Bates Magazine, Fall 2020 by Bates College

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20 What’s in a Lewiston name: Luiggi’s.

44 Understanding Bates' founding connection to the U.S. slave economy.

50 With less revelry but a stronger sense of purpose, Bates reopens.

“This is what it means to be Black: To resist and to inspire and to build.” Page 32

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2 Comments 4 Bates in Brief 24 Amusements 26 Features 60 Notes 92 History Lesson 96 From a Distance

Take a closer look at who's holding this ripe apple in Gomes Chapel. Page 8

OPENING THOUGHT: JOHN JENKINS ’74 Source: Jenkins describing his friendship with Benjamin Mays, Class of 1920, on MLK Day 2018. A beloved alumnus, community leader, and wellness educator who served as mayor of Lewiston and Auburn, Jenkins died in October.

I came to Bates thinking that people befriended you because they could get something from you. I had nothing to give Dr. Mays. Yet he would sit with me for hours to talk about life. I’ve tried to live by that — taking time for any student whenever there’s a question.

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c o mme n ts lobster! Every time we go to the Clam Shack we feel like family. Good on you, Steve! Dianne Simpson ’60

Monroe, Conn.

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“This warms my heart,” Kingston tells us. Though summer 2020 was “tremendously challenging” for seasonal businesses like the Clam Shack, Kingston’s been “humbled by the support shown by so many Batesies who’ve visited online or in person.” — Editor

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With stress running high on the last day of in-person classes in March, Johnson Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies Holly Ewing led her students, including Carly Harris ’22 of Orinda, Calif. (at left), in guided meditation. “The calm confidence of the Bates community,” writes David Welbourn ’71, is a “salve for these weird times.”

Until We Meet Again Those of us far from campus have our understanding, our breadth, and our warmth fed by the feel of Bates as you show it to be. The photos and stories of the sudden goodbyes from campus (“Picture story: A community rallies as students depart campus,” BatesNews, March 23, 2020) are a salve for these weird times: the calm confidence of the Bates community and the intensity of thought and feeling look familiar and fresh and endearing. You make it easy to see that Bates keeps growing into a better and better version of itself.

from family cars to our new dorm rooms. My dad was forever grateful! I was fortunate to be friends with Tom for the two years that our Bates days overlapped and always appreciated the kind and gentle individual that was inside that “football jock” exterior. He may have been an intimidating presence on the football field, but he was a tenderhearted guy off the field. Susanne Driscoll Ziskis ’68

Ridgewood, N.J.

The profile of Tom Carr ’66, who was drafted by the thenBoston Patriots in 1966, is at bates.edu/tom-carr. — Editor

David Welbourn ’71

Andover, Mass.

The picture story about Bates’ historic transition to remote learning in March is at bates. edu/until-then. — Editor

Caring Carr Thank you for the wonderful article about Tom Carr ’66. I met Tom on my first day at Bates, when Tom, Russ Reilly ’66, and a couple of other football players stationed themselves at the girls’ houses on Frye Street to help carry our belongings

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New Light It’s difficult for many Americans to realize how intertwined the economy and slavery were. Frankly, it’s great for all of us to gain perspective on a history that is often glossed over. It casts a whole different light on the issue of reparations. Ross Deacon ’59

Melbourne, Fla.

Published online earlier in the year, the story about how Bates students and faculty are examining the college’s

founding connection to the American slave economy is in this issue, on page 44. — Editor

Clam Community What a nice spread about the Clam Shack and Steve Kingston ’88! (“Kingston of the Lobster Roll,” Spring 2020). Ray and I found the Clam Shack in the ’60s while driving to Maine. We got off the turnpike in Wells to find some great fried clams. Heading up Route 1, we came upon the Clam Shack and decided to give it a try. Well! It became our stop every time we headed north or south. On a visit years later, the owners told us it was time to retire. They promised they would sell the business to someone who would keep the standards up. We decided to give the new guy a chance. That’s how we met Steve. And lo and behold, he was a Batesie, too. That and the great clams settled it. We stop at the Clam Shack as often as we can, and our kids and their families stop, too. Steve has made some changes — the clam chowder is his, and it’s great. His lobster roll is on a nice roll, not a hot dog roll, and it is not a salad, it’s just plain

The great thing about internships (“Slideshow: See how students’ internships become life-guiding forces,” BatesNews, Aug. 18, 2020) is that they have a fixed end date. You stop because it ended, not because you quit or were fired. This means that if you tried something you were unsure about and didn’t like it, you can learn from the experience, try something completely different next time, and not worry that it looks bad on the resume. Devon Cartwright-Smith ’03

Kensington, Md.

Remembering Leigh Campbell ’64 I visited Leigh so often to revise my aid after my mom passed away freshman year. I’m sure he helped so many during his career. We feel the positive ripple that he created in our lives. Bobella Tes Daley ’03

Marlborough, Conn.

We have lost a very kind and genuine person. I would not have been able to join the Bates family without Leigh. And then he made me feel like I deserved to be there, and belonged. Rest in love, Leigh. I will always treasure the memories of taking basketball stats alongside you! Erin Flynn ’97

Honolulu, Hawaii I owe my Bates career to Leigh Campbell. He worked closely with me to make sure I could afford to go to Bates. My parents could not assist, so I had

e dit or’s not e to finance my way. He was always coming up with jobs that needed to be done — watering the Cage (to keep the dust down on the dirt floor), doing laundry, working the training room, or sweeping stairs in Page. He took a genuine interest in the wellbeing of students and made sure we weren’t saddled with too much debt on the way out. Bill Zafirson ’83

Saco, Maine

The obituary for the late Director of Financial Aid Leigh Campbell ’64 is in this issue, and a story is online at bates. edu/leigh-campbell. — Editor

Borscht Bates My earliest memory of Jane Costlow (Spring 2020, “My Last Year”) was taking her Short Term course on women in Russia. We celebrated the end of our term with dinner at her home. (The one and only time I ate borscht.) I used to tell that story when I conducted Alumniin-Admission interviews to demonstrate the close-knit student-teacher relationships at Bates and opportunities for multidisciplinary study. I learned from the experience that I do not like borscht but really enjoyed the opportunity to have been taught by one of Bates’ best! I wish you all the best in retirement, Professor Costlow. Wendy Harris Garber ’89

Wellesley, Mass.

I Am What I Am Cheers to Kirk Read! His students are in for a treat and will come to realize how lucky they are to have such an exceptional professor. Oh, and this shirt should be available through the College Store! I’d buy one.

Marshall Hatch Jr. ’I0, the focus of Mary Pols’ cover profile, is living and working in his hometown Chicago neighborhood trying to overcome twin evils brought to bear on his community, mass incarceration and structural racism, both heightened by the pandemic. In these difficult times, he tells Pols, the work is often just about holding on, where “progress” is less about gains and “simply what you keep.” Nine years ago, Peter Gomes ’65 also appeared on the cover of Bates Magazine. But the connection between Hatch and the late Harvard preacher, scholar, and author is more than cover coincidence: Gomes played a part in Hatch’s coming to Bates. Family lore has it that Hatch’s father, the Rev. Dr. Marshall Hatch Sr., met Gomes at Harvard when Hatch Senior was a Merrill Fellow at the divinity school. Hatch wanted to know if Bates was right for his son. After a brief exchange, Gomes stopped the conversation. “Send the boy to Bates,” he said. “He will stand out there.” To express how and why Bates people stand out, Gomes used an ear-catching word: “peculiar.” At Reunion 2005, he said that Bates was a “peculiar” college for how it “involved women and men on equal footing” from the start and for having “persons of color in its earliest classes.” In this peculiar college, said Gomes, “we were told to challenge conventional wisdom. And if we are true to our Bates identity and inheritance, we continue to be very peculiar people in a very ordinary world. I want us to stand out — to be odd, to be different.” And what do we make of Gomes’ choice of “peculiar”? A master orator, Gomes chose his words like a Michelin chef chooses truffles. Charles Nero is the Benjamin Mays Distinguished Professor in the Department of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies. He suggests that Gomes, a Black and openly gay man, used “peculiar” in the campy, signifying, over-the-top aesthetic of Black and gay communities. “Both communities have historically used language to redefine their relationship to anti-Black and homophobic worlds.” (E.g., think of how the word “queer” has been redefined and reclaimed.) In this sense, Gomes may also have been affirming his own right to be peculiar, or “differently black,” as Nero says. For one, “Gomes considered himself a Yankee.” His maternal ancestors, once enslaved, were freed by their Quaker owners by the 1700s. His father had emigrated to Plymouth, Mass., from Cape Verde. An American Baptist, Gomes nevertheless possessed a sartorial style that tended toward “Wildean dandy.” He was a Republican when “the majority of African Americans were not.” Hatch, speaking at a Reunion event in 2011 following Gomes’ death, publicly embraced Gomes’ call to peculiarity. For a Bates person, “standing out is a necessity,” he said. Hatch ’10 also quoted Benjamin Mays, whose words carry even more import as we learn about the work Hatch is doing in Chicago. All of us, said Mays, are “born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive,” and if we do not do that thing, “it will never be done.” H. Jay Burns, Editor magazine@bates.edu

Erica Chapman McPartland ’93

Furlong, Pa.

The writer is referring to French professor Kirk Read’s T-shirt on the first day of classes, which read, “Je me masque, donc, je suis,” or, “I mask, therefore, I am.” — Editor

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A drone flyover along the Androscoggin River by Josh Turner ’20 on April 1, 2020, captured the roiling Great Falls; the Pan Am Railroad bridge above the falls; the lights of the brick Charles E. Monty hydro station (right); and graffiti, including the words ‘Hope, Love, Life.’ Fall 2020

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Fall Al Fresco Peter Handler ’69 recalls lounging on the Historic Quad in warm weather, “my back against a tree, my books by my side.” Based in Philadelphia, Handler is a maker of fine furniture who has thought about what happens when people sit in a chair. “It’s about how to bring people together, how to use furniture to build connections.” The same goes for outdoor public seating, he says, which must promote “gathering and connection — and now, how to do that safely and physically distanced. Because we all want, we all need, safe social connection.” With COVID-19 protocols — such as no in-Commons dining, only to-go meals, and encouraging students to be outdoors — and beautiful early fall weather through September, Bates

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Nicky Longo ’21 (left) of Cambridge, Mass., and Lucie Green ’23 of Pittsburgh do a close reading of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night while seated in two of the 95 new Adirondack chairs placed around campus to help with physical distancing.

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There are 488 students in the class of 2024.

busted out the outdoor furniture in a big way to help students make those connections. The first to arrive, in August, were 95 Adirondack chairs. Not flimsy ones from the big-box store but maintenance-free poly lumber chairs by Durogreen in red, blue, green, gray, white, and and the greenish-blue Aruba. Placed in student-friendly spots around campus, and spaced 6 feet apart, the chairs give the campus a nice “pop of color,” says project manager Shelby Burgau of Facility Services. Other new outside seating includes benches and a variety of table-and-chair setups. As Handler learned a half-century ago, sitting beneath a tree on the Quad never gets old. Sitting under a tree “allows me to take a shape that isn’t the shape of a chair. I get to sprawl,” says Anna Mangum ’21 of Atlanta. It’s also great for people-watching,

Andrew Karr ’22 set a world record for the largest wave ever surfed by a bodyboarder — 60 feet.

which helps Mangum, an English major, with her creative-writing thesis work. “I’m trying to get a sense of how people move through physical spaces on campus,” she says. “Watching other people move through a space can make you think about how you have existed in the space before. What has changed? What remains the same?” Students flocked to more private sitting spots too, like the Philip J. Otis Memorial Wall and Reflection Area in the pine grove between Lake Andrews and Smith Hall. “It’s my study spot,” says Martin Carriere ’24 of Davis, Calif. He likes the view of the lake and being embraced by “the green wall,” the hedge behind the curving granite border. In sum, he likes the solitude. “You can find solitude in your room. But then you’re not in nature.”

Club Med is an organization for students interested in health professions.

I0 criteria need to be met for a student club to be officially recognized.

Students can bunk their beds through a request to Facility Services.

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Perla Figuereo ’21, Julia Maluf ’21, and Tiauna Walker ’21 enjoy their takeout dinner al fresco on Garcelon Field. (An exception to the college’s universal masking policy, students can eat sans mask.)

Two students sit and chat on the Mesabi black granite blocks on Alumni Walk.

Isabelle Darling ’23 of Seattle looks skyward while taking a break from reading for her course in gene editing.

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Since 2006, Doug Hubley has written I74 Campus Construction Updates.

Hathorn Hall is on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Sometimes a celebration is just a party — a nice little event that’s nevertheless removed from the greater scheme of things. And sometimes it’s more, as in the case of the “topping-off” celebration that brought a few dozen people to the Bonney Science Center construction site in June. Harking back to medieval Scandinavian tradition, topping off ends one chapter of a construction project and begins another, typically as a girder (or brick or wooden beam) is put into place, adorned with an evergreen branch or tree. The idea is to bring good luck to the new building, and maybe some public recognition to the folks involved. The Bonney topping-off, though, had a symbolic or at least emotional heft out of proportion to the little tree mounted on the girder that completed the facility’s steel frame. For one thing, it was the first time some participants had seen Bates colleagues in person since COVID-19 had descended three months earlier. But the greater scheme of things relating to the event was explicated in remarks by Michael Bonney ’80, who with Alison Grott ’80, his wife, made the lead gift for the science center three years ago. “It is our sincere hope that for the decades to come, the students and faculty who come through the science center include the folks who figure out how to deal with our most vexing problems,” said Michael. He named just three problems, but those were enough: “Climate change. The assault on humanity by viruses, and microbes more broadly. And frankly, because this center is located in this campus and our history, also social justice. Because the kids who come through here will have to go through all these other buildings” — Bonney pointed toward the central campus — “and think about the world differently.”

Bonney Science Center

Restored and Reopened

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Along with depictions of 18 other major figures of Western culture, Ludwig van Beethoven and Isaac Newton are back in place in Gomes Chapel, now open for the first time since November 2018, following extensive exterior work that included repairing stained-glass windows and their traceries. The glass work was handled by Vintage Glass Works of Lisbon Falls, Maine, whose proprietor is Jim Nutting ’76.

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The 2020 ivy stone, designed by Hazel Simpson ’20, was installed on Pettengill Hall.

The trees planted at the new Veterans Plaza are Eastern Redbuds.

2. Wearing its ceremonial evergreen, American flag, and Bates banner, the final beam is hoisted by crane toward the center.

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1. Dave Thomas of Consigli Construction adds his signature to the final piece of structural steel for the Bonney Science Center.

Ladd Library maintains access to II3 webaccessible databases.

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4. Steelworkers keep watch on the approaching beam.

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3. The final beam crosses the sky toward the center.

6. Topping off complete, the crane takes its leave.

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5. Beam in place, steelworker Lisandro Bonilla of Precision Steel secures it with bolts.

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Pivot Power At Bates, the graduating class selects the professors who speak at Opening Convocation in September. It’s a gift from the newest grads to the newest students. In professors Charles Nero and Stephanie Kelley-Romano, the Class of 2020 “choose brilliantly,” said President Clayton Spencer at this year’s livestreamed event. Nero and Kelley-Romano, both members of the Department of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies, offered a tag-team talk this year, sharing personal stories and hard-earned wisdom. Their theme: the importance of learning to pivot “with adeptness or adroitness,” in the words of Kelley-Romano, when facing challenges in our times. Nero, the Benjamin E. Mays ’20 Distinguished Professor, studies race and American cinema, queer studies, and African American literature. He described his own pivot as a graduate student. Initially, as a man coming of age in the South, when the civil rights and Black Power movements “transformed the meaning of citizenship for African Americans,” Nero was drawn to speech communications, specifically rhetoric and public address. Yet in graduate school, his professors pushed him away from Black voices. A “leading professor of American public address and oratory asked me, ‘Why are you interested in writing about Blacks? Hasn’t everything been written about them?’” After that collision with white supremacy, Nero decided to “embrace Audre Lorde’s famous pronouncement that ‘the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.’”

Charles Nero speaks to the Class of 1969 at Reunion 2019.

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Julia Child received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree in I983.

Truman Scholar Essie Martin ’2I is following in her dad’s footsteps. He received the award in I994.

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Stephanie KelleyRomano watches the U.S. presidential inauguration in January 2017.

So he pivoted: away from traditional speech communication studies and to African American studies (he is also a member of the college’s Africana program) and literary and film studies. Kelley-Romano is an associate professor who studies television, conspiracy theories, and presidential campaign rhetoric. A first-generation college student, her journey began with a shaming that she internalized. “My high school guidance counselor told me I was ‘not college material’ primarily, I think now, because my family didn’t have the ‘means’ of many of my classmates.” In college, Kelley-Romano “made myself dizzy pivoting.” She pivoted away from sports and away from one major to another. She pivoted between “loving lip-gloss and all things pink, and simultaneously hating the mass-mediated messages about how I ‘should’ behave and what I ‘should’ want as a woman.” Kelley-Romano had her epiphany in graduate school while studying rhetoric. “I came to understand the framing power of language” that, for example, put the “onus on girls to ‘not distract’ boys with tight clothing, to act ‘like a lady,’ and accept that ‘boys will be boys.’” Learning how to pivot between language and its context, and between a message and its intended audience, “has made me a better scholar, teacher, and citizen,” she says. Together, Nero and Kelley-Romano urged the new class to get out of their comfort zones and be open to ideas and to their own pivots. “Don’t let your focus be so narrow that you miss the beauty a broader perspective can give you,” Kelly-Romano said. Get “messy,” follow your heart, and listen to hear, Nero said, reminding the Class of 2024 that they didn’t just earn the opportunity to come to Bates — they also earned “the chance to let it change you.”

No more than two credits of private instruction or ensemble performance may apply to a music major.

Every major includes a writing-attentive course.

Psychology majors must take one course related to diversity and one related to biology.

Table Stakes

Essie Martin ’21 pilots a motorboat near a lobster pound at Bremen, Maine, during a 2019 research internship with the University of Maine.

West Coast Crab Katrina Johnson ’21 of Stratham, N.H., holds a graceful kelp crab while doing research last summer at the University of Washington’s Friday Harbor Laboratories. She was investigating the feeding preferences of the small crab species, which tends to live in forests of kelp. “Being from the East Coast, I had never studied West Coast ocean ecosystems,” she said. “To snorkel and see seals playing in kelp forests underwater was extraordinary.”

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Growing up in coastal Maine, Essie Martin ’21 has seen the effects of climate change firsthand, both on ecosystems and on the communities that rely on the ocean for their livelihoods. That upbringing sparked Martin’s interest in aquaculture and public policy, now supported by a highly competitive Harry S. Truman Scholarship, a public service–focused award that provides up to $30,000 for graduate study and other opportunities. A geology major from Newcastle, Martin says that aquaculture, already a growing industry in Maine, can fight climate change and sustain local communities. Growing kelp, for example, “provides income for the fishermen and food for people, and helps mitigate climate change by sequestering carbon.” But for aquaculture to be a sustainable solution, “we need good policy,” she adds. That means involving fishers, scientists, and policymakers in aquaculture development. “It’s really important for everyone to have a seat at the table,” she says.

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The college’s Instagram page has I4.9K followers.

The Bates Board of Trustees has I2 standing committees.

Perla Figuereo ’21 (left) and Lebanos Mengistu ’21, co-presidents of the Bates Student Government, were among the speakers at Convocation on Sept. 1.

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Spencer’s remarks bates.edu/convocation-2020

Dunk ’n’ Dog Though Commencement was bittersweet, delivered remotely via livestream, it gave grads a chance to jump for joy in new ways — like Kathleen Smith ’20, who celebrated by leaping into Northern California’s Donner Lake with the family dog, Hibby.

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In lieu of canceled on-campus receptions for admitted students last April, Bates sent gifts to prospective students, including congratulation letters from Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Leigh Weisenburger, a set of fun fact cards about Commons, and these Bates mugs. Bates Communications staffer Grace Kendall delivered the 900 mugs in her pickup to the local shipper.

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Mugging for the Camera

‘Astonishing’ More than 10,700 Bates alumni, parents, and friends contributed a record $33.7 million to the college during the fiscal year ending June 30, the second straight year of record-setting gifts. Since 2013, annual gifts to Bates have nearly tripled, from $12 million to this year’s total. Vice President for College Advancement Sarah R. Pearson ’75 called the record giving and diligent work by volunteers during an exceptionally difficult time “humbling — and nothing short of astonishing. This spirit of generosity is a hallmark of the Bates community.”

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Bates is a member of the information technology– focused Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges.

Bates is the 37th largest private employer in Maine.

Alumni records are stored in the basement of Hathorn Hall.

What and How Beginning a college year like no other, President Clayton Spencer offered a stirring welcome at Convocation on Sept. 1 as well as an affirmation of the liberal arts in a year of tumult heightened by the pandemic. To understand the coronavirus pandemic and its implications, she said, one must know “something about biology, chemistry, history, literature, politics, Africana, economics, psychology, sociology, statistics, philosophy, ethics — basically all the subjects we teach.” But it’s not just what Bates teaches. “It is also the how,” she said, noting that the “issues and challenges presented by the pandemic are, like most hard problems, fundamentally interconnected.” To that end, “we teach our students that hard problems do not admit easy answers.” Sound decisions must be “based on the conscious integration of evidence, values, and judgments about the impact of our actions on the lives of others.” Noting the connection between the pandemic and the “ongoing devaluation of Black lives” in American society, including the greater impact of the disease on people of color, Spencer said that “we have learned through bitter experience that if we don’t get the science right, we won’t get the economics right. If we substitute ideology for expertise, we lose our bearings. “Without a commitment to facts and evidence, we abandon the fundamentals of discourse, debate, and meaning-making. This causes us to get policy wrong and hurt people. It causes us to substitute violence for persuasion.” At its core, a liberal arts education “prizes the relationship between knowledge and values and asks us to invest in the lives of others and the world we walk through together.” Far more than the accumulation of knowledge and skills, a liberal arts education cultivates the ability to “enter imaginatively into the lives of others so that we will act in the world based on a vivid and informed sense of our common humanity.”

Their Own Story Like other graduation ceremonies across the land, the college’s 2020 Commencement was a remote affair, featuring prepared video content delivered on Sunday, May 31, via livestream to 463 seniors, their families and loved ones, and supporters and friends around the world. The ceremony was without honorary degree recipients, and in lieu of a

formal address, artist Vanessa German, an exhibitor at the Bates Museum of Art in 2019–20, delivered greetings. “You are the bridge generation. You are bridging a past of fastness and desperate injustice to a future that is so eager for your open heart, your brilliance, your capacity to be emotionally available, courageous, vulnerable, and a rocket ship of perseverance.” Senior Speaker Alexandria Onuoha ’20 titled her address “Stay Strong, and

Walk Like You Got Some Sense” — advice from her mother, to whom the address was dedicated. Onuoha used facets from her Bates career to illustrate how those qualities had powered her own success — exercising activism and initiative, for example, to lead student organizations in advancing social justice on campus. And now, as graduates, “we get to walk towards the next chapter of our lives as writers of our own story.”

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Alexandria Onuoha ’20 posed for a FaceTime portrait in a park near her home in Malden, Mass., prior to Commencement.

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ALL CLEAN photography by phyllis graber jensen Bates custodial and grounds staff, the former cleaning in Pettengill Hall and the latter mulching campus flowerbeds, paused for portraits in July. As Bates prepped for a fall opening against a COVID backdrop, custodial supervisor Vivian Snyder summed up everyone’s goal: “Providing a clean, healthy, and safe environment for all.”

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Outdoor recreation areas and walking trails have been set up across campus.

Cat Quotes

Bates Bobcast gobatesbobcats.com/podcasts

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With the suspension of athletics due to COVID-19, the official Bates athletics podcast, The Bobcast, has broadened its coverage to include interviews with Bates alumni. Here are quotes from a few recent editions.

Thirteen club sports are recognized by the Department of Athletics.

2. “I spent like two hours falling down. But for some reason, I loved it. And I think I did because it was just so darn hard.” — Two-time Nordic skiing Olympian and Bates’ first female All-American Nancy Ingersoll Fiddler ’78 on her first time on skis, at Bates

Julia Panepinto ’20 gives a fist-pumping yell as teammates tossed balls into the frame for her senior year softball sportrait last February, before COVID-19 shuttered the spring and fall sports seasons.

3. “I talk a lot of trash to my dad.” — Last spring’s baseball tri-captain Will Sylvia ’20 on the fun he had with his dad, Jim Sylvia ’84, who was also a baseball captain in his era. Will’s mom is Lori Rogers Sylvia ’83

Nancy Ingersoll Fiddler ’78 competes for Bates as a student.

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4. “That was also part of our huge home cooking: the heat.” — Women’s basketball AllAmerican Olivia Zurek ’05, recalling how toasty it always seemed to be in Alumni Gym on game days, to the benefit of the acclimatized Bobcats

5. “I can’t wait to follow Bates tennis for the rest of my life.” — Last spring’s tri-captain Lauren Hernandez ’20 on her optimism for the women’s tennis program

6. “Keelin and I decided to support each other from the get-go, even when it made either of us uncomfortable. It was a brother-sister relationship.” — Liz Wanless ’04 on forming a bond with fellow thrower Keelin Godsey ’06 in track and field, during a time when Godsey was beginning his gender transition. The two combined to earn 20 All-America throwing honors and capture four NCAA championships

7. “I remember seeing these red dots, all these guys smoking cigars. You had this haze of smoke and then these red dots all over the place. But that didn’t really stop you.” — Track and field legend John Douglas ’60 on competing before crowds of 15,000 at Madison Square Garden, where he set the Bates indoor long jump record of 25 feet, 0.75 inches, which still stands

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1. “It just comes down to loving it.” — Julia Panepinto ’20 on what it takes to compete in two varsity sports, in her case volleyball and softball

The Batesina Athletica font, designed by Skye Dillon, was created specifically to pair with the Bates Bobcat.

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Many teams order uniforms and/or apparel from Portland-based Atlantic Sportswear.

Leigh Campbell ’64 in a familiar spot: at the scorer’s table keeping the Bates scorebook for a men’s basketball game, vs. Catholic University on Jan. 5, 2008.

The Bates Bobcast celebrated its 200th episode in October.

Thanking Leigh Generations of alumni were saddened by the death of a fellow Bobcat who made his mark on the Bates basketball program without ever stepping on the court as a player or coach. Leigh Campbell ’64, the college’s longtime director of financial aid at Bates, was also the official scorer for men’s basketball for nearly 50 years (including his student days), also scoring games for the women’s teams at times. Campbell died on July 31, 2020, at age 79. He was more than a guy who was good with numbers. Campbell cared deeply about Bates students, both the players he got to know as scorer and the students he supported as financial aid director. When Jon Furbush ’05, now the men’s head coach, arrived at Bates in 2001, Campbell was one of the first people he met. “He reached out and said he just wanted to introduce himself and offer any support that I needed,” said Furbush, who received Bates financial aid as a student. “When you meet a man like Leigh for the first time, you immediately think, ‘Wow, this is such an amazing place with a lot of genuine people.’ I think a lot of people have Leigh to thank for how we feel about Bates.” Bates News story about Leigh Campbell ’64 bates.edu/leigh-campbell

Personal Trainers “It takes a village,” said Andrew England as he checked in students for their first COVID-19 tests at Underhill Arena on Aug. 27, the first of three move-in days. “And we’ve got a great village,” said Ben Walker as he reviewed operations in the arena a few days later. The two, both members of the Bates Athletics training staff, were talking about the team effort by trainers and coaches to support a critical part of the college’s reopening plan: twice-weekly COVID-19 testing for all students and voluntary testing for all employees. The goal of the testing program is surveillance: testing at a great frequency to identify infected individuals before others get infected.

Nick Cooke, assistant athletic director for athletic performance who became director of the testing center over the summer, knew that his team’s job was also to give a personal touch during a stressful time. “Students are anxious because it’s a brush with the unknown,” he said on the first move-in day. “It’s our job to guide them from the unknown to the known.” As if on cue, Harris Manganiello ’21 emerged from Underhill. He had admitted being “nervous to see how testing goes.” And? “Easy,” he reported. “I know how this will go for the rest of the semester.” By September, Cooke’s center was, well, really cooking, with 7,700 completed tests yielding two positive tests, both students.

Nick Cooke stands at the ready in the Bates Testing Center (aka Underhill Arena) just prior to students’ arrival in August.

COVID-19 Testing Dashboard bates.edu/fall-2020/covid-19dashboard Fall 2020 Fall 2020

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ARTS & CULTURE

The traditional senior exhibition was held online in 2020.

Commencement speaker Vanessa German had an exhibit in the Bates Museum of Art last year.

The Spirit Opened A longtime Mainer who turned 97 this year, artist and author Ashley Bryan has written and illustrated more than 50 books, many for children and many inspired by African folktales and Black American spirituals. He recalls one of his first, as a child growing up in the Bronx. “When I learned the alphabet and then drew the pictures for each letter, it was a wonderful experience because the teacher said I had published a book when I reached the end and sewed it together,” he said. Through encouragement from teachers and family, “the spirit....was opened to me.” The Bryan spirit is now on display at the Bates Museum of Art in the exhibition Let’s Celebrate Ashley Bryan through March 20, 2021. With in-person attendance limited to the Bates community, the exhibit offers online features including artwork (much of it given to the museum by Bryan’s friends Henry Isaacs and Donna Bartnoff Isaacs), talks, and videos, including the “Ashley Bryan Story Time Challenge”: crowdsourced videos showing families reading Bryan’s picture books. This 1980s oil painting by Ashley Bryan, Cannot Reach It Yet, is a gift of Henry Isaacs and Donna Bartnoff Isaacs.

Ashley Bryan exhibition bates.edu/ashley-bryan

Seeing Is Believing If you were at Bates in 2011, you had a chance to see artwork at the Bates Museum of Art by Brad Kahlhamer, whose art fuses expressionist painting with comics, street culture, and the visionary tradition of Native American art. Missed that show? No problem. Just go to museum. bates.edu, sit back, and click on images of his works — as well as thousands of others — such as this piece, Mesa Mesa, ink and gouache on paper purchased by the museum’s Alumni Collectors Society funds. The new online database features artwork in six categories: the Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection; Africa, Oceania, Americas, and Southeast Asia; works on paper; and photographs, paintings, and prints. For those who enjoy starting in one place and ending far away, each artwork’s digital record suggests related works. And off you go! Bates Museum database museum.bates.edu

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The theater department sewed hundreds of face coverings for Bates faculty and staff.

Where the Crawdads Sing was recommended four times on the 2020 Good Reads list.

The 2020 Village Club Series wrapped up on Zoom.

The Way Forward

Ariel Abonizio ‘What Is Not There’

With just a few weeks before they were to triumphantly cross the finish line — by presenting their work at the annual Senior Thesis Exhibition in the Museum of Art — last spring’s studio art majors had to break down their studios, pack up their work, and head home. As painful as it was that her students lost both their gallery show and the end of a shared senior year, Pamela Johnson, the associate professor of art and visual culture who advised the 15 seniors last spring, hopes they hold on to how they persevered amid disruption. “Our students in all the arts at Bates are creative and resilient. By definition they are great problem solvers.” she said. “They will help show us the way forward.” Here are three pieces from the senior exhibition, which was presented online in April.

“When something is forgotten, I can still feel its contours, as if something still remains and as if silence could be louder than words. Through photographs, videos, and installations, I try to capture the hole in every donut — what is not there.”

Unicorn Dreams No. 2 (detail), 2018, digital photograph

Senior Thesis Exhibition bates.edu/exhibition-2020 Grace Smith ‘Our Bodies’ “Our bodies are a record of our experiences, pain, battles, and torments. Most of my portraits move between multiple feelings simultaneously, in an effort to accurately describe how emotions are felt — all at once and often confused.” Below: Reflection No. 1, 2020, oil on masonite, 8 x 10 inches

Above, Blood on Our Flag, color pencil, marker, ink, 9 x 12 inches

Mike Jones ‘Real Beings’ “I enjoy creating visions that I want to see more of in fantasy media and bringing these ideas to life, including characters with darker skin or anthropomorphic beings. I find satisfaction in exploring the souls of my creations as real beings who face issues that can be metaphorically or literally relatable.” Fall 2020

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LEWISTON

The college provided meals to an emergency shelter in the Lewiston armory for 3 months in 2020.

What the WiFi?

Next door to the famed Blue Goose pub, Luiggi’s has been a Bates favorite since 1953.

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We name what’s around us: cats, children, golf putters, and, sometimes, our home WiFi networks. WiFi setups actively broadcast their names, like digital bumper stickers. Viewable to anyone looking on a device for a network, they send a message. Stephanie Kelley-Romano, who studies narrative and pop culture as a professor in the Department of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies, says you don’t need to overthink what’s going on. “It’s another way for people to express themselves and try to set themselves apart, right? So when you go to someone’s house and you have to log into their WiFi and it’s ‘SKR Is the Bomb,’ it’s just kind of funny. It’s one more way for people to prove that they’re hip.” Here are a few of the WiFi names and messages seen around Lewiston neighborhoods in recent days.

What’s in a Name: Luiggi A Bates haunt since the 1950s, Luiggi’s Pizzeria is named for its founder, Luiggi Carmine Talarico. Albi to Lewiston Luiggi “Louis” Talarico was born in 1922 in Albi, Italy. After immigrating to America and settling in Lewiston, he and his wife, Annis, founded the pizzeria at the corner of Horton and Sabattus streets in 1953. He died in 1992. His brother, Frank, born in Lewiston 14 years later, was the well-known public face of the family business for years. Luiggi’s is now owned by several partners, including the St. Hilaire family, which also owns the Blue Goose pub next door. “Bates alumni know us pretty well,” says co-owner Angie St. Hilaire. The Fergy Created in the 1960s, Luiggi’s signature sandwich, the Fergy, is named for Lewiston police officer Arthur Ferguson, a friend of the Talarico family, who “should receive a pension for conceiving it,” noted The Bates Student in 1974. Ingredients for a Fergy: ham, American cheese, tomato, onion, lettuce, and mayo on Italian bread. 20

Mosaics inspired by Marsden Hartley are featured on the facade of a Lewiston apartment building.

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‘Two with Onions’ The 1955 Mirror published photos and comments about five popular hangouts: • • • • •

Anthropology major Hannah McKenzie ’21 of Stevenson, Md., at the Heritage Restaurant and market.

Luiggi’s: “two with onions!” Blue Goose: “pre-exam paradise” Steckino’s: “rolls and real butter” Kenmore Hotel: “Saturday p.m. jazz sessions” Ye Olde Hobby Shoppe: “Mike and the gang,” a nod to owner Mike Buccigross ’41

The latter three are long gone, and the Hobby Shoppe building is now HQ for Bates Security and Campus Safety. But Who’s Counting? From the steps of Hathorn Hall to the front door of Luiggi’s is exactly 3,000 feet. Dogging It By virtue of its meals being available for takeout, Luiggi’s is included in DogFriendly New England: A Traveler’s Companion. Meat Me There Iconic eateries have their quirks, and this is Luiggi’s: All its pizzas, even a “plain” cheese pizza, have meat in the sauce.

Religiousstudies Religious studies major major Anna Maheu Anna Maheu ’21City ’21 of New York ofthe New YorkFood at Good City at the Good Bus. Food Bus.

Popular salvage and surplus store Marden’s has I4 locations, with one in Lewiston.

Karma Is A Bitch A version of the saying “payback is a bitch.” It was also the name of a circa-2018 internet video meme/challenge popularized by Chinese teenagers and based on a scene from the CW Network’s teen soap Riverside. Tin Knocker The WiFi owner might be a sheet metal worker. Captain Obvious Someone who, to the annoyance of friends, makes obvious statements. Obviously. Team Braaap May or may not be a reference to a group of friends who race stock cars at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, Maine. ”Braaap” also refers to dirt bikes. NSA Surveillance Van Like a similar name, “FBI Surveillance Van,” it’s a common prank name.

Lewiston has four pawn shops.

Grant’s Bakery in Lewiston will deliver birthday cakes to Bates.

Get Your Own Damn WiFi Like another name, “Don’t Even Think About It,” it’s a warning to would-be WiFi squatters.

Pretty Fly for a WiFi Once thought to be a cool WiFI name, now not so much.

Once Upon a Tardis And its neighboring WiFi setup, “Once Upon a Bad Wolf,” might be references to the TV show Doctor Who: “Bad Wolf” is an entity and “TARDIS” a time machine. Star Wars 79 Might be a reference to 79’s, the name of a cantina that catered to clone troopers in the TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Or the name could refer to issue No. 79 of the Star Wars comic book published by Marvel. The Wheel of Time Perhaps refers to the fantasy book series. Stark Industries In the Marvel comics, it’s the fictional multinational industrial company owned by Tony Stark, aka Iron Man.

