed in Bates residence halls, including Roger Williams and Parker, and took meals in the men’s Commons, located in John Bertram Hall at the time.

Besides helping with campus accommodations, students handled game-day logistics, including a press table and crowd control at City Hall, where games could attract upwards of 1,500 spectators. Big games, such as one between Lewiston and Edward Little a few years later, saw fans overflowing into “corridors and halls, getting returns from the inter-town fracas via verbal relay,” according to the Daily Sun. On March 11, 1922, the finale of the inaugural tourney drew “the largest crowd which ever witnessed a game in Lewiston,” according to The Bates Student. South Portland defeated Bangor, 24-22, to win what the Maine Principals Association recognizes today as the state’s first high school hoops title.

With the first tourney a rousing success, the University of Maine got into the action the following year, offering a tournament for eastern Maine schools, while Bates continued to offer its tournament for the west. The two regions were dubbed the “Bates League” and the “Maine League.”

Within a few years, the two league winners were playing for a state title, the site alternating between Lewiston and Orono, a setup that continued into the 1930s.

As the Bates tournament grew in stature through the 1920s and ’30s, the tournament selection committee would expand to comprise the Bates athletic director and two of his coaches, plus sportswriters from Lewiston and from Portland’s three papers, the Press Herald, the Express, and the News.

With sportswriters integral to the tournament, they gave the tourney (with one notable exception) exuberant coverage, employing the era’s overheated sports prose that’s sometimes incomprehensible today.

For example, when Rumford won the title in 1935, a Daily Sun headline said the victory was like capping the season with a “cage diadem.” Translation: Because mesh fencing enclosed early courts to keep balls in play, they were called “cages” and players “cagers.” So a “cage diadem” would be a basketball crown.

The exception to the glowing coverage was the papers’ treatment of the notorious final game of the 1930 tournament. Featuring two Portlandarea teams, Cheverus and South Portland, the game drew a huge crowd.

By then, the tourney had moved from City Hall to Alumni Gym, and by all accounts, the college didn’t handle the throng well: When the doors opened, fans without tickets blew past tickettakers. And also by all accounts, the crowd was

rowdy and liquored up. “There were fights in the gymnasium, fights on the campus, and more in the streets,” reported the Daily Sun. Initially, a four-person police detail was assigned to the game. That number swelled to 15 as reinforcements came in. The paper reported three arrests, gear stolen from the two teams’ locker rooms, broken windows and damaged shrubs, and “three women overcome.”

Blocked from the fan-jammed gym entrance, sportswriters crawled in through locker-room windows. Once seated at the press table, they endured “excited fans climbing over their backs, drunks pulling down telephone wires, [and] hawkers and vendors standing in front of the table.”

In the heyday of print newspapers, hell had no fury like an inconvenienced sportswriter, and the writers let Bates have it. The Daily Sun called it “the worst case of mismanagement since the Buckley’s Beach riots at the Androscoggin yacht club regatta.” (We’re still trying to figure out that reference.)

The Student, while admitting that a “baby riot” had occurred and that the event yielded “the worst kind of publicity” for the college, blamed the visiting Greater Portland fans and their “twisted conceptions of true sportsmanship.”

“Bands of rooters, evident throwbacks of the old cock-fighting days, believing that booze and brawling are indispensible to good sport, invaded Lewiston with the characteristic attitude of the big-city moron coming into a small town.”

Not surprisingly, Bates moved its tournament to a much larger venue, the Lewiston Armory, the following year. Located on Central Avenue near campus, the armory is a famed venue. Besides hoops, it has hosted, among other things, boxing matches (Joe Louis fought there), mid-20th century Bates Commencements, circus performances, and a 1968 Jimi Hendrix concert, where the opener was the Bates house band, The Hanseatic League.

Bates continued its tournament sponsorship until 1936, when the Maine Principals Association, which already had gained oversight of the state championship game, took over both regional tournaments. (A girls’ tourney, by the way, would have to wait until Title IX and the 1970s.)

For Bates, it was a great run: laying the foundation for what is now a beloved Maine winter tradition and making what was just a hopeful prediction by the Student back in 1922 — that “this tournament will be a fixed feature of the winter sports” — a slam-dunk fact. n

Seen hosting the 1964 Bates Commencement, the Lewiston Armory was the site of the Bates Interscholastic Basketball Tournament in the 1930s. Note the hoop at far right.

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a r ch i v es show and tell from the muskie archives and special collections library First Team

In 1893 — its first full season of football — Bates posted a 5–2 record. The Bates Student praised the team for “that allimportant quality commonly called ‘sand.’”

On Oct. 4, after what’s been called the first “rugby game of football ever in Lewiston” (a 4–0 loss to Colby), the team posed for this portrait.

First Flag

The Service Flag for World War I shows 12 gold stars — alumni or former students who died in the war, amid 674 who served.

Well-Found

Hint: If your Bates item has a seal with a founding date of 1864, like this white coaster, it was created before 1987. That year, Bates began using 1855, when the Maine State Seminary was founded, as its founding date.

Before then, the college had long used 1864, the year the new college was named for Benjamin Bates.

Flag Down

Found tucked into the journal of 1800s Bates professor Benjamin F. Hayes, this red square of cloth is said to be from an infamous Confederate flag that flew above an inn in Alexandria, Va. On May 24, 1861, Union officer Elmer Ellsworth removed the flag, then was shot dead by the inn owner, thus becoming the first Union officer killed in the Civil War.

Hello Mother, Hello Father

In November 1936, long before a parents weekend existed, Bates debuted “Mother’s Weekend” for Bates mothers and daughters. The program included a banquet in Fiske Dining Hall, the one-time women’s commons in Rand Hall, with toasts, music, and chicken à la king on the menu. In 1939, the college started a spring “Dad’s Day” for fathers and sons. In 1968, a weekend for both parents finally arrived.

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o u t ta k e On an August morning, I drove to nearby Greene to photograph Ethan Miller ’00, a member of the Bates environmental studies faculty, at his Wild Mountain Cooperative home. Afterward, he gave me these just-picked peaches. They were memorable for both their taste — sweet as sugar — and for how they felt in my hands, soft as baby's skin.

— Phyllis Graber Jensen

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On the Cover Placing political differences aside for the moment, new U.S. Representatives Ben Cline ’94 (left) of Virginia and Jared Golden ’11 of Maine display Bobcat camaraderie while posing for Bates photographer Phyllis Graber Jensen outside the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., on July 25.

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Morse Mountain granite is thought to be Paleozoic in origin — up to 350 million years old.

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The natural channel of the 2.5-mile Sprague River winds through the marsh to the Atlantic.

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14 First-years — and their stuff — get camera time on Opening Day.

32 The story of Vietnam War casualty David Nash ’68, poignantly retold.

50 Why clay beneath Bates required welding long pipes all summer long.

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With joyful abandon, the men’s soccer team flaunts the Hedley Reynolds Cup — honoring the late Bates president and Middlebury history professor — after defeating Middlebury in the annual rivalry game Oct. 5.

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“Bates put me into a mindset that is probably infuriating at times to my colleagues.” Page 44