Politics major Georgia Moses ’21 of Arlington, Mass., at Hillview Family Development

Slanty Shanty In season four, episode seven, of The Simpsons, the family home is sinking into the ground, so Bart sells the “Slanty Shanty” as a natural wonder of the world. Barking to dazzled spectators, he invokes the “twisted creatures that live within,” including the “Cueball, the man with no hair” — Homer, of course. Fort Kickass In an episode of the animated sitcom Archer, Dr. Kreiger builds a cardboard-box fort and proclaims, “Your authority is not recognized in Fort Kickass.”

Engine 7 The name of the pumper at Lewiston Fire Department’s Central Fire Station at 2 College St. Railfan Ralph Local citizen who posts videos of trains on his YouTube channel. Jesus Loves Of course! It Hurts When IP A bit cheeky, yes — perhaps a play on the initials for Internet Protocol.

Sam’s Italian Lewiston’s local sandwich shop, dating to 1939. Luiggi’s Popular Lewiston Italian restaurant, dating to 1953 (see “What’s in a Name”).

Three Dimensions Photographer Phyllis Graber Jensen caught up with a few students doing summer internships in Lewiston funded by the Harward Center for Community Partnerships, including these three seniors. Politics major Georgia Moses ’21 of Arlington, Mass., ran a summer program for schoolchildren at the Hillview public housing community in Lewiston. “I’m not sure they miss school per se, but they’re itching to do things,” she said. It was hard work to layer pandemic health protocols — distancing, masking, hand-washing — over the high energy of schoolchildren. “That said, I’ve been really impressed by the level of understanding these kids have. They clearly know the importance of keeping themselves and their communities safe and healthy.” Anthropology major Hannah McKenzie ’21 of Stevenson, Md., split her internship time between two local advocacy groups, the Immigrant Resource Center of Maine and the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project. For McKenzie, an antidote to feeling distant was shopping downtown, such as buying tea and sundries at the Heritage Restaurant and market, which serves Somali and Ethiopian dishes. “I’ve been glad to still be able to engage with the community a bit in-person like this.” Religious studies major Anna Maheu ’21 of New York City worked with the Good Food Bus, a mobile market that brings locally sourced produce to Lewiston neighborhoods. “It’s taught me what it really means to invest in the place one calls home,” she says. And the experience “reaffirmed how fundamental food and soil are to the lives we live and the relationships we cultivate.” Fall 2020

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THE WORLD

Getting the Picture The day he flew out of Ghana last March, his semester abroad cut short by the pandemic, Samuel Mironko ’21 kept his promise to take pictures of a Ghanaian musician, Kofi Mole. “My flight was at 6 p.m.” on March 20, recalls Mironko, a sociology major from Belmont, Mass. “I told them, ‘Can we make this happen?’ I took an Uber to the guy’s house at 6 a.m., and we did the photo shoot.” An accomplished photographer, Mironko hoped to use his photography to serve the people he met while taking classes at the University of Ghana, in the capital, Accra. “I wanted to be able to capture things from an African perspective, not like a tourist who’s objectifying what I was doing,” he says. “I was trying to be cognizant of that and respectful of the spaces I was in.” At first, Mironko didn’t feel comfortable even taking out his camera. He

The class of 2020 included graduates from 52 countries.

didn’t really know anyone and didn’t know how people would react to having their picture taken. Then he met a fellow study-abroad student and a Ghanaian friend who were willing to model for him. Separately, through an American connection, Mironko photographed a church service on Ghana’s Independence Day, capturing intimate moments of faith and national pride. He made inroads into the Ghanaian music scene. Through a connection with a Bates alumna, Afia Sekyere ’19, he met the manager of Sarkodie, one of Ghana’s biggest rap stars. A series of fortunate events led to Mironko taking pictures, on stage, of the rapper at one of his concerts. “I was definitely able to experience studying abroad in a different way,” he says. “I was able to build relationships with other students, with Ghanaians, with musicians, that I don’t think would have been possible if I hadn’t been pursuing photography.”

The Purposeful Work internship program matches Bates students with summer experiences worldwide.

University of Ghana students play pickup basketball in February.

Mironko took this photograph at 1000 Women in Prayer for Peace Church in Accra, on March 6, Ghana’s Independence Day celebration.

Mironko’s American friend Jzov (right) and Akaba, a Ghanaian student, pose at Osu Beach in Accra.

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Bates has a Bollywood Dance Team club.

In 20I8–I9, the most popular study abroad destination for Bates students was Italy.

8% of first year students hold dual citizenship.

Samuel Mironko ’21 took this portrait of rapper Kofi Mole on March 20, the day Mironko left Ghana due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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am use me n ts i n ou r h ea rts

BOOKS

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

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez

Suggested by Susan Dunning, Associate Director of Gift Planning Doughty has a nice approach for a book about death and the death industry — just irreverent enough without being insensitive.

Suggested by Áslaug Ásgeirsdóttir, Professor of Politics and Associate Dean of the Faculty Armed with data and humor, Criado Perez discusses how our systematic lack of data on females skews policies in predictable ways.

Tip of the Iceberg by Mark Adams Suggested by Mike Retelle, Professor of Earth & Climate Sciences Thorough and often humorous review of the different plants people have used over the centuries to create alcoholic beverages.

LOST & FOUND

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

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QUIZ

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

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Opened in 1980, Bates’ major indoor sports facility includes Tarbell Pool, the Reis Wing, and a fieldhouse — but the latter was not named the Margaret Hopkins Merrill Gymnasium until 1985. What did students call the fieldhouse up to then?

Answer: Athletic Facility East Building, or AFEB.

Bates-branded carabiner • USB thumb drive • Knit cap • Single earring • Campus laundry card • Air-purifying bag • Book: Moscow Women • 35mm film camera • Water bottle • Two notebooks, one with hand-drawn illustrations of types of rock deformation • Book: Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved • Pink wired earbuds • Single glove • Mastercard debit card

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Suggested by Alexandra Hood, Olin Arts Center Operations Supervisor A future Earth is wracked with periodic disasters known as Seasons. They’re apocalyptic events that last for generations, reshaping the world and its inhabitants.

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Items seen in Ladd Library’s Lost & Found in a pre-Covid visit this spring:

The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin

off the c harts

Commencement Cookbook Bates College Dining staff compiled a special gift for 2020’s graduating seniors: a digital cookbook of favorite Commons recipes. Try out the Vegan Pad Thai, right, and find recipes for this full Table of Contents at bit.ly/2Et9Fxl. Baklava Bates Bobcat Sandwich Bates Crunchy Turkey Melt Bates General Tso’s Chicken Bates Italian Almond Cookies Bates No Bake Cookies Bates Paws Granola Bates Salted Toffee Bark Bates Scallion Chicken Sauté Bates Vegan Blueberry Muffins

Vegan Pad Thai Serves: Six Pad Thai Noodle Ingredients 1 pkg rice noodles ¼ head fresh broccoli, chopped ½ red pepper 1 handful baby spinach ½ small onion, chopped 1 tsp. canola oil 1 c. Bates Pad Thai Sauce (see below)

Directions 1. Soak rice noodles in cold water for 20–30 minutes; drain well. 2. Sauté broccoli, pepper, and onions. 3. Add noodles and sauce to veggies. Toss gently to mix.

Pad Thai Sauce Ingredients ¾ c. teriyaki sauce ½ c. water ¼ c. granulated sugar 3 T. rice wine vinegar

Bates Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies Bavarian Apple Bars Beef & Broccoli Stir Fry Brandied Ginger Cookies Brussels Sprout Panzanella Salad Chocolate Euphoria Cookies Fettuccine with Seafood and Wine Sauce Indian Butter Chicken Kolacky Linguini Pesto Pasta Bake Marcia’s Pasta & Zucchini Saute Meg Joyce’s Pumpkin Bread Molten Lava Cakes

Optional Toppings Marinated tofu, peanut sauce (recipes for both are at right) chili sauce, bean sprouts, chopped cilantro, chopped scallions, and chopped peanuts

Marinated Tofu 1 lb. tofu, cubed 2 T. + ½ tsp. rice wine vinegar 1 T. + ¼ tsp. soy sauce 1 ½ tsp. sesame oil 2 T. + ½ tsp. granulated sugar ¾ tsp. red curry paste ½ tsp. chopped garlic 2 T. + ½ tsp. scallion, chopped Combine all ingredients except tofu. Add tofu to the sauce and allow to marinate.

Pecan Toffee Squares Vegan Banana Brownies Vegan Chocolate Coconut Creams Vegan Pad Thai Yam & Carrot Casserole

Peanut Sauce ½ c. creamy peanut butter ¼ c. water Mix water with peanut butter gradually to achieve preferred thickness.

PHYLLIS GRABER JENSEN

Reese’s Peanut Butter Bars

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WITNESS • TESTIMONY• EVIDENCE •

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S T U D E NT P HOTOG RAP H E R S | COVID-l 9 The transition to remote learning gave Bates photography students historic opportunities to document COVID-19 in their home communities No question: COVID-19 snatched away so many of our anticipated experiences and events. But in one case — that of Bates students in a photography course last spring — the college’s transition to remote learning (and, for most, stay-at-home life in their home states) due to the pandemic provided an unprecedented opportunity. In the weeks before the big pivot in mid-March, students in Elke Morris’ course “Perceptions and Expression” were creating photographs in one of two styles, documentary or directorial. The former functions as “witness, testimony, and evidence,” says Morris, a senior lecturer in art and visual culture. Think Dorothea Lange’s images from the Dust Bowl. Whereas in a directorial approach, the photographer “creates, consciously and intentionally, events to photograph,” explains Morris. The spooky work of Gregory Crewdson comes to mind. Most students took the documentary approach, which made sense to their professor. “Having to

adapt to the new situation with COVID-19, it is not surprising that many students chose to document and express the significance and impact of those changes,” Morris says. They were feeling their way through the strangeness of seeing empty shelves in grocery stores for the first time in their lives. Worrying about their elderly grandparents. Feeling trapped in their own homes. Urgency battled with the mundane. The results are “potent and revealing,” she says, giving viewers a “glimpse into the students’ adjusted lives, with their families and in their neighborhoods.” Regardless of which approach they took, documentary or directorial, the assignment revealed a class bound by experience and mood, even as they were separated geographically. “I was especially struck by the sense of continuity but also sadness perceived in these images,” says Morris. — jay burns

Below: Wearing her mask, Pauline Petrin, age 92, sits outside after a walk around her neighborhood in Plantation, Fla., on April 17, 2020.

PH OTOGRAPH ER : Left: Garon Rothenberg ’20 uses his sewing machine at an off-campus house near Bates on April 15, 2020.

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JAK E CHOI ’20 Hometown: Seoul, South Korea Majors: Politics; French and francophone studies

KYL E CA RTER ’ 2 0 Hometown: Plantation, Fla. Major: Psychology “This photograph is of my grandmother. It shows the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic through the eyes of a 92-year-old woman who is highly at risk.” — kc

“Gary wants to become a designer, and the quarantine has allowed time to focus on his work. Photography serves different purposes for different people. Most important, it serves as an agent that connects scattered memories into one and delivers a unique message to the audience, which unites all during this difficult time.” — jc

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S TU D E NT P H OTOG RAP H ERS | COVID-l 9 Below: The milk supply runs low in the dairy section of a Hannaford supermarket in Yarmouth, Maine, on April 11, 2020.

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Right: Money and dice sit on a Monopoly board on April 1, 2020.

J E N N A BEAG L E ’22

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Hometown: Indianapolis Majors: Rhetoric, film, and screen studies; gender and sexuality studies

Hometown: Berkeley, Calif. Major: Psychology (prospective)

“Life during the COVID-19 outbreak doesn’t seem real: empty shelves, masked faces, endless new rules and protocols. By editing my images in black and white, I attempted to give them a timeless quality to distance them from reality. These images prompt me to keep asking myself, ‘Is this really happening?’” — jb

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C EC ELY STER L ING - MA ISEL ’ 2 3 “The quarantine has been a stressful and chaotic time for most people, me included. I have been lucky to be able to engage in more lighthearted activities. Board games have played a part in making the best of a stressful situation and using the extra time to relax and have fun.” — csm

Above: Wearing face masks and gloves while social distancing, shoppers come and go from a Safeway during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mountain View, Calif., on April 3, 2020.

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JOHN LOFTUS ’ 2 2 Hometown: Palo Alto, Calif. Majors: Neuroscience; art and visual culture (studio art) “This photograph was captured as I was traveling around my hometown. I was struck by the disruption of ordinary life due to pandemic, especially for the elderly.” — jl

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S TU D E NT P H OTOG RAP H ERS | COVID-l 9 Left: An Indiana Department of Transportation sign on I-80 tells drivers to “Go Home, Stay Home, Flatten The Curve” on March 31, 2020.

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JAC KSO N SEL L ’ 2 2 Hometown: Mill Valley, Calif. Major: Psychology “As I drove across the country, from Bates to my home, I saw how signs that typically display traffic information have been switched over to COVID-19 warning signs. This was when the weight of the situation really hit me. I saw signs that urged travelers to self-quarantine, or that cash was no longer accepted at toll stations, and others that said that we are ‘Stronger Together.’ It was truly eye-opening to see how rapidly everything was changing.” — js

Right: Siblings Alison Gouveia and Will Gouveia pose in the living room of their home in Jenkintown, Pa., on March 25, 2020.

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A NN A G OUV EIA ’22 Hometown: Jenkintown, Pa. Majors: Biological chemistry; art and visual culture (studio art) “This photo, for the directorial assignment for our class, was taken when every day brought heaps of alarming, quickly changing information. As quarantine continued to be extended, I chose to pose my siblings in a way that expresses common concerns about food availability and mental health during these unprecedented times.” — ag

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Left, Traffic flows past a sign indicating the closure of a Marden’s discount department store in Presque Isle, Maine, on April 4, 2020.

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MA X BA RTL EY ’ 2 2 Hometown: Presque Isle, Maine Major: Psychology “The objective of this image, and the series it belongs to, is to convey both the solitude and unity that various closing signs represent. Each store had their own way of stating their closure. I wanted to capture this image because we are in such a unique time.” — mb

Below: A child’s bike sits near the Ripley School playground in Concord, Mass., on April 21, 2020

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NI C K C HARD E ’2 2 Hometown: Concord, Mass. Major: Art and visual culture (art history and criticism) “As I walked around an empty playground, this bicycle intrigued me. In this photograph, the bike’s placement suggests an unnerving sense of urgency, as if a child has been forced away from it, suddenly and unexpectedly. The photograph illustrates the disorienting and sudden shift to a new way of life. As the bicycle waits for a child to return, we wait to return to the lives we once knew.” — nc n

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RESIST, INSPIRE, & BUILD In the Chicago neighborhood of West Garfield, Marshall Hatch Jr. ’10 is right where he’s supposed to be by m ary pols pho to g raphy by s ebasti án h i dalg o

To Marshall Hatch Jr. ’10, the long painful moment in American history that is 2020 feels like Reconstruction revisited. Lately he’s been delving deep into the history of that period after the Civil War, “which at once was the highest high for African Americans,” he says, “and then the lowest low.” In that era, Blacks held seats in Congress and in Southern legislatures, but angry white Southerners inflamed racial tensions — chaos coupled with hope, American democracy at stake. “The question during Reconstruction was, ‘What kind of country do we want to be?’” Hatch says. And the question arises again today. “These are incredible times to be living in,” Hatch says. “But there’s a lot to be dismayed about.” Nationwide, the pandemic still rages, along with the streets. Racists are emboldened, but their opponents shout back. And in Chicago’s West Garfield neighborhood, where Hatch grew up and works now as an activist and community leader, 2020 thus far has marked a period of terrible lows. There were loved ones lost to COVID-19, including his Aunt Rhoda, the matriarch of his father’s side of the family. She was the organist at New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church, where his father has been pastor since 1993 and which serves as home base for Hatch’s community work. There were more names added to the nation’s long list of Black people killed or shot by police with no justification. When Hatch recites the names of murdered Chicagoans — he knows them all, it seems — it sounds almost like a prayer, or a sorrowful 32

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poem. But then came a new verse from other cities: George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Jacob Blake. “There’s a lot to be done on the ground and in the community,” Hatch says. “And a concerted mobilizing effort nationally to decide what kind of country we want to be.” In the late spring he spoke at protests. In the summer he watched as looting and fires damaged the neighborhood he’s trying to rebuild. The Family Dollar store down the block burned, which further parched the food desert of West Garfield. The pandemic made it harder to connect as much as he wanted with the young men of color in the joband life-skills training project he co-founded and runs, the MAAFA Redemption Project. (“maafa” is a Kiswahili word meaning “a great disaster or terrible occurrence.” It describes the transatlantic African slave trade and all that it wrought.) These are young men, some with criminal records, all at risk, finding their feet again or for the first time, who need connection and touch, for whom social distancing might feel like yet another alienation. As the pandemic tightened its grasp on Americans of color, the MAAFA group, 33 strong in its fourth group of trainees, met in masks, in smaller groups, and outside, learning practical skills, from financial planning to the building trades. In between, Hatch went for bike rides when he could, listening to an audiobook, David W. Blight’s fat, Pulitzer Prize–winning biography Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom as he pedaled, thinking about the way Reconstruction was thwarted, how

Marshall Hatch poses in the sanctuary of New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church, home of MAAFA Redemption Project, on Aug. 12, 2020. Behind him is the MAAFA Remembrance window, depicting Jesus holding a slave ship within him, inspired by early abolitionist drawings and based on an illustration by Tom Feelings.

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“Committed amidst complexity: That is Marshall.” the South turned to Jim Crow laws to enforce its systemic racism, as his ancestors fled to the North. “It went back into an anti-democratic republic,” he says. “That’s the principle that I’ve kind of been mulling over lately: Maybe progress is not what you gain. Progress is simply what you keep.” But in contrast to the bad news, 2020 has also brought Hatch personal and professional highs: a baby daughter at home; the empowering discovery of an ancestor who fought for the Union in the Civil War; and the intervention of a benefactor so famous she is known by only one name. In April, after Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot spoke publicly about the disproportionate impact COVID-19 was having on communities of color, and news media covered the community’s heartbreak over the loss of Rhoda Hatch, Oprah Winfrey asked to meet Hatch and his father, the Rev. Dr. Marshall E. Hatch Sr. Although he is as level-headed as a human could be, Marshall Hatch Jr. does admit to having been nervous about talking to Oprah, even over Zoom. “I didn’t want to fumble over my words.” In the end it was, he says, like talking to a family member. “She is just so personable. You have to love her.” Winfrey subsequently announced a $5 million gift to establish Live Healthy United, a community-based initiative directed at providing food, contact tracing, personal protective equipment, and wellness checks to Black and Latinx communities. The MAAFA Redemption Project is one of five Chicago groups working under that umbrella. Twice a month this summer, Hatch oversaw food giveaways in the parking lot of the church, boxes stuffed with fresh vegetables and fruit as well as dry goods, with hundreds more boxes delivered to homebound seniors nearby. With Winfrey’s philanthropy, that work can go on for two more years. “The pandemic isn’t going anywhere,” Hatch says. This is seed money. More will be needed. “She said just as much.” Hatch speaks in soft, warm tones, sitting in the dark of his father’s church, talking into a laptop with a quiet grace that all but lifts the veil of Zoom’s technological separation. Sometimes he looks up at the stained glass windows of New Mount Pilgrim when he talks, when he’s thinking (he’s always thinking). “This is really a part of the legacy of what it means to be Black, what it means to be on the West Side of Chicago in a forgotten neighborhood. I mean, it’s just, it’s almost what we’ve been created or designed to do,” he says. “To resist and to inspire and to build. “It’s almost like, unwittingly, I’ve been preparing myself for moments like this, if that makes sense.” For those who knew him at Bates, what Marshall Hatch is doing today makes complete sense. Charles Nero met him as a first-year in his “Introduction to African American Studies” course, which Nero and his husband Baltasar Fra-Molinero were co-teaching. “We were very impressed,” Nero said. Then Hatch showed up in Nero’s course “White 34

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Redemption: Cinema and the Co-optation of African American History.” Nero remembers showing the students the 1998 movie Bullworth, in which Warren Beatty plays a cynical politician whose career is revitalized when he starts rapping and imitating Black people. “The movie ends with him proclaiming his authenticity, and right after that he is shot,” Nero says. After the screening, Nero asked his students, “Do you recognize this moment?” The class was stumped. Not Hatch. “He says, ‘That’s a reenactment of the assassination of Martin Luther King,’” Nero remembers. “I said, ‘Exactly,’ and the class — everybody looked at Marshall.” He laughs at the memory. “Marshall is brilliant and in ‘White Redemption’ it was just simply confirmed.” Nero places Hatch in the tradition of Paul Robeson, the musician, actor, and activist from the first half of the 20th century. “The scholar, the athlete, the activist,” Nero says. “You can’t position one above the other. He is all of them simultaneously. He does all of them well. He is a model of a term we like to toss around: intersectionality.” Nero points to an expression from the playwright Lorraine Hansberry: “Committed amid complexity.” And, he says, “That is Marshall.” At Bates that complexity included his commitment to intellectual pursuits, far from home, while also being a varsity athlete. But the complexity also included an unwelcome surprise: feeling out of place in the college that had educated Benjamin Elijah Mays, Class of 1920, whose legacy had drawn Hatch and his father — both of whom have the middle name “Elijah” — toward Bates. And as a Gates Millennium Scholar, he’d had many other options, including a Historically Black College. “My freshman year I was a distinct minority and I felt it,” Hatch says. At the time, the percentage of U.S. underrepresented minorities at Bates was less than 10 percent (it’s now 25 percent). One of the handful of Black students in his class was Anthony Phillips. The two met in Nero’s African American studies course and became fast friends, spending late nights listening to Coltrane and Donny Hathaway, “all the while talking about what we are going to do when we leave Bates to improve our neighborhoods,” Phillips says. Borrowing a van from Dean James Reese so they could drive to the church Hatch had found 20 minutes away, with stops at Denny’s in Auburn. Phillips dropping by Hatch’s room to talk about a girl and finding his friend watching the 10 o’clock news, or reading. “Always reading.” Holed up in Pettengill, working on papers that were due in the morning, even when bed was calling to Phillips. “Doc, sleep is the cousin of death,” Hatch would tell him. But first, Hatch had to be persuaded to stay at Bates, and Phillips tried. “He was ready to go,” Phillips remembers. “It was disappointing to him to see the lack of diversity.” In the end it was Hatch who persuaded himself to stay. He’d picked up

As a Bates junior, Hatch goes up for one of his patented 3-point shots vs. Bowdoin on Jan. 23, 2009.

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Born to Rebel, Mays’ 1971 autobiography. He read the much-quoted sentence: “Bates College did not ‘emancipate’ me; it did the far greater service of making it possible for me to emancipate myself and to accept with dignity my own worth as a free man.” “I internalized those words,” Hatch says. “It was the words of Ben Mays that allowed me to remain hopeful.” He joined in as other Bates students began organizing to protest the lack of diversity. Soon Hatch was urging Phillips to join him. Phillips had come to Bates from Philadelphia, where he had been one of just seven Black students at LaSalle College High School, an elite Catholic preparatory school. He’d been on diversity and inclusivity committees there. He told his friend he’d done this work already, that he was “really trying to create a new life” for himself at Bates. But Hatch said to his friend, “There is no better time to do right than now. We have to do something. Our school needs us.” Phillips, now the executive director of Youth Action, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit that builds youth leadership through civic engagement and service, remembers Hatch as a galvanizing presence in the effort, always avoiding being a focal point but still managing to be a fulcrum. That was how it was on the basketball court as well. In those early days at Bates, Hatch headed over to Alumni Gym to work out his stresses, often with Jon Dowdy ’09, a childhood friend from Chicago who had encouraged him to come to Bates. “It was a sanctuary,” Hatch says. “I was a gym rat.” Declining the word “star,” Hatch says that playing basketball growing up kept him out of “the trick bags of inner city life.” As Hatch practiced, he caught the attention of Jon Furbush ’05, then a new assistant coach and just fresh out of Bates himself. “I didn’t know the recruiting class because I was new to coaching, but I thought, ‘Who is this kid? He’s got to be one of the top prospects.’” As it turned out, Hatch was not a recruited athlete, but by the time Furbush returned to Bates to take the head coach job after getting a graduate degree, Hatch was a junior, captain of the team and a fluid player with “an uncanny ability that no one else had to create his own shot.” There were back-to-back Hatch 3-pointers in the course of 11 seconds that sent a game with Colby into overtime. “The gym was nuts,” Furbush says. Video from the game shows Hatch emerging from the jumping and hugging masses, going quietly, with no fuss, to the bench, ready for overtime. “He never gets too high or too low,” Furbush says. A decade later, as Bates went to remote learning over the spring, Hatch became a regular sounding board on Zoom for Furbush’s current team as they struggled with being cut off from campus and each other because of COVID-19. Furbush describes Hatch as invaluable, especially for players of color. “One of the most authentic listeners I have ever spoken to,” Furbush says. He offered up his own ear for Hatch after George Floyd’s murder. “I wrote to Fall 2020

him to say, ‘Hey man just thinking about you. You are somebody who has always put everybody else before yourself. It’s okay to be selfish.’” Basketball was one of the factors that helped Hatch make a home for himself at Bates. So was singing with the Gospelaires, the gospel ensemble he co-founded; being active with Amandla! Black Student Union; and actively mentoring younger students of color, helping them feel comfortable on campus. “He was a central convener,” Phillips says. He made connections with Admission staff, including Carmita McCoy, at the time a dean who had begun recruiting for Bates in Chicago. She found herself using Hatch as a sounding board. “I picked his brain quite a bit,” McCoy says. “He was a huge recruitment tool,” and he knew Chicago. “There were quite a few that came to Bates on Marshall’s word that they would be OK.” Hatch was also spending time, along with Phillips and other friends, at the Multicultural Center on Campus Avenue, known informally by students as the Black House. “We would cook there, we would sing songs at the drop of a hat,” he remembers. “It was a space that felt like home, like a reprieve from a dominant culture on campus where you were forced to question yourself before even opening your mouth, out of fear that you would sound dumb or be too renegade with your ideas.” In July 2010, Hatch, having graduated with a politics major, joined Bates Admission. At the same time, Bates restructured its equity and inclusion programs, which included renaming the Multicultural Center as the Intercultural Center, recasting its programming as the Office of Intercultural Education, and the departure of a popular administrator. The goal was a broader approach to equity and inclusion, but it was a dispiriting time for Black students and recent alumni like Hatch, who felt that valuable support and an important space — “a reprieve from the dominant campus culture” — had been taken away. “Bates did not do a good job with that,” he says. (Today, the Office of Intercultural Education’s program space is in Chase Hall, and a Senior Staff–level vice president leads equity and inclusion initiatives.) As an Admission counselor, Hatch visited cities like Seattle and San Francisco, working to make Bates a place where students like him could be comfortable. McCoy got a chance to mentor him then, not that he needed much of it. “He was top-notch,” she says. “A consummate professional, a funny guy, very respectful...a gentleman and a scholar.” But love called him back to Chicago. He wanted to make sure his little brother was being supported in his adolescence. He took a job at Urban Prep Academies for three years, where he reconnected with a Bowdoin alum, Zulmarie Bosques, whom he had met once in Maine, and they fell in love (they married in August 2018 and have a 1-year-old daughter, Sophia). He went back to school himself, earning two more

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degrees, a masters in social work and one in divinity from the University of Chicago, finishing in 2017. In returning to Chicago, he also returned to his spiritual home, the New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church, where his father has been the pastor since Marshall Jr. was 5. “I grew up in the church,” Hatch says. “It has nurtured me. It has nourished me. It really is all that I know.” The church and its associated buildings in the surrounding streets are the spiritual and physical home of his MAAFA Redemption Project, which he and his father co-founded in 2017. New Mount’s sanctuary was once the home of one of the largest Irish Catholic churches in Chicago, a somber neo-Gothic building of soaring arches and Carrara marble, with massive stained glass windows filled with Eurocentric-images of Jesus and Mary. In short, when the archdiocese sold it to New Mount in 1993, it was a very white place.

Hatch walks by a police blockade on Chicago’s Madison Street near the New Mount Pilgrim church on Aug. 11, 2020, in the tense days following the shooting of a 20year-old Black man by police. “I contemplate James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time,” said Hatch. “This is what he was talking about.”

The bones of the place remain, but its eyes, in the form of its stained glass windows, have gradually been replaced with imagery that speaks to African American history and iconography. The job is nearly done, and the windows stand as symbols of what was and what Marshall Hatch Jr. hopes will be, not just for this predominantly Black community in Chicago, but others all around America. Via Zoom, he gives a tour, enabled by a laptop tilted this way and that. The North Star–Great Migration window features a male figure lifting his daughter up to the next generation, inspired by the seminal scene from the 1977 miniseries Roots, where Kunta Kinte holds his baby daughter up to the sky. “It speaks to the promise and pain of the African American community,” Hatch says. “Particularly the journey from the South to the North.” Some elders of the church were part of that Great Migration, from states like Arkansas and Georgia. Hatch’s

grandparents were also part of the mass movement of Black people fleeing the Jim Crow South after Reconstruction. “They came up from Mississippi,” Hatch says. “Aberdeen.” Rhoda Hatch was the keeper of those family histories. When she died on April 4, at 73, after a terribly swift battle with COVID-19 — “my father took her to the hospital and never saw her again” — stacks of documents came to him, along with a calling to find out more. He joined Ancestry.com and discovered that his great-great-great-grandfather, Zack Hatch, served in the Union army. This knowledge gave him a deeper sense of belonging. “I am just as American as anybody else.” The Sankofa Peace Window features images of the four girls killed in the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham. Five images of young martyrs of Chicago’s violence line the bottom. “Sankofa” refers to a principle of using the wisdoms of the past to

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They’ve been creating an urban farm and a meditation garden in the yard of the Sankofa House, where about half the trainees live (COVID-19 has slowed some housing plans because of social distancing). There will be a fire pit, a place to talk, a place to share the learning of the day. There are, Hatch says, “endless possibilities” for the men of MAAFA. Anthony Phillips agrees. He recently made a financial commitment to support MAAFA. He saw firsthand what West Garfield is up against, when he stood up for Hatch at his wedding. “I grew up in North Philly,” Phillips says. “With poverty and everything, but I will tell you, that community? It is no comparison. It is much more in need.” He recalls seeing a video of a 24-year-old getting his GED and thanking Marshall for it. “What Marshall is doing is taking those kids who people forgot about. He is positioning them for success. And he also doesn’t forget about the grown men who need it. That is huge.” What about the possibilities for him? Hatch is the kind of person who seems like he could be, say, a natural politician. He smiles. “Not long ago, I was extremely pessimistic about politics,” he says. “So much so that I considered it an evil.” Some things have changed that view, including the legacy of the late civil rights icon John Lewis, and getting to know Illinois Congressman Danny Davis. “His heart,” Hatch says. “His work.” But he knows a minister can do great and important work as well. “If I had to decide in this season of my life, I would edge toward ministry.” This work he’s doing now? “I can’t imagine being more fulfilled.” The other day, Hatch father and son were talking, and they found themselves “dwelling on despair.” As they spoke, they came to a resolution, of sorts. “Because of who we are, because of the lineage that we represent, and because of the God we believe in, we can’t really afford to linger in despair. Optimism is where we should land, I think, because there’s a lot to hope for.” n

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imagine and project a better future. “It’s almost like a philosophy of life,” Hatch says. (Sankofa is also the name of the annual Bates show that explores the experiences of the African diaspora through theater, music, and dance.) “The East window is kind of hard to see,” Hatch says, tilting again. “That is the MAAFA Redemption window.” Composed of grays, blues, and black, the figure of Christ stands, head back, arms open to the sides, but chained. His torso is represented by a slave ship, bodies packed in like firewood, similar to the illustrations by British abolitionists in the late 18th century, which, as Hatch says, “were created to be a broadside to expose the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade.” In this depiction, Christ is “carrying within himself the memories of those who lost their lives on the journey to America,” Hatch says. “But also he’s carrying the legacy of those who survived. And we are that living legacy.” Hatch wrote about this window and how it inspires the New Mount congregation for his master’s thesis in the divinity program. It is foundational for him as well. “I’m really committed to do something to not repeat that history,” he says. “To redeem that history by living out a conscious life, a life that’s impactful.” When the Hatches, father and son, founded the MAAFA Redemption Project, they were thinking of Laquan McDonald, a 17-year-old shot and killed in 2014 as he walked away from Chicago police. The U.S. Department of Justice had just released a report on Laquan’s killing, describing the culture of “excessive violence” within the Chicago police. “The creation of MAAFA in 2017 was a way of protesting,” Hatch says. “That was part of the motivation for finding the Laquans in this community and trying to invest in them and create spaces for them to heal and grow.” “We try to instill in them a sense of dignity, respect, hope — telling them that this rich history that you are a product of is what gives you purpose in life,” Hatch says. “Those who came up from the South, those who literally sacrificed their lives so that you could be alive right now, you owe them something.” The main focus for each MAAFA cohort (the size has grown steadily since the first class of 12) is on learning construction trades. They’ve already rehabbed two abandoned buildings, and this year Hatch and his advisers, many of them elders from the church who work in construction or finance, added training for landscaping jobs. The symbolism of both is not lost on Hatch, he says. “We started on the assumption that construction-based training would be ideal. Again, symbolically, you have to tear down to build up. And I think horticulture is even more impactful.” The trainees understand the potential, for them and their community. “It doesn’t take much to convince them that there is a huge industry behind beautification.”

Above, Hatch at Bates’ Baccalaureate on May 30, 2010.

From left: Deparris Slaughter, Christopher Scales, and Delshaun Whitmore, all members of the MAAFA Redemption Project, pose outside New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church on Aug. 8, 2020.

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USUAL SUBJECTS, UNUSUALLY As the Class of 2020’s senior year ended in a way no one could have imagined, these 10 seniors partnered with photographer Phyllis Graber Jensen to create portraits and share thoughts of hope, resilience, and faith in themselves and in others

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the pandemic physically separated photographers everywhere from their favorite subjects — in my case, Bates students engaged in study, work, play, and sports. But soon I was seeing photographers execute a new, highly collaborative kind of portraiture using a vital assist from both technology (FaceTime and iPhones) and their subjects. I wanted in, even though it was counter to most of my usual methods. Typically, a photographer exerts control in a posed situation. While ideally there’s a partnership between subject and photographer, the scales are weighted in favor of the photographer, who makes decisions about framing, lenses, and light. 40

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But with FaceTime portraits, the subject has the upper hand, literally, since they’re holding the phone that will take the picture. After joining the FaceTime call, the subject gets to position the camera and present the background. The photographer can make requests — “a little to your left” — but the control has shifted. As I learned when I took some practice runs with family and friends, FaceTime portraits make for interesting creative dynamics. The image itself is taken by the photographer, who presses a white button on the FaceTime display, which yields a 3-second video clip from which still images can be selected. And of course, the photographer exerts further creative control with cropping, toning, and sharpening. Yet even with obliging subjects like my outof-state brother and daughter, the process proved harder than I had anticipated. My first results seemed pitiful. But I forged ahead, inviting a few members of the Class of 2020 to take part in FaceTime portraits, letting them choose the setting for their portrait — a place that felt special — and letting them choose a close-up or something more environmental, with or without companions. In the end, these 10 individuals blessed me with their willingness to go on a creative journey with me. They were patient and generous with their time and ingenuity. Ditto for their loved ones, who in some circumstances positioned the camera or posed with them. In one sense, the photographs might lack typical “quality” as measured by sharpness, pixel count, whatever. But in another sense, these photographs — showing hopeful and resilient soon-to-be-graduates who have faith in themselves and in others — help give us confidence in our future. That’s why these images felt to me to be some of the most necessary images I’ve ever made.

graham bonnell Hometown: Southport, Conn. Major: Politics Setting: Cold Garden Spirits distillery, Canterbury, N.H.

analea angot Hometown: Hampton, N.H. Major: Sociology Setting: Childhood home Analea says: As I’m confined to my small childhood home, I find comfort in this large-scale painting, now the center of my visual world. It breathes air into the house and brings the outdoors in — often a jumping-off point for my daydreams. I sit and drink my coffee, admiring the way the morning light beautifully illuminates the trees bursting with pink blossoms, filling my heart with hope and anticipation of better days ahead. A family heirloom, it also signifies the artist Tom Cooke’s adjustment of artistic expression after a stroke robbed him of fine motor skills but granted him a deeper connection to color. How apropos — a great reminder that we all possess the power to adjust to change, overcome adversity, and see the forest for the trees.

Graham says: I’m originally from Connecticut, but since leaving Bates I’ve been living at Canterbury Shaker Village, a historic site and museum. There’s no WiFi, and it’s in the middle of nowhere. Fortunately, in addition to working on classes and writing my thesis, I’ve been able to keep myself busy by working part time at the Cold Garden Spirits distillery, a 10-minute walk down the road. The work has been incredible — socially distanced, letting me spend hours outside clipping weeds, stacking wood, digging post holes, and tending to distillery operations. I also created an online store so that the business could continue without in-person interactions. I have also learned a lot of cool new things. I routinely drive a tractor, a pickup truck, a forklift, and I even have to use a chainsaw from time to time. I have never experienced rural life. I am not accustomed to working in fields or driving tractors, but I am happy to learn. As painful as it was to leave all of my friends and the community of Bates, I’ve found a new purpose here.

maya church Hometown: Atlanta, Ga. Major: Gender and sexuality studies Setting: Her backyard Maya says: I love being home — not just the actual home but the feeling of home, too. Whether I am having my best or toughest days, you will find me at some point in the day sitting in my backyard, always in the same seat. When I am outside, my thoughts become more clear, and I truly feel like I’m given peace of mind, especially when there’s a lot of noise in my head. Having this time has really made me think about what’s important in life. For me, that’s having a home, a foundation. Amidst all of the problems that are happening right now, I am blessed to be at home.

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Hometown: Boulder, Colo. Major: Rhetoric, film, and screen studies Setting: In her parents’ bedroom, looking out on Mount Sanitas, with her sister, Melina, 16, and golden retriever, Georgia

Hometown: Chester, N.J. Major: Psychology Setting: Amidst the Christmas trees in her backyard

Maddie says: I am so grateful for my sister, Melina. Since going to college all the way in Maine, we haven’t been able to see each other as much as we would like. Since being home, we’ve learned how to cook, bake, scrapbook, make homemade ice cream, do woodworking, and learn remotely together. I think we have taken on recipes and projects way beyond our skill level, but we’ve had fun with it. We’ve truly been inseparable during quarantine — I even moved into her room. Behind us is Mount Sanitas, which has some of my favorite trails in Boulder. Getting outside during these times has been really important for our wellness and health. I am really grateful that Melina likes to hike with me — especially since there have been a lot of mountain lion sightings in Boulder (possibly because the city is so quiet as everyone is at home).

Lauren says: Where I live was a Christmas tree farm with evergreens as tall as my sister and me. Seventeen years later, those trees tower over us. When I was 5, I remember seeing the first blade of green grass sprout in our backyard. For me, it symbolizes the start of growth for both me and my backyard. I look at my backyard and my memories with gratitude and peace, knowing that this is where my true roots lie.

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Hometown: Eastchester, N.Y. Major: Interdisciplinary Setting: Bedroom at home Andrew says: This is where I spend a lot of my time now. There are not many places that I can go and feel productive. If I am not sitting here, my day is usually filled with other small, miscellaneous tasks or projects to help move the days along. The concept of time is so interesting to me now. We have all the time in the world to enjoy doing nothing — but also all the time to try and do everything, if that makes sense. I try to stay away from thinking how this time could have been used soaking up the final days as a senior with my peers. Once I get past that, sitting here isn’t so bad.

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Hometown: Wilton, Conn. Major: Politics Setting: Family room Maya says: At Bates, my favorite spot to work was the large tables by the windows on the first floor of Ladd Library. I loved being in an open space that buzzed with noise. It’s where I worked on group projects, finished chemistry homework, came up with my thesis topic, and where I really began writing my thesis. At home, our family room with big windows is about the closest I can get to that.

ryan clermont Hometown: Lincoln, N.H. Major: Politics Setting: Gas station in Beaufort, S.C. Ryan says: I have a hard time saying “No” when someone says, “Hey, you wanna…?” So when my dad and brother asked if I wanted to drive down to Florida with them to pick up the boat, I didn’t hesitate, even though I still had to submit my thesis, watch three classes’ worth of video lectures, and take the final exam for my psychology class. Four hours into the trip, I had wrapped up the final edits to my thesis and submitted it. But taking the psych final was challenging. When a tire on the boat trailer exploded, I was left wondering whether I should begin the timed exam on the side of the highway. I ended up doing the exam — and concluding my college career — from the comfort of the breakdown lane on I-95 and a hotel in Vero Beach, Fla. I had always envisioned my college experience ending in Ladd as I bound my thesis, or in P’gill as I walked out of my last exam. Sometimes things don’t go as planned, and an email and an online exam from the back seat of the truck were perfect alternatives.

maya wilson Hometown: New York City Major: Politics Setting: Amenia, N.Y. Maya says: I’ve been quarantining with another Bates student, Ben Hinton ’21, which has been nice, although I’ve been spending a lot of time outside to avoid being forced to play Magic: The Gathering. Tomorrow, as payback, I plan to make Ben do an hourlong EDM dance workout with me (he doesn’t know this yet). And being outside has been good for both of us. It is definitely comforting to hear cars on the road, or see people walking, a sweet reminder that life continues around us.

charlotte karlsen Hometown: Portland, Ore. Major: Politics and rhetoric Setting: Kitchen at home Charlotte says: I study here in the kitchen while my dad works and my mother, a nurse, trains to work with COVID-19 patients. I’m sitting in front of cookbook-filled shelves that include some favorites such as the Joy of Cooking and volumes by chef Yotam Ottolenghi, an Israeli chef. I’ve found cooking to be a source of peace in a stressful time. Although cutting short my senior year and returning home was not how I wanted to end my final year at Bates, I am lucky to have really great parents — I am not completely miserable! I talk with my Bates friends every day, holding Zoom parties, and continuing a book club with female friends where we read works by women about women our age and the transitions that occur during this time in their lives. The best thing I’ve learned during this quarantine period is that my relationships with friends and family will sustain me through a future of uncertainty. n

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Though praised for its inclusive founding by religious leaders opposed to slavery, Bates was funded early on by cotton grown by enslaved persons. With that in mind, students and faculty are working to tell a more complete story of Bates’ founding by h. jay bur ns

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, a three-masted schooner, the Kate Brigham, set sail from New Orleans loaded with 150 bales of cotton grown by slaves on Southern plantations. The cotton shipment was one of many destined for Lewiston, Maine, a small but growing mill town where entrepreneur Benjamin Bates of Boston and his fellow investors had built their first textile mill two years earlier. In its first year, the mill had netted $33,000 in profit — putting Benjamin Bates on track to become a wealthy man in the years before the Civil War. Bates readers know what comes next. Benjamin Bates and his business associates, eager to create civic institutions in Lewiston, made financial gifts

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to a new school founded in 1855 by the Rev. Oren Cheney, a Freewill Baptist leader and fervent abolitionist. A decade later, Cheney named the school, by then a college, after Bates, its principal benefactor. And from that foundation grew a college that today is rightly and widely known for its inclusive character. That founding story is familiar, but it’s not the whole story, say Bates faculty and students who are now doing academic research to better understand what it means that a Northern college like Bates was intertwined at its founding with an American economy fueled by the labor of enslaved persons. “Everyone says, ‘Bates was founded by abolitionists.’ But no one adds, ‘and funded by slave cotton,’”

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Archival material at Bates and elsewhere, including cotton invoices at Lewiston Public Library, could help students and faculty tell a fuller story of the college’s founding.

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From left, history majors Xin “Judy” Wang ’20, Eric Opoku ’20, and Annabel Mahon ’20 pore over historical documents related to Bates’ founding in Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library in 2019.

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says Perla Figuereo ’21 of the Bronx, N.Y., co-president of the Bates Student Government and a member of a course in 2019 that began a long-term, data-driven exploration of Bates’ early financial history. The founded-by-abolitionists narrative is “not necessarily false, but rather incomplete,” history major Ursula Rall ’20 told her audience during a 2020 Martin Luther King Jr. Day presentation. “It’s important to acknowledge the other part of the founding.” To be sure, up to the time of the Civil War, America was for all intents and purposes a slave economy. “Slavery was integral to our nation’s founding, our economy in the North and South, our universities, and our wealth,” says journalist and Bates history major Kristen Doerer ’14, who has reported for the Chronicle of Higher Education on how colleges have reckoned with their historical connections to the U.S. slave economy. “We can’t kid ourselves and think that because Bates is in the North and was founded by abolitionists that it was immune from slavery,” she adds. “If we view wealth from cotton and slavery as dirty money, we should know that the dirt is everywhere — even under abolitionists’ fingernails.” The digital humanities course that Figuereo took in fall 2019 was taught by Anelise Hanson Shrout, an assistant professor of digital and computational studies. Like her students, Shrout feels the imperative to humanize the college’s founding story. “For me, as a historian and as a human who lives in Lewiston and works at Bates, the story is more complicated than ‘Bates has always stood for abolition,’” Shrout says. “We have the same foundational

“Slavery was integral to our nation’s founding, our economy in the North and South, our universities, and our wealth,” says journalist and Bates history major Kristen Doerer ’14.

American sin baked into our history that much of the U.S. does.” Last fall, Shrout’s students began the painstaking work of pulling numbers from the college’s early business ledgers, held by the college’s Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library. Those ledgers record the donations, large and small, that Cheney took in, including gifts from Benjamin Bates, who gave approximately $175,000 to the college, equivalent to a few million dollars today. They also began a review of the many bundles of Bates Mill cotton invoices now held by Lewiston Public Library. It is slow work, says Shrout, who anticipates devoting future editions of her course to the project. “We’ve only scratched the surface.”

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Below: Dated June 30, 1854, this invoice indicates that cotton was shipped from New Orleans on the schooner Kate Brigham for delivery to the Bates Manufacturing Co. and Benjamin Bates.

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Associate Professor of History Joe Hall says it’s powerful for students to see a Bates connection to America’s slave economy.

Still, the individual cotton invoices are fascinating. Besides the amount and cost of the cotton shipments, they include dates, ship names, shipping routes, and wholesalers, painting a picture of how antebellum cotton made its way north. Besides the aforementioned Kate Brigham, another ship that transported cotton to the Bates Mill was the Paul Boggs, which ran aground on Cape Cod’s infamous Chatham bar two years later. And still another, the Asa Fish, built in Mystic, Conn., in 1849, also transported enslaved Africans to Cuba. Shrout says the process of creating meaning from handwritten cotton invoices promises to teach a powerful liberal arts lesson. “One of the questions we’re asking is, ‘What does it mean to produce a dataset that represents labor that was violently stolen from people?’ How do we do that ethically and thoughtfully?” In today’s world, “data is thrown around as if it is objective,” Shrout continues. “We feed tremendous amounts of data into algorithms that decide what a self-driving car sees as human or how people are policed. But data is always an artifact of some kind of human decision, so at a meta level in this class, I want students to take that away.” The basic facts of the college’s founding, both Benjamin Bates’ cotton connection and Oren Cheney’s abolitionist views, have been well-documented over the years, even as the latter narrative has, until now, received more attention. In the 1970s, Jim Leamon ’55, then a young history professor and now an emeritus member of the faculty, enlisted students to help him research Lewiston’s economic history, including Benjamin Bates’ contributions to the city’s early growth. Leamon’s research explained why Benjamin Bates’ mills prospered during the Civil War as other New England mills suffered: because Benjamin Bates gambled on a long war and “bought up huge stocks of cotton at 12 cents a pound when the struggle began,” writes Leamon. “By 1864 cotton was worth 70 cents, and a year later it was over a dollar a pound.”

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Thanks to the stockpiled cotton and government war contracts, Lewiston mill profits were “remarkable” during the war, Leamon concludes. In sharp contrast, other New England mills sold their stockpiled cotton early in the war for a quick profit, then had to pay exorbitant prices as the supply of Southern cotton dried up. In Lowell, Mass., for example, the era is dubbed “Lowell’s blunder.” It is important to note, too, that Benjamin Bates was among a group of businessmen who lent their support to the new school, including Francis Skinner, a Boston-based middleman who sold Southern cotton to Benjamin Bates’ mills and who became a college trustee. Oren Cheney’s devotion both to abolitionism and to creating a radically inclusive college have also been well-documented over the years, including by Tim Larson ’05 in his landmark senior honors thesis in history, “Faith By Their Works.” Noting that Cheney had operated a branch of the Underground Railroad in Maine prior to founding the college, Larson quotes Cheney’s own words on the topic of slavery: “We hate it — we abhor it, we loathe it — we detest and despise it as a giant sin against God, and an awful crime upon man.” Larson also notes that, in founding an inclusive college, Cheney was combating powerful social norms that “advocated for discrimination against women, African Americans, and the poor.” Despite those and other pressures, the college “held its ground” and maintained its inclusive practices. (In fact, Bates College wasn’t Cheney’s only handiwork. Well-connected politically thanks to his service in the Maine Legislature, Cheney used his influence to help found Storer College, in Harpers Ferry, W.Va., in 1865, which was dedicated to educating persons freed from slavery.) Still, Larson noted, there was the vexing question, a “contradiction” as he called it, of why an “ardent abolitionist” like Cheney would take money from industrialists like Benjamin Bates, who might be “as much to blame as Southern slave owners” for “allowing slavery to thrive.” Larson answers the question this way: “Perhaps this contradiction speaks more to the omnipresence of the slave system in American economy than to Cheney’s own shortcomings.” Fifteen years later, appreciating the urgency with which Bates students and faculty have taken up “the contradiction” requires some historical context. In 2003, Brown University started to investigate its direct historical connection to slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. A few years later, scholars and students at Harvard began a similar exploration. And in 2013, historian Craig Steven Wilder published Ebony and Ivy, which broadly explained how all of U.S. higher education in the 18th and 19th centuries, not just a few schools, capitalized in some way on America’s slave economy. With Wilder’s book, explains Joseph Hall, an as-

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sociate professor of history at Bates, “U.S. colleges no longer had to choose” whether to admit to benefiting from slavery. “Wilder demonstrated that everyone was involved, whether you liked it or not.” In addition, a new generation of scholars, including Wilder, from groups previously underrepresented in academe, including women and African Americans, are now asking new questions about American history, often through the lenses of colonialism (the subjugation of one people by and for the benefit of other people), white supremacy, and racism. “It’s hard to recognize inequality today “People are asking different kinds of questions,” when we don’t confront things that have says Hall. “And different people are involved in askhappened in our past,” says history major ing those questions.” Ke’ala Brosseau ’20. In the early 2000s at Bates, questions about the college’s historical connection to the American slave economy were cropping up in and around Bates classrooms, prompted by faculty in the history department and the Africana program, including is all about: appreciating complexity, knowing that professors Sue Houchins and now-retired Margaret there’s more than meets the eye, and being on the Creighton. (Discussions in her classroom, in part, lookout for unintended consequences. led to Larson’s Bates-focused thesis.) “The good in the world, even the good found in In recent years, faculty and students began to a place like Bates College, does not come without a move the topic front and center in their academic cost,” he says. “In the case of Bates’ founding, it was work, spurred in part by national events, including a tremendous cost in human lives.” It’s powerful, he publication of Ebony and Ivy and the emergence adds, for students to learn these lessons in a Bates of Black Lives Matter. At the same time, Bates was framework. “There’s immediacy. They can see the using its convening power to showcase a string of relevance of it because they care about Bates.” prominent speakers on race and equity in AmeriIn a way, Bates talking about its founding is like ca, including Wilder himself, who spoke at Bates in therapy: understanding our past as a means to unJanuary 2017. derstand our present. “There are these systems in During a campus Admitted Students Reception place that are unequal at Bates,” says history major in spring 2018, Hall introduced the topic in a “masKe’ala Brosseau ’20. “But it’s hard to recognize inter class” he taught for prospective Bates students. equality today when we don’t confront things that After briefing the students on the basic facts, he have happened in our past.” asked, “What’s missing from the story about Oren Brosseau’s classmate and fellow history major Cheney and Benjamin Bates?” One of the students Emma Soler ’20 wrote her honors thesis on how the replied, “There’s no African American history here.” college’s founding story speaks to campus life today. Hall says, “That was great, because he was abEchoing Brosseau, she says that without a proper solutely right.” accounting of the college’s past, the success of racial And that September, Hall, speaking to the inequity programs today “will be limited” if students coming Class of 2022 during Opening Convocation, arrive at Bates “assuming the college has no issues” used his address, “Questions for Bates,” to explore or are “oblivious of the need to look for them.” at some length the apparent contradictions of Bates’ From her perspective as a new graduate rightly founding. proud of her contributions to her For the past two semesters, college, Soler hopes that frank Hall has devoted one of the departdiscussions about the Bates’ past ment’s signature courses, “Historikeep happening and aren’t just cal Methods,” an upper-level semione and done, to be “repeated Bookending efforts to nar that prepares majors for thesis from square one” with each new better understand and work, to the question of Bates’ cohort of students. acknowledge its connection founding. During the course, he And from her perspective as to the American slave has guided students into the colan interested alumna, Kristen economy, Bates has also lege’s Muskie Archives and Special Doerer sees the value in Bates outlined recent actions to Collections Library and downtown faculty and students continuing disrupt structural racism at the college and plans to Lewiston Public Library. their exploration of the college’s to intensify those efforts. From Hall’s perspective as founding. “It says that this instia teacher and scholar, probing tution isn’t afraid to take on hard bates.edu/antiracism-update questions about Bates’ founding topics and study, examine, and are what a liberal arts education discuss them.” n

On Alumni Walk during August’s historic move-in days, Abby Ryan ’21 of Portland, Maine, asks arriving families to show the love.

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164 days With less revelry and merrymaking but perhaps an even stronger sense of purpose, Bates welcomed 1,700 students back to campus over three days in August

After an eerily quiet spring and summer on campus, it was startling, in the best way, to hear laughter, shouts of happy reunion, and snippets of conversation as students returned to campus in August. Here were new suitemates, sitting on a bench on Alumni Walk, having an early dinner and working out their living arrangement. “OK,” says one. “Let’s have a conversation now about what we do that drives anyone crazy.” There were Elysia Garza ’22 of Houston and Erick Gredonia ’21 of North Hollywood, Calif., hanging out at Garcelon Field to record a TikTok dance. And over by Ladd Library, a group of students headed toward the outdoor dining near Commons stopped to cheer as one of their classmates ended a speedy bike ride across the Quad by popping an impressive wheelie. Ah, Bates. For the first time since the campus closed on March 13 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Bates was

again filled with students, 1,700 in total. (Offered the choice to study in person or remotely, some 170 students chose the remote option.) From 8:30 a.m. on Aug. 25 to 8 p.m. Aug. 27, student arrivals were scheduled and spaced out like a subway schedule. There was less revelry and merrymaking than usual during move-in, as families were allowed but a brief window of time for drop-offs and goodbyes. But, perhaps, there was a stronger sense of purpose, as Bates reopened with myriad COVID-19 protocols — universal masking, twice-weekly testing, social distancing, limited extracurriculars. As Nellie Breen ’21 of Pasadena, Calif., said, “We all so want to be here. We’re going to do everything we can in order to stay.” Featuring principal photography by Phyllis Graber Jensen and reporting by Bates Communications staffers Jay Burns, Dave Ernst, Aaron Morse, and Mary Pols, here’s what the three-day reopening looked like, hour by hour.

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“Where do I stand?” asks Harris Manganiello ’21 of Collegeville, Pa., first in line at the Bates Testing Center, a repurposed Underhill Arena, on the first day of arrivals. Luckily, that question has been anticipated: spray-painted squares, the familiar distance of 6 feet apart, tell students how and where to queue up for the first of their semester-long COVID-19 testing. “I’m nervous to see how it goes,” he says. Afterward, he declares the test to be “easy.” And it felt good, he adds, to get a feel for the process which will play such a big part of every student’s fall rouine. “I know how part of this will go for the rest of the semester.” In terms of putting a plan into action, Day 1 of testing is “like the first game of the season,” says Nick Cooke, surveying the scene as students arrive.

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Until this summer, Cooke wore one Bates hat, as assistant athletic director for athletic performance. Over the summer, with the announcement of the college’s plans for reopening, he added another: director of the new Bates College Testing Center at Underhill Arena, which will test all students twice weekly. For testing kits and test processing, Bates has contracted with the Clinical Research Sequencing Platform at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. “The message that I’m giving to our staff is that students will be anxious because it’s a brush with the unknown,” Cooke says. “It’s our job to guide them from the unknown to the known.”

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Throughout campus, faculty and staff are working in various capacities — most that are vastly different from their usual day jobs — to help explain and guide the new move-in routine.

Eileen Messina is a member of the College Advancement staff who usually spends her days dealing with data. Today, she’s under a tent outside the Testing Center, where, as each student exits, she places a color-coded band on their wrist. Here, she places one on Carlos Gonzalez ’24 of San Salvador, El Salvador. The color indicates the day the student arrived and was tested (Aug. 25, 26, or 27) and provides access to Dash takeout meals. Students also receive a goodie bag that contains a thermometer and two Bates-branded masks. Nearby, athletic trainer Andrew England sits at a table. His job is to ask each arriving student a series of COVID-19 screening questions. Over three days, he estimates asking the questions “probably 1,500 times.” But it’s worth it, he says, to start the semester off right. “It takes a village. It takes a team effort.”

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With indoor communal dining not possible due to publichealth measures, Bates designed a so-called Dash program for grab ‘n’ go meals. During the first week back, students picked up their Dash meals at a large tent next to Garcelon Field. After that, Gray Cage or Commons were the two pick-up sites. “I did the math,” says Director of Dining Cheryl Lacey, standing behind a stack of Ster-

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no cans that she needs to keep food warm in the many chafing dishes set up in the dining tent next to Garcelon Field. “I’ve got 28 cases of Sterno, 72 cans per case.” Those 2,016 cans should last a total of 4,000 hours.

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“At the end of the day, despite no football, it’s exciting to welcome our Bobcats back to campus because we still have each other,” says head football

coach Malik Hall as he poses outside Kalperis Hall, dollies at the ready, with Vice President for College Advancement Sarah Pearson ’75.

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The college’s public health protocols require that people stay 6 feet away from one another. That rule led to move-in scenes like this, as returning students greet one another with a proximate hug.

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I0:42am A residence coordinator at Hacker House, Chidubem Umeh ’22 of Randolph, Mass., poses for a photo after picking up his to-go Dash lunch. The brunch menu includes veggie subs; a Bobcat bistro salad of mixed greens, sliced cucumbers, grape tomatoes, celery, and shredded carrots; Mediterranean beef salad; and breakfast sandwiches.

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As a student rubs her hands with sanitizer, Vice President for Finance and Administration and Treasurer Geoffrey Swift points the way to the Bates Testing Center entrance. After testing in Underhill, students walk across the way to Merrill Gym for final check-in.

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Molly Newton ’11, associate dean of students for residence life and health education, scoots across Franklin Street as she checks in at various residences.

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Ridge Kelly ’23 of Bremen, Maine, moves a couch into his residence at Chu Hall.

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There isn’t the usual move-in levity of past years, but Bobcats will be Bobcats. Orientation week leaders Jackie Tam ’22 of Gardena, Calif., and Aaliyah Black ’22 of Auburn, N.H., greet students and families in front of Wentworth Adams Hall.

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Sydney Phan ’24 of Zion, Ill., gives a goodbye hug to sister Kay, 10, as their mother Wendy prepares to head out.

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The eyes have it: Greeting students and families outside Parker Hall, College Advancement staff member Meghan Getz Metzger ’07 flashes a smile with her eyes.

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On hand to greet students and parents, President Clayton Spencer, her reflection seen in a mirror, speaks with Dave Griffin as his daughter Molly Griffin ’24 of Holden, Mass., moves into Parker Hall on Alumni Walk.

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David Allen Jr. ’24 of Dorchester, Mass., hugs his nephew, Kendan, as he moves into Parker. It was a particularly tough year for families dropping off their first-year students: As part of move-in protocols, parents and family members could not enter residences and engage in the ritual of helping to set up their children’s rooms.

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Julia and Rene Dumont stand at the curb, watching movers unload the possessions of their twins, Austin ’21 and Noah ’21, and whisk them into 280 College. The Dumonts haven’t come far (they live in Auburn), but this is the end of a long journey for them. The twins are the youngest of their five children, so this is the last of many college drop-offs for the couple. “That was the 20th,” Rene says as he closes his car trunk. “We’re going to celebrate quickly — and hopefully not see them until Thanksgiving,” Julia adds. Rene says he’s been reflecting on something President Spencer said during one of the informational webinars for families, about how college is full of quiet joys. “And that resonates for us,” he says, because their family tends to be introverted. “So hopefully, this can be a time for those who like things a little more quiet.” Austin reappears, looking pleasantly surprised. “That was so easy,” he says. Noah emerges from the other side of 280 a minute later and they pose for one last drop-off day picture and a hug. Home may be close by, but “this is their world,” Rene says.

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From the front steps of Page Hall, Campbell McKendry ’24 of Katonah, N.Y., waves goodbye as her family drives off. One of the first people that McKendry met at Bates was Nellie Breen ’21 of Pasadena, Calif. As a residence coordinator, Breen helps create a sense of community among the Page residents; during move-in, being an RC also means holding the door open for first-years and workers hired this year to help haul gear from vehicles to rooms. Breen says that she was eight and a half months into a junior year in Seville, Spain, when the pandemic hit, so she’s been

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At Page Hall, Nathan Huynh ’23 of San Diego likes what he sees, including the ducks of Lake Andrews. Perhaps due to more walkers at the Puddle during the pandemic, and thus perhaps more duck feeding, Lake Andrews’ raft of ducks numbers well over 100.

Huynh is a junior advisor, helping first-years feel supported and welcomed. Like most returning students, he has not seen the campus since mid-March, when the college moved to remote learning due to COVID-19. And it looks quite different. “The trees are green, the grass is tall, and the weather is warm,” Huynh says. “It’s perfect. My favorite part about being on campus is just walking around. So yeah, I’ve been stretching my legs a little bit.” What else? “Just interacting with people again. And also the ducks. I really missed the ducks.”

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After receiving a negative COVID-19 test, Aaliyah Moore ’24 of Phoenix, Ariz., is able to leave her residence and explore the campus for the first time. She takes a closer look at one of the memorial benches around the pond, this one dedicated to the memory of Benton Randall Lyster III ’04. She says she’s particularly interested in the wildlife — ducks, herons, squirrels, the occasional osprey diving for fish — and eagerly imagined what Lake Andrews would look like when frozen over. She has never seen snow fall. n

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class vice-president Beverly Young Howard 9415 Ashley Drive Weeki Wachee FL 34613 Bud Horne is living year round with son David at the Chautauqua Institution in New York state. He reports that his running days are over, but he’s still walking a lot. “Last year, as my swan song, I won my class and got the Young at Heart award as the oldest runner.”

1950 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 Who, What, Where, When? Send your Bates news, photos, story ideas, comments, tips, and solutions to magazine@bates.edu.

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1940 class secretary Leonard Clough leonard.clough@yahoo.com Leonard Clough turned 100 in February. “Happy living with my third wife in a senior residence in West Hartford, Conn. Would like to hear from other members of the Class of 1940.”

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

1945 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 class secretary Carleton Finch cfinch612@gmail.com

1946 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Helen Pratt Clarkson hpclarkson7@gmail.com class president/treasurer Jane Parsons Norris janenorris@roadrunner.com Helen Pratt Clarkson writes that after 30 winters in Arizona, she’s experienced her first summer and monsoon season in Green Valley. She’s doing well with the help of friends and neighbors. She loves to read, and continues to make quilts for Project Linus, and turned 95 in August....Dorothy Strout Cole reports that the 17th floor at Westminster Towers in Orlando is “fine for the winter but back to Harpswell for the summer can’t be beat. I’m doing well — have a glitch in my hitch so am wedded to a walker and scooter. All eight grands plus a step-grand and their spouses are healthy and employed. A bit scary with three doctors and two

nurses on the front lines. Jack ’47, who was the inspiration for his grandsons, would have been right in the middle of it, too. That’s all for this year, stay safe and wash your hands!”

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Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary/treasurer Jean Labagh Kiskaddon jean.kiskaddon@gmail.com class president Vesta Starrett Smith vestasmith@charter.net Ruth Barba Nussbaum turned 97 last March, “and this is my first effort to communicate! Shame on me because I think lovingly about Bates so often and have been a faithful contributor these many years.” Financial aid and campus jobs, in the library and as a waitress, “made it possible for me to attain my dream — not an easy thing for women to do at that time and during the war.” Ruth went to graduate school, became a school psychologist, married, had three children, and was a community volunteer. “Thank you, Bates. I hope my spent life has been worthy of your trust in me.”

1948 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 “Life at 93 is challenging and meaningful,” Jeanne Anderson Parsley writes from her assisted living facility in Essex Junction, Vt. “While I balk at the COVID-19 restrictions, I’m feeling safe and wonderfully cared for. I keep busy with good books, too many computer games, the online New York Times, several Zoom groups (including one from my UU church for which I write frequent session guides), a current-events group, and a weekly family get-together. I am working as hard as I can to support Black Lives Matter.”

1949 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretary Carol Jenkinson Johnson rollincarol@comcast.net

class president Wes Bonney wbonney@maine.rr.com Frankie Curry Kerr has moved into assisted living in Matthews, N.C. “Many adjustments.”...Within two weeks in February, Faith Seiple Herbert lost her Bates roommate, Jeanne Pieroway Piccirillo, and her husband, Morris “Herb” Herbert. “As you can imagine, it’s been hard to accept two losses so close together.” A West Point grad, Herb had a 29year active-duty career followed by three decades of civilian service to the military academy. “We are still receiving notes from so many friends whose lives Herb affected as teacher, sports counselor, and military friend.” Living in Washington, D.C., she is fortunate to have two daughters nearby, and a son in Colorado. “The wonders of Skype, now that I am very hard of hearing, are a great blessing.”...In Hempstead, Texas, David Turell was still sheltering from COVID in August, “with careful excursions out to shop — always masking and hand-sanitizing. Wife and I are fine, but physically I am slowing more than I like.”

1951 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class presidents Bill Dill wmrdill@gmail.com Jean McLeod Dill class vice presidents Melissa Barbeau wbarb@cox.net Wilfred Barbeau wbarb@cox.net The class is sad to report the passing of Jane Seaman Wilson on Aug. 14. Our condolences to Bob and their family. Her obituary will be in the spring issue....Jim Anderson is sad to report that Lucile passed away after 68 years of marriage. He lives in a senior living facility and has “no other news to report because 92-year-old people don’t generate much news.”... Betty Kinney Faella and Tony welcomed four great-grandchildren in 2020. She’s hopeful for an in-person 70th Reunion in 2021.... Jim Vetrano and Ginger Buhl

Vetrano ’54 report that they’re healthy, with no COVID-19 cases at their retirement complex in Kennewick, Wash. “We walk a lot and see family once in a while — at a distance. Zoom is great for a whole-family get-together every other week.”

1952 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Marilyn Coffin Brown mcbrown13@verizon.net class president John Myers johnmyers52@comcast.net Web Brockelman writes, “Old age has put limitations on extensive travel and outdoor sports,” but he and Jennie Lou are very well and hope the same for all members of the class.… Carolyn Carlson Leys has moved to an assisted living facility in Minnesota but still spends time at her cottage in Rhode Island, where she hosts an annual Bates mini-gathering.…Marilyn Coffin Brown is happy to be driving again following a knee replacement. “I still volunteer at my library and local museum and attend Women’s Club and a book club.”…Florence Dixon Prince continues to do well at Heritage in Falmouth, Maine, taking part in activities, going out to lunch, and visiting the beach with family and friends.…Ruth and Lee Faulkner ’51 write, “Like most of us, we now live vicariously through the lives of children and grandchildren.”…Eugene Harley and Constance moved to a retirement community in Austell, Ga. They look forward to 2022’s Reunion.… Carol Hollingsworth Collins is in good health, although she no longer travels to the U.S. Her son has retired and spends time with her in Brazil.…Nate and Harriet Howell Boone “are enjoying each day as it comes and goes, thankful to still be together in beautiful Vermont.”…Paul Koehn spent winter 2020 in Naples, Fla., and enjoys reminiscing about Bates and chemistry professors Lawrance and Mabee.… Charlotte Meyer Martin enjoys keeping up with college news and former classmates. She lives in a retirement community in Raleigh, N.C., and stays active with water aerobics, book clubs, volunteering, and summering in Northfield, Mass. She even has a puppy to keep her busy.…John Myers stays active going to the gym three times a week, having breakfast with “the boys” twice a week, and reading (with his cat for company).…Austin and Rosella Wilcox Rich have lived in a continuing-care facility in Pennsylvania for 14 years. Both had knees replaced last year.… Edwin Swain and Eleanor moved from Georgia to John Knox Village in Florida, where Eleanor still plays tennis and Ed is still golfing. Ed enjoys gardening both in Florida and during summer visits to Maine.…Mason Taber lives in Needham, Mass., and keeps busy with trustee work and

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1953 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 class secretary Ronald “Ron” Clayton rondot@comcast.net class presidents Ginnie Toner vatoner207@gmail.com Richard F. Coughlin dcoughlin@maine.rr.com Jean Chapman Neely has been “hunkered down in my home of 40 years hoping the pandemic doesn’t claim me. I speak on the phone from time to time with Bev Bragdon Borden and Cynthia Eaves Hamilton — each at opposite ends of the Eastern Seaboard, Florida and New Hampshire.” Recently, the Potomac Valley Audubon Society named a building in Jean’s honor. Congrats!…Charles Fischer is social distancing by spending more time in the garden, playing golf a couple times a week, reading lots of books, and doing crosswords: “I am on my 188th Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle.”…Donald Peck just turned 90, but “I feel more like 50 — and am a prisoner of COVID. Still doing a little lecturing in the sciences. (Trying to stamp out scientific illiteracy!)”…“Still in Pembroke, Mass., in our own home,” reports Richard West, “keeping the home fires burning with a lot of help. Our oldest son and his family live right next door and they keep us in touch with the younger generations. They are a blessing, especially during this pandemic.”

1954 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretary/treasurer Jonas Klein joklein@maine.rr.com class president Dwight Harvie dwightwharvie@gmail.com “Who were those masked men?” asks Jonas Klein. They were class officers Klein and Dwight Harvie, once again able to enjoy their delayed, “socially distanced” lunches after months of coronavirus concern.…Lynn and Bev Willsey ’55 enthusiastically enjoyed their regular Vermont summer visit with close family and friends.…Coronavirus concerns had Sumner Kagan and Judy extend their winter-into-spring stay in their Florida condo.…All are saddened by the passing of very good friends Bob Sharaf and Gerry “Red Top” Tompkins.

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a current-events program at the senior center. He is “in reasonably good health and just renewed my driver’s license. Always a call for celebration.”…Eleanor Wolf Watt lost her husband, Jim, in 2019, and remembers fondly how he enjoyed attending Bates Reunions with her. She’s keeping busy with water aerobics, bridge, and Women’s Club events.

Reunion 2025, June 6–8 class president Beverly Hayne Willsey stonepost@cox.net class vice-president Merton Ricker mertr33@gmail.com Three years a widower, Hal Hunter of Amissville, Va., is pleased to be in a new relationship. “Life goes on,” he says. It’s important to “keep busy and stay socially connected. Get out of the house and talk to a stranger.” Hal works with a program that connects food pantry clients with social services, including mental health and substance abuse programs.…“Another year has passed here in lovely Maine,” writes Warner Lord, of York. “We wear our masks when needed and hope for the best. I walk several hours each day and pay as little attention to my age as possible. I missed the interrupted Reunion and wish my 1955 friends the best of good health. See you at the next Reunion year.”…Reunion 2020, “as experienced virtually with COVID restrictions in place, offered good visiting time,” reports Silver Moore-Leamon. She’s glad that “many of us are still finding ways to be of service to our communities. Personally, I am investigating the depth and extent to which I benefit from white privilege — and am continually amazed that I was not aware of it!”

1956 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Fred Huber fredna56@comcast.net class presidents Alice Brooke Gollnick agollnick725@gmail.com Gail Molander Goddard acgpension@gmail.com Louise Baker Malcolm lost husband Dave in 2019 after 60 years together. Son Ben ’88 is still in South Korea, while Chris ’82 is in Portland, Maine, and Andrea is in Princeton, N.J. “Hope everybody gets out to vote!”… Brenda Buttrick Snyder writes of a recent birthday celebration with her freshman roommate Alice Brooke Gollnick: “Bates certainly provided long-lasting friendships!” Brenda and Bruce are doing well, filling days with friends, family, Red Sox/Patriots angst, politics (more angst), physical therapy for aged joints, and Jeopardy. “Have to say that Cultural Heritage is still useful when I see those questions about ancient Romans and classical artists.”…Dick Condon and Colleen are doing fine. Dick enjoyed reading To Remember Forever and comparing his own Bates experiences to those of author Gladys Hasty Carroll ’25, who wrote about her sophomore year.…Arthur Curtis walks at least a mile a day and is happy his son took over the family cottage. “Somehow, we seem to make

Blanket Statement Helen Pratt Clarkson ’46 has made thousands of quilts for Project Linus for distribution to children in hospitals, shelters, and social service agencies. A former longtime resident of Freeport, Maine, where she taught school, Clarkson has wintered in Arizona for three decades. Due to COVID-19, she had to stay put this summer. “I am experiencing my first summer and monsoon season. Life is different and very quiet with the virus so bad here. However, I am very comfortable, largely due to the help of neighbors and good friends. Thankfully I love to read, even though I do miss my book groups.” She wasn’t able to travel to Maine in August to celebrate her 95th birthday, but hopes to visit later in the year.

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In Tune At her 70th Reunion in 2019, Rachel Eastman Feeley ’49 was “so happy to see Helen Paillé ’09, one of my former piano students.” Paillé started taking piano lessons from Feeley at age 6. “Even now, in my 30s, I get a birthday card from her every year, which really says it all,” Paillé says. Still teaching piano from her home in Auburn, Feeley teaches in the Suzuki style, known for, among other things, learning by ear and steadfast encouragement by teacher to pupil. Feeley once told a local reporter that her goal is not to turn out concert pianists but help children find the “happiness, joy, and intellectual creativity within them. Music brings these out.” Paillé says Feeley’s “warmth and encouragement nurtured my self-confidence and helped me grow from a somewhat shy kid into a (relatively) self-assured young adult who actually looked forward to getting on stage and performing. Who knows, maybe that’s why I’m a lawyer!”

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decisions and don’t realize they were the right thing to do until after the fact.” Spare time is spent on family genealogy.…Diane Felt Swett is “in the shoveling-sand group,” wintering in Florida with her significant other. “Not a golfer, I enjoy long walks, time with nearby friends, catching up on reading, or just being lazy.”…Dick Hilliard retired from college teaching in his early 80s and now enjoys volunteering. He writes, “As our class sprints from being octogenarians to nonagenarians, I am reminded of what were probably the most frightening, yet most valuable, courses offered by any college: Bates’ Cultural Heritage Program! It was Archimedes who said, ‘Give me a place to stand, and I will move the world!’ I am still searching for that spot.”…Waner Holman and Darlene Hirst Holman live in a retirement community in Rexford, N.Y., near their youngest son, Kyle. They stay active with community programs including lectures, bocce, bridge, and book and music clubs. “We’re still moving,” they report. “Moving, but slower and with more rests.”…Fred Huber is still living in his New Hampshire home. “Nice part of my present existence is having my daughters and grandkids — and great-grandkids! — all nearby!” He misses his late wife, Edna, but is doing well and in touch with many Batesies.…Loe Anne Kimball Pino and Dick moved to Arizona in 2018. After health problems in 2019, she’s “back to normal — 90 mph — with a lot to catch up on.”…Alison Mann Etherton finally sold the house and moved to Wake Robin, a retirement community in Shelburne, Vt., where she and Bud enjoy speakers, concerts, activities, and interest groups. “It’s an active, enjoyable place to live.”…Bob McAfee, Doris, and their children and grandchildren are all well. As he gets older, he’s meeting “sons and daughters, as recent medical graduates, of men and women who were in my medical class. Fortunately, each has picked one of my aging systems to further their specialty training. Opinions usually come down to some iteration of, ‘You are getting older.’” Bob is still involved as a trustee emeritus of the Univ. of New England and quips that he finds time for typical octogenarian pursuits: “waterskiing, jai alai, and speed running!”…Nancy Mills Mallett writes that she and Russ still enjoy life in their retirement community, and she keeps busy on committees and in the pool. Through church, she enjoys being with young folks (“anybody under 60!”), and she and Russ still summer in New Hampshire.…Gail Molander Goddard writes, “The older I get, the harder I try to keep in touch with friends from my past,” including Diane Felt Swett and Neil and Ruth Foster Lowell. “I stay busy with bridge, our local food pantry, church activities, reading, and volunteering with the local Council on Aging.”… Rufus Oguntoye writes, “I am down with glaucoma and, worst

still, in a wheelchair. But thanks be to God, my senior son and his wife are taking care of me. Regards to everyone still alive, up, and about.”…Now retired, Frank Perham spends summers mining for minerals and gemstones in Maine’s mountains. “It is fun and I am still able to get around with my work crew. I am a happy 86-year-old and still thank Bates for all it did.”… Elise Reichert Stiles writes, “I’m busier than I’ve ever been, or maybe it takes longer to do everything than it used to.” She’s teaching and making pottery, teaching Sunday school, and enjoying two book groups.…“Glad that we are sheltering in place in rural Vermont,” writes Marcia Rosenfeld Baker of Brownsville. She’s doing lots of reading and knitting, “and, of course, taking care of my dear Bill.” She adds, “Missing the family but grateful for good neighbors who look out for us oldies.”…Pauline Sachse Lunin writes, “I have not written that consummate novel, but I do go to the YMCA five days a week.” She enjoys the pool exercises and the Silver Sneakers group for active seniors. She is a member of the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg and stays in touch with her grandkids via text and talk.…Sylvia Small Spradlin enjoys watching her five grandchildren grow to adulthood (their ages range from 20 to 27), painting watercolors, and taking advantage of the proximity of her home in New Smyrna Beach, Fla., to the ocean.… “Life is good on Peaks Island,” write Gene Taylor and Kay Dill Taylor ’58. They enjoy having Kay’s two daughters nearby on the island off Portland, Maine. Kay stays busy with horse care, church, and civic activities, while Gene reads, does crosswords, and feeds the wood stove.…Jessie Thompson Huberty writes, “It seems impossible we were in beanies and bibs 68 years ago, but I guess time does fly when you’re having fun!” She enjoys traveling.… Kirk Watson feels lucky to be in a generation that “missed the Great Depression, were mostly too young for WWII, and enjoyed a prosperous and well-to-do country for most of our lives.” He and Tracy are building a home to the size (small) and style they both want.

1957 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 secretary Margaret Leask Olney pegolney@verizon.net presidents Judith Kent Patkin actionpsj@aol.com Richard H. Pierce rhpierce52@gmail.com Doug Campbell’s son Jason writes that his dad has had a severe stroke. “He’s now at Encompass Health rehab hospital in Woburn, Mass.” The stroke has taken a physical toll, but Doug’s mind remains sharp, says Jason. “He enjoyed the Celtics’

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1959 playoff winning streak.”...Ralph Davis notes that summer 2019 blessed him and Kathy with two major events: “My beautiful granddaughter, Linnea, was married in an outdoor ceremony in Chattanooga, and we attended a weeklong Methodist retreat at the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia.” Day to day, he adds, the couple takes part in local GOP politics and golf.…Bob Drechsler is pleased to report that he and husband James “just celebrated our legal 16th wedding anniversary, having gotten married in Massachusetts the year that became possible.” After a varied career spent in Christian ministry, business management, and counseling, “I remain involved with social justice, am active in my church, read and converse a lot, and write for the historical journal of my hometown, Hardwick, Vt.”…Elvin Kaplan laments that his and Cecily’s 2019 trip to Scandinavia and Estonia, where she took part in a music festival, “is a distant memory. COVID-19 has kept us close to home, but we managed a week on Squam Lake. Over the past couple of years, I have acquired a new knee, aortic valve, and ascending aorta. Who knows what’s next.”…Judy Kent Patkin “finally retired from my job with Action for Post-Soviet Jewry” in March. COVID-19 forced the physical office to close, “and I was doing less and less, so it seemed a good time to make the break.” Bates awarded her the Benjamin E. Mays Medal for that work in 2012. “This strange life will be with us for quite a while. I miss our monthly luncheons with local classmates.”...Like Judy, Judith Larkin Sherman misses “face-to-face social gatherings,” but she compensates with “lots of Zoom. Glad we live in midcoast Maine where the virus is under reasonable control — at least for now!”…Jim McGrath writes, “Life is still good, split between Monroe, Conn., and Naples, Fla. Hope to keep it up as long as possible.”…Pepi Prince Upton moved to The Overlook retirement community in Charlton, Mass. — “a lovely, friendly place with continuing care, and lots of independent residents. And I am nearer to family, which was the deciding factor.” Pepi notes that Judy Root Wilcox is “living at Avita of Wells [Maine], and would love to hear from Batesies anytime.”…Robert Williams still divides the year between Jupiter, Fla., and Braintree, Mass.

1958 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 class secretary Marilyn Miller Gildea marilyn@gildea.com class president Peter Post postp74@gmail.com Dick Dole is “still teaching at the University of Houston Law Center and trying to answer student questions.”…Paul Gastonguay, recently diagnosed with esophageal cancer, writes,

“It is not bothering me yet, so I will do my best to enjoy every moment with my kids, three lovely grandkids, and my friends. I just thank God for having been so lucky in life.”…Dottie Hutch appreciates Oakland’s lovely summer weather (fog), which makes for comfortable temperatures on her walks.…Norm Jason plays golf with George Adams. “My oldest grandson’s planned large family-affair June wedding became a streamed private wedding. Seeing it on the computer was a blessing, but it would have been so nice to have had the family together on that day. I and my scattered family are all healthy and trying hard to remain safe.”…Colleen Jenkins Huckabee spent five weeks with family at the Maine camp that she and the late Bill Huckabee have co-owned since 1989 with Jo Trogler Reynolds and Grant Reynolds ’57 and Kay Dill Taylor and Gene ’56. Says Coe, “Once under the pines and the spell of the pond, the angst of the pandemic faded considerably. After two weeks of quarantine we were free to interact in normal family ways, including hugs!” Jo adds, “Our daughters decreed that it wasn’t safe for the old folks to be there alone, so they and their spouses joined us — a delightful turn of events, since we have been there alone for the last 15 years.” In Vermont, Jo says that staying safe at home wasn’t too confining: “Grant takes us on dirt-road rambles in the Vermont countryside, which he knows well but is strange territory to me. We have been watching the Metropolitan Opera streaming operas almost every night — a virtual free class in opera appreciation.”…Alan Kaplan reports from Rockville, Md., that “management at our senior community has been very protective, with meals delivered to our apartments. Although there are no activities, we do have Comcast, Netflix, Hulu, and inhouse TV with movies and other programs. We Zoom with our family on a regular basis. All in all, life is as good as one could expect in a pandemic.”…Tom King and Dar bade farewell to tennis and moved to a senior residence near Sacramento. Tom continues to experience all the joy of living despite his fourth-stage cancer, thanks to Zytiga. Dar’s surgery for a fractured hip has placed her in rehab under the best possible care, that of her long-experienced and loving daughter.… Marilyn Miller Gildea has been cleaning out file drawers so her children won’t have to, and writing stories for a “grandma’s memories” book. StoryWorth. com is sending her a question a week for a year, and she emails back her responses. At the end of the year the stories will be compiled in a book, and Molly will have copies printed for all the grandchildren….Donald Moses reports that he and Sally Dean Moses ’60 have moved to the shores of Lake Champlain, where “the coronavirus is minimal, but we still follow the safety rules.”

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Clark Whelton ’59 as a Bates senior, two years after his brush with H2N2 influenza.

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takeaway: Different eras prompt different pandemic responses In an essay in New York City’s City Journal, Clark Whelton ’59 compared his recollections of the 1957–58 influenza pandemic, which he experienced at Bates, to what’s transpiring now. In October 1957 at Bates, “I spent a week in my college infirmary with a case of the H2N2 virus. My fever spiked to 105, and I was sicker than I’d ever been.” But life went on — everywhere. “The day that I was discharged from the infirmary, I played in an intercollegiate soccer game, which drew a big crowd.” Looking back, “Why weren’t we more active in fighting this contagion? In short, why weren’t we more afraid?” The U.S. death toll from the 1957–58 pandemic is pegged at around 100,000. Perhaps, he says, it was a more fatalistic era. “Growing up meant running an unavoidable gauntlet of infectious disease,” including dreaded polio. “You had to go out and face the danger.”

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They fish, cook, read, and relax outdoors with friends, and “I still have a small psychiatry practice, by phone, to keep my mind from going soft.” Son Erik ’83 and family are also in Vermont, but in the Stratton Mountain area.…Peter Post writes, “Jane continues to struggle, so I have made the decision to move to a continuing care facility in Massachusetts. My daughter and son both live about an hour away, so I will have a lot of help. No one has volunteered to be our class fundraiser, so I guess I am still it. It does keep me in touch with our classmates.”

1959 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretaries Jack DeGange jack.degange@comcast.net Mary Ann Houston Hermance donmar23@gmail.com class president Anita Kastner Hotchkiss, Esq. ahotchkiss@goldbergsegalla.com Jerry Davis gmdavis@maine.rr.com Jack DeGange reflects on life during COVID-19: “Face masks have become attire du jour. ‘Social distancing’ means six feet. Wash your hands…often. Which had greater value: an ounce of gold or six squares of toilet paper? The price for a gallon of gas plummeted (then bounced back a bit) but it didn’t matter because the car may as well have been on blocks. We don’t have to worry about home schooling and economic impact payments — but we do, because we’re worried about our kids and grandkids and how their lives are being turned upside down as much or more than ours.” Jack urges classmates to keep smiling. Behind a mask.…Rosalyn Scudder Harrold writes: “Ray and I very much miss Vicky Daniels Aberhart and our weekly onehour updates. We are keeping her husband, John, involved in all our family gatherings.” An obituary for Vicky, who passed away in December 2019, appears in this issue. Rosalyn adds, “Our oldest granddaughter graduated with highest honors from Worcester Academy and is attending Tufts.”…For Barbara Smith McIntosh and Ken, too, this is “a quiet time, staying healthy, wearing masks, and hand-washing! We do miss interaction with friends, but participate in outside activities that can be done by social distancing.”…Jay Tanzer and Lois have seen their parttime work truncated by location closures, but feel lucky to be staying home in Connecticut. “We mask for all activities and think a lot about our son who is an ER physician and our daughter who works in a COVID-19–active city.” They are filling time with reading, British TV series, and hopes for the future….Last fall, after 26 years in Pittsburgh, the Rev. Calvin Wilson and Beth moved to the Maine town of Lisbon. “We are only five miles from Bates, 20 minutes from our son

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Benjamin and family, 45 minutes from former roommate Budge Walen, and a frequent telephone call from former roommate Cliff Lawrence. What an unparalleled delight to be back among pine trees, lighthouses, blue skies, and crisp winter mornings.”

1960 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 class secretary Louise Hjelm Davidson l.davidson@sbcglobal.net class president Dean Skelley dskelley@satx.rr.com For Sandra Folcik Levine in Mansfield, Mass., staying safe at home yielded the “best vegetable garden ever! It is only about 30 by 30, but I turned over every square inch by hand, started seeds indoors, planned each row carefully so I could grow a second crop when the first was done, covered the whole thing in thick straw, and I am beginning to enjoy the bountiful harvest. Here — have this bunch of radishes! I’ve paid particular attention to all my backyard wildlife: wild turkeys, chipmunks, squirrels, a huge raven marauding a hawk’s nest for the chick; a red hawk dive-bombing a chipmunk; and goldfinches chewing holes in my large Swiss chard leaves. What I haven’t seen are two of my sons and their families since February. I miss their voices, their enthusiasm, and most of all, their touch and hugs!”...Stephen Hotchkiss submitted his book, Essentials of Macroeconomics with Moral Commentary, for publication. “COVID-19 kept me on task,” he says. “Wish me well!”...M. Patricia Morse says, “It was a wonderful surprise to be selected as a ‘Fellow in Sigma Xi’” after her long history with the organization, even serving as national president in 1989.…Still teaching at 83, Dr. Edward Stiles reports that for his institution, the Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Univ. of Pikesville, the new school year will be “a totally new educational challenge due to COVID-19 restrictions.” He returned to precepting residents at the college for the summer after eight weeks away. On the familial front, “Our first great-grandchild is due in October.”

1961 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Gretchen Shorter Davis norxloon@aol.com class presidents Mary Morton Cowan mmcowan@gwi.net Richard “Dick” Watkins rwatkcapt@aol.com Alan Cate wrote from Bradenton, Fla., in August, “Yesterday was the first time we have ventured off our property to check out the beach scene for a little refreshment. Due to crowded

beaches and little masking, we ended up taking our picnic to St. Petersburg, to an empty park that looks out over the harbor and the local airport where we could watch the planes and boats. Mae and I are healthy and happy and work to keep it that way in spite of the doldrums from self-isolation and vexing attitude of most people who do not care if they propagate COVID-19 to other people. Through this all, let’s bring the Bates cheeriness to everyone and let’s conduct ourselves with pride and decency to all.”… Mary Morton Cowan and Carl Cowan have moved to a retirement community in Cumberland, Maine. Mary recently had four articles published in Cobblestone, a history magazine for young readers…. Jerry and Gretchen Shorter Davis enjoyed spending more time than usual at their camp near Millinocket, Maine, last summer….“We remain in splendid isolation in Maine,” says Jack Simmons, noting that COVID-19 makes it unlikely that he and Margo will winter in Florida. They’re not too isolated, though, to be active supporters of a U.S. Senate candidate who’s married to one of Jack’s partners at the Berman & Simmons law firm.... Carol Smith enjoyed a preCOVID visit to New Zealand to see son Alex Robertson ’95 and Erin Schaaf Robertson ’95, who were there during their worldwide trip. “The most fun was a kayak trip down the river where they filmed the barrel scene in The Hobbit.” Carol enjoys living in Boulder, close to daughter May Robertson ’94….“Just set a personal record,” Channing Wagg writes from Boxborough, Mass. “Have now seen every episode of Law & Order, twice!”

1962 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Cynthia Kalber Nordstrom cindyknordstrom@gmail.com class vice-secretary Carolyn Nelson lynnelson10@gmail.com class president Edmund J. Wilson ed-wilson@kellogg.northwestern. edu class vice-president David Boone doboone@peoplepc.com class historian Janice Moreshead janmoreshead@myfairpoint.net The class is saddened by the passing, on Aug. 23, of Sally Larson Carignan, widow of Jim ’61. Our thoughts go out to her family, including their daughter, Sarah Carignan Belanger ’95, and her brother, Lee Larson ’59. Watch for her obituary in the next issue….Sara Ault Fasciano continues to enjoy a life of calm and routine, with occasional trips to Wayne, Maine, to visit friends and family. She visited campus in February and is looking forward

to the 60th Reunion....Becky Bishop Meyers is enjoying the year “of the big Eight Zero,” which she celebrated in September, and getting in visits with daughters Jessica and Rachel and their children. “I’m loving all of it, from the relative safety of grandmotherhood!”…Ann Bowman Scholl is working two part-time jobs and thinks she’ll work as long as she can. Free time goes to charity knitting that’s sent all over the world, while Stan is also still working and doing green-energy research….Linda “Toni” Cannizzo Berger and Mike canceled their climb of Mount Kilimanjaro. “Instead, we have tried to grow older gracefully.” They continue to enjoy their grandchildren and their 1890s Cape Cod house in Lewes, Del….Venturing forth from Santa Barbara pre-COVID, Tony Cherot and Jeanne enjoyed a trip to Sydney, Scotland, and the Caribbean, as well as their annual month in Kauai. Tony had an interesting assignment as a jury foreman, and after recovering from a hip replacement, plans to get back into tennis….Barbara Crowell Fairbanks reports “another healthy and full year, for which we are most grateful.” She enjoyed time in South Carolina, Massachusetts, and West Virginia, as well as a Caribbean cruise with extra nights in San Juan, where she enjoyed “the only rain forest in the U.S. park system and bioluminescence by kayak.”…Jean Cushman Holt reports good health with “nothing having to be taken out or replaced (yet).” Still in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, she looks forward to more grandkids attending Bates (in addition to Jordan Wilson ’23)…. From Connecticut, Tom Day reports some bad news, as Linda Eichorn Day ’64 was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He asks all to keep her in our prayers…. Sandy Doubleday DeCosta writes, “Our pop-up continues to give us much pleasure, as we traveled across the country last year.” Highlights: the national forests, Idaho, and following the Oregon Trail whenever possible…. Hannelore Flessa Jarausch is enjoying retirement by teaching ESL as a volunteer at the Orange County Literacy Council and guiding monthly conversations at a French table at the Univ. of North Carolina. Husband Konrad is recovering well from a triple bypass….Sharon Fowler Kenrick enjoyed a visit from Rachel Harper Garcelon in Florida, where they visited museums and enjoyed Palm Beach. Meanwhile, Rae reports that on a 2019 mission trip to Texas, she witnessed asylum seekers arriving “after an arduous trek across Central America. They were not coming illegally, but were trying to escape brutal conditions in their home countries.”…Nancy Goldthwaite Leech writes, “Life is fairly simple these days, making quilts, playing guitar, and writing bits of memoir.”…Carroll Goodlatte Zeuli remembers the Bates Outing Club fondly as it celebrates 100 years. She enjoyed an early 2020 visit with her daughter Dawn and

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brother Bob….From Richmond, Va., Bruce Gray reports that wife K-Ann (Katherine Ann Lowther ’60) suffered a stroke but is receiving excellent care and hopeful for a good recovery.… Peter Green is still throwing pots at Portland [Maine] Pottery and shooting pool at Union Station Billiards, but notes “looming knee replacements will curtail things for a while.”…Van and Janet Miller Judd have been recuperating from Janet’s several leg surgeries. Van retired from volunteer EMS work near his 80th birthday, writing, “Most of my patients were on the floor or on the ground, and both seemed to be getting further away.”…Cindy Kalber Nordstrom has spent the past year navigating medication situations and enjoying watching her grandsons grow up, including Finn, 4-year-old son of Keith ’93….Dave Kramer has retired from 31 years in the U.S. Air Force and lives in Nobleboro, Maine, with Vivian working out of Newark as an international flight attendant….Emily Leadbetter Althausen and Alex have lived in Reno since 2018, “surrounded by gorgeous mountains and nights of brilliant moon and stars.” She gets out to exercise every morning and plays mahjongg on Tuesdays…. Nick Maistrellis and Judy have enjoyed off-season trips to Mount Desert Island and Wyoming, and hope to add Greece to the list. They add that daughter Emily ’08 continues research as a senior program officer at Columbia….In Newport Beach, Calif., Sally Marshall Corngold has taken on the role of caregiver for her husband but is still keeping up on yoga, Pilates, and volunteering at the local environmental center….Art Millett feels “lucky to have survived” after flunking out of Bates. He went on to serve three years in the Marines and graduated from the Univ. of Maine. He and Sylvia have been married since 1965….Lori Otto Gloede writes, “Nothing is really new under the sun, but I always look forward to reading what everyone is doing.”… Pete Schuyler works part time as a guardian ad litem, making many visits to family court. The job is “a real eye-opener.” Life is good and busy with volunteering and family….Rob Scofield enjoys visiting places like Hawaii, Mexico, and Spain, as well as destinations in the continental U.S. He volunteers on church committees and with the U.S. Naval Academy admissions office….Joy Scott Meyer and husband Allen are enjoying retirement and good health in Virginia and are “delighted to have family near.” They take Lifelong Learning Institute classes…. Living in Boynton Beach, Fla., Dr. Coralie Shaw has enjoyed seeing Bates friends Karlene Belcher Smith, Ricky Hanloser Kliem, and Cindy Kalber Nordstrom…. Sandy Smith Boynton enjoyed grandchildren graduating from high school and college, summer visits to New Hampshire, and trips to Hawaii and Japan. “A special delight is being part of the babysitting team that is caring for our youngest grandson, born nine

weeks early but thankfully thriving now.”…Dr. Alfonse Squitieri gave a well-received paper to a group of 200 fellow urologists and was presented with a 50-year award for service….Looking at 2020 politics, Paul and Carol Long Steele ’63 quote poet Tony Hoagland: “If you aren’t learning, you have not been paying attention. If you have nothing to say, it is because your heart is closed.”… Gray Thompson is an emeritus professor of geology at the Univ. of Montana, having retired about 15 years ago. He continues to conduct geology and go rock climbing, making trips between home in Montana and the Mexican border….Lyn Webber Nelson and Bob are living in a continuing care facility. The transition was hard, but their new setting reminds her of dorm living. “How did this happen, anyhow, when we were just throwing Frisbees around campus and hanging out in the Den about a week ago?”…Ed Wilson and Jean “are aging well and keeping busy” in Glenview, Ill., and enjoyed a spring trip to Florida….Carol Young Washer is working at the National Library of Medicine. “We added the coronavirus and COVID-19 to our terms as soon as it started to be a serious matter, rather than at the end of the year when we usually add new terms. You can find information on MEDLINE, accessible to everyone now.”… Linda Zeilstra Kellom is “aging in place” on Hilton Head Island rather than moving to a retirement community. She’s active in the World Affairs Council and the Hilton Head Symphony.

1963 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 class secretary Natalie Hosford nataliemoir@netflash.net class president Bill Holt wholt@maine.rr.com class historian Dorothy Stone dottie@stone-stonect.com Linda Antoun Miller and David spent a week in Amsterdam in May 2019, where they visited the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum. They enjoy walking, backgammon, cribbage, and monthly volunteering at their local food pantry….John Farr and wife Elvis miss New England even after 14 years in North Carolina. Last year found them on a mission trip to the Amazon where they shared the story of Jesus and completed a bucket-list swim, limbs intact, with piranhas….June Gustafson “Gussie” Munro sends greetings from Harrisonburg, Va. “We’re sheltering in place safely! Managed a reunion of our sons and families recently — quite a feat. Will do another in November.”… From Placentia, Calif., Eugenia Hathaway reports that COVID-19 “hasn’t greatly impacted most of my activities: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute classes via

Zoom, and outdoor doubles tennis where it’s possible to maintain distance.” Her mini camper, converted from a Nissan cargo van, makes it possible to keep camping, hiking, and biking.… Francis Hoctor Dorr misses her late husband, but finds the adult community she lives in to be a comfort. She’s still painting and doing crafts, and enjoys connecting with her daughters, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren in the Midwest and back East…. Peter Koch and Debbie purchased a house on Hilton Head Island, S.C., and plan to winter (mostly) there and summer in Vermont. Peter still teaches skiing but may give it up to focus on golf and biking….Bill and Jean Holt ’62 are enjoying their Cape Elizabeth, Maine, vineyard (and its wine) and celebrating granddaughter Alanna’s graduation from Bowdoin.….David and Natalie Shober Hosford celebrated their first wedding anniversary in 2019 after a years-long email correspondence. They each lost spouses in 2017 and bonded through “the unspeakable tragedy we had experienced.” They live in New Marlboro, Mass., “a perfect place to slow down and savor the good fortune we enjoy.”… Margie Lord King and Phil King ’64 spend three seasons in Moultonborough, N.H., and winter in Bonita Springs, Fla. Margie took up golf along with Phil and they also enjoy tennis and pickleball with kids and grandkids….Living in San Jose, writes Bill LaVallee, “we are blessed with many hiking trails, including a number of them in the redwoods near Skyline Drive in the Santa Cruz Mountains. I have been able to walk and sometimes run on a local high school track, still hoping to compete in Masters track events.” He adds, “My son Matthew retired from the Marines as a major last month after 20 years, which included four tours in Iraq.”… As Richard Love points out, “You never want to hear medical experts refer to your case as ‘fascinating’ — meaning they haven’t seen it before.” Being treated for the return of MDS, a syndrome of blood and bone disorders, he’s “still hanging in there.” Unable to ski in Colorado last winter because of the pandemic, he and Lois remained in Calabasas, Calif. He’s restoring a 1952 Morgan automobile. “Without something to do I would have gone crazy.”… Jack McPartland took his Bates degree to Montana State, where he earned a graduate degree in meteorology; he worked with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the National Park Service until retirement. His wife, Bonnie, whom he met in Montana and had two daughters with, died last May….“After swearing I would not get another dog,” writes Judith Outten Badavas, “the only news is that I adopted Mia,” a 4-yearold, 7-pound, mostly Yorkshire from a hoarding situation. “She is cute and challenging. She gives me a much-needed focus.” Well, there’s a bit of other news: “I spent 11 weeks in Cyprus with my daughter and family and came

home to quarantine.”…Debbie Peterson Mawhinney misses her son and grandchildren since their move to Charlotte, N.C., and seeks Batesies there who would like to get together when she’s visiting them….Jim and Marion Schanz Ratcliff love life in their Sun City community, where Marion recovered from spine surgery in 2019. They hope to continue their tour of all 50 states — they have only five to go….Now based in Tennessee, Butch Sampson and Marti flew to Israel in February for a pilgrimage “tracing the steps of the Canaanites from 3,000 B.C. to the footsteps of Jesus in the first century A.D.” They were baptized at the pool in the Jordan River near where Jesus was baptized and call the trip “one of the most meaningful journeys of our lives.”…Dr. Alan and Anna Poehler Schmierer are enjoying their new mountain view: the east side of the Huachucas in Hereford, Ariz. Avid birdwatchers, they’ve enjoyed two adventures to Hawaii where, with a guide, they saw 11 of the most endangered birds in the world….Al Seelig took a cruise last year on the schooner Mary Day out of Camden, Maine, and is enjoying helping a friend edit his book about the Civil War…. Shirley Snow Nicolai and Frank found a helicopter ride, dogsledding, and snowshoeing to be highlights of a family vacation in the Canadian Rockies last year. Shirley is a leader in horticultural organizations….George and Dottie Selden Stone report that 2019 was “a graduation year” — they celebrated graduations of three grandsons (college, high school, and middle school). The year also took them to Patagonia and its glaciers, mountains, and “constant wind sweeping over the seemingly endless plains.”… Arlene Wignall Nickerson and Nick are living in a mixed-use development in Scarborough, Maine, called The Downs. They are “focused on living simply, keeping healthy, being kind, and reconnecting with friends and family…I am letting go of the ways I thought my life would unfold. Being grateful. Seeking peace.”

1964 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretary-treasurer John Meyn jemkpmeyn@aol.com class assistant secretary-treasurer Rhoda Silverberg rhodaeric@att.net class president Gretchen Ziegler gretchenz958@gmail.com class vice-presidents Joan Andren dixmont258@gmail.com Richard Andren dixmont258@gmail.com class historian Dorothy Harris dotharriswi@gmail.com

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“What happened to my life on the East Coast?!” asks Beverly “Becky” Beckwith Walsh — rhetorically. “It is related to where children choose to settle!” She has sold her Indiana home and is preparing to sell her place on Bainbridge Island, Wash., prior to joining an independent-living retirement community in Gig Harbor. “Life is changing!”…Last year, Dave Campbell “enjoyed several days with Dick and Joan Spruill Andren in Dixmont, Maine, and got a flavor of what field biology is about. But the year’s highlight “was the wedding ceremony for our daughter Hannah on the cliffs of Cabrillo National Monument, outside San Diego, overlooking the Pacific. What an honor to ‘officiate’ at the weddings of both our daughters.”...Kevin Gallagher has moved to Nashua, N.H. “Definitely like escaping Massachusetts taxes.” He spent seven weeks of summer in isolation with his godson’s mother and family....Tongue in cheek, Ron Green reports the outcome of his neurological consult and cognitive recognition test. “Thrilled to announce the department believes I am a very stable genius. Fooled ’em again. Rebecca, my local daughter, agrees with her mother — I can’t remember a damn thing.”…John Holt celebrated “our 10th summer on Bar Island in the middle of Blue Hill Bay off the coast of Mount Desert Island…I am grateful for my health, the health of my four children and five grandchildren, and the beauty of Maine.”…Living in Friendship, Maine, John Meyn and a neighbor each year build two observation blinds destined for the islands where the National Audubon Society is restoring puffin populations. “I am the designated painter,” writes John, who adds, “My other hobbies are somewhat feeble. Let it be said, I spend the first half of the morning on the computer correcting mistakes I made yesterday and the second half of the morning making mistakes for tomorrow.”… Jon Olsen visited his son in Hawaii in April. While there, he caught up with old (“in both senses”) friends and attended a solemn commemoration of the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii, in 1893. Back in Jefferson, Maine, Jon has enjoyed summer visits from his daughter, her kids, and his former wife and still good friend, Lilia. They have been “helping with the bumper crop of organic high-bush blueberries.”… Alan and Sandy Prohl Williams are “fine — pretty much sheltered in our retirement community of Stoneridge Creek in Pleasanton, Calif.,” Sandy writes. “We have been able to see our son and family in their back yard in Oakland for cookouts and visit with other family and friends via Zoom.”… Margaret S. “Gretchen” Ziegler keeps a professional eye on an academic aspect of the pandemic. “For most of my 25 years at Franklin Pierce College, I was responsible for getting the seniors where they were supposed to be on time,” notes this former professor of business administration.

“So watching the many ways high schools and colleges restructured their graduations has been a delight!”

1965 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 class secretary Evelyn “Evie” Horton ehhorton@me.com class president Joyce Mantyla joycemantyla@gmail.com vice-presidents Newton Clark newtonclark@comcast.net Sam Aloisi is cautiously riding out the pandemic in Plymouth and remembering classmates, especially Peter Gomes, who died in 2011, and Jim Fine, whom we lost in July — another one of the “good guys.” (An obituary for Jim appears in this issue.) As part of this year’s restoration work on the Gomes Chapel, the brass plaque from the vestibule has been moved out to the portico to make the chapel’s full name visible.…Emily Blowen Brown lives in Minnesota near the Canadian border and enjoys gardening, canoeing, hiking, and dips in a cold clean lake….Jim Callahan was disappointed that the 55th Reunion couldn’t be in person, but keeps in touch with Bates folks as well as other friends and family by email and telephone. He hopes the pandemic will be over sooner rather than later and “we can look forward to seeing everyone in person.”…Newt and Pat Lord Clark ’67 remain sequestered in their cottage at Thornton Oaks in Brunswick, Maine. “Looking forward to a vaccine so we can travel again.”… Ralph “Tom” Day reports that COVID has changed his hobby of addressing Rotary Clubs and other service organizations. Now his talks are on Zoom and include “When Russia Took Crimea” and “Ice at the North Pole,” and no one gives him a coffee mug at the end!...Al Harvie did a solo Class of ’65 parade to celebrate their 55th Reunion on the June day they would have done it, had they had been on campus….Peter Heyel marvels that it has been almost 60 years since the Class all met, in the fall of 1961, and it was only five years ago that he compiled the 50th Reunion class book….Karen Hjelm just moved from Columbus, Ohio, to live in Massachusetts with her sister, Priscilla Sylvia ’61. “Life is very quiet and relaxing. Time to read and walk. I will miss my friends from Ohio and our sister Louise Davidson ’60.”…Leon Hurwitz reports that wife Fran has retired after 39 years at the NASA research facility in Cleveland. Their days include “early morning walks, Whole Foods deliveries, Netflix movies, FaceTime with grandchildren, caring for gardens and filling the bird feeder.”… Brynna Kaulback and Rosemary have ridden out the pandemic in their 32nd-floor apartment near the Brooklyn Bridge. They over-

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look Cadman Plaza, where much of the Black Lives Matter action occurred, and have wished they were younger and healthier so they could join the protesters…. Cynthia Keith Powers prays that the worst of COVID-19 is behind us, “but I realize that it may not be.” She has been able to remain active with walking, gardening, and hiking as well as keeping in touch with family and friends…. Joyce Mantyla is thinking of her classmates in the midst of the coronavirus. She was disappointed that the class couldn’t celebrate its 55th Reunion in person, but looks forward to seeing campus and the Gomes Chapel soon. She has stayed in Florida rather than return to NYC for the summer….Gordon McKinney has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and has undergone radiation therapy…. Karin Mueller McElvein has made more than 300 face masks. Five minutes from the Chesapeake Bay, her new co-op has a beautiful view, no yard work and wonderful neighbors. She still works two days a week for the district Methodist church office….Sally O. Smyth reports “radical changes from our March shutdown: serious decluttering. No restaurants, no meetings, no Pilates, no theater, no hotels, lots of TV news and series in the evening, reading, cleaning.”…Brad and Sue Huiskamp Wyman checked off a bucket-list tandem bike ride in Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam in 2019, followed by a Christmas trip, with son Fletcher and family, to Chile and their old Peace Corps haunts and friends. This year they’ve been self-isolating in northern New Hampshire.

1966 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class president Alexander Wood awwood@mit.edu Though long retired, Larry Brown has returned to the classroom each of the last three spring semesters to teach high school physics. Spring 2020 had “the steepest learning curve — learning to teach hands-on physics online,” he writes from South Windsor, Conn….Active at the United Church of Christ in Venice, Fla., D. Melvin “Mel” Burrowes has a new relationship, with fellow parishioner Helen Markus. Her husband died in 2018, just 10 days before Linda Bartlett Burrowes ’67. Mel adds that he has “returned to the folk singing I shared with Charlie Love on campus….The old lyrics come back pretty easily, but learning new songs seems to be much harder labor!” Mel remains connected to the “K-8’s,” the eight brave classmates who hiked Katahdin the week before their 50th Reunion, and is helping to raise pledges for the Bates Outing Club Centennial Fund….David Foster writes from Virginia that he devotes every Wednesday to building hiking

trails. It’s a tradition “started by a pediatrician whose day off was Wednesday. Since the start of COVID-19, we have continued working and it has been a most welcome anchor for me, getting me outdoors, keeping me active, and producing welcome human camaraderie.”…M. Max Steinheimer of the California law firm of Downey Brand has been selected as a 2020 Northern California Super Lawyer in the field of construction litigation. Super Lawyers recognizes attorneys distinguished by their proven talent in the practice of law.

1967 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Alexandra Baker Lyman toads@snet.net class presidents Keith C. Harvie kcharvie12@gmail.com Pamela Johnson Reynolds preynolds221@gmail.com Marty Braman Duckenfield and Kathryn Butler Carlson returned to the States from Cuba on Feb. 28, “just under the wire” pandemically speaking, as Marty reports. Their second visit to the island reminded them of the warmth, resourcefulness, and friendliness of the Cuban people, as well as the “depth of natural beauty and human culture on the island.” Also during 2020, Marty published a compilation of letters to home during her junior year abroad at Oxford. Featuring Katharine Kelley First, Kathleen Koch Smyth, and Ann Warren Turner, Blind Luck: A Year Abroad is available at Amazon. Proceeds after expenses go to charity….Joseph Iacobellis, too, has a new book, a collection of poems and art. Appearing under the nom de plume Azure, Night Train to Neptune is Iacobellis’ second book and can be found at Amazon….John Ladik has been helping granddaughter Lillian “with remote learning, kindergarten to first grade,” and working for municipal committees in Pepperell, Mass., where he lives.…In Portland, Ore., Rita Leonard was glad to see federal forces leave downtown in late July. “Where I live, across the Willamette River, everything is fine. I’m still writing for the local newspaper, The Bee, reading lots, and planting flowers.”…Linda Moyher reports that “after 43 years of managing Finca Cristina, my coffee company in Costa Rica, I am turning over daily administration to Ernie’s and my son, Ernest Carman. Pioneering organic coffee farming, running the first micro mill in Costa Rica, and habitat restoration for 342 bird species are a few of our successes. Not retiring, but I will have more time for conservation projects.”…Mac and Beth Krause Reid ’68 celebrated their 52nd anniversary in June. Mac keeps busy with the MARS Consulting Group (affiliated with the Massachusetts Assn. of Regional Schools), which he co-founded

10 years ago. “The pandemic has been both a blessing and a curse”: While he and Beth miss getting together with family, Zoom and Google Meet have spared him countless miles of driving around the Bay State for MARS meetings. And of course those apps make it easy for him and Beth to keep in touch with their many Bates friends…Lucille Sansing speaks for multitudes when she writes, “My life revolves around canceling trips, not seeing my grandson, doing all work via Zoom, getting excited when I get a delivery slot from Whole Foods, and walking in the neighborhood. Stay safe, everyone.”…Annie Warren Turner and husband Rick “are surviving the pandemic pretty well up on our hill in western Massachusetts.” Their large decks help, enabling visits from friends while maintaining social distancing. Annie gardens extensively, enjoys time with sons Ben and Char, and writes that Rick is still working as a professor at Cambridge College.

1968 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 class secretary Rick Melpignano rickmel713@gmail.com Dick Alexander and Miriam miss babysitting the grandkids, ages 5 and 8, but there’s still Zoom, as well as the occasional (socially distanced) visit. Their son is a software engineer in the Boston area, and their daughter is a hospitalist in Portland, Ore., and an accomplished photographer. Dick adds that he’s learning to play the didgeridoo. “Great instrument for someone with no musical talent as there are no notes or fingering, etc.”… Karen Konecki Goober, Joel ’70, and Gus the dog have moved to Osprey, Fla., after a lifetime in New England. “Most likely we will rent up North in the summer.”…A clinical social worker, Anne MacMillan Dolan retired July 1 from her private practice, which helped clients dealing with high-risk pregnancies, pregnancy loss, and infertility. She and Jim continue to enjoy life in Portland, Ore. She is peacefully active in the Black Lives Matter movement. A weekly Zoom has kept Anne connected with such classmates as Nancy Harris Riley, Judy Leard Nicholas, Valerie Wallace, Jane Woodcock Woodruff, and Zoom master Nancy Blackburn Rogers. “We all live in different states and compare how states are faring and what it is like to be in a ‘high-risk’ age group, as well as reading suggestions, politics, advocacy work, and life.”…Louis Weinstein is among those mourning the loss of Richard Gelles, in June, as well as Judy Gelles, who died in March. “They are always in the thoughts of our fellow classmates. I remember the great 50th Reunion in which Rich played such a great part.” An obituary will appear in the next issue.

1969 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretary Deborah Bliss Behler debbehler@aol.com class president George Peters geo47peters@gmail.com William Menke reports that he and Carol Wilbur Menke ’71 have parted after a marriage of 49 years and a professional partnership, in landscape architecture and planning, that began in 1982 and ended just a few years back. “Still living together, just on separate floors of our Swarthmore, Pa., residence.” Bill adds, “I bought a motorcycle — a big one — last week. Coincidence? You decide.”

1970 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 class secretaries Stephanie Leonard Bennett slenben@comcast.net Betsey Brown efant127@yahoo.com class president/treasurer Steve Andrick steve.andrick15@gmail.com class vice-president Barbara Hampel barbaraph@live.com The class is saddened by the passing of our past president of 30 years, Ellen Yeaton Perry, on Sept. 4, 2020. Ellen’s obituary will appear in the spring issue....Hank Ellis writes from Rochester, N.H., to send kudos to classmates for all the fine work on “our alumni yearbook. Great job.” On other fronts, “Judy and I watch our grandchildren grow, hopefully untouched by the virus. But most days bring blue skies and splendid sunsets.”…Jim Rurak writes that he and Kathy are expecting their second grandchild in January. Their first, Slater, “is a pure delight.” Jim’s book The Rosary: A Tract for Catholic Misfits has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers.…Though they did venture to Machias for a few days and walked some of Maine’s Bold Coast, Andrews Tolman writes that he and Susie Spalding Tolman ’68 “have mostly been sheltering in place in Readfield, and are thankful for Maine’s sensible response to the pandemic.” He adds, “We attended our virtual Reunion, and wish it could have been real. We did have a great time at Susie’s 50th.”... Christopher Wright explains that his “life after Bates did not follow a linear path but went from Ph.D. study at McGill to being a homesteader in upstate New York (delivering six of our seven children), to being a large-format photographer — eventually writing about, and giving presentations and workshops about, the earliest processes of photography. Have exhibited in this country as well as in Europe. I didn’t follow a linear path in order to have as interesting a living as a lifelong disabled man could have.”

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1971 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Suzanne Woods Kelley suzannekelley@att.net class president Michael Wiers mwiers@mwiers.com class vice-president Jan Face Glassman jfaceg1@hotmail.com Marcia Baxter and Jan Face Glassman want to hear from you. “It has been a highlight of every month to participate in our 50th Reunion Committee meeting and to see the bios for our yearbook. We need everyone to send in theirs now — all classmates, and any who started Bates with us in 1967 but left before graduation or graduated in 1970. Send it to Bates1971ReunionYearbook@ gmail.com, and join our private Facebook group ‘Bates Class of ’71 50th Reunion.’ We look forward to seeing everyone on campus next June!” Polly Hubbell Gosselin’s COVID-safe Zoom chats with the 1967 Chase House Quad have revealed captivating facts. Who, for example, might be the “two serious world travelers” among Polly, Alice Grant Shepherd, Micca Andrzejak Gray ’70, and Roberta Kriger Walcutt, along with Kathy Brown ’70? “I will leave this as a puzzle for those who knew the five of us,” says Polly. In any case, “It’s good to fill in the blanks of the last 50 years, and laugh together again.”…Richard Lutz regrets that “the pandemic meant Jim Burke and I had to postpone sailing last summer to St Kilda Island, 40 miles off Scotland.”

1972 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Steven H. Mortimer stevenhmortimer@gmail.com class president Wayne V. Loosigian wloosigian@gmail.com Sue Bates Ahnrud joined the Medical Reserve Corps of Rhode Island’s Disaster Medical Assistance Team. She has spent her “deployment” processing donated PPE for distribution to healthcare facilities, as well as directing funeral home vehicles to a warehouse to pick up body bags….Erik Bertelsen is interim director of college counseling at a New Hampshire boarding school. He has been diagnosed with prostate cancer but, with radiation, his prognosis is good.… Paul Bibbo is retired in Milford, Mass., after living his entire adult life in NYC. He visited Israel last year, and Georgia’s Blue Ridge Mountains this past summer. Pandemic days are spent cooking, drawing, and working on the apartment.…Manager of the Main Street Gallery in Greenville, S.C., Donn Brous is “sheltering in place like most of us” at home

in Georgia, even while the state opens up more and more. “Bad call as far as I’m concerned. I hope not to be back in the gallery anytime soon.” She finds isolation bearable: “I live in a beautiful place.”…Caroline Coleman is assistant director of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Health Communication Core. She lives in Cambridge, Mass., and was a volunteer ESL teacher until the libraries closed. Missing Allen Agnitti and Rol Risska ’73, who passed away in 2020 and 2019, respectively.…Janet Erikson Ward notes that parents at the preschool she directs “have stopped asking when we’ll open, so I think the seriousness of this pandemic has really sunk in.” She and Jim have lived in San Rafael, Calif., for 10 years….Caroline Haworth Wandle and William live in Massachusetts and are, “like everyone else, dealing with being at home 24/7.” Specifically, “our major hobbies of dog shows and lure coursing are on hold because of the virus.”…Steve Hoad reflects on his home in Maine: “I am in awe of the landforms here, the weather, the trees, fields, and wildlife.” He usually operates a food facility for the state Department of Transportation “but, of course, we are currently closed… My marriage, my children, my land, and my house are my joyful investments.”…Wendy Scher Irwin retired in 2020 after 40 years as a psychiatrist and found it very strange to say goodbye to patients via video calls.…Mike Miskin and Liz traveled from Littleton, Mass., to the U.K. for their anniversary. Now they’re doing a lot of yard work, walking, reading, and FaceTiming with family and friends. Mike finds it “strange to hear about older people being more at risk, and to realize they mean us!”…As a retiree of five years and rural resident, Peter S. Morgan Jr.finds “pandemic isolation is not a major change,” but does worry about everyone’s well-being in many ways.…Steve Mortimer “retired just in time to stay at home by decree!” He goes hiking daily or to the beach (good preparation for moving to a log home in Raymond, Maine). “Can’t wait for Alice to retire!”….John and Paula Nadeau Rand are celebrating 47 years of marriage and still living in Massachusetts. An essential worker, Paula goes to the AstraZeneca research facility in Waltham two days a week and otherwise works from home. Pre-pandemic, John logged about 7,800 miles on his third annual “Escape from Winter” RV tour.… Mike Schwartz has been “working hard but not productively,” helping healthcare providers find masks and test kits. “Between the time I find a million masks and the client giving me the go-ahead to purchase, someone else buys them!” Wife Janine was seeing speech-therapy patients until the pandemic worsened, but has returned to writing children’s books….In Springfield, Mass., Homa Shirazi retired unsuccessfully — resuming parttime work only six weeks later. (But then the pandemic hit.) She

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walks an hour a day and has felt less hip pain as a result. “Looking forward to seeing the light at the end of this long, dark virus tunnel.”…Don Smith and Lucy are happy to have “a governor who acted quickly and put the state into quarantine.” Still, New Mexico has seen a significant impact, especially in the Navajo nation.…Roy and Carolyn Travis Standing ’73 are “observing stayat-home orders, trying to live our best lives, finding enjoyment in the little things, and listening to the scientists.” They’re also gardening and savoring the fresh produce.…For Mike Touloumtzis and Paula Foresman ’71, this year has fulfilled the Yiddish proverb “Mann tracht, un Gott lacht” (Man plans and God laughs). Mike planned “to run seven marathons to mark my 70th year,” but the races were canceled, one by one. In 2020 quilt-maker Paula “came out of retirement” to make hundreds of very stylish face masks.…In Dallas, Louise Weber was laid off in February and “stepped right into the Twilight Zone,” with husband Larry taking over the home office when his company sent everyone home to work. Her mom is “on lockdown” in her assisted living facility, but they FaceTime and she is doing well. “I have picked up a calligraphy pen for the first time in five years. Creating art — the best escape!”...Bob Winston and Deb Fulham-Winston ’74 remain hunkered down in Carlisle, Pa.…John Zakian, who can’t envision ever retiring, is still chief resilience officer and disaster resilience grant program manager for Minot, N.D. “I never fathomed that my disaster recovery training would be tested by such an incident as a pandemic.”

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great-grandchild for Elizabeth Dyer Haskell ’49.”…Sally Johnson Aseltine retired after 32 years as dean of student services at Coe-Brown Northwood Academy. She’s enjoying “home improvements, gardening, and most of all, spending time with seven grandchildren.”…Charlie Maddaus is happily retired in Sumner, Maine, and has released a memoir, The Crossing: Searching for My Baltic German Ancestry and Discovering Latvia. Find it at Amazon.…Dorrie Mitchell is taking advantage of the pandemic lull. “Not distracted by theater rehearsals, choir, and vacation, I’m doing household projects that have been on my list for years.” But she and Dana do attend theater-related webinars regularly.…Ira Waldman just completed two years of service as the American Bar Assn. adviser to a national Uniform Law Commission committee that drafted a Uniform Easement Relocation Act. The act was adopted by the ULC and will be available for enactment by the states by the end of 2020….At 69, Mike Wilson is still self-employed as a sporting goods manufacturer rep, even as COVID-related retail disruptions have kept him off the road since March 6. “Email, phone, and Zoom are my new best friends.” He and Cynthia made the family rounds this summer: They visited daughter Sarah Wilson ’06, wife Kristen Fries Wilson ’07, and their twins; hosted son Zach ’08 and daughter-in-law Allegra Timperi Wilson ’08 and their boys; and hosted Alex ’02, wife Robin and their girls.

1974 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretary Tina Psalidas Lamson tinal2@mac.com

class secretary Kaylee Masury kmasury@yahoo.com

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Julia Bartlett Reuter and James ’75 are still working part-time, with Jim taking architectural jobs and Julia doing bookkeeping at home….Lindsay Bates retired in 2018 after 40 years as senior minister for the Unitarian Universalist Society of Geneva, Ill. She writes, “Now I’m a Reiki Master Teacher with a part-time practice….My rational side insists that Reiki is the silliest damn thing I’ve ever gotten involved in. But I’ve been practicing for more than 20 years, and the results keep me devoted to ‘being Reiki.’”…For Ron and Jan Neugebauer Brown, “one of the best things about all the work we’ve done on our house is the rebuilt porch to enjoy as we stay home. Online meetings with the Wilton (N.H.) Democratic Committee and library board are more enjoyable with a background of birds, frogs, barking dogs, and the occasional rumble of thunder. Sadly, we won’t be working at any llama shows this fall, but we’re looking forward to 2021”…Cindi

Julio Elorriaga-Gonzalez is living in quarantine in Viña del Mar, Chile. “Hoping national health and economic crises are solved in one way or another...with plenty of faith and God Christ Jesus in my heart.”...Dr. Marshall Hansen still volunteers to see patients one day a week in a free clinic, and otherwise “enjoys growing garlic here in southern Minnesota.”…The Rev. Mark Harris and wife Andrea retired to Owls Head, Maine, in 2019 after nearly 30 years of serving the First Parish of Watertown, Mass. His second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Unitarian Universalism was a 2019 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title….Franklin Haskell reports that he and Joan Faella Haskell ’74 are settling into retirement on Cape Cod. Their first grandchild, Wesley Michael Foster, arrived last January — “another

Byrkit is still in Auburn, across the river from the Bates campus, but moved to a new home in early 2020 and hasn’t “ventured too far since….I’m grateful that our family camp is only about a mile from home, so when I need a change of scenery I go there!”... Sally Coole Connolly published Navigating Glioblastoma: A Caregiver’s Perspective in July. Available at Amazon, the book “recounts my life as the primary support for my husband Peter during his three-year stint with brain cancer.”…Paul Erickson writes: “As a volunteer with Plummer Youth Promise in Salem, Mass., I’m having a lot of fun making a video to help place a young man from Myanmar (Burma) with a family who can help him develop his life skills.”… Cindy Mildram Foster took her Hymer Aktiv Class B camper van to visit friends and places around her home state of Maine. “Next year, trips to other states will be back on the agenda.”... Bern Heath and Deb retired last January. “I truly loved my 19-plus years as CEO of Axis Health System, but found, somewhat to my surprise, that retirement is wonderful as well.” Keeping him busy are house projects and their 2-year old border collie, Misty. “Life in the mountains of southwest Colorado could not be better and we count ourselves very fortunate.”...Peter and Ellen Brown Hollis have mostly hung out at home in Hillsborough, N.C., during the pandemic. They, their children, and grandchildren are all healthy, and “all who want them still have jobs! Trips to our house in the White Mountains keep us sane.”

1975 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 class secretaries Deborah Jasak Deborahjasak@gmail.com Faith Minard minardblatt@gmail.com class presidents Susan Bourgault Akie susieakie@gmail.com Janet Haines jbh580@aol.com Paul Elsesser and Kathy have moved to San Marcos, in southern California, after 26 years in Chicagoland. “This puts me about as far away from Bates as I can be in the Lower 48, but as proven by our virtual class Reunion, I can still participate in the greater Bates community,” says Paul….Janet Haines is being wry when she says, “There is so much to share!” Most of her friends have retired, but she’s still working for the city of Cambridge, Mass., as a housing planner. “I am working from home during a pandemic,” she says. “I can only be thankful I have not yet downsized to a four-room condo somewhere and that my job has allowed me to work from home this long. I have a yard I am using for the first time in years.” She adds “I was happy to see all the

people who were able to join the Zoom Reunion.”…Newly settled in Wakefield, R.I., after 20-some years in Warwick, Gary Richardson and Mary are pleased to announce “the opening of a new 30-bbl brewery in Exeter by son Matthew and his wife, Kara.” The state’s first farm brewery, Tilted Barn “will more than double their brewing capacity. (And to think it all began with six cases of beer brewed for our 25th Reunion.)”…Louise Rutland is “settling into life as hermit on the hill in my new house in southern Vermont. Looking forward to hosting the Wilson House crew in more-social times.”…Sandra Shea retired in 2019 after 30 years teaching at Southern Illinois Univ. School of Medicine. “I’ve had both knees replaced in the last year and while I can’t say the process was fun, it was worth it. Looking forward to returning to gardening and hiking.” She adds that pleasures of retirement include “looking at the clock at 6:15 a.m., my former get-up time, then smiling and rolling over to go back to sleep....I fill my days with photography, writing, and friends, and tracking my nieces.”…Marty Welbourn Freeman and John have been pleased to host Sarah, their younger daughter. “I’m soaking up the unexpected opportunity to cook and hike with her.” Marty has been studying Russian, learning to row, and volunteering for the UU Fellowship.…Nancy and Jon Young are still enjoying retirement in Seneca, S.C. “Even amidst COVID we have traveled to Washington state and New England to visit our two daughters and four grandchildren. We also snuck in a family trip to Greece in early March.”

1976 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Jeff Helm bateslax@gmail.com class president Bruce Campbell brucec@maine.rr.com Linda Hermans and Rich Goldman, along with Leo the Labradoodle, “moved into our beautiful rebuilt home in Dresden, Maine, on Halloween 2019,” writes Linda. “Two weeks later our twin grandchildren were born in Oakland, Calif.” So they’ve been looking forward to a monthlong cross-country trip to visit family — and maybe “a beloved Batesie along the way!” Rich can practice law from home, and Linda, a physician, is “still grateful to be at HealthReach Community Health in these uncertain times.”…Claudia Turner’s second book, a political thriller called The Scions of Atlantis, was a “Best Suspense” finalist for the 2020 Silver Falchion award by the organization Killer Nashville. “Thanks to all my Bates buddies for their kind words and votes!”

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1977 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Steve Hadge schmuddy@yahoo.com class president Keith Taylor drkeithtaylor@msn.com Shea Dimock Lassiter, formerly known as Lisa, looks back to 2015 as “a pretty remarkable year!” She retired that January, married Stephen in May, and then he retired in June. “Since then we have built a new house, bought a new fifth-wheel RV, and become snowbirds enjoying Wyoming summers and Arizona winters.... It doesn’t get better than that!”... Joel Feingold has engaged a writer to create the book for his musical about reggae legend Peter Tosh. Joel adds, “South Florida has been hotter than the surface of the sun this summer, with COVID-19 flares on top.” At least he’s frequenting the golf course again and has worked his GHIN handicap back to 16.7, en route to his old 12….From Minnesota, Kate Flom reports “quite a few changes.” Husband Malcolm Reid succumbed to COVID-19 in May, following nine years with frontotemporal dementia. In 2019, Kate had downsized to a townhouse with help from Nancy Schroeter Werner, Robin Lee, Sue Fuller Wright, and Sue’s husband Dave — “not a Batesie, but he could be.” Kate spent summer 2020 biking, kayaking, boating, and hanging out with her dog.…James Geitz and wife Frances live in New Jersey, “a tough location for the coronavirus. We know up to two dozen people that contracted the virus, but no one died of it.” Feeling good after a hip replacement, he continues to work as an investment advisor and broker, though Frances has retired. They’re awaiting the arrival of their second grandchild. Jim adds, “I miss Jeff Brown,” who passed away last year.…Steve Hadge continues to enjoy semi-retirement as a part-time ELL tutor. “Finished up the school year tutoring, via computer, one of my students who was stranded in India.”…For John Howe, “retirement is on hold.” He serves as chair of education for M&A Source, an association of merger and acquisition professionals, and does company sales through his firm Business Transition Strategies. Living in Center Sandwich, N.H., he’s “also enjoying time with five grandchildren and wife of 41 years, Fran.”…Claudio Iida is “still happily living in Southern California with my wife, Mary F. Kelly. A food scientist for many years, have been involved in the food and nutraceutical industries all along.”...Turning 65 in May, Leo Jaskoski retired in accordance with his employer’s regulations. “It was an anticlimactic retirement, as the airline retired my aircraft fleet six weeks before me.” Living in Avondale, Ariz., he has turned to hiking, and flying his aerobatic plane and gliders. Post-pandemic, “I’ll be doing

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some extensive travel. Life is still a movable feast.”…Wendy Korjeff Bellows is enjoying retirement and finds that staying home in Boothbay, Maine, with Alan ’78 is no hardship. She has been oil painting and has sold some works at local galleries. Weaving, spinning, horses, and hiking take up the rest of her spare time....Charlie L’Esperance is “riding out the pandemic in Edwards, Colo.,” his home of 26 years. “Tried retiring once before and failed, so giving it another shot in September. Single now, so my plan is to spend summers here in the Rockies, and winters some place warm. Open to suggestions!”…Terry Mailliard Keyes writes, “We are still in California and I’m a golf widow — not a bad thing because it keeps Bob ’74 happy. Spending a lot of time in the country where it’s easy to social distance.”...Dervilla McCann is now fully retired from clinical cardiology, but consulting for causes and businesses she cares about. “The freedom that comes from leaving the confines of an office is exhilarating.” Working with Paul Marks ’83, she has distributed masks in the state of Maine to first responders, immigrant groups, behavioral health residential centers, and the state Department of Corrections…. Dr. Marybeth Pope Salama and Guy are “still hunkered down in Pittsburgh, though we share a ‘bubble’ with our kids and grandkids in Rochester, N.Y., from time to time. I’ve started COVID-tracking for the Medical Reserve Corps and hope it makes a difference.”…Dan Quinn will be retiring to Smith Mountain Lake, Va., after working for 42 years. Plans include managing a 200acre wildlife farm, more hunting and fishing, and “enjoying more time with my lifetime partner Renee Beerman and our two Australian labradoodles.”….Pam Walch Constantine still works at the Stephen Phillips Memorial Scholarship Fund in Salem, Mass., which will award about $3.6 million in scholarship aid this year to low-income students — “unfortunately, a drop in the bucket need-wise,” she says. 2020 has been a tough year for higher education financial aid: “The teachers and guidance counselors we worked with were heroic in how they overcame technological issues to support their students’ applications.” She adds, “Sadly missed the spring trip to the Cape with Jane Goguen Baronas and Lynn Glover Baronas.”…Jackie Wolfe writes: “Ray and I adopted a dog belonging to my 92-year-old friend who went into assisted living just before the COVID shutdown. I speak with her on the phone at least twice a day, get her onto livestreams for church and meetings, fetch groceries, etc. I’m also a founding member of a group that supports our local Mam (indigenous Guatemalan) population while they negotiate asylum.” Living in Waldport, Ore., “we are fortunate to have lots of beautiful open space for safe distancing and natural breezes for air circulation,” perfect for tai chi, dog-walking, and kayaking.

1978 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 class secretary Chip Beckwith chipwith@yahoo.com class president Dean M. Berman deanocean@aol.com Ann Clark Tucker moved back to New England — Harwich Port, Cape Cod, specifically — from Minnesota this year, coming closer to kids and grandkids after 17 years in the Midwest. She volunteers at the local food pantry and has generously shared her Zoom skills with local nonprofits and tech-wary adults. “I hope to hear and see Bates friends, and welcome anyone in the area to get in touch.”…Rick DeBruin writes that he retired from the Portland Press Herald/ Maine Sunday Telegram just as COVID-19 was emerging in February. “Michelle and I sold our house, in Biddeford, and literally ‘bought the farm’ — River Bend Farm in Phillips.” They buy their food from nearby Riverweb Farm, run by Jos Thalheimer and his wife, Larissa Williams, associate professor of biology at Bates. “You never know where you’ll find a Bates connection!”…Mary Henderson Pressman and Ron have been in Maine since March. “We were joined in April by our daughter Emily ’10 and son-inlaw Graham Proud ’08 and their daughter Abby.” While Em and Graham have worked remotely, “Our delightful challenge is providing day care for a very active 3-year-old!” She adds, “Lots of fun sharing a Zoom catch-up with my 10-Club pals every other Monday — Jacki Alpert, Deni Auclair, Amy Gordon ’79, Sue Hannan, Melanie Parsons Paras, and Becki Hilfrank Ramsey.”… Despite a broken wrist that put a damper on summer fun, Cherie Ames Wenzel is “enjoying retirement and grateful to be living in rural Maine, especially now!” She adds, “Our nephew started at Bates this year.”

1979 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretary Mary Raftery mgraftery@gmail.com class president Patrick Murphy patrickm@paceengrs.com Sharon Bomer Lauritsen retired from the U.S. government at the end of April, ending on a high note by completing and implementing five trade agreements for the U.S. this year and last. Now she’s consulting on agricultural trade policy. Her children are thriving: Older son James is a U.S. Navy officer based in Japan; daughter Sarah helps underprivileged children in Washington, D.C., through City Year; and younger son Jesse works in finance and indulges a passion for coaching youth soccer….

Marcia Call and Lonnie Rich are hunkered down in Alexandria, Va. “My company, TalentFront, has lost two-thirds of our clients, but we continue to retain the outsourced recruiting that we do for our government-contracting clients. Our four kids are all close by. What a miracle!” She adds that once their youngest graduates from James Madison University this year, “we will be tuition-free — first time since 2000.”

1980 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 class secretary Christine Tegeler Beneman cbeneman@gmail.com class president Mary M. Martuscello mary@martuscellolaw.com “Strange times,” writes Paul Barrett. “When the pandemic became apparent, my wife, Sheryl, removed her mom from a retirement home in Albuquerque and we all relocated full time to our place in Taos. Many fewer people and less possible exposure.” He closed his aikido dojo but hopes to revive it as a nonprofit once the pandemic subsides. “Taos is quite enjoyable and relaxing,” with ample choices for outdoor recreation.…Sue Grubba Rice is still working in human resources at Entegris in Billerica, Mass., and living in Dover. “It’s a great place to run, bike, and enjoy the outside.” Her sons are working, one is married and one engaged, and her daughter is a senior at Boston College.…Janet Leary-Prowse has been promoted at ChristianaCare in Wilmington, Del. After 16 years as educator for the Institutional Review Board, she has become research education and compliance manager for the Office of Sponsored Programs. “To improve my presentation skills, I joined the hospital’s toastmasters club….Loved it so much I also joined the Running Hill Toastmasters Club in Southern Maine” — she and Spencer Prowse ’82 will move to Saco when she retires. But Spencer is already retired: “After 33 years with DuPont and then Chemours, his job was eliminated in early June.”…Boon and Elizabeth Hefferman Ooi “hunkered down in D.C. during the pandemic to be close to our kids and grandkids. With judicious planning around periods of self-quarantine, we were able to spend time with Eleanor Ooi (6), Calvin Ooi (2), and Asher Brudevooi (6 months). And sadly, in July, together with Brian Baldwin and Tim Lundergan ’79, we virtually attended the funeral Mass of our dear friend and classmate Jim Curtin.” Jim passed away on June 30. Watch for an obituary in the next issue.

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Chase Curtis was “fortunate to be sequestered on Sebago Lake from June through September with wife Robin and doggie JoJo. We were especially happy to be out of Florida this summer!” He stepped back from work to make time for his tennis game, projects around the lake house, and cooking. Chase offers words for our time: “Keep distant but well-connected.”...Paul Fons became a professor in the electronics and electrical engineering department at Keio Univ., one of Japan’s most prestigious private institutions, in April, having ended a 28-year career as chief senior researcher at a national Japanese laboratory. “It is strange to start a new job after all these years, but coronavirus restrictions make it even stranger. I had only been to my office for three days before the campus closed. It is only now opening up so I have had lots of time for paper- and grant writing.”…John Spence has been with American Institutes for Research for more than six years and has made the best of life in quarantine in Austin, Texas, with his wife J’Lane, son Noah (15), and daughter Heather (9).

1982 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Jerry Donahoe maineescape@aol.com class president Neil Jamieson neil@southernmainelaw.com Karen “K” Bolduc writes, “2020 finds me in my 32nd year of teaching science at the school level,” all but one at Lake Region High School in Naples, Maine. After losing most of her sight in 2007, she carries on “with a smile the majority of the time.” She continues to instruct and test for the Junior Maine Guide program and enjoys being with her great-grandchildren and working with the high school’s LGBTQ group….Jerry Donahoe managed to take trips to Scotland and Mexico in 2019. “Now, it’s all about staying close to home. Physical distancing. Teleworking. Attending Zoom church and coffee hour,” and appreciating the essential workers “who have risen to the occasion.”…Kelly Doubleday moved to Colorado in 2016 and “never looked back. I do not miss New England in general but do miss family, friends, and the ocean. I work for the College Board and truly appreciate my colleagues and our mission.” Making COVID constraints more bearable is the fact that where she lives “is breathtakingly beautiful, and access to healthy living is right outside the back door. That and the horses keep me sane as I raise a 14-yearold as a single mom and work full-time remotely.”...Jon Guild and son visited Jon’s sister in Bozeman, Mont., where she has lived since the 1970s. “I shot an elk, and a bison. Then my sister, her husband, and a few other

people.” But lens be serious: “I used my experience as a Bates Mirror photographer.”…Scott Hoyt believes that “this is a fun, if sad, time to be an economist. Things are changing rapidly and we have to look for new sources of information. My family and I are doing well adapting to working and schooling from home.”… Neil Jamieson and Heather took a two-week trip to Ireland and Scotland in 2019. Daughter Ainsley ’18 works for U.S. Rep. Jared Golden ’11 of Maine, while Lexie ’20 graduated virtually on May 31 with a double major in politics and Spanish. “She works for Sara Gideon’s U.S. Senate campaign and is headed (hopefully) to Malaysia on a Fulbright Fellowship in January”.…Chris Jennings and Manya are returning to their New Hampshire roots now that all three daughters have graduated college. “It was a great decade in the South, where we made some amazing friends, but we are happy to be back home in New England.” Manya took a job with Greater Seacoast Community Health, and Chris was appointed executive director at Discover New England…. In February, Richard Regan and his wife Mary attended a Deepak Chopra meditation/ yoga retreat on Amelia Island, Fla., titled “Seduction of Spirit.” They are both well on the path of enlightenment. He stays in touch with roomies Chris Scully, Jon Marcus, and Dave Arenstam (Teri, too)….Melissa Weisstuch is in a career transition, exploring opportunities with nonprofits and healthcare companies in the NYC area. She remains involved with New York Women in Communications and co-chairs the mentoring committee there. She and husband Josh enjoyed a Bates mini-Reunion in 2019 with Sue Lovett ’81, Felicia Garant, Ed Stanley ’81, and Julia Palmer in Boston….Marty Wonson Brandt has put in 12 years as a senior quality engineer with IXYS ICD in Beverly, Mass. “I have had a new poem, ‘Seasoned Grace,’ published by Shanti Arts — a small Maine publisher,” she tells us. Marty and David vacationed in Hawaii in February and celebrated her birthday at the Chebeague Island Inn in Maine…. Richard Wood enjoyed a welltimed vacation in New Mexico this year “before the full severity of the pandemic was known.” He saw Jane Farr Burns and visited the Acoma Pueblo. He writes, “Got in my first (and last) days of skiing at age 60 in Taos, and took advantage of my first senior discounts.”…Joyce White Vance teaches at the University of Alabama School of Law and provides on-air legal commentary for NBC and MSNBC. “Hoping to turn my attention to working on a book as well as some civil rights litigation and election integrity work. We’re getting in plenty of visits with our daughter Ellie ’21.” The Bates Communications Office sees plenty of Ellie, too, as she’s a valued editorial assistant.

Getting Into Gear As we all learned during the spring and summer of COVID-19, “working from home doesn’t allow for much informal interaction,” says Carolyn Campbell-McGovern ’83, deputy executive director of the Ivy League athletic conference. One antidote: Zoom staff meetings with a theme. “Favorite sports team, baby photos, pets, favorite vacation spot, etc. For this week, the theme was alma mater.” The gear reflects a rich Bates life. “The duffel bag may have been issued to me in 1982,” she says. “The Wedgwood teacup and saucer were my grandmother's — my mother bought it for her on a trip to visit her college roommate, who was from Lewiston.” Campbell-McGovern scored the hat, folio, and water bottle during her work as a volunteer. “The sweatshirt was a gift, and I bought the socks at the bookstore when I was there for Reunion last year — as a gift for my husband.”

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Glass Half Full After AARP vice president Bill Walsh ’86 was named the organization’s national coronavirus lead in March, the former print journalist was featured in dozens of TV, radio, and newspaper interviews. He also hosted AARP’s live weekly “tele-town hall” featuring a range of experts who regularly attracted 90,000 listeners. One episode addressed the topic of personal resilience during the pandemic. One of Walsh’s guests, Dr. Altha Stewart, past president of the American Psychiatric Association, acknowledged that “uncertainty, fear and anxiety will be predominant feelings that we will carry for a long time.” Still, being resilient doesn’t require eliminating stress and anxiety but instead “learning that as we go through it, we look back and continue to grow, with an active, mindful process of enduring and coping. All of us have found ourselves having to cope and adapt to some adverse event.” Resilience also means being intentional, “figuring out how to make the new kind of joy,” she said. “Just because we can’t do it the way we’ve always done it doesn’t mean we can’t do it. We’ve seen some creativity around weddings, even funerals, where people have found ways to join together in the spirit of family and unity. “There are so many things we can still do if we adapt. If we become more creative. If we began to see this as an opportunity instead of an obstacle.”

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Lisa Harvie Drew is pleased to announce that she and Reeven Elfman were married in Boston in February. “Our first date was 33 years after meeting during freshman year at Bates!”…Susan Hay Clevenger is “happily retired after nearly 34 years in public health. It was a wonderful and fulfilling career. Currently, I love being ‘Nana,’” and Susan has been eagerly awaiting a new grandson this fall. In the meantime, “I successfully grew a few veggies even in the summertime heat of Florida.”...Paul Scannell has joined the Boston law firm of Tentindo, Kendall, Canniff & Keefe as a senior attorney specializing in Bay State insurance defense law….Pauline Vashon Wilder retired after running a successful holistic nursing practice in Park City, Utah, for six years. “My husband, Oliver, and I will be on the road for a year; hiking, skiing, and exploring Montana, Idaho, and Washington,” she wrote in late July. “Already been homeless a month and enjoying every minute.”…Barbara Vickery retired from The Nature Conservancy in Maine in 2017 when her husband, Peter, died. Since then, “I have been fully absorbed with bringing Birds of Maine, a book he had worked on for several decades, to publication. The book project needed me, and I needed the book.” Scheduled for an autumn release by Princeton University Press, the book is considered the first comprehensive overview of Maine birdlife in more than seven decades.

1984 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretary Heidi Lovett blueoceanheidi@aol.com class president Linda Cohen linda@lscdesignstudio.com Ginny Addison Siegler and two of her three sons “spent a good portion of 2020 hunkering down at home and trying to be safe” in Los Angeles. Nowadays fostering a dog, renamed Bernie, from a local shelter, they hope to add him to the family permanently. Ginny has worked full time from home during the pandemic: “The mental health field has been quite busy!”…Leigh Michl has moved from Vermont to Connecticut. He writes, “After five years of fun living on the slopes of Mad River Glen ski area, it was time to return to reality and relocate to Fairfield County (during the height of the pandemic, no less). Eighty-plusday ski seasons may be a thing of

the past but Long Island Sound is a few minutes away.”…Pamela French Peek writes of children and grandchildren. “Our youngest son, Andrew, graduated from high school and is in his last year as a teenager. So proud! Nine grandchildren now, from ages 7 down to 1. So grateful! Son William is serving his first deployment overseas and Lord willing, will be home for Christmas. Thank you for your prayers.”…“Since Europe is closed to tourists now,” Artemis Preeshl writes from Louisiana, “I am walking an imaginary Camino Francés route here dedicated to the memory of George Floyd…. George Floyd, rest in power.” A member of the New Orleans board of SAG–AFTRA, she taught world drama and dance and theater on a Semester at Sea last spring. “In Hawaii, Japan, Vietnam, and Mauritius, I served as trip liaison sailing on a catamaran, rappelling down a waterfall, boating in the Mekong Delta, and meditating on a sacred Japanese mountain.”

1985 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 class secretary Elissa Bass bass.elissa@yahoo.com class president Lisa Virello virello@comcast.net Patty Monte Uy writes: “I’ve been with the American Assn. of Critical Care Nurses for 18 years, leading strategic planning and business development. Although working from home, I’m super busy supporting nurses during this pandemic.” Son Alexander graduated from Univ. of California San Diego in June, and daughter Maria has started high school — “there’s still time to turn her into a Batesie!”

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 From the Laramie River Dude Ranch, Bill Burleigh writes: “Seems like all our best-laid plans have, you know, gone awry.” Canceled were his elder son’s junior year abroad and younger son’s gap year. “First World problems, certainly,” Bill allows. “Still, I am sad that their college experiences had to suffer this way. They quarantined themselves on the ranch with us initially but then decided to move out, get jobs, and wait for their colleges to resume in-person instruction. Life seemed much simpler when we were at Bates.”…Karen Drugge Kemble and family are “doing our best to weather the pandemic up here in Bangor. Peter is a senior at the Univ. of Maine and Anna is in her second year at the

class secretary Val Kennedy brickates@gmail.com class president Erica Rowell Focusing on molecular genetics, Joshua Corrette-Bennett has taught biology at Pennsylvania’s Westminster College for nearly 20 years. “My better half, Stephanie ’88, has served as the local elementary school science instructor for the last seven years.” Their older daughter, Madeline, studies art in Baltimore, while Dove “is still experiencing the highs and lows of being a high schooler during COVID-19 quarantine.” He adds, “It was great to reconnect at our 30th Reunions,” and in particular to talk with Jim Owens about his book The World Is Just a Book Away…. Kari Heistad has launched the Diversity Dashboard, an online platform that helps diversity professionals understand, publish, and defend their work. Between the new venture and her firm Culture Coach International, Kari is “staying busy as the country grapples with race and social equity issues.”…In Concord, Mass., Erik and Susanne Morrison Jarnryd are in their 10th year of running the Bacaanda

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 Mary Capaldi Gonzales reports that last spring, “with my Cisco hat on, I was able to help my federal customers transition to working from home almost overnight.” She’s a unified communications sales specialist for the tech giant, whose products include networking and telecommunications hardware. Both houses of Congress used Cisco’s video conference technology to keep committee work running and Mary assisted the National Institutes of Health with high-level events. She adds, “My girls handled their own transitions to high school and college from home with flexibility and grace. My husband welcomed his first grandchild this spring and I am enjoying my new role as Gramma!”…Kelly Lees Ceballos has served as director of media relations for CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield since June. She took the position after nearly four years as deputy director for media relations at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services…. David McEvoy brought his younger daughter, Maria ’24, to see his first-year digs, Frye House, during a July visit.… Jay Reichgott, wife Beth, and son Solomon recently moved from Pomona, N.Y., to Tuxedo Park....

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Foundation, a nonprofit that seeks to benefit rural communities in Mexico with education and technology. “We have built or renovated 32 elementary and middle schools,” they write, and are creating an antenna infrastructure that will provide Wi-Fi to 75 isolated schools and close to 700 students….Kellie Thibodeau reports that during this surreal time, she’s fortunate to have good health and her immediate family nearby. She and Peter Senghas ’86 were thrilled, she adds, “to celebrate the graduation of son Sam from Springfield College in May. We held a mock ceremony on our front lawn with family, neighbors, and other friends providing physically distanced cheers.” It wasn’t the same as a traditional ceremony: “parking was easy!”

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Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. We expect both experiences to look quite different from last fall. We feel very lucky to be living in Maine.”…Diane Murphy Foster and husband Hutch moved to Aspen, Colo., after 20 years in Park City, Utah. For seven years city manager of Park City, Diane is now Aspen’s assistant city manager. “Getting hired via Zoom and starting a new job during the pandemic was quite an experience — and a lot easier than I thought it would be.”…Erica Seifert Plunkett spent the summer in her dining room in Holliston, Mass., working remotely, while husband Conor did likewise in his upstairs office and daughter Molly worked in the sunroom. Erica reports that they had, as of July, only one major blowup. “There were shouts, tears, laughter, and everyone made up.” Erica is still at Wellesley Centers for Women, working with University of Chicago colleagues on a study of subsyndromal depression in teens. Conor remains with the Gannett media company as an IT director, and Molly is a business immigration analyst….Beth Simermeyer writes from Eden Prairie, Minn.: “I’m living with my three teens, working at Ecolab as president of the Healthcare and Life Sciences Group. Our customers are healthcare systems and pharma companies — so managing through the pandemic has been crazy. But feeling grateful we have remained healthy.” During the summer they traveled to Maine and her hometown of Camden, a trip involving 30 hours in an RV. “We made memories — not all good.”

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A teacher of meditation, the Ven. Tenzin Dasel (Lisa Valerie Blake) writes: “Jullay, tashi delek, and warm greetings from Mother India...Sending heartfelt wishes for your happiness and with com-passion that embraces us all. Sure we shall rise to the challenges of the moment, breath by breath, step by step. Please keep looking people in the eyes softly and tenderly, for it is there that you will see the same vulnerable reflection of your own heart. Be kind to yourself, be kind to each other. Go Love.”…“All is well with me!” Laura Young reports from Durham, Maine, just down the road from Bates. Daughter Katherine graduated from the Univ. of Maine in civil engineering and is working in Boston. Daughter Megan is taking this semester off from Loyola Univ. Maryland and is working on a farm in Hawaii. Laura still enjoys her role as vice president of philanthropy at the Maine Community Foundation.

Brave Bird “Other people practice meditation,” says Traci Higgins ’91 of Upton, Mass. “I set aside a halfhour each day to let my chickens roam and my mind center.” She’s holding Ajna, a white crested black/ blue Polish rooster whose name, given by Higgins’ daughter, refers to the third eye chakra of Hindu tradition. “As a chick he had a mark that made him look like he had a third eye,” explains Higgins. Ajna (AJ for short) had a lot of personality — he’d jump onto Higgins arm when called — and knew his job. “Sometimes too well,” she says. “He did spur me once or twice. And he was respected by the flock.” The photograph was taken in Higgins’ back yard by Lauren Scheuer, the author and illustrator who wrote about raising backyard chickens in Once Upon a Flock. Sadly, AJ is now a late rooster. “He died what he would have found a deeply honorable death,” Higgins says. “He called a hawk to himself to draw its attention away from the flock.” A senior research and development associate at TERC, a nonprofit that develops innovations in STEM learning and teaching, Higgins reports that her son is a first-year at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and her daughter is a junior at Cornell. “My husband and I continue to spend much of our free time outside — gardening, foraging for wild edibles, minding the flock, and playing sports.”

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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 Brian Cullen wishes all the 2020 grads the best, especially daughter Alex, whose campus commitments included editorial work as a Communications Office assistant. Writes Brian, “In this time of COVID, it was great to expand the bubble to share Alex’s graduation with classmate Zach Farhm and his parents, Mike Farhm and Julie Englund Farhm ’91.”…Andrea Fasciano Dardis and husband Christopher “were proud to see our daughter Sara ’20 (and her cousins Andrew Fasciano ’20 and Annie Lindholm ’20) graduate!…Bates did an impressive job with the virtual ceremony, which we watched from the comfort of home.”…Ann Frenning Kossuth and James Kossuth, her husband of 16 years, have moved into her late parents’ home in Lincolnville, Maine, with their 13-year-old, Lucy. The house sits “on a hill overlooking Penobscot Bay, replete with blueberries, butterflies, and the occasional bobcat. Lucy takes the ferry to a tiny public school on Islesboro.”…Paul Guenette was promoted to director of the Division of Support Operations at New York State’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision….David “Desh” Hindle is “excited that my oldest son, Ethan ’24, has matriculated at Bates. In addition to identifying what his academic passion(s) will be, he’ll be playing soccer for Tyler Sheikh. First child in college (whoo-hoo and/or gulp)!”… Bruce Kozuma hasn’t submitted

any news in years, he admits, “so an update was in order.” He and his wife, Livia Racz, are essential workers as they’re both involved in COVID-19 response, though in different ways. She’s at MIT’s Lincoln Lab, and Bruce investigates large-scale SARS-CoV-2 detection via genetic sequencing at custom organism developer Ginkgo Bioworks. “Our main hobby, singing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood Festival Chorus, is on hiatus due to the pandemic, so our house and garden are getting lots of attention.”…Living in Pueblo, Colo., with husband Paul and son Dermot McCarthy, Orla O’Callaghan has been happy to homeschool the 13-year-old during the pandemic. “Our lives were not disrupted as muxch as others’.”… Rick Pedone continues to practice financial restructuring and bankruptcy law both in the U.S. and abroad, but “with a lot less travel lately.” He and Cheryl are avid sailors, and he competes in double-handed offshore races whenever possible….Michelle Quagge Bennett, lead buyer specialist for Keller Williams, notes that real estate is booming in Portland, Maine. Many new telecommuters are “leaving larger urban areas for the beauty and peace of Maine’s coast…I helped people all over the U.S. relocate here last summer.” She adds, “We went from empty nesters to a very full house! Our family followed the national trend and got a COVID puppy, along with having our adult children home for several months.”

1990 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 class secretary Joanne Walton joannewalton2003@yahoo.com Amy Cutler and spouse Jamie Maloney live in Marblehead, Mass. Twins Aiden and Maeve have gone to Tulane, and Declan, 13, “has all eyes on him as the only remaining child at home.” Amy and Jamie are both in telecommunications: He is chief revenue officer of U.K.-based CloudCall and she runs Blackstar Communications Group....Robert Deininger has a simple message: “Thanks to the Class of 1990 for your generosity during our 30th Reunion year. We surpassed our goal of $130,000 and made our class’s largest-ever gift. An amazing 45 percent of the class contributed.”...Bradford Ellis began his 19th year at St. Norbert College, where he is an associate professor of Spanish. The challenges of 2020 have left him “grateful for the liberal arts education I received at Bates that pushed me to think creatively and from different perspectives.” He adds, “I’m in touch, off and on, with Greg Manthei, Tim Nichols, and Clark Russell.”… Rochelle Johnson continues “to enjoy writing, teaching at The College of Idaho, raising my lovely daughter, Wren, and serving the Thoreau Society as its

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1991 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Katie Tibbetts Gates kathryntgates@gmail.com class president John Ducker jducker1@yahoo.com The Rev. Peter Carey has been ministering remotely to St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, where he’s rector, and has “become a reluctant YouTuber, having led more than 50 services online.” He, wife Lisa, and their three teenagers were glad to escape to Cape Cod for a couple of weeks. “Hoping to get to Lewiston with son Zach to see Bates!”…Christina Chiu’s 2020 novel, Beauty, is the story of an up-and-coming fashion designer “who should have it all,” writes publisher 2040 Books, “so why doesn’t she?” Chiu received the James Alan McPherson Award for the novel.…A consular officer, U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Jon Custis and his wife, Maritess, completed a Dubai tour early last year, but were caught up in COVID-19 travel restrictions. “We are stationary in Florida near our daughters while we wait for the authorization to continue to our next post, in Nassau, the Bahamas.”…Kyra Freeman completed massage school in Asheville, N.C., switching careers after 25 years as a librarian. “I am enjoying the mountains of Western North Carolina with my

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1992 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 “Hello from sunny Tucson,” writes Diane “DeDe” Agans-Alexander. For a third-grade teacher like her, COVID-19 “has been a challenge for sure,” but she used the summer to earn a real estate license and also learned to paint. Daughter Chandler attends Syracuse Univ., while son Adam and daughter Chauncey are still in high school. “Luckily, I have three unruly dogs to lean on when dealing with fires in the mountains or whatever comes next!”…Al and Kristen Downs Bruno are “doing well, staying positive, and complying with CDC recommendations in these historic times,” Al reports from Seymour, Conn. Kristen is the early childhood education coordinator for the Fairfield public schools and serves on the Seymour Board of Education. Al still practices law at a firm in Milford and is in his fifth term on the Board of Selectmen. Son Anthony is at Tufts, and daughter Katie is a high school junior….Craig D’Ambrosia and Mary proudly announce that son Matthew has become an ordained Catholic priest for the Archdiocese of Boston….Don Graumann and Laurie Plante Graumann ’90 note that daughters Emily and Abby, both ’22, “are truly loving their Bates experience, like their parents.” Watch for Don’s new book, Strategic Pause: Grow Your Personal Leadership Model…. Michael Lieber celebrated the fifth anniversary of Lieber Law Group, and during the summer brought the family from Chicago to the East Coast to see family and classmates including Al and Kristen Bruno…Ann Zomberg Majkut lives in Hopkinton, Mass., and teaches at Holliston High School. “My two boys and I are all at HHS together, but I stay hands-off and let them do their thing! I am in the midst of the college search with my oldest son, which has prompted many conversations about how much I value my Bates education.”

1993 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 class secretary Lisa A. Bousquet lisaannbousquet@gmail.com

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41st president. Grateful for good health and the salve of nature in an era of such devastation of so many kinds.”…Eric Knight has been putting his history degree to work. “In my role as commander of the Wheelmen antique bicycle club, I gave an interview on WDVR talk radio and wrote the cover story for September’s Silent Sports Magazine on the history of the bicycle.” He has wrapped up the renovation of one Philadelphia investment property and tackled a second.… Stephanie Mairs was disappointed that COVID prevented her and partner Jay’s annual trip to France. “But I have even greater appreciation for Jay, after several months in quarantine together in Seattle, and am so thankful for our urban back yard for seeing friends.”…Marnie Patterson Cochran “missed heading to Bates for our 30th, but was happy(ish) to go back at the end of August to drop not one but two kids off” — Thomas ’22 and Katherine ’24….Still in Hungary, Dan Swartz is communications and campaign manager for the Central and Eastern Europe program of the World Wildlife Federation.…“After a 20-year hiatus from the classroom,” Joanne Walton writes from Virginia, “I’m teaching special education at a Title 1 school in Fairfax County. It’s been an intense year to be a teacher, but I am so glad to be working with these amazing students and families.”

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Political satire Enter the Aardvark is wonderfully weird

takeaway: What happens when we deny our ability to love and be “Though Enter the Aardvark is certainly satire, Anthony’s depiction of...repressed sexuality cuts beneath the surface,” says a TIME review of the second novel by Jessica Anthony ’96, a lecturer in English at Bates. The novel starts with Alexander Paine Wilson, a young Republican politician, receiving a taxidermied aardvark on his doorstep. Flipping between modern-day D.C. and 19th-century England, the story follows the present-day politician Wilson as well as two 1800s English friends, all of whom have to hide the fact that they are gay. Written in the second person, Wilson’s narration reflects a “misguided obsession with how he’s perceived by others.” The obsession turns to rage, which Anthony “methodically — and hilariously — picks apart,” the review notes. “Wilson desperately wants to be someone he isn’t,” the review continues, allowing Anthony to offer a “poignant examination of what happens when we deny ourselves the ability to love and be loved.”

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class presidents Mike Charland mfc@wilkinsinvest.com Jason R. Hanley jason.hanley@wexinc.com

Blue Us Away Like many Bobcats with school-age children during the pandemic, Tim Leach ’99 put on other hats — such the ones for home-school teacher and coach — to help keep his 11-yearold son active and engaged.

Still, the hats fit a little easier in Palmer, Alaska, when “gym class” is held on “mellow whitewater creeks and mountain trails where social distancing is easy and the smiles are contagious. We are privileged to live here.” Here, he’s holding blueberries that had just ripened in Hatcher Pass. “By the time the fall magazine arrives, the mountains will be covered in snow and skiing and the election will be on our minds. Wishing you all health and strength as we navigate this brave new world.” Last November, Leach completed a master’s in energy regulation and law from the Vermont Law School and launched an energy consulting business. His day job is faciliting the Alaska Electric Vehicle Working Group for the state, researching electric vehicles and utility emissions reductions strategies for Alaska Center for Energy and Power, and developing energy programs and projects for remote Alaska communities.

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Valerie Belz Kathawala, in NYC, and Paula Redes Sidore ’94, in Germany, have teamed up transatlantically “to launch an online magazine focused on ‘German-speaking’ wines,” writes Valerie. Bates connected them; their love of wines from Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and Northern Italy gave them a mission; and now they are realizing it with trinkmag.com…. Erica Berkeley has conducted speech therapy with toddlers remotely during the pandemic — “interesting to say the least.” She’s still in Asheville, N.C., with husband Mike, 12-year-old Will, and dog Luke Skywalker, “the best-looking one in the family.”…Lisa Bousquet writes from Falmouth, Maine, that she wanted to return to golf, so she took advantage of summer’s sun and warmth and organized some games….U.S. Army Capt. Madeline Gorini writes, “The life of dual active-duty military officers has our family moving every two years.” This year’s move brought them to Fort Knox, Ky., where she and Richard serve as judge advocates. Madeline’s unit has been reactivated after seven years, providing “a tremendous learning opportunity.” She adds, “We’re especially proud of our children and how they handle our lifestyle. They show us every day what true resilience looks like!”…After 25 years on the force, Chuck Libby retired from the Portland, Maine, police department as a master sergeant in 2019. He now works in Western Maine with the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office….Kevin Moore was elected vice president of the Bates Alumni Council.

1994 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class presidents Courtney Fleisher courtney.fleisher@gmail.com Jonathan Lewis jlewjlew@mac.com Laurie Clark’s article in July’s Middlebury Magazine searches Robert Frost’s terrifying poetry for solace during these unsettling times. Titled “Sheltering in Place with Robert Frost,” the article “references my career teaching and studying English at a certain small liberal arts college in Maine,” Clark says slyly: bit.ly/ clark-frost....Jason Grant has been working at home and “has no plans to return to the office any time soon.” An editor for the critical edition of the complete works of C. P. E. Bach, he lives in Concord, Mass., with wife Gretchen and daughter Clara. He misses get-togethers with Michael Silverson, now in Florida.…The Brooklyn Eagle quoted lawyer Jaime “Jimmy” Lathrop in a look at the pandemic’s impact on Brooklyn’s legal community,

largely composed of smaller firms and solo practitioners. “I went from making 13 court appearances in four counties in five different courthouses the second week of March to binge-watching Netflix in my pajamas every day,” Lathrop said. He predicts “a tremendous backlog in court cases” once the pandemic recedes. See the article: bit.ly/lathrop-brooklyn.

1995 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 class presidents Jason Verner jcv@nbgroup.com Deborah Verner debverner@gmail.com Living with Alissa in Newberry, Fla., Dr. Carl Dragstedt is a practicing cardiologist with the North Florida VA Health System….Dr. Laike Stewart writes: “While it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and that things are out of control, I truly believe better days are ahead. I’m grateful for my health, my family — Melanie, Max and Hannah — and friends and loved ones. For the work we’re doing at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to help save children’s lives. If I could offer unsolicited advice on how to navigate these crazy times, it would be this: be kind, be patient, be human.”

1996 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class presidents Sarah Ayesha Farag ayesha.farag@gmail.com James D. Lowe jameslowemaine@yahoo.com Amy Donahue Friend’s third book was published last March by Lucky Spool Media. Petal + Stem: 40 Modern Floral Quilt Blocks to Mix-and-Match combines Amy’s love of gardening with modern, paper-pieced quilt design….Good news from New Hampshire and Abigail Gallup LePage: “After more than 20 years of loving my journey at Kimball Physics, I am honored to be promoted to president and CEO.”…Barbara Raths lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, with husband Joe Boucher and Henry, 11, and George and Jane, both 5. Barbara is a senior vice president at Camden National Bank and the bank’s international treasury specialist.

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 Rebecca Cheezum has become chair of the Public and Environmental Wellness Department at Michigan’s Oakland University, where she has taught since 2012.

class committee Douglas Beers douglas.beers@gmail.com Rob Curtis robcurtis@eatonvance.com Liam Leduc Clarke ldlc639@gmail.com

Kate Bishop is a park ranger for Maine’s Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry….Nils de Mol van Otterloo earned a doctorate in social work from the Univ. of Southern California late last year. His capstone project explored dementia-friendly communities in low- and middle-income countries. Nils heads to India early next year on a Fulbright Scholar Program award, his second....Just before the pandemic curtailed air travel, Tyler Munoz welcomed classmates to his retreat on San Juan Island, Wash., for their annual President’s Day gathering: Mike Ferrari, Rob Grossman, David Kingdon, Nate Kostoulakos, Peter Sanders, and Steve Simmons. Kingdon, still a paramedic on Maui, notes that he tunes “out the stressors by running, cycling, sailing and such, often in the good company of Roxanne Gillespie ’99 and our children Asher and Ruby. Oh, and perpetually working on ‘our old house’ — stressor or stress relief?”...Vanessa Pino Lockel is board president of New Hour for Women and Children of Long Island, a nonprofit that provides pre- and post-release services to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women.

1999 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretary Jennifer Lemkin Bouchard jennifer_bouchard@hotmail.com class president Jamie Ascenzo Trickett jamie.trickett@gmail.com From Havre, Mont., A’Llyn Ettien writes that COVID “has given us a teenager, as my niece moved in with us for the fall semester of her first year in college (not Bates, alas). It will be remote, but at least she’ll be in the same time zone as her classes.” Their guest joins A’Llyn, Nathan Meharg ’97, and 4-yearolds Malcolm and Garrett....Nate Harvey is in his third year with New Hampshire’s Department of Agriculture as the assistant state veterinarian. He’s happy to be back home after almost 18 years as a large-animal veterinarian in Pennsylvania….Jenn Lemkin Bouchard still teaches social studies at Needham (Mass.) High School, but has “embarked on a bit of a second act.” Jenn’s debut novel First Course will be published in 2021 by TouchPoint Press, and her short stories have appeared in The Bookends Review, The Penmen Review, and Litbreak Magazine. Learn more: jennbouchard.com….Julie Lundman and husband Colin welcomed identical twins Noah and Owen in September 2019, but the reception from 5-year-old sister Zoe was “mixed.” The family has moved to Yarmouth, Maine, and Julie is midwifing at

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She, husband T. J. Cusumano, and 5-year-old Ruth like to take advantage of Michigan’s great outdoors….Colby Connell is enjoying New Hampshire’s Seacoast, especially fishing from her boat, Giddy-Up. In January 2020, she ran the Key West Half Marathon as part of Team More Funner with Kerry McQuaid, Nicole Ouellette Soule, Mindy Snyder, and Heather Chichester Pettis. “We completed 13.1 miles and more than a few laps through Sloppy Joe’s. We may be old, but we can still hang.”…During his first year as head squash coach at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Pat Cosquer was named Liberty League Squash Coach of the Year as William Smith won its first conference championship since 2006, and Hobart was runner-up. He lives in Canandaigua. “Daughters Amelie, 7, and Brielle, 5, are growing up quickly, and mom Olivia is happy teaching in the Victor Central School District.”…Heather Davies Bernard states that “life in Austin is still great, even during a pandemic. Durel and I are spending quality time with Jack, 10, and Sawyer, 6, and exploring Texas state parks.” Durel works with the Capital of Texas Alzheimer’s Assn. and Heather is vice-chair of the International School of Texas Board of Trustees.…Nicole Hanover teaches and coaches at a French school near home in Arlington, Mass. With husband Conor, son Eli, and yellow Lab Angus, she’s making the best of these unprecedented times. “We have learned more about growing our own food, cooked new meals, taken hikes and bike rides, and most importantly, taken action to make a difference.”...Tatsuya Sato of New York City’s Mastering Palace won rave reviews for his work as mastering engineer on Legends Never Die, the third studio album by Juice Wrld. Released in July, seven months after the rapper’s death, Legends debuted atop the U.S. Billboard 200 with nearly half a million album-equivalent units sold in its first week….Kiersten Scarpati is on track for a doctorate in business administration at Wilmington University, while serving as a top executive at VONT Digital Marketing and Ethos Marketing in Westbrook, Maine….Writing from East Thetford, Vt., Melissa and Jamie Thaxter feel fortunate to live in a place less affected by the pandemic than some others. That said, teacher Melissa and lawyer Jamie did join the ranks of workers-from-home while David, 12, and Madeleine, 14, studied remotely. “Because summer plans were erased, we did what other families were thinking and bought a trampoline to expend our energy.”

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MaineGeneral Health….Living in southern Vermont, Maeve Ryan is marketing and communications manager at The Stoneleigh-Burnham School in Massachusetts. Maeve, Rebecca Gordon Hickey, Liz Durzy and other friends have stayed in touch via Zoom during the pandemic….Hannah Sessions and Greg Bernhardt continue to run their farm and cheese business, Blue Ledge Farm, in Vermont. “Thankfully, people seem to need good food now more than ever. It was wonderful to send cheese to so many Batesies during quarantine.” A fresh face on campus is daughter Livia Sessions Bernhardt ’24.

2000 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 class secretary Cynthia Link cynthiafriedalink@gmail.com

media outlet: Variety

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Ru Hasanov on Sarajevo Film Festival player The Island Withins

takeaway: Filmmaking, like chess, is only limited by one’s imagination A day before he was named best director at the Sarajevo Film Festival for his film The Island Within, Rufat Hasanov ’09 spoke to Variety about his work. Born and raised in Baku, Azerbaijan, Hasanov majored in theater at Bates, then “his peripatetic career took him to Lithuania and Russia before he returned to Azerbaijan in 2017 to make The Island Within, calling it a good time ‘to help make things right here in the film industry,’” notes Variety. The film is about a reluctant chess star from Azerbaijan who flees to a remote island, where he “begins to find peace of mind,” says Variety. “But with the world championship days away, it’s just a matter of time before the nationwide manhunt for the AWOL grandmaster closes in.” A self-described “chess enthusiast,” Hasanov notes that, “after the fourth move in chess, there are over a billion possibilities. I guess it’s about the same with film.”

class presidents Jennifer Glassman Jacobs jenniferellenjacobs@gmail.com Megan Shelley mhshelley@aol.com Peter Fell notes that “raising two young children has been enlightening, but doing it during a global pandemic has been one of life’s challenges. Wishing all Bobcats the best of health.”…Hawley Strait was elected by colleagues last year to the Board of Directors of Bernstein Shur, a leading New England law firm. Based in Portland, Maine, Strait belongs to the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group. His practice excellence has been recognized by Chambers USA. Strait resides in Yarmouth with wife Sarah and two sons….Nate Thomas competed in the Ironman World Championship last October, his sixth Ironman. Held in Hawaii, the race comprised a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike, and 26.2-mile run. “I wasn’t super happy with my finishing time, but it was an amazing and memorable experience,” Nate reports. Both third-grade teachers, Nate and Katie Hammond ’01 live in Bedford, Mass., with their two children….Lana Vogestad of Kittery, Maine, launched YNDI Yoga last spring, an online platform offering atmospheric yoga classes with an artful twist. Harmonizing Lana’s experiences as an artist and as a yoga teacher, YNDI combines classes and guided meditation with custom-composed soundscapes and visuals inspired by the stark beauty of Iceland — “yndi” means bliss in Icelandic. Visit www.yndiyoga.com.

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 A scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland,

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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 Charles Antin celebrated five years as a fine wine auctioneer at Zachys, and his own wine, Canaille, is in its fourth vintage. He looks forward to increased activity post-pandemic at his fundraising business, lot1.bid…. Charis Campbell Loveland has moved back to her home state and resides in Wells, Maine. She works remotely for Amazon Web Services as a business development manager in artificial intelligence….Matt Dominici and wife Megan have moved to Boston’s suburbs and are expecting their second child this fall. Matt has kept busy during the pandemic by memorizing the lines of every movie character played by the iconic Billy Zabka (The Karate Kid).... Ethan Kerr writes: “As an active white anti-racist for the last 15-plus years professionally, I’ve been inundated with calls from white liberals who are suddenly more interested in racial justice.” He is founder and principal of the Embodied Equity Project, which facilitates useful participation in the Black and Indigenous-led movement for liberation and justice. His approach is somatic, moving beyond analysis of racism “straight into our bodies and behavior — where the complex legacy of white male supremacy culture lives in us all.” Visit EmbodiedEquityProject.com.

2003 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 class presidents Kirstin Boehm kirstincboehm@gmail.com Melissa Yanagi melissayanagi@gmail.com

2004 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class presidents Eduardo Crespo eduardo.crespo.r@gmail.com Tanya Schwartz tanya.schwartz@gmail.com Living and working in Brooklyn, Hedda Burnett and Ben Schippers welcomed their second child, Willa, in 2019. Big brother Wyatt was mostly pleased with the addition. Ben is founder and CEO of software development company HappyFunCorp, and Hedda co-owns a small animal veterinary hospital.

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2005 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 class presidents Kathryn Duvall duvall.kathryn@gmail.com Melissa Geissler melissa.geissler@gmail.com Angela Knox-Pyaesone and her honorary-Bobcat husband, Aung, completed their first socially distant hike in the White Mountains….Juyoung Shim has been an assistant professor of biology at the University of Maine at Augusta since 2019. “I teach anatomy and physiology with labs, biochemistry, and pathophysiology,” she writes. “Many of my students are or will be working in healthcare clinical settings and it has been very rewarding to teach them basic science to help them advance in their careers.… Super motivated and hard-working students!”…Rob Weller and Lanie Davis welcomed their second daughter, Aila, on July 4 in Madison, Wis.

2006 class presidents Chelsea Cook chelsea.m.cook@gmail.com Katharine M. Nolan knolan06@gmail.com John Ritzo johnnyritzo@gmail.com Zack and Marie Hemmelgarn Mueller have resided in Portland, Maine, for 10 years. Zack is a hospitalist at Central Maine Medical Center and regularly welcomes current Bates students to shadow him. Marie is a litigator at Verrill Dana and a board member at the Foundation for Portland Public Schools. They have two children, Nora, 6, and Calvin, 4, and a Portuguese water dog puppy, Ruthie (short for Ruth Bader Dogsburg).

2007 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class presidents Keith Kearney kdkearney@gmail.com Rakhshan Zahid rakhshan.zahid@gmail.com George Carr, a vice president and portfolio manager at Maine wealth management firm R. M. Davis, passed the Certified Financial Planner exam last spring. George provides investment and financial planning advice and runs Davis’ annual seminar designed to help younger folks develop good financial habits. He and Molly Lanigan Carr live in Yarmouth….Claire McClintock Musto had her second child, Louisa Claire Musto, in October 2019. Son Harry Soverel Musto was born in 2018….Alexandra Penney Bowers and Charles Bowers welcomed Celine Jane into their lives in May. “Bianca is thrilled to be a big sister,” Alex reports from Portland, Ore…. Mari Wright and Will McElhinny welcomed their second

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Love and Trust A chaplain at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital, Erica Long ’12 has ministered to the hospital community, often at a distance, during a time of intense fear and suffering. She’s guided patients and families over the phone and developed new rituals of offering “Zen Dens” to staff and celebrating COVID-19 patients who come off ventilators. “My training has prepared me to draw on my faith, my beliefs, especially my belief in the transformative power of love,” Long said. “Then I get to see that love, both in how families care for patients, how nurses and doctors and the entire team care for our patients, and in the way that patients learn to care for themselves and love themselves.” An ordained Unitarian Universalist minister with a divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School, Long is also an affiliate minister at Arlington Street Church. In a recent sermon, she spoke on the theme of trust. “Without trust, none of us can, with health or integrity, work at the hospital with our patients, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.” Long reflected on a moment during her residency as a chaplain, when she felt she could not leave the side of a dying man and his family, even though her shift was over. “How could I clock out in a moment like this?” she wondered. The overnight chaplain encouraged her to go home, “to trust that he would care for my patient and his family. And I knew he was right. I needed to trust my coworker to care for this young man and his family with love, strength, and faith.” Trust makes us feel less alone and more connected. “When we trust, we believe that there is someone who is capable, honest, and worthy of being in relationship with us. Trust creates and sustains interdependence. When we trust, we free ourselves from believing that we are all alone in this life.”

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Allison Beaulieu ’13 son, Ronan Wade, last January. He joins big brother Wren. Mari and Will are enjoying life in the Bay Area.

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class presidents Elizabeth Murphy elizabeth.jayne.m@gmail.com Ali Schwartz Egelson alisonrose.schwartz@gmail.com

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Teamwork comes full circle for doctor from Swampscott

takeaway: On the court or in the hospital, it’s all about teamwork The Daily Item of Lynn, Mass., profiled Allison Beaulieu ’13, a local high school basketball champion who is now an award-winning emergency medicine physician on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis. Beaulieu, who concluded a residency at UMass Memorial Medical Center over the summer, was named Resident of the Year by the Massachusetts American College of Emergency Physicians. An All-NESCAC selection in basketball as a Bates senior, Beaulieu says her sports background has been helpful in emergency work. “It’s teamwork: nurses, doctors, respiratory therapists, and others. It’s a big team, and we work side by side every day.” Teamwork requires good communication, also vital in the pandemic, she says. Patients “are all alone. There’s no family allowed back in to see them. So what you have is family members on the other end of the telephone, and that’s how you communicate.” Beaulieu is now at Ohio State to do a fellowship in medical education.

Bryan Frates and Lisa welcomed daughter Alta Marin Frates in October 2019. Their first child, son Bodhi Frates, was born in 2018….Andrew Percy completed a residency in pediatrics at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, and started a fellowship in pediatric critical care at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia….Kristin Sahagian Scott has relocated to West Virginia, where she became an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District in April. She has since won two federal criminal trials as well as a decision at the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Scott was previously an assistant district attorney for the District Attorney’s Office, Middle District of Massachusetts.

2009 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class presidents Timothy Gay timothy.s.gay@gmail.com Arsalan Suhail arsalansuhail@gmail.com Meagan Doyle and Chris Bird married in their back yard on July 24 in the presence of their dog Daisy and their families (mostly via Zoom)….Meredith Miller Stein and Ben Stein welcomed daughter Kate Carson Stein in May. Their older daughter, Eliza, was born in 2018.

2010 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 class presidents Brianna Bakow brianna.bakow@gmail.com Vantiel Elizabeth Duncan vantielelizabeth.duncan@gmail. com Kate Doria has received an MBA from Boston University’s Questrom School of Business…. Heidi Judkins Lachapelle and Louis Lachapelle welcomed their second daughter, Margot Pierre Lachapelle, in late April. Older daughter Chloe Louise is 3.

2011 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class presidents Theodore Sutherland theodoresutherland89@gmail.com Patrick Williams patw.williams@gmail.com Diane Brackett writes that her appreciation for Maine, and New England in general, “has deepened over the years.” Hence her

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choice of Bates and Lost Valley last winter as destinations for a pre-COVID getaway she and her mother made — “it was her first time skiing in so many years!” Living in Brookline, Mass., Brackett is completing a fellowship in pediatric pathology at Boston Children’s Hospital. “My dream is to find a community-practice position as a general surgical pathologist, and to become a homeowner at last!”

2012 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class presidents Michael Pasek mikeypasek@gmail.com Sangita Murali sangitamurali12@gmail.com Casey Andersen has pursued her work as Bates’ assistant director of alumni engagement remotely while living in a Bobcat-filled home, she reports — “four Bobcats strong!” She and partner Cam Black-Ingersoll ’16 are staying with his family in New Hampshire, including Flannery Black-Ingersoll ’19 and Becky Black ’84. “We even saw a wild bobcat in the back yard.”…Joseph Ekpenyong writes that he’s “doing well, is healthy, and likely to survive COVID-19. I hope you all are doing great as well.” He teaches and directs sports at the African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg….Haley Manchester earned a doctorate in cancer biology at Harvard — “defending virtually” —and graduated with a concentration in therapeutics. “Next step: a job as a life science consultant at ClearView Healthcare Partners in Boston.”…Mikey Pasek and Estelle Winkleman married in Kennebunkport, Maine, in the presence of their immediate families. Engaged for a year, they planned the wedding in a mere two weeks when their venue of choice announced it would be opening in a COVIDsafe way. Mikey and Estelle regret not having extended family and close friends, including Batesies, at the occasion, but look forward to an in-person celebration when possible….Sam Schleipman has been working for Catholic Relief Services on rural school feeding programs in Sierra Leone, and has been planning a move to Myanmar to orchestrate a women’s livestock livelihood program…. Julia Winder and Brad Martin of Denver plan to marry in summer 2021 in Jackson Hole, Wyo.… Kathryn Wolf and Ben Horn tied the knot in 2019 in Cincinnati, happily welcoming many Bates friends to the event. This past summer, meanwhile, they adopted a dog and named him Bates “after our love of the college and the place that brought us together.”

2013 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 class presidents Ryan Sonberg rsonberg9@gmail.com Meg Murphy megan.a.murphy3@gmail.com

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2014 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class presidents Hally Bert hallybert@gmail.com Mildred “Milly” Aroko mildredaroko@gmail.com Mohdis Baker writes that after playing for and then coaching Bates women’s ultimate team, Cold Front, she, along with the team’s Josie Gillett ’19, were selected for Portland Rising, Maine’s first professional women’s team. Baker is a scientist at IDEXX Laboratories, which is supplying COVID-19 tests to the state of Maine….Danny Birkhead is doing a pediatrics residency at NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center….Natalie Shribman graduated from Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion and was ordained as a rabbi. Now living in Weston, Wis., she is the rabbi at Temple Beth El in Dubuque, Iowa, and a resident chaplain for the Mayo Clinic in Eau Claire.

2015 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 class presidents James Brissenden brissendenja@gmail.com Ben Smiley bensmiley32@gmail.com Four years after meeting through Bobcat basketball, Hillary Throckmorton and Billy Selmon got engaged in July and are planning a Maine wedding next summer.

2016 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class presidents Sally Ryerson sallyryerson@gmail.com Andre Brittis-Tannenbaum andrebt44@gmail.com It was a Great Day to Be a Bobcat on April 17 when Jack Allard left the hospital after a weeks-long fight with COVID-19. Hospitalized in New Jersey, he was placed on a ventilator, into an induced coma, and airlifted to Philadelphia for further treatment. “We need to listen to our scientists and our doctors when they give us warnings and give us guidance,” he told the media. “People my age think it’s not going to hit them and, if it does, it’s going to be a slight flu. That’s clearly not true. It took me to my knees.”…Cheyenne Cannarozzo graduated from Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine with a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree in May. She practices at Friendship Hospital for Animals in Washington, D.C…. Sunny Hong teaches Spanish at Lincoln Academy in Newcastle, Maine....Stephanie Jones is in

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her fourth year as assistant farm manager at a 13-acre organic nonprofit vegetable CSA farm outside Philadelphia….Sarah Stanley resides in southern Maine and is executive director of the Kennebunk Land Trust. Last spring, Sarah completed a master’s in environmental studies and sustainability through Unity College. She recently joined Maine Audubon’s Board of Trustees.… Alex Tritell is in a JD program at Vanderbilt Univ. Law School.

2017 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class presidents Jessie Garson jgarson4@gmail.com Matthew Baker mattdbaker13@gmail.com Melody Altschuler has received a three-year National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to support her progress towards a doctorate in clinical and developmental psychology at the Univ. of Minnesota’s Institute of Child Development….Mitchell Rider is pursuing a doctorate in marine ecology, focusing on movement patterns of coastal shark and turtle species in relationship to climate change and urbanization.

2018 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 class presidents John Thayer john.robert.thayer@gmail.com Jake Shapiro shapirojacob6@gmail.com Paige Ahlholm began studies at the Univ. of New England’s College of Osteopathic Medicine in Biddeford, Maine, in July, reports mom Kim Joseph Ahlholm ’78. A biology major, Paige was a fouryear starter for the Bates softball team. Sisters Samantha and Lauren are sophomores at Colby College and at Salve Regina Univ., respectively.

2019 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 Harry Meadows harry.meadows4@gmail.com Cara Starnbach cara@carastarnbach.com

2020 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 Priscilla Guillen pguillen@bates.edu Maya Seshan mseshan@bates.edu

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“Squash gave me the tools...to exist in the world”

takeaway: Community programs like StreetSquash instill self-advocacy The Squash news site Squash Mad reported that Rakey Drammeh ’14 gave a “show-stopping speech” during a dinner celebration for the 25th anniversary of the Squash and Education Alliance, a network that combines squash, academics, and college preparation for underresourced communities. An environmental studies major at Bates, she captained the Bobcat women’s squash team and is now a software developer at Citibank. Drammeh, whose family came to Harlem from Gambia when she was 11, talked about her experiences with StreetSquash, an SEA affiliated program in New York City. StreetSquash “introduced me to a world that I never imagined knowing or being part of,” Drammeh said in her speech. “But more than that, it gave me the tools to pick and choose my way to exist in that world at large. “StreetSquash taught me how to make choices and how to become myself as an individual in an ever complicated global environment. It taught me confidence and self-advocacy.”

Michal Cwik works at Physical Sciences Inc. in Andover, Mass., developing magnetic-field sensing devices.

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Please email your high-resolution Bates group wedding photo to magazine@bates.edu. Please identify all people and their class years, and include the wedding date, location, and any other news. Wedding photos are published in the order received.

Vlachos & Little ’08 Sarah Vlachos and Harrison Little ’08, June 29, 2019, Manchester, Vt. Left to Right: Matthew Biggart ’06, Stephen Monsulick ’07, Harrison and Sarah, Tim McCall ’08, Andrew Percy ’08. Ferguson ’14 & Karlson ’13 Tess Ferguson ’14 and Nicholas Karlson ’13, Oct. 19, 2019, New Gloucester, Maine. Front row: Scott Olehnik ’13, Robert Ferguson ’81, Katie Kirwin ’15, Kelly Yardley ’14, Becca Rosen ’14, Caroline Richards ’14, Tess & Nicholas, Allie Skaperdas ’15, David Robinson ’81, Terry Contas ’81, Taylor Gartley ’13; back row: Hank Schless ’14, Katie Nelson ’15, Ryan MacDonald ’13, James Mulholland ’13, Kevin Shaughnessy ’13, Michael Hanley ’13, Charlie Ferguson ’81, Matthew Johns ’13. Stachowski ’09 & Williams Courtney Stachowski ’09 and Zach Williams, Sept. 7, 2019, Mazza family home in Jonesport, Maine. Left to right: Liz Thompson ’09, Rachel DiStefano ’11, Megan Papineau ’09, Courtney, Maralyn Mazza ’49, Celeste Ladd ’09, Eliza O'Neil ’09, Emily Sampson ’09. Hartung ’10 & Watkins Lisa Ann Hartung ’10 and Justin Brent Watkins (UNC ’06), July 13, 2019 in Búdir, Iceland. Left to right: Erin Bougie ’07, Esther Kendall ’10, Alison Leonard ’10, Rachel Eades ’10, Lisa, Sarah Kwoh ’10, Elise Lang ’10, Ellen Schneider ’13. Collins ’13 & Bollam Larisa Collins ’13 and Sanjeev Bollam, Oct. 13, 2019, Boston, Mass. Front row: Cathering (Tuttle) Korona ’13, Elizabeth Bowling ’13, Sanjeev and Larisa; second row: Jamey Epstein ’13, Hank Geng ’13, Anna Gerngross ’13; back row: David Pless ’13, Chrissy Gee ’12, Lisa Reedich ’13.

Seri ’03 & Bookman Leora Seri ’03 and Scott Bookman (UVM ’01), Dec. 31, 2019, InterContinental, Boston, Mass. Back row: Leah Drew ’03, Sarah Keller Hvozda ’03, Liz Lawler ’03, Rachel Kellar Anderson ’06, Joel Anderson ’05, Asad Butt ’01. Front: Leora and Scott.

Ajello ’02 & Girs Jessica Ajello ’02 and Pavel Girs, April 12, 2017, Úlfljótsvatn, Iceland. Left to right: Carissa Gottlieb ’02, Julia (Richardson) Rudolph ’02, Jessica and Pavel, Juliana (Russo) Siconolfi ’02, Amy (Kinnunen) Parke ’02, Melissa Wong ’01.

Smith & Fancy ’12 Siobhan Smith (UNH ’12) and Josh Fancy ’12, Oct. 5, 2019, Meadow Ridge Farm in Winterport, Maine. Front row: Evan Moscou-Lewis ’12, Becca Bowe ’12, Siobhan and Josh, Aaron Kaplan ’12, Melinda Higgons ’12; back row: Jeff Berry ’12, Colin Etnire ’12, Stefan Lyons ’13, Will Colony ’12, Erik Barth ’12, August Felix ’11, Dylan Hannum ’12, Eric Fancy.

O’Connell ’13 & Woelfel ’13 Taryn O’Connell ’13 and Jonathan Woelfel ’13, Sept. 28, 2019, William Allen Farm in Pownal, Maine. Front row: Hannah Neinaber ’13, Valerie Jarvis ’13, Taryn & Jonathan, Jennifer Brown ’13, Mikayla Foster ’13, Laura Maxx ’13, Maria Ravoulis ’12, Colleen Garvey ’13; second row: Callie Cramer ’14, Meredith Kelly ’14, Greer Chapman ’13, Alex Henrie ’13, Katie Kuzio, Chris Chiapetti ’13, Jeff Clausen ’13, Alison Bennett ’13, Brianna Hawkins ’13; back row: Jared Quenzel ’13, Danny Kuzio ’13, Walter Cabbot ’13, Matt Isaacs ’13, Eric Kimball ’13, Scott Balcomb.

Wilcox ’09 & Baxter Elizabeth Wilcox ’09 and Owen Baxter, Sept. 28, 2019, The Delamar in West Hartford, Conn.. Left to right: Caitrin Lynch ’89, Nick Collier ’89, Melissa (Wilcox) Yanagi ’03, Allison (Leib) Chiacchiere ’08, Owen and Elizabeth, Margaret (McCann) Wilcox ’75, David Wilcox ’74, Brianna (Belanger) Monaco ’09. Anaclerio ’13 & Cahalane Eleanor Anaclerio ’13 and Kevin Cahalane, Oct. 12, 2019, Winnetka, Ill. First row: Cara Garcia-Bou ’13, Samantha Rothberg ’13, Perrin Bernard ’13, Kevin and Eleanor, Rebecca Bernhard ’13, Liza (Dorison) Padellaro ’13, Elisabeth Ward, Eve Boyce ’13; back row: Adam Liu, Joe Padellaro, Ted Okamoto ’13, Taegan Williams ’13.

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Finn ’12 & McDonnell Kristen Finn ’12 and Kevin McDonnell (Univ. of Rochester ’11), March 7, 2020, Gloucester, Mass. Left to right, back row: Colin O'Leary ’13, Libby King ’12, Annie Burns ’12, Lauren Dobish ’12, Jeffrey Beaton ’12, Mimi (Neal) Eger ’12, Caroline (Webb) Greenberg ’12, Annie King ’13, Kelsey Flaherty ’12, Lucy O'Keefe ’12, Tessica (Glancey) Crampton ’12, Kiely Barnard-Webster ’12, Jenn Brallier ’13, Courtney Talcott ’12; left to right, front row: Rob Crampton ’13, Linnea Fulton ’13, Kevin & Kristen, Caitlyn DeFiore ’12.

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Wolf ’12 & Horn ’12 Kathryn Wolf ’12 and Ben Horn ’12, Sept. 7, 2019, Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio. Front row, left to right: Andrew Wong ’12, Mikey Pasek ’12, Reann Gibson ’12, Corey Creedon ’12, Nikki Bugajski ’12, Ben & Kathryn; back row, left to right: Tessa Pals ’12, Devon Bonney ’12, Nina Wolinsky ’12, Nora Donahue ’12, Eammon Riley ’11, Leah Maciejewski ’12, Katherine Buckley ’12, Jessica Olsen ’12, Segundo Guerrero ’12, Becca Merten ’12.

Note: Traditionally, and for space reasons, Bates Magazine publishes only wedding photos that include Bates friends. Recognizing that some couples are unable to have Bates friends at their ceremonies during COVID-19, we're happy to include those couples-only photos. Drew ’83 & Elfman ’83 Lisa Drew ’83 and Reeven Elfman ’83, in Boston, Mass. Winkleman & Pasek ‘12 Estelle Winkleman and Mikey Pasek ’12, July 05, 2020, Kennebunkport, Maine. Doyle ’09 & Bird Meagan Doyle ’09 and Chris Bird (Bowdoin ’07), July 24, 2020, Brunswick, Maine. Munaco & Geller ’09 Theresa Munaco and Sam Geller ’09, May 23, 2020, Holy Family Church, Detroit, Mich.

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Helen Mansfield Eason March 7, 2020 Helen Mansfield Eason loved her four years at Bates. She went on to serve in the U.S. Navy in World War II, work for General Electric, and at a community center in a poor area of Portsmouth, Va. Survivors include a daughter and a son; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

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1941 Dorothy Dole Johnson November 23, 2019 Dotty Dole Johnson was a professor of anatomy at Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. A biology major at Bates, she held a master’s from Vassar in zoology (1943) and a doctorate from Columbia in biology (1949). From 1958 to 1963, she served as a Bates Trustee, but chafed in the role, believing that women were not heard equally. She was co-editor of Bailey’s Textbook of Histology, 13th and 14th editions, and retired in 1961. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Bates Key. She led the Class of 1941 Scholarship Fund effort, which honored all those in the Class of 1941 who served in the armed forces, and served on her 55th Reunion Social Committee. Active in several garden clubs, she was vice president of the West Hartford (Conn.) Council of Garden Clubs. The Universalist Church of West Hartford gave her its distinguished service award; she was active in local hospital auxiliaries and a board member of the visiting nurses’ association. Survivors include son Theodore. Morgan Porteus December 15, 2019 The Right Rev. Morgan Porteus graduated from the Episcopal Theological School in 1943. After serving as curate in 1943 at Trinity Church, Torrington, Conn., he accepted a call to be rector of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Cheshire, Conn., in 1944, where he served for 27 years. In 1971, he was elected as Bishop Suffragan in the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut. In 1976, he was elected Coadjutor Bishop, and in 1977 he was ordained the 11th Bishop of the Diocese at Christ Church Cathedral in Hartford, Conn. In 1957, he co-founded the Chapel of St. James the Fisherman in Wellfleet, Mass., where he served as priest-in-charge for 18 years. He served as a member of the standing liturgical commission of the National Episcopal Church for eight years until the 1979 prayer book was compiled

and approved by the general convention of the Episcopal Church. He became an assisting bishop in the Massachusetts Episcopal Diocese, a position he held until 2009, after retiring in 1981 to Cape Cod. He had a deep love of Cape Cod, and was an avid fly fisherman and photographer. Survivors include sons Rev. Christopher Porteus, Jonathan Porteus, and Milton Porteus; and seven grandchildren. Albert Faxon Topham May 13, 2020 Al Topham was an All-American in football at Bates in 1939 and 1940. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions after graduation, but instead he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. In officer training school, he finished 8th out of 240. He fought in the Pacific Theater for four years. He then went into insurance, and was soon transferred to Dallas, which he instantly recognized as his true home. He was the commercial lines manager for Travelers for over 40 years, retiring in 1984. A skeet shooter of international repute, he was responsible for bringing complete fairness and objectivity to skeet shooting with professionally trained referees. He was the chief referee for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics skeet shooting competition. He didn’t let his physical limitations stop him; in fact, his skeet shooting improved after cataract surgery. He was inducted into the National Skeet Shooting Assn. Hall of Fame in 2004. Besides athletic ability, he was also a master woodworker. Survivors include children Roy Topham and Candy Likes; three grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Charlotte Dolloff Turadian October 28, 2019 Charlotte Dolloff Turadian was a former Bates club officer and served on her 55th and 65th Reunion committees. Survivors include son Alan Turadian. Her husband was Z. Robert Turadian ’42. Her mother was Zela Bridgham Dolloff 1912, and her sister was Miriam Dolloff Chesley ’45. Mary Swasey Stewart ’33 was her cousin.

Helen Armitage Bickerstaff January 1, 2019 Helen (“Jay”) Bickerstaff, an English major, received her degree after three years. She went on to teach at the high school level in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Arizona. She also studied at Boston Univ. She served on her 50th Reunion Gift Committee. Word on survivors is unclear. Her brother is George W. Armitage ’51. Michael Thomas Lategola March 2, 2020 World War II interrupted Mike Lategola’s time at Bates—and what an interruption it was. Eight continuous months as a combat infantryman under Gen. George S. Patton, including landing at Cherbourg, the Battle of the Bulge, and victory in Czechoslovakia in May 1945. He built on his biology degree from Bates with degrees in physiology from Clark Univ. (master’s, 1951) and Univ. of Rochester (Ph.D., 1956). He was chief of the cardiopulmonary research section of the Civil Aeromedical Research Institute in Oklahoma City 1960–84, when he retired. He was an adjunct professor of research at the Univ. of Oklahoma medical school. One of his research topics was to determine how much lung function one can lose and still pilot a jet; he published over 50 articles in scientific literature. Survivors include children Imelda Kish; Thomas Lategola, and Amy Rose; and two grandchildren. Priscilla White Ohler March 16, 2020 Prill White Ohler, mother of six, and her family hosted three foreign exchange students through the AFS student exchange program and provided a summer home for inner-city low-income children through the Fresh Air Fund. She and her husband, the late John Ohler, were so busy volunteering in New London, N.H., that they were awarded the New London Service Organization’s “Third of a Century” award in 2005, given to residents who have lived for 33 years in New London and made notable contributions to the town. Survivors include children Deborah Hinman, Susan Bliss, and Jennifer, Jonathan, Peter, and Rebecca Ohler; eight grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

1947 Carolyn Booth Gregory January 11, 2019 Carolyn Booth Gregory often said that one can choose to have an ordinary life or an extraordinary life, determined by the choices one makes with the opportunities one is given. She chose extraordinary. She joined a ski patrol in her 50s, and was skiing until she was 89. She added two master’s degrees to her bachelor’s in English from Bates, both from Northwestern: one in speech pathology (1952) and one in counseling psychology (1986). She became an expert in treating stuttering, and ran a joint practice with her husband, Dr. Hugo H. Gregory Jr., a renowned expert in the field. Survivors include daughter Kathleen G. Huddleston; son Warren B. Gregory; and two grandchildren.

1948 Helene Davis Albert March 29, 2020 Helene Davis Albert left Bates to marry. Once her children were old enough, she became a substitute teacher in the Portland, Maine, school system. She was an education technician for 10 years before retiring in 1992. Survivors include daughters Elise H. Albert, Beth Hilton, and Nanette Profenno; three grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. Stanley Kawliche March 19, 2020 Stanley Kawliche’s time at Bates was interrupted by service in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II; he was a radio gunner on a B-24. After graduating from Bates, he went on to Boston Univ., where he earned a doctorate in psychology. He had a peripatetic career, everything from picking potatoes to working in The Hague at the U.S. Embassy. All roads lead to Lewiston, however, and he found himself at Tri-County Mental Health Center, where he eventually became chief psychologist. He retired in 1992, and spent a large amount of time in Costa Rica and Ecuador. Survivors include sons Boris, David, and Derek; and three grandchildren. His second wife was Barbara Clapp Kawliche ’64. Gordon E. Lindenblad June 17, 2020 Gordon Lindenblad held a master’s and a doctorate in biochemistry from Georgetown Univ. He did research on the use of radioactive elements in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. He retired in 1988 after many years in the pharmaceutical research field. Survivors include wife Gertrude Laitamaa Lindenblad; children Eric and Gordon Lindenblad, and Kristina Riddlesperger; stepson Jon Smart; nine grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren. Fall 2020

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Royce William Miller May 23, 2020 A language expert, Royce Miller was a professor 1956–93 at Gordon College, where he was chair of the foreign languages department. In addition to his A.B. from Bates, he held a master’s from Middlebury (1953) and a Ph.D. from George Washington Univ. (1967). He published extensively in his field, and was also the historian of Appleton, Maine, his hometown. While living in Massachusetts, he and his wife sang in Chorus North Shore and the choir of the Annisquam Village Church. He played violin in the Cape Ann Symphony for 25 years. He also played violin in the Gordon College Orchestra. He was a volunteer on his 45th and 50th Reunion committees. Survivors include wife Gertrude Cleveland Miller; children Marijean and Royce Miller II; and two grandchildren. Leonard Wilmot February 2, 2020 Bud Wilmot’s life centered around the Baptist church. He held bachelor’s degrees from both Bates and Andover Newton Theological School, and a master’s in divinity from the latter as well. He served as minister at churches in Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Washington, D.C. He parlayed an interest in early childhood education into a master's in the subject from the Univ. of North Carolina. He traveled coast to coast conducting workshops for teachers of young children while working for the educational ministries of the American Baptist Churches. This work fed his love of travel, during which he and his wife, Ella Loud Wilmot ’50, visited national parks and monuments across the country. They also participated in 60 Elderhostel programs in the U.S. and abroad. He was an early member of the N.C. Kindergarten Assn., which worked to promote publicly funded kindergartens at a time when there were none in North Carolina or much of the South. He also was a volunteer docent at Longwood Gardens for 25 years. In addition to his wife, survivors include daughters Ruth and Martha; and one grandchild.

1949 Benjamin Morse Barr June 14, 2020 Benjamin (“Bunny”) Barr left Bates to enlist in the U.S. Army. He landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day and helped liberate Buchenwald. After establishing a successful vending company, he joined joined Farmer's Almanac publisher Geiger Bros. Survivors include sons Peter, Larry, Michael, and Adam; eight grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

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David Webster Goodwin March 19, 2020 Dave Goodwin served in the U.S. Army before coming to Bates, where he majored in economics. During his career as a banker, he studied at Rutgers, Williams, and Northwestern. He was a vice president at Haverhill (Mass.) National Bank, and later became president of Whittier National Bank. In between, he was a real estate broker for Hunneman and Co. He was an alumni class officer and served on his 45th and 55th Reunion committees. Survivors include children Decia, David, and Thomas; nine grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. John Jacob Heckler October 19, 2019 John Heckler was an innovative leader in children’s outerwear. He wrote two novels, founded Heckler Manufacturing, and counseled emerging industries for the International Executive Service Corps. An economics major, he played football, tennis, and basketball, and skied. Survivors include wife Lenore and children Andrew, Matthew, and Julia. Sonya Bianchi Hulswit January 10, 2020 Sonya Bianchi Hulswit’s big moment came when she was just 23: L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, presented her as the world’s first “clear” at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in 1950. A “clear” is someone who successfully completed hours of consultation with Hubbard or an associate and is declared free of harmful thoughts and influences. Her “performance” was deemed a “fiasco.” She failed to remember even the most basic physics theorems, her field of study at Bates and as a graduate student at Wellesley. Shortly after her stage appearance, she disappeared from public view, into marriage to Frank Hulswit, whose mother was another early Scientology enthusiast. She didn’t disappear entirely: She was a member of the College Key, an alumni class officer, served on her 55th and 60th Reunion committees, and was a former class agent. Survivors include two children, Cornelia and Christopher. Thomas Bernard O’Rorke November 6, 2019 A World War II Marine Corps veteran who came to Bates following his service, Thomas O’Rorke majored in sociology and went on to earn a master’s in education from the Univ. of Rochester. He also studied at Columbia Univ. After short stints at schools in Erie County, N.Y., he became principal of Nyack High School. Forty years after retirement, students still remembered his kindness and goodness. Survivors include friend John Zaccone.

Theresa Vassar Perry December 3, 2019 Terry Vassar Perry swam a mile a day until the last few years of her life. She intended a career in journalism, but was very happy in her teaching career instead. She held a teaching master’s degree from UMaine, and taught for 30 years in Winthrop, Biddeford, and Falmouth, where she lived for over 50 years. She also was a water safety instructor at the local YWCA. Once she moved to Arizona to escape the winter, she became a rockhound, scouring the mountains for mineral specimens. Survivors include children Glenn, Dean, Clay, and Lynne; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. William Archibald Sawyers Jr. March 27, 2020 Bill Sawyers Jr. followed in his father’s footsteps. He followed him to Bates (his father was Class of 1919), and into teaching (his father was principal of the American high school in the Panama Canal Zone.) Bill taught science in Baldwin, N.Y., and developed an award-winning science research skills course that fostered a generation of professionals across all walks of life. In recognition for his many contributions to his students, Bill was selected as Teacher of the Year in New York State in 1982, and awarded an honorary doctorate from Adelphi Univ. He held a master’s in bioscience (1950) from Columbia, and a doctorate in animal behavior (1966) from Penn State. He retired in 1986. He was a member of the College Key and a former class agent. Survivors include children Jim and Alan Sawyers, and Wendy Romano; seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. His late wife was Shirley Pease Sawyers ’49.

1950 Robert Marshall Coleman February 1, 2020 Bob Coleman came to Bates after three years in the U.S. Army during World War II. A biology major, he quickly went on to earn a master’s from U.N.H. and a doctorate from the Univ. of Notre Dame. An expert in immunology and tropical diseases, he taught for many years at Russell Sage College, Boston College, and the University of Lowell, where he established the biology department. He established similar departments at two universities in India. He co-authored a textbook on immunology and published numerous papers. He was a research fellow for the American Physiological Society at several universities, and chaired the National Science Foundation fellowship panel for three years. He was also a trustee of the Mass. Arthritis Foundation. Survivors include children Mary and Kevin; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Virginia Hastings Gamble January 26, 2020 Ginny Hastings Gamble was baptized, married, and buried by the same Congregational church in Bethel, Maine. She and her late husband, George M. Gamble Jr., moved around for his career with G.E.—Schenectady, Pittsfield and Sudbury, Mass., New Hampshire, Connecticut—before returning to Bethel 23 years ago. After working as a social worker, she started her own businesses wherever she went, concentrating on design, color, and plants. In the 1980s and ’90s, she was a consultant for Color Me Beautiful, ultimately becoming a national trainer for the company. An eager skier, she held season passes to Sunday River until her 80s. A passionate gardener, Ginny achieved the title of Master Gardener, devoting considerable amounts of time to her extensive perennial gardens, starting all the plants from seed during the winter in her greenhouse. She volunteered as a class agent, served on a number of Reunion social and gift committees, and was a Bates club officer in the 1970s. She was a member of the College Key. Survivors include children Laurie Flanagan ’76, Alan Gamble, and Becky Dalke; five grandchildren, one of whom is Matthew Decatur Flanagan ’20; and four great-grandchildren. Jeanne Pieroway Piccirillo February 11, 2020 Jeanne Pieroway Piccirillo expanded on her degree in biology (Phi Beta Kappa) with two master’s degrees: an M.A. in nursing from Yale and an M.S. in special education from Southern Conn. State Univ. She utilized her combined training in her lengthy public health career, which focused on children with special needs. She also taught at Quinnipiac Univ. Survivors include husband Dr. Anthony Piccirillo; children Mark, Peter, and Emily Piccirillo, and Mary Pfister; and six grandchildren, including Lauren Piccirillo ’15. Charles Wilford Radcliffe November 30, 2019 Charles Radcliffe’s career was primarily with the Republican Party. He served as counsel and chief director for the G.O.P. House committee on education and labor for 20 years. He was instrumental in the passage of several landmark education laws, including the Vocational Act of 1963 and the Higher Education Act of 1965. Before coming to Bates, he served in the U.S. Navy with a construction battalion on Saipan and Tinian until the end of World War II. A history/ government major, he earned a law degree from Georgetown in 1960, while working for the U.S. Office of Education. He came to Bates especially to work with the legendary Brooks Quimby, and indeed became a top debater,

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one of two to travel to England and Scotland on a debate tour his senior year. He won many if not all the debate prizes offered by the college. He was a member of the College Key, and a former class agent. An art collector, he was instrumental in the founding of the college’s art museum. He served on his 45th Reunion Gift Committee and 50th Reunion Social Committee. Survivors include nieces and nephews. Richard Anthony Scott December 2019 Richard Scott—Scotty—played every sport he could at Bates. As a freshman, he distinguished himself by being the football team’s first casualty, a lost tooth. Baseball, basketball, and golf also occupied his time, in addition to student council and proctoring. He came to Bates after a stint in the U.S. Navy, and met the woman who would become his wife, Sondra Speer Scott ’49; she died in 2007. He worked for Miller, Mason & Dickenson Inc., an employee benefits consulting firm based near his home outside Philadelphia. He was a member of the College Key and served on his 45th and 50th Reunion gift committees. Survivors include children Stacie, Richard, Binh, Matt, Christine, Ruth, Joan, Suzanne, and Sondra; 25 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

1951 Rolvin Reinhold Risska October 31, 2019 Rolvin Risska came to Bates after serving in Panama during World War II. He started out at UMaine, but soon transferred to Bates, where he never forgot the warm welcome he received from Dean Milton Lindholm ’35. An economics major, he worked at various times for Polaroid, Raytheon, and Sanders Assoc./ BAE Systems, retiring in 1987. His official residences were in Massachusetts and Florida, but his heart was in Harpswell, Maine, where he summered for over 80 years. Survivors include wife Marjorie and daughters Regina Booth and Christy Guerra. His son, Rolvin Reid Risska ’73, died in March 2019. Joan Louise Seear January 31, 2020 Joan Seear was a biology lab supervisor for the Univ. of California. Despite her father wanting her to be a proper lady, she found her joy in the Rocky Mountains when she became the country’s first female naturalist ranger at Rocky Mountain National Park in the 1950s. She served on her 40th Reunion gift committee and was a former Alumni in Admission volunteer and former alumni club officer.

1952 Marilyn Jackson Krajcik January 4, 2020 Marilyn Jackson Krajcik left Bates to complete her degree at Bridgewater State College. She remained in touch with Bates by serving as a Bates club officer. She worked as a librarian for 17 years before switching to elementary education, retiring after 16 years as a third-grade teacher. Survivors include children Elizabeth, Robert, and Allen; and five grandchildren. Dorothy Pierce Morris October 12, 2019 Dotty Pierce Morris had a varied career, in addition to caring for four children. She worked for New England Telephone & Telegraph, Southwestern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co., and as a sales representative for college textbooks. She retired in 1991 after selling business systems to large corporations. In 2000, she married Ronald Clayton ’53. In addition to her husband, survivors include children Sue Lunt, Jill Moore, Rick Morris ’81, and Janet Hassett; and eight grandchildren. Her stepdaughter is Leslie A. Clayton ’79. Her first husband was Jerry A. Morris ’52, who died in 1991. Ruth F. Potter November 19, 2015 Ruthie Potter (aka “Inky”) was a Bates club officer and a volunteer for several Reunions. As a student, she involved herself in student government—she was class president her junior year— Ivy Day, the choral society, the Robinson Players, and athletics. She was a sociology major and volunteered at hospitals. She was divorced from Paul Balise ’53, who died in 2019. Jane Smith Putnam May 22, 2020 Jane Smith met Robert Putnam ’52 at a freshman dance and thus began their 66-year love story. He died in 2015. She served on her 40th Reunion gift committee, her 50th Reunion social committee, and her 55th Reunion committee. Survivors include children Betsy Renner and Stuart Putnam; five grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

1953 Elaine Johnson Bohner December 19, 2019 Elaine Johnson Bohner left Bates to attend Bentley College. She was a banker, and retired as a vice president at First National Bank in Boston. Survivors include children Dianne McCarthy, Susan Kushmerek, Russell Hammer, and Douglass Hammer; seven grandchildren; three step-grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and four step-great-grandchildren.

Norma Sturtevant Boutelle January 23, 2020 Norma (“Reb”) Sturtevant Boutelle and her late husband, Dick Boutelle ’53, succumbed to the perpetual sunshine and warmth of California when Dick’s career took them there. She traveled with the high school marching band (including a backstage visit at Disneyland), helped at her children’s school libraries, and worked to develop teaching aids for the local schools. She was a docent for Torrey Pines State Reserve in La Jolla, Calif. Survivors include children Karen ’78, Jim, and David. Dick’s late parents were Horace and Blanche Smith Boutelle, both Class of 1919.

a conservation trust to be held in perpetuity. Survivors include children Suzanne Lyons and Cameron Robertson.

Norman Wheeler Briggs March 3, 2020 After receiving a master’s from Cornell in 1955, Norman Briggs took graduate courses at Harvard. When a position opened up at Lincoln Labs, he took advantage of it. When the lab spun off Mitre Corp., he joined it as an applied physicist and systems engineer, and stayed with the company until retirement. He worked on defense systems for Air Force One in the 1970s and managed a multinational group of engineers for NATO in Brussels in the 1980s. He retired in 1991. Survivors include wife Nancy; children Scott and Rebecca; four grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

William Gordon Kerr May 1, 2020 The advent of the Korean War prompted Bill Kerr to leave Bates and enlist in the U.S. Army. He later completed his degree at UMass.-Amherst. Survivors include wife Mary Alice Waldron Kerr; children Donald, Gary, Michelle, and Jonathan Kerr, and Bonnie Haase; seven grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Margaret Fox Cotton March 12, 2020 Peggy Fox Cotton was a talented artist working with watercolors. Her floral watercolors were truly exceptional; there are many hanging in the homes of friends and family. She also created Christmas cards for many years, collector’s items among friends and family. She worked side by side with her husband, Howard H. Cotton ’52, managing the office of his dental practice. He survives her, as do children George and Patricia Cotton, and Judith Moran; and three grandchildren. Clark Alton Griffith April 8, 2020 A third-generation cranberry grower in South Carver, Mass., it’s not surprising that Clark Griffith loved his wife’s cranberry pizza. He was a leader in the industry, helping and advising others. He served on the boards of Ocean Spray and Cape Cod Cranberry Growers Assn., among others. He was also on the college’s Board of Overseers 1999–2002. He then joined the Board of Trustees; he was a class agent and Bates club president. He served on the Bates College Boston Council 2003–05, and on gift committees for five Reunions. He also established the Clark A. Griffith Professorship in Environmental Studies, and put 40 acres of forest land into

Diane Lindsay Haren April 8, 2020 A sociology major, Diane Haren moved to New York City after graduation and worked in social services. She helped start the first Meals on Wheels program in the Pascack Valley (N.J.), and worked in administration at a nursing home for five years. She also worked at her husband’s real estate business. Survivors include daughters Kimberly, Noreen, and Gretta Haren; and one grandchild.

Charles William Pappas December 18, 2019 With $27.50, Charlie Pappas and his wife, Bobbie Swett Pappas ’53, started their own company in 1963 and named it after the college: Bates Finishing Supply, Inc., selling paint finishing equipment and related supplies to the industry. It became the largest company of its kind in New England. He was a corporator of the Assabet Savings Bank and served many years on the Board of Investment of the Middlesex Savings Bank when they merged. Directly after college, he entered the U.S. Navy, from which he retired as first lieutenant. A government major, he played football, basketball, and softball, and remained an avid supporter of Bates athletics. In addition to his wife, survivors include children Michael, Carole, Jeffrey, and Christopher; and eight grandchildren, three of whom are also Batesies: Charles Fontaine Pappas ’23, Marina Ann Pappas ’11, and Mikaela White ’09.

1954 Thomas Clarkson Halliday III May 11, 2020 Thomas Halliday ran a 4:20 mile while at Bates, and carried his love of sports through his life. A doctor, he graduated from New York State Medical College in 1958 and practiced medicine in N.Y. until 1974. Tired of the snow, he moved his family to Chatham, Mass., bringing the number of doctors there to four, still short of the six estimated to be needed. He continued to practice medicine until he was diagnosed with COVID-19. He was an eager pleasure sailor, having retired from

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racing outboards in the 1960s. (He received his international racing driver’s license in 1967.) He was a library trustee, and attended Brewster Baptist Church. He was a volunteer for his 40th Reunion. Survivors include his wife, Brenda Hills Halliday; children Jane Halliday-Randall, Susan Halliday ’84, and Beverly Halliday; and a grandson. Susan’s husband is Michael R. Cloutman ’77. Robert Bernard Smith December 7, 2019 Robert Smith left Bates before graduation. He was a pharmaceutical sales representative for over 40 years, winning numerous sales awards. He also spent many summers operating the former Old Orchard House Hotel. He served three years in the Army National Guard of Maine. Survivors include children Deborah Mercurio and Christopher Smith.

1955 Carolyn Gove Bennett January 24, 2020 Carolyn Gove Bennett cleverly timed her children’s self-sufficiency to coincide with the advent of computer programming. Setting aside her physics degree, she pursued a bachelor’s in computer science at Penn State and built a four-decade career as a programmer. She started out supporting researchers in the agricultural lab at Penn State, but moved to the financial sector once her family moved to Indiana. She was a court-appointed advocate for neglected or abused children, an AARP Tax Aide, and a volunteer at the United Caring Shelter. She housed Vietnamese refugees until they got on their feet, and went to Louisiana to build new homes after Hurricane Katrina. She was instrumental in establishing the Bluegrass Fish and Wildlife Area in Warwick County, Ind. Survivors include children Cynthia, David, and Steven; and one grandchild. Her cousin is Barbara J. Stewart ’78. Saul Jay Brightman April 8, 2020 Saul Brightman started at Bates but finished his degree at Boston Univ. He was a salesman of intimate apparel to national chains. Survivors include sons Scott and Todd, and two grandchildren. Katharine Lang Patterson August 26, 2016 Katie Lang Patterson was a busy volunteer and community advocate. She left Bates to marry J. Stanley Patterson ’52; he predeceased her. Survivors include son James D. Patterson ’75 and granddaughter Michaela Patterson ’05. Sally Perkins Poland November 6, 2019 Sally Perkins Poland taught her children to value a good book in-

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stead of matching furniture and to hunt for the first pussy willows of spring. An English major (which, she joked, qualified her for “nothing” in gainful employment), she was drawn to the ministry when her first husband, Lloyd Leeman, attended Bangor Theological Seminary. She received an M.Div. from there in 1982 and was ordained a Methodist minister in 1985. She served churches in Waterville, West Scarborough, and West Baldwin, and preached well into her 80s, managing a charitable bookstore for several years in retirement. She enjoyed being a “member of the Christian Left.” She was a member of the College Key, served on her 50th Reunion Yearbook Committee and her 55th Reunion Social Committee, and was a member of the Ocean Park Bates Club. Survivors include husband, the Rev. Theodore Poland; children Lloyd Jr., Jennifer, Rebecca, and Kathryn Leeman; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Her first husband also survives her. Her aunt was Carolyn Woodman Howard ’32.

1956 John Bridge Davis December 1, 2019 Jill Farr Davis April 5, 2020 Remember “The Counter that Cooks,” an innovation from Corning in the 1960s? John Davis held a patent on it. He took his degree in physics and went on to earn a master’s in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1958. He worked for Corning Glass for 15 years before moving to Litton to work on microwave oven technology. Jill Farr Davis, also a physics major, followed advances in science closely: she wrote her thesis on transistors, the marvel of the day and precursor to the ubiquitous computer chip. She became a registered nurse in 1976 with a degree from St. Catherine University in Minneapolis, and worked for many years as an emergency room nurse before switching over to orthopedic nursing for the VA hospital in that city. The two were passionate travelers, and visited all seven continents, including climbing Annapurna and taking a trip through the Himalayas from Kathmandu to Lhasa. After retirement, John went into financial planning, often on a pro bono basis. They sailed in New York and Minnesota, and built a home on Lake Minnetonka (Minn.), indulging John’s hobby of designing homes. Survivors include children Robert and Rowland Davis, Wendy Dieser, Tracy Howard, and Laurie Henger; 10 grandchildren; and one great-granddaughter. Jill’s brother is John W. Farr IV ’63; her cousin is Kristin Coombs ’84.

Nancy Miller Cyr Larson May 11, 2020 Nancy Miller Cyr Larson started her education at Bates, but finished at Univ. of R.I. She held a master’s from the Univ. of Conn. For 32 years she taught in the Coventry (R.I.) High School’s social studies department, retiring as its department chair. Survivors include children Michele and Mark Cyr; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Lucienne Gilberte Thibault Maillet January 19, 2020 Lucienne Thibault Maillet was a professional librarian: She held a doctorate from Columbia in the field, and master's degrees from George Washington Univ. and Catholic Univ. For 25 years, she was dean of Palmer School of Library and Information Science at Long Island Univ. In later years, she was an avid traveler and enjoyed touring the world with her son’s family and with her twin brother, Lucien Thibault ’56. Her husband, Daniel J. Maillet ’55, predeceased her. Survivors include son Daniel Maillet Jr.; two grandchildren; and her brother. Carol Johnson Oliver May 11, 2020 Carol Johnson Oliver taught English at Reading (Mass.) High School until her children were born. After they were self-sufficient, she returned to the school system as a substitute teacher and special aide. Survivors include children Geoffrey and Janet Oliver ’81.

1957 James Rawson Humphrey February 17, 2020 Chemicals were the family business, and James Humphrey served 16 years as vice president of marketing of the Humphrey Chemical Co. Prior to that, he earned a master’s in secondary education from Temple Univ., and taught chemistry in Newtown, Penn., and North Haven, Conn., where he was also the track and field coach. In retirement, he became active in energy conservation boards throughout New England. Survivors include wife Virginia Schultz Humphrey ’59, and son James.

1958 Richard Wyman Doane March 15, 2020 Dick Doane was an amateur botanist, particularly interested in Maine’s native woodland flowers. He experimented with creating his own Asiatic lily variety until the local deer population discovered his garden. He switched to peonies in defeat. An economics major, his career was in insurance, and he worked for Travelers before joining the

newly formed Maine Employers’ Mutual Insurance Company. Survivors include sons Rick and Jeff; and four grandchildren. His wife was Jean Leighton Doane ’58; she died in 2011. His late mother was Mildred Wyman Doane 1922. Robert Julian Raphael December 22, 2019 Bob Raphael delayed his career in commercial real estate to serve in the U.S. Navy for four years. An English major, he parlayed that into a juris doctor degree in 1969 from the Univ. of Conn. while working full time. He was a vice president of CBT Realty Corporation, a subsidiary of the company that owns Connecticut Bank and Trust. He found strength in Alcoholics Anonymous, and was always willing to help others. He volunteered at the local Salvation Army and at a hospice. Survivors include daughter Leslie Garcia, and two grandchildren.

1959 Victoria Daniels Aberhart December 29, 2019 Vicky Daniels Aberhart was a classical pianist, but she didn’t like to perform alone. She preferred duets or trios. She was a founding member of the Joy of Music Program in Worcester, Mass., and a member of the Worcester Music Club. She worked for many years at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, eventually becoming the grants manager. Her major at Bates was French (Phi Beta Kappa). She was a member of the College Key, a class agent, and served on her 30th, 35th, and 50th Reunion committees. Survivors include husband John Aberhart and a number of nieces and nephews. Susanne Elliot Carey February 1, 2020 A self-described city slicker, Sue Elliot Carey was astonished she managed to raise three children “amidst vegetable gardens, ducks, chickens, sheep, ponies, horses, dogs, and cats, bordered by a wide wonderful river where everyone learned to swim by holding onto a large dog.” A biology major, she taught secondary level science in addition to being a research associate and shopkeeper. Best of all, she wrote, was being mother to her three children, who survive her: Jonathan, Benjamin, and Alison. Other survivors include three grandchildren. Her husband was Peter E. Carey ’59. Peter Andrew Gartner March 2020 Peter Gartner was an English major who was drawn to counseling and guidance. He held a master’s in education from Springfield College and a C.A.G.S. from Univ. of Conn. He was a member of a number of guidance

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and counseling associations, and on the board of the Wilbraham (Mass.) Counseling Center. He also coached basketball at the high school there, and was the director of special services. Later, he was a therapist from his home in Maine and one of the founders of Western Mountains Senior College in Bethel, where he taught courses on Stephen Crane and Mark Twain. He also implemented the popular “Great Decisions” course. Survivors include wife Mary-Ellen Crook Gartner ’60. Roy Kenneth Golden January 13, 2020 Dr. Roy Golden left Bates for the dental school at Tufts. He practiced for 44 years in Wollaston, Mass. Survivors include wife Kyung-Ja Golden; and children Dr. Michelle Golden and Dr. Neal Golden.

1960 Richard Edgar LaPointe January 6, 2020 Dick LaPointe was active in every sport imaginable: track, baseball, football, hockey, golf. He played, coached, and umpired. He was also a lifeguard and ran a bowling league. He began his teaching career in Boothbay Harbor, but soon moved to Masconomet High School (Boxford, Mass.), and then Beverly Memorial Junior High. After earning a master’s in psychology, he taught counseling at Salem State University, and worked as a psychologist for the Peabody (Mass.) school system. He also served on the Beverly school committee and taught driving. An avid golfer, he was a member of several clubs and played regularly in Texas and Georgia. Survivors include children Lori McCulloch, Lynn Legault, and Tyler LaPointe; and four grandchildren. Lawrence Craig Parker Jr. December 31, 2019 Craig Parker was a psychologist and professor emeritus at the Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences at the Univ. of New Haven (Conn.). A psychology major at Bates, he also held a master’s in education from Springfield College (1963) and a doctorate from SUNY-Buffalo (1968). He taught at the Univ. of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and the Univ. of Alberta before starting the criminal justice program at U.N.H. in 1972. He received two Fulbright scholarships over his career, and studied the criminal justice systems in Japan, Finland, and the U.K. extensively. The author of five books, he was a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School and at Yale University. Captain of the tennis team at Bates, he played throughout his life. Survivors include daughter Jennifer Frost and two grandchildren. His parents were Lawrence

C. Parker ’32 and Virginia Moulton Parker ’33. His uncle was Eugene H. Parker ’39.

1961 Barbara Press Lamkin November 28, 2019 Barbara Press Lamkin finished her degree at Bates 10 years after her classmates, and she did it while managing two children and a husband. She juggled her classes so she had to be on campus only three days a week, and could return home to Danvers, Mass., for long weekends. A preschool teacher, she and husband David Lamkin owned and operated Gateway to Learning Children’s Center in Woburn for over 25 years. In retirement, she was president of the Lakeridge Falls Women’s Club in Florida for many years. Survivors include daughters Lori McCulloch and Lynne Legault; stepchildren Randy Kuhl and Charles Lamkin; and six grandchildren.

1962 Harry Kenrick Holden Jr. January 30, 2020 Ken Holden said once that he had a “relatively stable life…. I do keep busy, though.” He was on the faculty of Northern Essex Community College for over 40 years, and wrote several textbooks and study guides. He also was instrumental in starting the college’s nursing program, and served as the college’s athletic director for a short time. He held a master’s from UMaine in zoology (1964), in addition to his biology degree from Bates. He served on several church committees at Groveland Congregational Church, sang in its choir, and was a deacon. Nothing, however, got in the way of his fly fishing. He tied his own ties and taught the sport at the college and at a local store. Survivors include wife Jane Prescott Holden; children Erik and Kirsten; and three grandchildren.

1963 Richard David Rowlands December 27, 2019 A psychology major, Dick Rowlands went on to earn a bachelor’s in divinity from Andover Newton Theological School in 1967. He served as a U.C.C. minister in East Providence, R.I., Auburn, Mass., and Grand Rapids, Mich. He also studied at Western Michigan Univ. and the Gestalt Institute. His wife, who survives him, is Elisabeth Little Rowlands ’63, and his cousin is Gail Martin Clock ’68. Survivors also include nieces and a nephew. Dale Arthur Spencer February 23, 2020 It’s a question as to whether Dale Spencer owned more motor-

cycles or sailboats over his life. Unofficial count is nine cycles; boat count unknown. He started sailing while a student at Bates, and worked on a sailing yacht after graduation. A history major, Dale also held a 1966 master’s from Case Western in the field. He first worked as an investment analyst, and then moved on to what became Cowen and Co., from which he retired in 2011. He was an editor in research publication and compliance. He enjoyed trips to the Netherlands, where his mother, at 105, recently beat him in gin rummy. Survivors include wife Pam; daughters Jean and Amy; and two grandchildren. Montgomery Atwater Woolson Jr. November 3, 2017 Monte graduated with a degree in history and immediately enlisted in the U.S. Army, where he rose to the rank of 2nd lieutenant. At Bates, he played varsity baseball and basketball. He was an insurance executive for Aetna for 29 years, and worked as an independent contractor after retirement. He served on his 50th Reunion gift committee and his 45th Reunion social committee. He was a former class agent. Survivors include wife Susan Cottrell Woolsen ’66; children Jonathan and Erika; and four grandchildren.

1964 Leigh Payson Campbell July 31, 2020 As the longtime director of financial aid at Bates, Leigh Campbell was an empathetic and expert financial adviser who made the financial aid process less daunting for thousands of students and their families. He showed students the path forward when they felt stuck, and instilled hope and confidence when there was fear and uncertainty. A history major, he was manager and scorer for the men’s basketball team, president of the Choral Society, sportswriter for The Bates Student, and a proctor in Smith Hall. He served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam as a company clerk for a medical unit. He was appointed director of financial aid at Bates in 1973 and retired in 2016. He was a member of the Mount David Society and College Key, the college’s leadership annual giving program and its honorary alumni organization, respectively, and received the Key’s Distinguished Service Award for faculty and staff in 2005 and, in 2016, the Alumni Association’s Helen A. Papaioanou ’49 Distinguished Alumni Service Award. Including his student years, Leigh was the official basketball scorer for nearly 50 years and was inducted into the Bates College ScholarAthlete Society in 2012 for his “unequaled decades of commitment to our basketball teams and

friendships with our players.” He was inducted into the Maine Basketball Hall of Fame as a Legend of the Game. In 2007 he became one of the few Lifetime Honorary Members of the Maine Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. He was a member of the First Congregational Church of Wiscasset UCC and the Wiscasset Fire Society. Survivors include his brother, Terry Campbell; two nieces; and several great-nieces. Martha Lindholm Lentz May 2, 2020 Martha Lindholm Lentz, an English major, earned a master’s degree in special education in 1988 (“one course a semester”) from Univ. of Southern Maine. She was a teacher in Brunswick and Bowdoinham for 35 years, and specialized in Reading Recovery, a one-on-one program for beginning readers developed in New Zealand. She taught there for three months in 1995 to learn the methods, and enjoyed several additional trips to New Zealand as well. A photographer, she was president of First Light Camera Club in midcoast Maine. She said of her photography, “Capturing the light, freezing moments in time, simplifying the chaos— this is what I seek. Shadows, reflections, fog, angles of the sun, nature’s beauty—this is where I find it.” She retired in 2011. She was a member of the College Key and served on her 40th Reunion committee. Survivors include children Sara and John; and four grandchildren. Martha’s family has been associated with the college since 1935, when her father, Milton L. Lindholm, graduated. He took a position in Admissions at Bates in 1945; the Lindholm building is named after him. Her mother was Jane Ault Lindholm ’37. Her uncles are Peter ’52 and David ’57 Ault. Her aunt is Sara Ault Fasciano ’62; her cousins are Wendy ’76 and William ’82 Ault.

1965 James Littauer Fine June 17, 2020 Jim Fine was deeply involved with the Jimmy Fund, a nonprofit dedicated to children with cancer. He received the organization’s highest award, the Yawkey Award, for raising over $2 million for research and treatment. He was a board member of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, a director of the Boys and Girls Club of Hartford, Conn., and a member of the corporate advisory board of the Connecticut National Bank. He chaired the Univ. of Hartford Assn. and the Automotive Warehouse Distributors Assn. He held a law degree from Boston Univ., and taught social studies in Hartford before joining the family automotive parts business. The Univ. of Hartford awarded him its distinguished service

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medal in 1982. In 1993, he and his family established the Fine Family Scholarship at Bates. Survivors include wife Marcia Raskin Fine; daughters Lauren ’93 and Emily Fine, and Susan Fine Hosmer ’97; and six grandchildren, one of whom is Hailey Singer ’24. Terrie Watson Peterson February 5, 2020 Terrie Watson Peterson worked at First Church of Christ, Wethersfield, Conn., as the membership administrator for over 20 years, until moving to Massachusetts to be closer to family. Survivors include husband Peter E. Peterson ’66; children Deborah Bratschi and Scott Peterson; and six grandchildren. Her brother is H. Kirk Watson ’56.

1966 Frederick Anthony DeStefano Jr. January 23, 2020 Rick DeStefano left Bates before graduation. He was a real estate broker in Florida and Massachusetts. Survivors include wife Kathleen McCarthy DeStefano; children Marc and Craig DeStefano, Sean, Daniel, and Justin McCarthy, and Sarah Pauling; and 10 grandchildren. Carol Sue Stutzman December 14, 2019 Her love of Robert Frost led Carol Stutzman, a Calif. native, to Bates because she wanted to live in New England. Her love of adventure drew her to the Netherlands while a high school student and to Beirut as a junior at Bates. Her interest in the Middle East lasted throughout her life. She lived in a variety of cities in the U.S., including Washington, D.C., where she attended classes at Howard Univ., Denver, Des Moines, and Chicago. She started her career as a children’s librarian in Rhode Island. She was introduced to Head Start while at Howard, and this became the focus of her work, especially in Chicago, where she earned a master’s in childhood development from the Erikson Institute, and Boulder, Colo., where she spent the last 28 years of her life, including work as the education coordinator for all Head Start programs in the city. She met her husband, Len Ackland, then a stranger, when he offered her a ride home after a movie. (“He seemed nice,” she explained, “and I had a plan to crash the car if necessary.”) Along with her husband, survivors include children Seth and John Ackland, and Sarah Paddock; and six grandchildren.

Norrine Abbott Williams December 3, 2019 For 40 years, Norrine Abbott Williams got together with seven Bates friends—the Bates 8—to celebrate birthdays and other occasions. She was a member of the College Key, a former Bates club officer, and served on several Reunion committees. She was just as active as a student, carrying a double major (sociology won out over English eventually), and was editor of the yearbook and president of the Women’s Council. She met Paul Williams ’69 at a Turtles concert on campus in 1966, and they celebrated Turtles Day every Feb. 26. For several years, they ran an inn together, until she became the executive director of what is now the Ammonoosuc Community Health Services in New Hampshire. The agency was brand-new when she started in 1975 with two employees; today the agency has around 100 health care workers at five different locations. She retired in 2008. She also taught psychology at Lyndon State for 29 years. In addition to her Bates degree in sociology, she held an M.S.W. from the Univ. of Conn. In addition to Paul, survivors include daughters Lissa Modesitt and Lianne Trombley; and two grandchildren.

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1968 Suzanne Paradis Bristol October 26, 2019 Born in Lewiston and educated in Auburn, Sue Bristol was salutato-

rian of her class at Edward Little High School. Awarded a Bates scholarship supporting her full financial need, she was selected to the inaugural class of Dana Scholars in 1965 based on her campus and community leadership and outstanding academic record. She majored in chemistry and graduated with membership in the College Key. A chemistry teacher at Edward Little before marrying James Bristol ’68, she was also a ghostwriter of scientific articles for professors at the University of Michigan; a laboratory researcher at Western Electric, where she worked to fabricate prototypes of silicon wafers essential to today’s technology; a tutor for special-needs college students; and a mother with joy and responsibility. The Bristols lived in Maine, New Hampshire, Michigan, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Arizona. Honoring her kindness and integrity, and recognizing the impact of her Bates scholarship, The Bristol Living Trust and a partial matching gift established the Suzanne Paradis Bristol ’68 Financial Aid Fund for a student from Lewiston or Auburn. In addition to her husband, survivors include children Jonathan, Jason, and Heather Bristol; five grandchildren; and their families. An obituary in the spring issue contained incorrect information.

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Sally Greenlaw Kinney May 3, 2020 Sally Greenlaw Kinney taught mathematics in Maine as well as

for nearly 30 years in the Nashua, N.H., area. She also worked as an associate editor for Houghton Mifflin. She retired in 2009, and enjoyed camping in her R.V. and private tutoring. She was very active in the Movement Christian Church. Survivors include children Samantha Leone ’93, Mari Kinney, and Earl Robert Kinney III; five grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Her late husband was E. Robert Kinney, Jr. ’70.

1972 Allen Henry Agnitti March 10, 2020 A history major, Allen Agnitti studied French at the Sorbonne and graduated from the Univ. of Sussex in 1980 with a master’s in intellectual history and then from Northeastern in 1990 with a J.D. He published a memoir titled With a Thousand Antennas, fueled by his study of Julian the Apostate and Ernest Renan. He taught history at Cathedral High School in Manhattan, Bronx Community College, and several colleges in the Springfield, Mass., area. As an attorney, Allen worked for the Legal Aid Society in the Bronx, as a court-appointed attorney, and court investigator with Hampden Juvenile Court. For 23 years he was a research attorney with the National Consumer Law Center. Survivors include spouse and partner Sandra A. Collins; and sons Alexander ’17 and Marcello. Gerard Kimball Williams April 14, 2020 Jerry Williams was born, raised, and worked in Farmington. He and his father had a law practice in town, Jerry having graduated from Suffolk Law School in 1975. He was a member of both the Maine and Massachusetts bars. He was a member of the Franklin County Bar Association, Farmington Rotary Club, Farmington Kiwanis Club, and served on several boards, including Franklin Savings Bank as a corporator. A former alumni class officer, he served on his 15th Reunion social committee. Survivors include partner Heidi Knight, and a number of cousins, nieces, and nephews.

1973 Kathryn Hervey-Herve D’Ermont February 21, 2019 Kathryn Hervey-Herve D’Ermont left Bates before graduation. She was living in Altadena, Calif., at the time of her death.

1974 Jane Sawyer November 7, 2019 Jane Sawyer left Bates to complete her degree at the Univ. of

Hartford. She also studied at Fresno (Calif.) State College. Her degree was in biology. Survivors include daughter Vanessa Yarali; and three grandchildren.

1976 John Thomas Pothier March 20, 2020 John Pothier graduated Phi Beta and Kappa magna cum laude with high honors in government. He went on to earn a master’s in political science from Yale, and taught as a visiting instructor at the Univ. of Mich. and Wesleyan, where he also was the director of institutional research from 1991–2000. He then served as associate director of research for the Connecticut department of higher education. Survivors include siblings and nephews.

1977 Lyle Francis Eastman, II May 10, 2020 Lyle began his education at Bates, but completed his degree at Central Conn. State Univ. He played football at the college. An insurance executive, he was an active volunteer in Westbrook, Conn. Survivors include wife Janice; and children Lexie Chapell, and Connor and Parker Eastman.

1982 Jane Ellen Langmaid February 20, 2020 Jane Langmaid, a rhetoric major, traded life in administration at Lyndon State College, where she was director of alumni and special programs, for one at Royal Caribbean Cruises. Active in many musical groups at Bates, she sang throughout her life, especially with the “Lost and Found” gospel/jazz group. Survivors include many friends.

1983 Adrieanne Emery Johnson March 15, 2020 Adrieanne Emery Johnson left Bates for nursing school, and went on to work as an animal herbalist. She specialized in the treatment of Lyme disease. Survivors include husband Dan; and children Luke and Alex.

1987 Susan O’Donnell Falls Lynch May 4, 2020 A gifted student and athlete, Susan graduated from Pinkerton Academy in Derry, N.H., in 1983, serving as valedictorian of her class and lettering in softball, soccer, and basketball. She majored in math at Bates and participated in soccer, basketball, and lacrosse. Early in her career, she worked as an associate information systems engineer with the Travelers

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Insurance Co. More recently, she worked in the retail grocery industry. Survivors include children Bethany, Zachary, Hayley, and Lindsey. Her first husband was William A. Falls ’87.

1989 Donald Edward Rosenthal February 21, 2020 Buddy Rosenthal knew the internet. He had strategic executive roles at AOL, Yahoo and RealNetworks, and spent more than two decades in high tech, founding several early-stage tech companies. In the last year of his life, he left the business world to devote his time to nonprofits, serving on boards for Junior Achievement of Greater Washington (D.C.), the Make-a-Wish Foundation, the Children’s Science Center of Northern Virginia, MicroMentor, the AOL Foundation, and Minds Matter. He was also chief operating officer of One Earth Future, an organization that fosters sustainable peace by building resilient societies in fragile, post-conflict parts of the world. He held a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Bates and a master’s from the Wharton School at the Univ. of Penn. Survivors include children Jackson and Teagan; and wife Teresa Mohr.

1990 Erika Margaret Jensen May 17, 2020 An English major, Erika Jensen settled in the Midwest, where she became interested in community supported agriculture. She was producing seasonal vegetables for 70 families and organic cut flowers for the Madison (Wisc.) market. She was a talented photographer in addition to being a writer, and published over a hundred articles in organic magazines and journals, often accompanied by her own photographs. She also led sessions on gardening and organics for local libraries. Survivors include husband Joel Goodlaxson and son Peter.

and Haydn Society, the Boston Lyric Opera, and the Boston Early Music Festival. One of his favorite memories was playing a guitar duo of “Satin Doll” with Duke Ellington’s granddaughter while at boarding school. He was a former alumni class officer. Survivors include parents Ned and Mimi Tate, and sister Rachel McCann.

2014 Destany Lynice Franklin April 25, 2020 Destany Franklin’s ability was spotted early. She was a member of Rainier Scholars, a Seattle program that selects underrepresented students and guides them through 12 years of primary and secondary education. A neuroscience major, she was looking forward to medical school. She participated in the Bonner Leader program during her junior and senior years, and coordinated the Aspirations program at Hillview Family Development. She was a member of the College Key. Survivors include mother Lateasta Hill.

faculty Donald Raymond Lent June 22, 2020 When Donald Lent arrived at Bates in 1970, the art program barely existed. “There was no sustained major in art, no museum, no systematic courses in painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, or photography,” said Pres. Donald Harward in 2000. “Few students even had studio experiences, for there weren’t any studios. Professor Lent was the primary architect of those opportunities. He brought together the students, the faculty, the spaces, and the programs.” He implemented the Senior Thesis Exhibition for the college’s first art graduates in 1973, now an annual testimony to his contributions to Bates. He served the U.S. Army as a Russian translator during World War II, and then

earned a bachelor’s degree from the Univ. of California, along with B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees from Yale. He retired in 1999. He taught painting, drawing, and printmaking at Bates and served as department chair. Upon his arrival, he began to forge the department’s culture through engagement with the campus, Lewiston, and Maine communities. During Short Term in 1971, he and his students created a mural on Lisbon Street depicting the world of the pedestrian. Later, Don painted Scenes from the Canterbury Tales, a 5-foot by 40foot mural in Chase Hall that for decades greeted students as they entered Memorial Commons. He created sets and costumes for Bates theater productions; wrote for the progressive weekly Maine Times; illustrated Heat Lightning, a collection of poems by Alan Stephens published in 1967; and published numerous book reviews. In the early 1980s, he designed the commemorative medal presented to recipients of the college’s Benjamin Elijah Mays Award honoring outstanding alumni accomplishment. He exhibited throughout the world, including many solo shows. He served two terms in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. Survivors include wife Robin Lent; children Michael, Jennifer, Jesse, and Charlotte Lent, and Lucy Barretto; stepdaughters Katherine Torriero and Abigail Davis; and four grandchildren. Cristina Malcolmson July 16, 2020 In a tribute to Tina Malcolmson upon her retirement in 2016, Associate Professor of English Sanford Freedman said of his colleague, “Students were enthralled by Tina’s courses. She often complimented her classes for what they had achieved; she led discussion masterfully, whether it was about Othello, Oroonoko, or George Herbert, never losing an opportunity to advance a feminist insight or to speak of the importance of academic

fairness. And doughnuts always appeared on the last day of class — for all.” Malcolmson earned bachelor’s and doctoral degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and taught at Berkeley, Reed College, and Yale University before joining the Bates faculty in 1991. She served as chair of the Department of English and chair of the Program in Women and Gender Studies, now the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies. She taught 20 different courses during her time at Bates, including “Edward Said’s Orientalism,” “Shakespeare: Race and Gender,” “Feminisms,” “Colonialism and Literature in Early Modern England,” and “Pre-1800 Women Writers.” She wrote three books, Heart-Work: George Herbert and the Protestant Ethic; George Herbert: A Literary Life; and Studies of Skin Color in the Early Royal Society: Boyle, Cavendish, Swift, which was shortlisted for the 2013 British Society for Literature and Science Book Prize. She authored numerous essays and reviews; participated in panel discussions worldwide; and received a wide range of scholarly awards and prizes. She was active in the International Margaret Cavendish Society, Church of Christ, Scientist; Peace Action Maine; and the Southern Maine Workers’ Center. She is survived by a brother, Peter, and a cousin, Mary Clark. Joyce Seligman June 7, 2020 Joyce Seligman came to Maine in her early 20s to earn a master’s in writing from UMaine, but she never lost her Brooklyn accent. She created the undergraduate writing program at Bates, and designed faculty development programs to improve the teaching of writing across the curriculum. She believed writing is an essential skill of an educated person. She taught at Univ. of Southern Maine and the Univ. of Wisconsin before coming to Bates; she retired in 2008. Survivors include two brothers and a number of cousins.

Francis Edward Tate II April 2, 2020 Ask anyone who knew him: Frank Tate had an infectious smile. He laughed with his friends, his niece, his sister. But he was a caring listener, too. He held several jobs after leaving Bates, including as a real estate broker in Rye, N.H. But his favorite was the job he held when he passed away: working for Highbridge Concierge Company, which supplies concierges to Boston-area buildings. He was also a talented musician, playing upright bass and guitar. He was a regular at concerts by the Handel

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Dr. Anthony Fauci listens to his Bates honorary degree citation during Commencement on May 31, 1993, as Bates Trustee Jeannette Packard Stewart ’46 prepares to present his hood. Both are wearing red AIDSawareness ribbons.

Truth and the Public Good Dr. Anthony Fauci, today applauded for his steady and smart guidance during the COVID-19 pandemic, says his 1993 visit to Bates provided “food for the soul” by h . jay burns

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scientific mind. In May 1993, Dr. Anthony Fauci, wearing academic regalia with a red awareness ribbon pinned to his gown, stood on the porch of Coram Library on Commencement Day to receive an honorary Doctor of Science degree for his work fighting HIV/AIDS. Fauci, today a household name applauded for his steady and smart guidance during the coronavirus pandemic, recalls his 1993 visit warmly. It was, he says, “food for the soul.”

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That spring, he says, had been “a pressure cooker,” his time fully taken by HIV science and policy issues in Washington, D.C. Taking a brief break on Memorial Day weekend to spend time on “the beautiful Bates campus” and talking “with really smart and curious students reminded me of the great privilege of having a liberal arts education.” As an undergraduate at Holy Cross, Fauci was a classics major who also took pre-med courses. At Bates, he felt right at home, engaging with Bates students “whose interests spanned these areas and many more — the kinds of well-rounded people

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who go on to do great things in govthrough “research that had its scope ernment, science, the arts, and other broadened to community connecprofessions.” tions — engagement that linked As Fauci stood on the Coram porch, academics to civic and community then-President Donald W. Harward dimensions.” Today, the Center for read the degree conferral, which he Community Partnerships, named for had written. He said, in part: Harward and his late wife, Ann, car“To investigate scientifically is to ries out that mission. begin to move from the darkness of In her citation, Crunkleton praised Being able to take a break ignorance to the illumination of limitfrom HIV policy and science Fauci for helping society clearly unwork in Washington, D.C., ed understanding. To investigate huderstand both “the complexity of the in 1993 to visit and engage manely is to realize that even limited virus itself and the simplicity of our with the Bates community understanding is a gain to be used comwas “food for the soul,” human need to care for all who are says Anthony Fauci. passionately.” and may become infected.” Those intertwined qualities, the Her appreciation has only deepcapacity to investigate scientifically and humaneened since then. “For five decades, he has shown ly, had drawn Harward and other Bates leaders a deep understanding of the importance of contoward Fauci as an honorary degree candidate. necting knowledge to action,” she said recently. By the early 1990s, in the position he still “Dr. Fauci exemplifies everything Bates, at its holds today, as director of the National Institute of best, teaches its students to be and do — fight for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Fauci had already truth and the public good.” made great contributions to the understanding of Even minus today’s renewed awareness of HIV and the creation of successful strategies for Fauci’s talents, the opportunity to honor the combating AIDS. scientist in 1993 was a singular pride point for Last spring, a New Yorker story chronicled Bates, says Harward. Fauci’s evolving mindset and approach to HIV/ “Ann and I simply knew that we were recogAIDS research through the 1980s. nizing someone who not only incorporated the At first, his approach was traditional and values of liberal education — and of Bates — but “paternalistic,” wrote staff writer Michael Specter, would be, by his work, suggesting the integrity noting how Fauci and the NIAID didn’t welcome of what we might aspire to be as an institution of input from activists and victims, who, among learning.” n other things, demanded that experimental drugs get into the hands of AIDS sufferers more quickly. Many scientists simply withdrew from the activists. But not Fauci, who transformed himself from a conservative bench scientist into, as Specter writes, “a public health activist who happened to work for the federal government.” “He was the only scientist in the government who was taking HIV/AIDS seriously throughout the Reagan administration,” recalls Martha Crunkleton, who in 1993 was Bates’ dean of the faculty and vice president for academic affairs. It was Crunkleton who wrote Fauci’s honorary degree citation. “He would listen to all of us who were telling him — in frequently loud, angry ways — to pay attention to so many people dying. He brought the resources of scientific research in the government to bear on the plague.” In doing so, Fauci became the scientist we know today. While respecting that “strict scientific principles...have to be adhered to in medicine,” as he told The New Yorker, he also recognized that “a humanistic touch is needed in dealing with people. You have to combine social aspects, ethical aspects, personal aspects with cold, clean science.” In Fauci, Harward saw a scientist who exemplified elements of what a Bates education could and should offer in the coming years and decades: more opportunities for undergraduate research, and greater engagement between the ivory tower and human communities. Anthony Fauci greets Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., As Harward recently recalled, Fauci was “inwith an elbow bump before a congressional hearing tentionally addressing robust human challenges” on the coronavirus situation in March.

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Old microbiology slides found recently in Carnegie Science Hall include samples of bacterial pathogens that cause diseases like meningitis, diphtheria, and anthrax. (The samples are “fixed” — dead, safe, and preserved.) Early 20thcentury biology professor William Sawyer, Class of 1913, created some of the slides during World War I while stationed at the U.S. Army hospital laboratory in Marseilles, France. One slide, of the bacterium that causes gonorrhea, says the specimen came from “the highest-ranking officer in Marseilles”!

Taking Granite

Horace R. Cheney, son of Bates founder Oren Cheney, was the college’s first librarian, overseeing a collection of 500 books. Today’s Ladd Library provides online and library access to more than two million titles.

In her first-year Bates scrapbook, Muriel Swicker ’42 collected this “piece of Mount David” during a climb to the summit with her Wilson House housemates. The climb, as it is now, was “just wonderful,” according to her notes on the page, offering a “swell view” of Mount Washington.

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This inscribed stone under the flagpoles at Garcelon Field commemorates Maine’s first college football game, played on bygone Rand Field on Nov. 6, 1875, between Tufts and Bates. The stone was installed in 1975 on the 100th anniversary of the game.

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The 1938 fall sports schedule comprised just men’s cross country and football. Bates’ opponents were familiar ones, except perhaps Arnold College. Based in Connecticut, the physical education–focused college closed in 1953. Bates won the 1938 football game 26-2.

o u t ta k e After spending 10 months documenting environmental studies professor Jane Costlow’s 34th and final year of teaching, I ran into the young scholar who is succeeding her, Tyler Harper. The new assistant professor had picked up his office key from Campus Safety and was opening, for the first time, the door to his new Hedge Hall office — the very space inhabited by Costlow. He kindly allowed me to photograph him as he entered. And so it begins anew. — Phyllis Graber Jensen

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FROM A DISTANCE

Junior rowers under Bates coach Peter Steenstra go through their paces during a summer camp on the Androscoggin River.

One of three lightweight “wakeless” coaching launches. Though 27 feet long, they only require a 20-horsepower engine. Penmor: Please see page 96 / 97 for inside back cover spread

This competition, or “active,” shell trailer can also haul a coaching launch.

Rowers outside the boathouse entrance prepare a boat for launching.

The college’s modern Traquina Boathouse opened in 2016.

Rowers carry boats down the hill to the river.

“The dinghy makes the sailor,” so rowers hone skills in small, two-person boats.

This stretch of the river boasts some of Maine’s best pike fishing.

The Androscoggin Riverlands State Park along the river’s west side encompasses 2,675 acres.

This island, maintained by Brookfield Renewable, is one of several island picnic sites along the river.

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Snug in her hammock hung from pines next to Lake Andrews, a student creates a daybook like none before: besides academic demands — GRE prep, physics labs, thesis meetings — there’s also twice-weekly COVID-19 testing, a key part of Bates’ strategy to open, and stay open, this fall.